uriel238
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- Comment on Sorry, guys, it's just not happening 14 hours ago:
Klein bottle for sale. Inquire within.
- Comment on Sorry, guys, it's just not happening 14 hours ago:
Curiously relevant to my romantic life, having had a GF who wanted to be a surrogate mom, which meant she had to go off medical contraception which meant we had to rely on other means of birth control.
Because we couldn’t keep from sowing wild oats, we had to actually take a hiatus from our relationship. Life is weird.
- Comment on you have been defeated, you do not pass go, you do not collect your $200 14 hours ago:
Defeated male lurks.
When all the lionesses are in heat and all want to be bred RIGHT NOW and multiple times (and will bite the scrotum of the solitary male to… stimulate him into action), then it’s the hour for all the defeated males to shine.
Seriously, this is a relevant part of lion pride sociopolitics. It may also figure into why the dominant male tends to kill the cubs of the lionesses
when there’s doubt as to their heritage.When I researched alleged murder gangs of lion males there’s not much evidence for them, but discovered insatiably horny lionesses (seriously) is the way defeated males get their day.
- Comment on am I cooked chat 14 hours ago:
In this case, my minimum-wageiness trumps Mr. Ramsay’s celebrity and inappropriate attitude.
Or put another way,
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
- Comment on OLAY! 1 day ago:
I think the implication is that it’s part of her tradwife contract that she rave about Stephen Miller’s sexual prowess.
I’m not one to kink shame, but Stephen Miller is shameful before the kink.
- Comment on soda 1 day ago:
10 to 1 would be a bit much. 5 to 1 indicates the syrup is already thinned out, which is a possibility if the denser syrup doesn’t mix readily with the fizzy without stirring.
But then, I’d figure there was purchase-density syrup, and then pre-make which is ready to dispense with fizz water, and a clerk is tasked with diluting one to make the other.
That’s the way it’d be if I were writing a fast food sim.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 day ago:
Do we have verification of this photo? Also, I thought digi-cam fatigues were out nowadays since they’re less effective than old-school camouflage.
Besides which, national guard don’t usually get to choose their deployment. They’re in Chicago, I assume, to pick up litter and guard federal buildings at the pleasure of their civilian commanders (up to the limits of what they’re legally allowed to do). They’re contemptable once they follow illegal orders and engage in state violence.
- Comment on soda 1 day ago:
1/5 syrup is a lot of syrup, and doesn’t track with Italian-style sodas.
I have heard that brand name syrups are often charged extra for a patent fee or something, much like the studios overcharging movie theaters since the 90s / aughts, forcing them to run entirely on concessions.
- Comment on soda 1 day ago:
I’ve run nothing, but a friend of mine was a Pizza Inn manager and talked a bit about it, albeit in the late 80s / early 90s.
But the attitudes I’ve seen from managers suggests at an anecdotal level they don’t know that much and don’t care. They penny pinch in the wrong places, often developing the reputation that their own establishment has mean, miserly policies. Maybe, if their margins are that low, like it’s Walmart, this is necessary.
Still, there’s a lot of focus by companies on loss control than there is by making their places welcome enough to bother shopping there; this figures into the recent Walgreens franchise culling in San Francisco.
The focus of my own studies (as a game dev) had been about crunching in AAA game development, which is still done even though it has the opposite effect as tended (specifically, hurrying up production to meet a deadline). Managers of billion-dollar projects are willing to be stupid in the face of data-driven policy; the cruelty is sometimes the point. Among the convenience store managers I’ve encountered, they don’t look at or care about the data.
Believe what you need to believe, though.
- Comment on soda 2 days ago:
Incidentally, the soda (gas-injected water plus syrup) is so cheap this would be better tolerated as a photo op and free advertising. When you get a fast food cup and free refills, the cup is literally more expensive than the soda + ice that goes into it. It’s nearly 100% profit.
- Comment on soda 2 days ago:
AI art has come a long way. You can make your AI look like shitty florescent lighting, or a fading photograph. Also AI folk normally have five fingers on each hand in a normal position thanks to LORAs. LORAs also fix wording when you specify what you want a caption to say.
It’ll mess up logos unless you specify a particular brand.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 3 days ago:
I became too crazy for my wife.
