Messages

Citizenship of "New America" is determined by results of a "test." The outcome is binary, pass/fail, and there is absolutely no way to effectively predict how individuals will perform. Technically, there is no rule preventing people from repeating the test. Those who fail, however, are rumored of being sent to some super exclusive resort for a weekend on the outskirts of Las Vegas. The only information we have about this place is that everyone and everything is colored white. A team of hackers tries to get information about it by infiltrating social engineers. The problem is that no one that fails the test is ever the same, that is, if they are even ever seen again. The only hacker that ever returned semi-intact was actually a spy: turns out "they" had replaced one of her retinas with a golden photovoltaic wafer that gathered intel on the splinter cell.

You might be surprised to learn that I'm in a damned fine mood. I have a fucking future and the mental capacity to plan things over a month out in the future!

All the more reason to push a token amount of that energy into shitting on LuciferX when he decides he can pretend like he didn't threaten me with fake gangsters and Clarence.

Look, you can be as pretentious as you want. It will never make up for frootyloops. There is no defensible reason to excuse that behaviour.

I think it works even better in the full context of its environment, to be fair

Again, this was a gift, I'm not (ok, not ENTIRELY) to blame for this shit, but I'll tell you now I have no regrets abt it either

I mean, I did hear people /were/ dedicated to fruityloops... that's some serious legacy shit.

Thanks for clearing that up. My assumption was that a commutated sentence still implies the possibility of serving that time.

Yup. That

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpUbOSRKdG8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ13nr6urIo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB7F6CkiJFM

Open Bar: Or, Well drinks straight from the Covid's pointy teat.

Okay but the Elon-Kanye Birthday Party... I can see it, all decked out in Murakami and Jef Koons 

Teething Necklace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_xBrzEDexc

Can whoever writes the newsfeed please stand up.

I think I may need to break-up with bluehost> I think she's been messin' around town on me... does anyone have suggestions for a good and fast internet hosting service not associated with the likes of MoldScruggs and such. Something that does Wordpress quickly, preferably, so I don't have to mirror it. Also need ssh, sql, directory access and the ability to run cron at my discretion. Server load would be mild, but thorough?

If you post a link to your site, maybe we can provide some advice.

It's down now: white screen of death. Can't even wp-admin in. Trying to restore from backup (which THEY now have to do since the 'upgrade') Will update once it's up again.

"One of the most insidious and dangerous assumptions we have is the silly idea that human history has a direction"

I get what you are saying here, particularly when viewed from a large scale, it seems naive to say there there is any "god given" telos, direction or evolution. Except for the adaptations necessary to keep-up with other chance "advancements" in the environment, it mostly looks like the direction is, if anything, centripetal.

"History has no arc."§

See above

*dons dunce cap*

Except for the fact that history, that utterly temporal gesture, can be articulated in three separate "parts." Like the spiral path of interpretation, it has a beginning, middle and end. Those three centers of narrative gravity DO NOT hold absolute positions (ask Einstein); they are not privileged like the access we believe ourselves to have w.r.t. them. However, to say that because of that humans cannot improve themselves and accrue value over time, well, that's just silly

§ also nope, just ask Noah.

I think I may need to break-up with bluehost> I think she's been messin' around town on me... does anyone have suggestions for a good and fast internet hosting service not associated with the likes of MoldScruggs and such. Something that does Wordpress quickly, preferably, so I don't have to mirror it. Also need ssh, sql, directory access and the ability to run cron at my discretion. Server load would be mild, but thorough?