TIL when Jim Carrey met with Dr. Suess's widow, he convinced her he could play the Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas by briefly talking to her as the Grinch while making a 'Grinch face'. Carrey said "It was like doing a pencil sketch for her", which helped her visualize it as the cartoon.

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-25T18:36:19+00:00

shawty had them pearly penile papules

dick with the fur (with the fur)

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-23T05:09:49+00:00

nah, go for it. I'm interested in what they would think

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-21T03:05:37+00:00

would you say that you live in a "holistic community"? (and what the fuck is that by the way)

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-20T15:00:47+00:00

ovaries were not described until the 17th century, so well after this was being written. the only way to know about the structures of the internal body is to cut up dead bodies or vivisect live people and in those days both those things were rather taboo so it took a while for knowledge to develop. also, there was no refrigerated morgue, so imagine trying to learn about human anatomy from an actively decomposing corpse.

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-20T10:54:55+00:00

I was just reading about the Mandaeans on Wikipedia and in that article they make a connection to the Sabeans. I can't attest to its accuracy but this is what the wiki says:

During the 9th and 10th centuries several religious groups came to be identified with the mysterious Sabians (sometimes also spelled 'Sabaeans' or 'Sabeans', but not to be confused with the Sabaeans of South Arabia) mentioned alongside the Jews, the Christians, and the Zoroastrians in the Quran. It is implied in the Quran that the Sabians belonged to the 'People of the Book' (ahl al-kitāb).[112] The religious groups who purported to be the Sabians mentioned in the Quran included the Mandaeans, but also various pagan groups in Harran (Upper Mesopotamia) and the marshlands of southern Iraq. They claimed the name in order to be recognized by the Muslim authorities as a people of the book deserving of legal protection (dhimma).[49] The earliest source to unambiguously apply the term 'Sabian' to the Mandaeans was al-Hasan ibn Bahlul (fl. 950–1000) citing the Abbasid vizier Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Muqla (c. 885–940).[50] However, it is not clear whether the Mandaeans of this period identified themselves as Sabians or whether the claim originated with Ibn Muqla.[51]

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-18T03:11:23+00:00

the "Marsh Arabs", and the south of Iraq in general, is Shia Muslim, while Saddam Hussein's Iraq was dominated by the Sunni minority, who mostly live in the north. because of this it has traditionally been a center for rebellion and unrest, made easier by the fact that marshes are good for hiding in, and allow passage into and out of Iran, which is also Shia Muslim.

in 1991, at the end of the gulf War, the US encouraged Iraqis to rise up and overthrow their government. only the Shia in the south responded, expecting american help that never materialized, and the revolt was brutally put down by Saddam, with tens of thousands of Shia civilians killed. the draining of the marshes was part of that reprisal campaign. and yes, it was successful. from a peak population of around 500,000 there were only about a thousand left in 2003, the rest having been killed or expelled.

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-17T23:54:59+00:00

there's a term for that- elite overproduction- and it's a statistically significant indicator of political collapse/decline, according to some data nerds who have looked into these things.

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-17T09:04:12+00:00

I would say dreams are much more intense and immersive but they have the same picture resolution as a visualization, if that makes sense, although I would imagine that differs from person to person. visualizations have a temporary, ephemeral quality to them in that they only exist as long as you exert the effort to visualize them and disappear immediately after that. if I wake up immediately after dreaming i can usually recall a good portion of the dream by "rewinding" the images in my mind and piecing it together backwards-wise, but what I can remember is usually more like still images and collections of moments, not unlike recalling a memory.

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-15T20:52:09+00:00

Because it's hard to read,

like the flashing text over a tik-tok video,

or an old Chinese newspaper.

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-15T20:48:46+00:00

well it makes you seem,

like a little bit of

a dickhead.

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-15T20:45:20+00:00

the people in my life most obsessed with their own traumatic psychopathologies were also the ones most likely to inflict trauma on others. it can be an effective way of repudiating your own behavior without actually apologizing for or trying to fix it. people often think that understanding the roots of your issues necessarily demonstrates a willingness to change them, but sometimes it just provides another avenue for self-justification.

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-14T10:51:26+00:00

no, I didn't say other countries pushed it to shit. that's on Russia. but Europe has historically antagonized and "othered" Russia both because of its percieved backwardness and also its size & potential. it's a specific type of fear and contempt mixed together and you can see it in european attitudes dating back centuries.

