Yeah, this. I know it’s tempting to imagine that all the people opposing good policies are evil masterminds operating on a reverse Marxist understanding of the world, but the problems are much more structural. All sorts of weirdos run for office, and businesses fund the campaigns of the ones whose weirdo ideas line up with what they want, and that is sufficient to put people in power who perpetuate capitalist interests, without anybody actually thinking “perpetuate capitalist interests” at any point in the process.

Nah, I think bitcoin deserves credit for being a new type of scam. It’s not a pyramid scheme or Ponzi scheme or multi-level-marketting scheme. It’s most similar to a series of pump and dump scams, but it’s more different from those than pyramid schemes are from MLMs, which get separate names.

Just use Linux Mint.

whoaaaaaaaah you made it

So, how many pictures of Gex do you have saved on your hard drive? Just curious. Definitely not trying to rope you into a thing.

Or you could go to New Zealand and hike from Hobbiton to Mount Ngauruhoe (the Mount Doom from the movies) in a quarter the distance, with more varied terrain, in a country with dedicated hiking huts, and probably chain together a bunch of hiking trails along the way.

Consider me mild to moderately hyped!

He didn’t fulfill the Qanon prophecies.

All the swords cards are variants on “conflict in your future.” I don’t know the specific ones.

Fighter jets won’t be obsolete until they come up with a more expensive piece of military hardware and a better way to let bloodthirsty children of political families go kill some people.

One time in high school, someone tried to do one of these on me, accidentally drew four cards, and they were all swords. Then she went pale, made some excuse, and left.

It was pretty funny.

Well at least Nurgle is probable happy.

You know that thing where you try to say “cool” and “good” at the same time and end up saying “gool” and feel kind of dumb, but it’s totally fine and it happens to everyone?

That but “migrant” and the n-word, and it’s not totally fine and doesn’t happen to everyone, because one of the words is the n-word.

The girl reading this.

I think minoxidil just makes hairs last longer, not make them denser or grow faster.

It’s normal for beards to be uneven while growing in. If you want one, just pick a couple weeks where you’re not going to see anyone you’ll feel self conscious of seeing you with a crap beard. People start growing them during vacations for a reason.

Yeah, I’d probably figure both were physical objects, at least as large as mountains, pretty far away. There’s no way I’d guess anywhere near the actual enormous sizes and distances. But the rest of the world is made of physical objects, so that would be what I’d expect of the sun and moon. Thinking that way is pretty core to who I am, and I would gravitate towards that even if it made me peculiar in my society, and if it’s too far from the bounds of what a person in that society is able to believe then, like I said, that’s just not identifiable as me anymore.

I’m sure a lot of people want to shoot Trump, so it’s actually very considerate of the Trump shooters to both miss, preserving this scarce resource for other future shooters.

Is there a way to add a tactical grip to the cans?

I’d think the moon went in front of the sun. Then I’d wonder if the sun can go in front of the moon, too.

I’d probably have a pretty bullshit explanation for why this was happening, which was contingent on the beliefs of the society I belonged to. But if that explanation does not allow for the what of what’s happening to be “the moon went in front of the sun” then the person who believes that is unrecognizable as being me.

The thing about nature vs nurture is that people always imagine “nature” to be genetic instead of whatever random chemical bullshit happened in the womb while your brain was growing, and “nurture” to be Important Conversations with your parents and teachers instead of that one time you overheard some phrase that you completely misinterpreted because you were five and fully incorporated that misinterpretation into your worldview for years. But the total quantity of random bullshit outweighs the “important” parts by orders of magnitude.

It didn’t even occur to me to combine the Etsy spells grift with AI art grift. I’m glad I’m not a grifter, I’d never be able to keep up.