I have the feeling this is going to end up with whatever I say being called trite bullshit but here goes:
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We're all already eating from the trashcan of ideology at all times / I want a a third pill (counting these as one since it's basically the same concept)
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Happiness is conformist, it's better to be interesting
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The one about the how capitalists used to be horrible capitalists and then, sort of distinct from that, philantrophists (think the Rockefeller split between funding a museum and also running fucking company towns), whereas the latter part has been subsumed into the product yourself with greenwashing, where you pay for the product and for a bit more you can also pay indulgence for buying the product the company destroys the planet for
See my thing is if I had the facilities to store and prepare green onions and peas I could probably whip up like an actual meal, I like ramen for it's convenience of "throw it in my work locker and forget about it for 6 months until I forget or didn't manage to pack a lunch"
Same deal with the hot pots, plus the self heating thing would be good as fuck for outdoorsy activities so I don't have to carry an extra thermos can of hot water
I feel like every food that works as an MRE is some sort of slop (non-derogatory) because that just meshes will with how the thing be and that
Pizza is decidedly not in the slop category and would never work. Hot pot is absolutely IN the slop category and that's why it's so good (assuming)
Ramen absolutely has it's place in the world and I do consider it one of the miracles of modernity but man, I want like some actual vegetables in my convenience foods occasionally instead of freeze dried flavor cubes
Zizek has a bunch of interesting and even genuinely insightful observations about the world, at large, but every time he says anything about a specific issue he gets it wrong and has done it forever. Man's just really good at looking at vibes of systems
How the fuck is all western MREs 30€-a-meal tacticool m4 extrem trail hike: school schooter edition when, going by sold out online listings, I could get a chinese self heating hot pot for like 5 eurodollars?
These things would be insanely convenient to just toss in my bike bag and have a warm vegan meal on a cold days bike ride
Yeah I'll say that's some S+ tier wordsmithing there. I think you should use your powers for better sentences as per content, but I'll be damned if that one isn't gonna bounce around the noggin for the rest of my life
I'm quite happy the internet is full of 13 year old videos of a man with the most exotic native dialect I've ever heard in my life explaining to me how to disassemble a gear hub of of a 1999 Mod. 1A-Phenotype 8ẞ SRAM/Sachs that had a production run of that one tuesday in 1998 but boy do I wish we had more Sheldon Brown. .
I can imagine other people doing it if you have the skillset, I mean pay can be pretty good but then I'm kind of wondering why go to an actual dangerous War instead of shooting at somali fisherman or just random people in the middle east somewhere
Given the climate collapse I figure we'll both lead lives that will eventually lead us to Highlander-Dueling it out over the last dandelion and what to do with it
My dad had to mow the lawn when I was away or heavily distracted because I'd cry about the dandelions and daisies being cut down lol
Still irks me to this day when I have to do it.
The same claim was made when China was sending students here, which was then also wrong, which pretty much leaves it pretty open that if it involves both china and academia in some way you start at "they're stealing our research" and work yourself backwards into whatever it actually is china is doing
I agree entirely because the shittiest car drivers, and I assume all Cybertruck owners are that, are nigh-solipsistic in their approach to life.
game set in america, play as native american man
ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS
In your opinion, to me, the money I'm saving on fuel, maintenance, repairs, and the rule of cool, I'm sitting pretty flat.
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I can't believe somebody took the time to do that
I don't think throwing breadcrumbs at a car takes any serious amount of time
I mean, it's hard to imagine it's a significant problem but if that's all they're doing then I mean that seems reasonable.
On the surface, yes, and I'm not against punishment for people who ride their bikes like dicks, however I'd argue it's really not the same because most of the world is designed for cars first and foremost, for bicycles, not so much, and that makes the equivalency kind of hard to argue. Like how much do you, as a cyclist, have to expect someone to play crossing the street entirely be ear and step into your path, especially on things like MUPs or all the garbage infrastructure provided for cycling?
Kim’s husband, who has campaigned for a change in the law and accused the government of fearing a “militant cycling lobby”.
Like my honest condolences some fixie moron killed your wife because he figured he's too cool for brakes, and hell you can think this, but the state should not listen to this, because it's basically a conspiracy theory
I don't think you have to rig shit in Germany for that to happen, the country just is like that
When the spotlights to out I'm invisible, I'm a superstar, baby, you can google that, My guest bathroom, full of my trophies, neon coloured outfit so nobody misses me, broken voice, because I'm talking way to loud, I've gotta be an individual, otherwise they'll change me out I'll stand on a table or start to throw fists Why again is the conversation not about me?
I wave with both arms like a shipbroken man, if everybody isn't looking I'm not really there, I have 3 siblings but I am only child, The only thing, that shuts me up is:
Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, is Applause, Applause, Applause,
Applause is a drug, the first hit comes free Straight from the delivery room my first word was "me" "Mama, watch jump this" she says "Super, dear" "There is no boy on the world that does it as well as you" Crayon-paintings nicer than the garbage at the louvre Gold medals for my first attemps maneouvering, I stare at my watch as soon as other people talk, and because I can't be seen I'm afraid of the dark
I wave with both arms like a shipbroken man, if everybody isn't looking I'm not really there, I have 3 siblings but I am only child, he only thing, that shuts me up is:
Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, is Applause, Applause, Applause,
My Therapist looks at me and says "mh-mh, aha" I look forward to my funeral because I'll be the superstar, Name your children after me and also some streets in berlin, For this behaviour, they prescribed ritalin, today
Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, is Applause, Applause, Applause,
I've posted about the buffallo before, which is like a relief aid bicycle for poor nations, but here's Seth of Berm Peaks reviewing it, with details I didn't know hitherto. I posted about it before and it is fascinating to me so here you go.
