Merry 9/11 and Happy Holidays - New General Megathread for the 11th-13th of September 2024
Building implosion
In the controlled demolition industry, building implosion is the strategic placing of explosive material and timing of its detonation so that a structure collapses on itself in a matter of seconds, minimizing the physical damage to its immediate surroundings. Despite its terminology, building implosion also includes the controlled demolition of other structures, like bridges, smokestacks, towers, and tunnels. This is typically done to save time and money of what would otherwise be an extensive demolition process with construction equipment, as well as to reduce construction workers exposure to infrastructure that is in severe disrepair.
Building implosion, which reduces to seconds a process which could take months or years to achieve by other methods, typically occurs in urban areas[citation needed] and often involves large landmark structures.
The actual use of the term "implosion" to refer to the destruction of a building is a misnomer. This had been stated of the destruction of 1515 Tower in West Palm Beach, Florida. "What happens is, you use explosive materials in critical structural connections to allow gravity to bring it down.
The term "implosion" was coined by my grandmother back in, I guess, the '60s. It's a more descriptive way to explain what we do than "explosion". There are a series of small explosions, but the building itself isn't erupting outward. It's actually being pulled in on top of itself. What we're really doing is removing specific support columns within the structure and then cajoling the building in one direction or another, or straight down.
Stacy Loizeaux, NOVA, December 1996
Building implosion techniques do not rely on the difference between internal and external pressure to collapse a structure. Instead, the goal is to induce a progressive collapse by weakening or removing critical supports; therefore, the building can no longer withstand gravity loads and will fail under its own weight
Numerous small explosives, strategically placed within the structure, are used to catalyze the collapse. Nitroglycerin, dynamite, or other explosives are used to shatter reinforced concrete supports. Linear shaped charges are used to sever steel supports. These explosives are progressively detonated on supports throughout the structure. Then, explosives on the lower floors initiate the controlled collapse.
A simple structure like a chimney can be prepared for demolition in less than a day. Larger or more complex structures can take up to six months of preparation to remove internal walls and wrap columns with fabric and fencing before firing the explosives.
Liberals treating the βHatian immigrants eating dogsβ thing as a meme and using it as a thing to show how βcrazyβ Trump is is really rubbing me the wrong way. It might be because I personally know a lot of Hatian immigrants and work with them, but I feel like theyβre completely undermining how dangerous the rhetoric is and how many people genuinely unironically believe it and it just makes me sad for my coworkers :/
Watching the Bills-Dolphins game rn and the Miami QB suffers a concussion right on the field. Something like his 4th in two years? I feel immense guilt watching this shit, poor guy's brain is jello at this point
I'm sick of making vegan food that takes like 1/7th of my time at work only for nobody to eat it. I think we need to stop making this tuscan "chicken" because pretty much nobody ever eats any of it. And I made it look the best I ever have tonight!
Basically it's a seitan? like product? made of soy and wheat protein, formed into strips. I marinate it with garlic and salt and pepper and lemon juice and fresh rosemary that i grind into a powder. Roast that shit, then I sliced a bunch of portabellos, marinated and roasted those. Diced several onions and some extra shiitakes to throw in. Cooked all that and a shitload of sliced white mushrooms, added some artichoke hearts, basically made a vegan gravy and threw all the roasted protein in at the end
some rando sent me some crazy text about how they were named vitor gonzalez and they were coming for my head all serious n shit n of course i say "lol you can give me head, right after you gonzalez deez nuts"
so i guess if I disappear it means that backfired, rip in piece
I think these are second order effects from anxiety and depression, and not adhd, but I definitely have periods where my concentration is terrible. I wonder how effective treating the symptom would be in those instances, because if I could focus on tasks I want to finish, it would certainly help me from spiralling (i.e. just guilt compounding).
Watching stuff about the ps5 pro being a bad idea and seeing gameplay footage and stuff in the background. I just don't get why anyone had bought a new console since the ps4 era. Nothing looks all that much better and every game looked boring as hell. From what I could tell everything was either Uncharted but not or Fps. Why would anyone shell out for a console where every game looks like it isn't fun?
