Nostr notes by Patrick

Gee golly, going through endless backbreaking labour for the rest ...

2026-07-11T15:40:23+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…amcm
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Gee golly, going through endless backbreaking labour for the rest of your life, at the mercy of factors out of your control, to earn, end of day, about as much as if you'd just picked up a shitty call centre job?

I wonder why farming is going away.

I might be joining another hundred and fifteen billion dead human ...

2026-07-04T20:14:43+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…8ck9
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I might be joining another hundred and fifteen billion dead human beings in perfect oblivion. And it was all meaningless anyway. Good enough for me, though not preferable.

If a ghost showed up, a real honest to God spook, even if it made ...

2026-07-04T19:48:39+02:00

If a ghost showed up, a real honest to God spook, even if it made my life miserable from haunting? It would also be the most reassuring thing in the world to me.

Hey, there's life after death.

Nice.

Okay, so it breaks my things and may try to kill me. I don't need supernatural terrors to kill me. A slippy bathtub could kill me. Too many cheeseburgers will kill me. Congratulations, evil from beyond, you're no more dangerous than a mugging gone bad.

I am glad to be corrected then, LFP, by someone with actual ...

2026-06-30T17:02:21+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…qn07
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I am glad to be corrected then, LFP, by someone with actual knowledge.

I think the opposite. I think they are being designed around the ...

2026-06-30T16:25:49+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…0q7n
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I think the opposite.

I think they are being designed around the notion of handing off really shady construction contracts to your friends, with no thought in this world about use or sustainability or future. It's all about the immediate short-term cash out.

Everyone loves to believe that a nonviolent protest is useful, ...

2026-06-18T19:09:21+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…d3hm
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Everyone loves to believe that a nonviolent protest is useful, and I suppose it can be useful if the implication is the protest could immediately go quite violent.

It's going to be great when the heat waves come and ...

2026-05-10T16:40:57+02:00

It's going to be great when the heat waves come and you'll be told to turn down your air conditioner to keep the data centre going. The first time that happens the data centre should probably burn down.

I get that most politicians and businessmen are pro ethnic ...

2026-05-04T14:57:15+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…wr86
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I get that most politicians and businessmen are pro ethnic cleansing of Palestinians because they make a lot of money from it. But Starmer, Starmer would watch a Palestinian baby starve to death for the pure love of it all?

I mean, easy enough to sell some ashes. The ashes they wanted? ...

2026-04-25T20:43:09+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…c4rr
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I mean, easy enough to sell some ashes. The ashes they wanted? No. Some ashes though, easy!

I get it, though? You're already paying these people to dress ...

2026-04-25T17:32:49+02:00

I get it, though?

You're already paying these people to dress up your loved ones and paint them up like dolls, while also gutting them, pumping them full of eternal chemicals, and then disposing of them into the ground to rot away.

That's what you pay them to do.

Sometimes they probably want to leave early one day. It's not even like they are treating the corpses worse than normal.

Like a schmuck at a call centre hanging up a call at 1655 on a Friday.

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/former-colorado-funeral-home-owner-sentenced-to-30-years-in-case-that-forced-industry-crackdown/article_3ea1b5eb-9abc-5402-8e2f-18eb7f3ecf4e.html

My lady and I share like 1:1 the same opinion on all of these and ...

2026-04-24T20:29:53+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…8lcx
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My lady and I share like 1:1 the same opinion on all of these and it totally blows us away how nobody at all in this world agrees even partially.

Really, Final Fantasy XV was the only FF game that I think I ...

2026-04-24T20:24:18+02:00

Really, Final Fantasy XV was the only FF game that I think I liked other than the very first title on Nintendo.

There was something about driving my beautiful boys around the world, on their little road trip, having adventures and camping. The realization my boys were filthy and needed showers, and me caring about what they were doing, trying to get them nice meals.

The worst parts of the games were all the Final Fantasy dungeon shit and ending.

I wish it had more good content :(

All of this age verification stuff is in service of doxxing you ...

2026-04-21T04:26:12+02:00

All of this age verification stuff is in service of doxxing you to your employer for not being sufficiently anti-trans or pro-Israel. That's what it's all building up to. That and being able to advertise to you a little bit more.

Why, she's totally too good for ethnic cleansing and murder. ...

2026-04-15T20:51:05+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…jp8l
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Why, she's totally too good for ethnic cleansing and murder. Look at the quality of her friends, Aral.

