I work in ecology/climate and our conversations still go like this lol. Biggest difference is the weather small talk is usually appended with “…well you know…” in allusion to the ongoing collapse

Pikachu is my favorite potemkin 🥰

No no they meant “running it as a business” as in “putting a bunch of small business tyrants in control and letting them run it into the ground in the cruelest ways possible”

Imagine how well everyone could eat if there weren’t pointless wars, and they were in the Middle East as comrades rather than invaders. Idk - I just feel like there might be something to be said about diplomacy and cooperation over…whatever this is. Legit this should be what they serve on crapitol hill while they’re cordoned off until they actually pass legislation (although this would probably lead to even more unhinged laws- so maybe not…)

I have a decade+ old one that I never connected to the internet and so it never gets ads. And I pirate everything on it, so it works great! I prefer physical books but it’s nice for when I don’t want to carry one around, and i can instead have a library that fits in my back pocket.

Idk, but it’s funny to see another signature jd vance kiss of death coming to fruition

https://redsails.org/sartre-reason-falsely/

^ essentially this, but applied to every aspect of their sad lives.

The rational man groans as he gropes for the truth; he knows that his reasoning is no more than tentative, that other considerations may supervene to cast doubt on it. He never sees very clearly where he is going; he is “open”; he may even appear to be hesitant. But there are people who are attracted by the durability of a stone. They wish to be massive and impenetrable; they wish not to change. Where, indeed, would change take them? We have here a basic fear of oneself and of truth. What frightens them is not the content of truth, of which they have no conception, but the form itself of truth, that thing of indefinite approximation. It is as if their own existence were in continual suspension.

But they wish to exist all at once and right away. They do not want any acquired opinions; they want them to be innate. Since they are afraid of reasoning, they wish to lead the kind of life wherein reasoning and research play only a subordinate role, wherein one seeks only what he has already found, wherein one becomes only what he already was. This is nothing but passion. Only a strong emotional bias can give a lightning‐like certainty; it alone can hold reason in leash; it alone can remain impervious to experience and last for a whole lifetime.

One conflict I’m okay with sending Jared Kushner to mediate (no nuclear weapons, solid chance he gets his face eaten)

Actual answer: “lol lmao. Porky ain’t paying for that”

Back in the day when me and my friends worked at the various stores, we’d leave carts in the far reaches of the respective parking lots. Gave plausible deniability to fucking off 10-20 minutes, then you could combo chain that with a bathroom break, doing “go-backs”, or just walking around with a random item you were “bringing to a customer”. Or helping an old/short person with their shopping (customer service comes first ;) ).

Anyway fuck grocery bagging and cart pushing- And just generally making teens do mindless busy work for small business tyrants. Give them agency in work or let them be free; anything else adds literally no value.

Maybe they’re off smoking doinks with Savannah Guthries mom?

https://redsails.org/the-logic-of-stupid-poor-people/

At the heart of these incredulous statements about the poor decisions poor people make is a belief that we would never be like them. We would know better. We would know to save our money, eschew status symbols, cut coupons, practice puritanical sacrifice to amass a million dollars. There is a regular news story of a lunch lady who, unbeknownst to all who knew her, died rich and leaves it all to a cat or a charity or some such. Books about the modest lives of the rich like to tell us how they drive Buicks instead of BMWs. [8] What we forget, if we ever know, is that what we know now about status and wealth creation and sacrifice are predicated on who we are, i.e. not poor. If you change the conditions of your not-poor status, you change everything you know as a result of being a not-poor. You have no idea what you would do if you were poor until you are poor. And not intermittently poor or formerly not-poor, but born poor, expected to be poor and treated by bureaucracies, gatekeepers and well-meaning respectability authorities as inherently poor. Then, and only then, will you understand the relative value of a ridiculous status symbol to someone who intuits that they cannot afford to not have it.

Was anyone else emotionally scarred by the strip about the baby raccoon dying? Remember reading that growing up- being in the middle of nowhere I’d had similar experiences - and I’m still getting sad just thinking about it

1. not the “costs” people are even talking about- more of the “cost” of destroying the biosphere for useless shittech
2. lol okay give us your home addresses then so we can come recoup costs as needed

Happy you can get some shelter - and add the extra layer too, that’s a nice fort. Fuck the cops. Hope you can get some van sleeps too, soon

Every hour or so the jazz station I listen to plays clips from the BBC/local public radio news and I regularly have to turn it off in rage. They were just recently talking about the effects of the “crisis in the Middle East” on gas prices - previously have used similar weaselly language to talk about the Venezuela invasion, genocide in Gaza, but of course always present it as “Russia’s War on THE Ukraine™️”. Anyway - it’s been a good excuse to dust off the old CD collection

(But in case anyone was wondering, i like tapes more than CDs)

Jk Mets fans the joke was too easy to make though

Lmao the worst fans and supporters of a garbage “state” on stolen land, tribally supporting the most despicable regime. Also Israel was there.

“You don’t commit to putting something on your skin forever if it’s just to cosplay,” Lopez said.

lol. Lmao even. I mean I’m cool with this on a “let people enjoy things” level (and on a “you do you-my opinion as an online stranger doesn’t matter” level), there’s no need to pretend it’s a revolutionary activity in itself. Because at the end of the day it’s a flash tattoo (recognizable tattoo artist IP) based on the glup shitto movie (obvious, literal cosplay upon which I’m thinly withholding my opinion on a “let people enjoy things” level).

Anyway - what I’m getting at is I have a lot of extremely recognizable tattoos that have been captured on lots of publicly available photos: huge back piece of Patrick as a PLA fighter, face tattoo of SpongeBob smoking doinks with Gadaffi and Raffi, obviously rosary bead tattoos (NOT cosplay though- I go to Mass twice a year like all of the best Catholics), my calves are tattooed completely golden so I can judge anyone who worships them, a wraparound neck tattoo of the American flag, Woodstock from snoopy but wearing basketball shorts. Etc. But every single one represents a conflict I was directly involved in (eg saw a news story about while in my suburban home). I wouldn’t call them cosplay, more of using my external appearance to symbolize that I’m part of an in-group via pop culture with the purpose of connecting with other members of that pop culture in-group. I thought about getting them done at a shop on lake street too (to really stick it to Kristi) but I couldn’t find a spot to park my jeep renegade (and I heard that area can be sketchy! Yikes!) Anyway I’ve gotta get to my next tattoo appointment- I’m getting a very visible chest tattoo of zelenskyyyy on a jet skiiii with jar jar binks celebrating their victory over Russia (leaving a spot open for the decisive victory date) and my real Canadian wife’s initials (Samantha Sherman)

Quite the wretched boy though unfortunately for all