Chapotraphouse

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person on fox news

The prices are coming down, the price of gas is lower than its been in-

NO IT'S FUCKING NOT. I HAVE A MEMORY LONGER THAN THAT OF A GOLD FISH AND I REMEMBER WHAT THE PRICES WERE SIX MONTHS AGO AND THEY WERE LOWER FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKKKK

I hate being so familiar with what is now considered nostalgic

I am so sick of seeing people just say any old bullshit about China. It is so fucking annoying that moronic us citizens who have never left heir shitty little corner of the world. Don't know shit about shit besides which funko pop misprint boxes are worth double. Somehow still thinks they are an expert on China because they can parrot some nonsense their worst uncle made up from facts he also didn't know. Slavering at the mouth to call it west taiwan, genuinely believing they aren't being played. It is so transparent and sad.

For all the talk on :lib: social media of Gabe Newell being the One Good Billionaire, Steam could be taking a much smaller cut of the profits from game devs and still be massively profitable. Steam employees make from 100 to 300k and there are maybe 400 of them, no shareholders to speak of, and yet GabeN has the most expensive yacht in the world, or close to it, raking in billions.

Buying condoms from my work laptop so my employer knows I’m a responsible adult.

Chad at the gym wearing a red shirt with yellow all caps "CCCP" on it.

Feels like doxing myself suggesting I live somewhere this is even slightly socially acceptable.

Gundam but Char is Bugs Bunny.

"Yah soul is being weighed down by oith's gravity, lemme help you with that doc"

Space Jam but its the new Gundam series where all your faves play basketball in mivile suits.

Clue was an interesting movie and theres TWO endings!!!

Life hack: disassociation makes everything someone else problem

Recently broke up with someone and this weekend she’s been sending me abusive texts and crashing out for like 48 hours. It doesn’t stop much except when she’s sleeping. I’ve messaged a couple of times to say I’m not engaging while she’s berating me and clearly not doing well, since Friday I’ve only responded twice, both times I asked her to speak to a friend instead of sitting at home hitting nitrous oxide and crashing out. She just slings more insults in response. Like from the highest level of attacking me as a person to the core, to the pettiest - for example sending me a photo of her eating chicken that she was “eating in my honour”, to piss me off because I’m vegan I guess?

I really don’t know what to do except stick to what I said and not engage. It sucks because obviously we cared for each other during our relationship, and I still don’t want her to suffer. I’d like to help but feeding this feels completely wrong. We haven’t actually been together for a few months, this is because she wanted to get back together and I was hesitant and thinking we probably shouldn’t. Because stuff like this happened when we were together too (to a lesser degree). I guess I feel validated in that hesitancy now, god damn.

Honestly I was half expecting to arrive home yesterday to some property damage at my place, she lives close by and she is completely off the rails. I don’t know what to do except hope she calms down.

Real dream I had last night: I was a wizard. I had a wizard's staff that was a symbol of my office and status, and when I held it, the wind blew in front of me. My wizard job was pumping gas at a gas station.

Oil seasoning burnt onto cast iron: oh no, water, I'm goin to fall off and rust now

Oil seasoning burnt onto stainless steel sheet pans: not even GOD could scrub me off

Small time science/tech youtubers: Sorry I'm just doing a low effort one today guys, we're just going to be dismantling this piece of machinery, explaining every single part in it, why these parts were chosen and the historical context in which this machine was built. I'm only doing two videos this month sorry.

Big time science/tech youtubers: I had my intern write why I like the new iphone

Small AND big time media youtubers: Wow my job is so fucking hard, it took 7 months of hard work to review the fifth episode of a TV show that only ran in Canada in the 80s.

So is there a guy that rotate all the sundials slightly for daylight savings?

🚨🚨 ALERT!!! 🚨 🚨

They have finally cracked yogurt. There is some new yogurt brands (pretty expensive so far where I live) that have started making thick creamy yogurt that is about as good an approximation of fancy yogurt as the new pea protein ice creams that came out give years ago.

I just saw a YouTube reel of a guy who made a 3000Ib concrete sarcophagus with a resin cast block protecting a bag of flaming hot cheetos, suspended inside via wires so it's floating, before hermetically sealing it and burying it for future civilizations to find, with a memorial plaque indicating "a buried artifact, not to be opened for 10,000 years"

I accidentally bought a sweater that's like 4 sizes too big but it'd take a 6 hour drive to return it so I kept it intending to cannibalize it and learn to sew. However it's been paying dividends in the cozy department of wearing-things-around-the-house Inc. so it will live to see another day

Self-critting on my earlier post about Chi Osse now that it’s less opaque where the lines were drawn on it, and since I also did some self-reflection on my initial reactions. I'm less wary that he's an opportunist now and I honestly think he should be endorsed next cycle if he continues to align with the socialist movement. I think I ended up negatively polarizing myself against it because I saw a lot of X Dot Com accounts I deem rather credulous making it into a sectarian wedge which rubbed against my outside-chapter view of the situation being more of a resource allocation debate.

