dejected_warp_core
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- Comment on Forever relics 1 week ago:
Oh, there’s no mystery about it. It’s a box, full of single-use hex keys, all of which are inexplicably the wrong size.
- Comment on Forever relics 1 week ago:
Protip: tape this to the bottom or back of whatever it is you’re assembling. Makes it super easy to tighten loose screws or disassembly for moving.
- Comment on why just "now and then" isn't enough 1 week ago:
The real question is how in the hell did they pivot from douche to “all-purpose kitchen and bath cleaner.”
- Comment on She's so mature for her age 1 week ago:
Had me in the first half.
- Comment on Cruel and unusual 1 week ago:
Honestly, that’s a good sensory thing to have. Small sock wrinkles and tiny pebbles in your shoe turn into blisters on day-hikes. There are times to have grit and “tough it out” and this is not one of 'em.
- Comment on Cruel and unusual 1 week ago:
Took me a second to realize that the loose threads weren’t just sloppy workmanship. :(
- Comment on Darude Sandstorm 2 weeks ago:
What frustrates me is that it doesn’t have to be this way. They could just start using better original music. Consider what Game Grumps and Sbassbear did for Lipitor.
Meanwhile, they’re also responsible for the best cover of Sandstorm.
- Comment on This sandwich 2 weeks ago:
Meatball sandwich. Singular. One meatball.
Technically correct, but legitimately rage inducing if this is really what you get for 15 quid.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 2 weeks ago:
Technically? It might be more grammatically correct to say “rooms-maid” since they typically take care of a whole house, but even that’s kinda clumsy sounding.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 2 weeks ago:
Pack it up everyone. This guy won the thread. Nothing more to see here, move along.
- Comment on They call me the problem solver 3 weeks ago:
Sweet jebus, I’m sorry to hear that. You’re absolutely right though: “have you tried PTSD?” may not be right for everyone.
- Comment on "feminine" 3 weeks ago:
You may not like it, but this is what building wealth and saving for early retirement looks like.
- Comment on "feminine" 3 weeks ago:
Maybe. Is that the one with a floor-hole through to the cursed basement?
- Comment on "feminine" 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. This person has/needs a full or queen sized bed, but their bedroom isn’t big enough for it. So, it’s blocking the closet, because that’s the only place it can go.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 3 weeks ago:
This is why I follow reviewers and curators that sift through the bottom 99% to find interesting indie stuff. It’s absolutely jaw-dropping what never shows up on Steam’s store landing page or queues.
Splattercat is one such reviewer. He tends to prefer dystopia and post-apocalypse style stuff, and clearly works hard to bring interesting titles some more exposure: www.youtube.com/@splattercatgaming
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 3 weeks ago:
You can survive Phantom Liberty. Bad news is that you’ll live on with at least five completely new forms of PTSD.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 3 weeks ago:
Good news is: you’re now functionally immortal.
Bad news is: everything tastes like metal.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 3 weeks ago:
The Ascent. I am now an indentured servant sanitation worker with a poor sense of self-preservation, but just so happens to be really good with a gun. Oh, and the arcology that is my home has been thrown into complete pandemonium because the head Corpo AGI shit the bed.
- Comment on Bring it back 3 weeks ago:
Brazil now has at least 16 more countries on their border, and none of them speak Portuguese.
- Comment on I need an adult 3 weeks ago:
What really gets me is that the compounds responsible for this hue in food are called “anthocyanins” which means “blue flower.” I can’t even.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 4 weeks ago:
No worries: those server chunks haven’t been explored yet. Give it time.
- Comment on Low rating 4 weeks ago:
Seconded. That kind of humor is 100% on-brand for her.
- Comment on You can do it 👍 4 weeks ago:
How in the world could someone find the energy to…
inhaling cocaine
Ah, okay. Why is the answer always drugs?
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 4 weeks ago:
It’s to beer what LaCroix is to fruit juice.
- Comment on Housing prices 4 weeks ago:
The finance side of things has also enabled a kind of house size inflation. Anecdotally, I’ve seen new tract housing go up in areas that need housing, which were all 3000 sq/ft each. They could have developed for higher density and sell more units, but I guess the margins are better on houses that sell for 700k and up. Especially if folks are willing to go into deep debt to pull it off. Plus that does little to ease demand, so the cycle can continue.
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 5 weeks ago:
$15 million? Hasn’t APAIC spent many times that much money in trying to fight progressives this year already?
- Comment on When do we riot? 5 weeks ago:
This is pretty much what I had in mind. Circumvent censorship, and put paper directly into everyone’s hand.
- Comment on Correlation == Causation? 5 weeks ago:
FLORIDA hurt itself in its confusion.
- Comment on Fat bastard for president 5 weeks ago:
I can’t tell. Is this a Jonathan Swift reference?
- Comment on When do we riot? 5 weeks ago:
I have no plan. Only a few concepts and tactics.
Print newsletters keep coming to mind. Perhaps that’s me romancing a bygone era where sweat equity gets you distribution and readership, even if it’s just a single page. Then again, print has never been cheaper for the common-man, and sitting on top of global digital distribution would create an impressive reach.
We can also start making “conservative alt accounts” in social media, in order to penetrate those spaces. Build a profile that gets you into echo chambers that you don’t want anywhere near your real life. At the very least, before all these damn photo ID features and laws go into place.
There really needs to be a playbook for dismantling propaganda, and how to handle people that are programmed to parrot talking points. Like some kind of conversational aikido.
Social media rides on optics, tagging, and vibes. It might be possible to co-opt the style and tagging of existing content, say Newsmax, and provide a palatable lean for recent topics for a conservative audience. This is nothing like going full-bore “The Onion”^1^, but rather, providing a positive framing or just undercut the lies that are in the same space. Report the exact same stories - move for move - just without the hyperbole, lies, and vitriol. Facts should speak for themselves.
In fact, more positivity online in general might be a big help to everyone. The algorithm rewards engagement, and while rage bait is 100x easier to create, stuff that makes people feel good (e.g. kittens) gets good traction too. Granted, that’s a high-effort and talent-focused operation - not for everyone.
Lastly, it’s possible that we could see a great firewall go up around the US, or find de-facto censorship and de-platforming a huge problem to any attempt to better organize digitally. Once you’re a legit problem, the ban-hammers will come out. I think it prudent to be prepared to take to mesh networking, radio, sneakernet, private couriers, (again) print, anything that works around a complete fascist takeover of the internet. Fortunately, the bandwidth and storage requirements for truth and information are shockingly small. It won’t take much.
- InfoWars has it right by laying out a massive all-onion buffet, but man is that a tough watch.