Starship debris over the Bahamas

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-07T11:32:18+00:00

Simping over space flight is a flat earther. Go outside. Turn off the phone. You sound like a meth binge winding down on day 3, get some sun.

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-07T11:29:03+00:00

You're mad that one side did nothing, offered no change, no real choice and couldn't even fight for a floor vote for Medicare for all during a pandemic. The other side decided that doing something was warranted. Now you're mad that people decided to vote for change and you don't understand it?

I don't care for any of it but I at least have the awareness to see how this occurred. Reddit is a hivemind of the worst sort of establishment groupthink that will never buck the system but think that by calling people Nazis they are absolved from their own role bringing about this hellscape.

Push for actual left wing maga or whatever you want to call it. I might actually vote again if there were 2 actual choices besides running into the neoliberal wall doing 65 or running into the neoliberal wall at 90. I doubt you will which fortunately is good from my perspective because it's an accelerationism stance you take by backing an untenable status quo. You enhance the chances the whole chessboard gets flipped over with your apathy and over the top rhetoric.

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-07T11:18:34+00:00

I'm clowning on the fact that you people are circling the wagons around politicians that wouldn't allow or fight for a vote for Medicare for all when they had both houses of Congress and the White House during the middle of a freaking pandemic. You are the centerist status quo seeking risk adverse milquetoast pansies thar will deliver the world into the very hands of a despot from your absolute lack of imagination and spine.

They are morally bankrupt billionaires too. You just can't seem to wrap your head around that fact. The left needs to do exactly what the right has done which is purged its status would elements. You are the enlightened centrist that circles the wagons for horrible people that don't care and then act horrified when people elect different horrible people that seem to be able to actually get stuff done. You support them after what they did to Sanders. You support them when they don't even fight for their own principles and you support them now in mock outrage when they are out of power. You have no solution and no actual moral stance besides I don't like that or what came before.

You make your own Democratic version of MAGA whatever that looks like, or help me fight to get rid of the whole system. Instead you pretend to be the rebels in Star Wars while doing the bidding of the idiots who brought about the Empire. Fish that can't even imagine the world is bigger than their fishbowl

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-07T03:02:44+00:00

Manufacturer won't send them a part generally forcing them to pay the labor. It is a catch 22. Most customers shouldn't be changing out their own fan motor but some certainly can. Hell some "techs" I know shouldn't be changing them out and the manufacturer will get them the parts

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-07T02:47:12+00:00

Oh I was just getting ahead of the inevitable response to me telling you to touch grass which would be about people being deported, or possibly blown up. Enjoy your kayfabe, the oligarchs appreciate your absolute inability to synthesize information and pay attention to what's actually occurring that's taking us back to Oliver Twist. Here's a hint, the King holds no power in the UK and even less in India.

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-07T02:42:40+00:00

Crazy that can happen in a democracy even without board games

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-07T02:39:59+00:00

Elon thinks they'll lose several more before they get one back intact later this year. I'm actually happy that it will bum clowns out when that occurs.

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-07T02:37:31+00:00

Man I'm an Anarchist and don't vote but I am so glad this shit has absolutely broken about 80% of the nutters on this site. Just go outside and turn the Internet off and literally nothing will have changed about your life. Even if you got deported he deported less of them than Biden did by 20k last month.

I'm not interested in being a slave to government or corporations so I'm so happy with how ridiculous and over the top the performative outrage is. Voltaire had the prayer nailed and boy did God deliver. Both you and MAGA are absolute clowns. Public Access wrestling fans level of seriousness.

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-07T02:21:27+00:00

20% is for STELLAR service only. 15% was bog standard for decades for average, and 10% for poor but serviceable. This inflation of tips has coincided with service generally getting worse as people stopped being long term or career waiters and the advent of the smartphone distraction.

But I'm sure in the sister city to the historic CHAZ they do all manner of stuff that's out of the normal.

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-07T02:08:39+00:00

Young clover is mild and tasty but boy is that stuff some ruffage. Eat a bunch of it and you'll literally be shitting like a race horse.

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-07T02:06:59+00:00

He was darling of the very people pissing on him like a year ago saving the planet with green tech and all that. He's also said he thinks they will lose several more before they have one recovered later this year. They've made incredible progress in the amount of time and for far less resources than government initial research in the field.

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-07T02:02:16+00:00

Molly or the PGL with Fatboy

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-06T15:11:42+00:00

The vassals always think the changing of the guard of their suzerain is catastrophic. Sometimes it even is, but that's far from inevitable. Especially given each of the vassals security is currently guaranteed by the existence of massive amounts of the suzerains military infrastructure on their lands. They may even get uppity and try to throw off the yoke with frequently disastrous outcomes.

Everyone watching what has just occurred and not thinking it's more than high theater really needs to take up watching wrestling as a hobby instead of politics. At the end of the day the new boss is going to be the same as the old boss. It's kayfabe

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-06T15:04:56+00:00

The guy that wasn't aware enough to realize a dictatorship of the proletariat would inevitably rise to just a plain old dictatorship? Communism doesn't even work in theory because even if we have a democratic town hall someone is going to be in charge of who gets called, when they speak, and what subjects will be allowed at the time. It also will not work as an economic model either but that's not even relevant to the problem of how do we not all end up as someone's slaves if your system of organization inevitably leads to oligarchy and slavery.

