Jungle Love by Morris Day & The Time

The Time was put together by Prince, and included Minneapolis musicians Morris Day, Jesse Johnson, Jimmy "Jam" Harris and Terry Lewis. The group released two albums before Ice Cream Castle, and they broke up shortly after "Jungle Love" was released. It's unclear how much each group member contributed to this song and how much involvement Prince had in it, but Prince, Morris Day and Jesse Johnson are the credited writers, and Day is listed as a producer on the album.

Johnson claimed that Prince screwed him out of a production credit, telling NME in 1986: "Prince is such an a--hole. He's so scared of people rising to his level that he always tries to keep you down, don't never let you do nothing. He only let me write and produce on the last Time album 'cos he knew I was quitting, and when I quit anyway he took my production credit off. I wrote, played and produced stuff like 'Jungle Love', that's MY sound."

PB&J by 9th Wonder & Marsha Ambrosius

27 Club by Chløë BLACK and Myles William

Karalyn: talking to the swedes
Markus: farfegnugen ja
Karalyn: totally
Markus: lolwtf he's gone the bathroom 4 times today
Karalyn: i know
Karalyn: TEAM COCAINE ???
Markus: LOL

Karalyn: http://supportreactions.tumblr.com/post/67408894046/when-my-coworker-asks-me-how-my-day-is-going-when
Karalyn: FUUUUU
Markus: LOL
Karalyn: my weekend http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20131119/
Markus: Woman saves semen in her mouth after oral sex, uses it to impregnate herself
Markus: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7024930/#.UoutT418R05
Markus: “She asserts that when plaintiff 'delivered' his sperm, it was a gift — an absolute and irrevocable transfer of title to property from a donor to a donee,” the decision said. “There was no agreement that the original deposit would be returned upon request.”

Karalyn: i'm off next week so facepingsnapcunt ur mom ok
Markus: LOLZZOLOLOOLLOL
Remy: <3 support <3
Karalyn: i almost wrote failtard in a tick today
Markus: 8=====D
Markus: this is muji fujimojo signing off konichiwa karavella-san

Star Spangled Banner by Genleah Swain

Joey Diaz and Kate Quigley #447

Our heroes return!

Joey Diaz with Kate Quigley

Bert Kreischer Stand-Up 2016

Anti-Gravity ft. Oriel Poole & Oliver Nelson

Karalyn: sup butt nugget
Markus: fuggling minxy cockpoppets
Markus: cleanup in hottub six
Karalyn: omg
Markus: crazy both mia and mimi boomeranged back this week
Karalyn: I MEANT COWORKERS AHOLE
Karalyn: lol

jsophrin: lol twitter just asked me follow Taylor Swift
Markus: when u rejuvenated her anal i think
jsophrin: ahah
jsophrin: I almost forgot about that
Markus: ur trail of jizz got more than a million views
jsophrin: noice

Tainted Love by Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson MTV Awards 1999

R You Ok by ARYAY

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." -- Bruce Lee

Future Simpsons by Don Hertzfeldt

Love Like This by Faith Evans

"Love Like This" is a song by American recording artist Faith Evans. It was written by Evans, Ron Lawrence, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Clarence Emery, and Schon Crawford, for her second studio album Keep the Faith (1998), with production helmed by Lawrence and Combs. Built around a looped sample from "Chic Cheer," performed by American disco group Chic and penned by band members Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, the song initially hit US radios on September 15, 1998 as the album's lead single.

Fluent Powertalk by Venkatesh Rao

At a Dunder-Mifflin management party, shortly after Michael and Jan disclose their affair to David Wallace, per HR requirements, Wallace casually invites Jim to blow off the party for a while and shoot hoops in the backyard. Once outside, Wallace nonchalantly asks, “So what’s up with Jan and Michael?” He is clearly fishing for information, having observed the bizarre couple dynamics at the party.

Jim replies, “I wouldn’t know... (pregnant pause) where to begin.” (slight laugh)

David Wallace laughs in return. This is as eloquent as such a short fragment of Powertalk can get. Here are just some of the messages being communicated by the six words and the meaningful pause and laugh.

Message 1: It is a complex situation (literal).
Message 2: I understand you think something bizarre is going on. I am confirming your suspicion. It is a bizarre mess, and you should be concerned.
Message 3: This is the first significant conversation between us, and I am signaling to you that I am fluent in Powertalk.
Message 4: I know how to communicate useful information while maintaining plausible deniability.
Message 5: I am not so gratified at this sign of attention from you that I am going to say foolish things that could backfire on me.
Message 6: I am aware of my situational leverage and the fact that you need me. I am not so overawed that I am giving it all up for free.
Message 7: I am being non-committal enough that you can pull back or steer this conversation to safer matters if you like. I know how to give others wiggle room, safe outs and exits.
Message 8: You still have to earn my trust. But let’s keep talking. What do you have that I could use?

The key here is that only Message 1 is comprehensible to the truly Clueless; this is what makes for plausible deniability. You cannot prove that the other messages were exchanged. Losers can partially understand, but not speak Powertalk. To them, Powertalk is a spectator sport.

We can speculate with a fair amount of certainty what someone like Michael would have said in such a situation if his and Jim’s roles had been reversed. He would have been so gratified by the attention that he would have babbled out an incoherent and epic narrative without further prompting. Wallace would have taken the information and walked away without paying.

What distinguishes Powertalk is that with every word uttered, the power equation between the two speakers shifts just a little. Sometimes both gain slightly, at the expense of some poor schmuck. Sometimes one yields ground to the other. Powertalk in other words, is a consequential language.

When the Clueless or Losers talk, on the other hand, nothing really changes. Relative positions remain the same all around. Shifts happen only by accident. Even in the rare cases where exploitable information is exchanged, its value is not recognized or reflected in the exchange. Posturetalk, Babytalk and Gametalk leave power relations basically unchanged. Posturetalk and Babytalk leave things unchanged because they are, to quote Shakespeare, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Gametalk leaves power relations unchanged because its entire purpose is to help Losers put themselves and each other into safe pigeonholes that validate do-nothing life scripts.

Why? Both examples illustrate the reasons clearly: for Sociopaths, conditions of conflict of interest and moral hazard are not exceptional. They are normal, everyday situations. To function effectively they must constantly maintain and improve their position in the ecosystem of other Sociopaths, protecting themselves, competing, forming alliances, trading favors and building trust. Above all they must be wary of Sociopaths with misaligned agendas, and protect themselves in basic ways before attempting things like cooperation. They never lower their masks. In fact they are their masks. There is nothing beneath.

So effective Sociopaths stick with steadfast discipline to the letter of the law, internal and external, because the stupidest way to trip yourself up is in the realm of rules where the Clueless and Losers get to be judges and jury members. What they violate is its spirit, by taking advantage of its ambiguities. Whether this makes them evil or good depends on the situation. That’s a story for another day. Good Sociopaths operate by what they personally choose as a higher morality, in reaction to what they see as the dangers, insanities and stupidities of mob morality. Evil Sociopaths are merely looking for a quick, safe buck. Losers and the Clueless, of course, avoid individual moral decisions altogether.

Original post by Venkatesh Rao