btsax
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- Comment on Falling with style 21 hours ago:
Is this car being driven by Spain’s first astronaut?
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 2 weeks ago:
Oh another thing my grandmother is personally responsible for is fomenting working class infighting to keep people squabbling and not looking upwards at the people who are the real cause of problems. That was also her specifically.
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, I remember when my grandmother spent a century undermining scientific research on climate change through a massive campaign of exaggerating scientific uncertainty and overwhelming news media all while increasing consumption worldwide to 103 million barrels per day and promoting the development of the military-industrial complex to secure her interests
- Comment on Slay 4 weeks ago:
So in this context is the meme saying that “nobody” has noticed girls thirst trapping on Insta? That’s something everybody notices! Or is it saying that nobody says nothing, a double negative meaning that everybody agrees?
- Comment on Slay 4 weeks ago:
I still don’t get the “Nobody:” meme format. It wouldn’t have a different meaning without it. Or is this the meme format that marked my transition to old age? I no longer understand the youths?
- Comment on In honor to commemorate the victims of 911 here's a bush joke. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on It's never been about helping people 1 month ago:
Important to note this isn’t new or restricted to red parts of the country. Vagrancy laws, laws against loitering, etc are all ways of criminalizing the poor to ensure we are all loyal wage slaves, and to a lesser extent feeding the prison-industrial complex. Many Steinbeck novels touch on this so it was a prevalent cultural touchstone in the 30s
- Comment on Friends. 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Mass layoffs expected at EA as the now-private publisher reportedly tells its new debt masters that it's going to cut $700 million in annual costs 2 months ago:
It makes rich people richer
- Comment on Trump’s tariffs resulted in a massive transfer of wealth from working people into the hands of millionaires and billionaire 2 months ago:
“The Democrats caused this by not letting the tariffs go to reducing my income taxes”
-Future Americans
- Comment on Some useful react memes 2 months ago:
- Comment on Literally nobody 2 months ago:
I’m not religious anymore and I’m not making a defense of Christianity, but before all of this the Bible explains that when Jesus comes and starts teaching, he’s going to teach in parable (metaphor) so most of his teaching needs to be seen through that lens. So this should more properly be seen as a teaching saying to take your gifts (compassion, love, wisdom) out into the world and use them to become a better person. There’s also some deeper meaning here that usury was frowned upon at the time so this would have been a very provocative thing to use as a metaphor.
Of course the main way that people corrupt Christianity is by taking things literally, and if you do that you can take any meaning away you want. That’s how you get a branch that literally only exists to promote the institution of chattel slavery (Southern Baptist) along with pacifist, community-centric, anti-slavery Quakers. And how people are OK with driving BMWs to church and engaging in the crusades and thinking Trump was sent by God. It’s all in there if you want it to be, which makes it easy to exploit.
- Comment on Has anobody seen Odyssey? 2 months ago:
Dune?
- Comment on Me this morning 2 months ago:
I smoke two joints at night
- Comment on Me this morning 2 months ago:
I smoke two joints in the morning
- Comment on not getting it™ since 2024© 3 months ago:
If someone could also explain why half the post titles have the word “rule” in them, that would also be helpful
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 3 months ago:
- Comment on stroke confirmed 4 months ago:
We do have this quarter:
- Comment on Well damn. Glad he's dead. 4 months ago:
He also invented a vegan burrito called the Dilberito that was somewhat questionable
“As for Adams, he left the world of food behind, considering the Dilberito a failure, a lesson to be learned. Adams would later describe the nutritional value of the burrito as such: ‘Three bites of the Dilberito made you fart so hard your intestines formed a tail.’”
- Comment on Cuba Libre 🇨🇺 4 months ago:
Ho Chi Minh appealed to the United States’ supposed values of freedom and self-determination when he basically straight up asked for the Americans’ help liberating Vietnam from the French. Plenty of alternate histories to go around if the US doesn’t guarantee shooting itself in the foot 100% of the time
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 5 months ago:
Untitled Goose Game
- Comment on It's about the *option* 5 months ago:
It’s always been like this. Jeeps famous inline 6 that everyone raves about had the oil filter directly over the alternator so every time you change the oil you spill dirty oil all over the vehicle’s main electrical components. It’s like it was designed by monkeys and no owner has ever seen a Toyota
- Comment on 😉 😉 5 months ago:
The problem being solved is having a friend who is a drywall contractor who needs some extra work
- Comment on My new and improved privacy stack 5 months ago:
always lol @ brave
- Comment on No soy chorizo 5 months ago:
It’s the chorizo! Very chorizo!
- Comment on My shopping list: Coal 5 months ago:
Mark the Super Bowl on your calendar (if you are in the US) because it is the best time to go to most stores.
- Comment on How do I actually find a job that isn't retail? 5 months ago:
In the US very few employers in licensed trades are willing to apprentice anyone anymore so it can be difficult to find your way in
- Comment on I would watch that ngl 6 months ago:
I’d rather watch kids falling off of bikes
- Comment on No like really bro I’m just here for the silly shoes 6 months ago:
Side note, PBA has probably the coolest mascot in all of US colleges! The burrowing owl, an endangered owl that is not only native to Florida but lives on the campus! I know you know that, but for everyone else it’s worth knowing and looking up some pictures.
You could also make an argument for UC Santa Cruz
