Open bar: Chloroquine on tap.
9 hour drive for a funeral. Duration - 20 mins.
While away, and right in the middle of it, junkenwife breaks her leg back at home. So that was a fun drive back.
Without the 12 person limit, she would have attended so at this point I'm holding Johnson and sturgeon jointly responsible for this entire shitshow.
Pretty understandable, IMO. Well, except Fixedsys Excelsior, because seriously wtf
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 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.
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.
Shut the fuck up, you small-dicked lozenge-brained little man. I didn’t ask, and no one fucking else did either. You’re as welcome as syphilis and come with less pleasant neurological symptoms in your victims. Your every post serves only to remind me that I despise you and want to take a juicy dump on everything you do until you go the fuck away.
Go lick a church doorknob and wash it down with some of whatever strange elixir makes your brain this shriveled.
:lulz:
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.
"this is all normal"
so my endo lost their license to treat "normies" that can't pay out of their own pockets. no new prescription for me till possibly september.
one fourty eight hour panic attack later i am able to convince my therapist that he is gonna fix me up on monday so i don't cash out. i had this problem before; and the results are not something i am willing to put up with again.
same time a root canal goes full tits up. good ol' friday affternoon one sided hamster face; going to the emergency dentist the next day to get my gum lanced cause the goddess knows i needed more pain in my life so i finally understand something i still dont understand; i never knew one can have a panic attack while already having a panic attack? i am really sorry for spitting blood and puss at these people who were just "on call" that weekend. maybe they learnt what i didn't? it's been all kinds of fucked.
relationships are crumbling left and right cause apparently i am only worth-while company when i can provide useful mad science stuff and help others sort out their shit: it's always too difficult to deal with "my erratic nonsense" --- yeah thanks.
it's the middle of the month. my landlord is soon gonna show up and ask why i didn't pay rent yet; i will hand in the cancellation papers for the contract when he does. it's the paper i have and can legally print myself. it's not gonna be much of a home soon anyways, when they turn off the power, and then the internet. it's time to leave this place.
anywhere but here, will be an improvement.
this is gonna be an amazing summer. maybe i'll even see autumn to celebrate my two year mark.
for the time being; i gotta focus on possible survival options - and maybe turn some of this shit into words.
this is all normal, eh?
i am tired.
:lulz:
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.
I'm not sure when I'm ever going to be able to play live music again.
We've eaten at a few patios, and yesterday finally had our first 6-person backyard distance party. I still don't like going into public buildings, and I'm not sure when I'm ever going to be able to play live music again.
two days ago, I subjected my fiance to TOS
after 20 minutes, she made me turn it off
lol, nope -- I thought TOS might be a little more exciting and pulpy than TNG, and Shatner's acting is a fun ride all by itself
but yeah, it still kinda sucks
Discovery I really disliked when I first watched it. The newest show always has the title of most hated, until another show comes along. Its well acted, well shot, but suffers from Doctor Who pacing, the fast dialog (a departure from the Naval formality of the old shows) kind of makes it feel more fun, but strips away the feeling of exploration. Season 1 is good with a bad conclusion. Season 2 is terribly written, and having a ship that can go anywhere in time and space is somehow both overpowered, and squandered at the same time. It also has one of the worst AI stories in modern sci-fi. I am really hoping for more once off episodes in the next season because this shows characters would be great at the exploration stories.
Interesting, how do you mean?
I see horror the odd individual horror parts: body horror for the Klingon Dude, Pike knowing his fate, spore drive eating the ship, but it conflicts with the presentation and the super upbeat way everyone speaks to each other. When I say exploration, I see it for some of the individual events and episodes, but not for the overarching plot of the Klingon conflict or the Red Angel / AI thing. It's violent frequently, but I never felt any sense of horror
Interesting, how do you mean?
I see horror the odd individual horror parts: body horror for the Klingon Dude, Pike knowing his fate, spore drive eating the ship, but it conflicts with the presentation and the super upbeat way everyone speaks to each other. When I say exploration, I see it for some of the individual events and episodes, but not for the overarching plot of the Klingon conflict or the Red Angel / AI thing. It's violent frequently, but I never felt any sense of horror
Dude, ep 2 was the classic derelict ship horror. Every ep was a different horror trope, including but not definitely limited to the ones you named.
Thing is, somewhere, the federation shines brightly. Somewhere people are happy and equal. Just not these schmoes. They're stuck out there, and EVERY SINGLE horror trope is used, but they're federation so they keep on keeping on, because THIS series is about remembering who you are, no matter how bad it gets.
The tropes are horror, the script-writing is Star Trek, and I love that combo.
Beats the fuck out of watching the bridge crew play flutes, anyway.
What they NEED to do is Star Trek: Howl.
Eventually fed up of his complaining about the monkeys not leaving his planet, the monkeys bundled Howl into an oil barrel and shot him out past the further reaches of the galaxy, where his continuing mission of exploration each week is both sexy and Nightmarish
I'm going to go back and watch some random episodes of discovery, its possible I missed those individual plots bundled up with the wishy washy red angel, Multiverse, time travel AI shite, but there is something to what you are saying, the second ep derelict ship, I suppose parts even of the Harry Mud time loop, and Saru's sisters world with the horrible oppressive ruling fish monsters.
Eventually fed up of his complaining about the monkeys not leaving his planet, the monkeys bundled Howl into an oil barrel and shot him out past the further reaches of the galaxy, where his continuing mission of exploration each week is both sexy and Nightmarish
It could focus on the life of an engineering crew doing all sorts of irregular shit to keep an ill supplied frigate making supply runs that gets pulled into high adventure plot, but always in the background as implausible and horrible bullshit orders come down from the bridge.
“Pay no attention to the bones in the corner.”"No refunds"
“I don’t like them. Computer, remove those bones.”
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“Pay no attention to the bones in the corner.”
How many times do I have to say I'm sorry about Holodecks 1-8 and 10-14???
in my defense, everybody clicked YES to the terms of service; they CONSENTED to what happened to them.
Deserved what they got, IMO.
Security procedures in general need to be overhauled. My proposal is a giant sign, which says "No", which the Chief Security Officer can hit people with when they suggest stupid ideas.
"That's a derelict ship of unknown origin, lets send over a small team with no biohazard protections so we can investigate."
*hit with the sign*
"This unknown but quite hostile alien species wants to open a communication channel but there seems to be a lot of data involved. Well, let's hope they're not hacking the ships defenses hey!"
*hit with the sign*
"Lets contact the Q continuum and..."
*yeeted out the airlock without hesitation*
We need one semi working holideck, it only needs to be stable for five minutes, it is not for recreation of the crew, but we will tell our investors it is
Everybody laughed when I said I was gonna train the romance AI on Chuck Tingle novels
Nobody was laughing when they got pounded in the ass by a sentient version of the Terms of Service agreement
LOVE IS REAL
true -- & that's basically the plot of Lost Boys
(https://i.imgur.com/USHmod0.gif?1)
It just occurred to me that Peter Pan was basically a vampire story told from a child victim's point of view.Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning.
true -- & that's basically the plot of Lost Boys
(https://i.imgur.com/USHmod0.gif?1)
Ive never thought about it beyond "the lost boys live forever", but pan and the count share an awful lot:
Detachable shadows wrecking menace, hovering outside young girls bed windows needing to be invited in.
LOL, never made that connection.
Around here (suburbs of NYC, which is in phase IV right now, basically everything except bars / movie theaters / etc are open but with reduced capacity and mask/distancing requirements), a lot of us have resumed some elements of normal life.
My close in-town friends have been sequestered since it started. Basically any time we've reached out to them, they've said "NO. We're locked down until this thing is over."
like, okay, that's fair---but you do know this isn't "ending" right? Not any time soon, at least. We can't suspend life indefinitely, we have to figure out how to keep living WITHIN these conditions. Don't know about you guys, but I can't handle "just don't see any people for a full year". You can't crank the safety dial to 100% forever or you'll go crazy. So we've been doing porch hangouts, backyard dinners, hikes with friends. No parties or indoor socializing, but we kinda need SOME face-to-face social experience every other week or so.
My in-town friends finally broke, invited us to walk in the park with them. Suggested that back-porch D&D might be a Thing again soon.
It was a huge relief, because we'd kinda written those guys off.
how have you folks been dealing with the lockdown conditions in your region? how has your life changed as of July & what concessions have you made?
What they NEED to do is Star Trek: Howl.
What they NEED to do is Star Trek: Howl.
I wanna sign up.
My skills include fixing shit and hating engineers. And i do more or less anything for some good science.
And none of this "it's gonna take twelve hours to fix - i give you six - fine, i will do it in four" nonsense.
it will take twelve. maybe a little less if you shoot the engineer so i can work in peace.
What they NEED to do is Star Trek: Howl.
I wanna sign up.
My skills include fixing shit and hating engineers. And i do more or less anything for some good science.
And none of this "it's gonna take twelve hours to fix - i give you six - fine, i will do it in four" nonsense.
it will take twelve. maybe a little less if you shoot the engineer so i can work in peace.
The C in engineering stands for "Can Do".
But don't kill CNO. He's the last engineer in existence that doesn't think he knows everything.
What they NEED to do is Star Trek: Howl.
I wanna sign up.
My skills include fixing shit and hating engineers. And i do more or less anything for some good science.
And none of this "it's gonna take twelve hours to fix - i give you six - fine, i will do it in four" nonsense.
it will take twelve. maybe a little less if you shoot the engineer so i can work in peace.
The C in engineering stands for "Can Do".
But don't kill CNO. He's the last engineer in existence that doesn't think he knows everything.
What they NEED to do is Star Trek: Howl.
I wanna sign up.
My skills include fixing shit and hating engineers. And i do more or less anything for some good science.
And none of this "it's gonna take twelve hours to fix - i give you six - fine, i will do it in four" nonsense.
it will take twelve. maybe a little less if you shoot the engineer so i can work in peace.
The C in engineering stands for "Can Do".
But don't kill CNO. He's the last engineer in existence that doesn't think he knows everything.
I leave the shooting of engineers to the officers; don't have time in my schedule to deal with that anyways.
If you want the engineer welded into a specific confined place to closely observe progress from the inside, just give me the proper specs and sign the papers that let me work in the EX area.
What they NEED to do is Star Trek: Howl.
I wanna sign up.
My skills include fixing shit and hating engineers. And i do more or less anything for some good science.
And none of this "it's gonna take twelve hours to fix - i give you six - fine, i will do it in four" nonsense.
it will take twelve. maybe a little less if you shoot the engineer so i can work in peace.
The C in engineering stands for "Can Do".
But don't kill CNO. He's the last engineer in existence that doesn't think he knows everything.
My ignorance transcends the limits of this universe.
In fact, I can't even begin to comprehend the extent of the things I don't know.
Worse yet, some of the things I think I know, are just plain wrong. I'm not sure which ones, though. That's what testing is for.
You're hired. Report to Waste Reclamation. Here's your scrub brush and kneepads. You report to Ensign Miner. She's a Horta, so try not to annoy her.
Thinking of forming a cabal of Mens Rites activists, by which I of course mean chaos magic rites channeling the power of the menstrual cycle
Thinking of forming a cabal of Mens Rites activists, by which I of course mean chaos magic rites channeling the power of the menstrual cycle
So, literally the plot of Bloodborne?
Okay Micolash.
Different universe, Johnny!
You’re the Celestial Emissary.
She’s a sweetheart, huh?
Also, Howl, in all honesty, you need to just start to make your peace with God.
You know?
By upper-decking his toilet.
Again.
I don’t know what either of these things is and I want to be told in a way that is just wrong enough that if I talk about it I’ll give everyone who knows about them a fucking aneurysm on the goddamned spot
My fiance's mom and her sister have both gotten into The Secret.
Eris, give me strength.
My fiance's mom and her sister have both gotten into The Secret.
Eris, give me strength.
I don’t know what either of these things is and I want to be told in a way that is just wrong enough that if I talk about it I’ll give everyone who knows about them a fucking aneurysm on the goddamned spot
The Secret is a book about the Law of Attraction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_(New_Thought)), which is basically like secular witchcraft, but they don't see it that way. Think Sigilization, but instead of occult aesthetic, it's Live, Laugh, Love aesthetic. You make a dream board with pictures of beach houses and, because you visualized it, the universe will give it to you. So if you're miserable, just cheer up. Your sadness attracts negative energy, so knock it off.
Unfortunately I know too much about the Law of Attraction and its cousins (contagion, recurrence/memory, etc) for that explanation to allow me to really desperately upset people the way I need.
It's too late now, you ruined the only chance i had to greatly misunderstand something
I don’t know what either of these things is and I want to be told in a way that is just wrong enough that if I talk about it I’ll give everyone who knows about them a fucking aneurysm on the goddamned spot
The Secret is a book about the Law of Attraction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_(New_Thought)), which is basically like secular witchcraft, but they don't see it that way. Think Sigilization, but instead of occult aesthetic, it's Live, Laugh, Love aesthetic. You make a dream board with pictures of beach houses and, because you visualized it, the universe will give it to you. So if you're miserable, just cheer up. Your sadness attracts negative energy, so knock it off.Unfortunately I know too much about the Law of Attraction and its cousins (contagion, recurrence/memory, etc) for that explanation to allow me to really desperately upset people the way I need.
It's too late now, you ruined the only chance i had to greatly misunderstand something
The Celestine Prophecy is to Asian religions as Taco Bell is to Mexican food: a messy and crass approximation of wildly disparate and poorly crafted things, to be consumed by Americans who honestly think it's authentic.
Sometimes you just need a good purge.
The Celestine Prophecy is to Asian religions as Taco Bell is to Mexican food: a messy and crass approximation of wildly disparate and poorly crafted things, to be consumed by Americans who honestly think it's authentic.
Taco Bell is LEGITIMATELY good for three purposes
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Colonic
Sometimes you just need a good purge.
Sometimes you just need a good purge.
Can't tell if you're referring to Taco Bell or The Celestine Prophecy.
I've heard this said many times of Taco Bell, but I must have ordered the wrong thing, because my experience was entirely uneventful.
(I ordered a Taco).
someone told me that The Old Guard is like how action movies used to be in the 90s.
Taco Bell is God warning you to act right.
For poor-dude’s poutine, either mozzarella or cheddar. Mozza is closer, cheddar is less weird if you don’t have real brown sauce.
And yes, there is a poutine place in AT LEAST Boston and Detroit — those are just the two that I know of.
And yeah, there’s “Mexican” places all over, even around Dallas. Austin has the real deal though.
They don’t use un-aged cheddar, they use cheese curds. Which you can get by straining cottage cheese if you’re desperate enough for the real thing, but if you don’t have real brown sauce (AND YOU DO NOT) it isn’t worth it.
Fresh mozza is closest to cheese curd. Cheddar has more of the sharpness of it though, so if you aren’t using real brown sauce just stop lying to yourself and use some bagged shredded cheddar.
Taco Bell is just Bad. Doesn't make me miserable other than the actual act of eating it, but every time I go I remember why I don't. We have real Mexican food here and it's fucking good, so why?
If I want bad food, there's better bad food.Taco Bell is just Bad. Doesn't make me miserable other than the actual act of eating it, but every time I go I remember why I don't. We have real Mexican food here and it's fucking good, so why?
Sometimes you just want taco bell.
The heart wants what the heart wants.
yeah sometimes you want BAD food
cause sometimes that's perfect
Taco Bell is in the same category as those cheese danishes you can get at a gas station. You know what I'm talking about? they're mass produced, wrapped in plastic, have probably never contacted oxygen. They are terrible and perfect. It's somehow the worst possible cheese danish and also its ideal form.
On the bright side, you can now experience baking hot summers and freezing cold winters.
Well, my job is probably moving to Cheyenne after all, but my boss just hit me with sack of money so I guess I'm going.
Bad news/good news is the best you can hope for in 2020.
On the bright side, you can now experience baking hot summers and freezing cold winters.
85 F is not "baking hot."
So I get cold summers and fatal winters.
On the bright side, you can now experience baking hot summers and freezing cold winters.
85 F is not "baking hot."
So I get cold summers and fatal winters.
The cat is worse than I remembered in some ways, also twice as big and floofed out like an expensive plushie. So soft. I’ve taken a few claws to the face to touch the fuzz already.An abrupt increase in feline fluffiness/contempt/tailcount is often symptomatic of a certain preternatural transformation. You may have a nekomata on your hands. Did you count its tails? You should count its tails.
So I’m way more confident, homelessness might be over for me.That is good.
On the bright side, you can now experience baking hot summers and freezing cold winters.
85 F is not "baking hot."
So I get cold summers and fatal winters.
Hot begins at +30 C. Cold begins at -20 C. Cheyenne, Wyoming has a seasonal range from -8 to +29. Temperate, I'd call that.
So I’m way more confident, homelessness might be over for me.
I also learned today that we’re getting a continuation of the increased PUA payouts, just reduced.
So I’m way more confident, homelessness might be over for me.
I returned to Chicago from Texas.
I’m in the between space that comes after “arrival feast” but before “second shower so you REALLY FEEL as clean as you actually are”. The cat is worse than I remembered in some ways, also twice as big and floofed out like an expensive plushie. So soft. I’ve taken a few claws to the face to touch the fuzz already.
