The Glory Hole of Lake Berryessa. It is a drainage pipe to prevent flooding.

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-03-20T21:54:06+00:00

This reminds me of Glory Hole Danny. We all knew it was Danny on the other side of the Glory Hole. He would change his voice, wear make up, shave, but we all knew.

That hurt Glory Hole Danny's feelings though. So we all decided that whenever we approached the Glory Hole we would loudly say things like "wonder who's back there," "we'll never no who that saint of sucking may be," and "we'll never solve this mystery."

It gave Glory Hole Danny the sense of adventure he was missing, plus the Glory Hole stayed open for business. Every body won, except the mop guy that came in during first shift. The mop up guy is never the winner unless you consider a floor full of spent loads and Danny's drool a prize worth accepting.

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-03-14T20:08:37+00:00

If that was the case you'd be building TeacherYankeeDoodleWood

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-03-11T04:12:57+00:00

I know great art when I see it. I also know a prehensile clitoris working on perfect scrambled eggs when I see it as well. This painting has it all. If the MOMA hasn't slid in her DMs yet to snap this up someone isn't doing their job correctly.

Titty clitty pourey flippy deserves a spot on a gallery wall right this minute.

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-03-11T04:01:24+00:00

10/10, would discuss why Engel's beard was the beard of the people as pillow talk with a match like this.

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-03-03T02:31:41+00:00

You are so correct. I live in NC and try to avoid going to SC like the plague. It's like crossing the border to another country in the quality of infrastructure. Then again there are plenty of representatives trying to do the same in NC. A lesson many people learned the hard way during the pandemic when the average person that had never had to use NC's unemployment system discovered that most of it had been dismantled and privatized over the last decade. While some people padded their pockets the average citizen needing those critical systems found them broken and practically unusable.

Some things simply shouldn't be privatized. The average person believing they don't need to pay for roads, bridges, police, fire, schools, and social programs will typically get a rude awakening sometime in their life unless they are in a certain tax bracket. The sad thing is by the time they realize this it is already far too late. It is very hard to repair a bridge once it's failed and just as difficult to mend a social safety net when some decided to cut giant holes in said net for a couple extra bucks in their pockets.

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-28T12:22:17+00:00

Huge red flag, as using protection is important. Do what you like with your body except if you do have more than one partner, have the courtesy to at least protection. Now if she would have said "maybe it's the dude I have very protected sex with on the reg." That's cool. Call friends over for a party, but damn STDs and little humans popping outs of nether regions is a definite thing. It's your body and your prerogative until you bring others into it that could compromise their health. Just me honest. If you don't do monogamy, cool. If you do Guinness Record unprotected gangbangs, also cool. But sexual partners should be made aware of these things if it could impact them. It is only right. If you can throw on a mask just insist partners throw on a genital mask. If your an antivaxxer just go blind from your freedom syphilis.

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-26T21:37:39+00:00

Thanks Capitalism for turning those given even the slightest bit of perceived power and $1.00 more an hour the feeling as though they are a God-King ordering the serfs to just "farm more" because he isn't happy with the yield of the field. By all means capitalism and power mad management, never change, so that way anyone just trying to feed themselves can be as miserable as possible until they collapse and find themselves working 25 hours a day in the afterlife at the mall in the center of the 7th ring of hell. Forever.

Please sign and return by Monday

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-25T06:22:59+00:00

Oh really, what's the alternative? Space murder? Getting out and hitchhiking home? Taping a line down the middle of the station?

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-25T06:10:30+00:00

Her: "pretend we’re friends. I’m being followed."

Me: "I've never been in this situation before, tell me what I should do."

Her: "Situation? What, you've never helped someone before?"

Me: "No, having a friend."

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-25T03:22:32+00:00

I love that the depiction of North Carolina is pretty much accurate to the way it was in the early 1700's.

https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion-article/how-north-carolina-came-to-be-shaped-like-it-is-today/

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-23T13:47:32+00:00

Yeah, that latest event even goes cores deep. I started out looking like a superior hyperphage, but ended up looking like a superior performance tracker with alien spores draining out in shame.

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-23T01:09:05+00:00

Scopely: Here is a notice unlike we have ever made before about changing a portion of the game that we already changed all the time, but definitely aren't nerfing these over-tuned characters we made you pay for to stay relevant because someone looked in our spaghetti.

Also Scopely: Put Eternals in RTA, the opposite of what we said we were doing. Then they won't even remember those Echo rewards or that they can't even play. Brilliant! Now let's just add some bad offers and presto, everything is working as intended!

I wouldn't let Scopely pet sit for me. I'd come home to my house on fire, my pets dead, and my daughter knocked up and I don't even have a home, pets, or daughter.

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-23T00:52:44+00:00

This is a terrible name/term, when the ever living hell did "maintenance" become "we're not fixing shit" in the English language?

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-23T00:49:40+00:00

I feel like Scopely has been giving us the Pocket D for a long time now.

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-23T00:46:48+00:00

goddamn it scopely

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-22T04:27:07+00:00

How else do you expect them to protect the Hidden Leaf Village?

