Marcus Aurelius, if I recall correctly. Good dude.

For a little while you could buy an IR blaster that plugged into a headphone jack.

Yeah, I ain’t putting up with that either. People can have their beliefs, but getting my head screwed on straight was a hard fought, lifelong journey. I cannot go back.

A rather free love friend of a friend was trying to fuck guys from every sign of the zodiac, and she hadn’t gotten to Cancer yet. As an amateur astronomer now, and a child who was raised by a lunatic into all sorts of woo, I declined on principle.

Look, have your fun. But woo is a relationship red flag for me. You cannot remind me of my mother if you want me turned on. I haven’t gotten laid countless times. I don’t need or want sex that badly. I desire someone I can trust to keep a firm grasp on reality.

They grew up in one room houses…

I’m 46 and my line of work is one of the more dangerous jobs involving heavy equipment. There is always a drug test as a pre employment screening, but that’s basically it. Nobody checks again because they’d have to fire half the workforce.

Either Brotato or Disco Elysium, I forget. Either I’m fucked, or fucked up.

It’s from Duke Nukem 3D, as I recall.

I think Saitama can handle this one.

Well, the nice thing is there are lots of people eager and waiting to let us all know when and precisely how, in elaborate detail, we are being dumb fucks ourselves.

Feedback is useful.

Nope. She is way cooler than almost anyone.

Humboldt squid in California are even more ethical. Invasive, fecund, voracious, ferocious, short lived.

Dude has never lifted anything heavy in his life. He’s never once taken a punch. He’s soft like 10-ply. I’d be delighted to demonstrate.

They set people up all the time.

“Here’s some money. Buy me drugs bro. You’re under arrest!!”

“Oh, you’re pissed off at your wife? Well what are the odds? I know a hitman!”

“So you want to die huh? Why not go out as a hero? The president will be at this location and this door will be lightly guarded. Thanks for saving your country!”

That’s a real person? I don’t know… wait is that the one guy who never showers and has roaches crawling on him?

No, Walmart destroys communities.

Seems like somebody missed out on cakefarts.

It’s a humiliating way to enter the galactic community. We would never live it down. But we could use some humbling. I’d accept the help.

No, the reason why is completely obvious.

We perfected building a near peer military with Russia in mind. We build massive fleets of wildly expensive machines and great arsenals of similarly expensive ammunition. We made almost all of that shit overwhelmingly dependent on the supply chain of a flammable, nonrenewable, black fluid easily controllable by the nation we just attacked. One which has taken seriously the new lesson that such militaries are obsolete and top heavy. The way forward lies in small, cheap, autonomous suicide drones, cyber attacks, propaganda, and economic pressure. They’re one of the few countries to take that lesson to heart. We have recently decapitated the competence of nearly every powerful system of our nation; political and military, and pushed our economy to the brink. We are led by hyper-overconfident, insecure, malicious idiots supported only by a cult minority of our population.

Not quite perfect is right. The rest of the world should bind together to pressure us, hard.