I was pretty crazy when she took me in (also hella creative and hella horny), but the COVID-19 lockdown did a number on
meeveryone, including me, and then I couldn’t get back into therapy because it’s impacted.TMI
spoiler
On one hand, yeah, so much for in sickness and in health and on the other hand I know I can be
batshit insane and fucking scarya bit of a burden sometimes. Also I’m really, really big on consent and (only) what the girl wants, the girl gets. When she wants out, she gets out. (I’m jealous of the new beau, but more because I’m desperately lonely than a need to possess and contain her). Also she pushes herself to move on after loss (say when we lost our dog, we got a new puppy pretty quickly), where as I want to squeeze all the grief out for a year or two before unfurling my sails once again. Being human is just hard. - Comment on 3 days ago:
Controllers in 2015 were about $40 for a Playstation standard and could get up to $200 depending on the features you wanted (e.g. wireless, self charging, extended range, game domination features, etc.)
Most people have a $10-$30 market for sex toys until they get serious about it. Kids exploring their bits don’t have any budget at all, and can only get things that pretend to be toys for kids.
Evidently, it’s appropriate to get your tween a vibrating broomstick (or a bumble ball if you’re a California hippy parent who wants to assure your toddler grows up well-adjusted) but not a vibrating rubber duckie. I’m not fully sure why.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
A friend of mine had to vibrate the snot out of her leg as part of PT (it’s a very long and gruesome story), and for stuff like that magic-wand type vibes are great. But the new orgasmotron vibes use weird biofeedback science and fancy rhythms to get the pulse just right for people who have various kinds of sexual dysfunction.
Some of them also relay your health issues back to the App provider to be added to your consumer profile and sold, so do use IoT security and try not to get ones that sell your info.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
As I played it with mouse and keyboard, I never got to experience the rumble effects of Moxxi’s gear.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
To be fair, having recently been on the market for a proper vibrating sex toy, they’re expensive as fuck, and according to my ex-wife (ow. ex- still stings.) capable of providing mind-blowing orgasms. So yeah, for those without a budget, we make do with what we got, or the bargain bin at Good Vibes.
TMI:
spoiler
The item in question doesn’t figure into why she’s ex- now, but the reason we were on the market for one absolutely does. I’ll be talking to an endocrinologist at the end of the year.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 5 days ago:
The same thing happened to terrorist, a term that became overused and dead during the IWoT and yet the Trump regime is still trying to leverage that word against his political enemies.
For my own arguments, I use alternatives to fascist or get specific, such as calling it an autocratic regime that uses fascist rhetoric to justify state violence. That way my readers know I’m talking seriously about a serious thing.
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- Comment on What's your test for people? 1 week ago:
I haven’t been going to cafés since the great fast-food inflation hike, but that tracks.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
Only during REM sleep, and even then, it’s not the same as alert-and-aware consciousness.
During non-REM sleep, during which your body does most of its growth, healing and cell replacement, death stops by for a visit. See also when under general anesthesia.
- Comment on What's your test for people? 1 week ago:
When I lived in San Francisco, self-bussing was the norm. Here in Sacramento even the cafe wait staff look at me like I am crazy, unless I’m in a coffee franchise like Starbucks or Peets.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
Without a brain and no small amount of power (20% of your calorie count at rest on average, less when jogging, more when doing the calculus) the age of the universe goes by instantly. You don’t track time.
You also don’t track heat or pain, or memories good or bad. You don’t contemplate your trials and tribulations. You could be in the core of the sun at over a million degrees Celsius and not feel a thing or care how you got there.
The universe has been around for thirteen billion years, and will be around for even longer, and we only get this moment. And then it’s gone.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
It’s not the death part that scares me. It’s the transition between living and dead that’s going to suck.
But then I had a really terrible November 2024 and am still suffering a high-suicidality psychotic break, so my opinion might be biased.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 1 week ago:
The non mushy straws aren’t terrible, but all rubberized tires are, whether on cars or bikes. The car ones are much worse.
And air travel is even worse still
But not close to industrial pollution which is exponentially greater.
The billionaires could care more and put some R&D into it. They just dont.
