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.

The person you replied to wasn’t talking about fucking off into nature. They were talking about building a better world.

Oh, the rich are helping people to the best of their abilities?

Furthermore he was utterly obsessed with his own supposed genius.

All night drum battle between them both.

Gilligan already broke it.

I don’t believe in ghosts or the supernatural, but I’ve visited sites where America massacred Native Americans and enslaved Africans. What I felt and experienced there can only be described as haunting. Brains do weird things in stressful situations. I get why some people give too much legitimacy to their hallucinations. They can be chilling, compelling, convincing, formative, and even beneficial.

I admit there’s a part of me that wants a custom turntable, but you know what? I spent enough on what I’ve got. The whole system was just a few hundred bucks, and it sounds, plays, and looks perfectly fine for me. My ears ain’t calibrated. I’ll never spend that much on an audio system. I’ll just keep sinking stupid money into records.

I should stop.

People don’t want to pay multiple thousands more for a color, when the manufacturer would rather enshittify their selection to save a buck.

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