I also learned today that we’re getting a continuation of the increased PUA payouts, just reduced.
For me, that gives me loads of ride time while I look for work. So I’m way more confident, homelessness might be over for me.
Well, my job is probably moving to Cheyenne after all, but my boss just hit me with sack of money so I guess I'm going.
Bad news/good news is the best you can hope for in 2020.
Well, my job is probably moving to Cheyenne after all, but my boss just hit me with sack of money so I guess I'm going.
Bad news/good news is the best you can hope for in 2020.
wait
WAIT
wait.
they're letting you out of Arizona?
is this one of those Orpheus things where if you look back over your shoulder, ZIP ZORP SKEEBELOP ALOOP, Doug Doucey kicks your ass back home?
Wyoming is what you get when you ask your parents for Arizona, and they tell you that they have Arizona at home already.
I also learned today that we’re getting a continuation of the increased PUA payouts, just reduced.
the pick-up artists union is really worth those dues, huh?
QuoteSo I’m way more confident, homelessness might be over for me.
I'm really glad to hear that, Altered! How's your headspace been these last few weeks?
If the ground looks like clean white sand outside, do not go outside. That is cocaine, and the feds are watching.:lulz:
I repeat my prediction from Facebook: Howl will well and truly go feral, and be the Wild Man™ the Goddess meant him to be. We'll hear about him on the news as the Sasquatch.
I joined this forum when I was 17. Today I turned 30 years old.
Just felt like saying it.
There was a long pause, pregnant with the impregnable silence of the pit.
The phone rang. We still have a landline. Mom told me to get it.
I answered. It was a recording, from Visa/Mastercard account services; I'd qualified for a 0% interest rate.
But this time, there was a difference. I pressed one.
There was a long pause, pregnant with the impregnable silence of the pit.
Then, sound; first, the background noise of a call center, and then a man with an Indian accent. I don't remember what he said. It didn't matter.
I inhaled, and screamed. A hideous, bone-scraping, mind-flaying scream, a wail drawn from deepest void of hell, a cry empty of sanity, of humanity, of hope. And as my breath slowly dwindled, my voice fading to a gasping, agonized moan,
I hung up.
I'd like to think I ruined his day.
I have a taste for this, now.
Next time will be worse.
-Musty Old BibleI love the smell of old books. I'm not a candle person, but I'd buy one of those.
-Angel's LaundryBefore or after washing?
congrats on the new job
do you need suggestions for spiritual candle names? Cause we could help with that
-Angel's Laundry
-Musty Old Bible
-St. Gulik's Secret Stash
Virgin Waifu Pillow
Definitely Not Virgin Waifu Pillow
Unscented Zen
Caramel Social Collapse
Lavender Teargas
Boring Vanilla Lover
Still not dead yet.
Still not dead yet.Hi, QGP!
Both good to hear AND a cool name for a scented candle."Not-Dead-Yet Battlefront" was also the temporary name of a certain misotheistic revolutionary group, as I recall.
Still not dead yet.
First: not misspelled, simply an obsolete Romanization that was adopted as the English word. This is how all of our Greek roots are, by the by, we misspell all of them to better match English orthology. All the “ch” words are actually “kh”, and so on. But yeah. Check the wiki page for Matcha, it’s in the info box.
Second: there are things worse than bad matcha, but not many things that you can be mistaken into looking forward to that also involve an entry in the Plague Diary thread. Soon.
Unknown. Probably won’t know until I keel over or something, I still have no health insurance.
I recognized the chest and left shoulder pain when breathing, the shakiness and the indigestion. I sat the fuck down, went into deep breaths autopilot, and made a point of moving slow like a sloth and not lifting a goddamn thing for the rest of the day.
I have intermittent pain spikes at random in my head, neck and chest, but they’re mild, short lived and have no obvious correlation with anything I’m doing at the time. I have told everyone what’s happening, and my current limitations.
This came on while having a panic attack AND helping a new roommate move stuff that is far too heavy for me, so it isn’t weird that it happened. I’m just sick of this fucking bullshit.
Unknown. Probably won’t know until I keel over or something, I still have no health insurance.Shit, girl.
I recognized the chest and left shoulder pain when breathing, the shakiness and the indigestion. I sat the fuck down, went into deep breaths autopilot, and made a point of moving slow like a sloth and not lifting a goddamn thing for the rest of the day.
I have intermittent pain spikes at random in my head, neck and chest, but they’re mild, short lived and have no obvious correlation with anything I’m doing at the time. I have told everyone what’s happening, and my current limitations.
This came on while having a panic attack AND helping a new roommate move stuff that is far too heavy for me, so it isn’t weird that it happened. I’m just sick of this fucking bullshit.
Waiting room is full. Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.
I am also sorry about Altered's troubles. Had my own scare a few years back, I know how it feels.
Altered, may I suggest you cue up Jethro Tull's "Too Old to Rock and Roll"? It was what I needed.
Aside from that, I haven't had much to say in the last 4 years. I have something to say now, though, once it's done percolating. Sometime today, I think.
Waiting room is full. Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.
What's a RWHN?
Greetings, how goes the day?
"com.apple.bluetooth.sensorTracking.stateChanged" has been registered 23420 times - this may be a leak
Jul 31 13:46:11 XXX com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent): Service only ran for 5 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 5 seconds.
Altered: get your ass to a COVID test. Cardiac events in our age bracket are a potential symptom.
Waiting room is full. Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.
What's a RWHN?
Greetings, how goes the day?
Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?
Waiting room is full. Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.
What's a RWHN?
Greetings, how goes the day?
Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?
No?
Waiting room is full. Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.
What's a RWHN?
Greetings, how goes the day?
Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?
No?
I'm not gonna be cool until he does a FAT LINE OF WEED and proves he's cool.
Hello newb, you're in for a bit of a trial.Waiting room is full. Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.
What's a RWHN?
Greetings, how goes the day?
Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?
No?
Hey guys, I'm back! 2020 has somehow failed to kill me thus far. should ask for my fucking money back.
recently got a new job producing spiritually themed candles for a local small business. Pays better and is safer than what i would have been doing before the pandemic, so i'm pretty happy with it. Also we make dick candles, which is still funny.
Waiting room is full. Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.
What's a RWHN?
Greetings, how goes the day?
Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?
No?
I'm not gonna be cool until he does a FAT LINE OF WEED and proves he's cool.
You're just a shill for Big Cool.
Hello newb, you're in for a bit of a trial.Waiting room is full. Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.
What's a RWHN?
Greetings, how goes the day?
Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?
No?
Waiting room is full. Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.
What's a RWHN?
Greetings, how goes the day?
Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?
No?
I'm not gonna be cool until he does a FAT LINE OF WEED and proves he's cool.
You're just a shill for Big Cool.
I'm completely within my right to charge as much as I want for my Cool! :argh!:
i mean, yea, apparently. if you're into candle magicHey guys, I'm back! 2020 has somehow failed to kill me thus far. should ask for my fucking money back.
recently got a new job producing spiritually themed candles for a local small business. Pays better and is safer than what i would have been doing before the pandemic, so i'm pretty happy with it. Also we make dick candles, which is still funny.
Spiritually themed dicks?
Hello newb, you're in for a bit of a trial.Waiting room is full. Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.
What's a RWHN?
Greetings, how goes the day?
Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?
No?
And tribulations?
See, that’s why I was all like “California.”What in the fuck are you talking about
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But noooooooo.
See, that’s why I was all like “California.”What in the fuck are you talking about
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But noooooooo.
Why are you allowedSee, that’s why I was all like “California.”What in the fuck are you talking about
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But noooooooo.
How hard
See, that’s why I was all like “California.”
...
But noooooooo.
For a second I was thinking Iowa, then I was all like Hawaii... Still wanna do that tho sometimes, I think its hereditary.See, that’s why I was all like “California.”
...
But noooooooo.
And that's why I was all, "Idaho, Alaska"
He’s one of those humans that doesn’t meet emissions code. Just dispose of him.:lol:
gross someone shit poster is using a cow referencing username.
I hate you.
Again, nobody fucking asked you. Not one fucking person even hinted at asking you. Instead, I’m going to give you a number of suggestions you can do instead of being here, you tiny moron fuck.
Change your password to a keyboard smash and log out.
Live in a dumpster.
Fist-fight a brown bear.
Cut your power cable.
Purchase and race a combine harvester.
Set your computer on fire (be sure to use a magnesium firestarter).
Eat twenty or more oranges in under 24 hours.
Go join the #discord IRC channel and find out where zlax and the other Nazicordians live these days.
Make a threat on this forum again so you can get banned.
Raise emus.
Climb a dead tree, without safety equipment, in a rainstorm.
Move to a remote Russian peninsula where you can’t access the internet.
Live on a boat in the South China Sea.
Start a business adding pointless internet access capabilities to something that doesn’t need and can’t make use of them, i.e. Juicero.
Sell all of your worldly possessions, invest in Bitcoin, and wait for the market to rise.
Build a rocket to go into space so you can prove the earth is flat.
You have to be careful with the emus, they get a little feisty when you try to pick them up.
You have to be careful with the emus, they get a little feisty when you try to pick them up.
Im injecting krokodile into my veins ITT
A reminder for LuciferX:Again, nobody fucking asked you. Not one fucking person even hinted at asking you. Instead, I’m going to give you a number of suggestions you can do instead of being here, you tiny moron fuck.
Change your password to a keyboard smash and log out.
Live in a dumpster.
Fist-fight a brown bear.
Cut your power cable.
Purchase and race a combine harvester.
Set your computer on fire (be sure to use a magnesium firestarter).
Eat twenty or more oranges in under 24 hours.
Go join the #discord IRC channel and find out where zlax and the other Nazicordians live these days.
Make a threat on this forum again so you can get banned.
Raise emus.
Climb a dead tree, without safety equipment, in a rainstorm.
Move to a remote Russian peninsula where you can’t access the internet.
Live on a boat in the South China Sea.
Start a business adding pointless internet access capabilities to something that doesn’t need and can’t make use of them, i.e. Juicero.
Sell all of your worldly possessions, invest in Bitcoin, and wait for the market to rise.
Build a rocket to go into space so you can prove the earth is flat.
You have to be careful with the emus, they get a little feisty when you try to pick them up.
Im injecting krokodile into my veins ITT
Rank fucking amateur
Real addicts like me ran out of veins year ago and have taken to dripping it directly into the spinal column using nothing but a rusty nail welded to their water heater and an old garden hose connected to a bag of the good shit
They call it Prick Dicking and it’s basically the bare fucking minimum to even be a krokodil hobbyist so stop faking it for internet rep
You have to be careful with the emus, they get a little feisty when you try to pick them up.
Im injecting krokodile into my veins ITT
Has anyone else found the murder hornets thread of the pandemic mildly disappointing?
Has anyone else found the murder hornets thread of the pandemic mildly disappointing?
700,000 people have died from this pandemic.
Has anyone else found the murder hornets thread of the pandemic mildly disappointing?
700,000 people have died from this pandemic.
Are we all just gonna sit here and ignore our assets?
Are we all just gonna sit here and ignore our assets?
:? I don't know what you mean exactly.
I have a specter of death haunting the other residents of my building, who invite a bunch of friends over without masks to bitch about the COVID hoax.
I’m wondering how best to tell him food has arrived without disrupting the Ominous Aura.
It's 95F in London. Everything is horrible and I want to die in a freezer.
It's 95F in London. Everything is horrible and I want to die in a freezer.
Roger stone is coming to a church about 30 mile from my house. it's Pastor Greg Locke's church. You may have been unfortunate enough to have seen him on FB or some other interweb. He was recently noted for threatening "I’m going to take these work boots and I’m going to kick your teeth down your throat" to a Dunkin Donuts employee for telling him to wear a mask in his store. Which he then bragged about on his youtube.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2020/08/trump-loving-anti-mask-pastor-threatens-dunkin-donuts-employee-with-assault/
Christ, what an asshole.
It's 95F in London. Everything is horrible and I want to die in a freezer.
It's 95F in London. Everything is horrible and I want to die in a freezer.
But hey, at least it’s a wet heat.
That sounds like living in an armpit, Cain. Hope it cools down a bit!
Man. I'm feeling so thirsty for an -ism, lately!
Just mentally exhausted from the Shit Going On, and slogging through nuance and a lack of -ism fueled certainty.
It looks so tempting. I see folks everywhere drinking their curriculum, and dining on channels, and they seem so satisfied...
Was hung mung ecstatic or despondent as he slapped his ass? I used to be the former, but am currently feeling the latter.
Please advise.
Welcome to Tucson, everyone! :lulz:
Just give him the gas face if you see him in real life, he'll spontaneously launch his intestines out through his toenails.
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So, after hearing about Amazon doing a Wheel of Time TV series scheduled for release next year, I decided to re-read the Wheel of Time series.
AMA about braid-tugging or why shrilly scolding someone with the power to level a continent and is going insane is the best way to handle matters.
Hey y'all, just got back from Montana. The landshark menace has been beaten back for another year.
Now, I need to get a brain tickle and stay inside for 2 weeks.
I'm trying to find this gif... I know it originally came from SomethingAwful forums but it was seen here sometimes too
it was basically like this :eek: <- but with one big eye, and it slowly got bigger and bigger and bigger
somebody must remember where to find this gem of a gif
And in addition to all of that, it has Jeremy Irons chewing the scenery in a way that makes his stint as Rodrigo Borgia/Pope Alexander VI look restrained by comparison.
That was an AMAZING show.
If you’re not watching “Lovecraft Country”, you should.
Actually, sorry, I have been one place outside of the house in recent times: Best Buy, dropping off my busted laptop. I was wearing my respirator with N99 filters and nonvented goggles, and I slathered everything in hand sanitizer, changed my clothes and got a shower as soon as I returned.Eat him. If he tries to move out, eat him. Can you possibly start looking for another roommate whole he lies like the little coward he is?
I did not even have anyone get closer than 5 feet by /accident/ the entire time I was there, and the one invasion of my 6 foot bubble I held my breath for the duration of. (And that person was masked up like I was, thank god.)
My risk from Best Buy seems extremely small. Extremely. Meanwhile his cloth mask and unprotected eyes and hanging out at Walmart and in restaurants with friends seems absurdly high risk. So, you know.
Well, he's fine, a very energetic 3 yr old. We don't know if we have a time bomb or if it's going to go down and up and he's just never going to be in a contact sport.I cant imagine the worry, at least he's comfortable, hopefully its one of those things that normalises over time
Note to self for Tuesday: The term your senile ass can't remember when you need it is "Acoustic emission spectroscopy".
Sister is is probably asymptomatic (she had a sore throat but, like, it's fire season). BIL still can't taste it smell, and as far as I know he's still sore and headachy.Update: sister tested negative for the Rona! 🎉 the Creek fire is a freak and also like 21 miles from me. ☹️
The Creek fire is north east of me by like 30 miles and totally uncontrolled. Ash is coming down like the first flurries of snow, though not as much as yesterday. We're okay at least. Fires don't usually make it down to the valley floor from the mountains and I don't actually recall that happening in the 23 years I've lived here.
I owe Howl a hate letter still, but while I started the first draft today, I’ve scrapped it and will not be starting a new one.
Why?
My laptop will be returned to me within the week, as in “I probably pick it up Sunday or Monday”, and I’m going to have ever so much more fun typing on that little bastard than fighting with mobile keyboards and tiny screens.
Note to self for Tuesday: The term your senile ass can't remember when you need it is "Acoustic emission spectroscopy".
Apparently, this shit is so new nobody is doing it yet.
So much for "non-destructive testing," fire up the fucking band saw.
Note to self for Tuesday: The term your senile ass can't remember when you need it is "Acoustic emission spectroscopy".
Apparently, this shit is so new nobody is doing it yet.
So much for "non-destructive testing," fire up the fucking band saw.
I thought it was something my husband used at his previous job and found I was very wrong.
From how it's described I hope it means I can figure out what something is made of by yelling at it.
OK, all moved, please proceed with destroying any lingering vestiges of respect for the UK.
Like two weeks ago I brought shame upon my family and discovered I actually enjoy Twitch. Specifically, I stumbled into the wide world of live DJ streaming sets, both individuals and clubs. Here's one example that some of you heathens may enjoy: https://www.twitch.tv/faithintheglitch (https://www.twitch.tv/faithintheglitch) . This guy actually did a set last night for the 25 year anniversary of Hackers.
Like two weeks ago I brought shame upon my family and discovered I actually enjoy Twitch. Specifically, I stumbled into the wide world of live DJ streaming sets, both individuals and clubs. Here's one example that some of you heathens may enjoy: https://www.twitch.tv/faithintheglitch (https://www.twitch.tv/faithintheglitch) . This guy actually did a set last night for the 25 year anniversary of Hackers.
Recently Facebook banned live music streaming and DJing... so its actually legal in Twitch???
I thought in Twitch they were banning people left and right for copyright infringement on music? Or is that just when they use it as background music while playing games?
Up next, shit rolls uphill.
hey folks!
how is everyone?
I'd tell you all how I'm doing but it might take too long to explain.
Hmm, wondering if moving to Czech republic is a good idea. Well, for someone how has no f'n clue about the language.
“That’s classified”Up next, shit rolls uphill.
"I don't think you understand the gravity of this situation sir!"
