Oh great, maybe next I can hear what MR GOO GOO and MADAM FARTYPANTS and their friend CAPTAIN STINKYWINKY have to say about policy and politics and good lord Clown World is tiresome sometimes with how unserious-yet-serious all this bullshit is.
This is a commonly repeated canard, but it doesn't actually wash. Cheap, processed, packaged food is only cheaper if comparing single-servings.
Buying things like rice, flour, corn in minor bulk (not talking much, maybe a pound or more) and fresh vegetables, and combining them into actual meals, costs less per serving than this fake-wheat-palm-oil-assembled-into-food-shapes bullshit.
It doesn't keep nearly as well, because microbes and microflora also consider these meals to be food, unlike that other shit. But cost is not the prevailing issue here--it's knowledge, effort, and will.
Can't help but notice you're hiding a lot of work in the "burn" part. As if there wasn't 10 semesters worth of biochem involved in that "burning" process, each intensely interested in what form the calories come.
People aren't stoves you shove wood or coal into, and get BTUs out. Yes, your body will come out different if you eat 10,000 calories of meat versus drink 10,000 calories of beer.
Ha! I knew it! He's the guy who voiced her when talking about the snow plowing, right?
"Eye finking ree need to remooo da snoh" videos, stupidly funny.
Sorry, I'm not following. Who is that? It looks like a "best of" list of retarded astroturf comments from 2015-2026.
THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN
These all seem to be written in extremely similar voice.
It's same as always, really. He did one a month or so ago that was better, something like "White People posting Wins." A nice palette cleanser from the usual chaos and degradation.
Red Queen, whetstone, etc. Anyhow, I disagree. Gatekeeping is for low-effort shitting, not for amusingly bad takes.
Oh, nice. I saw this guy a couple times on You Can't Stop Progress and kept meaning to find out who he was. Ben Bankas, apparently.
I haven't seen any evidence that he's any more agent than "summary execution" retard AntonoVeniceDude. People gotta be free to say stupid shit, even if it's annoying and dumb.
Photos are retarded. Videos are better, and there have been several. Unless you are incredibly stupid, when you see the videos, you understand that what you're looking at is a goddamn mess. If you treat this like you're playing Superhot, like the people involved were all acting with slow-motion precision, with perfect information and time to plan their next joint movement, then you have no business opening your silly gob on any subject of importance.
Also, have you noticed that you're basically the only one going on about "justified?" You're trying to win arguments against nobody real. People here are talking "warranted" (not the same as "justified") and causality, and even saying whether they're happy with the outcome. You've picked the only angle of discussion not on the table, which means you are not listening to anyone else.
Never read it myself, but I've always heard that a big progenitor for all of this is "Simulacra and Simulation," a pseudo-philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard.
If want want more fun stuff with the same general neighborhood of ideas, I'd recommend William Gibson's "Neuromancer." "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson is a logical next step in fun cybernonsense.
Hard as this is to believe, I doubt that cover is AI. To me it looks in the same neighborhood as an "Animorphs" book cover. In the late 90's a lot of publishers stopped paying $10k per book cover for artists to make actual paintings that they then used as covers, and everything went "computer art." Everything since then, including this, looks like the same sort of awful to me.
I think this specific cover is from 2021, so before AI. Just fucking terrible though, that's for sure.
The Matrix Strange Days Johnny Mnemonic Dark City The Thirteenth Floor eXistenZ
is my short list for this kind of stuff, movies that are worth it. Not "good" necessarily, but if not good then fun at least.
Oh regarding the last part, who I am: I've been with GG since the beginning. Banned so many times I can't even remember what throw-away names I used, mostly for giving shit to mods for trying to "guide the discourse in a productive direction," which is always commie faggot bullshit.
After an abortive attempt to make an account on this iteration of the community I was told "border control" was the reason why I couldn't get verified and I have no idea what that means and chose to observe rather than contest it, if that's even possible. I've been watching for I don't know how long.
