Being able to drink 4 beers and then stop twice a month in your 40s is kind of a lonely place to be; everyone else either stopped because they had A Problem, or because they're trying to be healthy, OR they're still insane booze goblins who are too much to hang out with anymore

Saw someone today with little waveform knuckle tattoos; square/triangle/sine/sawtooth, and was immediately amazed that I've never seen any chiptune people with that before

a year ago we were a dead country. now we're the hottest country anywhere

Very stupid answer but my first console was a hand-me-down Atari 2600 from my older cousins and sometimes if you didn't manage to push a cartridge all the way home you would get scrambled graphics and a horrific Atari TIA chip BZZZZZZZZ and that scared the shit out of me as a little kid

"Tenuous cultural diplomacy" isn't his book about how poor people are poor because they're stupid and do drugs?

If Tucker Carlson or Karl Rove want to donate some of their vast ill-gotten gains to the cause fine but they don't get to jump in front of the parade and become respected voices. If you think they won't betray you the second it benefits them you should have your power of attorney taken away

I don't ever need any more guitars, but I WANT 3 more (committed to only buying used): - A black Epiphone SG (the punkest possible guitar) - A Telecaster, but with the rarer 6 individual string saddles (I'm a tuning stability fundamentalist) - A baritone guitar (I just think they're neat)

oh holy crap the thing every commentator with two neurons to rub together said would happen is happening? d'oooh no, how could we have known

The Google Voice hangup tone is the first 3 notes (a half step down maybe) of the "game start" tune in Mario Bros.

it rocks that apparently every boss at every company in the world will go "OH MY GOD I'M SO SORRY I'LL KILL THEM WITH MY BARE HANDS FOR YOU RIGHT NOW!!" if a single reactionary loser calls your job

Bunch of people who went to college for like 10 years all getting tripped up by the old "Have you stopped beating your wife?" routine. "No! I mean, Yes! I mean, I don't, I didn't, AHHH whatever you want, sir! Don't hit me!!"

According to a recent little Patreon hangout thing Propagandhi officially have no plans to ever play in the US again because of, everything. Can't blame them, I wouldn't fuckin come here if I had a choice

ultimately all politicians are millionaires and that bond is stronger than any political affiliation. oops oh well. not like anyone saw that coming

I see every jobs site is still like "Enter the kind of job you're looking for" and you put "IT" and it returns "Hematologist. Forklift operator. On-call Urdu translator" just like they were in 2009

My job went from being a great place to work to the "I have 8 bosses" bit from Office Space in the span of a month. Now my job is desperately triangulating between multiple managers telling me to do contradictory things and being like "well it's your job to figure that out" if I ask questions

The second I saw Ezra Klein with his stupid tier-one operator wannabe beard that the right has decided all men except Trump are required to have now, I knew I didn't need to read a single word. Not that I did when he still looked like a nerdcore rapper either

Never feel stupider than when I somehow get a window stuck beyond the edge of the screen and can't retrieve it, or when my finger literally slips on the mouse and I choose something I have to undo. There's just something so demoralizing about physical clumsiness following you into cyberspace

I think it helps make sense of the current moment when you realize that everyone who has $100k or more wants fascism, the only difference is how explicit they feel they can or want to be

I'm betting there's no way they're going to actually build the statue according to these AI slop specs; this version has WAY too big an attack surface for someone they know is actually pretty widely detested

I was too dumb of a teenager to really pick up political context clues but I certainly never had any explicitly lefty teachers looking back. I had a marine bio prof at a big public state college who didn't believe in evolution and said so in class though

Not sure how to interpret the data about there being so many more rich people now that they're crowding out middle class spenders. Wouldn't you see fewer individual PEOPLE with more purchasing power as wealth consolidates? I guess I could actually read a single study instead of thinking out loud