For everyone who says Zoroastrianism doesn't count as a ...

2026-04-15T15:48:48+02:00

For everyone who says Zoroastrianism doesn't count as a monotheistic because there's technically a lesser evil God, I would like to remind you that Judaism doesn't count because it started off pagan before moving to henotheism before moving to monotheism.

Sheesh.

I remember being a young man and staying up as late as possible, ...

2026-04-13T04:11:23+02:00

I remember being a young man and staying up as late as possible, whenever possible, to maximize the amount of fun I could have outside of the hours I had to waste on work. I couldn't not work, and work was garbage, but I could cheat myself out of sleep by having some fun real life instead of sleep.

I would also try to drink as little water as possible to minimize pee breaks while on the clock.

Dehydrated and exhausted probably made me more miserable than ever. Anyway, work sucks.

The feature I want most of all in this place, is the option to ...

2026-04-13T02:26:23+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…nrd0
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The feature I want most of all in this place, is the option to hide posts based on the number of hashtags in them.

Like, I would go in my settings and set any number from 1 to 10 or whatever, and then if there are that many hashtags, or more, in a post, instantly hidden.

Come on Jesus, help me out here.

I was trying to making a joke that America just put three monkeys ...

2026-04-11T14:34:42+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…2k3c
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I was trying to making a joke that America just put three monkeys into space.

It seems like just yesterday Iran was shooting monkeys into ...

2026-04-11T06:33:07+02:00

It seems like just yesterday Iran was shooting monkeys into space. Now Americans are shooting monkeys into space again. Also shooting Iranians.

*Yes, I know we're apes.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-25378313

I wonder if you could trick conservatives into building trains by ...

2026-04-01T17:04:48+02:00

I wonder if you could trick conservatives into building trains by convincing them they're for oil.

Who knew that by encouraging the ethnic cleansers, giving them a ...

2026-03-27T21:54:22+01:00

Who knew that by encouraging the ethnic cleansers, giving them a blank check for their ethnic cleansing, defending them from retaliation, and getting angry at anyone with even the softest criticism about what they're doing, would make them do it on a much larger scale right away again?

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/lebanon/fears-gaza-model-lebanon-satellite-imagery-destruction-rcna265242

If it makes you feel any better, and it won't, that's all ...

2026-03-23T01:58:52+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…u70r
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If it makes you feel any better, and it won't, that's all of our governments everywhere and not just the United States.

There will be as many consequences from Epstein as there were from the Panama Papers, and that's not surprising because it's the same people.

If you learn tomorrow that the owner of your company leans on ...

2026-03-21T17:59:04+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…uqf3
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If you learn tomorrow that the owner of your company leans on star charts and astrology bullshit to make all of his decisions, you had best know how to smile, commend his wisdom, their effectiveness, and to start looking like you are doing exactly the same.

There's nothing more fragile than a powerful person's ego.

Read the room, shut your mouth, and count yourself lucky they can't read your mind. AI/astrology, whatever.

Was thinking about the most important job skills a person can ...

2026-03-21T17:53:45+01:00

Was thinking about the most important job skills a person can have, thanks to another conversation here.

My shortlist:

1. Being able to lie enthusiastically and convincingly that the stupidest bullshit is real/important.
2. Figuring out what your superiors want to hear and delivering exactly what they want to hear
3. Faking realistic smiles and positivity.
4. Techniques to pass time without looking bored.

Figure out those four things and you'll go far.

Neat. Anton syndrome, also known as Anton–Babinski syndrome and ...

2026-03-16T02:28:23+01:00

Neat.

Anton syndrome, also known as Anton–Babinski syndrome and visual anosognosia, is a rare symptom of brain damage occurring in the occipital lobe. Those who have it are cortically blind, but affirm, often quite adamantly and in the face of clear evidence of their blindness, that they are capable of seeing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_syndrome

I wonder sometimes why the Liberals don't do anything about ...

2026-03-14T15:28:13+01:00

I wonder sometimes why the Liberals don't do anything about all our newspapers being American-owned, and basically just a mouthpiece for the Conservative Party of Canada.

It has to be because it pushes the Overton Window right, and that suits them fine? It must be pleasing to them for some reason and that's the best I can come up with.

Laugh. Maybe it's because I am pig ignorant foreigner, but I ...

2026-03-10T20:40:44+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…aw4j
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Laugh.

