If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by. Splitting words so as to break the force of the laws; confounding names so as to change what had been definitely settled; practising corrupt ways so as to throw the government into confusion: all guilty of these things were put to death. Keep your safety in mind and don't make loud statements for which you might go to the places not-so-far-from-here, because there you will help no one.
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Last Notes npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing on the bright side, the fake reunion between the Catholic and the Orthodox churches will be cancelled. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing I like them both as the same kind of creature that's digested a different corpse. A jelly fish, or as I prefer to call it, a sea-slime npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing >Billy Mitchell asks for $350k in damages >Karl Jobst offers to pay Billy $3k in damages >Karl pays his lawyers more than $600k - 170% the cost of the damages! >Karl's lawyers guided him through a deposition and behavior that made the judge absolutely despise him >Karl loses everything, putting himself in the hole for $950k >Karl is satisfied with the performance of these lawyers and is sticking with them for the appeal at around the first $100k that you set on fire, did you not think something like >huh, I bet that Billy would've just taken this amount and gone away and even agreed to never tell anyone how much I paid him! npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing Pokemon Grey could just be Pokemon with an antisocial "fuck off" dialogue option any time you're challenged to fight. But the first time you use it, you don't get to pick any other dialogue option. You can travel the word and shove past kids who just sigh and wait for someone to come who wants to have fun. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing PDs should fire on all cylinders for cases like this because it's the exact scenario that idealistic kids think about in order to want to become cops in the first place. Damsels in distress weren't such a fiction trope because of some evil plot against boys. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing as the captives of cannibals, DSP would look so appetizing that the cannibals would save him for a very auspicious feast day, while immediately eating Billy Mitchell. Civilized help would then arrive to save DSP. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing >somehow inside job npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing I read a light novel recently that begins with the main character reading a letter left to him by his recently deceased grandfather. The letter begins "To my only NORMAL grandson," npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing Forth decoder: 2 BASE ! (paste that) : decode DEPTH 0 ?DO DEPTH 1- ROLL EMIT LOOP ; decode npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing meanwhile all I've been on aliexpress is scalped :( npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing a phase vtuber said that the Jack Black movie was very enjoyable after she shut her brain off and just watched it. I think the gratuitous diversity would be too much for me to do that, but for most people it might be more enjoyable than any of those movies just from being an unpretentious kids movie. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing my main problem is the name. Put it this way: if there's a completely innocent benzene issue with a batch of Liquid Death which causes me to expire after drinking it, and my death shows up on the news, literally everyone is going to joke that >HE DRANK LIQUID DEATH >OF COURSE HE DIED And that alone is a fate worth avoiding. I also worry that the employees have the same thought. Some guy might even discount some evidence for contamination, or not exercise due diligence, thinking "heh come on it would be only be on brand for this to kill people". Superficially this is debilitating superstition but there's some underlying substance, OK? I want my fizzy water to be called "CAT GIRL PEE" npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing oh wait, Japanese TV stopped it and Funimation is innocent? Have I been defaming *Funimation* all this time? npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing it's 100% a tranny that killed the Funimation translation. The last episode was at the sex swap brothel. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing a hurtful yet safe thing to always talk about is economics. The Federal Reserve, the value of the dollar, how many burgers you used to earn with minimum wage vs. how many hours you now have to work to earn a burger, etc. You tell an 80-year-old how much his first job's wages were in 2024 dollars and they'll call the cops on you for assault. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing I thought all the time that it was at least a productive intellectual exercise, that it'd make me better at argument and have better arguments, that even against deliberately obtuse sophists I would benefit and grow as a person doing it. But in the end it was just a less enjoyable form of PvP. I should've played DOTA all those years. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing extreme military failure is coming with Yemen, and Fiscal Crisis is now likely. But, "College enrollment decline"? That would be a sign of health! This square is sabotaging the bingo card! npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing it's a good graph, but there have been a lot of Presidents since then, and there's a much more impressive halt in improvement with Obama. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing science fiction novels? I bet there's a lot of the ouroboros problem there, also seen in gaming: the early works are based on worldly experience (in practicing science, in military service) and then later works are based on SF experience (in reading Asimov, in reading Heinlein). This was in in AngryJoe's criticism of the Minecraft movie: the writers had clearly prepared a list of "children's movie plot points" and those plot points too deliberately. Checking all the boxes but not having a vision of its own. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writers'_room >The "proliferation" of mini-rooms in the 2020s, partly as a cost-cutting measure by producers, was one of the major issues in the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike.[7] Historically, television seasons had so many episodes that writers' rooms worked on the later episodes while filming began on the first few episodes. Thus, writers had plenty of writing work to keep them busy, and were also able to provide extensive feedback on the production of early episodes and interact with cast and crew on set.[6][7] This traditional arrangement allowed them to gain valuable experience on the production side so they could then pitch their own shows and become showrunners someday.[6][7] The shift to shorter seasons for streaming series meant that mini-rooms would churn out an entire season of scripts first, then only the showrunner and one writer would remain with the series throughout principal photography to revise those scripts further as needed.[6][7] This shift meant less work and less money for writers, along with less opportunities to graduate to showrunner.[6][7] glad that my Dick Van Dyke knowledge matched up somewhat with reality, even if the only highlighted issues are very recent. You had huge writing rooms, which then probably gained many collaborative impairments from social issues, then got cut down to skeleton crews that let studios milk the experienced writers without ever raising new writers to replace them. I've seen this same thing in IT, where there was a gradual collapse in institutional knowledge. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing as for why, maybe digital editing got too easy to make the reshoot meta possible. Maybe digital production improved so fast that Hollywood's still very impressed by CGI and thinks this makes other elements of movies less important. Maybe fads like mystery boxes and cinematic universes were too successful despite cheating at the writing. Maybe a series of writer's strikes made it riskier to rely much on writers. The details I think you'd need a good historian to describe with insider reports, but the result I think is clear enough: the writing is always impressively bad. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing my feeling is that writers have gotten destroyed somehow as a profession - that the entire industry stopped regard writing as a serious activity that needed resources or attention, and decades ago switched to the biological equivalent of ChatGPTing it. >Lucas writes the prequel script in a weekend >Disney lets different directors write the script, and picks a guy whose only writing technique is mystery boxes who then just rehashes the original trilogy >scripts don't survive editing and reshoots and studio control in any case npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing >More importantly though, Trump has no coherent strategy here. In my opinion he seems to think that tariffs are a form of the United States, cost free, extracting tribute from the rest of the world and everyone has to pay because "America No.1" yep, this is the thing to be disappointed about: the lack of skill and thought in what the government's doing. There should be a large permanent bureaucracy to faithfully turn Trump's vision into concrete plans, but these retards permitted #Resist among their order during his first term and then remained as partisan saboteurs that he couldn't trust, so he's either not using them or, worse, he is using them and this malicious compliance is the result. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing >This is an attempt to make America become a total autarky in like a week no. It's not something REALLY dumb, like sanctions. Nobody's THAT dumb. Ha ha! Sanctions! Who would do that? No, this is a tariff. Under a tariff, you can still buy the Nike shoes made in Vietnam. You will just pay more for Nike shoes made in Vietnam, with some of the difference funding the US government. Americans who spend more on domestic products will be supporting Americans directly, and Americans who spend more on foreign products will be supporting government programs and (extremely ideally) supporting Americans indirectly. There are some odd incentives here: 1. this encourages leftists to buy foreign products even more, and makes it a partisan rather than a nonpartisan matter to buy domestic products. Why, if you get eggs from your next door neighbor, aren't you a leech? Why aren't you paying for dem programs by buying European eggs? 2. if the IRS goes away and this becomes the main form of government revenue, then the US government's interests run contrary to Trump's desire to encourage domestic production. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing might be a rolling outage for the day, with /pol/ down later. Might be some additional commentary npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing https://boards.4chan.org/g/catalog >This board has been closed by order of the Department of 4chan Efficiency. [do4e.png](https://media.freespeechextremist.com/rvl/full/ec6ce9facf3c263df1ef4e1d3d524e7ef06507589232d7f3d42e06d477144e7a?name=do4e.png ) https://media.freespeechextremist.com/rvl/full/ec6ce9facf3c263df1ef4e1d3d524e7ef06507589232d7f3d42e06d477144e7a?name=do4e.png npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing right about Jesus coming to the Americas to completely fail to establish a church among the Amerindian tribes? Kinda like how the church that Jesus established himself immediately collapsed into heresy, with Christianity dying out in all but name until Joseph Smith revived it almost two thousand years later? It's not very flattering to Jesus, but it's not like Mormons think he's God or anything, so I guess it's not a serious contradiction. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing Assad's a demonized figure, relentlessly attacked by an enormous conspiracy of venal and evil characters, betrayed by weak allies and weaker underlings. Instead of killing himself or dying to a mob or hung after a show trial, he went back into medicine in another country with his family. Only months after his fall, he's already vindicated while alive to see it, with anyone naively hopeful about his fall already revealed to be a dupe. Usually it's not so clear-cut. Maybe this guy will turn into the King Arthur of the Middle East. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing >and they saw them 'they' = Ubisoft, standard who-cares plural they 'they' = a single woman that the speaker is choosing to be vague about, as a self-defense measure against crazy people online. Wow English is so fun now. It's full of these little puzzles that you get to think about. Imagine if words were used for communication, instead? People would probably waste brainpower on thinking about the subject of communication. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing simple proof, originally recorded by Aristotle: What do tits produce? Delicious, live-giving milk. What do asses produce? Waste. Milk is superior to waste. QED. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing the conservative response to this meme is just as you'd expect: >actually, superman was LEGAL, because he was an abandoned child, and under US law abandoned children under 14 are automatically US citizens cool, US law says it's fine, so it's fine. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing "How much land does a man need?" Farmer starts out happy, and ends up doing a day-long marathon to claim an enormous plot of land. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing a. Tolstoy wrote a pretty good short story about this kid's mindset, who has a million dollars in hand but that only has eyes for easy incredible riches. b. Outcomes like this are an obvious and inevitable consequence of putting out a memecoin. Crypto that has no point except for speculation is just an attractive nuisance. c. From certain perspectives this isn't necessarily a bad outcome. A kid that didn't appreciate his million-dollar inheritance lost it, and some other people gained! d. He could've sold to have $13k. If he sold now he'd only have $30. e. He should've sold. There was nothing to the coin except for election novelty, which was already long over. It's not an index fund. It's not going to go up as Trump does well. f. at this point he shouldn't sell. But he also shouldn't kill himself (like other reddit posts promise). Gather those initial expectations and harness them to a post-term hope that Trump will attach the memecoin to a game or something, to give it some actual utility. There is no chance that this happens but the hope gives you at least four years to get over this mistake. [trumpcoin.png](https://fsebugoutzone.org/media/edba3502-cea7-4a36-9000-8282263861d5/trumpcoin.png?name=trumpcoin.png ) https://fsebugoutzone.org/media/edba3502-cea7-4a36-9000-8282263861d5/trumpcoin.png?name=trumpcoin.png npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing this is also an inevitable consequence of one party making deals that the other can't abide by. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing A: this other country is a shithole B: oh. Do you want to fix that country? A: no! I want to make my country more of a shithole! this attitude actually makes sense if it comes from leftists who are aware of how corrupt USAID was. If you know that 2% of Haiti earthquake recovery funding actually made it to the Haitians, you'll probably want to help them in some other way. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing >it was a Trump trap for Zelenskyy >it was an Obama trap for Trump nobody can believe that Zelenskyy's just like that. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing yes I've had two of them already. At more than one I already can't call one of them "the Fediverse Chick" npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing he's like a gambler that makes riskier and riskier wages the more he loses, because he's already lost so much that it's impossible to accept, and the narrowing chance of incredible victory is the only option that would avert those losses. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing this was worth watching but that ending sucked. I hated the "say thank you!" line already, and it's more hateful when it's a topic change from Trump hitting the core issue - that Ukraine's lost, past tense, and persisting in failure is madness. This was obvious when the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive failed to breach the outermost layers of the Surovkhin line except in a tiny hopeless valley, and that only after three months of the AFU smashing its face into a wall and losing all of its invincible western supertanks before even making contact. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing as with every leftist complaint, the easiest way to respond is to cite some leftist action. >wow, a child who might've cured cancer! >btw, what do you think about abortion? npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing >biology defines your role this is a confession and not a real belief that he's identifying in other people. He felt like he'd failed as a man, so gave up on being a man. But he's still a man, and hasn't become a woman. The escape hatch - from this labyrinth of biology-defined roles - was a lie. But the labyrinth was *also* a lie, and if he hadn't believed in the escape hatch so much, he might've noticed earlier and gone on to live more happily as some less repulsive form of 'failed man'. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing as technology, >looking at sun >looking at sundial >listening for bells >looking at mechanics with sundial-like face >waking up to bell-like racket is a natural progression of the same few ideas but as techno-biology, it's absurd. The first one isn't even technology! The mechanical implementation does not involve the sun at all anymore! It's like current men looking at a cave painting and saying "MY ANCESTOR" - not of the drawer of the painting, but of the painting itself. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing I wasn't a kid, but I took a college class that played the very true Edi Wiesel Holocaust film "Night". Probably not out of laziness but some bizarre directive, since it had nothing at all to do with the class, and wasn't even tested or reviewed in any way. I, not trying to be edge or political in any way, got the instructor to pause the film to confirm that it was intended to be non-fiction at all, because I kept laughing at how unbelieveable and dumb the story was. There were complete comedy skits in it, like the writer had intended to star in a Nazi-themed SNL episode. Edi Wiesel was actually one of the more influential and written-about Holocaust grifters, with a foundation in his name, and his autobiographical account made for such a ridiculous movie that I would've gotten cancelled if I'd reacted that way later, or in a different school. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing Asmongold: how did I not realize how bad Avowed was? Asmongold (reading chat): WoW made you a cocksucker >five minutes later Asmongold: well I don't mind that. I don't mind that you can't drop items on the ground. There's just no reason to do that. huh, so MMO retardation exists. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing >lack of polish no, it's 100% DEI. DEI changes what "polish" means. Skyrim was already a woke game but it lacked DEI polish by showing you some male leaders in the early game and not making sure that every Jarl was a woman. Avowed's drenched in that kind of polish, and therefore lacks lots of gameplay polish. Money and time are both finite. When you're at a meeting and some nerd starts talking about making sure the names are sensitive in all languages, time is lost to speak on other things. Dovetailing with DEI is replacing your less-skilled white workers with stat-enhancing groups of Indians. There's no kid on the team to propose that he add a fishing minigame, or complain that he shot a bird with an arrow and nothing happened. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing Avowed >doesn't have a physics engine (worse than Oblivion!) yeah, so? >doesn't have persistent shot arrows that stuff's not free, man >doesn't have NPCs reacting to your criminality (worse than Daggerfall, worse than ancient CRPGs) the options are a. instantly end the game b. permanently make you an enemy of the land with no gameplay other than genocide c. have some very unsatisfying jail gameplay d. actually do some work to make something interesting not every game can be Gothic, OK? >doesn't have NPCs talking to each other (worse than Oblivion) it was a very superficial feature in Oblivion, just a bit of atmosphere. Of course it'd be nice if things got better rather than worse, but Bethesda also didn't keep this up. >doesn't have NPC scripts (worse than ancient CRPGs and even RPGMaker games with a day/night cycle) ok getting lame >doesn't let you pick locks to enter every dwelling you see the cost of that is unrealistically small spaces, like the first city in Skyrim that is less populated than any human habitation since agriculture >every NPC you talk to is coincidentally female >has pronouns >has 'they' pronouns >doesn't have fan service >Matt Hansen hates you 1/3 of the character types is "archer" but you don't have ammo? What are you doing, casting 'arrow'? even negative reviews praise the combat and, man, I just don't believe you. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing to be clear I'd have more sympathy for dismissing Russia's justifications if any serious alternative justification were offered. States can, of course, lie, especially in order to go to war. The US has done this roughly every single time it's gone to war. But every offered alternative explanation has been so dumb that Pence, like the entire media, hammered "unprovoked" instead. People would rather speak as if the invasion happened for NO REASON because when anyone tries to cite a reason, it's some demented criminal that Trump supporters despise that's bloviating about the USSR. Yeah Putin wants his old borders back and that's why the war almost ended the next month with a generous peace agreement in Istanbul. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing Pence; >unprovoked and brutal invasion the article: >Biden said Putin has much larger ambitions than Ukraine and wants to "reestablish the Soviet Union." uh huh. Next? >Putin justified his actions in an overnight televised address, asserting that the attack was needed to protect civilians in eastern Ukraine — a false claim the U.S. had predicted he would make as a pretext for an invasion. what an odd thing to say. The US predicted it. How did the US manage to do that? Was it 10 years of Russia complaining about attacks on civilians in eastern Ukraine? Was it multiple agreements about that? "Gosh, this guy, he keeps saying he'll do something if we ignore his complaints about civilians in eastern Ukraine, but he'll never do anything, cause--OH NO, AN UNPROVOKED ATTACK" >He accused the U.S. and its allies of ignoring Russia’s demands to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO and for security guarantees. >Among Putin’s pledges was to "denazify" Ukraine. World War II looms large in Russia, after the Soviet Union suffered more deaths than any country while fighting Adolf Hitler’s forces. Kremlin propaganda sometimes paints Ukrainian nationalists as neo-Nazis seeking revenge — a charge historians call disinformation. oh, good that "historians" have settled this. How many missiles to the historians have? In summary, Pence: >unprovoked Pence's citation: >provoked by Ukraine's treatment of its Russian-speaking separatists >provoked by NATO expansion >provoked by broad Nazi LARPing Saying "the US rejects this" doesn't undo these provocations. A day before, "historians" were denying that those same provocations would ever lead to armed conflict. It's also not particularly brutal when the biggest risk to civilians is that the retreating AFU will kill the civilians for preferring to wait for the Russian advance. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing RWA >A swarm of Ukrainian drones hit the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station, operated by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC). >The pumping station is an element of an energy network that connects the oil fields of western Kazakhstan to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, from where it is exported to the world. About 90% of the oil the CPC pumped last year came from Kazakhstan. Now, Chevron, Shell and other Western companies are partners in CPC — a lot of the Kazakh oil coming through the stations and pipelines is American-owned. About 25% of CPC is owned by American companies, and, last year, they accounted for 40% of the oil that passed through the CPC system. >this is a direct and deliberate assault on American economic interests (they have been very active in the Central Asian energy sector for decades). >Bombing what is basically American energy infrastructure in a region that has been strategically important to the US for three and a half decades and will remain such even after a hypothetical full pivot to the Pacific region... Bold strategy. >the cretins in Kiev seem determined to right a wrong and convince America to send its future military aid warhead-first. the Ukrainian side of the conflict, from beginning to end, was 1. let's fight with really bad USAID propaganda and social media movements, so bad that people who knew NOTHING about the conflict intuitively started to take the opposite side 2. let's fight civilians, especially "Ukrainian" civilians 3. let's fight the Kerch bridge 4. let's fight nuclear power plants 5. let's fight with terrorism in Russia (AFU infiltrator, blackmailed or bribed Russian, bought central asian) 6. let's keep forward elements from retreating from obviously hopeless situations - by shooting our own men 7. let's murder old people who would rather deal with the approaching Russian army than evacuate 8. let's attack where the Russian army isn't Since the actual enemy is the Russian army, and none of this attacks the Russian army, none of this moved Ukraine closer to victory. It was all totally pointless harm, the violent thrashing of an enraged animal. People have spoken of "war crimes" my whole life, and also of "collateral damage", but in the Ukrainian conflict (and then the Gaza conflict) we see what war crimes really look like, and also what it really looks like when an army is careful to spare civilians. The NATO conflicts all look shocking and barbarous by comparison. We should arrest Putin for evacuating children, but spare US leaders that shrug and say that it was "worth it" for sanctions to kill Iraqi children? We should demonize Hitler forever over his rounding his enemies up and then neglecting them as he badly lost a war, but shrug as Netanyahu indiscriminately blows up civilian structures to 'attack' an enemy that he knows is deep underground? There are some big exceptions to the list above. Ukraine also has 1. successfully retaking Kharkov 2. the unsuccessful Great Ukrainian Counteroffensive of 2023, in which after three months of accomplishing nothing, people sincerely(?) boasted that Ukraine had taken a little valley overlooked by Russian fire, and that this was the beginning of the end of Russia!! 3. an obviously hopeless beachhead was held for a while, so that Biden officials could visit and hear that something was happening 4. some pyrrhic victories in the Black Sea that weren't worth the limitations on civilian shipping The western U-turn when this war ends, and Ukrainian refugees convert to terrorism risks without the woke pass that other dangerous refugees get, is going to be amazing. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing what's Theo DeRaadt then? Mecha-Trump? npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing and it's always been that way, and the underlying idea is still good enough that everyone regrets not jumping on board with such people earlier. This is an idea that I haven't seen in fiction. Adventures come to town and kids run away with a slippery charismatic guy, or with genuinely good people, or with bad people with bad outcomes. But this is like: a troupe of retarded charlatan priests come to town and everyone mocks them, but the god is real. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing has the second amendment stopped violations against it? Has the first amendment stopped anti-BDS laws or hate speech laws? The party of Pelosi stock trading and USAID and Chicago machine politics and election stealing is simply the party of organized crime. The organized-crime party would pass laws against slurs and make those laws stick with puppet judges - except that this wouldn't actually further that party's interests, because if slurs were outright illegal, slurs would be punished much less disproportionately from enemies of organized crime. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing I like the map but I hate how prominent Chicago is. But I also hated how prominent how Chicago was in American politics. I even resented seeing "Americas/Chicago" when selecting a time zone. In that way this map is more accurate than the usual map that shows Chicago is just some larger text. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing issuing racial slurs isn't a crime in the US only because if it were a crime, it would tend to be punished with less regard for the politics and position of the issuer. As is, it's punished much more heavily than most actual crime, but it conveniently only punishes enemies of the state. This objection, that actually it's legal, doesn't actually help you. Especially not when it's the difference between a fine or getting banned from a particular airline, vs. having the DA throw the book at you and tacking on 'hate crime' enhancements. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing I don't know Tolkien's actual inspiration, but I have too much pizza right now. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing the entire inspiration for The Lord of the Rings was the Tolkien family preparing too much food for a feast day, and in the end gorging on that food so as to not waste it. As Tolkien bitterly regretted this chain of events, the idea struck him: what if the world could be threatened by man's natural urge to not want to waste something that should have been thrown away? In a personal failing he saw the template for a great tragedy, and then he wrote the rest of the book around it. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing Q: think the future is eating bugs? A: maybe you should feed the bugs to chickens who can turn it into food for you, retard Q: think the future is living in a pod? A: maybe you should make some little pods for chickens Q: think the future is owning nothing? A: chickens own nothing. THE FUTURE IS CHICKENS npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing damn, is that legal? You can just attach ideological riders to contracts like that? Gosh I sure hope that the entire government hasn't been doing exactly this with DEI for decades, or there'd be a lot of precedent to let Trump get away with this! npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing infinite free fights: find subjects that aren't to your preference, and express your preference. Do not attack. Do not contrast. Only slowly let yourself be drawn to any other subject. You are here to make the simple declarative statement: "I LIKE THIS THING." brown-haired woman: how do I look? you: I like redheads Mormon girls laughing with each other about how dumb it is to say that the "Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints" doesn't believe in Jesus. you: I like the Pope. redditor: you: I like MySpace. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing >100 years after Mozilla's brain-damaged history file wrongly implicates a woman for murder >still too cool for standard formats npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing we had the "cup size of consent", but now there is a "cup size of respecting women". npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing if you view the government not as having a singular interest but as composed of competing groups that each have their own interest, then Musk having no access beyond what one group has, this can still further the interests of Musk's group. That's only considering "the government's interest". For your interests, +1 omniscient parties is +1 ideological threats that you could run afoul of. Although the blue hairs already hate you more than their fathers, such people are a known threat that you might feel you've already adapted to. You could fear the unknown threat from Musk. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing its' a good headline but I just got flashbanged by Debbie Wasserman Schultz and even a chicken's face looks familiar and human-like by comparison to me right now. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing we can't stop this btw. We just can't do it. We can screw with crypto vendors and have 15k sanctions on Russia and the IRS can see all of your bank transactions but there is absolutely no way to stop boomers from being exploited like this. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing I just read this as the poster hallucinating that the Pentagon is the right-wing version of USAID, and saying "nooo, don't cut off our patronage. Cut off THEIR patronage!" In the worst case that DOGE dodges the Pentagon for four years, you can use the same formula to kill it later. USAID is not a "rounding error" when it comes to paying enemies to agitate for the dysfunction that let the Pentagon constantly 'lose' money with nobody caring. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing and the stranger the protest. >how dare you have a CHILD audit me?? yes please I would like all of my auditors to be completely corrupt deep state actors, only. >you having a guy do work for you is a COUP! you were previously asked to pick from the small pool of corrupt agents that are hashtag-resisting and planning to thwart your will if the facts are on your side, pound the facts. if the law is on your side, pound the law. if neither is on your side, pound the table. The entire USAID response has been table-pounding. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing although if this caught on the response would just be wishcasting, combined with "no, you're lying about your own beliefs. I see right through you." npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing colorized, this is the exact footage that inspired Kurt Vonnegut to write Deadeye Dick, a book about a kid firing a rifle randomly into a population center on a lark and killing a mother in her kitchen, who 1. immediately had local government willing to cover up the crime for him 2. was so broken up that he confessed anyway 3. got put in a cage and paraded through an angry mob and treated like a pariah forever 4. saw his mother go insane due to damage from a fireplace made of radioactive bricks taken from nuclear test sites 5. lived to see his hometown, with all the people who hated him, erased by a neutron bomb - deliberately used by the US Government as a test of the technology, partially out of personal annoyance with the insane mother - which Vonnegot describes as "like a fairy, killing all the people but leaving all of the property intact" npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing interesting. Who are you thinking of expropriating? The Rothschilds? Universities? Soros? There's indeed a lot of old money that just stays around forever and I could understand some suspicion towards it. ... of course you don't mean Musk who is new money and not for long, or Trump who was "broke" as recently as when it was convenient, then "made" tens of billions in few days with a crypto coin, right? Confiscatory taxation to "remedy pass lassitude" doesn't make sense on someone suddenly gaining a lot of money, and especially not with high income taxes already doing that. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing which of Hillary's suicide victims are you thinking of there? She had so many. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing netcode woes? Is it so bad that you have to completely rethink clients will communicate, or only bad enough that you think that switching to UDP or fussing with MTU might help? npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing Doom and Quake didn't have good stories. Didn't have good graphics. Didn't even have much going for gameplay. But these games had very meticulous hand-crafted levels and going through them was like sitting at a table with a Dungeon Master - you felt the mind of the other human being, trying to kill you, setting things up to kill you, hiding things from you. Making that randomized is just fucking it up. Anyway Beats Per Minute already exists, and although Jupiter Hell is turn-based you can play it really fast and it hits the mood dead-on. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing belated thought: this law was probably sponsored by plastic surgeons. Want to do porn? You NEED breast implants. It's the law! the sexism, I get. It establishes a "porn body". Some women have it and some don't. Women who realize they have "porn body", but don't want it, will also be encouraged to see a plastic surgeon. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing this'll get real funny when people realize that laws like this have racially disproportionate outcomes. Consider a ban on hairless women in porn - they're too "child-like". Well, Han women are hairless. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing the "actually, I'm an ephebophile" poster but shouldn't an LGBT person deny that pederasty between a man and a boy should be a crime, or should be related to pedophilia? npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing that's such a good deal. American worker gets like 3 months at best, and has to train Indian replacements to get that. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing it's at least more entertaining for an Indian to blame China, as there's some geopolitics there. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing the standard in Russia was set by the murder of the Emperor and his entire family. The standard: why should you get better treatment than we gave the Emperor? Fauci's not an Emperor, man. Still it'd certainly inspire retaliatory violence from people that worship Fauci, and this would certainly be egged on by the media in the usual cynical manner of doing anything but agreeing that Fauci was a monster and that the killer only took a morally necessary task off the desk of the state. So some measures should be taken to prevent that violence. Let the FBI finally do a job that isn't shooting up schools. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing Gura turned the Dodgers around and Gura can protect my camp npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing and you know, there's one guy that did it first, shocking and scandalizing the other birds. Is that safe? Is that a good idea? Look at him he's just sitting there! What a cool guy. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing >US military has modeled every single scenario for war on earth, and there is one country they don't see happy models? I know Yemen is fearsome and all, since we just pathetically failed at Operating Prosperity Guardian against them, but I don't think the US military really saw that one coming. The models probably said that ending Yemen's blockade would be easy. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing I've thought it through. You are already obviously coming around to arguing that making Covid was fine - noble, even. Give yourself some more time and you'll agree that remdesivir and ventilation was the right option despite the results. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing >biowarfare banned don't worry, it's only "gain of function" research :) npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing mainly I'd like to live in a world where the government doesn't deliberately create diseases, deliberately release them, deliberately suppress effective treatments for them, and then pay hospitals to treat people in a way that kills more reliably than the disease itself. These pre-Covid concerns are quaint. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing incentive structures are important, indeed. The incentive structure of every government agency is "continue to exist". Actually curing cancer would eliminate the cancer jobs. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing normally I'd not want presidents to have more power, just like normally I'd not want judges to have less discretion in sentencing, or for DAs to have less discretion in prosecuting. But judges gave outrageously light sentences so we have mandatory minimums now. Soros DAs are a huge problem and will get less discretion eventually. "Civil servants" are playing politics instead of obeying the guy that was actually elected to command them, so I'm glad Trump is cutting off their legs like only finally threatened to do at the end of his term. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing and on the right we're suddenly hearing a lot about loopholes. Trump did a thing people said he couldn't do - but he found a loophole! Gosh, normally you can't change positions around for 120 days, but day 1 is actually when the appointment happens, so the corrupt DOJ is getting fucked *right now*, by the acting AG. All that's changed is that he has staff following his orders instead of sabotaging him. Power is power. There's always loopholes. There's always a way to do things. But for Trump's entire first term, even when he stayed strictly within the security cordon and used uncontroversial powers, hashtag-resist types would implement it in a deliberately bad way so that a judge could block it. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing women have good handwriting. Video essays permit men to stand on an equal footing despite women's superior position. For that matter, typesetting does that as well. Perhaps the patriarchy was restored with the fall of the fax machine. Video and fonts are also dangerous to women, erasing the enormous emotional subtext (red flags, seriousness, agitation) of handwritten communication. A habitual liar can do that on camera even better than in person, or at least no worse for live video, but handwriting could still be very revealing. I'm more serious than not. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing I like pineapple on pizza, but I'm afraid to order it out of a. fear that the meme will drive a zoomer to make a Tiktok about how he fucked with my pizza to punish my culinary crime b. guilt npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing also most of my fears about the future are now of the form "what if I don't get out before the ban?" A happier generation might expect things to get better, and think that waiting is always winning. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing my sentiments are usually "in before the ban". Throughout school, because I had a younger sibling who'd always face the much worse evolution of programs that were just getting started for me, and then in the military where I got out just in time for Obama to irrevocably trash the place, and then in private life where I got a good job cross several bridges that have since been burned down. OTOH, no gf. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing there's gotta be some natural law in effect that encourages corps to have as big a flop as possible, rather than a small failure. Games keep going out with a hundred parallel production lines to exploit its massive success, without any waiting to see if it's a success or not. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing it has many negative hints about the speaker, but disregarding the speaker, it's fine. It's just >women benefit LESS from men >also men are so awful that men would vote for a regime that would make women benefit MORE from men the fault is not in anything said, but in what's not said or even asked about: do women benefit from the status quo of women not benefiting as much from men? Would women not be happier under a regime where the labor supply halves but families continue to make the same amount of money and a woman can create a home with a family instead of doing boring makework or negative-value work in soul-crushing government and corporate offices? npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing $ perl -c gibberish Old package separator "'" deprecated at gibberish line 1. gibberish syntax OK It warns about the perl4 method access that @npub1vlu…xzzu notes, but is otherwise valid Perl. $ perl gibberish Old package separator "'" deprecated at gibberish line 1. Can't locate object method "q" via package "hwev::ejvop" (perhaps you forgot to load "hwev::ejvop"?) at gibberish line 1. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing gosh I wonder why it's "landlords and politicians", a too-large-to-threaten group, instead of Blackrock, a single government-attached company that can be crushed like a cube with any political will? npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing you didn't read or watch Goblin Slayer and it shows. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing every single one of these numbers is insane. It's like AI generation without any oversight. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing >very easy well, not that easy. Democrats couldn't argue the point because 1. it'd break from their retarded and losing strategy of denying that the economy is bad 2. it'd involve a lot of explaining inflation to the public, which is both extremely hard and self-incriminating But even a dumb Bernie argument like "the BILLIONAIRES and CORPORATIONS are stealing from you by dragging their feet on raising your wages now that money is simply worth less than it was before. Your wages have been CUT IN HALF." would've resonated, and shill economists would've been happy to finally say something actually true for once, in support of this. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing >Prices have come down he's so deeply propagandized that he doesn't even know how to persuasively convey the propaganda. He should say 1. INFLATION has gone down (prices are not increasing as quickly as before - prrices of course have not gone down and mostly won't) 2. GAS PRICES have gone down (in deliberate election-oriented manipulation of the market, not a long-term or a broad improvement) >the economy is good there's just no way to persuasive convey this one. There was, all along, a very easy and very leftist point to make about the economy: that wages should be forced up in line with inflation. npub1xe9emdlgq0tq0kaxkdw5twhjedm83rppurld29n2astuzm2rc4lsd5333a of nothing >it would affect his family life, so he can't leave Your Honor it would affect my family if you didn't kick him out. Also it would affect my family life if you put me in prison for committing a racism. ... only his family life matters? mine doesn't? huh.