it's at 17:00

"I get it, because society is like a Van, because a Van is a car you put a bunch of people in to move them forward."

"What? No not..."

"And we are the Guards of the Van."

"No it doesn't mean guardians of a van."

"We Guard the Van as it moves forward, to keep the people inside safe on their journey to their final destination!"

"Tha... Okay, actually that's not a terrible analogy to what I'm saying."

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O.J. Simpson’s Freeway Chase: What Happened to the White Ford Bronco

No need for speed: One of the most-watched live television events was also the slowest moving. On the evening of Friday, June 17, 1994, a white Ford Bronco with California plate 3DHY503 traveled down southern California’s freeways driven by former football player Al Cowlings. In the backseat: O.J. Simpson, the football legend known as “The Juice,” who reportedly had a gun to his own head.

Nearly 100 million people tuned into the live chase

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The Man Who Named Cyberspace - An interview with William Gibson

August 4, 1994

"The world is really so surreal these days that it's necessary for us to blunt it somehow in order to stay sane. But I think it then becomes one of the artist's functions to short-circuit the buffering mechanism, so that people can occasionally perceive the weirdness of things as they are.

"We have these moments spontaneously - I think of them as CNN moments. The last one I had, probably most people had, was watching that weirdly Ballardian slow-motion freeway pursuit (of O.J. Simpson). Which was on every channel. That's as strange as it gets."

Apparently Elon edited whatever prompt his AI Grok uses to specifically address "white genocide" and the song Kill the Boers, so it now brings them up in random unrelated requests

Where did things go wrong?

I’m not a woo type person but my mom was and she was into a thing called “karmic debt” or karma “whatever goes around comes around” stuff. At the time I didn’t really put into thought into it and I’ve always felt the need to put some distance between myself and my moms beliefs because they all stem from instagram so it just feels disingenuous and a way for people to market faith. But I won’t tell them not to practice whatever they want too and if it helps then I’m not one to judge.

Maybe it’s because I’m deep in thought and maintain a lot of guilt and because I’m so used to blaming myself that I’m at fault for my wife’s passing, my therapist and I have discussed this and I understand I have no control over what happens especially when it cane down to her health. Bodies get cancer, that’s the most of it. But the irrational part of me still tries to take responsibility even on some sort of ethereal level like karma where the way I’ve treated other people, even myself, has made my wife’s death materialize.

I’m already a piece of shit and I know this. I’m extremely envious that my nephew is a cancer survivor but he’s just a kid and I love him… but it comes back to that anger where I start to feel like my wife didn’t deserve to die and other people “just get lucky.” My nephew is also a reminder of the child me and my wife couldn’t have but always wanted, by the time we agreed it was too late and we decided to stop trying because we thought it unethical to raise a child without its mother. She also didn’t want to leave me with that pain. I’m alone now but I still see why we shouldn’t have had children. It was for the best.

I don’t know what I’ve done wrong, ideologically I’m fully aware of the world. I condemn Israel’s genocide, I condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I was very critical of Biden, we voted Kamala over trump, we used to go to protests together, we went to a few organizations and volunteered together… we did all these good things for the community but her life was still taken. I think maybe it lies deeper somewhere and I blame the way I’ve removed myself from everyone in my life when they didn’t deserve it. Like my family who aren’t on the same ideological framework as me I’ve pretty much avoided contact with them, so in a way I’m somewhat dead to them.

I’ll probably make a post about my resentment for my nephew sometime this week. My therapist said it’s good to post about my thoughts online and encouraged it because it’s all anonymous. Thanks for reading and sorry for rambling.

"Oh, you may have 6 years of experience with IT support, using various different ticketing systems, worked in environments using all the major operating systems, and have done some system and network administrative work, as well as multiple certifications indicating that you know everything we're looking for and then some, but you've never worked with the ticketing system that we use? OK, bye! You're useless to us! Your resume is going on the bottom of the pile!"

That's like throwing away an application because they didn't use the same ticketing system is like refusing to hire a highly-experienced pilot because the seats on the planes they've flown aren't the same model as the plane the airline flies.

I hope everyone shares their opinion.

I've seen & heard this a few times, that Zionists will justify their claim of ownership to Palestinian lands by pointing at the Bible for evidence that they were the original inhabitants of that land. They don't consider it the West Bank, they call it Judea and Samaria (as seen on The Setters documentary). I haven't read the bible and tbh don't know that history very well of which people lived where but I'm sure the history is not as simple as this. Anyone have any good reads or insights into this history?

I tried to find out how to get rid of AI Overview and got this. Feels like Google's dabbing on me

I think the title is pretty self-descriptive. I love me some platonic ideals. They are so cute and cuddly . I don't mind getting impaled by the octahedron . I love it unconditionally. And the dodecahedron? It can get it .

There's even more platonic ideals I love. I love those platonic ideals where we assume some kind of context-less vacuum existence of things then debate about them. I love when we use this contexless category to lump things together and refer to the bundle as a single word. This is very helpful for not causing confusion. I was able to handle complexity when I had a BOY brain. But HRT has given me a GIRL brain. Even better, I love talking about good or bad. It makes me feel warm and cozy inside to smite my EVIL enemies.

No, this post isn't made in context of ANYTHING. This post is a platonic ideal!

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