Pornhub Premium is going temporarily free to encourage you to stay home.
It’s good marketing; it may get people to sign up after this is over. Wonder what it will do to their server/bandwidth costs, though?
Category Archives: Popular Culture
The State Of The Bar Community
…is dire.
I’ve never frequented them much; I think the price for a drink at one is ridiculous, but they’re an important element of culture.
The Luxury Of Apocalypticism
The “elites” are angry that they can’t get us to panic.
Drive-In Theaters
I don’t know how many are left, but we drove past one on Friday coming up to the central coast. They’re looking pretty good now for going out to the movies. Most modern audio systems in cars would be a huge improvement in home theater over that mono speaker that hung in the window.
The Restaurant Business
I’ve never been a big patron of restaurants, both for reasons of cost and health (plus I hate being waited on and having to tip for it), but I’m glad that people who were are trying to help with gift cards.
[Update a few minutes later]
I should note, here or someplace, that so far this has barely affected my lifestyle at all. I rarely go out to eat, and am generally a hermit when I’m not traveling.
When The Virus Departs
The world will be changed.
Yes, and in many ways, for the better.
The Coronavirus
The problem with it isn’t what you can see, but what you can’t.
[Update a while later]
Six movies about pandemics to watch (or avoid) if you’re stuck at home (from Lileks).
Pandemics
Electric Cars
Bernie Sanders
Thoughts on the evil of normalizing Marxism.
Bernie isn’t just misguided; he’s evil. There should be just as much opprobrium for having a Che poster or teeshirt as there would be for a Hitler poster or teeshirt, but the cultural Marxists’ Gramscian march through the institutions has been successful. At the suborbital researchers conference last week in Broomfield, CO, I was talking to a professor of physiology from Brandeis. She was a refusenik who managed to get out of Leningrad in the early eighties. She was appalled that the Democrats were on the verge of nominating a communist apologist.