it’s the human experience - plenty of real conspiracy shit - from cia acid/mk ultra to the tuskegee experiment makes anything seem possible.

I’ve always felt there was some stuff on the saudi side that was left unexplored but know that a passenger plane could take out a building, and working in vfx, knowing there was no way to fake it on site. life will offer more examples of ambiguous outcomes, and they’ll be replete with government fuckery in some cases, in others, it’ll just be random tragedy. good luck!

it’s wordplay. the entire game is tiny and is about dwarves.

NGL, a politics game set in this universe would be awesome.

this is true, but also, a shit-ton of canadian wildfires (that still haven’t been extinguished!) poured a fuckton of smoke over the US east coast (and all of canada’s east coast).

It’s mindboggling that winter never put these fires out.

I’m sadly suspecting that we’re all monumentally fucked. This summer is going to start next week (tulips are blooming!?) and stretch until 2025.

Trump is so god damn dumb he almost makes George W. Bush appear like he was a seasoned diplomat.

this is so depressingly accurate it hurts. and George was a putz, a world class schmuck. And Trump makes George look like Kissinger.

wave broadband can suck a dick

PNW? how the fuck is it that comcast is the best we can get. goddamn google or someone else please fucking save me from comcast

coupled with the nature of his crimes making him radioactive to potential future creditors… and uncertainty of his entire business in the state of ny… and when they do attempt to secure the collateral on his properties, they’ll begin to lose value quickly because everyone will know he’s selling no matter what.

Giving a young person two sets of perspective is often as valuable as having a stable nuclear family. Good work.

I am crazy impressed that anyone could follow that path and not just drop off the internet in shame when they realized. I hope if anything I view in the same manner ever comes up as fabricated I’m as brave.

dunno how you mandate people vote. the rest looks like an ambitious but overall laudable start.

Tell you what, I’ll block you now so it’s easier for you to keep all these hard threads apart. Just remember, I’ll always despise your position and shitty rhetoric ok? good.

People who get paid with access to Lexi nexus.

You really believe this huh? my god you’re stupid. It’s lexis, you utter dolt, and no no one’s being paid to point out how obviously wrong you are. It’s a public service.

I’m just here to call out your thoughtless bullshit buddy.

yeah but we’re living in the real world over here, obviously you’re not.

did you read beyond the first sentence? “so while I’d prefer no or fewer billionaires” covers the ground already bud.

I mean, there’s billionaires and there are asshole billionaires… I don’t give two flying fucks about pop music, but she treated her people pretty well (originally read about this from a trucker friend) - https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2023/08/04/taylor-swift-says-thank-you-to-eras-tour-workers-by-handing-out-checks/?sh=1011ea6470f6

so while I’d prefer no or fewer billionaires, I’d really prefer rich people who treated their entire ecosystems well over the current hellscape.

oh and TAX THE RICH. If they can stay billionaires by building new industries and competing for great workers by negotiating in good faith with union labor, that’s fine.

Trader joe, SpaceX/Tesla Amazon and a bunch of other fucks are trying to destroy the entire NRLB, because they hate unions and think they can get away with it. FUCK THEM.

I do, but even then if you’ve got a pump bodywash you have to deal with unscrewing the shit and waiting. it’s a shit design.

this is the complicated reality actual morality forces upon human life. Love and patriotism should include criticizing the bad choices, lest they devolve into jingoism and cults.

/Bibi stands up and gets in line…/

keep making sense man, there’s a tankie-like-undercurrent that would happily trash biden while staying mum on the alternatives, and that big picture should scare the SHIT out of anyone - they fucking told the world what they want to do w/ project 2025, they’re already doing it by gutting the GOP now that Trump’s rule has solidified. This country can choose between imperfect psuedo-democracy or actual fucking terror and fucks like @AWistfulNihilist will tell you to stop being angry. WE SHOULD ALL BE VERY ANGRY. The fact that the media kinda shrugged when the right published their dystopian vision scares the everlasting fuck out of me.

Stay righteous.

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I think I either replied to the wrong poster or you’re replying to a reply I meant for someone else.

These are all fantastic points.

////goes and looks - yeah My reply was meant for: @AWistfulNihilist

instead of replying to your excellent post with some kind of articulated premise, he says: Honestly you seem a little angry and intimidating, I wouldn’t engage with you much either.

entirely lacking what his counterargument is, simply to tear yours down with specious commentary. your rage is entirely founded on reality and I share it. cheers.