aerinnight.bsky.social
Vampire forced onto a day schedule to survive a crumbling America as an Android app dev. Pluviophile, Nyctophile and Teratophile. 💍 to a tricksy Fae. DMs OK. She/Her.
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Not that I'm somehow different; given the choice I'd fuck off 20 miles into the woods, build a wizard tower, and invent weird robots that clean bathrooms or something. I have no interest in politics.
But to prevent assholes from divide-and-conquering us all to death, we all have to engage early on.
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It's the kind of thing that makes me wonder if it's the reason we get these cycles in history. Most people want to be left alone and leave others alone, so when someone realizes they can gain personally by starting a fight and muddying the waters on whose fault it is, they're not inclined to engage.
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*giggles*
Cock of the Rock
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They might do it a little less if they weren't all breaking their bodies to barely receive scraps, just saying...
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So depending on which you get, there's conflicting correct usage. And they are obviously not clear on which ones they're getting.
TBH, the way they're targeting certain people? They probably don't care either way.
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It's even worse than that; there are two kinds, one meant to be skipped, and one meant to be direct-fired, waist-down. If you direct-fire the skip ones, they have too much power. If you skip-fire the direct ones, the metal rear can spin around and tear flesh instead of hitting with the foam front.
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Do you think if they do enough HP damage to the barrier over time, a single HP per nonlethal bullet, it will eventually poof into pixels and reward them all 120 XP?
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"Officers fired thirty-seven rounds, suspect hit twice" and then they wonder why we feel all unsafe about 35 of those bullets landing somewhere in our communities.
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Ahahaha, that's amazing. Love it! They're so clever.
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More likely anyone caught outside. Curfew-style.
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Also, from recent experience, just blowing air across your face post-wash can help soothe the burning effects. A little USB fan is plenty; it worked for me just walking down the street on a brisk day. Capsaicin-based stuff makes your skin think it's boiling, so if you cool it off it's less unhappy.
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I wish we attached it more to the motive.
The revolution will not be televised, because authoritarianism depends on pretending it's popular.
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On the other hand, I hope he pours all his money into trying.
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And part of *that* is caused by a society that only rewards the most-famous and most-powerful 1-0.1% of people.
Most people don't really want something for nothing, they want a way to be comfortable in a society that runs on intentionally causing misery and selling the comfort back at a markup.
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I mean, I guess it's *a* strategy to try to get him to go so unhinged that even Republicans will impeach him, but uhhh, there's a reason I don't play "chicken" on the railroad tracks either...
I guess they just have nothing, so this is what they came up with, in lieu of doing nothing?
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The *only* thing that makes me doubt this is, by definition, you can't be the chef. 😛 Will they be able to find your equal?
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Whether or not religiously-motivated genital mutilation is societally acceptable or not is entirely irrelevant to the issue at hand. The government doesn't get to pick and choose which procedures are moral or not.
Either flood their hotline, support the effort, or just don't reply.
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Stop trying to fathom it. They're reaching across the aisle because literal fascists conducting literal escalating and widespread hate crimes are *less damaging* to the world they want to see than gay people are.
But they know they'll get cancelled if they say it aloud.
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My partner and I rewatched this recently.
At one point in an argument, Bill and Frank are yelling,
"...think 9/11 was an inside job and the government are all Nazis!"
"The government *are* all Nazis!"
"Yeah, NOW, but not then!"
and I went "oh, well, guess that didn't age". 😬
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I actually have this URL memorized for exactly this reason. xD
xkcd.com/1357
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I suspect that may be inherent in the input/output, too. I'm all for tools that make artists' lives easier, but in that it's easier for them to make their vision, to enact their decisions, more quickly. Taking away all the decision-making does make it easier and faster, but the lack of detail shows.
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Totally agreed, although I think caring properly actually *would* get them elected. The problem is their worldviews are better supported by losing than caring.
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They got in before the ladder was pulled up behind them, and failed to empathize with their peer group's non-wealthy members because they were too busy working hard to care.
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This is definitely one of those "there are many factors" situations, but I suspect for a bunch of them it's because the American Dream actually worked for them. Capitalism said work hard and we'll make you rich, so they did, got lucky, and did, and now believe in a toxic system due to survivor bias.
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This sort of shit is what's going to kick off real, sustained violence in the US. Eventually crowds are gonna start stopping the cops, violently, to protect their obviously-innocent neighbors.
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It's so much fun here in the first couple lines of the "first they came for the _, and I did not speak up because I was not a _" poem, ain't it? 🙃
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It's only a matter of time. How many vets came back and got to keep their service rifles, who will shortly be cut off from benefits as they watch their elders die?
This can stop any time the billionaire class wants it to. They still think this is somehow a good idea.
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Fucking christ on a stick, why can't they apply AI technology toward a universal toilet-scrubbot? Nobody's going to complain about robots taking our worst jobs handling literal human waste, and freeing us all up to be artists. They're only fighting society b/c they're taking something society wants.
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...Also me, I'm kids too.
How the hell do I pay attention to anything these days? My brain hurts trying to process all the information, and I've already cut major chunks out of both my social media app usage and social circles, twice. It's still too much signal, it all feels like noise.