Joseph Brassey

Specifically the Vilenuve but they’re all good.

God the Dune score beats ass.

Cosigned.

We desperately need more co-op tech companies, but as always, start-up money is the problem.

Anything that can simply be purchased by a sufficient number of right wing rich people bullying their way onto the board is too vulnerable to enshitification to invest in.

Being privately owned doesn’t mean the company isn’t evil, but it does mean that if it’s not, it’s more likely to stay thus.

The only companies I am willing to extend any real trust to are either privately owned or employee owned.

Anything accountable to shareholders is inherently suspect.

YouTube video by BecauseImBored1 YOU CAN'T DENY US! [Best in Show Bakuretsucon 2013] Gurren Lagann

Don't mind me, just getting misty-eyed over a 13 year old AMV.

I mean most of it is because it’s not catered to male fantasies but that’s not the only reason either.

Like if you think telling stories about people falling in love are stupid kids stuff, you also clearly think that one of the most profound and motivating human experiences is stupid kids stuff, and that can’t be good for your life.

Whenever I see people calling romance as a genre “frivolous and silly l” I hear them saying “love is frivolous and silly” and I’m like 90% sure this is one of the beliefs that at the heart of our societal rot.

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

A hugely important life lesson I’ve tried to internalize is that intelligence is always situational. You can be absolutely brilliant in your field and a blindingly unselfaware ignoramus in a bunch of other ones. Always be really hesitant to speak authoritatively on shit you know nothing about.

peasants watching the same 2 guys crash into each other at full speed.

John F.Kennedy （ジョン・F・ケネディ，Jon F Kenedi is a character from manga series of Hanma Baki.

This prompted me to look at the Baki wiki and the character description is amazing.

In the end, this atrocity will only guarantee that ninety million people and their descendants will rightfully hate us for the next hundred years.

The upside of niche martial arts communities is you meet some very fascinating, weird, eccentric people.

The downside of niche martial arts communities is you meet some very fascinating, weird, eccentric people.

Today is a rough bipolar day. Woke up in a pit and feel like I’m moving uphill through snow while trying to get out. As stable as I am these days every so often this thing kicks me in the gut for no reason and leaves me doubled over.

Send good vibes.

Over and over and over again these people just cannot seem to anticipate or expect that anyone will show them anything other than deference or cowering fear, and when they resist they just… panic. This is what lacking empathy gets you.

And it may just be part of what saves us. /End

It’s why they didn’t know what to do about widespread resistance in Minnesota. It’s why they can’t handle questions from reporters or military counter-attacks. In their minds other people are just passive NPC’s in a video game who are supposed to validate or be afraid of them. 2/

It’s really telling in the way this administration helplessly flails whenever their policy meets resistance just how much its members lack any sort of empathy.

Empathy is what allows you to conceive of other people’s agency, which they can’t. They see other humans as objects to be acted upon. 1:

Dunno if this helps anyone but a reason why “don’t engage, just block” is so effective is that most troll culture is just about them feeling like they’ve won by virtue of having made you waste your time. It’s just emotional vampirism. Once you understand that, engaging seems pointless.

I was ambivalent about Faramir when I read about him as a kid, especially standing next to Aragorn.

But now: “I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”

As a martial artist of 18 yrs… yeah.

you need to understand that Platner is not just a candidate , he is a canary in the coalmine to a certain kind of man that the world has not changed and they still can get plush gigs and pole position in society and life with zero qualification and even less aptitude for the work .

The partially assembled top and bottom half of a nemesis Dreadknight, assembled.

A nemesis Dreadknight top and bottom, dry-fitted.

Assembled and dry-fitted more of the robot. Now to let things dry. #warhammer40k

I am becoming blackpilled against advanced technology. Butlerian Jihad when.

As one of the fifteen or twenty genuine Liberal Internationalists in the US, all of whom are active on this site, I do think we really need to confront the fact that a genuine liberal-democratic "rules based" international order cannot be underpinned by arbitrary and hegemonic US military might.

evil. it's ok to call evil people evil. in fact it is necessary

you cant teach this. either you have it or you don't.