Hmm, wondering if moving to Czech republic is a good idea. Well, for someone how has no f'n clue about the language.
Aren't you from Finland? What's wrong there right now?
honestly i'm considering buying a houseboat because a) its probably cheaper than a house and b) maybe once day i'll go out to sea and "wind up" in Canada
hey folks!
how is everyone?
I'd tell you all how I'm doing but it might take too long to explain.
HOLY SHIT PIXIE IS BACK
How many englishmen have you beheaded this year
hey folks!
how is everyone?
I'd tell you all how I'm doing but it might take too long to explain.
Had to have the brain tickled, thankfully came back negative, but it was three days of being locked in a room away from herself and the baby, which is a lot of hard work.
I felt pretty dumb when I went up for it, I thought they just swab the inside of your cheek, its quite invasive, still better to know sooner than spend two or more weeks of uncertainty otherwise
So about to prolly lose home of 14 years n a bit. In case anyone was wondering why I wasn’t being my normal self shitting the place and all.
So about to prolly lose home of 14 years n a bit. In case anyone was wondering why I wasn’t being my normal self shitting the place and all.
You're like a worse version of Fujikoma, I doubt anyone here has any sympathy left for you.
hey y'all. Roommate recently moved out of our one bedroom apartment, which means I get the bedroom as opposed to the living room. Problem is, the property manager literally did not read the 30 day notice my roommate left which read that I would be remaining in the apartment, listed me as a former tenant and nearly fucked up my ability to pay rent. My sister who works as a social worker was able to scare them into accepting my rent payment, but they've also decided that they now need to verify my income to see if i can afford rent, even as I've already afforded rent. I normally make about 2400/month, but they want someone who makes 3x the rent, which is a whopping 3228/month. I dunno what they intend to do if I cant make that, since I'm fairly certain an eviction ban is currently in effect in my area, but with this gang of dick trippers, anything is possible.
adding to this shit salad is the fact that my boss is cutting back my hours due to the fact that me and my coworker have made and dipped so many candles that we have more than we can sell in the foreseeable future. SIGH.
hey y'all. Roommate recently moved out of our one bedroom apartment, which means I get the bedroom as opposed to the living room. Problem is, the property manager literally did not read the 30 day notice my roommate left which read that I would be remaining in the apartment, listed me as a former tenant and nearly fucked up my ability to pay rent. My sister who works as a social worker was able to scare them into accepting my rent payment, but they've also decided that they now need to verify my income to see if i can afford rent, even as I've already afforded rent. I normally make about 2400/month, but they want someone who makes 3x the rent, which is a whopping 3228/month. I dunno what they intend to do if I cant make that, since I'm fairly certain an eviction ban is currently in effect in my area, but with this gang of dick trippers, anything is possible.
adding to this shit salad is the fact that my boss is cutting back my hours due to the fact that me and my coworker have made and dipped so many candles that we have more than we can sell in the foreseeable future. SIGH.
Yeah i figure that since this company sells all its other one bedrooms at about 500 bux per month more than I'm currently paying, they were hoping they could "accidently" kick me out of my place and then jack up the rent on the next poor sap. FMLhey y'all. Roommate recently moved out of our one bedroom apartment, which means I get the bedroom as opposed to the living room. Problem is, the property manager literally did not read the 30 day notice my roommate left which read that I would be remaining in the apartment, listed me as a former tenant and nearly fucked up my ability to pay rent. My sister who works as a social worker was able to scare them into accepting my rent payment, but they've also decided that they now need to verify my income to see if i can afford rent, even as I've already afforded rent. I normally make about 2400/month, but they want someone who makes 3x the rent, which is a whopping 3228/month. I dunno what they intend to do if I cant make that, since I'm fairly certain an eviction ban is currently in effect in my area, but with this gang of dick trippers, anything is possible.
adding to this shit salad is the fact that my boss is cutting back my hours due to the fact that me and my coworker have made and dipped so many candles that we have more than we can sell in the foreseeable future. SIGH.
Get your state attorney general on the line, you have rights as an existing tenant and they are trying to fuck you.
hey y'all. Roommate recently moved out of our one bedroom apartment, which means I get the bedroom as opposed to the living room. Problem is, the property manager literally did not read the 30 day notice my roommate left which read that I would be remaining in the apartment, listed me as a former tenant and nearly fucked up my ability to pay rent. My sister who works as a social worker was able to scare them into accepting my rent payment, but they've also decided that they now need to verify my income to see if i can afford rent, even as I've already afforded rent. I normally make about 2400/month, but they want someone who makes 3x the rent, which is a whopping 3228/month. I dunno what they intend to do if I cant make that, since I'm fairly certain an eviction ban is currently in effect in my area, but with this gang of dick trippers, anything is possible.What with the moratorium on evictions in different states my estimate is no judge would see or ever even sign some shit like that until at least like February. That’s the story I tell myself from sites like this in CA httxx://landlordtenant.dre.ca.gov/tenant/protection_guidelines.html (http://httxx//landlordtenant.dre.ca.gov/tenant/protection_guidelines.html)
adding to this shit salad is the fact that my boss is cutting back my hours due to the fact that me and my coworker have made and dipped so many candles that we have more than we can sell in the foreseeable future. SIGH.
I spiked a 101.5 temperature today in 45 minutes.That sucks Dok. Hope it all turns out alright
The good news is my stomach is in an uproar, so it looks like a stomach flu rather than the plague.
That's where we are: "Thank god I have the shits."
The Shits are a potential symptom. Get Thine Brain Swabbed.
The Shits are a potential symptom. Get Thine Brain Swabbed.
Fever gone, shits gone. I'm thinking it was that bastard flu, but I had my shot and I seem to have shaken it.
somehow, MY toilet is clogged ???
Thanks a lot, Dok
I'm not even mad, I'm impressed.
somehow, MY toilet is clogged ???
Thanks a lot, Dok
I'm not even mad, I'm impressed.
Dok has recently been experimenting with non-local phenomena.
I don't understand exactly what "non-local" means, but quantum tunnelling allows objects to poop out of existence at one place, and poop back into existence elsewhere. The probability of such an event decreases rapidly with increasing mass and distance, but it never quite reaches zero.
No one is safe.
I've always thought bananas were gross and coffee is OK.
Oh god, have I had covid my entire life?
Turned out I had influenza. I'm better now.
Turned out I had influenza. I'm better now.
I'm glad you're okay.
But, when you discover a group of first-graders playing hide-and-seek in the Pentagon War Room, your relief at confirming that they weren't there to spy on the Big Board should be tempered with concern over the security lapse that made it possible for them to get in there in the first place.
If you could catch the flu, you can catch the plague.
We had a customer who had Sales Reps with Printer issues, where their Receipt Printer wouldn't print after each transaction. It's almost undoubtedly a hardware issue, but I figured I'd cover my company's ass (We do the Software, not Hardware.).
Normally, the Service Desk would take this kind of issue, but this one somehow made its way to me (I designed their OS, so any issues the Service Desk can't solve quickly come to me.). I figured: "Fuck it, I'm gonna have fun with it, then." :lol:
(https://i.ibb.co/JxzGPfF/PLEASE-HELP-AM-STUCK-IN-PRINTER.png)
thank you for your service :fnord: :lulz:
"The man in the brown jacket is not to be trusted, if he uses the phrase 'Borealis', you must leave immediately. Destroy this and do not let him know you are aware"thank you for your service :fnord: :lulz:
I may or may not have the access to send custom messages like these to thousands of similar printers across all major US Airports overnight without interrupting any business, and the corporate political sway to brush off complaints about such an operation if I'm discovered.
Currently taking recommendations on custom messages (Must be SFW obviously).
"The man in the brown jacket is not to be trusted, if he uses the phrase 'Borealis', you must leave immediately. Destroy this and do not let him know you are aware"thank you for your service :fnord: :lulz:
I may or may not have the access to send custom messages like these to thousands of similar printers across all major US Airports overnight without interrupting any business, and the corporate political sway to brush off complaints about such an operation if I'm discovered.
Currently taking recommendations on custom messages (Must be SFW obviously).
I'm glad to hear the meds are helping stablise your moods. As you say, mania and a global pandemic are not a great mix.
I hope you figure something out re: living arrangements. Not much of a deadline to sort things out.
Just a passing thought, but have Trump cultists gone too far? I mean it not in the way it may appear at first glance, I mean, is it ok to view our friends and family that we've since cut ties with over fanatical endorsement of a lying shitbag narcissist, as victims of a cult mentality and welcome them back as though everything is ok once all this is said and done? Or is the root of betrayal so deep that there can be no healing from it? I know what I think and feel about it, I'm just curious how others view it.
Well, I keep thinking about what I've read about cults, and it's not necessarily the dumb and/or ignorant who get wrapped up in that manner of thinking. Some educated people have been sucked in by cult mentalities and encouraged to alienate friends and family until the cult is all they have left. After this alienation, if I recall correctly, pride can keep them from admitting they were in the wrong (after all, who wants to face that kind of shame?), as well as fear, what if they beg forgiveness and are rejected? Then they have nothing, no cult, no friends, no family.
This also explains Kentucky weddings.
And here we are, radicalising ourselves for free, what are we even doing?
I think that a person supporting Trump is just a symptom of deep rooted bad qualities... one does not develop such degenerate fetish overnight.
I think that a person supporting Trump is just a symptom of deep rooted bad qualities... one does not develop such degenerate fetish overnight.
Correct.
For whom i refuse to waste time on:
1) Adversarial people with an intellectual disability.
2) Racists, totalitarians and zealots of any kind.
For whom sometimes i have the patience for:
1) The "mentally ill"
2) The unwillingly ignorant that either are not sealioning, or im so bored out of my mind that i dont care
My cognitive and emotional fuel can only go so far, when not only im trying to help friends and patients keep it together in the pandemic, but also trying to do all the work pertaining to the writing of a book.
I really dont give a FUCK about one-liners that go nowhere, add nothing and arent even clever... i sometimes give a fuck about peoples issues online but that is entirely dependent on my relation to them, because it is, after all, even more emotional labour.
I also dont need a speech about "echo chambers", diversity, instincts and tribalistic thinking with the addition of a slice of life short story to prove your point.
People that dont contribute anything but expect to take regardless, are miserable and parasitic, and dont deserve even the privilege to be read.
Wait, why does he/she get ignored and not me? Nevermind, maybe I don't want the answer.
Wait, why does he/she get ignored and not me? Nevermind, maybe I don't want the answer.
Okay.
Shit, which James Bond? Did he get lazered from crotch to face? If not Howl hasn't been doing his job. Sorry, respect for the dead, which one?There is only one - but some call him Connery, Sean Connery . . .
EDIT: Apparently live and let die didn't work out.
Shit, which James Bond? Did he get lazered from crotch to face? If not Howl hasn't been doing his job. Sorry, respect for the dead, which one?There is only one - but some call him Connery, Sean Connery . . .
EDIT: Apparently live and let die didn't work out.
I think Trump might have had Sean Connery killed
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Well, I turned 52 today.
Which means I've been in this fucking place for EIGHTEEN YEARS.
Somewhat longer than I have, but I don't really count my earlier years because I was dumber then than I am now. Happy Birthday, Howl. I'm still dumb and nobody wants me here, fuck that, birthday time.
Happy Birfday, Dok
Did you get any opportunity to celebrate? birthdays are weird, this time around.
Of course Dok, glad you enjoyed your birthday. May you have many more.Somewhat longer than I have, but I don't really count my earlier years because I was dumber then than I am now. Happy Birthday, Howl. I'm still dumb and nobody wants me here, fuck that, birthday time.
Your birthday wishes to me that somehow became about you are appreciated.
Happy Birfday, Dok
Did you get any opportunity to celebrate? birthdays are weird, this time around.
My wife and I spent the day together, at home.
I'm okay with that.
I'm starting to have trouble keeping up with who I hate and why I hate them. Is there some kind of specialized shitlist management software out there, or do I just need to learn SQL?
I'm starting to have trouble keeping up with who I hate and why I hate them. Is there some kind of specialized shitlist management software out there, or do I just need to learn SQL?
Have you considered adopting general misanthropy? It cuts down on the paperwork.
I'm starting to have trouble keeping up with who I hate and why I hate them. Is there some kind of specialized shitlist management software out there, or do I just need to learn SQL?
Have you considered adopting general misanthropy? It cuts down on the paperwork.
My brother spent 6 years in Norfolk. It's part of why he's an incurable prick (the other part is that the fucker was just born an asshole).
And tell your family to get wrecked. There's a fucking plague on and nobody needs to hear that kind of bullshit.
Well I'm hopping a train south to New Orleans because I have nowhere to stay in Wisconsin and winter is coming on fast. I never intend to reside here again. I have friends and business interests so I may visit from time to time, but I was already looking to make a leap before my car broke down in LaX in June. I have a friend I'm meeting up with in the French Quarter and intend to set down new roots there fairly quickly. I have a couple hundred each in cash and food stamps and a few hundred on my debit card. Managed to pare down my posessions to a stuffed backpack, a rather nice all way roller luggage I got at a thrift shop, and my walking staff, which always goes where I go. In for some challenges to be sure, but my spirit is optimistic and I am as well prepped as an old hand gamer can be for a potentially difficult adventure.
Well I'm hopping a train south to New Orleans because I have nowhere to stay in Wisconsin and winter is coming on fast. I never intend to reside here again. I have friends and business interests so I may visit from time to time, but I was already looking to make a leap before my car broke down in LaX in June. I have a friend I'm meeting up with in the French Quarter and intend to set down new roots there fairly quickly. I have a couple hundred each in cash and food stamps and a few hundred on my debit card. Managed to pare down my posessions to a stuffed backpack, a rather nice all way roller luggage I got at a thrift shop, and my walking staff, which always goes where I go. In for some challenges to be sure, but my spirit is optimistic and I am as well prepped as an old hand gamer can be for a potentially difficult adventure.
You're one of the most cautious/paranoid people about Covid that I've ever seen, and you've decided to live in NEW ORLEANS?
Addendum.
That nice young man seems to have managed to fuck up a very good arrangement. While I was out and visiting with the new friend that was holding down my luggage for a few hours the landlord had to break into the bathroom where the kid had just dosed himself with what appears to be some nasty hoss cooked on a dirty spoon. That was apparently strike three in record time and man did he strike out hard. Shame. Seemed like a decent guy. His mother came and scooped him and his evil but cute little bastardo of a cat. Some of his stuff remains including a rather nice bed. Guess until he reclaims it the landlord is quite alright with me crashing my weary ass on it. Kid incidentally caused some property damage including a busted front door. It is as secure as it can be for now. Plus I will be sleeping just on the other side of it. The landlord seems to very much be ok with a huge, angry ninja-wizard handling security in a fairly rough neighborhood. If I am successful enough at getting my job/hustle on over time I can probably just pay him enough that further roomies of questionable integrity become unnecessary. A good crash space is invaluable. I absolutely am not going to let this one go to shit over some stupid shit if I can help it.
Addendum.
That nice young man seems to have managed to fuck up a very good arrangement. While I was out and visiting with the new friend that was holding down my luggage for a few hours the landlord had to break into the bathroom where the kid had just dosed himself with what appears to be some nasty hoss cooked on a dirty spoon. That was apparently strike three in record time and man did he strike out hard. Shame. Seemed like a decent guy. His mother came and scooped him and his evil but cute little bastardo of a cat. Some of his stuff remains including a rather nice bed. Guess until he reclaims it the landlord is quite alright with me crashing my weary ass on it. Kid incidentally caused some property damage including a busted front door. It is as secure as it can be for now. Plus I will be sleeping just on the other side of it. The landlord seems to very much be ok with a huge, angry ninja-wizard handling security in a fairly rough neighborhood. If I am successful enough at getting my job/hustle on over time I can probably just pay him enough that further roomies of questionable integrity become unnecessary. A good crash space is invaluable. I absolutely am not going to let this one go to shit over some stupid shit if I can help it.
Sounds pretty fucking standard for NOLA, really.
I have to be honest, I'm a bit jealous. NOLA is one of my favorite cities. In the Before Times, we would go at least once a year.
Why not St. Norton blend? Excellent post though.
Why not St. Norton blend? Excellent post though.
One, Norton is from San Francisco, two he was delusional and I don't think Joseph is making deleriants, just medicine.
I intend to brand my tinctures as "St. Raphael's" after both the archangel of healing and life and my recently slain Igbo brother Justice Ihechi Raphael
Baby has become very mobile in the last few days, everything in the house is now a death trap. The new game is pulling herself up in the crib and toppling over.
Herself is taking extended maternity so we're down to the one income, which isn't a problem but I've cut some costs till April such as my Patreons, Queen G I think was the only person I had from here on it and I'd like to restore that come April
There has to be some way to drop a death curse on the rooster that decided 1 a.m. was the time to begin crowing, and then continue crowing for 4 and a half hours nonstop so far. I just want to force-choke the little fucker or something.
There has to be some way to drop a death curse on the rooster that decided 1 a.m. was the time to begin crowing, and then continue crowing for 4 and a half hours nonstop so far. I just want to force-choke the little fucker or something.
Out here in the desert, we use a cleaver.
