Photuris @ Photuris @lemmy.ml

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I dunno. They were driven underground before. How did our grandfathers manage that‽

So, how do we drive these fuckers back underground?

And after the fall of the Roman Republic, when the emperors would speak to “rule of law” in theory, but relied almost entirely on “might makes right” in practice, assassination attempts became so commonplace that it simply became part of the job of being imperator.

Without due process, our civilization devolves into a mafia mob boss scenario - assassination and coup after assassination and coup - until eventually the empire fragments into fiefdoms. But now with rifles and drones.

No sane person should want this.

I used to think that the term “zeitgeist” was a neat metaphor, but people who took it too literally were silly and merely playing around with woo-woo mysticism (like Jung).

Now I’m not so sure. The “zeitgeist” of America appears to be going through its cruel edge-lord phase, and the cultural change around me has appeared, to me at least, both frighteningly rapid and preternaturally inexplicable.

It feels like a force of Nature happening, like a sudden flood or something.

I’m leaning on the mystical to explain this shit now, fuck it. Maybe our land, too, has something akin to a “Spirit of Odin” that rises up every few centuries and makes people irrational, blood-thirsty, and crazy.

I just don’t know.

I installed Slackware in ’96.

Things have most certainly changed.

If we could somehow cure Cluster B Personality Disorders, 95% of humanity’s problems would disappear overnight.

It’s just the perennial Problem of Evil, but with modern psychological terminology.

Same shit, different day.

Most crypto is traceable, if someone is willing to spend the time and energy on it.

Monero is not traceable. Because of the better privacy, I’m surprised Monero isn’t more popular. But I guess other cryptos are “private enough” while offering other advantages (like not having to mirror the entire blockchain).

I didn’t know when I signed up. I just had to “pick a server,” so I did.

There was a day, not too long ago, where I’d seriously considered buying a Tesla. And I nearly did.

As of today, I for one will never buy a single Tesla product - not a car, not a truck, not a battery, not a robot, whatever - for as long as I live.

And no decision from Tesla leadership will change my mind at this point. Fuck them.

Even if that makes me a crazy old man 30-40 years from now when all this is in the past. Never means never.

I didn’t know it was considered a tankie instance when I signed up, and I’m not a tankie, fwiw.

All my neighbors are MAGA

We should never allow MAGA a single moment’s peace then.

As a chronic procrastinator, I ain’t doing shit.

They kicked us off of Reddit, dude.

I dunno, man.

All I know is that open-mindedness is far less common than I’d once assumed.

And there are those people who aren’t actually interested in truth, but are instead interested in “winning,” because they see every conversation as a power struggle, with a winner and a loser (and as such, language is merely a tool to be wielded for gaining and maintaining social power, not actually finding out things for their own sake). Part of that game can include pretending to be curious and interested in truth, because of the positive image that can project for them.

When those of us who are actually curious about the world interact with one of these types, it can be quite a confusing and frustrating experience if we don’t know what we’re dealing with.

Same! This is 100% on my radar now.

Hell yeah

No stereo is a bit spartan, but definitely a move in the right direction regardless. I want one.

I overlocked my Pentium 133 to 150.

I was such a badass.

This lady has been divorced twice.

Not that I otherwise care. Do what you want with your life and relationships - life is complex and difficult at times. Not every relationship works out, sadly.

But for a twice-divorced lady to tell women to “submit to men,” it sounds like she herself has a problem keeping her trap shut and submitting to a man. The hypocrisy is so thick here you can cut it with a knife.

Rules for thee but not for me.