djakfrost.bsky.social
Transcendental anarcho-communist with a theory of everything.
Also: Zen Buddhist, Navy vet, semiconductor process tech, logophile, AuDHD (aphantasic, misophonic, and cyclothymic)
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Exactly! Capitalism thrives off of the glorification and isolation of the individual. The more we're concerned with self, the less we see ourselves as part of a community. Capitalism tells us to fear scarcity, especially the scarcity of one's of life, leading us to commodify others and ourselves
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I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue
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They don't actually care. Russia needs Iran so put out an all hands. Also why Patel is declassifying evidence of Russian election interference
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This. The right don't love Israel because they stopped being antiemetic. It's because Christianity has from day one been an apocalyptic death cult and the dominionists want to kick off Armageddon
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Yeah. Not saying no one who goes in has better options, or at least better seeming options, but damn few. And they still need a fleet of used car salesmen who have to make numbers or lose their cushy duty and incentive pay if not
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And if you're eating at the chow hall, galley, or whatever, sure, you can eat as much as you like (usually), but it's not unlike prison food. Getting more calories than you expend is a test of will. And they're only open at set times, with the chain of command paying little to no attention to them
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I'm surprised it's not #1. It's not uncommon for young service members to get married in initial training, in large part because it gets you out of the barracks and all that. Then they get divorced at their first duty station.
Even at the PX, the food allowance is never enough
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Wasn't trying to condescend. I thought you were genuinely pissed that people could call it baling wire, like it was a thing that didn't exist. Hell, I'm still not sure you're not. But you're obviously having a bad day, and I'm making it worse for both of us, so I'll take my response off the air
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So you know precisely how it feels to be in this situation, where you didn't mean to cause offense, try to apologize and explain, and the person just keeps trying to tell you how wrong you are? And you're like, "Why is this even an issue?"
Cool
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You know that thing where someone's autistic and misses social cues? I was genuinely excited to talk about linguistic peculiarities with a side of personal history. I'd say "lesson learned," but history teaches me otherwise
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Assuredly. You'd know better than I. I wasn't trying to be a dick, either. Like I said, it could be a rural NV thing. Not the most forward thinking or linguistically correct region. And I can tell you the wires sucked. You had to watch out for the twisted ends and they'd snap back when cut
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Sorry. I really didn't mean to cause any offense. Doesn't mean I didn't. And yeah, I haven't touched a hay bay bale since about 92, so... I won't make that mistake again, and thanks for pointing it out
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I wasn't trying to, just share my experience, but ok. I hope your day gets better
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There are images on the net. Hard to see, but... It looks like twine became more common/recommended from the 80s onward, but the word just stuck. Never heard anyone say, "He could make [x] from chewing gum and baling twine," for example. Maybe it's a rural NV thing.
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Some bailers use wire. Some use twine. But I grew up bucking hay and never once heard someone call it bailing twine. *Shrug*
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Russia and Iran are strategic allies. See also Carlson and MTG coming out against war with Iran. They didn't suddenly develop a conscience. They're prioritizing marching orders
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I'd go back to at least the beginning of the Republic, when aristocrats waved a bloody shirt to strip power from the tribes and the people
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Nothing is more pleasing to American vanity than hearkening to a supposed golden age that never existed, like everything that was past isn't still right here in everything that's present. It's just sad that the golden age is now something like 5 years ago.
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Capitalism. If it can't expand, it eats itself. If it can, it dominates the landscape. The mind is a weird place where both happen at the same time. The cognitive dissonance required to support it is uncomfortable, but confirmation bias is soothing and self-reinforcing. Junk food for the spirit
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Or you can pay for a VPN. Hmm...
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A simple like is not enough to express my appreciation of that reply
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As a vet, I heartily agree
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Made me think of the other scene, with the chickens, where he also says, "Fuck the king."
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Was going to say, "Nice strawman you got there."
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Exactly! We have the policing system we do precisely because of how our society was formed during slavery. We (ostensibly) abolished slavery, but we kept the slave takers in place.
Like, seriously, what did politicians think was going to happen as we militarized them over the last three decades?
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Add that to constant copaganda and fatuous praise from the right with a side of qualified immunity... They've been trying to enact a police state for decades, and they see now as the time to take off the mask (ironically)
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It's the recruitment and training. Most are too scared or too fat to join the military, too dumb to go to school. But they want to feel important. Then they get training that paints them in constant danger from the society they're supposed to serve with a 'use force first, question later' m.o.
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(And of course othering and brutalizing minorities who are supposedly the real, hidden enemy we have to give up our rights to combat)
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Yep. It's like they've been piecing together 20th C. fascism to create a 'better' version. Unite religious conservatives (Spain), legal manipulation and machismo (Italy), and civic govt disruption and shock and awe against dissidents while controlling the public narrative (Germany)
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Gen-X/boomers/millenials is the same self-affirming BS as Meyers-Briggs or horoscopes. What you've got here is a combination of "granfalloons" and out group homogeneity. And the man would much rather have you focused on that than the real class war we're all in