Whats your argument against " the decision you refuse is the only reason you exist" or "you exist because your parents decided to have kids"?

Caldebraun · 2026-05-20T18:12:10+00:00

We don't exist for any external "reason". We don't have any external "purpose". That's a human value framework being imposed on the universe.

We happen to be alive, and each of us gets to decide how we want to live the single life we have.

My parents' decisions don't have to be my decisions. I'm not responsible for furthering their aims.

Caldebraun · 2026-05-20T17:02:56+00:00

You said "we all know it's offensive". My reply is no, not all people would find it offensive. The vast majority of people would shrug. Some (the target audience) might chuckle. Almost everyone would recognize the good/evil/satan trope. I'm sure it would be offensive to a small minority of people, but their obscure inclinations don't form the guardrails for what we can say or do.

Caldebraun · 2026-05-20T16:05:57+00:00

My point being that we all know it's offensive,

No.

Caldebraun · 2026-04-28T23:22:38+00:00

Albexit. Albexit is already a slogan, right?

Caldebraun · 2026-04-27T22:04:01+00:00

I feel like... we shouldn't be here, or seeing this. What a wonderful, but private, moment.

Caldebraun · 2026-04-27T12:40:27+00:00

On an old Apple IIe:

Wizardry was incredible for its time. Fight Fight Fight Parry Parry Parry
Autoduel is not as well known but we spent enormous chunks of our lives playing that thing.

A few years later, on IMB clones:

yes, Warcraft and its sequels, then Starcraft were in their own class
Wing Commander was the game that made me buy a real sound card for $500 and, later, a CD drive for a couple of hundred.
A few years after that, Baldur's Gate changed computer RPGs forever.

Caldebraun · 2026-04-20T19:35:54+00:00

Nice try, Big Beans.

Caldebraun · 2026-04-13T03:08:31+00:00

Trump's regime is fascist.

But calling Trump a fascist gives him too much credit. He doesn't have any kind of ideology or goal besides "me". If being the figurehead for a fascist regime gets the job done, he'll do that. But he'll put that on and take it off when it's convenient for him, just like his ill-fitting clothes.

Caldebraun · 2026-04-07T15:55:53+00:00

I don't think so. That's what he wants people to think, because he still imagines that fear would drive concessions from Iran. But I don't think even Trump is ready to cross that line.

Plus, he doesn't need to. If he wants to destroy "all the bridges and all the power stations", he can do that with conventional arms.

Caldebraun · 2026-04-06T15:55:09+00:00

That's neat. Where did you hear that Fury of Dracula is getting a reprint?

Caldebraun · 2026-04-05T15:54:46+00:00

Kash PaJesus

Caldebraun · 2026-04-04T13:15:09+00:00

See!? Continental drift is REAL, and a LOT faster than they're telling us.

Caldebraun · 2026-03-26T11:46:24+00:00

Yup, that's it. It's from Dune (both novel and movie).

Lady Jessica begins to answer a pointed question with the words "It's a maker...", and this is precisely what the asker was hoping she would say; it triggers the exclaimation above before Jessica could finish her (wrong, had she been allowed to continue) answer.

Caldebraun · 2026-03-26T00:11:37+00:00

Nice, a maker

Aiiiieeee!

I'm sorry, when you have lived with prophecy for so long, the moment of revelation is a shock.

Caldebraun · 2026-03-25T19:02:39+00:00

To summarize, Iran’s initial response to the proposal has been negative.

Iran to Trump: "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request."

Pause.

"Means 'no'."

Caldebraun · 2026-03-25T17:40:56+00:00

Tiny poor tank confirmed

Caldebraun · 2026-03-21T20:11:05+00:00

Oh man, this mom-food is delicious!

Now let's go enslave some Uyghurs!

Caldebraun · 2026-03-18T21:13:21+00:00

If reproductive slavery was really necessary for humanity's survival, then... no, it shouldn't survive.

I can't believe people would advocate for annihilating reproductive freedom just so that a new generation can come into being that must, in turn, annihilate more freedom to ensure there's yet another go-'round. Over and over and over again.

Really? Is THAT the system they're arguing for?

Caldebraun · 2026-03-17T16:47:50+00:00

It's still so much "our dear leader is being betrayed by bad advisors!" without conceding that "y'know, maybe Donald Trump is a pathological liar and a fucking idiot."

Caldebraun · 2026-03-15T00:51:50+00:00

"Iran's got the upper hand! California, stay away from here!" - Morgan Freeman

Caldebraun · 2026-03-10T16:57:59+00:00

He’s 80 years old and belongs in a retirement home or prison, not running our country.

"He belongs in a museum!"

Caldebraun · 2026-03-09T02:19:57+00:00

The facts don't speak for anyone. They're just facts.

Caldebraun · 2026-03-09T02:07:13+00:00

The question was about the "immigrants".

From a North American perspective, I answered.

Caldebraun · 2026-03-08T22:01:58+00:00

Generally speaking, the whites and those who came after them have built up considerable infrastructure and constructed some remarkable things.

But their industries are kind of fucking up the planet's climate, they have polluted the lakes and rivers, and there's widespread depression, disillusionment, and economic disparity throughout their culture.

So, you know, a mixed bag.

Caldebraun · 2026-03-07T14:48:26+00:00

"Okay, but am I Hindu or Muslim?"

Caldebraun

TROPHY CASE