New servers at work got to experience Food I Made for Fun for the first time. Turned a pizza dough into a big pita pocket and filled it with hummus I'd just made a bunch of pickled veggies, carrots, peppers, pickles, onions and beans. Blasted it into the oven to crisp and added tomato and mixed greens after. I think I changed some lives. It's fun to show off that unbound by the menu I'm a crazy good cook
not even the fun side of either, im not having fun discussions or watching longforms and learning, im fucking checking comments or checking my notifs yearning to be fucking recognized or have an opinion that is mine getting praised
my english is getting much worse
but if i just stopped doing things i dont even enjoy, aren't productive, actively harmful, and take up absurd amounts of time... fuck id just be happier but im addicted to nonsense
Oh shit, new Domineco Losurdo book released called "Western Marxism: How it was born, How it died, How it can be reborn"
Its also on my pirate site of choice so that's hype
Man I lost like 3 pets this year and I'm feeling lonely as fuck and I can't really complain to my friends about it because they are dealing with much bigger problems right now, this sucks
Yeah yeah, your marriage is struggling, okay yeah you are making a lot of extra suicide jokes lately, yes yes I am happy you're recovering from your gender reassignment surgery
I happen to miss my dog and I reserve the right to be sad today
In my apartment complex there's been an ad-hoc sort of thing going on where useful goods (furnature, old printers, books, etc.) get left next to the dumpster, and often people leave food items like rice and cans and stuff in the laundry room. Every time I come back from the laundry room with an atlas of human anatomy, or a bag of apples, or a jar of peanut butter my wife looks at me like I'm crazy, but hey, it's free peanut butter. I scored a 55" flatscreen TV by that dumpster once!
I've just learned that there's an urban legend in Brazil that 9/11 interrupted the airing of an episode of DBZ on some TV channel. And, at the same time, they also interrupted an episode of Sailor Moon R on another TV channel. lol
Auto generated text summaries of papers/documents are worse than nothing. I don't mind if I search a paper's name and there is no discussion anywhere online. Just don't make me sift through pages of barely coherent "summaries" of the paper's abstract to find out that's the case. I hate the internet and internet search, it's officially become worse than useless. Like I'm spending time to walk away with zero information gained.
Did you know that the plans for the first French fry were stolen from the English during the Hundred Years War? Rather than being named for France, they're actually named after the Earl of French Fry
I am hungry because of my diet but I'm losing weight and I'm seeing lines on my body. It makes everything more difficult though. But for some reason it feels good. It's like I'm winning and I like to win.
almost started a mini struggle sesh in the mega about whether being a short guy is a disadvantage in dating following another thread. got some food in me and thought better of it. but fr the short version is that some of ya'll are omega coping as an overcorrection for incels coopting a very obviously real and socially acceptable form of body shaming that is rooted in patriarchal conditioning. got more extra in my previous draft but that is the short version, it's a completely valid thing to feel insecure about/to have body image issues about.
i don't even want to be taller i like my height so miss me with that shit. i like feeling like a pretty little half elf prince of thieves. but i'm also realistic about how it effects my prospects with cishet women.
from now on whenever someone misuses effects vs affects or you're vs your i'm just gonna highlight the text and respond with w/o elaboration, this includes myself as seen in my recent post
Well I had a seizure in the middle of front of house at my job, everybody was really nice about everything. The EMS that showed up were firefighters that let me take an Uber instead because I seemed pretty stable
Depression breakfast: leftovers-quesadilla, made from cheese, fried rice, and half of a chopped up burger. Not the worst, but the real news is that my tortilla cooking game is perfect. Just the right amount of oil and heat, and a smidge of butter, and they come out absolutely golden brown every time.
Lots of meta drama with people upset over mods recently, so I want to say: thank you mods. You do tedious, thankless amd largely unseen work. You keep this website safe. I appreciate you.
To everyone: please do something nice for yourself today, you need it, you deserve it.
They're insufferable commies who keep attacking other parts of the Fediverse by... uh... commenting on posts and... ehm... responding aggressively to bigoted content. They've got all these sick ass stickers that we don't and they keep flexing them in our replies which drives me crazy.
Their instance is an authoritarian distopia where queer people feel safe and they don't waste time debating the same wrong liberal talking points every time. Also you can just call someone a dumbass if you disagree with them: a totalitarian nightmare.
