“I bet some of those vets are Trump guys.”

Is “christofascist” the right word to describe this? The American right-wing encompasses a lot more than just stereotypical evangelicals.

The United States is an existential threat to the United States. Enjoy your has-been empire.

tragic

They have a chatGPT plugin now :kombucha-disgust:

the amount of work that goes into even a simple game is so staggering, you could almost call the finished product a hyperobject

ages ago, I had to write a game of minesweaper for a class. When I finished, hours latter, and saw the terminal type out the symbols of the game board correctly, it struck me that I was treading water on the surface of an ocean who’s depths suddenly became very, very intimidating. I became aware of what I don’t know. I am floored by the art people have constructed with these machines. The sheer volume of labor and expertise is… nearly unthinkable. And it’s tragic the conditions all that human effort is squeezed through, just to make a spreadsheet in an Nth floor office spit out a big enough number.

uhh, now i’m questioning my own memory. Have I become the 9th grade bullshitter?

cell, singular. it’s just one big ovum

those tend to be the best ones

like those researchers who were cooking their insides with microwaves and didn’t realize until someone left a chocolate bar in their lab-coat pocket

ah, but it drops down to single digits when you stop counting the movie marathons

you forgot, at the very top of the list, PROPERTY

liberals love to knock the 22, but I think a gun that gives you hospital bills is far more threatening than something that’s merely fatal.

so, as a weird consequence of these kinda threads, all I know about romani and travelers is the “anecdotes” of europeans insisting they’re not racist, while saying exactly the sort of thing people say after they’ve insisted their not racist. Are there any books or resources that give a better understanding? It’s just kinda culture-shock to me that there are still people living nomadic (is that the right term?) lives on the other side of the Atlantic, when over here… well. I’d like to know more. How do modern cities and states accommodate them? And, more realistically it seems, how do cites and states fail to accommodate them?

“epic location”

bro, our cage match should totally look like a Dark Souls arena

COPROPHAGY: don’t google this word

:bait:

Look, they’ve tried democratic republics in the past. It just didn’t work. Monarchy is the worst system we have, but it’s the only system that works.

I think I saw an engineer once describe the crane-and-blocks one as one of those models that demonstrates the theory really well, but is wildly impractical in most cases

I do bite my thumb at you, sir.

:yea:

just trying to think about this strategically. Like, if we’re gonna do federation, we should make a solid go of it. But yeah, ultimately it doesn’t matter.

:meow-hug: best wishes