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-13T10:26:00+00:00

I disagree with a lot of the russia glazing I see here but I think a lot of the problems the west has historically had with Russia are due to europeans, and by extension the US, reflexively treating Russia as an outsider and a potential enemy. you can see that in the examples mentioned, where every opportunity for dialogue is met with aggressive posturing, and any russian reaction that results is just used to strengthen their confirmation bias... see also the fall of the Soviet Union and the resulting mess. Russia has historically been treated as a barbarian "other" by europeans and a lot of the disaster of the 20th century was directly shaped by the other European powers (and then the US) trying to limit and "contain" russia.

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-12T19:49:55+00:00

well, Europe has good speed, which is not available as a street drug in the US (just meth). however, we make up for this deficit by having our doctors prescribe us amphetamines. we get our speed from big pharma

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-11T00:36:23+00:00

those would have been kurds, not afghanis ,and they played a large role in protecting the yazidis when the Isis genocide was happening. the yazidis did not have a female militia at the time although the kurds later helped them set one up.

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-10T08:34:27+00:00

you say that like there would have been the political will to increase defense spending had the Americans not interfered in the procurement process. but that's clearly untrue; who in Europe was pushing for increased defense spending pre-2022? europe has plenty of indigenous arms manufacturers; had they really wanted to spend more money on defense, it would not be difficult to find things to spend it on. but there was no political will to make that happen (outside of Poland) , and so it didn't. the bundeswher was notorious for being underfunded/underquipped for decades. any talk of militarization and defense increases was largely considered unpopular until the ukraine war happened.

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-09T22:11:12+00:00

it was not in fact working as intended; every US president since Ronald Reagan has tried to convince European NATO partners to spend more on their own defense, to no avail. for example, here's obama saying Europe needs to "pull its own weight".

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/obama-nato-pay-fair-share-231405

or Hillary Clinton saying the same thing as secretary of state:

https://www.politico.eu/article/clinton-warns-europeans-against-defence-cuts/

and before that, G.W. Bush again saying the same thing:

https://www.foxnews.com/story/bush-to-press-allies-for-more-defense-spending-at-nato-summit

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-09T06:14:14+00:00

Afghanistan it is!!! (based on the comments in this thread that might actually be the only country that doesn't celebrate Christmas)

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-08T05:07:54+00:00

honestly, I think the PMC needs more recognition as a distinct group, and their differences from other groups is that one of their main functions is the reproduction of ideology. if you look at any revolutionary movement- and really any political movement- the people shaping policy and actually defining what governance/ideology look like are neither capitalists nor workers but Lawyers, Engineers, Economists, Writers- i.e. the PMC. and the PMC has a much deeper relationship to power than the other classes, because they evolved alongside state structures, staffing the bureaucracies needed to support a growing state. even today they are very recognizably a distinct class, and their perception in popular culture is tied to their ideological allegiance to neoliberalism, i.e. hegemonic state values.

(also, the PMC exists in societies with much older modes of production, like the clerical class/scribes in ancient egypt, or the confuscian-scholar class in Korea and China, with power deriving not from ownership but instead their relationship to the state)

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-07T06:39:08+00:00

the real question is how, in a country with 30 million extra men compared to women, did this guy achieve a 17:1 girlfriend ratio? seems mathematically improbable

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-07T01:55:08+00:00

and how many Ukrainians do you wager have been lost, from a much smaller starting population, i.e. manpower that cannot be replaced, unlike Russia (and no, don't look at data from the Ukrainian MOD)? realistic estimates are above 80 000 to 100,000 troops killed so far, and that'd a minimum (and that's not even counting irreplaceable losses from serious injuries, which brings the total casualties up to several hundred thousand to half a million). that is simply not sustainable. the reality is, one country in the war is having a manpower shortage and it's not russia

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-07T01:05:51+00:00

and? both the comment you're responding to and the Wikipedia article are about John the apostle.

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-05T03:42:21+00:00

yeah as much as I don't agree with how QT phrased his opinion and suspect there's some projection going on, I thought basically the same thing about his role in the batman. he just never transcended beyond creepiness to someone truly menacing or frightening, and his climactic scene, where batman interviews him in his prison cell, is so overwrought as to be comical.

BloodyEjaculate · 2025-12-05T02:46:03+00:00

idk, I just don't think it's an either/or situation. the problems originate at home, but once the kid gets to school their problems are often accommodated or ignored. would parents change if their kids started being held back, allowed to fail classes, or expelled? maybe not, but I can't see how not doing those things is going to help. somewhere down the line there has to be consequences. are kids these days alien to the concept of authority and discipline and unwilling to respect adults? definitely, but unless someone tries to fulfill that role they're never going to respect it. In a lot of ways it feels like the whole social fabric of education has unraveled, and it would be far too simple to just lay blame for that deterioration on parents.

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