algeriaworblebot.bsky.social
An existentially ambiguous network of confabulations and trivia, knotted together with code-switching wordplay.
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Rage bait seems to be addictive. It keeps us doomscrolling. Why do we share it? Maybe so we feel less alone in our despair.
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So uninterested that you felt it necessary to comment.
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Haha oh no
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I guess it's the assumption that they'll be the boot, not the face.
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It's like they started with the Watch but then workshopped it into beige, wokewashed (to distinguish from actually woke, which Pratchett certainly was) oblivion.
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What level is the other leg at?
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I read that AirNZ's recent purchases from the US brought down the trade deficit quite a lot, so they actually did us a solid there.
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Needs a fake twirly moustache drawn on in permanent marker.
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I think it says
"Who are we? Who the fuck are we? List to me who you see here."
But I'm only like 70% on that. Russian's not easy.
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Calling out your country's flaws isn't unpatriotic. Ignoring them is.
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Like 80+% of the value proposition of an airfryer for me right here
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There is no amount of evidence that will convince people who believe this myth. They will perform acrobatic feats of the mind to explain away any proof.
The fact is, they believe they've been lied to by the scientific establishment, so nothing that comes out of it can be trusted.
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I understand the USA has historically refused to surrender its citizens to international prosecution.
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Jandal is one of the earliest-coined portmanteaux I know of, having been a thing since the mid 20th century.
Japanese + sandal -> jandal :)
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I'm not picky. Righteousness is just another flavour
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Chasing the high of get more money get more power that they're so inured to now that it barely registers. But they remember it feeling so good.
Terrified of losing what they have; terrified of never getting that rush again. It really does play like addictive behaviour.
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I do prefer to share the credit-slash-hatemail
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Actually same
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Ah, paprika brings out the cheesiness so nicely!
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Not while they're only 1% of US politicians, anyway. We need to bump those numbers so they can be more representatively shitty.
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Yeah, I'm like, is it purple coz they're aware they don't know anything so they looked up the dummies' version & at least they're not all Dunning-Krugery about it, vs they are learned & were just checking? Is it blue coz they do know stuff vs because they think they know and are actually clueless?
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I'd go so far as a dollar, for longer-form. Maybe pdf download.
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Certainly there are ways to bypass paywalling.
But we need good journalism, and good journalists need to be paid somehow.
If ads don't cut it anymore, what else can we do to support that beyond paying directly for the content?
Maybe microtransactions, ppv-style.
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This gets better and better the longer I look at it.
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Maybe they voted for what he said the effect would be. Desperation can make a person naïve.
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It's perfectly conceivable. All the Trump-voting woman needs to do is assume those other women lied, or that they're confused, or they deserved it, or he's changed his ways & is truly sorry.
Honestly if they believe his policies enough to vote for him, their mental gymnastics is already Olympic-tier
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That's a great idea. The more accessible these issues can be made, the better.
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Isn't barista really just "Coffee Jerk"?
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Where I live the police officers look like the 4th one, but with the head of the 1st one. No gun either.
I won't pretend they don't have their problems or systemic biases but it's definitely a different vibe here
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From the thumbnail it looks like the hat says "MAKE AMERICA GREAT ACAB" and now I wonder if that's a thing.
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Decent people don't bend the knee to a wannabe-king so there's no place for them in his court.
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I care about these things but also salt & pepper.
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For my preference I'd split it as physical and virtual, the virtual resulting from policy. But I am much too ignorant about the historical events to speak with any authority here, so feel free to disregard!
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Perhaps because that was only indirectly an economic crisis. Primarily it was a public health crisis, which has its own distinct rhythm.
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Volunteer primrose knows what it's about.
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Why don't we just give the people money as though they'd done the work, but let robots do the body-breaking, dream-stifling work instead? Then we could have 100% employment and the best robots.
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Crow Time is a magical delight. When permission is restored to possessions merchase will be purchase.
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American expertise is pretty good. Most parts of my computer were designed there, and a bunch of really nifty pharmaceuticals.
Isn't it nice that they've decided to force the export of their experts by defunding research on anything that might improve the human experience?
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What to do about books that convince people of things that are untrue & that propagate ideas & attitudes that are not only false but harmful too?
Books that don't convince with facts & logic, but with insinuations & emotional manipulation?
Banning them is obviously not the thing to do, but what is?
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It wouldn't be considered a ute over here I think, no bed.
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These are magnificent. You have improved the world immeasurably.
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I'd probably just respond w something like "but is it *entertaining* bull shit?"
And then they could execute the coup de grace & say "lol no" and I could finally die in ignominy like I was always meant to
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Ah, interesting. It makes sense that this would be a quince.
I know it as Japonica Apple. The fruit really is very quince-like.
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Darn, that is one pretty set of books.
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Like just a set of tags?