Gargle + blaster = Gargleblaster

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • During the Iraq War, Kurt Vonnegut was asked about the anti-war protests… His response was that, during Vietnam, he was part of anti-war protests firing on all cylinders and laser-focused and going to stop that war. He said it was ultimately about as effective as climbing to the top of a ladder and tossing a pie on the ground. This time will be no different.

    So I don’t know what you’re hoping to gain. The ‘Ima take my ball and go home’ approach didn’t work out so well in 2016. Threatening not to vote isn’t going to phase anyone in a country where more than half the population doesn’t vote anyway. Maybe instead of threats you should work with other people trying to help the people you want elected get elected.








  • Go to an employment agency/temp agency.

    There’s paperwork and possibly tests before you can actually get work. Do all of that now so that you don’t have to wait while they process the paperwork if you get furloughed. Be sure to explain that you’re expecting to get furloughed.

    With the holidays approaching, retail stores may need extra staff. Not yet, but post-thanksgiving.

    I’ve never done it, but there’s the payment for taking surveys online.

    I agree with others that the car is a major money sink. Can it sit in the driveway and wait for you to get through this?

    Paying a friend to drive to work together probably costs less than gas + insurance + repairs.






  • They birthed and normalized shitty internet behavior: rickrolling on the lighter end, trolling, doxxing, and swatting.

    They would also do shit like make fun of mentally handicapped people, which would lead goons to harassing the victims IRL and teaching kids that this was all OK.

    And they would go after people who talked shit about about them, criticized them, or otherwise attacked them. The 4chan army would come out in force and try to ruin people’s online existence.

    Before Q-Anon showed up, they had started calling Trump God Emperor during the election. I think they may just have chose him as the candidate who would cause the most chaos, but it’s easy to see how others others would take their goals more seriously and want Trump as president.

    And the cycles of shitty behavior over decades attracted more and more rightwingers. I used to think of them as a chaos collective, but the politics swung hard right.

    And then they spread to other platforms with r/the_donald, pepe the frog, and calling each other pedes.






  • A) Any nuclear exchange will fuck the entire world. Assuming that we can just toss nukes with impunity is foolish.

    B) If you compare the loss of 3000 people to the number of people killed in US dirty wars, the false flag attack that triggered Vietnam, and other military misadventures, the US is far, far ahead compared to those we’ve slaughtered. I’m not saying that it’s OK to kill 3000 people, but treating the rest of the world like expendable pawns in the name of the US is disgustingly one-sided and ignorant of the evil our country has visited upon other parts of the world.

    C) The idea that we were just innocently doing nothing when we were attacked ignores all of the violent foreign policy we have practiced for 70+ years now post-WWII. And we still haven’t abandoned those practices.


  • Abandon the FOMO completely. I do not reward shitty behavior. Destiny 2’s launch was the end of that. Let other people pay top dollar to playtest it and work all the wrinkles out. Let all the DLC come out and the game GOTY edition if it’s that good. Let others buy that. THEN, when they are going to launch the sequel, all of that pap will be sold at basement-level prices. Maybe wait a bit longer if it was really popular.

    I’m playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 right now. ;-)