[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I wonder more and more every day if it isn't just the "unofficially-nuclear-equipped rogue state that has made it clear they will take everyone else down with them" thing.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Shit, they probably have the footage for real, they only just need to scrub off the IOF logos on the killers.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

All Cops Are Bricked (in the genitals)

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago

I got tricked into buying the software version of the one about colonial era ships, because the person working the book fair told me you could launch cannon balls and blow up the dude in the toilet, like it was some kinda wacky action game, and I was a wacky little action dude at the time so of course I had to check that out.

Turns out it was closer to Encarta but without the Mind Maze part. The guy blowing up was a tiny little animation, and you could not, in fact, fire the cannon at all. Something something disappointment immeasurable etc.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair, it was a much more effective electoral strategy than the follow-up:

we're not going to do shit if you vote for us!

actually, doing nothing would be way better than what we were planning, not to mention way harder to buck our lobbyists that want us to do the terrible things, so we're going to fuck things up pretty bad if you vote for us. but the other guy might fuck things up slightly more, and it's your fault either way! but we won't do anything to stop it, because that's too hard/we don't care, ~~good luck~~ fuck you!"

[-] [email protected] 52 points 3 weeks ago

Just use the same "inflation" math the grocery stores and fast food restaurants use, and you'll find you're owed just shy of $10.8 million.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago

Tag yourself

No, I absolutely will not.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah I was about to make a similar post - just had a big debate with some older family friends at a party my parents had that are die-hard dems (which was nice, as they're way further left then most other people there).

They were aghast when I said I wasn't voting blue, and had no idea who Claudia or the PSL are, of course.

Got a lot of "this is the most important election ever" and "if he wins democracy is over" of course. But the one that really chapped my biscuits was saying that if he wins, then [my family member] will lose access to reproductive health care and IVF in particular.

So I said yeah right, neither side is going to change a damn thing about that, because they both see it as way too valuable of a carrot/stick to give up campaigning and fundraising on it. If the dems care so much about it, why haven't they actually done anything about it?

"Well Biden's wanted to, but he's been hamstrung by the extremist right!"

So what about those years when he had full congressional majority?

"Oh well yeah, I mean I guess he could have done more there..."

And then we got called away to the rest of the party and never got to continue.

Bonus points for my insistence that both parties intend on continuing the genocide - but ofc he is going to do it worse somehow. When I said I'm not going to vote for Genocide Light™️, they said, "Hell yeah I am! It's better than the other option!", and I sadly beat a dead horse a little more about there actually being more options available and maybe you actually don't have to put your stamp of approval on genocide-with-rainbow-flag-characteristics.

Also bonus-bonus points for one of the two (very sweet, kickass person generally) asking "So what does genocide mean again?" in a completely honest, non-hostile way, indicating that they simply had not engaged with even the thought of such a thing happening before this conversation.

And these are the two that always get in trouble for being too vocal about their left-ish political opinions at these functions. agony-soviet

[-] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago

Really such a bizarre way to word a policy initiative.

Like, "oh we need to give billions in bank bailouts in order to protect the wealth of all the ~[black]~ hedge fund managers! See! We're doing this for racial justice!"

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago

My favorite line on this subject: only call the police when the situation would be improved by the addition of an easily frightened maniac with a gun.

That is to say, usually don't.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago

Seriously, I'm always telling people about this. The most adament speeders are always the "fuck the government", you can't tell me what to do, come-and-take-it types, and it just baffles me because like, yeah, they will come and take it; in fact they love to!

You are giving the pigs a free pass to fully legally and justifiably pull you over any time they feel like it.

Obviously they'll still pull over anyone at any time and retroactively make up a reason, but at least then they are starting on shaky ground, and you've got a way better chance of beating any charges later.

If you hate the pigs so much, why would you make their job so easy? Especially if you're riding dirty in any way, then that just multiplies everything above a thousand times. And naturally, those that are the most cavalier about doing that always seems to be the ones that love speeding the most.

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Tropical Fuck Storm's "Soft Power", from their wild LP "A Laughing Death in Meatspace".

So many good tracks from this album, but this one is particularly notable for the geopolitics angle. The titular refrain comes from Joseph Nye's concept of soft power, the cultural and social influence of a nation, posited as the other bilateral avenue of global hegemony distinct from its counterpart, hard power, representing military force and thereby influence.

This one's definitely got a little "orange man bad" flavor to it, but is a little bit less just about that and more about the geopolitical power vacuum left in the wake of the amerikkkan empire voluntarily slam-dunking itself into the shitter, particularly when it comes to having any meaningful influence on the world via culture or human rights or anything like that.

If the style grabs you at all, check out Gareth's other work with The Drones, really fantastic off-kilter aussie-rock, with some of the weirdest and wildest guitar tones out there.

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Link is to the original 2006 release, a bedroom-indie track about how cool bears are. If you haven't heard it, give that a listen and let it stew for a while before checking out the new stuff, because there's a big tonal and perspective shift between them.

Apparently, the artist put out the original track, which is mostly pining about the simplicity of a bear's life compared to the difficulty of our own. The artist then immediately went on hiatus, got married, both of their fathers died, they had a kid, and then they decided to make this album together just this year.

It's extremely beautiful and heart-wrenching, and the contrast in perspective from the break in time is really astounding.

If you've got kids, this thing is probably gonna sucker-punch you pretty good, so find some private time to listen and strap in.

The 2006 track (the rest of the album is just ok, imo):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scXezSTOMRA

The new album ("the dreaming's what carries you through"):

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n_mAIPScsjgdaUYvyIvvGP7S6lrAUJKvc

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

According to my grocery co-shopper, it tastes a little tiny bit different in an unexplainable way, and this minute differentiation is worth several dollars at a time apparently.

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