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- Comment on Beauty is still out there 2 days ago:
Ceci n’est pas un cigar.
- Comment on SPIRIT WEAPON 6 days ago:
Calm down, Amber Heard.
- Comment on Anon is at a work function 1 week ago:
I only go when there’s free beer. Like, real, actual beer. None of that 0% BS.
- Comment on Anon is lacking something metaphysical 2 weeks ago:
And one day when we flee
From our sweet misery
And shed our human costumes then
Revealing somewhat smaller men
Go off to work and then back again - Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
In authoritarian societies, restricting education serves a purpose as a sort of anesthesia for the minds of the people. Solzhenitsyn, describing the few years just before the Great Terror of 1937 started in the Soviet Union, mostly from the perspective of a political prisoner (from Volume II, Chapter 4 of the “Gulag Archipelago” which can be found in its entirety on the web, in The Archive):
And the clock of history was striking. […] The Great Leader (having already in mind, no doubt, how many he would soon have to do away with) declared that the withering away of the state (which had been awaited virtually from 1920 on) would arrive via, believe it or not, the maximum intensification of state power! This was so unexpectedly brilliant that it was not given to every little mind to grasp it, but Vyshinsky, ever the loyal apprentice, immediately picked it up: “And this means the maximum strengthening of corrective-labor institutions.” […] And this was not some satirical magazine cracking a joke either, but was said by the Prosecutor General. […] All this was printed in black on white, but we still didn’t know how to read.¹ The year 1937 was publicly predicted and provided with a foundation.
And the hairy hand² tossed out all the frills and gewgaws too. Labor collectives? Prohibited! […] Professional and technical courses for prisoners? Dissolve them! […] Graphs, diagrams? Tear them off the wall and whitewash the walls.1 My take: The author and his peers most definitely knew how to read, but they could not fully comprehend what was being published because of its, at that time, unparalleled egregiousness.
2 Certainly the one of Stalin. - Comment on We already knew that 1 month ago:
No, I’ve been afraid before.
- Comment on Stop touching your stuff! 1 month ago:
🎶 What’s love but a second hand in motion. 🎶
- Comment on Freedumb 1 month ago:
At least early Christianity is in many ways socialism. Remember the feeding of the 5000 with five loaves and two fish? The meaning is that there will be plenty if everyone shares.
- Comment on Freedumb 1 month ago:
When the true king’s murderers are allowed to roam free, a thousand magicians arise in the land.
Where are the feast we are promised?(Jim Morrison, An American Prayer)
- Comment on Anon stops showering 1 month ago:
Kinda like H2S, I guess. You can sense its putrid smell it in the range of 0.47 ppb to 100 ppm, then your olfactory nerve becomes paralyzed. Just when you think the gas is gone, there’s a 50% chance of you dying at 800 ppm. Years ago, I read about a “mysterious deaths” case in which H2S was the main suspect because of this stealthy property.
- Comment on Sounds like a problem for them, not me. 1 month ago:
That’s the way. I have three phones, the two non-work phones are 1. for friends and family, 2. for everybody else. One of these is actually a dumb phone. Can’t stand the distractions.
- Comment on Advice on enjoying your life 1 month ago:
The Zhuangzi has a chapter called “Mastering Life.”
Then again, I’ve been reading the whole book back to front dozens of times. It completely changed me, but for it all to sink it, it took a while. - Comment on Ancestry dot com 1 month ago:
Polly wants a cracker
I think I should get off her first
I think she wants some water
To put out the blowtorch - Comment on Arachnid Army 1 month ago:
Strange, something on my scalp keeps itching, wasn’t there a minute ago.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 2 months ago:
Agreed. At some point in your life, time becomes the biggest luxury, so I very much prefer spending a couple of extra bucks on higher quality stuff to the hassle of returning cheaply made trash.
- Comment on No beans, only dogs 2 months ago:
taco, buffalo, birddog and Jesus
- Comment on Gimme some evidence that anyone at all in the government is pushing back on Trump with any effectiveness at all. Someone throw me a bone here. 😬 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Can we all agree on THIS 2 months ago:
The waiting room. I hate when they make you wait in the room. 'Cause it says “Waiting Room.” There’s no chance of not waiting. 'Cause they call it the waiting room, they’re gonna use it. They’ve got it. It’s all set up for you to wait.
- Famous quote from Lemmy’s favorite frenemy entertainer, I guess.
- Comment on Anti-Masturbation Cross 2 months ago:
Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,—Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.
(Herman Melville, Moby Dick)
- Comment on Germany’s four-day work week proves to be a massive hit 2 months ago:
I had to sit through multi-day workshops that could have been a one-liner.
- Comment on Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company 3 months ago:
- Comment on Thanks mom, I don't want any 3 months ago:
You can buy puff pastry, ready to be filled, in stores. We used to do that a lot. Just blend all scraps and spices we could find around the kitchen, put them into the pastry, shape it and bake it in the oven. Totally delicious.
- Comment on The Hot Dog Class 3 months ago:
Oh look, it’s male Anna Kendrick.
- Comment on Pointless existence 3 months ago:
I read an interview once with Leonard Cohen, who, as you might remember, became a Buddhist monk. He stated that in the monastery, you’re free to do pretty much anything - in your free time. Listen to rock music, take drugs, no-one cares.
It’s just that you don’t have any free time because every day is 100% structured.
