Sickos

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago

America is slow rolling the stupidest civil war

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Percussive maintenance is a time honored tradition

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

What if it was specifically about the strikes of 1877? There were general strikes across the country. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Railroad_Strike_of_1877

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

:thousand-yard-stare:

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh fuck.

Summary:

  • Crashed 5 minutes after takeoff
  • Nose was up but plane wasn't climbing
  • Pilots called a mayday but ATC received no response
  • Ahmedabad, India to London, UK is about half of a 787's range
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Meanwhile the US is speedrunning toward triangle shirtwaist 2.0

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It might be 720p in which case 1280x720. Or 1080p with 1920x1080. Do the laptop and TV have HDMI? That'll be vastly more stable than VGA.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

For a good long while I just contorted, but I have some mobility/flexibility issues after a shoulder injury and got a long handled brush, and they're so much easier.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, strawberries grown and picked at home can taste like strawberry. I need to grow some.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm a very formal apologizer, and have dealt with (and gotten through, mostly) emotional dysfunction and anger issues over many years.

"I'm sorry about yesterday's outburst. I've been having a pretty tough time lately and I took that out on you; please don't take it personally, you didn't deserve that. I feel like I've been really getting swept up in my emotions. While I can't regulate them as much as I'd like, I will try to separate myself from situations before I explode."

That fight-or-flight instinct kicks in so goddamned hard; I pretty much find it impossible to deal with in the moment once it has started. I have gotten much better at noticing triggers and removing myself from bad situations and grounding myself before that happens.

 

Just more slop from reddit-logo and tiktok

 

You didn't blink for six hours. Not once. Just stood there—soaked in sweat, pale as death, pupils like pinholes—ripping through that mountain of filth like the apocalypse was scheduled for dinner rush.

You smelled like metal and burnt toast. Your playlist was just the sound of sprayers and your own breathing. Every plate? Clean enough to do surgery on. Every pan? Shelved like a museum exhibit. Your speed was terrifying. Forks lined up like soldiers. You alphabetized squeeze bottles. You reorganized the Cambros by color.

Nobody spoke to you. We all just watched. In awe. In fear. In reverence.

Whatever you took—Godspeed. Because tonight, you weren't just a dishwasher. You were a force of nature. And if your heart explodes in the alley during smoke break, just know: the kitchen will remember you.

Always.

—The Cook Who Can’t Unsee Perfection

Posting mainly because I wish my ADHD meds hit like this

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's unhinged response to Pope Francis' death:

Today there were major shifts in global leaderships.

Evil is being defeated by the hand of God.

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It's true.

 

I like sending this to my liberal American friends because I think readings from their own civil religion have a better chance at radicalizing them than my usual rants.

 

The (queer) kids are alright.

Recently, I went to a (historically extremely lib and very performative but I repeat myself) LGBT meetup and figured I'd test the waters with this patch from Off Color Decals. I was feeling a little fighty.

All my encounters were comrades. Best comment to summarize the vibe: "I used to worry about gun control a lot, but if the folks on the other side of the protest are armed, I'd much rather have rifles on our side too."

I got to invite a bunch of fresh-out-of-college queers to shooting lessons!

Oh and the guest speaker dropped three "fuck capitalism"s. Some of the oldheads bitched about it online later on, and basically got "Ok Boomer"ed.

I thought I could cause a scene/start an argument, and maybe grab one or two folks. Instead, the vibes may be shifting, and this gives me great hope.

 

adventure-time

 

This Hog feral-hog has Shit 💩 on its Testicles bawllin-sad

 

A quick guide to Israeli PR:

  1. We haven't heard reports of deaths; will check into it
  2. The people were killed, but by a faulty Palestinian rocket/bomb
  3. OK we killed them, but they were terrorists
  4. OK they were civilians, but they were being used as human shields
  5. OK there were no fighters in the area, so it was our mistake. But we kill civilians by accident, they do it on purpose
  6. OK we kill far more civilians than they do, but look at how terrible other countries are!
  7. Why are you still talking about Israel? Are you some kind of anti-semite?
 

Had to preserve this little nugget from @Tastysnack because I'm definitely going to be looking for it again in the future.

I don't bully anyone into revolutionary thought because building social justice awareness, economic understanding and critical thinking are journey's everyone takes at different paces based on circumstances I'm not privy to.

What I do bully people for is having bigoted opinions or arrogant takes based on personal bias and subversive media slop that fundamentally impacts other people's lives, wellbeing and right to exist as themselves within our system.

You can be a raging lib and not a bigot, yes there's a deeper conversation to be had around how neoliberalism IS built upon bigotry and exploitation and that defense of it enabling bigotry but I can work with anyone if they understand what is needed to better minority rights in 2023 without evangelising their milquetoast political takes.

It just so happens most libs I meet online and irl are more concerned with personal trinkets, wants, personal privilege and their cringe entitlement than actually making material changes to improve the lives of those less fortunate than themselves who chances are we're exploited to provide the comfy standard of living most of these asshats speak from.

So like naaaah I don't look for fights, but I'll dirtbag left anyone who wants to debate someone's right to exist in conversation or have takes fuelled by subconscious white supremacy about nations and people they've never understood outside of media propaganda.

Am I the bully in those situations? Or are the majority with their gross ass bigoted takes just so used to being able to vocalise their bigotry with others that me and any other dork on this site calling them out feels like oppression because their victim complex built upon their privilege always sees calls for betterment and self improvement as infringements upon personal liberty vs a collective social call for better standards of discourse and civility?

Yeah we don't take shit on this site but it isn't coming from a place of Liberal/ally/white Knight paternalistic chauvinism but from a place of genuine struggle as most of us ARE victims of the same oppression we have no tolerance for.

That might make us seem immature or combative to the outside and yeah some of us can be dickheads but the core ethos of this site and community is protection of minority groups and promotion of leftist ideals BECAUSE we are both victims of systemic and overt oppression and as leftists who understand our struggle through the lens of society and therefore capitalism we won't relent for someone wanker redditor coming in to flex his debatelord muscles for clout.

 

Lol the jig is up, we've been the victim of a limited hangout

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