Worst of all they go around straight up bullying other Fediverse users: right now I'm locked in a bathroom stall that a Hexbear user shoved me into. I've been here for an hour missing my maths class, and I've had to drink the toilet water. My tummy is starting to hurt. Stay away from Hexbear users...
Generally im very much a do whatever it takes to make my email/chat notifications disappear employee. But every so often the request will be like "can we do illegal stuff with the data" sorry bro I'm not going to jail for your dashboard.
Today is my least full day in Germany and the last day of my holiday too. Tomorrow, I'm back home in France, and preparing for uni which starts next week. It will have been a fun trip, and surprisingly not much ever got wrong: not bad for my first true solo trip!
I have never felt a bigger drop in respect for someone than when my ex fully bought the "prison security is actually really lax in general!" story that was made as an excuse for when got got.
Attention Hexbear Hockey fans! In about 15 minutes Lokomotiv Yaroslavl faces off against Kunlun Red Star! Will Lokomotiv keep their momentum and chalk up another win? Will Red Star derail Lokomotiv and hand them their first loss since the season started? Who will you cheer for? I think my bias is obvious but
Does the site just straight up not work on mobile for anyone else? I can only sign in when using an adblock browser, I can't filter posts or communities, search doesn't work, and hitting next keeps me on the same page.
the "haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs" thing is fucked up in general, but it would be funny if it came about because someone confused haitians with asians (the immigrant group more often associated with that stereotype) just because the words sound similar
I try my best to avoid being a "waow this is just like blideo game" person, but I gotta be honest, seeing the IDF commander who oversaw the al-Shifa hospital massacre get sniped in the spine with a ghoul rifle months later is the most "assassination of general Amsel" shit I've ever seen in real life.
For having spent my teenage years watching liveleak, this new feeling of watching fascist troops die and feeling nothing but relief and even grim satisfaction is something I'm still getting used to. It's weird to think "am I secretly a psychopath who lacks empathy?" Only to see some new gleeful act of genocide and realize no, you're simply looking at people who have given up their empathy, their humanity, and now present only danger to those who retain them. I think part of feeling love for life and humanity is being able to recognize when someone needs a bullet in the back for the common good.
Idk if this is the case in other imperial core countries, but is it just me or has the US practically invented a Hukou system of its own? Let me explain:
rents/housing costs are surging higher and higher and this is seen as a good thing because βmuh invoostment! Muh equity!β. Now, unless youβve been a homeowner of a city for decades or a child growing up in that city. Cities are now just giant country clubs and the rest of us are practically confined to rural, reactionary shitholes. What does this mean? Well, if youβre a child growing up in say, LA. You will have more access to connections and resources that will help you in life. If youβre not all that lucky and born in a red, middle America state you get to eat shit. Yeah, βconnectionsβ are important (almost too important) but if youβre not one of the good olβ boys, good luck even getting a job as a dishwasher.
While this is arguably more understandable, in-state and out-of-state tuition is absurd, so again if youβre born in a red state that values education much less than blue states, you once again get to eat shit. With benefiting from a modern day spoils system sorry, βnetworkingβ being touted as the only way to get a job, going to a no-name university will be held against you. Take it from someone who wants to go back and get a masterβs just to try to get porkyβs attention.
You know the saying βitβs expensive to be poorβ, well that also extends to being born in a poor rural county. Rural folk are forced to put up with car dependency and usually only have access to shit-tier amenities and shopping. Letβs take Uniqlo vs JcPenny. Uniqlo is a clothing company that makes somewhat decent clothing for a fair price. However, Uniqlo is always exclusively in major cities with the smallest city theyβre in within the US is Sacramento IIRC. Meanwhile Iβm sure many fellow poor people that came from places not on the map can relate to having to do back-to-school clothes shopping at Target or JcPenny, which are practically disposable, frumpy-and-proud clothing. Sure, you can order online from Uniqlo anywhere but the point is that these cities that rich people want all to themselves have services that will save them money in the long run AND be better quality.
Location discrimination in hiring. Porkyβs infamously extremely selective on the few times he needs to hire someone at all, and many porks seem to have a βlocalβs onlyβ policy, and one article I read mentioned a guy being discriminated against because he lived in a rural part close to the city he couldnβt afford to live in. The porks were confused βwhy anyone would choose to live thereβ and didnβt want anything to do with him.
