AFaithfulNihilist

joined 2 years ago

If the population starts demanding more they will make it harder for you to make demands.

You might see things like social media sites that were open and free being purchased by billionaires and transformed into unrecognizable sewers.

You might see things like protests violently suppressed by massive police presences that fire on crowds that are both unarmed and non-violent.

You might see things like insane brazenly partisan gerrymandering and voter purges.

You might see things like people being arrested and disappeared for the reviews that run contrary to the regime.

If you see any of these things, you might be in trouble because it doesn't matter how many of you demand UBI or food or shelter, bullets are cheaper and they've already shown that they're willing to use them.

[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago

After the 2000 election it was obvious that Republicans played by different rules than Democrats.

After 911 this country lost its fucking mind. Like millions and millions and millions of people just became fucking psychopaths. All of a sudden everybody was willing to split hairs on torture, child murder, forced starvation, warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention, extraordinary rendition, double tap drone strikes The list goes on.

We became completely fucking insane. It was obvious at that point this is where we were headed. That was when I realized I needed to register as a Republican. Democrats don't care about my primary votes if they even hold one but in my youthfully naive hope I entertained the idea that you could democratically affect anything.

Aside from the extra good feels of getting to vote against Donald Trump multiple times, The only real benefit is that I get visits from local Republican party officials and they think I'm one of them.

I always put on my home accent and complain about liberals but I don't think they understand that they are just liberals of the God bothering type to me and I seek to dismantle them from root to stem. ... ... But please tell me about this canvassing operation you have in my town... What kind of cars are they driving? Just curious

[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Once again, this time everybody join in, "electric cars aren't here to save the planet they're here to save the car industry."

Electric vehicles don't really solve any of the problems that cars have. They just shift the resource and environmental problems into a different arena.

It seems to me that the most effective way of dealing with personal vehicles is to use renewable power to produce gasoline (Blue crude).

That way your gasoline is carbon neutral or even carbon negative until you burn it, can actually be kept sterile and separate and only mixed on demand so it doesn't go bad, and never has any sulfur in it because it's made from scratch.

It also means that all of the vehicles that currently exist can still be used which would dramatically reduce the amount of energy necessary to keep a functional fleet of vehicles and doesn't need everything to be replaced including the infrastructure.

Peaker plants could be built to soak up all of the extra renewable power when production is so much higher than demand so there's no need to worry about where you get the power to do this.

There are solutions out here but they require a kind of rearrangement of how we do business at almost every level.

It's cynical, dishonest, manipulative, and completely unproductive.

Based on that alone I completely believe that Nancy Pelosi did the math and realized that Democrats could argue for this out loud maybe even vote for it but there's no chance that it'll ever happen so it's a great chance for her to actually do politics with the voters which I thought she had considered beneath her.

Wow that is a very short article. What a fucking nightmare.

I know rimworld isn't a city builder, but when you put the 187 mods on it that I have, and you just throw a lot of RAM and processing power at it it becomes a city simulator.

Apartheid countries that practice conscription have very few adult civilians.

[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not a matter of more incriminating. Both of those aspects of the action are 100%, maximum incriminating. Robbing a convenience store is bad, doing so with a gun is worse and indicates more intent. It's a bit like that.

Having a gun isn't the problem. It's not incriminating to have a gun. Robbing a store is never okay, but it's made so much worse by the fact that you did it with a gun.

An 18-year-old oggling a 14-year-old is inappropriate and concerning but not unnatural or indicative of serious psychological issues.

Just a few months later and it becomes worrisome. Each additional year is more damning. I don't think that's an unusual perspective to take on the situation.

[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 165 points 1 week ago (10 children)

So they can't even identify the bodies. Yea that'll end well.

[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One of the most useful and intentional products of an obvious and blundering conspiracy is the open demonstration that the participants are literally beyond the reach of reason or the law.

It promotes apathy, helplessness, and cynicism.

[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They fit in better and are less fragile?

C.diff is almost as toxic as these gross old pedophiles, so handle with care and dispose of with fire.

 

In anticipation of the coming wave of censorship, I'd like to develop a list of subversive content that might disappear off of streaming services.

As these services and broadcast networks are removing content from their catalogs, what kinds of things do you think might disappear?

I wonder how granular the censorship will be too, for example, will they start censoring individual episodes of Star Trek?

At what point do you think they're going to come for Mr Rogers neighborhood or Sesame Street?

 
 
 

They seem to spin some kind of silk everywhere they go. They seem to be no longer than about 4 mm. I noticed them crawling up things and then dropping down on a line of silk. I've started catching them by putting little sticks up in the air attached everywhere that I find them. They tend to gather at the top of the stick for easy rapture by vacuum.

 

I feel like they probably have something to do with light level detection or infrared signal receiving but I genuinely have no idea. They could just as likely be part of the sound system for all I know.

 
 

I will try not to over explain the life out of it

 
 
 

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