enjoying how, in the absence of any moderating influence, the conservative canard "our brilliant philosophies/policies/movies would be universally beloved if not for suppression by Liberal Elites!" keeps eating absolute shit, crashing and burning in the most spectacular ways imaginable

for blue monday only doing 5 sets per exercise instead of my usual 4. just like arnold! but without roids to give me wolverine healing idk what will happen

the high difficulty of x-com (permadeath ironman, every choice/mistake has permanent consequences that ripple and endure) vs the high difficulty of dark souls (git gud to progress, death is the opposite of permanent and almost every choice you can undo/farm out of) are a hegelian dialectic.

ratatouille is a mech movie. like all good mech media, it is about how it is better to be the mech than the mech pilot, how the pilot wishes for the mech's life.

i think we can say for sure that the metric system is better

"how do you wake up, go to work, and abduct 5 year olds?" easy if you wake up, you put on the mask and costume, and step into a character who isn't subject to society in the way you are, has a predetermined relationship to society that can be taken off and put on. google standford prison experiment.

this puppy jumped on my face and gave me a scratch on my eye, makes me look rugged af tho. i went to buy lumber tonight and the guy didnt ask "do you have a contractor number" he asked "whats your contractor number?"

i remember watching Alone UK where british people had to survive 30 days in canadian autumn and seeing people overwhelmed at being in a truly Wild place for the 1st time: this hit the same way.

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I unironically recommend Karl Jaspers's postwar essay The Question of German Guilt in thinking through these questions

i saw an AR-15 loving lib saying "we should not do the gun buyback we should use the buyback money to support ranges and training programs" and that is exactly incorrect, and i am exactly correct but once again - too early.

"i did not vote for him!" or "i maybe did or did not, but do not support these things he is doing!" this is saying: "i did not consent to this!" but - you did! voting is how we make a decision. we all agree (consent) that we all cast a vote and our collective decision is the one with the most votes

a spotify macro that blocks NSBM. i mostly listen to doom/drone/noise, which is actually a pretty left-leaning scene, but these generated playlists aren't pious to sub-subgenres like that, and i neither want to consciously choose every band and album while i work, nor check all the time.

It's been a bit since I posted it, and I was thinking about it again, so, Front Mission 2 window color menu:

there's no word for ICE jeans except "ICE jeans" so if you wear them, you should stop. before somebody calls you the divorced guy in the ICE jeans.

Some of you aren't doing this and it shows

i never use tik tok, so my fyp is fucked, it shows me these "relationship help for men" videos that tell you how bad women are by telling divorced dads "remember that bad feeling you had that one time? well, that's actually a fact!" and the dads in the comments are like "i knew it!". bad pattern.

periodically, to placate revolution, the ruling class makes reform. reform, however, doesnt change the fundamental relationship between you and the ruling class and, importantly, it is only given by their grace. they can rescind it at will. we are currently seeing this happen to many reforms.

i got a big bag of hydroponic pea sprouts at h-mart for like 4 dollars and my insta is popping off

well, one evil empire's decline is everyone outside the imperial core's liberation. deliberate policy choice by their festering elites for the short-term electoral gain of engaging the far right with the political mainstream. sucks to suck :)

now that alot of work has migrated to the cloud i am constantly fighting with my coworkers over shared doc settings for showing paragraph ¶ pilcrow symbols and dots for spacing

an important thing to realize here is that when the "we need to only do state violence in accordance with the rule of law" lib says "we need to create the card", the actual card isn't what we'd need - we need to create a law that gives legal backing to the card and the holder/non-holder distinction.

people used to say "the internet is not real life" but it doesn't really feel like that's very true anymore, does it?

it is funny that if there were another american civil war, it would be appropriate and unsurprising for one side to once again use the confederate flag, except the side that is politically and ideologically suited to do so is the de jure government so it would presumptively use the former union flag

a thing i have come to realize is that it is possible to "feel good" - alot of the time even! - and not "be happy". when i was younger i voraciously and nihiliticly chased feeling good to good effect, and its been a huge QOL boost to learn and internalize this distinction.

honestly have not had many chinese meals where, if it was served, the cucumber salad wasnt the best thing on the plate. such a powerful dish.

i do not think that, when the law has been subverted and weaponized against you such that legality is both a sword and shield for your opponent, but can never be either for you, that you cannot win legally, cannot win by following the law. seems impossible; if it were possible, theyd change the law.

margaret atwood is the sicko looking in through the window

Learning to code not for sicko reasons (app productivity, hyperscaling) but rather for laudable, healthy reasons (making really arcane lifting spreadsheets or porno text adventures)

i think those fitness apps that are like "you lifted 10,000 pounds this workout!" are v corny but i also want you to know the app would say i lift like 17,000 pounds in a workout.

its funny that in 1984 he explains how the tvs are two way but nobody knows if/when theyre being watched, maybe everyone all the time. but we have the exact same thing with our phones, like, we know the feds can read it all at any time and maybe they do. we apologize to our fbi agents for bad ones.

big afternoon for typing and then deleting skeets

the funny thing about bsky to me are the like, outrage addict activists. nobody who holds the levers of power is on here! youre just karening your peers! the only available roles are 1. thought leader, 2. thot leader, 3. news / reporter

if you get to make or influence these decisions, please please consider that american military equipment does not work in greenland and neither do american military personnel

wait "no room at the inn" is still a parable about how it's bad to be excluding and marginalizing the most vulnerable in society in their time of need, right?

although like, and this is no surprise as we've seen imperialism put the taliban in power ~twice~ in our lifetimes, that imperialism radicalizes, in a reactionary direction, its subjects outside the imperial core, this is essentially an empirical law.

zenva courses for learning godot are helpful but tend towards too hand-holdy, but what's really working is this course is coding in C#, but my work machine won't let met install the .NET SDK to use it, so i have to translate the directions from C# into GDScript

i dreamed that sza was a friend of mine

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

"well, the phony narco terrorism thing aside, he is a bad dude" like im not denying this but the bombs and kidnappings are justified by the phony narco terrorist thing, and you can't get a just result from an unjust process.

Terrible take. Literally every FIFA Peace Prize winner has done this.

funny how when i watched casino royale in 2006 the brioni tailoring felt daddish and stale, but now it looks cool and the tom ford stuff in quantum of solace looks daddish and stale.

giving good hospitality is the best feeling in the world tho.

54% of Canadians say the system is rigged to benefit Canada's elites at the expense of averages Canadians Read it here: canadianpolling.substack.com/p/a-shared-d...

oh i dunno i always agreed with his position that even a fairly fun loving despot will always be enslaved by the chaos and misalignment of his soul

If you are saying universal healthcare *cant* realistically happen with our current political system and economy you should be advocating for revolution to overthrow that system instead of being ok with no universal healthcare

in the song Santa Baby, you can replace the words "santa baby" with "slut for santa" without changing the meter, the song still works perfectly.

scooby-doo and other cartoon villains have the problem of needing to be clever and dangerous adults (ie, they're competent), who also need to get bested by teenagers on the regular (ie, theyre incompetent). there are no such constraints irl. nothing about evil/corruption contradicts incompetence.

Worth adding here that SpaceX is almost entirely funded by government contracts and subsidies, and so this really amounts to embezzling taxpayer funds to cover up the losses from his stupid idiot boxes.