I never noticed before, you can kind of see Rudy's face in the smoke of the explosion! I think he might have done 9/11

If it makes you feel any better, I'm still waiting on my official acceptance letter from the Cisman's Guild.

I don't follow. Why does a subjectivist view of art lead to fascism? I liked Citizen Kane more than the Mario Movie, but I don't think it's "better" in any objective sense (better at what? and for whom?) This seems less authoritarian than declaring a "correct" ranking of media.

I've been working through the O'Reilly book "Prompt Engineering for LLMs" and found the most dystopian passage:

The chat sucker

Yeah but that’s the tooth fairy’s problem, not yours. Just enjoy the extra household income

I think they feel like they should have won the game. They have a regional monopoly on pool supplies and they live in a big house, so everyone should love and admire them. It instead nobody gives a shit cause why would they?

Theres a ton of people who are intelligent and nominally educated but focused all their attention on ladder climbing l. Now they have no philosophy or culture and seeing these things angers and confuses them.

I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a clown shoe stomping on a human face, forever.

That’s hard to do these days. If there’s not a physical release do you just buy a file and strip the drm? Thinking about how I don’t actually own any of the games I’ve bought over the last 15 years.

Do you remember the Bush admin, the Tea Party hysteria, armed standoffs at the Bundy ranch, and Jan 6? The right has been inching towards extremism for decades because the Republican Party is controlled by its fringe.

The dems had “defund the police” which Biden and immediately disavowed.

Rob’t

We've all met a couple just like this

Shinji was alienated because everyone had relentless expectations for him to be someone he wasn’t, so that makes sense

The boss/landlord combo is downright feudal

What’s the connection between Evangelion and trans girls?

This way when you lose your job you also get evicted!

Btw you will be receiving a bill for this consultation.

Time to iterate. Do it again, but this time wear a bulky coat to appear larger. If you have any bells, attach them to the coat.

You just look her right in the eye and say, “No thank you, ma’am!”. Never tried this but I assume it will work

Attempting to draw WAY above my skill level here.

My interpretation of Mordred from the Dark Tower. Will definitely revisit this idea when I’m better at drawing flowing cloth and Renaissance twinks

Lowe’s has always been the big box hardware store for the learned gentry

A bug was reported to me, I spent all yesterday fixing it, and now I’m being told “jk that’s what it’s SUPPOSED to do!” What even is a program? Why do I write them? No one really knows

Oh, you’ll post Georgie! We ALL post down here!

I played The New Order. It oscillates between very powerful and accurate portrayals of the Nazi regime, wacky sci-fi Nazis, and some very ill-advised death camp scenes. The shooting is fine. Best part was when it lets you play Wolfenstein 3D. 6/10

That’s not surprising, I just meant that people like Yarvin are accelerators at most.

Haha I remember this dork from “dark enlightenment” blog phenomenon a few years ago! He’s like a leftist’s parody of a libertarian. I don’t think people like him are dangerous. They feed the megalomania of oligarchs but they don’t cause it.

I just dredged Empire Square out from between my deepest brain convolutions