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One of America’s two major political parties claims not to worship death, but proved to be devout death worshippers who used militarized police to crush popular discontent against death worship. They were then replaced by the We Worship Death party, who commenced to accelerate the death worship.

They’re trying to do enclosure on thought itself

Meanwhile Savannah Guthrie's mom is at the bottom of a well

The best is when you find a critic whose tastes align with yours but who is also your enemy. Like Robert Christgau

if only there were a social movement dedicated to the idea of women's inherent dignity and the sort of necessary but overlooked labor historically attached to them. oh well!

Watching a YouTube video about a World War 2/Korean War plane and there’s been a fifteen minute digression into the history of an obscure 1890s Scottish automobile manufacturer to explain the origin of the type of valves its engine used. That is 💯 my shit, that is my kind of tism

The 2023 time stamp on this canon post is incredible. This is a 2014 weird twitter post. It’s like discovering the living coelacanth

Weed before cider, you meet the spider. Cider before weed, the centipede.

Grimly interesting from a military standpoint that the US Navy can’t just park some destroyers in the strait to pop unarmed minelayers because of anti-ship missiles. Get too close to the coast and we’ll be treated to the spectacle of watching a couple billion dollars become an artificial reef.

This was EXCELLENT, a really wonderful & deeply thought through postapocalyptic story. A beautiful synthesis of anthropology, philosophy, history and psychology, as well as a deep examination of the midcentury American mind. well worth your time.

SPATS

Walking away from Omelas like

students hanging around after class to argue about the grandmother in A Good Man Is Hard To Find. keeps ya living.

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

This is going to be such a great tidbit of cultural context in a Rick Perlstein book published in 2060

Positive Thinking is directly downstream of the New Thought movement which also birthed Christian Science, and which was itself downstream from Anton Mesmer. It’s literally crank bullshit inspired by a charlatan but it has parasitically burrowed into a wide swath of American religion

The Sexy Hamburgler fandom is dying. Reskeet if you remember Sexy Hamburgler

boy I tell ya I don't get no respect. my wife joined the Red Guards. she said we need to denounce the Four Olds. I looked up and it was four pictures of me.

FUCK, the car wash I just bought isn’t compatible with my modest hatchback

Happy to report from the 12:30 Taco Bell drive thru line that we are in “mockingbirds sing all night” season in Alabama

Umberto Eco is so good when you don’t have a bitch in your ear telling you look that up on wikipedia

They should add the diagnosis I Don’t Know What to Tell Ya, Buddy to the next DSM

The Last of Us and God of War are Dad Games. Donkey Kong Bananza is not though because I don’t see DK as a father figure for Pauline. It’s an Uncle Game

So a lot of the hype around LLMs and a lot of the userbase just fundamentally misunderstands what the technology is and what it’s capable of, instead treating it like a mythical supernatural or religious being. The industry openly encourages this delusion for profit

JDPON Don adding Climate Stalin to his resume

I follow a page on facebook that posts FAA accident investigation reports and it is truly amazing how often the cause of a crash is "ran out of gas 😔"

Joss Whedon's back in the news! What better time to acquaint yourself with his last show, 2021's The Nevers! Sparkless writing, weak load-bearing premises, behind the scenes disgrace, The Nevers had it all. So how did it go so wrong? Thrawnderdome investigates. shows.acast.com/thrawnderdom...

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

I'm looking up famous soundtrack CDs I remember and it's completely crazy that to me that my peers who spun Dumb and Dumber and Clueless were introduced to XTC and Flamin' Groovies by covers on the respective albums years before I got to them

I will step up and be the face of a new PR campaign to promote getting crossfaded on Gorilla Glue and PBR tallboys that will save the industry

It is World Book Day. Buy a book from an indie press, leave a review for an author, or social media post to a beloved author and make their day.

The real generational divide is between those who know about the Church of the SubGenius and those who do not

Petit bourgeois (medical practice) and petit bourgeois (hardware store proprietor)

Sean Carroll with yet another massive dub. I enjoy that guy.

People say LLMs are largely not useful to them but what if you needed to ctrl-F on a document using 1000x more compute for the same result? What say you then?

That frigate was at the international fleet review in India BTW, along with US forces. This amounts to sinking a ship under a flag of truce so it's even worse than it seems

Stem tetrapod before and after they were called beautiful

finally. a special election. time to Extrapolate

do you think you could drink a 12-ounce can of soda of your choosing every day for a week for 76 million dollars? the catch is that during that week, you’re not allowed to travel to columbus, georgia unless you already had plans to or you just want to

The next Chapo subseries needs to be unleashing Felix to speak on recent air-to-air jet combat in South and Southwest Asia. I want him to make the Metal Gear Solid look like a regular interest instead of a special interest.

Okay so the background fiction for this insane sounding game actually completely rips. This is what the Epstein Class are attempting to accomplish.

I just helped open a library card for a middle aged South Asian lady who said she’s never read for pleasure before, only textbooks in school, and she’s so tired of watching movies on her convenience store shifts that she wants to get into reading! MY HEART GREW THREE SIZES

Libya was widely (and rightly) considered Obama's worst FP disaster, but I'm getting the feeling that our imperialist ghouls noticed that turning a country into a howling snake pit of banditry DID effectively neutralize it as a geopolitical actor. It's the model now.

BG3 update: Failed the very last constitution roll when drinking with the monster bartender. He still exploded, but I'm now afflicted with the Drunk condition. Only goes away on a long rest but I want to keep playing with the Shar shrine bonus, so I'm doing most of Act 2 blotto off that glowing shit

My daughter was talking about turning nine for her next birthday and I gave her the “oh where did my sweet little baby go!” bit and she shot back “Yeah where did my 35 year old man go!” ☠️

Karate Conan vs Space Monk John Denver in a data center? A COMPLETE GAME