TL;DR:

Chekhov's concealed carry

Do people actually get into political arguments at thanksgiving dinners or or is it just a meme?

Had the pleasure of seeing an old friend for the first time in years. Told her my situation. Sometimes things have to take their course. And it sunk in now. It felt better, yeah I have this and that to consider, but also things just take turns like this. It acknowledged my feelings but also gently got me to move along. The breakup is starting to hurt a lot less. The sadness i feel is for me alone now. It was the healing i need, and a great justification for why i so strongly felt the desire to maintain this friendship fraught with troubles of all sorts.

Sometimes the advice you need feels like it has to come from someone who sees deep inside of you, even when it’s the same thing you’ve heard before.

Further out from the release state for my Foundry plugin than I thought I was. Now I need to figure out how to get the server to connect to Foundry as a player/gm, which is very silly but right now the workaround is to have it running in two windows which is even sillier.

It's so cool how gaming media consists 40% of people who think women shouldn't be in video games, and 40% of people who think you're entitled if you don't want to pay 200 dollars for a video game

97.2%

Stalled

adding tajin to mostly everything works

I might get a sewing machine just so I can try to make one of those side caps the anarchists wore in Spain lmao

Punched a car that almost ran me over trying to do a right turn on a red. Probably not the most recovery mindset action I could have taken in that situation, but I'll be able to talk to the people at the NA meeting about it. Just waiting for the doors to that to open

Kind of amazing that 9 weeks ago the chuds thought Charlie Kirk would be a historic martyr and Trump would use his death as the excuse to end elections. Now literally no one remembers him, and Trump just had a long meeting with the socialist mayor of New York where he basically fell in love.

People still believe American propaganda about the DPRK because they never got invaded. If the Iraq war hadnt happened somehow people would totally believe Iraq still has WMD. The only way to prove you arent lying or that theyre lying about you to even some of the American people is to get invaded and devasted by war. Then 10 years later they'll say you should have been left alone.

Sure, genocide is bad and all, but have you considered that genocide could be good for the economy?

What if we kissed in the Soviet superdeep borehole 👉👈

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole

I been slacking so hard I haven't been practicing my battle idle animation stance, how will ever be a master with such lax routines

Every time I show up to work I think "what am I doing with my life. Why the fuck am I a bartender. This is the last thing I want to be doing." Then I just keep showing up.

Well, I guess I'm stating a political hardcore punk band.

I'm still healing from this divorce shit and something kind of amazing came out of it. I haven't been in the scene for damn near 20 years and only was able to go to a few shows when I was married. Well, we are apparently developing a scene in my city again, so I've been trying to make it out to shows as much as I can. A few months ago I was talking to some friends about how I wish we had a proper punk scene here. Discovered a local band named Social Anxiety and was hanging out with them last night at this sort of multi-genre show that they were playing at. I've also been talking to a few friends about possibly starting a band.

I bought a bass guitar this last week after not playing for 20 years, I am friends with 2 guitarists, and I might have possibly also found a drummer. Gonna see where this goes but if this project does take off I'll be stepping down from PSL and probably putting the web dev stuff on hold to pour all my time into relearning bass and getting this thing off the ground. I'm hoping to toe that line where hardcore came out of punk in the 90's with a lot of heavy political themes. I'm hoping to stick to backing vocals but if we can't find someone I might try to do main vocals again. I'd like to take inspo from Anti-flag, Dystopia and a few other more crustier sounding bands, but I'm also curious about tossing in a bit of post-hardcore in there.

nothing quite as disappointing as dreaming you shaved and waking up to the realization you still need to shave

god damnit every day I'm staying up later than the one before, I guess if I keep it up I'll eventually wrap back around to a normal schedule but

Huyo del siglo americano de humillación. ¿Dónde puede este monstruo blanco encontrar una monstruo blanco bebida energética?

I am intrigued by True Blood If I choose to add it to my Plex and watch it what should I expect?

I guess it's time to finally swap to Linux. I really haven't wanted to have to spend the energy to learn a new os and find new programs to do different things and everything; I have so little energy and there's so much to do. But microsoft have really decided to make it necessary.

I don't think Ableton works on Linux. Anyone have any DAW recommendations for Linux?

The Chair Company ep7 out, lets goooo