I try not to drink calories at all, but if I do, it’s considered part of the meal.
I strongly recommend this, as strongly as reading the news everyday. Don’t watch or listen to it, READ it. It makes you conscious of your participation, makes it easier to remember, and over time, will sharpen your critical thinking skills
If you’ve ever thought ‘holy fuck some people are dumb’, well, if they read the news on the reg, they’d be less and less dumb, everyday.
In Tacoma, Wa.
I witnessed 5 police officers all hit a man on the ground with their tasers. Broad daylight.
Died on the scene of a heart attack. Apparently natural causes. The polices internal investigations found the police did no wrong, imagine that.
Unless you make enough money that you can regularly “donate” to the force, I suggest that you assume they are not there to help you and you protect yourself accordingly
It doesn’t exist. Who’d fund that research? Lolz
The defenders of capitalism complaining about capitalism? It’s not like the public has been quiet on this issue for the past 20 years. Get creative. Stop eating advocato toast. Starting wages hover at $35/hr. Somehow I don’t hear any sympathy.
Have they ran out of people to qualified immunity? I get that murder is the main draw there but theft by law enforcement is only beaten out by wage theft from corporations. Unless things have gotten so threadbare that they can’t make ends meet with all the state sanctioned profiteering.
Maybe they should consider a different line of work. Learn to code. Go to a trade school. Become a plumber.
Waking Life.
If you wrap your head around it after the 2nd viewing, you’re doing better than most people.
It took me a few watchings of Akira to really have it all sink in.
Koyaanisqatsi
Visual poetry. Literally. It’s conveying a message, it’s just you have to come up with the dialogue. Beautiful work. The sequels are fantastic as well.
The right is responsible for almost all domestic terrorism in the states, and that’s according to the FBI/NSA, who are far from objective. Police (and the FBI and NSA are just federal police, obviously) are overwhelming conservative. There is no liberal cop to speak of. This is proven, undeniable, by the reluctance to prosecute the right. I guarantee you if anyone made death threats to Mitch McConnell the NSA would know exactly who that is. But every democratic lawmaker, even sympathizer, and it’s crickets. Death threats continue. You know, you don’t see a leftist version of libs of tictok with its owner bragging about inciting stochastic terroirism. It’s proven again with the heavy hand society uses on peaceful protestors. I’ve been in the protests. I’ve seen the police strike first. I’ve been in the tear gas. The polices us vs them mentality, that they are “at war” with civilians is sickening and entirely one sided. A leftist will say ACAB and if you’re a leftist, every cop will be happy to prove that correct for you, but no one thinks they’re at war with the police. Not acknowledging this is willful ignorance. That’s the kind of ignorance thats unforgivable, even by legal standards. That’s where you go down by association alone.
Blood is almost entirely on conservative hands. Not the other way around.
But suuuuure buddy. It’s the left that’s the problem. I’m envious of your ability to see reality as you choose it, no bullshit, truly I am. I’m unable to mold facts to fit my narrative, I simply have to make a narrative around objective fact. if that is how you describe yourself as well, I suggest you relook at the facts.
And as long as we’re holding facts high, since 2016 the majority of guns in America, which have never sold better, have been sold to those that identify center or left, so don’t think you’re a wolf amongst sheep. Trump winning and his entire presidency of eroding our rights and institutions while stoking division amongst us - truly unique amongst presidents, in a baaad way - woke millions and millions of people up…and America acquired about 20million new first time gun owners.
Oh I’m with you, believe me. Theres some great building tech now, things like aircrete and the hundred variations and uses of lime. And if course just caluz it’s old doesn’t mean better, there was definitely a gradient to build quality back then, same as today.
We can look at churches in Uppsala that were built with pine and have stood for 1000 years…in Sweden…and it’s clear we’re missing something in our knowledge today that they had (it was their harvesting practices, btw, fucking germ theory levels of brilliance). Or how the Japanese have relied on coppacing for lumber for 500 years and that’s why Japan still HAS trees and didn’t go all Rapanui/Easter Island. The Amish and green wood timber framing is another example - practices that take the future into account. It’s the planting of trees who’s shade you’ll never sit in.
It’s easy, and incorrect, to point at history and say it was ALL better then, because only the cream of the crip has survived. Survivorship bias, clear as day. Of course we can build with the same mindset today - we just DON’T.
For a substantial group of people building their own home, to their own standards, towards sustainability or fingerprint reduction is their main driving goal. Earthships are an attempt. Buckminster Fuller made his entire career building off such ideas. Fuck I want to live in a geodesic dome SOOO BAD. Only have to deal with rain when I have to brave society. (I figure where the segments meet I can channel the rain to irrigation channels for the foliage and trees in the inner biodome…and then I’m raising free range sugar gliders.)
