her box art is adorable, screw the conservatoids

complicit in international drug trafficking to minors

they’re based in lithuania. you cannot make this up. istg we need to build some kind of containment dome over the baltics, hitlerite radiation is leaking everywhere

At some point, you’ve got to trust the guy who writes the pharmaceutical prescriptions or whats the fucking point of doctors at all?

good point

tbh im long past the point that if a doctor tells me something my instinct is to believe the exact opposite until I can get my hands on the research myself. it’s kind of impressive how your field in particular managed to mess up public trust so badly

I think it’s fair to say that there were unacceptable failures. soviet pro-natalist policy for example was ultra cringe for a long time and they ought have known better. that being said, though, what are we comparing it to? the ussr must have seemed like a city on a hill to e.g. english women in the 1920s. libs are always harping on about soviet Ls while nervously nudging their own contemporaneous skeletons behind the sofa

I understand the impulse—to meme-ify this thing that has become a symbol for the cynical, trauma-mining jingoism of American life. But I also think it’s a way to do what I did, what all my friends did, after 9/11—to minimize its impact on us. Because whether you were there or not; whether you were born before or after, that event has deeply and tragically affected our lives—taken away your personal freedoms in the form of the Patriot Act; put blood on your hands and guilt in your hearts in the form of endless war on foreign soils. We’re all trying to put it behind a screen; to make it a movie.

this is where the left-libs’ “9/11 was a tragedy, I’m only mocking how it was used afterwards” position takes you: viewing anti-americanism as just an ironic performance, done by people trying to sublimate their cynicism from their fundamental love of country

but when I make fun of 9/11 I’m not using gallows humor to cope with cognitive dissonance. there’s nothing gallows about it bc I don’t particularly view 9/11 as a tragedy. I just hate this country and find the blowback for our crimes a bit satisfying

$1,700,000,000,000 program but they didn’t want to spring for the $700 lojack package

SROs for the poor are more expensive even and the conditions are usually much worse. esp in this part of the city I bet the target market for pods is pretty much only people who already have a nice office they can shower and exercise and hang out in and only need a space to lie down, so really they’re probably doing fine.

sorry I’m a little skittish around this discourse bc a lot of the time it’s cast as “gross why would you live this way instead of like a human being” which can really catch housing-precarious ppl in the blast radius

small business owners

it’s always disconcerting when they go out of their way to say this as if they expect it to make them seem sympathetic

using the word manichean to describe the war on terror is breathtaking

gamers are truly the most oppressed class

wait for the next person to join so you can see if it’s just a copy/pasted form email, if not then unleash

I don’t really care about a scene chock-a-block with techbrained labor aristocrats who think that nonfree components is somehow a really pressing issue, but fwiw it’s pretty obvious that step zero is for the fsf to fire that fossilized misogynist from the board and officially sever all ties with him, and that after that they need to have a real reckoning with their prospects of success as long as they hold on to this idealist voluntarist nerd wet dream fantasy of 1982 rms competing head to head with symbolics code, like a few ideologues with spare time/money can gaslight people into thinking that free software is just inherently better, instead of grappling with the real foundational issues of capitalism like actual sites of class struggle (labor, queer liberation, veganism, the climate movement, etc) all figured out how to do

the fsf does, in fact, need advice on how to do free software advocacy

a few years ago I tried joining a vc with some friends (some autistic even) and I ended up disconnecting in tears cause listening to their repartee was such a harsh reminder of how bad I am verbally. when I have to speak out loud I just blank or stumble through inane things. I have to work pretty hard to communicate clearly even when I know what I want to say, and thinking of things to say is mostly beyond my ability

so I guess I wish other autistic people would stop trying to make communication issues out to be some kind of hidden superpower. for me it’s just a disability.

I’m surprised and happy to report that queer bluesky is full of wall-to-wall 9/11 memes with nobody being weird about it

I’m much less happy to report that they’re “not minimizing the tragedy or loved ones who died, only mocking our national response”

it’s fine I guess. at least now we know that the secret to getting libs to stop taking state department propaganda seriously is to just wait long enough for half of them to not even have been born yet. probably generation epsilon or whatever will be making post-meta-ironic memes about the ukraine war

Any famine will be entirely engineered

and no liberal will consider it an atrocity, because as long as you can purchase access to something then that’s good enough to be freedom, even if some people can’t afford it.

if this were all the result of economic planning then libs would be screeching democide. but just intermediate it with “the market” and suddenly they can’t think of anyone to blame anymore except the victims. they’re like toddlers confused by a clear pane of glass