TheDrink [he/him]

Took me a couple sittings to get through it, but I found the 50+ year old man posting about the video game release like he was a war correspondent and an invasion was happening around him extremely funny.

What sucks is that we know from the IDF that this shit will be adopted as a means of approving targets (because it will approve every single suggested target).

Debiaaaaan. I used Arch at first but it changed too much and broke things too frequently for my liking. With Debian I don’t really care about whatever I’m missing out on but it’s stable as hell which means it does exactly what I expect it to do, every time.

Good article. I’m lucky to have avoided this in my childhood despite being noticeably overweight for most of it. Kids’ bodies are still growing and they all grow in all different ways and they should be taught early that all human shapes are beautiful.

As a health crisis, fatness is the perfect encapsulation of Calvinist brain worms. Because we have a phenomenon that cuts through our entire society, effects literally the majority of people, and instead of looking at societal factors (like relentless food advertisement, increased portion sizes, dumping sugar into everything, creation of food deserts, and so on) we blame the people it effects and call it a personal problem.

Almost everyone in our society is eating the same slop day in and day out, and the people who are just genetically predisposed not to hang onto fat or to not get hungry as often or whatever else get to act like they’ve figured out some kind of secret. It’s the same phenomenon that causes rich failsons to assume that they’re just harder workers than everyone around them, a modern version of Predestination.

boutta VPN to China and get a Chinese phone number so I can use their superior websites.

We literally impeached him for threatening to not send weapons there for the civil war that ended up exploding into the full scale invasion.

Ah yes, the impeachment that accomplished so much and is extremely relevant.

I don’t care what Trump said or would have preferred, under his administration our government continued to fuel and escalate tensions in the region when we should have been pushing Ukraine to implement Minsk II and end the civil war. Maybe you could classify it as a mistake on his part instead of malice that he didn’t stop the arms shipments even though he really wanted to, but people are still liable for mistakes.

you know we genocided an entire continent of people, right? And continue to?

I literally cited an episode from that genocide as my reasoning for Jackson being the worst president.

wtf is bad about anti-Soviet foreign policy

The Soviets wanted deescalation after WW2, and supported self determination for liberated countries including Korea, Vietnam, Greece and Italy. Whatever you think of communism, the American policy of “containment” is directly and indisputably responsible for the suppression of democracy in dozens of countries and wars which killed tens of millions of people all because some of those people would have elected communist and socialist leaders we didn’t like.

Ate some cheese that seemed sketchy even though the date was dec 4 wish me luck

WHAT

I stumbled upon a few niche as hell memes from deep in the dbz community recently, so of course I’ve made them my entire personality

Andrew Jackson and it’s not even close. Not to downplay the horrible crimes committed by many of our other presidents but I don’t think anything rises to the level of the Trail of Tears.

Remove Jackson from the running and it’s a more interesting conversation, however thinking about it reveals just how interconnected all of this stuff is. While the current genocide is occurring under Biden, we can’t forget that the conditions that lead to Oct 7 were created under Trump. For that matter so were the conditions that lead to the escalation of the war in Ukraine.

I think the worst in my lifetime by a mile is Dubya, but while his wars were massive and consequential we can’t forget that George Senior also killed scores of people in Iraq, and Clinton carried out the sanctions regime that killed scores more. Clinton was also the one who broke Labor’s influence within the Democratic Party - but it was Obama who was swept into power on the promise of a working class revolution only to smother it in its crib.

But yeah my top two are Jackson and Dubya but beyond that I’m not sure there are a lot of crimes in the history of America’s presidency.

lmao pay money to have your kid get fast food training? what level of hellscape is that?

One of the niche benefits of having an EV even if you live way out in the sticks like me is being able to plug stuff into it when your power goes out. I got no generator, nothing - just the electricity I saved up before the outage happened.

Of course this assumes that you remembered to plug it in last time you got home.

Blitzball is a major aspect of FFXs story, but in FFIX stealing is just an option on a menu. I guess I agree that it’s not a good mechanic but I disagree with the weight you put on it.

I beat ff9 as a stupid kid without ever stealing anything, it’s only necessary if you’re trying to 100%.

I had a couple hours where I wasn’t thinking about it, then I saw your comment and now it’s back

I saw that clip of the church singing the Madonna song like a week ago and it has been playing in my head non stop ever since.

I don’t even know the lyrics! It’s just a blur of sound with the words “on my knees” in the middle of it!

That idea sounds cool AF.