I’m in the middle of building my redoubt now. Everything by hand, it’s tedious, requires a ton of knowledge and physically taxing, but it also screams of character, uniqueness and craftiness. I take a lot of fun making things intuitively crafty if you know, but invisable if you dont know. Microprocessors can be a part of that (Im a huge electromagnetism fanboy, I’ve spun up my own generators from magnet wire for custom windmills, and I’m debating doing it again for some microhydro but currently leaning stepper moters), hidden magnetic locks are fun. shit my firearm safe is a Rube-Goldman-machines worth of steps to open, and that’s if you even noticed it was there.
I love the new tech. Don’t get me wrong. Maybe it’s that I’m a xennial, and that I had an analog youth, idk. I own all the power tools - I also own the hand tool analog version and know how to use them. I’ve always maintained the position that I had to level up into power tools. Electric planers save a SHITTON of time but if I can’t plane by hand…then it’s just a crutch. I don’t even want to get into metal working by hand, I’ve done it, i prefer metal to wood so that entire attitude applied to metal before wood.
Anyway. I think we have more in common here than not, lol.
Timber framing, and all Amish framing, is actually done with green wood. Attention is paid to grain of the beams and they are put up so as the wood dries and ages it’ll twist into itself making a more cohesive unit.
Sure it makes remodeling a bitch, but plum straight and true were never part of a remodelers lexicon to begin with.
Oh man, the quest for plum straight and true. Rick was well within his right to wipe Morty’s brain of it. It was probably the single greatest act of compassion we’ve seen him do. I wish he’d wipe mine.
New houses are fucking garbage, what are you talking about? You aren’t from the trades, clearly.
The only thing new houses have on old - speaking in generalizations - is a warranty - which is really what’s at issue here. And as it plays out, it’s super fucked up
The main number one metric for housing is livability. New houses are all glue and wood shavings. Literally what’s swept up after tree delamination for plywood. I’ve seen it. I’ve swept it up. I don’t even want to know the VOC release from OSB over time. If there’s ANY traceable amount (and of course there is) then the fact that I have to spend thousands putting in a RADON bypass cuz the ground wants to kill me for standing on it now yet swimming pools of profits from industry remain untouched and not held responsible. Yea…no. Old walls are best walls. Gypsum is nice but plaster isn’t out of reach. Old framing is best framing. Old wood floors can be found inches thick, no nailing. Carpet? Vinyl? Linoleum is only the best…NOFX song…arguably…Gen Z is suuuuper good. And Eat the Meek, New Boobs, Kill all the White Men, Creeping Out Sara, Idiots are Taking Over. Fuck. NOFX is just best, everything, really. Fat Mike seems like a cool ass dude to hang out with.
Um. Back on it…
PEX cannot be good for you, and even if not bad - yet - it’s not going to kill microbes like copper piping will - “upgrade” your pipes back to copper people, as a matter.of health). +1 old home
Hmm…Hardy board, that’s a modern win. Except it dulls your carbide immediately. That shits awesome for siding and water containment. +1 new homes
Modern windows are better. Without question.
Modern wiring wins over obvs.
Whatever. The WARRENTY. Don’t be the second owner of a new house. Do. Not. Do. It. Motherfucking chosen class gets zero percent interest rates and carried into new development, just to move 7 years later right before the “25yr” roof mysteriously needs to be replaced at 10years, just outside it’s warranty. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this. 1st owners have no costs going into house. 2nd owners, night shift, if you will, gets caught out, besides paying more for the house than the original owners did almost a decade ago, are going to have to absorb that extra 50k in repairs, essentially insuring 2nd owners NEVER rise above their position. Modern red-lining. Fuck bankers. Usury guarantees you’re going to hell. Fuck old money. Fuck everything -lord. Put feudalism back down, THAT SHIT IS BAD. The media only serves to persuade you of an opinion the owning class wants you to have without informing you of opposing opinions.
Did you know there are more houses in the UK and USA to the population than ever before? We’ve never had MORE housing…and yet…crisis…? That doesn’t make NeoLiberal sense…I was told…
Lies. You were told lies.
The amount of housing, that’s true. Thatcher and Reagen really changed the game tho. If you were born past 1980, your future was already sacrificed before the better part of you hit your parents sheets.
Before Thatcher less than 10% of housing in the UK was rented. It was considered one of the most successful postwar decisions, to promote security and autonomy in the citizenry…and now? The housing crisis is literally at the heart of every single crisis the western world is having, the entire world over. It’s vampiric. Cannabalizing the economy and lowering GDP for NO FUCKING REASON.
