Materialist Gnostic

it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks

I once uninstalled a program wrong and had to go in to the registry to reinstall it

so are you farming Bitcoin or pot?

if you want a vision of the future, pictures thermostatic backlash stamping on American politics. forever.

inshallah we have finally created a Republican party that cannot win the suburbs

Two things that are both true:

1.) American conservatism has always been far worse than voters are willing to believe.

2.) The groyperization of the GOP has been a world historical catastrophe which will echo for generations.

"okay I uploaded the mp4 to Dropbox. no you don't need a codec package. what do you mean you can't find it it's in your downloads folder"

oh cool we're at the "rape camps" stage of incels

you don't need to do explicit gender quotas, just mandate that uniforms and cars be hot pink for visibility

the border patrol agents who shut down El Paso airspace by fucking around with lasers won't see your posts calling it "reckless" and "incompetent", but your friends who like to drink and point a green laser pointer at the sky will. think before you post.

no this is right, this is your obligation as someone visiting California, you wear summer clothes and act confused when people don't understand why you're wearing summer clothes

common "pet that shits in a box" W

the narrator is good (though seeing the trailer had me down on him for not sounding like Ryan Gosling, but that isn't really fair) but once I cottoned to the pattern of the thing I just go more and more frustrated

yes but what about the movie, star

fair but otoh writing a whole book because someone points out that you got the math for your first book wrong is a good bit

possibly? I guess authors probably do start with short stuff, mostly I am venting about Project Hail Mary *dragging* at the end

give me, like, 20 pages of "a guy in space solves a science puzzle" it's not exciting after the tenth science puzzle

do we think we could get Andy Weir to try short fiction? I feel like his whole deal would be a lot more tolerable if I was not forced to read 500 pages of it at a time

I don't know if it's the most famous but the guy who wrote the magicians went to my high school and yeah that does track that makes sense how you'd get from A to B there

Tilda Swinton too

Nicholas Cage is interesting because he absolutely has a recognizable persona he does a lot of the time but he is also capable of *wildly* deviating from it when he wants to

I'm not really sure either The Rock or Gal Gadot can act, they just have a thing and we decided the thing gets to be in movies

I'm pretty sure Ryan Reynolds can act but also that he mostly doesn't

honestly I do have to give him credit: that is a great handle for a racist nerd. 10/10 call on aligning reality with expectations

broke: Candy Crush is bad because it uses dark patterns to pump its audience for revenue

woke: Candy Crush is bad because it allows ZeroHPLovecraft to make rent

I was wondering why the lemonade at this restaurant was so expensive and apparently it's because they give you an *entire mason jar* of lemonade

a guy who plausibly could succeed but clearly does not deserve to

someone described him as having exactly enough virtues to make his successes infuriating

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

not loving that they've changed the order of buttons so that "save draft" is where "yes discard" used to be

now, yes, employment numbers are suffering. but have you considered that we are tearing communities apart and ethnically cleansing your neighbors?