I have avowed to start programming again and signed up for some classes on edX. I think I'm going to do some front end stuff and maybe retake a python class.
Yeah, after listening to some Reply All episodes about conspiracy theories, I've stopped believing that they are harmless fun (I never thought they were fun or interesting but thought that other people could indulge in them as a fun eccentric habit or w/e) and have decided that they promote dangerous non-reality-based thinking and harmful attitudes. Also my people are often targeted (you mean lizard people, were you not just talking about how you don't make your own body heat? ok yes but no I mean the jews obviously) and that tends to feel not harmless.
I think most people engage in magical, non-reality based thinking about politics, where they have unfalsifiable theses about how the forces of evil are coordinated behind all the things they don’t like whereas the forces of good are in a beleaguered and martyrly siege.
Part of what’s surprising about conspiracy theories, imo, isn’t that it’s magical thinking, it’s that it’s so specific and that it doesn’t line up with what anyone’s selling. When people believe non reality based things for social reasons there’s usually a more obvious explanation, like, oh, this is flattering for you to pretend to be true, or it’s what’s said in polite company, or you read news sources that all pretend this is true, or—
i just found an unopened 300g bag of snickers i forgot i had. now i have to deal with this situation.
The testing of the modern day Job has begun. Next will come the trial of the internet outages, followed by the temptress outside the window who is sexy but has this bad cough.
i don't think "reality-based thinking" really exists, though
like maybe it's theoretically possible but i've yet to meet a single person who actually does it
lemme tell you about my youtube channel tho
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Personally, the Illuminati are my favorite conspiracy boogeymen
Such a frightful bunch they are! Encouraging literacy and collective action and scientific reasoning to enact their New World Order! Who will save the idiot schmucks of the world from this travesty!?
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Getting nice rgb into my computer while also cooling it properly is an anxiety inducing nightmare of weird cables and not enough space. I just want it to look nice and also work well, why is this so hard?! I am going to go to bed and have nightmares about rgb
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this is just cramps and cramps and *opens mailbox* MORE CRAMPS
My gut is doing that IBS thing where there's just that low-key threat of imminent poops, unless I actually try to do advanced stuff like "go grocery shopping" in which case it'll go "oh no you don't"
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this is just cramps and cramps and *opens mailbox* MORE CRAMPS
My gut is doing that IBS thing where there's just that low-key threat of imminent poops, unless I actually try to do advanced stuff like "go grocery shopping" in which case it'll go "oh no you don't"
Something I ate last night is super not agreeing with me, but I'll be damned if I know what it is. I just wish my gut would get a move on and get rid of it.
I pooped before hiking to make sure that I didn't have to poop while hiking. Cue a panicked hour where I stop every fifteen minutes to try not to shit my pants in front of well dressed German hikers. Make it down to the house. I get husband to open garage door because I can't even make it down to the stairs. I do the freeze which is like stage 9 of trying not to shit myself. Almost shit myself in the garage in front of people. But the wave passed and I made it into the house and toilet. Fuck IBS.
I pooped before hiking to make sure that I didn't have to poop while hiking. Cue a panicked hour where I stop every fifteen minutes to try not to shit my pants in front of well dressed German hikers. Make it down to the house. I get husband to open garage door because I can't even make it down to the stairs. I do the freeze which is like stage 9 of trying not to shit myself. Almost shit myself in the garage in front of people. But the wave passed and I made it into the house and toilet. Fuck IBS.
This sounds like an emergency, why didn’t you call me
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After his presidency is done, I would prefer if I never heard about him ever again.
2525: Cybertrumps rule the countryside. Mankind has taken to the oceans for refuge.
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It is better known for it's ferocious bite, which it can deliver with shocking speed for a turtle. NO, WAIT--
IT IS BEST KNOWN for that time one chased me across a parking lot and I had to climb on top of a car.
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Mornin', @Dynagrip. How goes life?
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I have avowed to start programming again and signed up for some classes on edX. I think I'm going to do some front end stuff and maybe retake a python class.
Snapping turtles are the best. Place one and "activate" it with A if you haven't yet.
I think most people engage in magical, non-reality based thinking about politics, where they have unfalsifiable theses about how the forces of evil are coordinated behind all the things they don’t like whereas the forces of good are in a beleaguered and martyrly siege.
Part of what’s surprising about conspiracy theories, imo, isn’t that it’s magical thinking, it’s that it’s so specific and that it doesn’t line up with what anyone’s selling. When people believe non reality based things for social reasons there’s usually a more obvious explanation, like, oh, this is flattering for you to pretend to be true, or it’s what’s said in polite company, or you read news sources that all pretend this is true, or—
like maybe it's theoretically possible but i've yet to meet a single person who actually does it
The testing of the modern day Job has begun. Next will come the trial of the internet outages, followed by the temptress outside the window who is sexy but has this bad cough.
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Such a frightful bunch they are! Encouraging literacy and collective action and scientific reasoning to enact their New World Order! Who will save the idiot schmucks of the world from this travesty!?
Sit in your car near a park and hand it out to children
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I bet if we condensed those books it be a lot peppier
Divvy up some of those stories to more dynamic characters
Moses parted the Red Sea only to be swallowed by a whale as he crossed. He got free when he cut off the whale’s foreskin.
Oh so we are trying to get chu arrested for terrorism now
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I have already decided not to eat these for fear of stray caramel tickling my throat and making me cough
stop fucking editing the goddamn content. you're bad at it
*farts a lot*
oh I wish
this is just cramps and cramps and *opens mailbox* MORE CRAMPS
My gut is doing that IBS thing where there's just that low-key threat of imminent poops, unless I actually try to do advanced stuff like "go grocery shopping" in which case it'll go "oh no you don't"
Something I ate last night is super not agreeing with me, but I'll be damned if I know what it is. I just wish my gut would get a move on and get rid of it.
This sounds like an emergency, why didn’t you call me