I am not against rentals - AFTER everyone has been housed. Let people have vacation homes, sure. Shit. My grandfather put 3 kids thru school, golfed thrice a week, stay at home wife, two car garage, bought his kids cars, my father raced motocross semi pro (thousands of trophies - that probably cost a house in itself) and was still able to buy a vacation home off his sole income (just so you don’t lose sight in how much economic freedom neoliberalism has stolen from the working class). I’m also not against private insurance - as Cadillac insurance. Capitalists have proven, beyond a rational doubt, that if they’re allowed monopoly to provide a neccesity (by that I mean, only private sector agents) than the rest of us are steadily more and more fucked. This is exemplified in the Simpsons. Homer went from bumbling idiot to upper middle class. Nothing about them changed, it’s just every year it gets harder. 2020 was the easiest year of the decade - bank on that - and that’s pretty fucking harrowing if you ask me.
Private farming…who has an issue against the farmer? No one. People have issues with being fleeced. See Netflix 10 years ago to the streaming shit cacophony today. Yar me matey, seems like some things are back in fashion. If farmers decide to fleece on a starving population, I won’t be sympathetic when the farmers are served up with their wheat. Treat people with respect. It’s fundamental to social cohesion. Exploitation is not.
My point, ultimately, is that people are people and people are entirely predictable. Our problems are manufactured by greedy people in power who’ve been using mass media to propagandized obedience while they return wealth to preplague levels of serfdom. And they e overplayed their hand, and they know it, everyone knows it - that’s why everyone’s just waiting for when the violence to start. Not if, when. People, again, are entirely predictable. Frankly, imo, we’ll be much better off when notions of social engineering and social darwinism go the same way route as phrenology.
Clearly, that’s why I hopped up on the downvote wagon with you, the truth is the truth, even if you don’t like it.
What’s ironic, is this guy (and the downvoters) seem incapable of recognizing that we are both right.
Exceptions, outliers exist, obviously, but that doesn’t make the generalization not true. They are both true.
Look at the flipside, has anyone even see some tattooed, fit, charming guy with an old out of shape Karen on a back of his motorcycle? No? Why is that? Would that be because he can pull a fit, younger girl, or multiples of that?
None of this is new news. Railing at the system while using the system isn’t going to change the system.
Instead of being bitter that you’re starting position wasn’t perfect, be grateful that the resources are almost universally available. You might not be able to get much of “A” but you don’t need 100% of any of the like ~20 attributes that make you an appealing mate.
Like, dudes, the answers RIGHT THERE, how much closer would you be if you had worked on your skills instead of just bitching online or being bitter? So you have to work on shit, but guess what, WE ALL DO. Ffs. How’s this so hard to grasp?
Yea and with those couples? The stunner with the stud from Microsoft?
Yea that’s called money.
You can say peeps is peeps and highlight outliers all you want but the generalizations are there because they’re true.
Look up some hoe_math on YouTube. His charts are deadpan no bullshit. Brilliant stuff.
Or that modern proverb about the bartender not serving kicking out the respectful skinhead. In summary, if you let one in, next time he’ll bring his 2 buddies and they’ll behave. Then a week later you turn around and your a nazi bar.
I have a pretty easy litmus test for people. If you want your personal beliefs to become law and force other people to live your values, it’s simple. I think you’re a monster. End of story. The basic do whatever you want as long as you don’t hurt anyone is really all we need. If you can’t eat pork, don’t live on a pig farm, but if you can’t control yourself then your failings are between you, your conscience and your god and nobody has fuck-all to do with any of that. I have personal beliefs I think would make for terrible policy. I thought everyone had that, or could recognize that but holy shit was I giving some ppl way too much credit. I can’t tell you how many grown ass adults, living on their own for decades, I’ve had to look dead in the eye and say that just bc you thought something doesn’t mean it means shit. Your thoughts aren’t holy, aren’t a revelation from some esoteric being, and they aren’t a conduit or embodiment of the divine. At least a dozen people who’ve never even considered the alternative. It still stuns me, as much as it disgusts me.
It’s like too many people think that because the boomers got away with acting despicable (and they we’re collectively lead poisoned and essentially stopped emotionally maturing at 14) that that’s the norm and now it’s their turn. And yea, nope. Strike that thought from your brain. Act right or GTFO. Most of Gen X, almost all of Millennials and a larger chunk of GenZ haven’t turned conservative upon getting older. If anything I’ve swung harder left. We outnumber them.
I am 100% with you about believing people when they tell you who they are. They’ll cut off their own nose to spite their face, never, ever underestimate a conservatives capacity to withstand hardship or pain if it’s causing their rival more or the same. It’s inspiring, in all the wrong ways.
Liberals in blue states have been the largest group buying guns and ammo since 2016 and the trend hasn’t slowed.
Look into it. I live in a blue Western state outside the major metropolitan area, which I worked in for 15 years.
