Heraclitus. Everything changes and nothing stays the same.

Parmenides. Nothing changes and everything stays the same.

Empedocles. The merchandise changes, but the prices at the Drachma Tree store do not change.

Democritus. The price at the Drachma Tree store goes up to a drachma and a quarter, but the merchandise is always the same cheap rubbish.

Plato. Prices individually are subject to change without notice, but the reality of Price is eternal and unchanging.

Aristotle. Heraclitus says that everything changes and nothing stays the same. Parmenides says that nothing changes and everything stays the same. Empedocles says that the merchandise changes, but the prices at the Drachma Tree store do not change. Democritus says that the price at the Drachma Tree store goes up to a drachma and a quarter, but the merchandise is always the same cheap rubbish. Plato says that prices individually are subject to change without notice, but the reality of Price is eternal and unchanging. But these arguments are easily refuted, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

How do you say “stream the album here” in French?

By looking up some French popular music on YouTube, we find the answer:

“Streamez l’album ici.”

Perhaps we ought to have written this entire article in French:

Comment sayez-vous “stream the album here” en français?

En lookant-up quelque musique populaire française on YouTube, nous findons l’answer:

“Streamez l’album ici.”

C’est better, ain’t-it?

We Americans think we know our potato chips. Some of us subsist on little else. Yet when was the last time we put any real effort into our chips? We have pushed the limits of our creativity if we offer potato chips in salt-and-vinegar flavor.

A recent visit to the Lotus Market, an Asian grocery in the Strip District of Pittsburgh, yielded this list of potato-chip flavors:

Roasted Fish Flavor

Numb & Spicy Hot Pot Flavor

Cucumber Flavor

Mexican Chicken Tomato Flavor

Italian Red Meat Flavor

Roasted Cumin Lamb Skewer Flavor

Hot and Spicy Braised Duck Tongue Flavor

Hot and Sour Lemon Braised Chicken Feet Flavor

Nothing we Americans do can match this selection, or—for that matter—the package art that shows us a delicious-looking chicken foot or duck tongue to let us know what kind of treat awaits us inside the package. Until we Americans can offer a similar variety of potato chips, we have to confess that we’re doing potato chips wrong.

But what brand would offer such exotic flavors to the Asian market? Well… Lay’s.

This means that American potato-chip makers are not at fault. It is the eaters of potato chips whose prosaic tastes cause all the hot and sour lemon braised chicken feet to be devoted to chips for the overseas market. As consumers of packaged snack foods, we should be ashamed of ourselves.

Today’s Media of the Day at Wikimedia Commons is the national anthem of Qatar, played by the United States Navy Band. If you have the captions turned on (they are on by default), English lyrics are displayed, so you can sing along.

How important is it to tech companies to keep you seething with outrage? Consider this notice (reproduced for the purpose of criticism and fomenting outrage) that has been popping up in the Microsoft Edge browser if you have your new-tab page set to show no news feed:

You may also note that there is no button to refuse. There are two buttons: “Obey now” and “Keep bothering me.”

The reason we are so angry at one another all the time is because billionaires are making more billions from our anger. Dr. Boli has one suggestion: Direct your anger toward the billionaires, and turn off your news feed.