There has to be some way to drop a death curse on the rooster that decided 1 a.m. was the time to begin crowing, and then continue crowing for 4 and a half hours nonstop so far. I just want to force-choke the little fucker or something.
Out here in the desert, we use a cleaver.
There has to be some way to drop a death curse on the rooster that decided 1 a.m. was the time to begin crowing, and then continue crowing for 4 and a half hours nonstop so far. I just want to force-choke the little fucker or something.
Out here in the desert, we use a cleaver.
Dude if I knew where the little fucker was I would show up at the doorstep of the owner with $50 and a cleaver. My bet is a fine meal and solid night of sleep would result.
YA KNOW HE AIN'T GONNA DIE . . . . .There has to be some way to drop a death curse on the rooster that decided 1 a.m. was the time to begin crowing, and then continue crowing for 4 and a half hours nonstop so far. I just want to force-choke the little fucker or something.
Out here in the desert, we use a cleaver.
Dude if I knew where the little fucker was I would show up at the doorstep of the owner with $50 and a cleaver. My bet is a fine meal and solid night of sleep would result.
Do not fuck with a rooster in New Orleans. Trust me on this, they use them for voodoo sacrifices.
There has to be some way to drop a death curse on the rooster that decided 1 a.m. was the time to begin crowing, and then continue crowing for 4 and a half hours nonstop so far. I just want to force-choke the little fucker or something.
Out here in the desert, we use a cleaver.
Dude if I knew where the little fucker was I would show up at the doorstep of the owner with $50 and a cleaver. My bet is a fine meal and solid night of sleep would result.
Do not fuck with a rooster in New Orleans. Trust me on this, they use them for voodoo sacrifices.
There has to be some way to drop a death curse on the rooster that decided 1 a.m. was the time to begin crowing, and then continue crowing for 4 and a half hours nonstop so far. I just want to force-choke the little fucker or something.
Out here in the desert, we use a cleaver.
Dude if I knew where the little fucker was I would show up at the doorstep of the owner with $50 and a cleaver. My bet is a fine meal and solid night of sleep would result.
Do not fuck with a rooster in New Orleans. Trust me on this, they use them for voodoo sacrifices.
Bought and paid for. Legit transaction. I give the spirits half and a side of mashed potatoes, but apparently this rooster is quite notorious and I could be be seen as doing the community a favor.
The pure and wholesome love of Baby Jesus.
ok, which one of you is responsible for THIS (https://arcanebullshit.com/)?
I take my walks in the cold blackness of the Canadian pre-dawn
Hey, I'm not that far north. Saskatoon hardly ever gets less than 8 hours of daylight.I take my walks in the cold blackness of the Canadian pre-dawn
You need to narrow that down some. That could be hours, days, or months.
I saw spam reports for the IP and the email domain address, so I've blacklisted the latter.
The pure and wholesome love of Baby Jesus.
I saw spam reports for the IP and the email domain address, so I've blacklisted the latter.
I've been banning bots with addresses in Russia and India with email addies ending in "greatbigdickpills.com", but sometimes I gotta leave it to the experts.
The pure and wholesome love of Baby Jesus.
By which he means we haven't had a Baby Jesus video in 12 years or so.
This reminds me of the time Altered assaulted my email address with spam just to upset me, she succeeded. If you tolerate that, you should tolerate big penis pills all over the place. If not, someone needs to tell Altered she crossed a line. I didn't do it, because I wouldn't, but the irony is hilarious.
EDITED TO ADD: Altered hasn't posted in some time, and when she did she was suffering from multiple maladies. I would be comforted if she said something, believe it or not, I worry about her. For very good reason. It would cause me much less worry if she posted.
This reminds me of the time Altered assaulted my email address with spam just to upset me, she succeeded. If you tolerate that, you should tolerate big penis pills all over the place. If not, someone needs to tell Altered she crossed a line. I didn't do it, because I wouldn't, but the irony is hilarious.
EDITED TO ADD: Altered hasn't posted in some time, and when she did she was suffering from multiple maladies. I would be comforted if she said something, believe it or not, I worry about her. For very good reason. It would cause me much less worry if she posted.
In the Time Before, I took walks by the river during my lunch break. Not the pleasantly curated asphalt trails, favoured by joggers, but the behind-paths, the under-paths, with trees and rocks and mud and sinkholes and hostile squirrels.
Now, in the Plague Time, I work from home, far from the river. I take my walks in the cold blackness of the Canadian pre-dawn, along the side-roads and alleys and those pedestrian bypasses used only by dog-walkers and schoolchildren.
I have learned to hate motion-sensitive lights. I like walking in the dark. Being blasted in the face at random by a floodlamp is a declaration of war.
Likely first MAGAbomber starting off The Snivel War festivities in Nashville.
https://apnews.com/article/Nashville-explosion-Christmas-52708bfd05e4f6ff433cc404443c65d4
Likely first MAGAbomber starting off The Snivel War festivities in Nashville.
https://apnews.com/article/Nashville-explosion-Christmas-52708bfd05e4f6ff433cc404443c65d4
Yeah. I can't bring myself to read it right now. Saw a Yahoo article this morning trying like hell to avoid saying "big ass professional grade truck bomb and we have no idea if there are more or whodunnit."
The Snivel War... Fucking EXACTLY THAT. Read Howl's most recent Hey Louie. He lays it out exactly as it is. Selfish punks having a tantrum about a reality they just don't like.
There is human tissue in the wreckage, and there was a gunshot 15 minutes before the explosion.
My first thought was boogs, ain't gonna lie. But now I think it was a crazy person who set the timer and then shot himself.
There is human tissue in the wreckage, and there was a gunshot 15 minutes before the explosion.
My first thought was boogs, ain't gonna lie. But now I think it was a crazy person who set the timer and then shot himself.
I wondered that as well.
Waiting to hear what the FBI have to say before jumping to any conclusions, but that's certainly a reasonable possibility based on the very little we know.
There is human tissue in the wreckage, and there was a gunshot 15 minutes before the explosion.
My first thought was boogs, ain't gonna lie. But now I think it was a crazy person who set the timer and then shot himself.
There is human tissue in the wreckage, and there was a gunshot 15 minutes before the explosion.
My first thought was boogs, ain't gonna lie. But now I think it was a crazy person who set the timer and then shot himself.
I wondered that as well.
Waiting to hear what the FBI have to say before jumping to any conclusions, but that's certainly a reasonable possibility based on the very little we know.
My gut is telling me that the bomb maker is not this nutjob. Something this well planned and executed is likely the work of a dedicated and intelligent madman. Teaching some random psycho schmuck how to set a timer ain't all that hard. I suspect that the problem may well be ongoing. I would give A LOT to hear a recording of the exact message in total. The blast scorched the shit out of trees rather far away indeed. That's a helluva heat wash. Enough to make me wonder if it might have been a bit more advanced in composition and construction than your average hillbilly fertilizer bomb. But I don't know enough to really speculate. I DO see that they're being dodgy as fuck about the deets and how to characterize the event. Whatever it is this is an opening move, not game over.
There is human tissue in the wreckage, and there was a gunshot 15 minutes before the explosion.
My first thought was boogs, ain't gonna lie. But now I think it was a crazy person who set the timer and then shot himself.
I wondered that as well.
Waiting to hear what the FBI have to say before jumping to any conclusions, but that's certainly a reasonable possibility based on the very little we know.
My gut is telling me that the bomb maker is not this nutjob. Something this well planned and executed is likely the work of a dedicated and intelligent madman. Teaching some random psycho schmuck how to set a timer ain't all that hard. I suspect that the problem may well be ongoing. I would give A LOT to hear a recording of the exact message in total. The blast scorched the shit out of trees rather far away indeed. That's a helluva heat wash. Enough to make me wonder if it might have been a bit more advanced in composition and construction than your average hillbilly fertilizer bomb. But I don't know enough to really speculate. I DO see that they're being dodgy as fuck about the deets and how to characterize the event. Whatever it is this is an opening move, not game over.
I think I'm going to exit this conversation.
I think the son of that mother son team of cartomancers is a friend of mine on facebook. If so he's got quite the fascinating back story.Quite possible. He has a marvelous fashion sense! I did not see them today, but spent more time with the street magicians, gav blessed rocks to a seer and a cartomancer... Then I met Raven. More of that story later.
I hope everybody got what they wanted for Christmas, which is this:
https://www.nadgerz.com/balldo/
I hope everybody got what they wanted for Christmas, which is this:Wow, this looks like a sex toy designed to make sure everyone has a bad time
https://www.nadgerz.com/balldo/
I hope everybody got what they wanted for Christmas, which is this:Wow, this looks like a sex toy designed to make sure everyone has a bad time
https://www.nadgerz.com/balldo/
I hope everybody got what they wanted for Christmas, which is this:Wow, this looks like a sex toy designed to make sure everyone has a bad time
https://www.nadgerz.com/balldo/
"How to freak out your local paramedics in one easy step"
Hey spags. What’s going on?
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad. :)AWWWWWW SHIT!! There's gonna be Cramspawn up in the house!
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad. :)
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad. :):thumb:
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad. :)
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad. :)
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad. :)
And the day after my car blew up in the middle of Norfolk, Virginia, I was accepted to a PhD program.
The end.
And the day after my car blew up in the middle of Norfolk, Virginia, I was accepted to a PhD program.
The end.
God won't let you have nice things until he poops on them. Trust me on this one.
And the day after my car blew up in the middle of Norfolk, Virginia, I was accepted to a PhD program.
The end.
And the day after my car blew up in the middle of Norfolk, Virginia, I was accepted to a PhD program.
The end.
Congrats on the PhD acceptance!! That shit's hard work!
What program are you joining?
And the day after my car blew up in the middle of Norfolk, Virginia, I was accepted to a PhD program.
The end.
And the day after my car blew up in the middle of Norfolk, Virginia, I was accepted to a PhD program.
The end.
Using PIRA tactics to cow them into submission? Good work.
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad. :)Congratulations Cram!
I've wiped out at least 50 spambots in the waiting room in the last 7 days, and boy is my index finger sore.
Hello PD.
My PC died last April and I just got around to building a new one. With an actual keyboard and no godawful mobile interface to deal with I thought I'd jump on.
So here I am.
I thought you had a reason for doing it, because it’s been locked since I saw your last post in it. Admittedly I was like an hour late to read it, but still, it’s been locked since shortly after that post.
And I’ve been asking myself why you’d do that ever since, so, uh, that answers my original question.
It was locked by yourself, its easy to do on mobile though normally I end up stickying things, instead of locking themI thought you had a reason for doing it, because it’s been locked since I saw your last post in it. Admittedly I was like an hour late to read it, but still, it’s been locked since shortly after that post.
And I’ve been asking myself why you’d do that ever since, so, uh, that answers my original question.
It's possible I did it by accident, but I can't see how I could have.
It was locked by yourself, its easy to do on mobile though normally I end up stickying things, instead of locking themI thought you had a reason for doing it, because it’s been locked since I saw your last post in it. Admittedly I was like an hour late to read it, but still, it’s been locked since shortly after that post.
And I’ve been asking myself why you’d do that ever since, so, uh, that answers my original question.
It's possible I did it by accident, but I can't see how I could have.
I have good news.
Today, I learned I was accepted into a housing co-op in Chicago. Ongoing costs are affordable, so I am just trying to make 1500 for initial move in and month-of-March survival appear.
Presuming I can manage that, I have met and talked with the members and this co-op is extremely well suited to me. Homelessness beaten??? PERHAPS. It’s also located conveniently for my purposes, and has things like a HOUSEHOLD FOOD FUND.
But forget about that, it has a KITCHEN, so I won’t be spending 50 godforsaken dollars a day ordering food because I have no way of fucking cooking, the additional food savings from the household food fund are nothing, fucking pennies, by comparison.
I have good news.
Today, I learned I was accepted into a housing co-op in Chicago. Ongoing costs are affordable, so I am just trying to make 1500 for initial move in and month-of-March survival appear.
Presuming I can manage that, I have met and talked with the members and this co-op is extremely well suited to me. Homelessness beaten??? PERHAPS. It’s also located conveniently for my purposes, and has things like a HOUSEHOLD FOOD FUND.
But forget about that, it has a KITCHEN, so I won’t be spending 50 godforsaken dollars a day ordering food because I have no way of fucking cooking, the additional food savings from the household food fund are nothing, fucking pennies, by comparison.
Woot!
People often don't understand how much it costs to be poor.
Hello PD.
My PC died last April and I just got around to building a new one. With an actual keyboard and no godawful mobile interface to deal with I thought I'd jump on.
So here I am.
How the hell can any sane person go 11 months without a computer? They can't.
YOURE FUCKED FOREVER
Also I used to go by Nullified last time you were here, then before that a dozen names. I’ve been off and on homeless for ... years now. Joined originally in like 09, disappeared due to homelessness in 2010-ish? Maybe 2012-ish I was here I don’t have clear memory of that time, then I rejoined when the Nazi shitfuck in chief happened, been here intermittently ever since — more this time than my last stint of homelessness since I have a real smartphone and not a flip phone or a 20 dollar android thing.
This is a lot of posts to catch up on I think I'm gonna mark all read
I got all my move-in costs, and a small buffer just in case. Oh, just, goddamn. Work is the next big fucking task, but the job market weirdness favors me, and I am having enough good luck elsewhere...
Pursued by sentient flies the size of cats, more later.
Anyways, any suggestions as to how to apologize to a teacher that lost their job for defending your story that includes pedophilia because pedophilia, being more of a victim irl, has a lot to do with your mental trauma? Yeah yeah, big mess of fuck. I need help if you have it. Also, think of me like a force of Aftermath that has reality conveniently bend around it unintentionally. Trump much? I predicted Card-pun, my MC for the story is called Blackjack, would win the past election. We all know where reality sits now.
Also, I'm not sure why the fuck you'd write pedo porn. Second, I am even less sure why you'd jeopardize a teacher's job and reputation by running it past them.Gimmick fake account, probably because of the time I said Brony = Pedophile.
This has gone totally Babylon Horuv and will most assuredly end well.
Also, I'm not sure why the fuck you'd write pedo porn. Second, I am even less sure why you'd jeopardize a teacher's job and reputation by running it past them.Gimmick fake account, probably because of the time I said Brony = Pedophile.
This has gone totally Babylon Horuv and will most assuredly end well.
I got all my move-in costs, and a small buffer just in case. Oh, just, goddamn. Work is the next big fucking task, but the job market weirdness favors me, and I am having enough good luck elsewhere...
That is good.Pursued by sentient flies the size of cats, more later.
That is bad. Up here, we use crossbows (broadhead bolts, of course) to deal with mosquitoes, so I imagine they would work against flies. Throwing knives can work, too, if you're handy with them. Small-calibre firearms (like a .22) are not effective, for obvious reasons.
Yes, this belongs in Bring and Brag, but none y'all ever go there. So:
I wrote and recorded 11 songs in 28 days. It's rough, but it was fun.
I decided to take on the RPM challenge, which is to write and record ten new songs in February. Much like NaNoWriMo, the point is to finish them, not necessarily to have them in perfect shape. Creativity is the goal, rough edges accepted.
Please enjoy my... um... highly specific guitar soloing technique. I also used that Thatcher speech, too.
https://earfatigueproductions.bandcamp.com/album/the-year-that-wasnt-there-an-earfatigue-productions-compilation
Yes, this belongs in Bring and Brag, but none y'all ever go there. So:
I wrote and recorded 11 songs in 28 days. It's rough, but it was fun.
I decided to take on the RPM challenge, which is to write and record ten new songs in February. Much like NaNoWriMo, the point is to finish them, not necessarily to have them in perfect shape. Creativity is the goal, rough edges accepted.
Please enjoy my... um... highly specific guitar soloing technique. I also used that Thatcher speech, too.
https://earfatigueproductions.bandcamp.com/album/the-year-that-wasnt-there-an-earfatigue-productions-compilation
Whoop. Will listen to this tomorrow morning as prep for the meeting I have tomorrow afternoon.
Also, I feel you on the nobody looking at other forums thing.
I am 3/4 of the way through writing something that makes me feel filthy, and it's just sat there. A few google spiders have looked at it, but meh. And it's not really a facebook thing.
Yes, this belongs in Bring and Brag, but none y'all ever go there. So:
I wrote and recorded 11 songs in 28 days. It's rough, but it was fun.
I decided to take on the RPM challenge, which is to write and record ten new songs in February. Much like NaNoWriMo, the point is to finish them, not necessarily to have them in perfect shape. Creativity is the goal, rough edges accepted.
Please enjoy my... um... highly specific guitar soloing technique. I also used that Thatcher speech, too.
https://earfatigueproductions.bandcamp.com/album/the-year-that-wasnt-there-an-earfatigue-productions-compilation
Whoop. Will listen to this tomorrow morning as prep for the meeting I have tomorrow afternoon.
Also, I feel you on the nobody looking at other forums thing.
I am 3/4 of the way through writing something that makes me feel filthy, and it's just sat there. A few google spiders have looked at it, but meh. And it's not really a facebook thing.
I have been reading it, just so you know! I'm waiting for the complete product -- I first saw it after you'd done two parts of it, and you successfully addressed some of my concerns with the first part in the second (and now the second in the third) so I'm waiting for you to finish it up before I make any posts in there.
