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Sideblog for obliviousriki. Finally got around to making one

[anywhoozles]

[communistkenobi]

everyone rightfully complains about how the r word is back in vogue now but I think the people talking about how using ChatGPT makes you a small brained lazy degenerate are getting off way too easy

[3000s]

they hate each other.

[barin-mclegg]

hey bestie you forgot the poll

[3000s]

oh sorry

would you kill and eat these animals?

yes

no

Voting ended onOct 3, 2024

[barin-mclegg]

I was talking to prev, asshole. The fucking critter-creature-beast poll blog? That person? Don't be a fucking dickhead.

[3000s]

sorry for being silly on my post it wont happen again

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would you kill and eat @barin-mclegg?

yes

no

Voting ended onOct 9, 2024

[blasesaint]

[zapatism]

lol ur watching the world cup finals sorry im too busy HAVING SEX

(texting my dick guy) we gotta have sex rn i just blogged

(dick guy) im watching the world cup

[gingik]

[ooliecat]

doesn't matter if you're glooby, gay, or dumb. youmatter.

original tweet

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it's insane to me that the iran war is being presented as a symmetrical conflict when we and our allies are dropping three million dollar bombs on schools and hospitals twice to make sure we get the first responders too and our adversaries are closing trade routes and using thirty thousand dollar drones and eight hundred dollar rocket launchers to target radar installations, tanks, and military bases. but if you read the news it would seem we are simply trading various tit for tat strikes

less insane but not any more conscionable having seen the historical precedent of imperial propaganda regarding vietnam, korea, the atom bomb, desert storm, the jakarta method, operation condor, ... like obviously this has worked time and time again to justify our actions but i continue to be shocked that the repetition doesn't seem to interfere with the strategy. you would think it would get predictable and it is, for anyone who bothers to educate themselves on the basics of geopolitics. which most people in the united states don't

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questions that are difficult to answer if you only review us news sources this week: telecom, railway, and bridges that serve whom? (civilians.) desalination and power plants for what? (us military bases.) the lockstep in which so-called journalists operate on this topic continues to stun me. a unilaterally coordinated lie of omission

we could split hairs over whether iran's attacks were successful (many were not), correctly targeted (unclear), or propagandized (likely), but that would require elevating the dialogue to a level substantially beyond what the us public is apparently allowed to know

[nyanletnest]

bwaow

[beemovieerotica]

[kitchen1]

I wish I took a better pic of this writing in a bar bathroom in toronto bc I think of it so often. Be So Completely Yourself That No One Is Attracted To You Or Wants To Employ You

[chthonicillness]

my teeth were perfectly designed to tear abd rend the soft white flesh of the gentle beast known as the mozzarella

[blemgoid]

just clicked a sausage link

[funstyle]

Im always like "i will not add my two cents. i will not add my two cents" but i cant lie the pennies are getting sweaty in my hand

[captainludraws]

made this yesterday from a place of passion

[seat-safety-switch]

Too many people around you abuse their tools. I don't mean little stuff like using nice screwdrivers as tent pegs. What I am talking about is this: not using them at all.

Sure, we're all guilty of hoarding tools. I myself have several dozen fancy single-purpose specialty tools that have never come out of their package. They're ready for action, as soon as the perfect circumstance occurs. Those of you who saw The Brave Little Toaster too many times (i.e. at least once) will immediately feel bad for these tools trapped in their plastic prisons, and insist upon starting a new project just to use them.

This is, in itself, also a trap. Even if you have the most pared-down set of tools, eventually you are going to get suckered into buying something like a Honda valve adjuster because it's in the clearance bin at the store. And don't tell me you won't: you just said you felt bad for some tools not getting used before. The clearance bin is basically hospice for them. You can't just leave them there.

So now you need a Honda, and ideally one that needs valve adjustment. It's very unlikely that Honda has only one problem with it, because it is a car, and all used cars are simply bundles of problems that you have yet to discover. This then leads into more Honda-specific tools, and inevitably you'll buy too many of those while passing the clearance bin while picking up a specialty disc-brake-backer-offer or fancy electrical disconnect tool. Shit, if I had a BMW motorcycle, this would come in handy all the time.

I think this is why we have mechanics. In this model, the mechanic can keep on buying tools, safe in the knowledge that eventually some dumbass will show up with a broken, say, Lancia V4. No matter how exotic the car is, sooner or later you'll get an excuse to use the weird one-off tool. And if no one-off tool exists? You get to make your own tool, which requires a whole bunch of new fabrication tools, which means you really get to go nuts shopping for that shit. Ten years later, they're looking at their lathe and going, you know, I don't use all of these knurling dies. I should really make a Honda valve-adjustment tool.

[scribefindegil]

I'm still thinking about the guy who saw me realize my wheelchair wouldn't fit in the elevator because he (also a wheelchair user) was already inside it and immediately quipped, "This elevator ain't accessible enough for the both of us."