So to me, it really does feel like I am stuck in a reactionary part of the country and I have no choice but to put up with it. We constantly have to hear how bad blue parts are, but the rich seem to want to do everything they can to stop poor red staters like me from moving to them.
Is it just me or is there this kind of American Israel supporter who has the mentality of a right-wing conspiracy theorist, but they're liberal so they can't question the government or the elites? Like, They latch on to the ideas like 'Israel is the only safe place for Jews to live' because they want to believe there is some evil force in the world that they can connect threads on a pin board to, but lacking in any right-wing boogeymen or actual class analysis, they just lean into what they see on MSNBC really, really, hard.
After tinkering with my work thinkpad for over an hour, it turns out the nvidia drivers was fine, the external monitors are controlled by intel graphics drivers which were corrupt
I have so many issues with my work thinkpad. These things used to be indestructible, now if I drop my concentration and let myself daydream for a bit external displays stop working for no discernible reason.
Wish not getting laid and/or being in a relationship didn't hurt my ego so much.
I just don't feel like I'm capable of being in a relationship at this point and I can't imagine hooking up with a person I don't care about just for sex. I need a lot of mental stimulation and if I can't get that from people, I lose interest in them. In that regard, I can't imagine being with someone who's not like me. I don't wanna do activities, I don't need to travel, I just wanna sit and talk, discuss, question, analyze, argue ad infinitum about anything and everything.
There's definitely others like me out there. The problem is that we won't find each other because neither of us goes outside.
Big the Cat in secret rings is great, like I miss playing as him from Adventure 1 and Heroes but him just showing up doing his own thing was fun. Big reason I don't like Adventure 2 Battle getting rid of his cameos was not cool.
Been painting my nails for so long now that they usually show up in my dreams. Honestly I recommend it the amount of compliments I get and convos I have sky rocketed even if they aren't perfect. Told myself I'd do this even if I'm made fun of but no one's really been mean to me
never try to be clever. ARVN sailors? oh it must be somewhere a lot of sailors should be like Da Nang? no of course not, it's always the capital. and Norwegians are always 10 years behind on fashion.
The gamer "don't piss me off I'm close to leveling up and you look like enough exp"shirt is terrifying because not only does imply that they have killed before but that they will do so again
I have half an "ancient aliens did 9-11" bit where it goes like "jet fuel can't melt steel beams so how could ancient 20th jet fuel melt steel beams? Aliens must have done it using alien space jet fuel" but I don't think it works.
I just watched Fargo Season 5. One of their characters is a rich lady who plainly states what the role of the police is in modern society when a cop starts probing into her business. I certainly did not expect that from a tee vee show
Lorraine Lyon : The police. I mean, why do we need you? Except as a tool to keep a certain element in line. To separate those who have money, class, intellect from those who don't. You're gatekeepers, standing outside the walls, keeping the rabble from getting in. But in here, inside these walls, you have no function. You should remember that.
Policy at work is i need a doctor's note after 5 days off but i have covid (antigen tests have been coming back positive for a week now) so what's the best way to obtain a note without needlessly endangering anyone else? Can doctors give them by email? Canada btw
I was driving home from grocery shopping and just saw four dead bodies laid out not too far from where I live and recognized one of the guys as an old friend.
Theyβd apparently gotten mixed up in gang violence and one of the guys was targeted for snitching. Stuff like this is so common that Iβve become numb to it and treat itβs a temporary source of amusement.
This is life in the poor regions of the global south.
Has it been proven you can't punch the liberalism out of people by bashing them hard in the guts until they barf like you can for a ghost? I have a court date coming up and newd to know by then. Thnx
Being stuck between a boss/manager and a client who want different things, and neither seem to want to talk to each other but want me to argue their case to the other.
Seriously though, what the fuck is up with even on a "non-political" level? People always be like "niche subs are good!" but on the EXTREMELY rare occasion when I feel like actually swinging over to a smaller sub to share something relevant and in the spirit of that sub, I always get downvoted, immediately. Doesn't matter if it's something totally innocuous, or wholly positive, or whatever, it always, always gets downvoted.
Asking a simple question? Downvote. Sharing the same type of post that gets upvoted all the time? Downvote. Find something fun you just want to share with others who by all rights should also think it's fun? Fuck you, downvote.