It's an awesome read, for the record, and anyone who HASN'T seen it should go and see it.
I just want to know who is using Syn's account.
He was killed in 2008 during a freak guinea pig attack. It is known.
So who is posting in his name?
It pleases me greatly that my decision to return to forums as the superior form of online interaction has found at least a few of the old haunts even more active than when I migrated to Facebook (spits) and Twitter (hawks up a loogie and spits).
Long time no see, dude.
Understandable, the newest update really is trash. I love how I have to manually reload things constantly and how it acts as a huge resource hog on desktop for absolutely no reason.
I'm trying to stay out of Facebook, some of the groups I'm in are useful tho.
:roll: I almost deleted my account, but almost isn't really good enough. :lulz:
Oh, I fucking love that guy.I'm trying to stay out of Facebook, some of the groups I'm in are useful tho.
:roll: I almost deleted my account, but almost isn't really good enough. :lulz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlXkTKxg4e4
It's like someone mixed Payne and P3NT into one person and then taught them to speak English.Oh, I fucking love that guy.I'm trying to stay out of Facebook, some of the groups I'm in are useful tho.
:roll: I almost deleted my account, but almost isn't really good enough. :lulz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlXkTKxg4e4
It's like someone mixed Payne and P3NT into one person and then taught them to speak English.:lulz:
Non-bots whose account I'm not approving, #1
PunchWmen
I'm still not eligible :sad:Me neither.
Getting mine tomorrow. Vodafone contract cancelled. I can use my bloodstream as a 5G hotspot, right?Yep, I'm even picking up comms from the lizard people on the moon. No need to pay Virgin Media for Interwebz, now!
Good stuff, posting here for use elsewhere.
https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analysis-of-qanon-580972548be5
Turn out I'm a squirter, who knew!BAAHAAHAA! :lulz:
I just found out there's a Hyundai Tucson.
Which is just asking for it, Frankly.
Hey, Faust, is there anything we can do to hobble some of the spambots at registration? I'm zapping 20+ a day right now.
Hey, Faust, is there anything we can do to hobble some of the spambots at registration? I'm zapping 20+ a day right now.
Sorry about this, I've been looking to integrate stopforumspam for like 2 years, I thought I had little free time before the baby, now things like showers are a luxury. She's gorgeous but she keeps us on our toes.
When I get time to work on stuff it will be one of the first things I do.
This will catch them at source
In the meantime it's possible to create a ban on their registration which can stop them registering any more because we tend to see groups from the same machines over and over.
Select Ban on IP, and seperately if the email is something@site.spamhost.com they tend to register multiple times with variations of where that site. Part is so a wildcard ban of *.Spamhost.com catches a lot of them.
Otherwise, I'll try do more of them myself because it shouldn't just be you doing it
Fuck all of you, fuck everything, I'm going to become an omniglot and you won't hear from me again, at least here.
Your asses will all be mine.
I will conquer The Tower of Babel and reach my throne by age 77 and nobody will stop me, not even myself. My endtimes have come and I was the one who wrote my own end. I won.
Fuck all of you, fuck everything, I'm going to become an omniglot and you won't hear from me again, at least here.
Your asses will all be mine.
I will conquer The Tower of Babel and reach my throne by age 77 and nobody will stop me, not even myself. My endtimes have come and I was the one who wrote my own end. I won.
I FOUND IT
background's not transparent but WHATEVER
(https://imgur.com/1fgtnwB.gif)
Is blaming Trudeau ever really wrong?
I'm also still waiting for a vaccination, if it makes you feel any better. Of course the government's attitude to anyone under 60 is that we should fuck off and die, so I'm not too surprised at this being the case. Denying us the ability to get vaccinated, while making snide remarks and hectoring us to go and get vaccinated when it's finally available is entirely in keeping with their approach to...well, everything.
Is blaming Trudeau ever really wrong?It's one of the luxuries of a governmental system that is essentially a term dictatorship. It makes it easy to blame everything on one person.
I'm also still waiting for a vaccination, if it makes you feel any better. Of course the government's attitude to anyone under 60 is that we should fuck off and die, so I'm not too surprised at this being the case. Denying us the ability to get vaccinated, while making snide remarks and hectoring us to go and get vaccinated when it's finally available is entirely in keeping with their approach to...well, everything.
LOL speaking as an over 60 I challenge your claim about governmentally approved fucking off and dying . . . the bastards want us all to die. ALSO my 2 pennorth on Astra Zeneca - I was fine for 5 days and then there were 3 days when I couldn't move and which I can't remember clearly. Still, its gotta be better than Covid. Right?
Yikes. Our government at least pretends to care, they're just disorganized and condescending.
Are your people trying to improve initial coverage by increasing the inter-dose interval from three weeks to four months, or is that just us?
I'm looking forward to all the things I was missing out on with social distancing: the arm wrestling competitions, the kissing people on each cheek european style, and let's not forget the orgies.
I hope everybody got what they wanted for Christmas, which is this:
https://www.nadgerz.com/balldo/
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad. :)
And with your record, too! :lulz:
And with your record, too! :lulz:
:waves:
I guess I should update people.
On Mardi Gras day last February, I overcame the curse that bound me to the Dark Gods of Actuarial Finance, and they released their hold over my soul. Something about, "Maximizing efficient capacity resources viz reduction of meat-based sentience". Then they handed me a small gold-plated parachute (honestly, it was spray painted metallic yellow) and cast me into the void.
It's been an interesting few months. Now that I had my soul back, I wasn't going to readily jump back into that occult morass. I've been volunteering in a kitchen that provides meals for the housebound and infirm (it began back in the 90s as a way to get food to AIDS patients who were too ill to leave the house). I know I'll eventually have to do something capitalistic, but for now I'm really enjoying simply helping people who need it. So much so that I'm seriously considering going into non-profit work.
I also laid down some drum tracks for a bar rock kind of band called "American Traditional"... when it gets posted, I'll share a link.
Anyway, that's what's going on with me.
I got the Moderna, and my left arm was useless for roughly 38 hours. When they say "your arm will probably be sore" ...and God start punching you in the shoulderMy second Pfizer is that. God punched me in the arm with the Holy Brass Knucks. I felt like I went sideways into another dimension, tbh.
4. Roger's nipples now have four different textures of hair. That's course, curly, fine, and something we've been calling "Kramer":spittake:
4. Roger's nipples now have four different textures of hair. That's course, curly, fine, and something we've been calling "Kramer"
I've been blaming Cram for it
I've been blaming Cram for it
I've been blaming Cram for it
This makes sense. Kramer, Cram-er. It all fits together.
:tinfoilhat: :lulz:I've been blaming Cram for it
This makes sense. Kramer, Cram-er. It all fits together.
WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!
My Home Town (Lebanon, Ohio) has decided to pass an ordinance not only banning, but criminalizing all abortion. The Council Meeting consisted mainly of the Council talking about how they use the Bible to make all of their decisions in local government, and friends of mine calling them on their shit.
The Protest of the decision was met with a Counter-Protest of Right-Wingers with big guns that was about quadruple the size. This is the same town where known Nazis in the area assaulted protesters on camera in the streets during past protests. It's likely going to get pretty ugly here soon, and we'll be moving into Lebanon likely within the next few months to get out of this piece of shit house.
Hopefully, I can get some SRA buddies together over the next few months to join at future Protests to discourage future threats and intimidation.
I'm looking for a piece of Subgenius writing which encouraged people to burn a twenty dollar bill. Something about it being a form of Subgenius initiation .. to experience the resistance to the destruction of your own slack, to feel the slack burn away into the air. Sound familiar to any of you naked old losers?
My Home Town (Lebanon, Ohio) has decided to pass an ordinance not only banning, but criminalizing all abortion. The Council Meeting consisted mainly of the Council talking about how they use the Bible to make all of their decisions in local government, and friends of mine calling them on their shit.
The Protest of the decision was met with a Counter-Protest of Right-Wingers with big guns that was about quadruple the size. This is the same town where known Nazis in the area assaulted protesters on camera in the streets during past protests. It's likely going to get pretty ugly here soon, and we'll be moving into Lebanon likely within the next few months to get out of this piece of shit house.
Hopefully, I can get some SRA buddies together over the next few months to join at future Protests to discourage future threats and intimidation.
That sucks. It sounds like Ohio is quite the battleground in more ways than one. I just read how a lot of Ohio Republican legislators are trying to push for a bill that would prevent basically any organization from encouraging or enforcing mask wearing or vaccinations. I know that there are lots of people who would cheer on these actions in pursuit of the cause of "personal liberty". I am not one of them. I'll admit I don't have a position that is free of contradiction. But I feel like it should be my individual right as a laborer to not have to service an individual or work closely with someone if I feel doing so would put my health or safety at risk. In the same way I am currently informed that I can consult my manager and implement additional safety measures if a procedure exposes me to a level of risk I am not comfortable with.
Are you going to be alright moving into Lebanon?
My Home Town (Lebanon, Ohio) has decided to pass an ordinance not only banning, but criminalizing all abortion. The Council Meeting consisted mainly of the Council talking about how they use the Bible to make all of their decisions in local government, and friends of mine calling them on their shit.Small world. I'm only about 15 miles away from Lebanon. Depending on the direction, I know you know that means I could be in one of the even worse SW Ohio towns. Though I only know what I have to deal with personally because I'm not a responsible citizen and have never been involved with local government. I should be responsible, though, so holler at me if you need an extra person to help protest stupid shit. Mind you, I'm just a random and this is only my second post in three years... :thinking:
The Protest of the decision was met with a Counter-Protest of Right-Wingers with big guns that was about quadruple the size. This is the same town where known Nazis in the area assaulted protesters on camera in the streets during past protests. It's likely going to get pretty ugly here soon, and we'll be moving into Lebanon likely within the next few months to get out of this piece of shit house.
Hopefully, I can get some SRA buddies together over the next few months to join at future Protests to discourage future threats and intimidation.
Birds cannot be trusted. They are not on our side.
Birds cannot be trusted. They are not on our side.
I warned everyone.
In my own world, gearing up to rebuild a co-op that was poised to collapse 3 DAMN MONTHS after I joined it is tiring, and I have a horrible disease of some sort at a key moment.
I’m waiting to lose my smell beyond the sinus fuckery, because although I am fully vaccinated, it’s extremely on brand for me to catch COVID, which I had a pretty hefty fear of, only as a breakthrough case... without leaving my house.
(In seriousness, I feel it’s unlikely — or else there’s a new variant in this co-op that is totally unaffected by vaccines. Cluster of 4 fully vaccinated people who all had different vaccines caught this horrible mess all at once with identical severity.)
All of the women, those who are trans, those who are part of the LGBTQ+ community, all of the POC, all those who love this medium as much as you do, all of whom create such wonderful, beautiful work and deserve to feel welcome and to belong in this industry, where do we go? Because we can’t stay here.
Ill have to watch that, since baba I don't play much of the long story games, just stuff I can play for 10 min or so and put down
A guy in an RPG discord server I hang out in had a baby recently, and he's built a gaming shed in his backyard to escape to. (TV, PS4, computer, small library). It's anyone's guess if he will be successful, but we wish him all the best.Ill have to watch that, since baba I don't play much of the long story games, just stuff I can play for 10 min or so and put down
hahah is this my fate? to only play games in 10 min chunks?
baby sleeps sometimes though, right? Surely you can fit in an RPG now and then? he asked hopefully
Ill have to watch that, since baba I don't play much of the long story games, just stuff I can play for 10 min or so and put down
hahah is this my fate? to only play games in 10 min chunks?
baby sleeps sometimes though, right? Surely you can fit in an RPG now and then? he asked hopefully
Creative geniuses are fungible.
The internet has brought in a golden age of access to, and ability to discover, new media. There is no shortage of talented people producing high-quality entertainment. Sure, you won't find writers like Ellis hanging out in every coffeeshop, but he doesn't have a monopoly, or anything. You don't feel like supporting one writer, for whatever reason, you can find another.
...I've been toying the above theory for a while, now, but I don't know if I actually believe it. Could you replace a Gen Urobuchi, or a Yoko Kanno? My gut says no.
And I knew Ellis was an asshole, but I watched season 4 of Castlevania anyway.
Creative geniuses are fungible.
The internet has brought in a golden age of access to, and ability to discover, new media. There is no shortage of talented people producing high-quality entertainment. Sure, you won't find writers like Ellis hanging out in every coffeeshop, but he doesn't have a monopoly, or anything. You don't feel like supporting one writer, for whatever reason, you can find another.
...I've been toying the above theory for a while, now, but I don't know if I actually believe it. Could you replace a Gen Urobuchi, or a Yoko Kanno? My gut says no.
And I knew Ellis was an asshole, but I watched season 4 of Castlevania anyway.
Speaking for myself, some kinds of hurt cut too close to the bone for me to deal with. Being near some kinds of people is as dangerous to me as if they were actually doing shit to me. I can acknowledge and understand cancelling creators. I do it myself. I don’t think anyone here listens to Lostprophets or Ted Nugent, reads the really racist Lovecraft stuff (I mean yeah it’s all racist as fuck but some of it is waaaay worse than others), or so on and so forth.
PD: The everyone is grown up seasonIll have to watch that, since baba I don't play much of the long story games, just stuff I can play for 10 min or so and put down
hahah is this my fate? to only play games in 10 min chunks?
baby sleeps sometimes though, right? Surely you can fit in an RPG now and then? he asked hopefully
you realise your home is a Saw like deathtrap and literally everything needs to be locked up or get coated in rubber.
possible to add an fill-in-the-blank question to registration? Just something like "if you're not a bot, type hello "
possible to add an fill-in-the-blank question to registration? Just something like "if you're not a bot, type hello "Theres actually two questions and a google captcha, which makes me think they are circumventing the registration process in some way (smf bug or outdated issue)
possible to add an fill-in-the-blank question to registration? Just something like "if you're not a bot, type hello "Theres actually two questions and a google captcha, which makes me think they are circumventing the registration process in some way (smf bug or outdated issue)
The one thing that would really help but I just have not had the time to do is integrate stopforumspam for their api, which would check if the email or domain is a dodgy one.
so even if they get past the registration process it just auto shitcans them at the end.
Yesterday the temperature in Saskatoon reached 39C and it was too hot and then everybody died.
The End.
Yesterday the temperature in Saskatoon reached 39C and it was too hot and then everybody died.
The End.
Welcome to Tucson.
how fast?? quick, ask it: what's the eleven billionth digit of pi?
7
Birds cannot be trusted. They are not on our side.
I warned everyone.
how far the mighty have fallen
I would have ms-painted that, for old times sake, but for some reason I thought it would be easier to do it in photoshop... so I spent 5 minutes trying to find the right font / stroke width for pi and then i got shot by a laser and died
THE END .... ?
Birds cannot be trusted. They are not on our side.
I warned everyone.
A single blow to the back of the head, and my perspective is irrevocably changed.
Is this a kind of enlightenment? But it came not from the cudgel of a well-meaning Buddhist monk, but from a black-winged devil.
The crows are everywhere. How did I not notice this before? Every time I leave the house, they're there, shrieking, rasping, lurking, glaring with soulless eyes. They're almost always in groups of 3 or 4, and seem to have a affinity for parks. They are intensely territorial, and will scream continuously if they consider me an intruder....which seems to be about half the time.
Now, whenever I hear a crow, or see one, I snap into a heightened level of awareness. I need to know where they are and what they are doing. I am beginning to learn their language. When I walk past a group, I turn to watch them, in case one decides to swoop down on me.
And one did, this morning, in a park far removed from the earlier attack. As I passed, it started circling at a low altitude, perhaps just warning me off, but maybe looking for an opening to attack. But I kept turning to face it, maintained eye contact, and it broke off and perched on a lamppost. If it had actually dove, I would have tried to knock it away. I don't know what the outcome of that would be, but I think I'd rather take damage to an arm than to my face.
I'm starting to think about maintaining air cover while I walk. Directly under a tree, I'm likely safe; but a short distance from a tree, or anywhere out in the open, I'm a target. There really aren't many safe spaces, when you start to think about it.
So it appears some Supervisors/Managers at the Kroger in the town I just moved into bullied (Sexually harassed, mocked, sent illegal porn of the kid variety to in an attempt to incriminate, etc.) an employee to the point of suicide because of their concerns about the Kroger's COVID-19 Restrictions (Lack thereof) and their political beliefs (Read Left-leaning views).
Why do the wildfires always skip Ohio?
So it appears some Supervisors/Managers at the Kroger in the town I just moved into bullied (Sexually harassed, mocked, sent illegal porn of the kid variety to in an attempt to incriminate, etc.) an employee to the point of suicide because of their concerns about the Kroger's COVID-19 Restrictions (Lack thereof) and their political beliefs (Read Left-leaning views).
Why do the wildfires always skip Ohio?
Imagine going to prison over a dead end job.
I'm glad to here it, hope you are enjoying New Orleans looks like a cool city
We always call this place PD.com.