Maybe it's because I am pig ignorant foreigner, but I don't think they're angry enough to do anything about it except whine they weren't invited to initiate the war.

Asking for my e-mail address is a paywall and no, I am not giving ...

2026-03-08T22:10:02+01:00

Asking for my e-mail address is a paywall and no, I am not giving it up to you Mr. or Mrs. Website.

I just really don't care about people's selfies, even ...

2026-03-07T20:13:36+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…uydw
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I just really don't care about people's selfies, even people I genuinely love. I don't find it interesting. I do think people love the validation they get from doing it though.

I can't believe anyone else genuinely cares about other people's selfies either.

But I think they pretend to in public, and that's enough for the validation circle.

It got me in a fair bit of trouble. Not in and of itself, but ...

2026-03-07T20:08:28+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…tu2q
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It got me in a fair bit of trouble. Not in and of itself, but more like one of the girls then asked one of the other guys if Patrick was just a freak show, and then he said he'd done the same. Then he was in trouble. It really ruined the whole night.

But nobody's ever asked me to get on social media from that group again.

I don't understand it. I am the only person in my circle of ...

2026-03-07T19:59:23+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…7lcg
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I don't understand it.

I am the only person in my circle of friends who doesn't have any of that. I remember, a few years back, one of the girls in the crew being a little offended that I had no interest in what she or the others were posting on Instagram or whatever.

It was like, lady, I am not above jerking off to pictures of my friends, don't get me wrong, but I have porn already, and the advertising there is less insidious.

I don't care about your selfies?

RE: https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/116170932880150544 ...

2026-03-04T13:55:36+01:00

RE: https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/116170932880150544

The guy whose country genocided the Herero and Nama and the Jews, and is now helping Israel genocide its helots, is arguing that international law shouldn't apply.

You don't say, Mr. German man?
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So the guys who take money to make sure you don't have public ...

2026-03-04T04:31:44+01:00

So the guys who take money to make sure you don't have public health care, or affordable housing, want you to keep voting in a way that makes sure they can keep making money from denying you public health care and affordable housing?

https://apnews.com/article/2026-2028-election-progressive-moderate-0a8db97aff5e49c22625c2f0d7036fcf

He's not on the front line of the third world war, that's ...

2026-02-23T01:32:40+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…kepx
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He's not on the front line of the third world war, that's for certain sure.

What's happening exactly? Russia is bleeding itself white in a war of attrition against a third rate power that is being supplied by the West, mostly as a kind of lark to the benefit of our shareholder class.

And everyone is happy to let them bleed themselves white.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@genecowan/116116605653455148 World ...

2026-02-22T23:23:53+01:00

RE: https://mastodon.social/@genecowan/116116605653455148

World War Three?

Is he on drugs?

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgj9p15y87o

I also have tree rats and raccoons which I'm a little less ...

2026-02-22T01:26:55+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…kg44
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I also have tree rats and raccoons which I'm a little less keen on feeding. Legions of bunny rabbits this year though God bless those little guys. So many turkeys too recently.

I haven't seen my local skunk in a while and I fear it didn't make it.

I see much more wildlife living basically downtown in Montreal than I ever did in the country, funny enough.

My high school obsessed over teaching us how to read the ...

2026-02-21T22:03:27+01:00

My high school obsessed over teaching us how to read the electrical meter. It was a big focus in home economics and a science class. The last time I read the meter was that science class.

Talk about unused skills.

A fine movie, a beautiful place. I was not expecting how good ...

2026-02-21T04:33:01+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…snmf
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A fine movie, a beautiful place. I was not expecting how good that whole thing was.

I do not how how many sports videos I've thumb downed in the ...

2026-02-15T02:13:46+01:00

I do not how how many sports videos I've thumb downed in the past three days, and the algorithm it learns nothing :(

Going to a mafia-owned strip club and buying a lap dance is to ...

2026-02-14T13:03:16+01:00

Going to a mafia-owned strip club and buying a lap dance is to supporting the arts what watching the Olympics on television is to supporting amateur athletics.

The real difference is the mafia is less shady and commits evil at a smaller scale than the International Olympics Committee, so stop giving it your money you cow.

Counterpoint: Nobody is suffering anything even approaching real ...

2026-02-08T03:27:43+01:00

Counterpoint: Nobody is suffering anything even approaching real consequence.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/06/epstein-europe-america-fallout-00769506

Nationalism, frankly patriotism, is a disease of the brain that ...