Up to 175 on my squat, which feels great. It does not feel great to be surrounded by 20-somethings who are lifting twice my weight every time I go to the gym. Just gotta remember that it's not about that. They've been at it longer than I have and they're younger. It has been nice to start noticing that my pants are falling down. Failed some of my bench press reps at 125, which is frustrating because I'm hungry to get the plates on there, but it's a process I guess. Think I gotta audit my diet to just see where I am and if I need more protein.
One thing I'm not sure is real or not is that my facial hair seems to be growing like crazy. I don't know if it's just getting older or if I've got more testosterone from the lifting. Like I'm feeling some other effects maybe that are in line with that. Mostly it's just annoying to shave more often. But if some hormonal decisiveness is helping with my executive dysfunction, that's pretty tight.
burning the midnight oil? no, cookin' the midnight chili
i say chili but really any chili purist would call it an unholy abomination, as I've thrown things in there what should not be in "chili," but my current mode is "chili is just a chili flavored ratatouille, it's all just savory vegetables and protein stewed in tomato sauce." i laugh it those who freak out over beans in chili, there're beans in mine, some mashed up with a spoon (you can eat the beanis, and it's a useful thickener) but also random ass shit like a bit of cardamom, and a big fistful of mashed potatoes (hello more starch thickening, plus all the cream and butter and milkfat loaded into that shit) and yknow what, it probably tastes good. i'm lettin that shit ruminate
CW: more explicit meat mention
this is what I'm doing with some leftover brisket chunks I took home lol
I understand that Jamaica has a white population who naturally speak patois, but it's still really funny to me to see white people who speak Jamaican patois. Like Chet Hanks or Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black.
Today was a good day. I had the day off from work and had therapy. Went for a few walks, did quite a bit of posting, wrote a lot. Got to hang out with my room mates more than usual today as well. I'm really happy with how I got to spend my day off.
I don't know how it's possible to default to hating every single person I meet while simultaneously wanting every human being to live the most comfortable and enjoyable life possible, but I sure am finding a way.
I remember hearing a comment about a study where participants would sit in front of a projector, then a POC was projected; white participants would have a cortisol spike, nonwhite participants had no response. Can't seem to find it though. Anyone heard of it?
lol made my boomer parents throw a fit after commenting about the US still milking the cow after 23 years
Just incredible how they donβt realize how it can never compare to the damage this country routinely does to other sovereign countries
Like, I truly donβt care anymore. You people watched Covid mow down 1 million+ people in a little over a year without giving a fuck about it. Because all 9/11 acts as is an excuse to be jingoistic and feel bad for the one time America was punched back
Canadian father is trying to spread AmeriKKKa nazi shit about haitian immigrants to me and then when I say it's fucking stupid and evil to believe that he bitches out and goes "I was just trying to have a discussion" when a discussion to him and his ilk is them ranting at you and you having literally zero influence or input on them, they just want you to either agree or be silent or if you disagree they just pretend you didn't.
My personal 9/11 happened tonight. I was at the door of the place where the speed dataing event was taking place and I changed my mind and went home
Just feeling tired and a bit burned out. Not sure what possessed me to buy tickets to two speed dating events on back to back nights. I guess since I was opening there was little chance of work getting in the way of me going, but ugh. I should know myself well enough to not do that.
Peru's former dictator, Alberto Fujimori, died on Wednesday afternoon in Lima. Fujimori died in freedom, after receiving a questionable presidential pardon, and with millions of soles in debt in civil reparations, which were never paid to the victims of his crimes. He did not beat cancer.
my proposal is to use extremist instances as a weapon (hexbear.net) get them to mass mention: βthe lizard man (mark Zuckerberg)β. also submit your own proposals in the comments
*manager tells us to work faster because his bosses told him to tell us to work faster because the stock price fell a lot*
*I work faster and quality of code drops*
"Why can't you just work fast and have high quality code"
Gee man maybe it's because I'm literally the only person on my team with a life and acts like a human instead of a robot
Where it's normal here for people to tell others to message them for help on vacation, not take any vacation even when maxed out on days b/c they admit they don't know what to do, work at nights after a full day in the office even when they have a spouse and kids at home, drink 3-5 cups of coffee every morning to laser focus, and not say morning/bye/leave people still eating lunch to maximize productivity
Man where the fuck are these fake desk jobs, all my coding ones have been far too real, and they keep getting realer every new job I get
Eldar lore suck so much they are practically now NPCs to help the imperium, when they are supposed to sacrifice 1 billion humans to save 1 eldar. After the deathwatch decided let slaanesh live, wheres my elven Pelinal Whitestrake?