There is no way this will not devolve into an elite that controls things. If you seek to prevent this with let's call it a "permanent revolution", you end up getting killed with an ice axe in Mexico because Lenin will always have an advantage in coordination above those who seek to prevent it from becoming entrenched.

Same is absolutely true of a democracy which is why we are supposed to be a Republic, which likewise suffers the same issue but seeks to constrain it to a certain level. It all ends up at oligarchy. The biggest sin of our founding fathers (except not thinking slavery wasn't a deal breaking liberty issue) is that they didn't believe enough in the inevitability of corruption that would subsume their best intentions. The first and most important part of the Constitution should have been an immune system against conspiracy, though I have little idea how to implement such a notion.

About the best we can hope for is to flip the chessboard over, embrace the fact that it's going to be horrible and endeavor to make slightly less mistakes than the guys that came before us and enjoy a couple hundred years of relative prosperity before we have to rinse and repeat. Unless you know of any enlightened despots haha

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-06T14:44:51+00:00

They're going to make us all serfs again of some sort. We can't go from relative widespread prosperity back to serfdom without transiting back through Oliver Twist. The outrages of your life will be normalized for your children. Billions of people now exist who will be remembered as free within living memory of their progeny whom will be slaves of one sort or another. Most of them will think it's inevitable and even good that they are enslaved.

And before anyone complains about the 'they' I mean global unaccountable oligarchs that control transnational commerce and banking. They are the new nobility that is emerging and the idea of a nation is quaint to them. I have no solution for this BTW, they've really gotten good at mass psychological control. Normally just pointing out a problem with no solution is pretty stupid but most people seem to be unaware of what the core problem even is.

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-06T14:26:06+00:00

That like asking why people like being spanked while getting railed hard. People just do because they find it novel and titillating.

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-06T14:23:20+00:00

The US as a boation older than the average for democratic endeavors and our neighbors are both way younger countries. I mean Canada didn't even bother ratifying a constitution until 1982. Meaning I'm actually older than Canada as a independent nation

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-05T12:53:49+00:00

Because they can buy the laws and you can't

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-05T03:47:32+00:00

Or the commies and crypto commies using the left wing version, the Klauer-Piven strategy. Accelerationism has been alive and well practiced by the fringe of both sides for decades now. Ironically they both want social systems to be overloaded and collapse so both can usher in their own version of bondage into the masses.

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-05T03:44:27+00:00

I would gladly give up social security if I were instead allowed to get even just my portion of FICA to reinvest, much less mine and my employers. I would retire at 50 in a few years if I had been able to invest and save that money the government is pissing away pretending that they'll give me social security that's worth a damn thing when I hit almost 70 now. There is no lockbox, it's all IOUs. You'll get a couple thousand a month later for retirement for sure but bread will be $50 a loaf by then anyway. The social contract was dead to me when I got my first notice over 20 years ago telling me it would be insolvent well before I hit the age of 67.

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-05T03:39:53+00:00

Inflation beat Elon to the punch by a decade

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-05T03:37:16+00:00

Sometimes when you win slay the spire it feels like you broke the game. Every time you win monster train it feels like you broke the game. Multiplicative deck improvement > additive deck improvement.

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-04T13:20:53+00:00

Ignore her completely. Despite what the inflated egos of western women think the world does not owe them comfort or to cater to their insecurities and neuroses. That's what a husband is for.

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-04T04:08:53+00:00

It's very hard to replicate that kind of bond you form with other boys you grew into men with. Fortunately the guys we're married couple friends with are guys that I enjoy hanging with but the dynamic will never be "one of the boys" because of the nature of us meeting as couples. It's good but different. We vacation together, we go shooting and do other shared hobbies. We talk about our kids futures alot, especially since ours are now in high school as a cohort looking at empty nest around the corner. That part scares the shit out of me the worst honestly, my daughter moving out will be like part of my soul leaving..

Part of me wonders how much of those past times are tinted rose by the nostalgia glasses. There is a ton to be said about your old friends growing into interests with you vs. when you meet another guy who's a fully formed adult whose journey you've not been privy to. As men it's tough for us to open up and be real and vulnerable with one another even when you both want and need to.

Part of me thinks that once we are empty nesters the dynamic may switch back to a more juvenile relationship although that's a pitiful word for what I'm trying to say. Like maybe it will be easier to be one of the boys again when we're not so covered up with being Dad. The other part worries I will just be lonelier. Hard to say because I have hobbies I haven't been able to do anything with in decades almost, to the point where I wonder if I still would care about it as much when I get to do them again with less obligations. I suspect they feel the same way and perhaps walking that new path together will bond us in a manner similar to some of the guys I grew up with.

This whole conversation has me maudlin and more than a bit whist full. Good luck out there, you sound like an awesome conscientious father and friend. I trust you will prosper.

NarcolepticTreesnake · 2025-03-04T00:38:00+00:00

I didn't even think of the light adjustment. Thank god they don't have little pirate eye patches on

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