Today, for the first time ever, I visited http://www.pd.com/
it is a gem of yesteryear
(https://8be88dcd-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/pdcomsite/home/pdlogo.jpg?attachauth=ANoY7coFAL2koMSzy4CjfMl2XaWZRtGbatAXFdXapbEwYzvlGOfH9EtYFhndOb_oEFrBm0e7ggOrOmGM1E78Zp7yfY5oDGan87bNHWFe08V2vJQiQQMBvyHltEMDaCvSvIJU8NZFwRhWg4MgT6prC2VjRBwjn5tC05Pjw3ENYtD5TNnpl10zzSKNCFpMGoUufpShpbizDNH1pXgeaq4My1jXepBs5X8c3A%3D%3D&attredirects=0)
I don't know what I'm looking at, and I don't actually care, but I really wonder how much traffic we've given this site over the decades.
Birds cannot be trusted. They are not on our side.
I warned everyone.
A single blow to the back of the head, and my perspective is irrevocably changed.
Is this a kind of enlightenment? But it came not from the cudgel of a well-meaning Buddhist monk, but from a black-winged devil.
The crows are everywhere. How did I not notice this before? Every time I leave the house, they're there, shrieking, rasping, lurking, glaring with soulless eyes. They're almost always in groups of 3 or 4, and seem to have a affinity for parks. They are intensely territorial, and will scream continuously if they consider me an intruder....which seems to be about half the time.
Now, whenever I hear a crow, or see one, I snap into a heightened level of awareness. I need to know where they are and what they are doing. I am beginning to learn their language. When I walk past a group, I turn to watch them, in case one decides to swoop down on me.
And one did, this morning, in a park far removed from the earlier attack. As I passed, it started circling at a low altitude, perhaps just warning me off, but maybe looking for an opening to attack. But I kept turning to face it, maintained eye contact, and it broke off and perched on a lamppost. If it had actually dove, I would have tried to knock it away. I don't know what the outcome of that would be, but I think I'd rather take damage to an arm than to my face.
I'm starting to think about maintaining air cover while I walk. Directly under a tree, I'm likely safe; but a short distance from a tree, or anywhere out in the open, I'm a target. There really aren't many safe spaces, when you start to think about it.
Crows, it turns out, are the only creatures other than humans to "know what they know". They do this intentionally, not as some kind of instinct.
Exterminate the brutes.
We always call this place PD.com.I used to type that in on a daily basis back in the day. :argh!: I eventually just bookmarked the forum... But it took me a loooong time to do that. I was a working web dev at the time, too. :lulz:
Today, for the first time ever, I visited http://www.pd.com/
it is a gem of yesteryear
(https://8be88dcd-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/pdcomsite/home/pdlogo.jpg?attachauth=ANoY7coFAL2koMSzy4CjfMl2XaWZRtGbatAXFdXapbEwYzvlGOfH9EtYFhndOb_oEFrBm0e7ggOrOmGM1E78Zp7yfY5oDGan87bNHWFe08V2vJQiQQMBvyHltEMDaCvSvIJU8NZFwRhWg4MgT6prC2VjRBwjn5tC05Pjw3ENYtD5TNnpl10zzSKNCFpMGoUufpShpbizDNH1pXgeaq4My1jXepBs5X8c3A%3D%3D&attredirects=0)
I don't know what I'm looking at, and I don't actually care, but I really wonder how much traffic we've given this site over the decades.
Today I created a Facebook account; I had a question to ask of the university's fruit tree program, and this seemed like the easiest way. (I had an account a while back, but I never used it, and was getting annoyed by the spam, so I deleted it.)
Anyway, I set up the new account, and posted my question. I came back a little later to check for a response, but my browser autocompleted to https://www.facebook.com/HolyNonsense/ (https://www.facebook.com/HolyNonsense/), since I guess I'd followed that link a while ago. And since Facebook doesn't let you see much of anything unless you have an account, I decided to browse a bit.
I scrolled down the Holy Nonsense page, and then YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN DISABLED.
:eek: :) :lol:
There was no reason given for this, but I guess that's normal. I clicked through to request a review. It asked for my picture to confirm my identity, but since I'd never sent Facebook my picture to begin with, I sent a random picture of a cat sitting under a zucchini plant; they can make of it what they will.
It will stay disabled. If your account has been around a while, it will compare your pic to pics you have loaded.
If you don't have pics, it will compare your pic to pics of people who have been banned.
If it doesn't find a match, it allows the account.
The problem with their model is that they are making it really difficult and annoying for anyone new to join up. That won't bite them for a while, but it will in fact bite them.
You can't use Facebook because your account, or activity on it, didn't follow our Community Standards.
We have already reviewed this decision and it can't be reversed.
To learn more about the reasons we disable accounts visit the Community Standards.
tiktok makes me feel like despite being active online since the early 2000's nothing prepared me for what the internet would turn into
tiktok makes me feel like despite being active online since the early 2000's nothing prepared me for what the internet would turn into
Cramulus made it to the trap door and begged for help. The party initially refused but he tossed one of his silver and promised the other four pieces if pulled out. The party obliged and then Pluck-Hermit stated that the debt for his release was set at 150sp, forcing Cramulus into indentures servitude. After feeding him, the tied a rope to Cramulus as used him as a scout back down in the tunnels. Pluck-Hermit used his searching ability to determine his desire was due east and below, so the party headed east....
...They avoided the piles of guano and decided to continue east.
This would be the party’s final encounter before a hard stop. The players rolled 62 and 46: a large copper vein stretched out across the tunnel along with two bodies of the miners from before. A pile of silver coins was stacked 30 feet away. Cramulus was encouraged to take the coins and all of it would be put towards his debt. Cramulus eagerly began cramming coins in his sack, counting them one by one when suddenly, a huge spider pounced on him and sinking its fangs into his neck. He initially resisted the poison “I’M OKAY BOSS,” but then died from the blood loss from the wound, “I’M NOT OKAY BOSS.” A party member cast a confusion on the spider and it skittered away in search of invisible meals, leaving the crawlspace to the east open. Here the session ended.
Both playtest groups... so basically a 100% rate of Cramulus being used as bait and then dying miserably.
Does that technically make Cramulus a meme?
The Commander
DIA
Over the last few months i've come to realize that the american left (as opposed to leftist movements elsewhere) is a bunch of useless wankers at best and a bunch of Puritans minus the funny hats at worst. Now the healing can begin.
Over the last few months i've come to realize that the american left (as opposed to leftist movements elsewhere) is a bunch of useless wankers at best and a bunch of Puritans minus the funny hats at worst. Now the healing can begin.
Oh I know. In related news, I owe you a "You Were Right" steak. The best KIND of steak.Over the last few months i've come to realize that the american left (as opposed to leftist movements elsewhere) is a bunch of useless wankers at best and a bunch of Puritans minus the funny hats at worst. Now the healing can begin.
Been saying that.
Over the last few months i've come to realize that the american left (as opposed to leftist movements elsewhere) is a bunch of useless wankers at best and a bunch of Puritans minus the funny hats at worst. Now the healing can begin.
Over the last few months i've come to realize that the american left (as opposed to leftist movements elsewhere) is a bunch of useless wankers at best and a bunch of Puritans minus the funny hats at worst. Now the healing can begin.
By the way, has anyone heard from Altered/Nullified?
I'm beginning to worry a bit.
By the way, has anyone heard from Altered/Nullified?
I'm beginning to worry a bit.
You should know better than that. I’m like bedbugs: what doesn’t kill me turns me into a biblical plague.
Nah, but really, I’m actually doing mostly okay. I’m doing the need-work-need-housing dance again, but I have a wonderful lady I’m seeing later today so it is… really hard to care about my personal trouble.
It’s Bloodborne and Glenmorangie 10 yr tonight. It’s the second date.
At some point the story will need telling, because we met because A: I met Discordians visiting Chicago, B: I realized I liked not being a hermit, and C: I thought she was a scumfuck Nazi infiltrator.
I haven’t been posting because I’m tired and old. I’m using diclofenac gel on my knees, really. I keep intending to post and clean forgetting, or else realizing that I have no valuable contributions.
“I’m homeless on Jan 1st again, but I got a date coming up” is like a minced oath minus the creative writing part, and now that I’m tethered to Chicago (I would die for this woman, I am goddamn well staying in transit range) what can anyone even do to save me anyway?
Sorry for the worry.
Yeah, it's a whole lot of fun.
For me, the favorite age is 4-8. They're old enough to ask questions, and young enough to want to ask the questions.
So far so good!Yeah we had Colic for the first few months around 8pm, would be a full hour of crying till she burped, that would be hell, but thankfully that was a short phase.
Months 1-2 were hell. Baby was super cranky all the time. When we concluded it was acid reflux and put him on a different formula, we suddenly had a different baby! It was so crazy, really like night and day.
Month #3 has been great. At the beginning of the month, he slept through the night for the first time. Right now we probably average .8 wakeups per night. Some nights we get 2, but often we put him down at 7:30 PM and he sleeps til 6:30 AM.
He's ADORABLE. melts our heart every day. Right now he's at the age where he's just starting to learn how to vocalize intentionally, so he's always yelling at us. AIAIAIAIAIAIAIIIIIAAAAAAH! But not in a crying voice, more like he's just telling us his opinions.
I love being a dad. :)
Yeah, it's a whole lot of fun.
For me, the favorite age is 4-8. They're old enough to ask questions, and young enough to want to ask the questions.
I'm looking forward to this, we are at the yes/no stage (everything is no)
Who wants a cookie? Oh you don't oh I see.
I’m doing the need-work-need-housing dance again
[...]
“I’m homeless on Jan 1st again, but I got a date coming up”
Nick Lim, VanWaTech CEO and Nazi Platform Host is going Mask Off on Twitter right now. Full Fascist, no Free Speech disguise. I'm assuming his Hosting Enterprise is going down for legal reasons and connections to Russia/DDoS-Guard, and he's having a mental break.
I have COVID and I'm still gonna have a beer to celebrate his current or subsequent failure :lulz:
I'm grabbing snapshots of the posts in case he tries to delete and deny them later.
Nick Lim, VanWaTech CEO and Nazi Platform Host is going Mask Off on Twitter right now. Full Fascist, no Free Speech disguise. I'm assuming his Hosting Enterprise is going down for legal reasons and connections to Russia/DDoS-Guard, and he's having a mental break.
I have COVID and I'm still gonna have a beer to celebrate his current or subsequent failure :lulz:
I'm grabbing snapshots of the posts in case he tries to delete and deny them later.
Who'd have thought a pandemic with no precautionary measures taken might mean people being off sick?
Best I can do is ANTIFA
I THINK ABOUT ANTIFA 19 HOURS A DAY
I SIT IN MY BASEMENT AND ROCK BACK AND FORTH, AND FOAM GUYS OUT OF MY MOUTH
ANTIFA CAN SECRETLY FLY
ANTIFA SECRETLY RUN EVERYTHING AND OWN EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE
MY DOG IS SECRETLY ANTIFA. I SHAKE HIM FOR ANSWERS BUT HE WAS TAUGHT TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.
ANTIFA CAN TELEPORT
JERRY SEINFELD IS A SPACE ALIEN WHO CAME FROM THE ANTIFA MOTHERSHIP
ANTIFA OWN AND RUN EVERYTHING BUT THEY ARE NOT SMART, NO SIR, THEY ARE REALLYDUMB
I LIKE TO ACCUSE ANTIFA OF MANY THINGS AND THEN ACCUSE THEM OF WHINING WHEN THEY RESPOND TO MY ATTACKS
YOU ARE SECRETLY ANTIFA
EVERYONE IS ANTIFA
THERE ARE NO ANTIFA
HELP ME, THE VOICES IN MY HEAD FRIGHTEN ME
OHHH MY HEAD HOW IT HURTS
ANTIFA ARE SECRETLY AFRAID OF FRUIT
WHERE IS MY MEDICATION?
:lulz:
That saves me the search & replace.
Best I can do is ANTIFA
I THINK ABOUT ANTIFA 19 HOURS A DAY
I SIT IN MY BASEMENT AND ROCK BACK AND FORTH, AND FOAM GUYS OUT OF MY MOUTH
ANTIFA CAN SECRETLY FLY
ANTIFA SECRETLY RUN EVERYTHING AND OWN EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE
MY DOG IS SECRETLY ANTIFA. I SHAKE HIM FOR ANSWERS BUT HE WAS TAUGHT TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.
ANTIFA CAN TELEPORT
JERRY SEINFELD IS A SPACE ALIEN WHO CAME FROM THE ANTIFA MOTHERSHIP
ANTIFA OWN AND RUN EVERYTHING BUT THEY ARE NOT SMART, NO SIR, THEY ARE REALLYDUMB
I LIKE TO ACCUSE ANTIFA OF MANY THINGS AND THEN ACCUSE THEM OF WHINING WHEN THEY RESPOND TO MY ATTACKS
YOU ARE SECRETLY ANTIFA
EVERYONE IS ANTIFA
THERE ARE NO ANTIFA
HELP ME, THE VOICES IN MY HEAD FRIGHTEN ME
OHHH MY HEAD HOW IT HURTS
ANTIFA ARE SECRETLY AFRAID OF FRUIT
WHERE IS MY MEDICATION?
Won't SOMEBODY think of the bottom line?
Won't SOMEBODY think of the bottom line?
Newsfeed? Or a Disco variant, like:
"PD.com: Someone had to think of the bottom line."
Or even simpler:
"PD.com: We thought of the bottom line."
Won't SOMEBODY think of the bottom line?
Newsfeed? Or a Disco variant, like:
"PD.com: Someone had to think of the bottom line."
Or even simpler:
"PD.com: We thought of the bottom line."
HIMEOBS: YOU CANNOT LINE YOUR BOTTOM ENOUGH.
Fred Sanford's deceased wife's name was Ethyl. Her sister was Esther.I like when he says, "Lamont, you dummy!"
That show was pretty intellectual, imho.
Fred Sanford's deceased wife's name was Ethyl. Her sister was Esther.I like when he says, "Lamont, you dummy!"
That show was pretty intellectual, imho.
Today was good. Oh yes, genuinely good. And what a fucking end to my night. I'll just copypaste from Twitter.
It's finally happened. I'm a horror movie antagonist. Really. Oh man. I am so proud of this day.
SO: I go into a gas station. Still have scars on my face from my most recent bout of self-harm. Got my respirator on, and my laptop in its beefy plastic case slung over my shoulder. Wearing my edgy ass long coat, milsurp clothes, fucked up old boots.
"What the fuck is THAT?" The two drunkest men alive come up to me and start gawking. "What IS that?!" In my best fuck-off voice: "That would be ME."
Not good enough for them. They speculate about what I am, "Star Wars fan?" and I stop humoring them. So I'm buying cigarettes.
Behind me: "No, wait, I heard about this. It's like, a life support system. See the thing? Yeah, like, if your heart stops working, you know? So..." Checkout complete, on my way out the door. "--Wait wait, so that's a fuckin dead person?"
Horror movie antagonist. Fucking love it.
My poor laptop, now on its 3rd year of extreme use and abuse, is on its last legs. Ran a battery health check and the last time the battery reported it was at full charge, it was holding 19% of the rated amount when new. Believe me, I have noticed: it dies in under an hour (rated for 10 hours) and the battery heats up sufficient to cook your forearm while its plugged in. Honestly, given the size, price, power and brand new rated battery life, it's a wonder it lasted this long still mostly functioning. I got every cent worth out of it and then some, and it literally saved my life on multiple occasions.
The cost of replacing the battery is ehhh, around 150 USD, but it isn't a task for the faint-of-heart and if you fuck the ridiculously fragile-but-efficient cooling system while removing it to get to the battery, it's game over for the machine. Lift it the wrong way and you've already broken it. I've also been having increasingly distressing errors... Google throwing glitch-puke triangles up on results pages, random freezes and bluescreens, etc. It's just an old machine that was used daily from sun up till sundown, and it's time to shut it down for good here soon.
RIP.
I need to come up with ~1600 for a replacement. I'm not springing for an upgrade, just the same exact model is fine by me, it's just that computers that aren't Raspberry Pis are upsettingly expensive these days. So, uh, if anyone wants to kick in toward an unexpected expense, let me know.
Howl, you have to read this shit. I swear to god. The phrase "if my baby gets sick I will commit Zamboni Crimes" is in the opening fucking paragraph.
https://billshaner.substack.com/p/an-insane-person-for-an-insane-job
Look, I understand that wealthy people reading this are rightfully scared. You know you didn’t earn your horde. But let me put it this way: Either you let us kill some rich people, or we burn down society and kill you all. That’s exactly the same offer capitalists extend to workers. You might even stand to benefit!
Since my cruelty will be focused only upon the richest of the rich, mid-level rich fuckers stand to benefit the most from my cruel reign of hilarious terror. Just like in the forest, when a mighty oak falls, the sunlight is quickly lapped up by treacherous social climbers willing to sell out bastards they don’t even like in exchange for a chance at their now-empty throne.
Howl, you have to read this shit. I swear to god. The phrase "if my baby gets sick I will commit Zamboni Crimes" is in the opening fucking paragraph.
https://billshaner.substack.com/p/an-insane-person-for-an-insane-job
I'm so sorry, that's up there with my worst fears.
If it's rare, I'm guessing they know diddly shit about the illness itself. But they can treat the symptoms, right? Are they doing anything?
That's hopefully good news, bloods can mess with the brain bad, but at least if it's corona that should subside once its run its course
While Covid psychosis (which I'd never even heard of until today) obviously isn't great, it is better than the alternative.