Probably one of the best traits you can have as a manager is getting mortally offended by anyone asking clarifying questions. That's a form of questioning your orders and you shouldn't tolerate it. Far better to have your underlings spend 6 hours barking up the wrong tree due to your vague writing

See this is why being pseudonymous rocks; what are you gonna do, email the dick sucking factory and say "goofoffartiste was very rude about Charlie Kirk"? You don't even know their number

I'm still convinced Key and Peele came up with "the player formerly known as Mousecop" after running across a Mappy cabinet somewhere

Writing a resume for the first time in almost a decade and poking around on the internet for examples of this and that and it's really hitting how useless we've made the internet in just the last 5 years. everything is fake, misleading, shunts you to a phishing scam, soaked in AI bullshit. god damn

I don't post about politics on FB bc everyone either agrees already or is too stupid to reach there, but I couldn't help commenting on an AI reel of Jesus lifting Charlie Kirk up off the stage with "Jesus was just lifting him up so he could slam dunk him into Hell harder, the video cuts off"

Is there some kind of right-wing autocorrect installed on the computer of literally every human who writes words for a living or

"Is Alex Kidd A Monkey" – the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

I honestly think it's mostly just being born between 1970 and 2000. Didn't have it as a toddler but got in early enough that parsing internet bullshit quickly became second nature. I think people born outside this window are at a disadvantage in different directions with this shit

Forcing users to come up with passwords so complex and unique that you need to create yet another password manager entry and then disabling pasting in the password field is so demonic

BlueSky should make you do 1000 unique posts before it unlocks replying to other users

I feel like this gets lost sometimes in the discussion of how streaming and venue consolidation etc has made it near-impossible to make a living from art. That's true and I've made probably negative $10k from music, it's still one of the most important parts of my life and identity

One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.

An assassin writes Bella Ciao in the same breath as a Notices Your Bulge meme on his bullets. One of the government responses is a practicing Hindu asserting that the fundamentalist Christian victim will join him in a Norse pagan afterlife. Welcome to the epistemic collapse.

there's a bird that lives in the tree outside my window that sounds like a Gremlin imitating a bird

Yeah with the dawning revelation that a critical mass of US citizens are basically the Lemmings from the game Lemmings, and Republicans always have the control pad even when Democrats are in power, something like that is probably inevitable barring some kind of radical change

After a weeks-long tech issue that my new manager ended up taking over and really kinda treating me like I'm an idiot over, we finally landed on my first proposal to fix it, which was scoffed at at the time. Will I get any kind of "oh looks like you were right, sorry"? Ha ha ha back to work stupid

I would like to see once sentence of what these people think "transgender ideology" is. Like spit me a single bar, please

Shouldn't have made comedy legal

Gmail has been telling me I've used 14.98GB of 15GB for years now to justify a banner ad to buy storage at the top of my inbox. Just sat down and deleted 20,000 emails and now I'm using...14.98GB. I don't trust any estimate of how much storage I'm using from any service, it's all just marketing

[bombing half the planet] haw haw whatchagonnado about it, power flows from a gun [watching one nazi get shot] please… not Violence

That both of Turning Point USA’s founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time.

the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously

Really need this ankle to heal up before the American years of lead truly get going here

What does the left standing resolutely against assassination even look like anyway? OK sure if I see a guy in a shirt marked THE LEFT go by toting a sniper rifle I'll make sure to wag my finger at them. you got it

OK come on can you honestly tell me you can detect any difference between this and how these people have already been posting for years?

I can't really take all the "This means war!" posting from people who talked like Sephiroth about Mrs. Butterworth's packaging changing too seriously

Maybe if there'd been some tampons in the men's room they could've stopped the bleeding

I'm just praying he's OK; hopefully he can get back to gleefully doing the legwork for genocide and immiseration as soon as possible

I guess I do hope it was some insane old white gun nut who was furious about some incomprehensible thing with no political valence who did it. Not that the "it was a trans person" machine isn't whirring to life as we speak regardless