2026-02-02T16:07:38+01:00

Nationalism, frankly patriotism, is a disease of the brain that the powerful deliberately spread to the mentally weak.

Japan, Québec, Serbia?

It's all the same.

And everyone should be ashamed.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2026/02/02/voices/kikokushijo-returnee-social-stereotypes/

I mean, America had a vampire panic up until the 1890s and ...

2026-02-01T05:24:39+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…hlzx
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I mean, America had a vampire panic up until the 1890s and that's hilarious.

How do they figure about the tens of thousands of years, though? We don't exactly have much history from before Uruk or whatever. I am curious.

I think they are delusional to think that majority of people they ...

2026-01-31T16:00:55+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…9c7s
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I think they are delusional to think that majority of people they are teaching are there at university because they want to learn something in and of itself.

Those people are just there to get degrees they do not need, for the jobs they are applying into, and everyone knows it, and everyone's trying to make a buck from it.

I cannot tell if university professors have wrestling-style ...

2026-01-30T14:57:52+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…5e0j
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I cannot tell if university professors have wrestling-style kayfabe going to protect their careers or are so much stupider, as human beings, than is appropriate for a person of their station.

University professors, I think, have a kind of mental decay in ...

2026-01-30T14:56:42+01:00

University professors, I think, have a kind of mental decay in which they think people are at university and attending their classes because they think those students care about degrees and classes in and of themselves.

They forget most students are there to get better jobs later on, and don't care about the courses, and are hoping to sleep their way through all your bullshit.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/college-students-movies-attention-span/685812/

Power doesn't care about life or death or blood, they're ...

2026-01-24T18:16:42+01:00

Power doesn't care about life or death or blood, they're happy to kill you; see a list of all the extra-judicial executions carried out by the government in the past twenty years. Power doesn't even care if their own gets got.

But property damage?

Property damage traumatizes and terrorizes power. It's the one thing it cannot abide. The sad reality is people like their protesting to be peaceful and so does power.

You make me regret not having done the same thing many years ago. ...

2026-01-23T18:46:37+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…fyjg
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You make me regret not having done the same thing many years ago.

I remember feeling the same way a long long time ago when I accidentally misspelled my name while signing up to something and then just an endless trail of my misspelled name showing up from all over the place.

I certainly know who sold me out.

A paywall and an e-mail wall are the same thing, and I will suck ...

2026-01-23T14:46:02+01:00

A paywall and an e-mail wall are the same thing, and I will suck street-corner cock for rumour before I give up my e-mail address to any of those sites ever again.

A reminder to Americans that they live in the land of the Second ...

2026-01-14T17:51:08+01:00

A reminder to Americans that they live in the land of the Second Amendment. Why are you choosing to shoot up so many schools and churches and peaceful gatherings when there are people *who are trying to kill you* directly?

" E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show."

This kind of thing is what I think I wanted from VR. Someone ...

2026-01-13T19:10:27+01:00

This kind of thing is what I think I wanted from VR. Someone answering the question: Hey Patrick, do you want to go see some interesting things without actually having to kill a brown child with your climate emissions from flying around unnecessarily, you selfish fuck?

Neat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZuzbjgmg6g

It's wretched. Hundreds of people willing to shoot children ...

2026-01-12T02:19:59+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…d8wp
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It's wretched.

Hundreds of people willing to shoot children at schools every single year, and only one has taken a shot at a corporate death panel health care profiteer? That nobody's shooting actual tyrants doing real-life tyranny?

The tyrants are clearly not afraid of shooting people. Because it works.

RE: https://aus.social/@joannaholman/115878815342577254 It's ...

2026-01-11T23:35:11+01:00

RE: https://aus.social/@joannaholman/115878815342577254

It's weird how every country in the "west" is in the middle of a housing crisis, from the UK to France to Spain to America to Canada to whatever, and not a single one of our countries has done anything to ban AirBnB.

I think nothing short of gangs of renters beating up tourists, to send a message to the government, will change this. That doesn't sit well with me.
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It's all Hell forever for everyone. ...

2026-01-11T17:10:36+01:00

It's all Hell forever for everyone.

Weekly World News has always been better than the New York Times. ...

2026-01-11T01:28:35+01:00

Weekly World News has always been better than the New York Times.

Just remember that the difference between a dedicated speaker and ...

2026-01-06T20:37:35+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…tlz8
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Just remember that the difference between a dedicated speaker and a dedicated microphone is a matter of perspective alone, and wonder why your washing machine or air filter or stove plays tones and asks to be connected to your WIFI.