And yeah, Roe v Wade is just the opening move in a plan to obliterate the Federal state. Note I'm not saying they're not doing it because they don't hate women (they obviously do), just that it's both a goal in and of itself and a stepping stone to further judicial revisions. Gay marriage, LGBT protections in general and very possibly even mixed race marriage will all be in the crosshairs.
While Covid psychosis (which I'd never even heard of until today) obviously isn't great, it is better than the alternative.Turns out the covid only aggravated a problem that was caused by her cancer meds. It would have happened anyway, just not as soon as it did.
And while I've been preoccupied with this, SCOTUS basically dismantled Roe v Wade.
They'll be after the Gays next.
And while I've been preoccupied with this, SCOTUS basically dismantled Roe v Wade.
They'll be after the Gays next.
Didn't take very fucking long.
Yeah, happened to me back in about November. I got lucky and am unscathed. I treat ramen with due respect these days. Was it the semi-fancy Nongshim stuff that got you, too?
FTR, I'm not riffing or joking, I'm glad you're mostly okay because I have genuinely seen this happen firsthand (at a fair distance).
Yeah, happened to me back in about November. I got lucky and am unscathed. I treat ramen with due respect these days. Was it the semi-fancy Nongshim stuff that got you, too?
FTR, I'm not riffing or joking, I'm glad you're mostly okay because I have genuinely seen this happen firsthand (at a fair distance).
Naw, I'm fine with it.
I mean, okay, I tried something new and it WORKED but then it exploded. This is better than when I cut off a chunk of my ear prepping burgers, because I was at least successful.
Well, after a fashion. I have no idea where the ramen wound up.
I saw the picture on Facebook! How's the (lack of) tooth feeling?
Yeah, happened to me back in about November. I got lucky and am unscathed. I treat ramen with due respect these days. Was it the semi-fancy Nongshim stuff that got you, too?
FTR, I'm not riffing or joking, I'm glad you're mostly okay because I have genuinely seen this happen firsthand (at a fair distance).
Naw, I'm fine with it.
I mean, okay, I tried something new and it WORKED but then it exploded. This is better than when I cut off a chunk of my ear prepping burgers, because I was at least successful.
Well, after a fashion. I have no idea where the ramen wound up.
Tried something.
What did you try?
I figured you could sparge noodles.
Put it in a Pyrex sphere with water and no remaining air space, superheat the sphere with ether, and the water can't boil because of the pressure, so it just migrates into the ramen. It worked, too. 15 second ramen.
Then the Pyrex went bang at about 15 atmospheres of pressure, squashed my face shield up against my googles, causing me to swallow most of my left front tooth. Also some mild flash burns & concert ears.
I call it a partial success. It would have been a complete success if I knew where the ramen wound up. Not in my yard, anyway.
I am reasonably sure that the chlorine in the water came unglued into O2, adding vapor, which could expand and you'd only need the Pyrex to have uneven pressure for a fraction of a second.
I figured you could sparge noodles.
Put it in a Pyrex sphere with water and no remaining air space, superheat the sphere with ether, and the water can't boil because of the pressure, so it just migrates into the ramen. It worked, too. 15 second ramen.
Then the Pyrex went bang at about 15 atmospheres of pressure, squashed my face shield up against my googles, causing me to swallow most of my left front tooth. Also some mild flash burns & concert ears.
I call it a partial success. It would have been a complete success if I knew where the ramen wound up. Not in my yard, anyway.
I am reasonably sure that the chlorine in the water came unglued into O2, adding vapor, which could expand and you'd only need the Pyrex to have uneven pressure for a fraction of a second.
That is, frankly, entirely awesome.
Are you going to try again, maybe with a sturdier pressure vessel?
Is it possible that outgassing from the ramen is part of the problem? I'm not sure if that term applies to non-vacuum environments, but I'd think the ramen might have some air dissolved or trapped in it, and of course the ramen itself has dozens of little nucleation points.
Yeah, happened to me back in about November. I got lucky and am unscathed. I treat ramen with due respect these days. Was it the semi-fancy Nongshim stuff that got you, too?
FTR, I'm not riffing or joking, I'm glad you're mostly okay because I have genuinely seen this happen firsthand (at a fair distance).
Naw, I'm fine with it.
I mean, okay, I tried something new and it WORKED but then it exploded. This is better than when I cut off a chunk of my ear prepping burgers, because I was at least successful.
Well, after a fashion. I have no idea where the ramen wound up.
Tried something.
What did you try?
I figured you could sparge noodles.
Put it in a Pyrex sphere with water and no remaining air space, superheat the sphere with ether, and the water can't boil because of the pressure, so it just migrates into the ramen. It worked, too. 15 second ramen.
Then the Pyrex went bang at about 15 atmospheres of pressure, squashed my face shield up against my googles, causing me to swallow most of my left front tooth. Also some mild flash burns & concert ears.
I call it a partial success. It would have been a complete success if I knew where the ramen wound up. Not in my yard, anyway.
I am reasonably sure that the chlorine in the water came unglued into O2, adding vapor, which could expand and you'd only need the Pyrex to have uneven pressure for a fraction of a second.
Quite honestly I cannot tel if this is fiction or whether you really did all this.
I would call that alone a true win.
Quite honestly I cannot tel if this is fiction or whether you really did all this.
I would call that alone a true win.
I do a lot of stupid shit these days.
Quite honestly I cannot tel if this is fiction or whether you really did all this.
I would call that alone a true win.
I do a lot of stupid shit these days.
That should be written on a sign posted outside Earth
I have a proper rant percolating for the first time since 2016 or so.
This month has become bizarrely good for me.
This month has become bizarrely good for me.
Yay!
Kind of a crazy week for me— my nephew was drafted into the NHL, then a couple days later my partner almost died in front of me from some unknown allergen - literally almost died, they were turning blue, choking and foaming at the mouth, it was HORRIFYING - then contracted covid (finally, after successfully dodging for over 2 years) which has zapped me of any life I had left in me… on top of all that I heard back about a poem I sent away ages ago, and they EVISCERATED it.
So it’s been quite a week!
Hey, update on my earlier more unhinged post above
*I was going a bit nuts at the time, but I'm working on it
*New job is working out so far, least shitty experience I've ever had working retail
*Friend's new philosophy is pretty interesting actually. Wouldn't mind posting some of it here to see what y'all think.
Hi, y'all.
I left Dark Finance.
I'm a cook.
Last band broke up.
New band is cool: https://badvrb.bandcamp.com/album/ep1
Shall I mark all as READ?
Love,
LMNO
The apple tree produced waaay too many apples this year, so I decided to try making cider.
Now I've got a bucket full of science bubbling in the basement, I'm worrying if I did an adequate job of decontamination, and the whole house smells of apple.
Hi, y'all.
I left Dark Finance.
I'm a cook.
Last band broke up.
New band is cool: https://badvrb.bandcamp.com/album/ep1
Shall I mark all as READ?
Love,
LMNO
The apple tree produced waaay too many apples this year, so I decided to try making cider.
Now I've got a bucket full of science bubbling in the basement, I'm worrying if I did an adequate job of decontamination, and the whole house smells of apple.
Did you add yeast, or are you rolling au naturale? The results of the latter can be very, very surprising and not always in the best way.
The apple tree produced waaay too many apples this year, so I decided to try making cider.
Now I've got a bucket full of science bubbling in the basement, I'm worrying if I did an adequate job of decontamination, and the whole house smells of apple.
Did you add yeast, or are you rolling au naturale? The results of the latter can be very, very surprising and not always in the best way.
I started it au naturel, but after a couple days without any obvious fizzly noises, thought better of it, and added a packet of SafCider which I bought from Likor Shak. I didn't sterilize the existing solution, so, for good or ill, there's an indeterminate mixture of wild yeast and saccharomyces bayanus living in there now.
This is less a well-controlled experiment, and more the "let's try some things and see what happens" kind of science.
I kept back a good quantity of apples, in the anticipation that my first attempt might turn out badly.
I have been brewing since 2008, and have had ONE successful batch of cider. Just one. The natural yeast one created bombs when bottled, and it took a full year cold crashing in the fridge to be drinkable. Made a hell of a pork marinade, though.
I have been brewing since 2008, and have had ONE successful batch of cider. Just one. The natural yeast one created bombs when bottled, and it took a full year cold crashing in the fridge to be drinkable. Made a hell of a pork marinade, though.
Oh yeah? Well, I have eight days of brewing experience, and have also consulted extensively with a distinguished Italian winemaker, who considered my cider-making aspirations to be highly dubious, and suggested I might be better off using sugar and yeast to grow vodka in a bucket.
Then he sold me a bucket with a hole in the lid, a rubber bung, an airlock, and some sodium metabisulphite for $15.
I guess I shouldn't be too optimistic.
Hi, y'all.
I left Dark Finance.
I'm a cook.
Last band broke up.
New band is cool: https://badvrb.bandcamp.com/album/ep1
Shall I mark all as READ?
Yeah. I've been taking iron these last couple of months because I found out I was anemic AF.
But there is still good in this sad old world. This is kind of an anti-vatnik HIMEOBS. :lulz:
https://www.dw.com/en/nafo-ukraines-info-warriors-battling-russian-trolls/a-63124443 (https://www.dw.com/en/nafo-ukraines-info-warriors-battling-russian-trolls/a-63124443)
Yeah. I've been taking iron these last couple of months because I found out I was anemic AF.
But there is still good in this sad old world. This is kind of an anti-vatnik HIMEOBS. :lulz:
https://www.dw.com/en/nafo-ukraines-info-warriors-battling-russian-trolls/a-63124443 (https://www.dw.com/en/nafo-ukraines-info-warriors-battling-russian-trolls/a-63124443)
There is no such thing as HIMEOBS.
Off to DC tomorrow to do important HistorianTM and ArchaeologistTM things.
Off to DC tomorrow to do important HistorianTM and ArchaeologistTM things.
No trip to DC is complete without making a pilgrimage to Woodrow Wilson's tomb, digging him up, and kicking his segregationist ass around a bit.
I have to search for vegan stuff because kiddo has allergies to dairy and eggs, well maybe just egg now, but whatever.If you aren't giving your kid unstable fused deuterium you are an irresponsible parent
Anyway if I don't kill add tracking it gets me some of the dumbest woo shit ever.
Like "high energy water". WTF.
I have to search for vegan stuff because kiddo has allergies to dairy and eggs, well maybe just egg now, but whatever.
Anyway if I don't kill add tracking it gets me some of the dumbest woo shit ever.
Like "high energy water". WTF.
I have to search for vegan stuff because kiddo has allergies to dairy and eggs, well maybe just egg now, but whatever.
Anyway if I don't kill add tracking it gets me some of the dumbest woo shit ever.
Like "high energy water". WTF.
I've had to increase plant-based eating in the last year since my body is starting to get BIG MAD over animal proteins (this getting old shit sucks). Purple Carrot has helped immensely with meal planning, and their heat-and-eat meals do not suck.
Anyone who is able to help out Robyn and Liam at this time is encouraged to do so. Ran EB&G for years and lovely people.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/supporting-robyn-through-her-health-crisis?utm_campaign=p_lico%20share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer
I didn't care for the doppler figures the systems guys eyeballed off some graph, so I incorporated some orbital mechanics into my model, instead. I made the Earth a perfect sphere, ripped off the atmosphere, and stopped its rotation to make things easier, but the numbers should still be good to within 10%.
It turns out that low-earth-orbit satellites are spooky. They're visible for only about 12 minutes at a time, and spend half of that flying straight for your head at over 6 km/s. Then they miss you by a hairs-breadth, and scoot off in the other direction, laughing softly.
But the real bitch is the degree to which this movement distorts a modulated signal in a fashion that resembles time dilation. It's not the carrier frequency drift that's the problem, it's the rapidly changing data rate. Modems don't like that.
The speed of light isn't fast enough. This is a third-rate universe.
I have the worst parts of a sci-fi franchise playing out behind my eyeballs 24/7 these days. We just keep pulling new people out of the black hole in my brain and if you doubt me, one of me has been keeping a map up to date, so I happen to know we are nigh on 90 system members in this brain. Yes, the headaches ARE a constant lately. It's ridiculous. I'm crazy in ways I didn't know existed.
And my love life is full of people at least as catshit crazy as I am, one of whom is being eaten by brain cancer because her live-in girlfriend thinks waiting from April to October for chemo is fine, actually. Another is a full blown alcoholic who works for a capitalistic invention designed expressly to damage human beings for money (health insurance company) and can you blame it for drinking under those circumstances?
The primary relationship fucking ghosted, deleted everything, no one's heard from them in close to a month now. So I found someone new, who is also completely bugfuck and wants me to hypnotize her, cut her open and stuff her full of metal pieces (listen, no humans are actually harmed, only human psyches -- and also I'm basically a cenobite these days which proves you really can be whatever you want to be, so this is basically a feel-good coming-of-age movie plot here), so I'm not as depressed as I could be.
I still can't quit smoking. Hell of a thing. And I still can't find work. Probably something to do with being completely insane, but at this point I wake up every day and smell the coming Nuclear Apocalypse flowing out of the East, so I'm going to make the most of what I got while I have it. Maybe I'll bring some people joy and hope along the way, and terrorize the whitebread morons in ways they don't even know how to be properly afraid of yet as a bonus. All you can hope for, right?
I feel ya. Everything around me - outside of my family - has turned into absolute shitburgers and I'm okay with cenobites and nuclear warfare.
I feel ya. Everything around me - outside of my family - has turned into absolute shitburgers and I'm okay with cenobites and nuclear warfare.
Just like the weak ass-excuse for a plague we got, the nuclear war is going to be a fizzle. The Russians will lob a "best used before 1986" tactical warhead, and it will make a bit of a mess, but mostly it will just piss everyone off.
I wouldn't plan any trips to Kherson, though. "Evacuating civilians"? Sounds like Putin is planning to wipe it off the map (by nuke, or otherwise).
I wonder how North Korea feels about all this. Nuclear power was supposed to be their wildcard, but Russia has nukes, and they're losing a war.
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I feel ya. Everything around me - outside of my family - has turned into absolute shitburgers and I'm okay with cenobites and nuclear warfare.
So the new member "sosoclever" is the first friend I made when I moved to the USA, 43 years ago. She's a hoot.
She dropped by to tell me that some bastard regged as Howl/Tarwell on FB.
If you see me there, it's not me.
Report, report, report.
hxxps://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087084975926
One of Roger’s many stalkers, no doubt.
I just admitted Eldora back to the board (someone tell LMNO), because it should be good for a few mean laughs. If any mod/admin has reservations, feel free to re-ban her. I was just hoping to offload some bile.If that doesn't work out, maybe you could temp-unban RWHN ? I haven't had anything to gnaw on around here in a while, and my canines have grown out to the point that people are starting to notice.
Wasn't the Tent thing like, 15 years ago?
Jebus.
I just admitted Eldora back to the board (someone tell LMNO), because it should be good for a few mean laughs. If any mod/admin has reservations, feel free to re-ban her. I was just hoping to offload some bile.If that doesn't work out, maybe you could temp-unban RWHN ? I haven't had anything to gnaw on around here in a while, and my canines have grown out to the point that people are starting to notice.
I just admitted Eldora back to the board (someone tell LMNO), because it should be good for a few mean laughs. If any mod/admin has reservations, feel free to re-ban her. I was just hoping to offload some bile.
Also, Tentastical also tried to reg again, without really bothering to hide it much. He got rebanned, because he's a stalking cunt and can't be trusted with nice things. Or even not so nice things, like this joint.
Which is of course the worst forum on the internet, even after its death.
Wasn't the Tent thing like, 15 years ago?
Jebus.
13 years ago.
It's not something you forget.
I just admitted Eldora back to the board (someone tell LMNO), because it should be good for a few mean laughs. If any mod/admin has reservations, feel free to re-ban her. I was just hoping to offload some bile.If that doesn't work out, maybe you could temp-unban RWHN ? I haven't had anything to gnaw on around here in a while, and my canines have grown out to the point that people are starting to notice.
I just admitted Eldora back to the board (someone tell LMNO), because it should be good for a few mean laughs. If any mod/admin has reservations, feel free to re-ban her. I was just hoping to offload some bile.
Also, Tentastical also tried to reg again, without really bothering to hide it much. He got rebanned, because he's a stalking cunt and can't be trusted with nice things. Or even not so nice things, like this joint.
Which is of course the worst forum on the internet, even after its death.
HERE FOR THIS FUCKERY.
off to tell LMNO!
He told me he doesn't know her. :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
He told me he doesn't know her. :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Banned from Facebook again.
This time? The algorithms assuming I'm suicidal and when I refused help, they locked down my account. It's amazing I still have one at this point.
Banned from Facebook again.My immediate reaction was "That makes no sense. Cutting a suicidal person off from social contact would be about the worst thing they could do."
This time? The algorithms assuming I'm suicidal and when I refused help, they locked down my account. It's amazing I still have one at this point.
Banned from Facebook again.My immediate reaction was "That makes no sense. Cutting a suicidal person off from social contact would be about the worst thing they could do."
This time? The algorithms assuming I'm suicidal and when I refused help, they locked down my account. It's amazing I still have one at this point.