About a week ago one of my brothers asked why I bought masks and I told him itβs for when I go to school so I donβt get Covid or whatever, and they both just said I was paranoid, one of them has gotten sick like 6 times this year ffs
It's wild to me that 9/11 is supposed to be this huge solemn event but no one gives a shit about the thousandfold horrors we inflicted upon the Middle East in return. On the one hand, you have a few thousand lives and a handful of damaged and destroyed buildings, none of them critical. On the other hand, you have MILLIONS of lives, devastated infrastructure, imprisonment, torture. There's just no comparison. And when you spend so much energy memorializing the former, you are implicitly declaring the latter to be of lesser importance (some will go as far as to say it explicitly, but beyond civility there's little practical difference).
Why are they telling me about a pop star's endorsement in another country's election in the main news broadcast of the day, can't we at least pretend to not be a vassal state?
βSick societiesβ is an awful anthropology book from the 90βs thatβs basically, βdispelling the myth of noble savages by making them sound as savage as possible.β
Iβve been seeing this around right wing circles with their narratives being that indigenous culture was backwards and disease alone killed them all. Europeans are just blamed. Please ignore the systemic killings that took place before and after disease.
I spent my 9/11 learning that insurance aint covering the surgery I need on my tailbone and the only surgeon that will do it will only do it two days before I was supposed to fly to my family for thanksgiving vacation and recovery involves no sitting. So no thxgiving this year, no seeing family, all PTO is going towards recovery, and I'm paying out of pocket (putting in on credit, there's nothing in the pocket). Oh an no refunds on the flight ticket even with medical emergency. Happy 9/11!
called out after being threatened by a customer yesterday. i feel kind of bad because we're already short staffed. maybe i'm not cut out for public service. i feel so fucking weak and emotionally frail sometimes that it can be hard to imagine a job i am cut out for, tbh...
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.
finished season 1 of the americans i am suuuuuuuuuuch a ho for watching longstanding complex relationships under a microscope rn. like aw yeah grow from a 15 year fake marriage into a real marriage but then have a rift where it seems like you're gonna split and then find your way back to one another. fuck yeah bring that decades long old flame back into the picture (oh there are two that's even better!) this right after mad men is like some good ass drugs for where my head is right now
gun control wouldn't be just a dream if everyone read one piece and saw what the battle frankies did to mr tom even though franky didn't mean for the weapons to be used that way
Iβm watching a friendβs van while heβs staying indoors temporarily. Heβs actually paying me in cash (and other things) and I basically get room and board in the form of a cabin-style tent next to the van.
Mention of drug use
Heβs also really cool. First homeless person Iβve met in a long time who isnβt either racist nor extremely nihilistic about racism. Heβs the first person Iβve met in a long time who does drugs and doesnβt twack out and say stupid shit. He really likes me for some reason.
Horny
But his girlfriendβwhoβs also really coolβis really hot and not only looks like my ex-friend but sounds like them and has the same biting sarcasm as well.
This kills the crab.
But this cushy deal might be ending in a few days. Sadface.
Crank belief: frakking technology should be used to build state-owned geothermal plants all over the country, unlocking the practically limitless power of the Earth's mantle and solving the climate crisis at the same time.
Y'all every get a full bore anxiety attack but without the fear? Idk what to call this. The last two days my body has been in full fight or flight mode but I don't feel the need to either flee or fight, the engine is just racing.
Ugh they were arguing about who should shoulder the blame for the shitty pullout from Afghanistan when George W. Bush is still alive and free. Deeply unserious political process
everything fucking sucks, nothing good has happened in the world in the last 60 years and there are no signs of things ever fucking changing. how do you people cope because its getting harder and harder
Made homemade macadamia nut butter and slapped it in on a slice of bread, slapped almond butter on another slice of bread and put banana inbetween ohh my
I hate how fucking hot it is in this fucking bathroom at work, I shouldn't have to take my shirt off and still be sweating my dick off while taking a shit
Had a prof gas up gramsci and talk about decolonial movements, then like 10m later talk about how Marxism is a failed ideology and revolutions dont work.
