Headlines starting with like “Trump explodes” give a hope that is immediately dashed upon finishing the sentence

These are mild consequences. I’m sure we can upgrade to moderate, or maybe even memorable consequences.

This is refreshing. I’m so tired of right wing people being like “the government can’t do anything right and I’m going to prove it by sabotaging and starving the government”.

Many people struggle with admitting they’re wrong, or their world view is flawed.

Seems like most people don’t really care about or understand stuff like “private platforms enshittify”. Certainly not enough to be inconvenienced. People will be like “that’s where the good memes are” or “that’s where my video games post”. Heavens forbid you miss the hot memes.

The song game. I feel like a lot of people have come up with it naturally.

One person plays a song. The next person has to then play a song with some sort of connection to it. Like, you could follow the velvet underground’s “Sunday Morning” with Nirvana’s “Lithium” because it has the line “Sunday morning is every day for all I care”. Any connection is valid so long as the group accepts it, but I prefer lyrical ones myself.

That’s it. You go around until you lose interest.

I like it as a way to share music, because to do well you typically have to actually listen with their song.

I will continue to avoid McDonald’s. Not going to break a no-meat streak for a shitty burger.

“While the Mayor’s plan has a number of positive elements, including some increased security funding for Jewish institutions and expanding proven programs, it fails to address a central issue that the mayor himself has perpetuated: rhetoric that demonizes and delegitimizes Israel inevitably leads to the targeting of Jewish New Yorkers,” the United Jewish Appeal Federation of New York, Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, American Jewish Committee and New York Board of Rabbis said in a joint statement on X.

But israel is bad and is not the whole of jewish identity. Fuck off.

Everything is projection. They have poor empathy, so when they try to imagine other people they just imagine themselves.

Time to link Ur-Fascism again: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.

I wonder if this was caused in part by assholes pushing onto the train before people could get off.

How do people actually fall for this shit? How?!

Many people “Reason” emotionally. The words don’t matter so much as the feelings.

Yeah, fine. The preferences in order are

• they’re held accountable for what they’ve done in an open and public way
• they’re removed from power in some other way
• nothing happens to them

If I can’t get the first one, I’m not going to be too sad if Musk gets black bagged. It’s not ideal, but at least he can’t do any more harm.

I’m not that smart either, but if somehow I was in a position if executive power a lot of people would be criminally charged. Maybe even fucking disappeared.

I don’t really care that much about decorum. I want to break the spine of the rich. Put the billionaires in some fucking cells.

Just spent 10 minutes fooling around with fluxer via the web ui. Was able to invite a dice bot, but couldn’t get it to respond. (Also it’s very D&D-specific, but that’s a separate complaint)

Looks so much like Discord

My understanding is a lot of the rich assholes with the power to do something about this view these deaths as desirable.

I would only intentionally live somewhere with good mass transit. I don’t want to own a car. I don’t want to feel like owning a car is playing on hard mode.

That’s a big factor in why I’m in New York City. There’s good transit that runs 24/7.

There’s also places to go. Things to do. Saw like five bands play this summer. If a band is going on tour they’ll almost certainly play here. There’s beaches. There’s parks. You can take the train and hike up a mountain.

Some stuff is expensive but there’s deals. My favorite bar has $5 beers. My favorite grocer has $1 fruit. My friend lives in a house with a bunch of fellow queer weirdos and pays like $1k rent for their room.

I’m not really involved but there’s a lot of queer content here, too. My friend really found their people and filled a void they didn’t realize they had when they lived in suburban Midwest.

I’m pretty happy in New York City. But I’d probably go to somewhere in Europe if I had to leave. Or maybe Montreal. I’d want to do some research and visit before picking a long term home though.

I visited recently and had so much poutine. Everyone was super friendly. Great time.

I dislike AI. It’s like the one ring. Stop trying to use it. But all these people think they’re stronger than Boromir.