Your friendly reminder that Peter Pan kills the lost boys when ...

2026-01-02T21:17:11+01:00

Your friendly reminder that Peter Pan kills the lost boys when they start to grow up.

It is still appropriate to pitilessly dunk on anyone you know who ...

2026-01-01T15:54:45+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…ctm3
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It is still appropriate to pitilessly dunk on anyone you know who was ever into QAnon.

I like that, especially contrasted against the stunning outright ...

2025-12-23T15:35:31+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…uh43
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I like that, especially contrasted against the stunning outright copy/pasting of bits of Genesis and Ecclesiastes from Gilgamesh.

I forgot all about the Conservative Bible Project. ...

2025-12-22T02:32:57+01:00

I forgot all about the Conservative Bible Project.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_Project

and yet does not seem to be to everyone's eternal shame. ...

2025-12-06T22:22:36+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…pc4r
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and yet does not seem to be to everyone's eternal shame. Travesty.

Texas is rich given that they only fought for independence to ...

2025-12-06T21:35:38+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…tgl6
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Texas is rich given that they only fought for independence to preserve the slavery that Mexico abolished.

a beautiful example of the rich not paying enough tax.

2025-12-04T19:26:51+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…5ktw
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a beautiful example of the rich not paying enough tax.

Remember kids, it's not what flag that you wave that's ...

2025-12-04T19:06:55+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…qkv0
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Remember kids, it's not what flag that you wave that's the problem, it's that you like waving flags to begin with.

I'd be much more excited about Québec's referendum if it ...

2025-12-04T19:06:16+01:00

I'd be much more excited about Québec's referendum if it were mostly about dumping a partnership with a Canada that doesn't work than the bullshit jerk-off about language and nationalism that it already is.

I'd even accept a 9:1 ratio.

But it's like 3:7 and that's crap.

I get this is Ukraine propaganda and might not even be real but ...

2025-12-02T15:06:49+01:00

I get this is Ukraine propaganda and might not even be real but it gives me hope for the future.

The next time that America goes knocks over a country it has no business being in, that clever people with weaponized drones just go after fuel infrastructure in the continental US. Drive up prices in an incredibly and hilariously unpopular at home. Maybe some big expensive bridges.

A big fuck you to the invaders and the campaign donors who make invasion possible.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-military-intelligence-claims-rail-infrastructure-was-damaged-in-russias-novosibirsk-and-bryansk-regions/

Happy #Kissinger is Dead Day to all who celebrate. If you're ...

2025-11-29T21:56:18+01:00

Happy #Kissinger is Dead Day to all who celebrate. If you're not celebrating, what's wrong with you? November 29th is the best day of the year by far.

I give a free free follow back to any and all who have the good taste to observe, loudly and proudly, with all the joy this holy occasion merits.

Counterpoint: It's like these people think of what the ...

2025-11-17T21:30:56+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…c2c7
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Counterpoint: It's like these people think of what the developers want, always and only.

At some point, the US is going to pick on a country that will ...

2025-11-17T16:33:49+01:00

At some point, the US is going to pick on a country that will maybe be able to retaliate effectively.

Imagine how glorious it will be if the US goes and bullies someone and maybe loses a chunk of a carrier battle group, preferably with maximum loss of life aboard?

It'll be hilarious news. It'll sucksfor the enlisted men, mind, but hey if you go volunteer to do the bidding of the most evil fucking people on this planet, American politicians, you yourself are immoral fucked in the brain box.

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2025-11-16T15:14:21+01:00

There's something about pathetic old people that really makes ...

2025-11-14T17:04:33+01:00

There's something about pathetic old people that really makes them favor conscription all the time for the dumbest reasons.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/13/germany-decides-against-conscription-to-replenish-post-cold-war-military

Let me tell you from experience, unfiltered maple water will cure ...

2025-11-13T20:29:05+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…el82
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Let me tell you from experience, unfiltered maple water will cure your constipation in a right hurry.

You can make reasonably good syrups from birch and walnut trees too.

I am not going to argue with years of Jewish jurisprudence or ...

2025-11-13T19:17:19+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…38nx
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I am not going to argue with years of Jewish jurisprudence or what have you, but that always struck as being readable as that specific animal in that specific animal mother's milk.

Seems overly cautious otherwise?

