*Sweet Home

1. Neighbor + Yagi + xfinitywifi

Surely you know someone’s Xfinity password, or you can make a little grouping and split it

Haha thank you. I like to hear myself talk so it works out.

Yeah. That’s one thing I really liked about the Slashdot voting explanations (and their whole system), it indoctrinated a sense of responsibility. There’s a whole separate issue where the “free account” model sort of creates a sense of entitlement where no one really has to take any good care of the space.

Also yeah, the whole issue of votes as dopamine-delivery systems, versus votes as ways to surface good content, as two very different things. I feel like they’re both good aspects to the system, but they are separate things that are a little bit tangled together right now.

Seriously.

I can hear directly from the horse’s mouth from someone who went through World War 2, fought in a trench and saw all the tanks, saw their friends die, had all these crazy experiences.

I watched Dunkirk and I didn’t like it because it was all a bunch of crap. Roald Dahl already told me how it was (not in France, in Greece, but sort of the same situation) and it just wasn’t like that. He watched German fighters buzzing around and picking off ships in the bay, from up on the hill, he went up in the air and flew around with bullets whizzing all around him, and then he showed them to me. Even if someone’s not an expert writer, if they were there, then they can tell you. Someone who just works in an office in Hollywood probably can’t tell you shit.

I can hear from someone who worked in a hospital ER, someone who survived a concentration camp, someone who lived in the boonies in Africa and got out and yelled at the giraffes and had scares with lions and poisonous snakes. Redmond O’Hanlon took me up the river in Borneo and we ate cooked worms together and the guides had a little celebration because they thought we’d never make it through the jungle because we’re old and fat and white. I saw Gene Kranz walk outside the building and cry, because in one of the simulations he fucked up and killed the whole crew, and he couldn’t handle thinking of it if it had been real. I was there the night that Elie Wiesel’s father died in the camps.

JRR Tolkien learned the secrets of life and death in the worst places in the world and he told them to me, the best he could put them together. Richard Adams too, and Harlan Ellison.

Is it the same as being there? Not even close. Is it better than just going to the store and talking with my coworkers? Fuck yeah it is.

It also got people thinking in a different direction than “I agree with this” and “I disagree with this” as the main meaning of the vote.

At this point, I think most mainstream social media is corrupted enough by the dopamine loop that it’s fairly predictable that most of the comments would be taken over by it as well. Reddit comments used to be more informative than the article a lot of the time.

Just in time 💔

Think of all the stuff they are breathing…

I would have thought that that applied to the Uber wrongful death suit also, but at least one court decided that type of click-through terms were binding even though it was clearly a bunch of shit.

Although, it was overturned later because it’s a bunch of shit. But it was at least a debate.

https://evan.law/2021/05/18/murdered-uber-passengers-mom-can-keep-her-case-in-court-and-out-of-arbitration/

Patriots are defensive, for shooting down other missiles.

I actually think, weirdly enough, that Trump is telling the truth about wanting to arm Ukraine right now, but if the Patriots do get diverted they would get sent to Israel to be used in shooting down other people’s counterattacks.

“Cannot confirm because Trump is talking out of his ass and it’s a coin flip whether there will even be any missiles but they’re definitely not on their way right now like he said they were, any more than Jeffrey Epstein was a fake story made up by the Bidens.”

Does this actually work on people? Like do you genuinely think telling someone that they’re too dumb/ignorant to participate, that that is effective rhetoric that communicates with others?

Lol I mean being straight with you and responding factually to what you were saying, responding substantively and clarifying, definitely didn’t work. Oh well. Also, “cynical” at least in the original meaning doesn’t mean what you think it means.

Instead of demanding I do the mental labor of deciphering your (seemingly mutable) politics, and just lay out what you actually believe?

I spent a few messages doing that, even though you were pretty hostile with me out of the gate.

Sounds like you’re not into the idea of doing the homework in order to learn what you would need to in order to be able to continue the conversation and have it be productive. Like I said, I’m not real into continuing the conversation then. Best of luck to ye.

This was how the Nazis started, too. Deport Jews to Madagascar, let them die there because that’s the only real outcome, problem solved.

They never got that far with it, but that was the plan, for 100% the same reasons.

“Sometimes inspiration comes on a walk, over the first morning coffee, or even in a dream. Sometimes a French lady messages you on instagram and demands you speak to her in French, because she is too tired.”

My Lai was a little worse than usual, but it was also pretty much the MO for American forces. Lt. Calley was just bloodthirsty enough to do it as an official operation, making enough of a gestalt to attract some attention, instead of just having a handful of people on patrol to do it and then come back to base and play cards after like nothing happened. And then again the next week, and then again the week after that.

How very French

What HOOD IS THIS

“Beautiful”

“Good news, Comrade, we have new assignment for you.”