Listening to Allendeβs last speech now. I always get emotional at him stating among his last words that he βwas merely an interpreter of great yearnings for justice.β
you think anyone in like... late medieval Cairo really knew what the Pyramids were? Or were they just like "The defining feature of our city is these colossal stone triangles built by an unfathomably ancient civilization who nobody knows anything about"
I don't understand why I am sweating through every piece of clothing just enough to leave ugly stains. We simply do not have the science to answer such a thing.
It's very annoying though. Nobody else looks sweaty π
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Death to America for crushing me with 9/11 stuff since I was a toddler even though I donβt even live in the US. I donβt remember any of the dates of mass killing events in my own country but 9/11 Iβll always remember and I hate it. I did believe for a few years that the date was November 9 though.
Facebook managed to partially break through Fluffbustingpurity and it's been serving me Kali Yuga memes. How sweet must ignorance be? To know nothing of the world, what bliss!
Most of the symptoms of whatever the fuck happened for the last four, or maybe five, days have abated and now i'm wrung out, sad, and trying to make sense of losing a week to depression and weird bipolar shit and figure out what to do with the remainder of the week. What day even is it? Wednesday?
No current struggle session discussion here on the new general megathread, i will ban you from the comm and remove your comment, have a good day/night :meow-coffee:
Man, Hexbear keeps logging me out on everything and it's getting me tilted
Separate from that though, life is good. I have today off from work so I can stay up as late as I want this morning/night. I figured out how I'm going to do sublingual diy estradiol so that's really cool and exciting. I also get my first paycheck from the new job this friday, and the paycheck from the WFH job on Thursday, so I'll be not dead broke for the first time in quite a while.
I remember watching a show years ago and it had some form of fucked up time travel where someone's consciousness is projected into a different body shortly before they die.
Somebody gets murdered by being projected into the towers
Watching Kevin Can Fuck Himself, I love the format. If you don't know the show is a satirical take on King oF Queens style battle-of-the-sexes sitcoms. You've got the B plot, which is a single camera brightly lit sitcom in which a boorish husband gets in dumb manly shenanigans in which he is broadly insensitive towards his wife and uncaring of her needs and desires. Then the A plot of the wife, Allison, which is all moodily lit and darkly color graded, like a serious drama, in which she fantasizes about the violent murder of her husband.
So I'd love to see a political thriller done in the same way. Like the A plot is, I dunno, maybe some unelected government bureaucrat who stumbles across a conspiracy and starts getting harrassed by feds and/or non-state actors. Like that movie The Report starring Adam Driver, about the guy investigating the Torture Memos in the aughts. But then anytime he's in a room with an elected it's like a scene out of West Wing or VEEP, brushing off his concerns as they're more worried about that week's antics and ignoring any pleas for help with a see no evil hear no evil attitude or else so ready to give grandiose speeches about civility and the strength of our democracy that they ignore the cloak-and-dagger drama playing out in front of them.
Edit: I think the show is actually a multi-camera sitcom.
First interaction of the day: I was tying my shoelaces, they walked by and very slightly pinched/ruffled my hair without a comment and kept walking. Admittedly theyβre not a social genius either but what does it mean!?
eating fucking shit, death to switserland and death to canada. clever shittheel must be smiling with shit through their teeth putting up edmonton with the only identifiable location-name montreal
Lula's government intends to confiscate land from arsonists, says Marina Silva.
President Luiz InΓ‘cio Lula da Silva's government is studying legal means to confiscate land from perpetrators of forest fires in the country, the Minister for the Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, said on Wednesday.
According to the minister, the studies are inspired by the law that allows confiscation against owners who exploit labor analogous to slavery on their land.
Marina did not give a deadline for the conclusion of these studies, nor did she say when a proposal along these lines might be ready, but she defended the need to toughen up the laws that provide for punishments for perpetrators of arson. Currently, she said, the maximum sentence is five years in prison.
βThis year and last year there was a 60% drop in deforestation over the two years, but criminals, knowing that the forest is losing moisture and making an alliance with climate change, set fire to the forest in order to destroy the forest without having to clear it,β he said.
His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.