My second reaction was "Maybe someone or something decided that having suicidal people present on the platform reduces profits. Of course it's not about preserving life. It's about the benjamins."
Then again, I'm assuming the algorithms are actually functioning to achieve some defined purpose*. Maybe it's all chaos, and facebook is only surviving due to inertia.
*Cue audience laughter
Banned from Facebook again.My immediate reaction was "That makes no sense. Cutting a suicidal person off from social contact would be about the worst thing they could do."
This time? The algorithms assuming I'm suicidal and when I refused help, they locked down my account. It's amazing I still have one at this point.
My second reaction was "Maybe someone or something decided that having suicidal people present on the platform reduces profits. Of course it's not about preserving life. It's about the benjamins."
Then again, I'm assuming the algorithms are actually functioning to achieve some defined purpose*. Maybe it's all chaos, and facebook is only surviving due to inertia.
*Cue audience laughter
So it let me back on. My guess is that it was a serious glitch, but that's...uncool.
That sounds...dangerous. Fuckers.
Good luck in Zuckland.
I decided to watch a horror movie a friend recommended to me and it is the first time I've ever been genuinely terrified of a horror film. No worse possible outcome. I recommend it if you can get into slow-burns. Like, "Tarkovsky on Quaaludes" slow, but Jesus fuck. There's four things you could count as jump scares, though I don't know if any but one of them counts, and I don't think any of them are particularly scary or memorable aside from "oh wow" factor. It's the slow quiet shit that erodes your sanity.
It's called Skinamarink and there's currently no legal way to see it. I wish I had waited to see it.
Good luck in Zuckland.
I decided to watch a horror movie a friend recommended to me and it is the first time I've ever been genuinely terrified of a horror film. No worse possible outcome. I recommend it if you can get into slow-burns. Like, "Tarkovsky on Quaaludes" slow, but Jesus fuck. There's four things you could count as jump scares, though I don't know if any but one of them counts, and I don't think any of them are particularly scary or memorable aside from "oh wow" factor. It's the slow quiet shit that erodes your sanity.
It's called Skinamarink and there's currently no legal way to see it. I wish I had waited to see it.
If anyone is on Hive, apparently you can edit other users posts.
I decided to watch a horror movie a friend recommended to me and it is the first time I've ever been genuinely terrified of a horror film. No worse possible outcome. I recommend it if you can get into slow-burns. Like, "Tarkovsky on Quaaludes" slow, but Jesus fuck. There's four things you could count as jump scares, though I don't know if any but one of them counts, and I don't think any of them are particularly scary or memorable aside from "oh wow" factor. It's the slow quiet shit that erodes your sanity.I think that was on at a local community cinema a couple weeks ago, as part of some sort of film festival. I might have gone to see it, if I'd known what it was.
It's called Skinamarink and there's currently no legal way to see it. I wish I had waited to see it.
*marks all as read like a boss*
I am very glad to be alive and back on PD again. Gonna take a bit looking around and reading to get refreshed, but also have a fuckload to say after like 2 years in New Orleans.My entire worldview has undergone several revolutions since I last posted. Hail Eris guys!
All Hail Discordia
*marks all as read like a boss*
I am very glad to be alive and back on PD again. Gonna take a bit looking around and reading to get refreshed, but also have a fuckload to say after like 2 years in New Orleans.My entire worldview has undergone several revolutions since I last posted. Hail Eris guys!
All Hail Discordia
Good to see you back, TWJ.
Sidebar, I got curious and looked into it. Apparently DEFCON readiness levels aren't supposed to be reported on? Who knew?
No, really. I'm not even being sarcastic, I sincerely had the idea that DEFCON readiness was a wartime public communications tool. "This number determines the amount of Good in your immediate future, if it gets too low you can expect to assume the position forthwith." It's news to me that it is generally not known what the level at any given time is unless there's a leak or a personal decision to announce it.
Sidebar, I got curious and looked into it. Apparently DEFCON readiness levels aren't supposed to be reported on? Who knew?
No, really. I'm not even being sarcastic, I sincerely had the idea that DEFCON readiness was a wartime public communications tool. "This number determines the amount of Good in your immediate future, if it gets too low you can expect to assume the position forthwith." It's news to me that it is generally not known what the level at any given time is unless there's a leak or a personal decision to announce it.
It's not secret, but it is a military tool that nobody in the general public really understands. And they learned from the terrorist color-coding thing that telling people shit only causes problems and mockery.
The other day, while the temperature was around -30 C, a water line around here broke. The water in the neigbourhood was out for about a day while a city crew dug a hole in a neighbour's lawn.
(That's "lawn" in the seasonally agnostic sense; it was really just a patch of snow covering frozen ground, which ostensibly contained grass roots until the backhoe shredded it.)
The lack of running water, however brief, was a reminder that plumbing is one of the foundations of modern civilization.
Holy fuck where am I? Sweet Eris' holy tatas WHEN am I??????
Holy fuck where am I?You are Here.
Sweet Eris' holy tatas WHEN am I??????The wheel of history has turned, and it is once again The Interesting Times.
Holy fuck where am I? Sweet Eris' holy tatas WHEN am I??????
Jenn and TGG and I all have covid.
Holy fuck where am I? Sweet Eris' holy tatas WHEN am I??????
The Great Return to PD continues.
Jenn and TGG and I all have covid.
Jenn and TGG and I all have covid.
Jenn and TGG and I all have covid.
Ah fuck that's lame. My household narrowly avoided it thru 2022. Get well soon! (& I hope its not BAD for anyone).
Jenn and TGG and I all have covid.
I was more angry I was sick than I was sick, but the chills and aches the first night were hell on wheels. Tylenol was the only thing that worked.
Holy fuck where am I? Sweet Eris' holy tatas WHEN am I??????
The Great Return to PD continues.
Greta Twitter LULZ aside, the state of social media right now is bonkers. Mastodon has been ok if you like the focus of the group-instance you join. Nothing like old school PD.com out there.
Jenn and TGG and I all have covid.
I was more angry I was sick than I was sick, but the chills and aches the first night were hell on wheels. Tylenol was the only thing that worked.
For us, the only thing that stops the horrible chills is theraflu (which may also be Tylenol). Nothing stops the all over sunburn effect, or the total lack of energy. There's an antiviral that works on this paxlovid or some shit, we're getting that today.
Mastodon is also very white, vaguely utopian, and extremely averse to anything remotely confrontational or controversial. Example: you have to content-warn photos of food. Selfies with eye contact. Anything to do with protests or activism.
It's unusable for most purposes, there's a barrier to entry, and Tumblr is going to be federating with it in the near future -- so, soon, there won't even be a point. Just make a Tumblr and avoid the limitations and bizarre social requirements.
I have the antiviral. Dramatic difference.
I mean, everything tastes like shit now, and I have no sense of balance, but that beats what was happening.
I mean, most of Tumblr sucks, absolutely. But it's still going to be an easier entry to the fediverse than Mastodon, since you know exactly what you're getting, exactly how to get it, and you aren't going to be effectively banned for breaking bizarre rules that nowhere else online has that are buried in a rules document that's functionally closer to a ToS in size and impenetrability than a list of rules.
I have the antiviral. Dramatic difference.
I mean, everything tastes like shit now, and I have no sense of balance, but that beats what was happening.
Never lost my senses. Just felt like my bones were trying to leave my body at all times.
It then took a month to get my energy levels back to approaching normal. I am fairly certain it was Covid, despite the test coming back negative.
It then took a month to get my energy levels back to approaching normal. I am fairly certain it was Covid, despite the test coming back negative.
There are definitely false negatives. I know several people who've recently had a horribly bad cold that totally wasn't covid because an LFT was negative.
My partner and I both got it back in March or April 2020, shortly after it officially came to the UK. There weren't any vaccines or self tests. Masks were in short supply, and it wasn't yet clear if it was a good idea to buy them or to leave them so there'd be enough left for the nurses. I got sent to a hospital and made to wait in a chalk square outside, then someone in head-to-toe PPE asked me some questions and watched my breathing, without any physical contact. It's weird to remember it being taken that seriously. They said I'd probably had it and we should both isolate for a week. I don't remember much from that week except being absolutely fucking knackered. I'm also pretty sure it made me less mentally sharp for months. No fun.
We're both up to three or four jabs now, I've lost count.
December 2019 I was hospitalised with a mystery respiratory illness which did not respond to the usual treatment. Blood oxygen was frighteningly low. I could not taste, smell or *hear* which is a symptom I haven't heard discussed much but was easily the most distressing for me other than... y'know... not being able to breathe. I spent the better part of two weeks in and out of consciousness and was pretty sure I was on my way out.
I was eventually discharged and was still very ill until January. My hearing didn't return fully until March. I suffered bouts of sudden exhaustion, fatigue and nausea until June and I still sometimes get exhausted though generally when I've exerted significantly. It has made it difficult to get back to stuff like regular exercise and I'm hoping that as I do I'll discover a lot of it is down to 2-3 years of minimal activity rather than anything permanent.
There were no tests so I'll never know for sure. But I'd been in and out of London a lot around that time and I suspect that Covid was with us during that flu season and people just didn't know what to look for.
I mean, most of Tumblr sucks, absolutely. But it's still going to be an easier entry to the fediverse than Mastodon, since you know exactly what you're getting, exactly how to get it, and you aren't going to be effectively banned for breaking bizarre rules that nowhere else online has that are buried in a rules document that's functionally closer to a ToS in size and impenetrability than a list of rules.
You can't stick your manager in front of OpenAI's Codex and have him produce anything much more complicated than Hello, World. Coders aren't out of a job. The AI Art Thing this ain't.
A true Scientologist would simply be able to redirect matter to avoid catching Covid.
Report them to the nearest OSA official.
I've been painstakingly describing step-by-step how to parse a particular CSV, transform it into a tree, and do some extra work to make an SVG out of the tree. (This is a project I need to have someone do for me anyway, sooner rather than later. Figured it made a good starting point for testing Codex since I have a very detailed writeup.)
It can't do it.
ETA: I can get it to make surprisingly complex output that looks right when I can read it at all, sometimes. I managed it once with Python, and once (with more difficulty reading anything) with JS. But I can't make it do so consistently (more common is 80% looking good and 20% extremely wrong -- again, out of what I can read), and the output isn't functional.
Funny enough, I think academia is going to be the first place to get well and TRULY fucked by AI for the combination of 4 important aspects:
1: Academic papers are usually kind of samey (with good reason), which makes writing them very automatable.
2: Feeding source material and new research in and getting a paper out is something most academics who are worth a damn think they would enjoy doing, because it'd reduce the time spent on writing papers and lower the barrier to entry for getting helpers on board.
3: The bleeding edge of AI is largely coming out of academia, so will likely have a lot of access to academic source material.
4: AI models that have high contextual awareness are the norm now, which means you just have to turn the temperature down real low and have it focus on turning data into words with zero creativity.
We already have shit like computer aided chemical synthesis design and automated theorem provers out there literally churning out almost wholly computer generated papers, and have had them for years now. Academia is already primed for this sort of thing and people would hardly notice at first, even in the "hard sciences". It might even have good side effects. Then again, it'll probably concentrate institutional power even more with good politicians who can't do science worth a fuck.
Meanwhile I'm using the AI to shitpost with my RP group:
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Funny enough, I think academia is going to be the first place to get well and TRULY fucked by AI for the combination of 4 important aspects:
1: Academic papers are usually kind of samey (with good reason), which makes writing them very automatable.
2: Feeding source material and new research in and getting a paper out is something most academics who are worth a damn think they would enjoy doing, because it'd reduce the time spent on writing papers and lower the barrier to entry for getting helpers on board.
3: The bleeding edge of AI is largely coming out of academia, so will likely have a lot of access to academic source material.
4: AI models that have high contextual awareness are the norm now, which means you just have to turn the temperature down real low and have it focus on turning data into words with zero creativity.
We already have shit like computer aided chemical synthesis design and automated theorem provers out there literally churning out almost wholly computer generated papers, and have had them for years now. Academia is already primed for this sort of thing and people would hardly notice at first, even in the "hard sciences". It might even have good side effects. Then again, it'll probably concentrate institutional power even more with good politicians who can't do science worth a fuck.
We already have software to catch them, and honestly, some of them are very, very "off" when you read them. It's a regurgitation of facts but with no argument. It's fucking WEIRD. That, and they cite incorrect 99% of the time. I know all of this will be fixed eventually and I'm out of a job to a bunch of Zoomers who speak entire sentences with one word, but it's not making the waves people thought it was going to.
Also, I'm in the humanities, so our papers are generally more flowery and have a detectable voice. I'm sure dry STEM professors with no sense of critical thinking skills will think their students are geniuses or some shit reading this garbage.
Funny enough, I think academia is going to be the first place to get well and TRULY fucked by AI for the combination of 4 important aspects:
1: Academic papers are usually kind of samey (with good reason), which makes writing them very automatable.
2: Feeding source material and new research in and getting a paper out is something most academics who are worth a damn think they would enjoy doing, because it'd reduce the time spent on writing papers and lower the barrier to entry for getting helpers on board.
3: The bleeding edge of AI is largely coming out of academia, so will likely have a lot of access to academic source material.
4: AI models that have high contextual awareness are the norm now, which means you just have to turn the temperature down real low and have it focus on turning data into words with zero creativity.
We already have shit like computer aided chemical synthesis design and automated theorem provers out there literally churning out almost wholly computer generated papers, and have had them for years now. Academia is already primed for this sort of thing and people would hardly notice at first, even in the "hard sciences". It might even have good side effects. Then again, it'll probably concentrate institutional power even more with good politicians who can't do science worth a fuck.
We already have software to catch them, and honestly, some of them are very, very "off" when you read them. It's a regurgitation of facts but with no argument. It's fucking WEIRD. That, and they cite incorrect 99% of the time. I know all of this will be fixed eventually and I'm out of a job to a bunch of Zoomers who speak entire sentences with one word, but it's not making the waves people thought it was going to.
Also, I'm in the humanities, so our papers are generally more flowery and have a detectable voice. I'm sure dry STEM professors with no sense of critical thinking skills will think their students are geniuses or some shit reading this garbage.
Oh, I was definitely thinking STEM there.
I think I've just been banned from the local 'find roleplay groups' facebook group for ... posting an ad for my game?
Currently pondering what level of revenge to take if this turns out to be correct.
ETA: It has now been confirmed.
Apparently I am not well-known enough as part of the community to be advertising my games, and the person who confirmed this got some static from them for doing so.
Excellent.
Get ready for rocket scientists that drank their way through grad school getting jobs at NASA and SpaceX.
The redundancy annoys me.
The redundancy annoys me.
Yeah, there's definitely a few "tells" that it is generated.
That said, I've found it a useful tool for quickly generating NPCs or even small plot ideas. On it's own it came up with the idea of a hidden Ayleid city (?) in the heart of the Clockwork City (??) which the factotums need to hire the PCs to get into because the defences prevent them from being able to breach it (???) because the Worm Cult (????) were trying to steal an artifact from it first.
Which is batshit, but you can definitely work with it. Correcting it and re-defining parameters and exclusions make it a great brainstorming tool.
I also made it give me a summary for an entirely made up 1890s period "techno-thriller" involving sabotage of the telegram system, which was fun.
[...] or Canada where the MAID stuff seems like a pretty huge red flag.Why, what have you been hearing?
[...] or Canada where the MAID stuff seems like a pretty huge red flag.Why, what have you been hearing?
Domestically, there were reports that a Veteran's Affairs caseworker was inappropriately recommending MAID to certain veterans (the employee was fired as a result). And making MAID available for persons suffering from mental disorders is controversial, to say the least. But, I'm not sure if that should be a basis for deciding to immigrate or not.
Setting that aside, Canada's medical system is heavily overloaded right now, which might be a reason not to move here, especially if you're in less than perfect health. It's almost impossible to find a GP in many areas, and there were recently two cases of women in Nova Scotia dying while waiting for treatment in emergency rooms.
- be at least 18 years old and mentally competent. This means being capable of making health care decisions for yourself.
- have a serious illness, disease or disability (excluding a mental illness until March 17, 2023)
- be in an advanced state of decline that cannot be reversed
- experience unbearable physical or mental suffering from your illness, disease, disability or state of decline that cannot be relieved under conditions that you consider acceptable
- make a voluntary request for MAID that is not the result of outside pressure or influence
- give informed consent to receive MAID
To be considered independent means that the witness cannot:
- benefit from your death
- be an owner or operator of a health care facility where you live or are receiving care
- be an unpaid caregiver
It's about direction of travel, you know? Ten years ago I thought things were going well here. I move somewhere that is engaging in eugenics and it turns out they decide to expand that over the next ten years and suddenly it includes me, well, gee, my face will be red.
Why, what have you been hearing?
Setting that aside, Canada's medical system is heavily overloaded right now, which might be a reason not to move here, especially if you're in less than perfect health. It's almost impossible to find a GP in many areas, and there were recently two cases of women in Nova Scotia dying while waiting for treatment in emergency rooms.
Have a look at those requirements through the lens of homelessness.Sorry, I'm not getting it.
Then also imagine it through the pov of a trans person who is unable to receive healthcare if they also classify transness as a mental illness.