Id say a good 80% of the people I know vote Dem and id say a SOLID 85% of everyone I know across the board owns a gun. Everyone is armed, in their homes/apartments at a minimum.
Interestingly, out of the 1000s of ppl I know, veterans (and students 😞) want gun control the most, while those I know in working on the force or in law in a another capacity and vehemently against. Which is kind of mind blowing. Gun control would make a cops job easier, maybe not in the first year, but it’d cumulatively stack. Australia did it, it can be done, save any arguments unless you want to explain how another unruly offspring if the British Empire is soooo culturally different than we are.
Anyways, tons of Liberals own guns, like guns, and can actually afford to take them to the range all the fucking time, they just don’t fucking yap on and on about it and make it their personality.
I wish they felt the same about craft beer, for fucks sake.
I’m with you brotherman. Intolerance isnt a paradox. Those being intolerant have broken the social rules, therefore the agreement and compromise that tolerance is does.not.apply.to.them
Let the others take the high road. I don’t want a mic anyway. I’ll be around, down with the rest of my working class, guarding the rear on the low road. You see, my dreams were crash after crash made impossible for me and my copium is simply ensuring that those responsible don’t get to live there’s either. The dies been cast, I’ve made my peace with it.
It’s a bit of a downer but being in my 40s now, and talking to my siblings and peers, the almost universal call of nostalgia doesn’t really hit until after you’ve lost people, and depending how close they were to you = duh.
I can’t listen to Led Zeppelins Physical Graffiti without thinking of my dad the entire time. Same goes for Pink Floyd’s Meddle and The Final Cut. All three albums I listen too from front to back, at minimum once a year, on what would be his birthday.
My experience is far from singular, in my circles apparently the norm, so theres something for you to set aside for later.
Some of the tropes about aging are true. I AM more patient, understanding and forgiving now, and I’m grateful for all that as well.
I am not however, and if anything I’ve swung hard the other way, growing more conservative. I was raised on the lie of Meritocracy, the looting from economic Neo-liberalism, Orwellian language from deceitful institutions (Department of Defense instead of War - they changed it in 1946, Department of Justice - as much as you can afford anyway, “Protect and Serve” - the property owners, not the community, or guarding food laden dumpsters during the pandemic so people can get free food. Fucking EVIL). I’ve watched everyone get more poor and normal social reinvestment, think infrastructure, slow to a crawl and now everything is falling apart. Inflation is a lie, it’s a tool used to destroy any savings we might have stashed away from the greedy, cancer class.
Retirement is a carrot in a stick. We won’t have it, if this round of inflation doesn’t make that obvious. Idk why my parents and then Gen X aren’t up in fucking arms that bc if inflation their hourly now is most likely the same value or less their wage when they started working. How do you go your whole life without a raise? Just to get your retirement stolen inches from the end?
Better to die on your feet than live on yr knees. My retirement is dying in the revolution.
I hope to watch it all die a swift, permanent and unresurrectable death.
Lol. I clearly missed the growing more conservative memo. Like, if we were to start over, from scratch, almost no part of society would we remake how it is now. That’s all the surmising I need.
In the same vein, wanting different outcomes requires different incomes.
Take all your actions and add them up = this. If you wanted that not this, all your inputs need to be under the spotlight and changes made; including and especially habits, vices, behaviours, opinions, assumptions, collection and quality of knowledge, relationships, etc etc. Sometimes the cost or sacrifice from and of yr current self is large and largely invisible.
Being uncomfortable means you’re learning. Learning means you’re growing. If you’re never uncomfortable, you haven’t reached luxury and made it, you’ve reached stagnation and have stopped ‘living’ your life.
Choosing the lesser of two evils, or the devil you know, or never doing anything about a life you don’t like or want, is cowardice and will slowly crush your soul into despair. Choosing the unknown might end up sucking, but it might be better. If the known is guaranteed to suck, take the unknown - at least there’s hope there and despair, a feeling worse than pain, is a failing to find hope.
Dude, you just don’t care.
If you’re swayed to their side, then bullied for it, ask them why do they even bother arguing then and why not just go fight random strangers? Then tell them to have some self respect and act like they’ve been here before. Say “for fucks sake” under your breath but still in earshot, shaking your head as you walk away.
Y’know, I stopped on it when I was typing and thought to double check, but I figured if I wrote it out intentionally wrong I’d get corrected.
I do appreciate it, tho, no joke. Thank you
Not gonna lie. I know about 50 women with psych degrees. Out of these 50, exactly 2 of them use those degrees and theyre both escorts.
Women should sue higher education writ large for the swindle that is a psych degree. Any promise that it would lead to work was a known lie. That shit is crack to women. Go figure out yourself, and other people, sprinkle in true crime and look at that. Dean’s were more predatory than pimps.