To give context on seth here, he's quite obviously not a comrade, but he's also not a shit. Ad sponsors, yes, but I'd argue he always does point out you don't need all the expensive shit, it's just nice.
I think this might come as close to the nigh-perfect general purpose post-apocalypse vehicle as you can get. Seems thought-through. But read the other threads for possible critcisms on it.
There's twelve subsequent parts annoyingly made without a playlist but dude's killing it with these
Apparently an adaption of an old yiddish song, arbetslose marsh. You can hear the similarities.
You'd think we're all terrible online debatelords but I don't think any of us could beat 5 consecutive comments of "I see you have no more arguments left, good sir, and shall now disengage" while they're too raving mad to actually pull through
You plug this into your bicycle dynamo and out comes electricity to charge your shit with if you're going at least 12kph ~7,5mph.
Very cool for people who do multi day bike tours and having tested one personally: Yeah, rules!
You might have to do some finnicking with a powerbank that doesn't require you to replug it after it stops charging - I mean you're gonna go below 12kph eventually - but hey, you get some volts out of it to keep your phone or whatever other tech going if you're on a multi day ride with sparse outlets
Here's some data if you're into that sort of thing
Rides his bicycle to all the carbrained right wing events and gets nearly flattened by the Angstpanzer Future Modern 4.0L, yelling hopelessly into the void how the jewish conspiracy of the car has made people soy
A guinea pig is a 2 pound furry potatoe with no offensive or defensive mechanisms and it still has the courage to yell at a hairless monkey 200 times their size if they feel their offering of veggies isn't up to par, they know no fear. 3 of them will reduce a bell pepper to nothing but white innards in about 2 minutes, tops.
Imagine if they hungered for flesh. You're just out about and 3 guinea pigs just nibble off your entire shit below the ankles in like two minutes. You try to kick them to death but they're too nimble and keep coming back as their hunger is insatiable
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Now you might think this is a bad idea, but then I ask you; how else is Santa Claus going to get up to all those chimneys to deliver children their presents?
There's too much online discussion where the topic at hand is reinvented from first principles again, and again, and again, in what can at best be described as a strenous relationship to actual reality as every debateperson is loaded with the assumption that they are imbued with the sum total of human knowledge and therefore must never read any material on anything other than other peoples posts that are also reinvented from first principles
These people should all be shamed away from participating in any discussion until they better themselves, which is what lurk moar did.
The mod's just very well done but it's amazing how well the base game translates to VR. Talk about standing the test of time when your 2004 video game can be modded into VR pretty much seamlessly and then blow Triple and Double-A games that are specifically made for VR out of the water
EDIT: Thinking about it, Half Life 2 and it's consequences have been insanely culturally influential in the greater sphere. I mean from Gmod Youtube-Poops over to SFM all the assets are still relevant now due to skibidi toilet, and they're nearing 20 years old now.
I learned how to navigate by compass and map from Arma on the account of you kind of need to, to play certain game modes.
I have never learned shit from "educational" games because they all fail at being games. They're tests with some graphics added, that shit is boring and nobody cares, there's no incentive.
Under FALGSOC, every game would teach you at least one skill
EDIT: I learned Sneaking from Gothic because to sneak in that game you have some guy explaining it to you and that came in very handy as a teenager
Custom built bicycle by World Bicycle Relief NGO which provides Bicycles to underdeveloped, mostly rural, areas
More to be found at https://worldbicyclerelief.org
I'm too cynical to advocate for or against the NGO itself on account of not having researched it enough, It's founded by the SRAM owners (that being a bicycle parts corporation) and they have a for-profit subsidiary which just sells you that bike, but they claim some of it goes towards the actual charity. Seems an ok model.
But the idea seems, genuinely, pretty good. You give someone a rugged-ass bicycle that can be fixed via local parts instead of some dependance on anything else, they now have a pretty good bicycle and boy does that beat walking. Forgive me the obvious bias here but it feels, at least theoretically, pretty Sankara-esque, it's just instead of a tractor, it's a bicycle. Different use-case, same philosophy.
Especially that 100kg carry capacity rear rack, I mean goddamn. Most "adventure" bikes you can customer purchase in the west end at around 40 - 50kg on that front. Kind of want one now.
According to their own numbers they've given out 752.000 bicycles at about 150€ a pop.
EDIT: It also comes very close to the Apocalypse Bicycle that I posted about as the Humanitarian Bicycle idea about 2 years ago and that was from some guy just designing it for fun
What do we think?
I don't know why but i've had this stuck in my head for a few days. Is it weird creep shit or is it like endearing because old timey
The german train engineers are posed to go on strike over, among other things, a shorter work week and now the country is gripped in fear over "what if they can't run the trains anymore" as if I don't spend at least 30% of my rides standing around a train station that had all the benches removed because a homeless person was spotted 2 towns over once as the train I'm supposed to take just gets cancelled because "the train engineer is sick and we couldn't manage a replacement"
Same with every other public sector going on strike actually. The horror scenario everybody keeps describing if the union gets their way is just a description of things as it is. Imagine if the public servants had to work two hours less, we'd take 15 years to build an airport.
The hand problem is being solved because it was obvious to everyone. AI fucking sucks at drawing bicycles, look at those, if you can. Nobody cares about bicycles, they're never gonna fix this.
I don't even agree with your shit how am I better at it than you. How are you gonna jerk off over the rules based societal order and then claim you can ignore whatever highest court you have because you personally disagree. mfer you just reinvented feudalism again