- Comment on So she's saying that she's a sexual bull? 2 weeks ago:
I’m assuming bragging on Miller’s prowess is an explicit part of Katie Miller’s tradwife contract.
- Comment on Thanks for the memories 2 weeks ago:
It’s a good time to be there for those buddies who totally thought they were on the invite list but here they are.
It’s okay, dude, we’ll have our own party! With blackjack and hookers!
I had half a mind to tell them _oh yeah, it totally happened! 17 thousand missing persons in Mississippi! Another 12k in Nebraska. Check your county rapture count website to see if it’s come locally.
They’ll have to come to terms that they’re one of us now, but they were one of us before.
- Comment on Practical Magic 3 weeks ago:
The thing is, this isn’t a curse.
A curse is what happened to Bill O’Reilly, to Tucker Carlson, to Glen Beck. Either there’s a scandal reckoning, or the guy believes his own rhetoric a little too much and says something kooky or too far out the Overton window, or draws the stupidest chalkboard diagram and someone in FOX notices his average viewership is 72 years old, and retires his show.
They take a serious demotion in popularity and a pay cut and all but retire. That’s how witch’s curses work when they do.
However Kirk did suffer one of Charles Dickens’ many curses. ( …Charlie Dickens – Charlie Kirk – coincidence?) In A Christmas Carol the chapter on the visitation of the Ghost of Christmases Yet To Come. Wealthy people who have not empathy with nor sympathy for the rest of us folk eventually die and then are not grieved when they’re gone (except by those who have to gain by presenting a sad face). Kirk wasn’t one of the moguls, but he spread their rhetoric and was one of their ruthless minions.
- Comment on Too soon? 4 weeks ago:
Not soon enough.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 4 weeks ago:
Narrator: The problem wasn’t the kids it was the US.
Clarification: venues getting shot up is a specifically elevated problem in the US (exacerbated by availability of guns, but that’s not really the root of the problem). The thing is, the root of the problem (right-wing-leaning low-information constituents – lumpenproletariat in left-wing speak – suffering from precarity sometimes turn to violence) is being visited on European nations where two-party systems have taken root, and neoliberalism has set in. It’s the old King Log vs. King Heron problem. We’re seeing violence and counterviolence in the EU, just with less frequency and fewer guns, but it will catch up to them.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 4 weeks ago:
Everything I can is scant little. But some people object to my removing my footprint entirely. While I separate out my recycling from my landfill, perhaps you can explain how I can better encourage multinational corporations to consider sustainability as something other than a marketing tool.
Yes, we have bacteriaphages which serve as treatment for XTR Tuberculosis, but things like this do scant little for people who are infected as autocratic interests work to dismantle the global disease control state. Yes, young people are better learning left-wing politics as our education systems in the US are being systematically dismantled around such efforts.
I am sure you can find small ways things are improving. After all, we are closer to manned Mars expeditions even if they’re decades away. We are closer to fusion power even if it’s still approximately the same thirty years away it was in the early 1990s. There will be a point we can stuff hydrogen into a power plant and get a net energy output by fusing it into hydrogen, but that is a long way away, longer than our time left if our international community doesn’t take immediate action.
But yes, I’m bitter. In the 1980s when I was a student and young worker I was expected to give 110% (despite that is oxymoronic, it was the rhetoric of the time) and since then I learned that our leaders, our representatives, our officials don’t even bother to act like adults while holding office and allegedly conducting their duties.
We are watching the decline and fall of civilization. USSR went, now the US, and the EU and China stages are already destabilizing, and that’s not merely from climate change, but our refusal to distribute political power.
So I can’t be entirely sure, my friend, but it appears from over here, from my (granted, cynical) eye that you are missing the forest for the trees.
The climate crisis is only the first of great filters humankind is imminently careening towards and has yet to show effort towards navigating. We are rapidly turning into the example for future intelligent species of what not to do… assuming they can discover that example from the geological layers, determine how we killed ourselves and then actively choose a reasonable response where we failed to do so.
But I don’t say this as a doomeristic / beatnik approach. I’m saying this as a sober assessment. We’re not going to get to enjoy the benefits of 2020’s era progress for very long, assuming we can hold it as autocrats wreck all we’ve wrought for their own personal gain, and the world literally burns.