"Patrick, you can't drink the sap of the maple and cut it down for wood."

Oh, so I can drink the maple sap and cut down a pine tree.

"No."

...

The only Remembrance Day / Veteran's Day article that you ...

2025-11-11T14:36:44+01:00

The only Remembrance Day / Veteran's Day article that you will ever need.

Use "reader mode" to skip the paywall.

If you don't have "reader mode" on your browser, what kind of garbage are you even using to see the internet?

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/11/09/opinion/remembrance-means-committing-ourselves-peace-and-justice

I [redacted] and you'd be surprised at how often this ...

2025-11-10T15:40:09+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…emxs
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I [redacted] and you'd be surprised at how often this happens, and all the normal couriers do it for reasons I do not understand and they are usually much worse than the standard postal services.

Every time a worker hurts themself commuting to a job that can be ...

2025-11-10T03:47:37+01:00

Every time a worker hurts themself commuting to a job that can be worked from home, the workplace should be sued by the government in the name of public healthcare.

#freezingrain

I love watching them go in. It's surreal, like I am watching ...

2025-11-07T20:42:36+01:00

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I love watching them go in. It's surreal, like I am watching a horror movie, except it's my own body.

Fun!

The amount of money that American companies will make from ...

2025-11-05T02:29:08+01:00

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The amount of money that American companies will make from tracking these kids across the net, thanks to being linked to their IDs, is going to be amazing for all the shareholders involved, even if they won't be able to use the social media they wanted to.

There's a reason every social media advertising company has profiles tracking non-users.

What a gift.

Good work, Australia.

Usually when laws this bad get passed in America it's because politicians got bribed to do it

What drove me away from multiplayer games, years ago, was just ...

2025-11-04T17:11:46+01:00

What drove me away from multiplayer games, years ago, was just how content people were to play the same couple of maps on repeat.

Starcraft had Hunters, Team Fortress and 2Forts, etc. Even falling into Battlebit last year the same old thing. Better not to play with others I always thought.

I feel there has to be a way for the medical establishment to ...

2025-11-03T01:22:17+01:00

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I feel there has to be a way for the medical establishment to game this for better overall outcomes. Maybe they put someone on staff to talk to people once they're done with their doctor, listen to the insane theories about magnets curing their aunt or something.

Get all the sympathetic responses right there from someone to unjudgmental, but not taking up the Time of the Doctor?

It was always a great idea to let the companies track you in the ...

2025-11-02T14:05:48+01:00

It was always a great idea to let the companies track you in the name of marketing, and then sell your data to the government.

I remember when the army was buying prayer application data to track Muslims a decade ago.

Now we're all tracked when the correct response was to make legal the hanging of everyone who proposed tracking us via our phones.

https://www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-that-tracks-locations-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones-every-day/

I don't think it'll come to that for a while longer, at ...

2025-11-02T00:23:26+01:00

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I don't think it'll come to that for a while longer, at least not to anyone who counts. And it's a good way to get welfare going to a whole group of people who support you while simultaneously dropping the service from the people who already don't support you and now will be weaker for it.

I am not saying it's a moral move, just a cynical power one.

What they're doing right now with ICE is the smartest thing ...

2025-11-01T16:34:44+01:00

What they're doing right now with ICE is the smartest thing you can do. They found a way to make sure the make work projects and welfare checks only go to party loyalists, aka anyone who signs up at ICE.

The rest of the economy is going to come apart for everyone else but the Loyals.

It's smart.

The tragedy of modern medicine is that your average person would ...

2025-10-31T20:51:58+01:00

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The tragedy of modern medicine is that your average person would rather spend thousands of dollars on snake oil and a sympathetic ear than receive a genuine cure from someone who sounds dismissive.

"Patrick, chiropractors helped me." No, fuck you stupid. ...

2025-10-31T20:40:59+01:00

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"Patrick, chiropractors helped me."

No, fuck you stupid.

Your body did all the work. You got a nice massage and an hour of pleasant conversation with someone who had the good sense to give you good customer service while robbing you blind.

It's fun having someone pretend to listen to you, right?

So work-based insurance won't cover a COVID vaccine but ...

2025-10-31T20:36:59+01:00

So work-based insurance won't cover a COVID vaccine but gladly pay for sessions with a homeopath or chiropractor maximum #fraud cunt? Really? You reject all of science lined up in a neat row so a quack can rub your back with techniques taught to their predecessor by magical fucking ghosts during seances? For real? Fuck.

