'release schedule' so trash 
even his binge watchers 'clowned' on him 
12 Sanguine Men, is this anything
The GOATs of dysfunction, worst society of all-time contender? Hitlerite-Randian Nightmare Singularity with Theocratic and Futurist characteristics where every member fancies themselves The Ubermensch and Sole Ensouled Being and believes everyone around them to be Their Wretched Serfs put on earth for them to use. society of People Who Would Fail The Prisoner's Dilemma.
cars are gonna be the first to go but even though it’s irrational and probably a negligible cost on the priority queue of Things That Have To Go I hope smartphones and PCs become prohibitively expensive to choose to power for like at least a year so we can collectively be forcibly excised from the Eddingtonian diffuse unrealities
extremely controversial not for the faint of heart
i really liked chainsaw mans ending
I don't know if you want to spec into introductory quips for this crowd, unless you have like 5 seconds with each of them, which I think would be somewhat of a misguided approach anyways here.
Part of the thing with agitating in my experience—as well as having people hear you out in general—is you don't want to come off as an evangelist/salesman. The second someone hears you using stock lines, they tend to put their guard up or just entirely tune you out. They'll think you’re trying to sell them a bill of goods, which people are increasingly on guard about these days, as unapologetic scams and hustles gradually take over the American 'culture.'
To break the ice, the best thing you can do is just ask them a conversational, surface-level question that allows them to talk about their own experiences and beliefs (e.g. "so, what brings you out here?") Let them talk about themselves, and try to be a respectful-but-active listener when they're talking (e.g. "yeah, no, same here. I get it, yeah, he sucks. You do xyz for a living? I've heard a little bit about that, how's it treating you? Yeah, gas prices are wringing me dry, it's really bad, they said it was bad under Biden, but now, oof.) Essentially, try to be/seem genuinely interested in hearing about them as a person, and show that interest by actively responding to what they are sharing in a way that shows them that you view them as an equal and you are engaging with them genuinely.
If you absolutely have to steer the conversation (i.e. if it doesn't drift where you want it to after some time), try to naturally segue into your points with an innocuous hook (e.g. "you know, we're out here, all of us, but it's kind of hard to feel like we're accomplishing much with what we're doing here in particular") though try to employ this after a few turns at least so it isn't jarring.
It’s a similar mechanism to how people build community/network in general, the first and foremost goal should be to front your interest in connecting with them as a peer. It doesn't even have to be a deep/long conversation to get to the points you want to get to. You can get to explicit agitation in merely a couple conversational turns. You just open with something that immediately communicates your interest in them and their personal beliefs, which makes them in turn more interested in talking to you about why you're out here, and then you get to share about yourself and bring up some of the things you're thinking about that would allow you to naturally bring up your critiques. Because you've already shown good-faith interest in them and their beliefs, they'll be naturally more open to learning about you and your beliefs.
office space
It all returns to nothing, it all comes tumbling down tumbling down tumbling dooown 
reaching the line, don't you turn back now, we're going west to east, to fight the Steel Ball Run, yeah 
His defense was like "China imprisons those that speak out against the government, this is an Indisputable Fact, Muslims can’t have beards there, this is an Indisputable Fact" and I was just like, Is It? How So?
real 
hours. Also said it's "not a complicated situation, unlike Gaza, it's indisputably genocide" which 
The Reform Zionist Industrial Complex creates yet another loyal soldier. makes me wonder how I even got out of the Birthright Indoctrination Pipeline when my peers are latched onto it three years into the unashamed and open bloodthirst and barbarism following Al-Aqsa Flood 
Zhou Enlai
Honestly, though, I might have just convinced myself of something deeper, Gatsby-style. I dunno. I don't know how you come out of TT shit without some resentment towards the people who let you get shipped off to the wilderness.
does anyone have any lib-friendly things that I can cite regarding the dubiousness of Xinjiang because I naïvely talked about wanting to visit China and he lowkey chastised me due to the Big Zenz (got linked a BBC article and a random youtuber). I think he has the capacity to be critical like I was because I can kinda sense the same contradiction that collapsed in me and got me on the path to socialism (albeit offset by a greater proximity to power), but I'm not at the level of comfort with that idea where I can start linking Grayzone to him.
source. looking for a translation of the announcement so I can add it as alt text/body text, preferably non-MTL. as for now, via Google Translate:
Statement issued by the Islamic Resistance (1):
Military Media of the Islamic Resistance
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
And permission has been given to those who are being fought, because they were wronged. And indeed, God is fully capable of giving them victory.
God Almighty has spoken the truth
In revenge for the pure blood of the Supreme Leader of the Muslims, His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Imam Sayyid Ali al-Husseini al-Khamenei, may his soul rest in peace, which was unjustly and treacherously shed by the criminal Zionist enemy, and in defense of Lebanon and its people, and as part of the response to the repeated Israeli attacks, the Islamic Resistance targeted, at midnight between Sunday and Monday, March 2, 2026, with a barrage of advanced missiles and a swarm of drones, the Mishmar al-Karmel missile defense site belonging to the Israeli enemy army south of the occupied city of Haifa. The Resistance leadership has always affirmed that the continuation of Israeli attacks and the assassination of our leaders, youth, and people gives us the right to defend ourselves and respond at the appropriate time and place.
The Israeli enemy cannot continue its aggression, which has lasted for fifteen months, without receiving a warning response to stop this aggression and withdraw from the occupied Lebanese territories.
This response is a legitimate defensive response, and those responsible and concerned must put an end to the Israeli-American aggression against Lebanon
And victory comes only from God, the Almighty, the Wise.
Monday, March 2, 2026
212 Ramadan 1447
Since a lot of miscellaneous online accounts are reacting glibly to the idea that states like California and Colorado could force Linux to bake forced age verification into the kernel, my instinctual response is to a) disregard the opinions of smug computer guys because they're usually libertarians and b) consider which vectors these laws will actually be enforced through. There is a clear sweeping effort to implement these policies, so I assume the effect will be somehow tangible.
Since I'm doing self-study for IT certs at the moment, I’ll list out all the ways I can think of off the top of my head, though some, if not most, will be overcomplicated/inefficient. Disclaimer that I am only doing some investigating here and relying on my prior experience/knowledge otherwise (reason: eepy) so do not take this as anything definitive/inherently correct. I'll try to skip over the ones that have the same vector of implementation/execution (I.E. where are they enforced through?)
Ultimately this is just me theorizing with my limited half-finished A+ cert study knowledge and general tech understanding, but I tried to engage the thought experiment on how this could be turned into something tangible as best I can.
I'd like to turn this over to people who might know more than me here. Is my idea of how this might be implemented (if done competently) consistent with the underlying tech, or am I misunderstanding some things? What other vectors might be used here? If these new bills pass, does anything change for us? What could our approach be individually/as a site/as a movement? What behavioral changes should we implement with regard to our internet usage as precaution? Would appreciate answers to any of these bits, even individually. Thus far the only approach that I can think of on 5 hours of sleep is the correct approach and has always been the correct approach and that is to 
but I'm curious if and how we can struggle against the furthering of the panopticon as targets of it.
merchant class seizes power and starts a Wario Land timer on life as they exponentially delete the biosphere. you have half a millennia to install a DOTP before your planet is razed. the most dice roll bottleneck fathomable. if there are dead aliens and they developed like us we gotta one-up them quick gamers
actually never mind… that's too long… that's a while… too far away 
took a bit of mental priming to open my zoomer-calibrated taste receptors to it but I am fucking with Bob Dylan