Precisely what I mean. If it were a high enough dose to notice, we’d all be tripping balls. If it weren’t, I would assume everyone to just be mildly more pleasant. And uh… that is absolutely not what is happening. Nobody in the news is pleasant right now. At all. I’m certainly not having a great time, are you?

I already work the minimum I can to just afford my bills and food and what few luxuries I allow myself doing gig work right now. The 23rd is a Friday, where I’d generally make good money doing gig work, as I generally don’t bother with it Monday through Thursday.

to expand on what I’m saying: people should make an effort to push for solidarity with Minnesota and not work or go out on the 23rd no matter where they live. Renee Good could’ve been your mother, your sister, your daughter. while a country-wide general strike is an admittedly lofty idea to aspire to, I don’t think there’s anyone who’s seen pictures of the interior of that car and not thought of someone they know and love in the drivers seat. Save for the heartless MAGAs who think the leopards never get hungry, but you know what I mean. Normal people.

I’m like 50% certain (as someone who has not partaken in the substances which I’m about to talk out my ass regarding) that OOP must’ve simply meant something less… kosher, shall we say – PCP? Bath salts? Cocaine? Some other drug that would actually account for the insanity? As far as I know LSD is a vastly more pleasant experience than whatever the fuck is going on in the world right now, unless you’re taking really massive doses, in which case… I think things would be arguably less coherent, though you’ve absolutely got me stumped as to how the current news cycle could be more insane than it already is.

Like, I know MKULTRA isn’t that obscure, but I also think it’s possible they just don’t know their drugs.

a Minnesota shutdown?

Fuck that, I’m not doing shit on January 23rd and I’m nowhere near MN – just because it didn’t happen in my state doesn’t mean it’s not coming to my state someday.

the tl;dr I got from this: he’s extra fucked in the long term (aka: anything beyond midterms and especially after january 19th 2028, not that I think he’ll even live that long) but he can still screw us all very hard in the short term (anything from now til midterms), even if we completely dispense with the possibility of martial law and the attempted meddling in/cancellation of elections around midterms or in 2028 (which is not a bet I’d make).

California and New York? You mean the #1 and #3 states by GDP in the country respectively?

I’m sure that’ll go really well for our already-faltering economy propped up by an AI house of cards! Nothing helps business like state-sponsored terrorism! Yeah!… yeah…

To the shock and surprise of absolutely, positively, not one single human being with a brain.

I’d like to think I’d notice if the world suddenly went all kaleidoscope on me, actually.

Wouldn’t that be the Seal of Disapproval, then? The Seal of Approval sounds like an easy mark.

You have been measured

I had a friend gift this to me, according to steam I played it for 14 hours, and all I can say is that it is thoroughly meh. I barely remember it.

I’ll never get over how some people whiteknight for soulless corporations that not only don’t give a fuck about them but actively hold them in contempt, yes, the internet is a silly place.

LLMs: flawed tools with potential but unfortunately vastly overhyped confidence in their abilities.

Audiovisual AI – deepfakes, AI generated art and music, AI facial and whole-body recognition, etc: no. Just no. Nothing good has, will, or can come of this, I’m quite certain.

no, you don’t understand, as Take Two and R* quite happily also take down free mods.

for the umpteenth time, quit making mods for games that are developed by asshats. Take Two/R* very clearly don’t want a healthy community surrounding and supporting their games as evidenced by virtually every decision they make regarding community modding efforts, stop trying to give them one; spend your time making mods for better games. Or better still, go from modding games to creating them and you could develop your vision without the constraints of someone else’s IP. But for the love of fuck stop giving time and effort to these people who will deliberately squander it.

Not to mention, you’d have the perfect urinal right there with you!

Yo dawg…

Doesn’t matter, make them do the fucking paperwork and go through the motions then. “Don’t bother” is not a good enough excuse in a time where delaying is infinitely more valuable than defeatism.

While getting fired upon in return (which you presumably will be, immediately, if you’re telling them to fuck off or be shot and they’re not fucking off)?

Heads are small targets and hard to hit if they’re moving, and they move a lot even when the body they’re attached to is not actively trying to dodge gunfire. If you want to take out more than just the one you surprise, I would strongly recommend something that can punch holes in body armor – if you’re gonna go down this route, go down with >1 KDR.

I mean, there are still civil servants that aren’t complicit in or enthusiastically going along with this bullshit. Hard to say how long it is before suing would be a completely pointless endeavor, but I don’t think we’re at that point yet.