neuracnu @ neuracnu @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I’m getting 50% Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture vibes.

Speaking and sharing what you’re going through rarely fixes problems, but it does help as…

1. a moderate pressure release for you, by simply letting the frustration loose can help relieve the stress of hiding the emotions and behaviors,
2. gives people around you context to your (likely noticeably) different behavior along with the opportunity to offer support, guidance or material help, and
3. either speaking or writing an unformed idea that’s vexing you has a finite benefit by taking a fluid, nebulous, unwieldy feeling and capturing it in amber, pinning it down to something that can be refined, examined and (hopefully) mitigated.

For more on this third point, see this article on how one can use writing as a thinking exercise, helping refine and distill ideas into more-satisfying understood truths.

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/writing-to-think

( ( laughs in old… ) )

I really appreciate the added context here, pointing out the Heritage Foundation's Mandate for Leadership documents that were written for Regan's first term as well as for Trump in 2016.

A common talking point seems to be that this is just a wishlist, not actual policy, though high percentages of the recommendations (2/3rds) DO end up as policy.

Some select quotes:

Respectability is a prison and the gates are open and people are desperate to be inside.

You can criticize ideas, but you cancel people. And I think the cancel culture thing... I think it's the new book burning.

Another friend of mine went, "You need to just right-size this." (...) She said, "What's happened here? You told a joke and some people didn't like it. That's what happened." It didn't seem like that big a deal when you put it like that. And yet, in the moment, sometimes it feels catastrophic.

You can't have an easy life and a great character.

All of these quotes are in reference to general ideas so far as I can tell -- the overall concepts of respectability and "cancel culture", not specific instances. And I think the interview missed a huge opportunity to dig deeper on these ideas by citing specific examples to start picking at those broad takes.

Cancel culture applies to people who make choices that hurt others and are unrepentant about it. It's not about the choices; we all fuck up from time to time. It's about the lack of remorse. That's what speaks to a person's true nature. And if a person's true nature leads them to unapologetically hurt people, then they're a piece of shit person and I'm justified in wanting nothing to do with them.

Excuse me, that’s Vice President Trump.

For your hypothetical scenario to make more sense, the US would have had to annex Baja California just a decade prior, then straight up have gone to forward invasion war with Mexico to annex more, bombing the shit out of the country including children’s hospitals.

In that scenario, fuck yes Mexico would be justified in finding allies to help them maintain sovereignty and protect themselves.

That’s what happens when nations invade one another.

Hang on one second babe…

(clap-clap)

I checked the article to see if this was the NULLBULGE folks again, but no, this was reportedly executed by SiegedSec. A different queer furry hacker group.

The real take-away line here was this:

Do you understand the opportunity here? Do you have any idea how thirsty Americans are for any hint of inspiration or leadership and release from this choice of a megolomaniac and a suffocating gerentocricy? It is crushing our fucking spirit! Do you have any idea what could be ahead of you?

Nobody ever put mushroom duxelles in my corndogs. I feel cheated.

Last year, WNYC had an episode of their More Perfect podcast all about Thomas and, more or less, how he got that way.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolabmoreperfect/episodes/clarence-x

Including his sexual assault victims?

My head canon for the kids anime film Penguin Highway is that the plot is about a visitation by >3 dimensional beings. Adventures in flatland, but we’re living in flatland.

Gonna need you to take about 20% off the top there Dashie.

DMs containing the identities of spies and assets.

He also managed to wriggle away from multiple rape charges in Sweden by waiting out the statute of limitations.

Heroes and villains alike have complex legacies.

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A white people taco night no less...

I started paying attention to this stuff back when Dolby Pro Logic was new, which was a pretty clever way to get surround effects using only left and right audio channels. Left and right channels went directly to the front left and right speakers, but it also compared wave forms coming from the left and right channels. Any wave forms that matched got sent to the center channel (like most on-screen dialog) and any that mismatched got sent to the rear surround speakers (noise, ambience, etc). It wasn't perfect by any measure, but it was a pretty clever hack.

The fact that this news follows layoffs may not be a coincidence.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-lay-off-hundreds-azure-cloud-unit-business-insider-reports-2024-06-03/