I have no hole into which you can pigeon me. I'm unique. Just like everyone else. I'm equal parts seven, seventeen, and seventy, and have been since elementary school. I've got the open ended curiosity of a seven year old, the suicidal bravery of a seventeen year old, and the wisdom of an old man. I am equal parts George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter Thompson, and Charles Bukowski.
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Last Notes npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I grew up in South Jersey, known for tomatoes. My advice: You want tomato cages, not stakes. The plants get really floppy when they fruit. The ones in the pots are probably root bound by now. I can't say how much to water without knowing your rainfall, or even any rainfall metrics from where I used to grow them. But too much water causes them to split. IIRC, my parents used a lawn sprinkler and let it run a while during dry weeks. Squirrels and chipmunks will eat all of them. Well, they'll pick them and only take one bite out of each tomato, leaving the rest to rot on the ground. They can be incredibly destructive. Good luck! npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk The HBO miniseries about it is phenomenal. Starts out as horror, ends up as a political thriller. 5x45 minute episodes, IIRC. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Twin 2.5 processors and it's "retro computing". Yeah, I'm old. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I, too, get weirded out how to respond to people who violate line etiquette. It seems a petty thing to bother causing conflict over, but it has to be done. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk ][e, 64--that's my elementary school era. We didn't get taught typing. Typing class was one sixth of one year of one period in seventh grade. I ended up having to teach myself and to this day can't touch-type. I need to look at the keyboard. I can get going pretty quick with only 9 fingers, tho. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Suffering from it my own self, I, too, can spot the lack of REM sleep. Dreams are important! npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Looks like one dose of mescaline in a San Pedro cactus. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk You're fucking awesome. You can do language /and/ science. And you're harder than a coffin nail, You got it all. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk You make homemade garam masala? I am impressed. respect. I love my fedi friends. We have interesting hobbies here. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Well, Fallout models a world without bigotry, and how to have a light heart in adversity. It has a good message. But I'm a big fan of Tarantino's early stuff, too. You know he's one of the good guys? He didn't get me -tooed and he had a thinly disguised Harvey Weinstein machine gunned in 1993 before anyone outside Hollywood knew what a monster he was. Quentin is an anti racist crusader. Also, He forced Uma Thurman to do a stunt she didn't want to and it messed up her back, basically ending her career. She sued him and the two people under him. He went to her home, openly defied his lawyers, admitted it, admitted it was wrong, and asked her forgiveness. She's still suing the other two guys but she dropped the suit against him. You might have the wrong take on Tarantino. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Glad I could warn you. It's got the worst onscreen violence I've ever seen, usually to the soundtrack of a cheerful little piece of 1950s proto rock-and-roll or a show tune. And I'm cool with onscreen violence. I don't do torture porn, but if it's the most extreme thing /I've/ seen, yeah, may not be up your alley. Basically, the whole show is like the Marvin scene in Pulp Fiction. That seems to have become a trope. Fight scenes to cheerful little ditties. The hotel shoot-out in S1E1 of Altered Carbon is the same way. You might like that one. Still violent, but it's not deliberately taking it over the top. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I just found out there's a new Star Wars show. That franchise lost me with Return of the Jedi but got me back with Andor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Skeleton_Crew npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Are you fucking kidding me? We kidnapped the leader of a sovereign nation? Yeah, this is going to end well. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Amazon raised the evil bar so high they caused me to end my Walmart boycott. I gotta give them credit for the Fallout show, though. I mean--I torrent it. I contribute $0.00 to the bottom line of /any/ fascist tech giant. But thanks for funding that show. It's top flight. Bezosbub must be a fan of the game series. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Stop making excuses for them. They could fix that shit if they didn't choose to be ignorant. This is America. We may be really fucked-up in a lot of ways, but we have free will here. We have free will in a way no Russian or Chinese ever will. And I see the people you are defending as just fucking wasting it. Not to be crude, but every seriously rural area I've encountered was a meth infested hellhole. Maybe if they put down the pipe and read for a while, things would get better. And this is coming from a firm believer in better living through chemistry. It's just...if you can't handle your drugs, don't fucking do them. Find a different coping mechanism. I need to reiterate--I know it's not all rural people. There are plenty of decent people out there, and plenty who chose education. But you're talking to a hyperlexical autodidactic polymath who self-taught well enough I was schooling my college professors in their own subjects by age 25. That's younger than they got their doctorates. And I did it from the library. There wasn't much internet yet. If I could do it, so can anybody else. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I'm sorry. A) what island? That's interesting. and B) Yeah, it's crass as hell. It's also honest. Anyone with access to the internet can find real information, and anyone past pre-puberty can tell the difference between bullshit and honesty. Probably earlier. It's a necessary developmental skill. I really don't have much sympathy for people who prefer the junk food of conspiracy theories to knowledge about how the way the world actually works. I'll cut them some slack as kids, but a grown-up should know better. But you're right. It's crass, angry and obnoxious. That's who I am. This shit all leads to fascism eventually, and I'm an unapologetic hard ass about that. Just don't go there. Or I'll hate on you. And you'll fucking deserve it. Ignorance is always a choice. And back to a)--where do you live that people actually don't have net access? I mean, Amazon tribes who wear loincloths, and who don't use money, manage to get enough to buy one phone, and the networks give 'em their own tower so they're not cut off from the world. I've really never heard of anybody actually shut out of the internet. And I've been broke and homeless in Africa. I've spent my time among some of the most seriously fucked people on the planet. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I agree with everything you say, but they have the internet. It really is a democratizing force. They have the tools they need. Fun song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7QEWz-72bw&list=RDm7QEWz-72bw&start_radio=1 npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I think the mainstream media vastly overrates the value of the redneck safari. I've spent time in those areas. The educated people are as angry as me, but we're vastly in the minority. Mostly, I've found a truly unbelievable level of ignorance. Like, shit you would find back in the Cotton Mather days, but among people who grew up with the fucking internet. Fuck 'em. Let the leopards eat their faces a while longer. It's leadership. Eventually they'll stop voting for the Leopards Eating People's Faces party. But it looks like they still have to hurt some more. Enjoy losing your health care. And your hospitals. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I'm not trying to be argumentative here, but I genuinely don't understand what you mean by a writer being a dick. Like Hunter Thompson? He was an asshole, but also a fierce moralist and right for his time. Please explain? npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Man, this is so easy. I'll only take one. A Clockwork Fucking Orange npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk My dad taught himself how to program a punch card computer. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk No! C'mon! You have a brain! Please keep applying it to complex questions. Just accept it means your early demise. I don't write the rules. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk "When did "good enough" become good enough?" With the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. These days, ignorance is a survival skill. The less you know, the higher you'll climb. Know nothing and you can be the president. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Maddox pointed out that special effects cease to be special when they're the entire fucking movie. That was in response to the Star Wars prequel trilogies, but I can't find the post. Here's a fun one anyway: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=dumbassjocks npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Yeah, they overwrite my internal idea of what the characters look like. Sometimes brutally, but a well cast movie generally does a good job at matching the imagination of the imaginative readers. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Of course. I've been an avid consumer of stories since birth. Why do you ask? npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk The interesting question is the opposite. The book is almost always better, but sometimes the moviemaker exceeds the author's aim. What movies were better than their books? I'll start with three: A Clockwork Orange Fight Club Trainspotting And I really enjoyed all three of those books. They're great books, but better movies. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Damn, I didnae realize we were dealing with sweet curries. I'm on the same page as you there. Udon just climbed into the lead. And I'm not embarrassed about liking Mciky-Dees. It's just the weakest option here. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk A lot of people are in the "land of the free". Ever hear of Peter McWilliams? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_McWilliams npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk There's always been no law for those who make the laws and those who break the laws. Laws are just for us little people in between. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Oh well. I was just pushing a meme. Maybe it depends on the researcher? Far too many people do attach far too much importance to those letters, though. It's like their whole identity is bound up in them. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk A man who died for his principles. Respect. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk You might appreciate: https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/115/552/322/931/474/097/original/c382deceaefa2347.jpg npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I never thought about parrots. They live so long I wrote them off at the start, but adopting a rescue parrot might work. Thanks! npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I want a pet, dammit. I'd really like a cat, but had to accept I'm too poor and messy to take care of one. Plus, I live in a city and always thought it was stunting to insist a cat stay inside. I'd love rats but don't have the spoons to rat proof my home and they'd all die from chewing wires. I looked into guinea pigs but goddamn are they expensive. Over two hundred dollars for the cage, food, and bedding, plus sixty apiece for the animals, and I know I need at least two. Also, I have no place to get them but a pet store, so I'm getting breeder-farm animals, not ones that were socialized as pups. I'd love to have a corvid, but that's illegal in my country. Pigeons? Inside a studio apartment? Does anyone have any suggestions? I want something affectionate. Some kind of animal that can appreciate that a human loves it. I've had snakes and...no. I almost certainly want a mammal. I mean, I'd love an octopus. You can bond with them amazingly because they're so damn smart. I just don't see that as a practical solution. Nor a capybara :) Any thoughts? Ferrets? npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk There's a coming out scene in 'The Professor' you'd probably enjoy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Professor_(2018_film) npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk It was the only one I was positive wasn't slop. It's probably a 20yo pic of something I already know what it looks like. It's kinda cool to learn you grew up playing in America's oldest roadside attraction (and 12th tallest monument!) npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk @npub1tjt…2xn4 OK, third time's the charm. That last one was slop, too. Or made by someone who didn't check their math, which I find highly unlikely considering the subject. How much of my meme folder is fucking slop?!?!? Here, this is definitely not slop. It's Lucy the Elephant, a local landmark when I was a kid. And still--I just learned she's the oldest surviving roadside tourist attraction in America. My grandmom used to take me to crawl around inside here. She was basically a jungle gym for little kids. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_the_Elephant https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/115/525/373/488/070/975/original/ca95d25e4f91584d.jpg npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I was just imagining describing the fediverse to someone who doesn't know there's an alternative to commercial social media. People here usually like this kind of stuff so I figured I'd type it up. "It's open source, decentralized, non profit, and has no ads or algorithm. It's where the liberals and tech people hang out. Like, half my feed is trans people because I hang out in autistic spaces and trans and autism seem to go together. Ok, ok. Not half, but over ten percent at least. Way more than in the general population. "We have a Black people problem, as in they are represented at less than in the general population, but a lot of people are actively trying to fix that. What's nice is that we have no nazis at all. They try occasionally, but they have to set up their own server and once the hosts of the other servers find out it's nazis, they simply defederate from it. There probably is a nazi bar on the fediverse where they all talk to each other, but the rest of us don't have to put up with them. Our moderators are saints. "We do mutual aid all the time. I have two friends that the community has kept housed for most of a year at one time or another. If you're poor and hit with, say, an unexpected veterinary bill, other animal lovers will pitch in to help. Even the dishonest people are decent. They only tell funny lies. (You know who you are :) "It's what the old internet was. Back when it was just the tech people and the liberals. Before facebook and twitter. It's a nice little corner of this global machine, and I love my people there. They're so much cooler than the ones I meet in meatspace. Kinder, too." npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I just grabbed this one yesterday: https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/115/519/005/509/234/775/original/16c200d593bf2660.mp4 npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk There's something I really appreciate about my fedi friends that seems exceedingly rare in meatspace. Y'all do your own thinking. I may not agree with you, but at least I'm engaging with an original idea, not a regurgitation of the brain farts of some frivolous "thought leader". Well played, fedizens. Well played. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I was wondering--why would Dems have to pack the Supreme Court to get anything done? Isn't there some mechanism for impeaching those jurists? Hell, if I were Biden, I would have had SEAL Team 6 in the rafters the day the presidential immunity ruling came down, and immediately shot anyone who voted for it. That's kinda why I'm not allowed to hold real power :) npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk #ScribesAndMakers 4/11 Describe a statue you have seen that struck your fancy. I don't really know much about statuary, and can't come up with anything even remotely obscure. This one's always fun, tho: https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/115/491/151/694/267/932/original/b7977d54179fcee7.jpg npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk WTF? How'd you get that. I'm not a fan of eugenics, but I do think we need a little more Darwinism to avoid Idiocracy. Like, anyone delusional enough to take an LLM seriously probably should be removed from society to retreat into a private world of their own. But I still don't see how you got that from my, corrected, observation that the older generation of autistic people are in hardcore denial of it. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk #actuallyautistic [@actuallyautistic](https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic ) I'm getting really tired of reading this sentence: "While the underlying cause or causes of autism spectrum disorder remain elusive and appear likely to be a complex interplay of genetic and environmental factors,..." A) It's a difference, not a disorder. Yeah, the spectrum runs to a far end where it's a disorder, but the vast majority of us are only disordered by how we're treated. This is exactly the same thing as when being gay was a disorder, or Black even before that. B) What environmental factors? Far as I can tell, it's straight genetic. I don't think any neurotypicals birth neurodivergent kids. Anyone claiming to have done so is just in denial of their own autism. I'll bend on this one if anyone has facts, but my observation is that the parent of every autistic person I've known was also autistic. The problem arises when you have an autistic parent who learned how to harness it and excel raising a child that finds it crippling. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk They wrote a (sexist by today's standards) book about this a while back. "Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus", and my only takeaway from it was this idea. It was gendered, which I knew was bullshit at the time, but a genuine appraisal of communication difficulties. When I vent on here, I usually end with something like, "thanks for listening to me bitch". npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I, at least, am not one bit surprised. I'd love to tell you my story, but I've already suffered too much abuse. I've been left unconscious on a sheet of ice half a click from the nearest road. They had me hit by an SUV by fiddling with the traffic lights, shattering my spine. Plus, I've been so character assassinated that I can't get medical treatment. Doctors treat me like I'm a leper in a bomb vest. Keep the faith, brother. There will be a reckoning for this shit. Trump is not forever, and then the whole right wing ecosystem dies. The next era will be better, but will probably come too late for the likes of us. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk It would be entertaining to buy ad space on Facebook itself and see how long it takes for them to notice you're cutting their nuts off. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk If the user (mark) is using Facebook's tools to extract their own data, it's fine. If you write a tool for the user to extract their data without Facebook's permission, it's five years and five hundred grand. And we strongarmed every country in the world into establishing similar laws, ironically, with threats of tariffs to block access to the US market. It shouldn't be much longer before somebody tells us to fuck off and abrogates those treaties, but until then the world has to play within Big Tech's rules. And Americans always will, at least until after the revolution. I vote for Australia to take the lead in this. Or maybe Estonia--they have a thriving tech culture. https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/ npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Ahhh, I get it. You are talking about enabling people to retrieve their own data rather than scraping FB for it. I read pluralistic and he's always railing against "felony contempt of business model" that makes adversarial interoperability illegal. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk How do you migrate FB content and contacts out of their service? Far as I understand things, that's a $500,000 fine and five years in prison if an American does it. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk If the Dems run Gavin in 2028, I'm not voting for him. I'm autistic, disabled, have been homeless, and half my friends are trans. They should run AOC, or maybe Hakeem Jefferies. I'd like to see them in a double bill, but they're both from NY and I think tactics dictate that the veep needs to be from a different region than the pres. Of course, Dem tactics have given us a gazillion felonious Rep presidencies, so maybe it's time to rethink that and simply run the best candidates. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Yeah, but it's ferociously addictive. Far as I can tell, it's the most addictive drug we have. Experts say heroin and nicotine are equal but, anecdotally, I've known plenty of people who gave up the needle but still smoke and never met a one who gave up cigs but still did dope. It was too hard to quit. I refuse to go back. But damn does it enhance a high. Even when I was a white kid who'd never heard of a blunt, everybody knew you smoked a cig as soon as you finished the joint to "kick it in". npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I miss blunts. They are definitely the best way to smoke. But I quit cigs. One blunt is, like, ten cigs worth of nicotine. I can't smoke 'em any more. Puff one for me. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Russia? npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Does your smart teevee come with a browser? npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk You can use a different frontend. I use invidious. Sometimes youtube nerfs them, but they always win the leapfrog in a day or two, if not an hour or two. I don't have to create a google account and get datamined to use youtube, and I don't have to watch ads. Can recommend. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Damn. I used to respect Amy. When you end up on the same side as Ted Cruz, maybe you should rethink your life choices. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Am I the only one wondering how you don't suffocate in an inflatable costume? npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk "If Hayes is correct, the Trump administration's move to deploy the Illinois National Guard would require Pritzker – who vehemently opposes deploying troops in Illinois – to pass along the orders from the Pentagon to Illinois National Guard leadership if and when it comes down, as he sits atop the Illinois National Guard's chain of command. "The governor cannot refuse to pass that order to the adjutant general or stop the process himself unless he deems it completely illegal, and that's going to be a pretty broad swath, but what he can do – all the governors can – they can contest the deployment once the orders are sent. They can contest the deployment in court, and that's what you saw play out in California," Hayes said." --What would happen if Pritzger preemptively called up the guard to protect citizens from ICE raids? npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Pick three Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." 'Nuff said. #70smusicfortoday npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Second pick Karn Evil 9 by Emerson Lake and Palmer Science Fiction didn't get nearly the respect back then that it does now. A lighthearted take on an environmental apocalypse. With Moog! #70smusicfortoday npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk This is a great hashtag. Can I contribute? First pick: Paradise by the Dashboard Light Meatloaf self-consciously makes fun of the romantic tropes of early, sax-driven rock and roll in about the best album of original flavor rock and roll ever made. #70smusicfortoday npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I hafta disagree with Kev here. In total civilizational collapse, the need for escape will be much greater than today, and the means to do so much fewer. Someone who can sit on a makeshift stage and tell engrossing stories for a couple hours will be venerated. They'll just have to be nomads like the old traveling players, because once the novelty wears off nobody will be interested. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk "Profanity is the refuge of those whose vocabularies are insufficient to add emphasis to their statements in any other manner."--Isaac Asimov "Fuckin-A right!"--me npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Two great finds by Jay Kuo this Saturday. https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/115/278/129/102/174/290/original/9f286446c4b9a9fc.jpg npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Thanks for the advice. FWIW, I don't eat junk. I home cook all my food from scratch all but at most one day a month. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I've got some kind of bile problem. It backs up into my stomach and wrecks me. I went to a doctor, but he told me I don't know what bile is and to take pepcid. His imaging machinery was on the fritz so he got pissy with me rather than track down the actual problem. I'm so tired of being told I don't exist by doctors. Look, fuckface, I'm both smarter and more educated than you. I just don't have a prescription pad, or a comprehensive knowledge of human biology. I studied a much broader area than you so that I, I dunno, don't scapegoat people. I understand things, and feel sympathy for the people on the bottom. But it's OK. I get it that it's basically unamerican to fail to abuse your authority in order to hurt someone weaker, especially if they're a minority. Sorry for the rant. I'm tired of puking up bile. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I'm drinking water. Was throwing up today. I might get brave and attempt a cup of tea later. Onto the music. For a straight love song, "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel or "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" by Dylan. But you want dirty. I've never come across the song that tops "Caress Me Down". But you also want cheesy..."Pour Some Sugar on Me". But a slow jam combining all of these? Not really my genre. I'll go with Sublime. Such a dirty baseline. Sorry for writing a tome. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=-V97ECdX1nE npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk It's Sp punking the idiots running ICE. Well done. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk If I were a young person just starting out today and trying to figure out what would be a good career path, I'd seriously consider 'butcher'. The meat I get any more is cut terribly. My pork roasts are a bunch of little pieces held together by a string bag. I just opened a pack of chicken breasts and they're basically pre-butterflied in random slices. America very detectably expelled everybody who knew how to do this stuff. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I can explain it. For pc, but it's not much different on Android. Get a VPN. That is mandatory. I pay $10 a month for mine. They're cheaper if you pay by the year. Download a torrent client. I use qBittorrent. It was industry standard two years ago when I set this up. thepiratebay.org is a search site to find your torrents. Choose a format--video, usually--and type in the name of the movie you want. That will load a screen with all the iterations of that name available on p2p. Choose one--I always go for the 700MB movies because i have a small screen--and click "get this torrent". This will auto-launch your torrent client and autofill the information necessary to download it. Torrents are usually packaged with junk, either in extraneous .txt files or .jpeg's. I suspect those are viruses, so I uncheck the box and never download them in the first place. Good luck! Remember--if buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I just started watching the old show "House" with Hugh Laurie. I know it's unlikely I'll finish even the first season. You just can't make that much good video that quickly. 6-10 episodes seems to be the max as far as I can tell. I'm enjoying the pilot, though. Anyway, I want House as my doctor. I hate being gaslit and lied to. He's absolutely the right doctor for me. I don't mind an asshole as long as he's honest. I'm a bit of an asshole my own self. And painfully honest. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I've already found ashwegandha, and fish oil. I drink alcohol for its depressant effects. Without it, I won't sleep at all. Trust me, I've tried. After being awake more than a couple weeks, I totally lose my mind. Weed helps more than alcohol, but I don't know any criminals to sell me any, and am way too poor to pay black market prices anyway. Sell me some for the fifty bucks a pound it would cost if it didn't get you high and I could cut my ethanol consumption dramatically. The heroin thing is both a joke and not. I can handle my drugs and dabbled in that here and there, and I genuinely think it would be an improvement over my current situation, but I'd never do black market narcotics like that. Drop a few hundred Oxycontin pills into my life and I'd go ahead. Not actual dope. I like the FDA, and prefer anything I consume be regulated by them. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Can I scream in rage? For the past week or so, I've been suffering from extreme cortisol overload. My ears are clanging like a church tower, I see flickering white lights behind my eyelids, and my heart alternates between thudding and fluttering. This shit hurts, people. It hurts physically, like the spikes of fairly serious pain I get in my heart, and it hurts emotionally, because it's scary to know you're right on the edge of a heart attack or stroke. The only medicine I can get to address this is ethanol, and it's totally failing. Cortisol is way more powerful than booze. I would give all my money, everything I own, my left testicle, and my firstborn child for a year or two's worth of heroin. I'm thinking heroin might be strong enough to get me some actual relief. I totally wish I could have a heroin addiction, but I've always been too poor to play in those tax brackets. Thanks for reading. There's nothing I, or you, can do to fix this. I just have to endure it until it kills me. I hope that's soon. This life isn't worth living. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Another little-known thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung We were better at it than the Stasi even back then. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk How is this different from the totally crushed "Arab Spring"? npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk In NJ we have a saying: Pennsylvania is Philadelphia in the East, Pittsburgh in the West, and Tennessee in between. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk NJ has always been kind of the opposite of "clean environs". Tiny little state with the most Superfund sites. It's the population density. And the corruption. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk There used to be tons of summer flounder, which are also called fluke, off the coast of NJ. In the summer, you could practically walk across the bay by stepping from little fishing boat to little fishing boat. Unfortunately, we allowed bottom trawling and didn't even enforce the rule keeping them at least a quarter mile offshore, and that pretty much killed the water. Nobody fishes there now 'cuz there's nothing left to catch. Bottom trawlers scoop up and kill everything, then all the baby and undesirable fish are thrown back overboard as "bycatch". A nuclear power plant killed the Delaware Bay by using the water in which the weakfish spawned as coolant. It'd suck in all the eggs and babies, boil them, and spit them back out. I ate a lot of flounder as a kid but never knew it was safe uncooked. I learn something new every day! npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I didn't know you could sushi flounder! In researching it, I found out that the trick to sushi meat is freezing it to kill any parasites. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Great one. Found by Jay Kuo. https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/115/157/711/886/474/071/original/3cd5a30c1a34c4d8.jpg npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Beautifully done, kids. Another tactic from the US 60s protests--strip naked and lock arms in maybe a twenty human circle. Preferably in the middle of an important intersection. Back then they coated themselves with soapy water, but we have silicon based sex lube now. Coat your body with it and make the cops pick up twenty full grown, very slippery humans at the same time. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Oh, but the possibilities! Whiskey in an iced tea bottle. Tonic in a seltzer bottle. And I'm not even getting into what you could do with V8 or tomato juice...or milk... npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Ummm...isn't literally everything a chemical? npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Small quibble--it's "affect". Not "effect". Sorry. My brain is an autoeditor. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk "unused" says all you need to know about what he thinks of poor people. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Terry Pratchett's Diogenes analogue taught me all I need to know about Greek philosophy. Didactylos is equal parts cynic, stoic, and epicurean. You can't trust anyone and there's nothing you can do about that so have a drink. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk "Five giant websites full of screen captures of the other four."--Cory Doctorow npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I was thinking we could collect some basic facts about the world that are currently in dispute. Like: Vaccines are safe and effective. Trump is a con man and anyone who supports him is a mark. The Earth is a globe. You, know. Basic shit that everybody could see was true before the information apocalypse happened. Anybody want to add to the list? npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Just struggling with a pickle jar. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=TcePkwagNFA npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk We had one in suburbia in NJ when I was growing up. They are giant plants. Those flowers stink. They're extremely hard to kill. Not bamboo-tough, but close. Yeah, cool, but not something I want in my yard. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I see we watch John Oliver. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I really don't have those resources. I'm on foot, and recently blew out my ankle and tore the shit out of that calf muscle. I have a range of about a quarter mile. It's OK. Woodworking was never really my thing, I just accumulated skills like a magpie does shiny things for a long time. I'm content with some cheap-ass store bought thing Walmart will send to me. Thanks, though. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Surprisingly, I'm pretty good with wood. But I live in a hotel room and have no tools. I had to abandon everything I owned about a dozen times over the space of a couple years, ending a year and a half ago. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Does anyone have a good solution for organizing sauces and spices? I need to confess a bit--the only thing I've ever organized is my hard drive. I only ever owned about ten things I actually used, and they all sit out and visible; ready at hand. So I'm a 50yo beginner at the organizing thing. I live in a converted motel room, so my "kitchen" is a small tiled area with a dwarf sink and two burner stove. I do like to cook, though, and have amassed quite a collection of spices and sauce bottles. The spices are on top of my fridge and the sauces take up most of my counter space. I figured I'd ask my fedi friends before simply uplooking "spice storage". I always prefer advice from real people. Anyone have any for me? npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I saw something about this earlier today. Humpbacks show up and disrupt orca hunts. Apparently, they're just the saviors of the ocean. There's always a bigger bad ass. https://www.businessinsider.com/video-humpback-whales-disrupt-orca-hunt-seal-hiding-antarctica-2023-9 npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk Smart man. Most people would be fucked. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk What would you do if a solar flare or Luddite terrorists killed the cloud? It's not an actual cloud, you know. It's a bunch of vulnerable data centers. npub1wsmq6fjfp9mws5zzdclj4qu0hy2t0y2xwdrhq2l9utyg3qjp0hhsma3z93 Poloniousmonk I'm prob a little younger, but I did Hands Across America when that was a thing. I spent the whole time wondering how many people would die if lightning struck somebody.