Yeah I have a bad habit of tone-matching, which (too often) means that you didn't mean anything by it, but I got Triggered! by perceived disrespect, and escalated. You'd think decades of mostly watching people disagree online would slow my roll, but unfortunately there's the human factor.
I don't think that ICE has taken an important reputational hit. Those who were going to hate, still do. Normies get spooky noises in their peripheral vision, and maybe have a bad bowel movement, then all is forgotten. Under the current information conditions, people have already chosen who they listen to. "Summary execution" is for leftists and The View aficionados (and this Antonio faggot). Middling sheep people fear loud noises. Those in the know, like most here, know what's what, and optics isn't really on the table for them except as an esoteric, strategic idea.
That's why I find it important in places like here to hold the line. It's important to maintain a coherent, shared vision of what all of this means. That's far more important than all this squinting at barbarism and trying to decide who's more wrong, and what that's going to do to upset the digestion of the ignorant and the retarded.
This doesn't necessitate the administration or the agenda moving forward successfully at all. I think they're spinning plates best they can on the deck of the Titanic. What's going on now is not the repair of a damaged Empire, or the refreshing of a Republic. This is a shared geography being divvied up, and folk deciding by opinion where future political borders are going to lie.
What's on the line is Will. One of the biggest determinants of future America is going to be a split between those who still believe in things like dignity, resolve, Will, Justice, responsibility, and all that. That's what's on the line now, and what needs to be agreed-upon. We're all choosing what metaphysical Kingdom we are citizens of. Weakness, waffling, inappropriate softness, is going to pull people into indecision, anxiety, and confusion.
All of this political motion is likely going to fail--in it's overt objectives, anyway. What's important is if it does, to at least go down swinging. Hand-wringing as a popular option is going to leave a lot of people who could've been Good, out in the cold, when the new lines are drawn.
Schadenfreude (for you) and cringe (interacting with you) is not the same as embarrassment. It's remarkable how important to you this is and yet how terrible you are at it. You dribbled along with this community after the previous KiA died off too much, but that was your proper home. You should be there.
No, man, no. I'm not doing this "arguing about arguing" thing with you like you're my girlfriend. Okay, you want to know when things went sour, here:
"You're missing the point." That's a fucking rude thing to say to someone who has already spilled numerous paragraphs elucidating a position. And right after that you leaped into accusations. That's just what went down. I'm looking at it right now, per your request. If you want to know when things got weird and how, it's right there, and it's at your insistence.
Yeah called it. Not that it was a tough observation to make.
Decorate. With your brains, faggot.
You've gotten all uptight and prickly, so I don't think it's of any use to continue to discuss this. I really didn't ever assume anything or say anything about what's rattling around in your head--only responded to what you say, which you've now decided to take personally in a kind of odd and uncomfortable way.
I'll leave it at this: "My" approach, also known as "the" approach, is working. There's ratcheting tension, but the job is getting done. What you've been calling "public perception," which is really just your opinion and reportedly that of your cowardly co-workers, is not nearly for softening as you seem to think. There's plenty of other prevalent opinions out there, including that insurrectionists on the street need to be made to back the fuck off, which can only be accomplished by MN brass actually doing their jobs.
That is the latest news, also--that Walz has promised Trump to be more accommodating as it applies to his Executive forces providing the support they're supposed to.
So whatever "my" way is, that's the way things are going. Not your kumbaya drum circle.
I can't hear you over the sound of all that ass you're eating. Unfortunately for everyone, it doesn't sound like you dying, just yet.
Nobody gives a hot fart what you think about, on any subject, at any time. When you digustingly post salad at me, that's how I'm going to respond, if and when I bother. This doesn't even begin to embarrass me. Nothing you could possibly do or say can do that, because I respect you about as much as some chewing gum some asshole left on the pavement outside a convenience store.
Eat my ass and die.
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I would take this as a joke except it's depressingly close to actual "performers:" Sam Smith and "Bad Bunny." Sic transit gloria mundi.