I don't even know why I'm upset. Society isn't worth saving and I need to accept that.

I am not American but I figured the Democrats were toast and dead ...

2025-10-29T16:53:41+01:00

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I am not American but I figured the Democrats were toast and dead in the water about 9 to 12 months before the election. Their messaging started shifting to something like "the economy is fine, actually' and "it's just that the news isn't reporting to people how well it's going".

If you have to have the news convince the poor that things are contrary to their lived experience, it's not going well for you.

Bonus Points: Trudeau immediately did the same thing here.

The scales aren't anywhere near similar.

2025-10-26T03:12:25+01:00

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The scales aren't anywhere near similar.

Imagine it. Tomorrow you woke up as interested in baseball or ...

2025-10-26T02:28:09+01:00

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Imagine it.

Tomorrow you woke up as interested in baseball or basketball as you are Star Trek.

There are now dedicated sections in every newspaper to your hobby, every historic match in the world is recorded there somewhere for you to watch, every week there are multiple new things showing up on your television and on your radio and on the internet, forever and ever and ever.

The movies? The video games? You can just go outside and do those things now yourself, amateur level.

I am always so jealous of them. Do you know how much content and ...

2025-10-26T02:21:15+01:00

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I am always so jealous of them. Do you know how much content and entertainment, and easy as piss versions of it too, open up to you if you're into one of the big sports? I resent how easy they have it.

I resent Star Trek people the same way almost.

Counterpoint: The more hashtags in a person's post, the more ...

2025-10-24T13:57:38+02:00

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Counterpoint: The more hashtags in a person's post, the more worthless it is, and worthless posting should be discouraged.

I wish someone would implement a hashtag filter. Like, you set a ...

2025-10-24T13:19:13+02:00

I wish someone would implement a hashtag filter. Like, you set a number and if a post has that many or more hashtags it disappears from your timeline forever.

I still recall a quote from Battlestar galactica's remake, ...

2025-10-23T00:05:43+02:00

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I still recall a quote from Battlestar galactica's remake, Brother Cavil, that got stuck with me.

https://disquiet.com/2009/02/21/quote-of-the-week-stockwells-supernova/

That's something I wish I could even consider. I also wonder ...

2025-10-22T23:46:53+02:00

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That's something I wish I could even consider. I also wonder about sounds outside of the standard hearing range, and all the sounds I can no longer hear because I'm older now and those are only for the youth.

I didn't want to distract from their thread, so I went to ...

2025-10-22T19:41:25+02:00

I didn't want to distract from their thread, so I went to start a post on my own.

I didn't realize people had, like, pitch or tone in their internal voice in their heads? I don't even have volume. It's always the same.

Really.

I feel cheated somehow.

It just keeps happening everywhere, in spite of the increased ...

2025-10-22T16:34:40+02:00

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It just keeps happening everywhere, in spite of the increased business the bike lanes bring to begin with, and it's like it doesn't matter how many huge piles of hard evidence you can show, from every place in the world that does it, it's like small business man dumb dur dur wins the day?

I don't get it.

Tearing up a bike lane to install parking is a decision so stupid ...

2025-10-22T16:31:38+02:00

Tearing up a bike lane to install parking is a decision so stupid that it could only be backed by self-sabotaging small businessmen, possibly the most mentally deficient of the social classes.

The Literature and History Podcast is an unbelievable number of ...

2025-10-01T00:52:30+02:00

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The Literature and History Podcast is an unbelievable number of hours of interesting stuff presented very well too if you just want something to listen to when you're doing something else. All free. Soothing voice.

And comes with some bonus funny music too.

https://literatureandhistory.com/

You have to actually kind of hand it to Trump. From tariffs to ...

2025-09-30T16:26:47+02:00

You have to actually kind of hand it to Trump. From tariffs to frivolous lawsuits, he's made good on making people he doesn't like pay out.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/youtube-settles-trump-lawsuit-white-house-ballroom/

Maybe it's just because I grew up Catholic and non-American, ...

2025-09-23T15:12:05+02:00

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Maybe it's just because I grew up Catholic and non-American, but boy howdy was I surprised by how, not just all in on rapture Americans were, but how impressively they've built rapture into their personalities to then go all in on.

When I finally learned where they were getting it from, it was like, you're getting all this from these two lines? Why on Earth do you make so much up over nothing, why is this the thing you decided to care about over everything else?

Still don't get it.