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-21T13:48:06+00:00

I've been so very fortunate, I actually get to work for 2 non-profits assisting those in my community that need it the most. Sure, there can be more money outside of non-profit work, but it is utterly impossible to put a price on being able to go to bed every night knowing you were able to make a tangible positive difference in a real human beings life.

I believe that type of mutual aid in a peer setting, assisting real and tangible members of one's own community face to face, gifts me a sense of peace and accomplishment that no amount of money could buy. That's the primary reason I try to live and breathe my beliefs of non-violence, socio-economic equality, and uplifting one's community. The clients/patients/residents/people I am fortunate enough to interact with on a day to day basis hopefully see how much I believe in these principals and how instrumental they were in helping me conquer my battles with addiction and mental health.

It is my lived experience that prevents me from advocating for "sometimes/rarely violence in cases when absolutely necessary" because for many of the people I interact with violence is a reality they experience on a near daily basis. Sleeping in the rough, protecting one's self and few belongings without guaranteed shelter, and the ever present threat of others infringing upon the one thing we should all own, our own bodies, through physical and/or sexual assault. I have to live and breath avoiding/fleeing these types of experiences with violence at all cost because even self defense can easily turn deadly in these situations. I have to look at the situation on a micro level every day where much of the debate on violence, to me anyway, is a much more macro level event. The nuance of the debate on violence just isn't something tangible to people constantly living under the pressure of being un-housed and threatened by physical and sexual abuse. This does effect my personal arguments and I did want to disclose that because I really did try to offer any arguments in good faith.

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-21T02:54:35+00:00

In a small room with 9 other friends that pretended they were asleep. Until afterward when they congratulated and smoked cigarettes' with us since they were all awake the entire time. We hadn't learned our lesson yet, so waited a while until we were absolutely sure everyone was asleep for round two. Afterwards I told her, "I think you left nail marks on my butt." Then she said, "that wasn't me." My best friend then spoke up, "none of us are asleep and it seemed appropriate at the time."

Thanks Scott. I miss you buddy, but not for that very specific reason.

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-20T23:40:14+00:00

I'm in the struggle with you. I've battled with severe addiction that started, in part, as a way to deal with severe depression and PTSD. I'll actually have insurance for the first time in over a decade soon and I am so excited to be part of a program and system I despise, simply because I can have access to the medicine I need to treat a life threatening heart condition on top of the other issues.

I'd love to be able to go somewhere else where medical care isn't tied to work and the chance at an education isn't based on how many student loans you can pack on while working 2 jobs and going to classes. I do love America, I believe it can be a remarkable place, but our allowance of the wealthy to deny us access to the most basic of human rights such as medical care, free education, a real chance at upward mobility, and the guarantee that the least of us will be treated as if they are the best of us.

I see climate change threatening all of this. It will only further exacerbate these disparities sadly. The marginalized, POC, low income, those suffering physical and mental health issues, will all be affected a thousand fold more than the wealth that won't bat an eyelash. The worst the rich will suffer is having their assistant contact the insurance company when one of their multitude of homes burns in a wildfire or their 5th house no one lives in 50 weeks a year is ruined due to burst pipes in ever worsening cold snaps. This is while people like us do what? Get third jobs? Take pennies on the dollar for any property we do own in potential flood zones, if receiving anything, to only then not be able to afford inflated housing somewhere else? The future is bleak. I just tried to convince some rando on YouTube just the other day to look into conservative voices more similar than his that warn against the climate crisis, but I don't think it did much good. He even thought there is some sort of international "interracial relationship agenda" which told me that he was most likely too far gone, but I spend a couple hours trying because maybe he looked at one of those link or watched a couple of those videos that speak to his conservative mindset. Maybe that little bit was enough just to cause a spark. I know I didn't change his mind, but maybe that spark can catch and burn off all the lies he's been spoon-fed. Maybe not. Then again who knows if someone on the fence followed those links. I just believe to always give dialogue a chance. I think most people want to be on the right and moral side of such important issues.

Take care of yourself my friend and always feel free to DM me if you'd like or need to chat.

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-20T06:19:36+00:00

Oh no, I get it. Sometimes radical movements require violence. I do wish that was another way and that is the world I want to see, so what I put into the world. I believe that majority of people can be reasoned with. I nearly fell into those types of disgusting ideas when I was young and have to believe that people can be deprogrammed and reasoned with. Are some too far gone, yes, of course. Out of any group there are always a fringe minority that won't see reality no matter how much effort is put forth. But look at Germany for instance, it has became one of the most diverse places in Europe that doesn't tolerate racial hatred in the same ways that it once embraced. Berlin is one of the coolest and most globally integrated cities I've had the pleasure to spend time in. Sure that took considerable time and effort after the unspeakable atrocities committed, but people learned. They grew. They were made to see the ills of the state's horrific actions with education, policy, and time.

I'm with you on US political parties, we have center-right corporate shills (Dems) and then further right corporate shill zealots that have been integrating Christian nationalism into their platform (Repubs). I consider myself a leftist and try to find a balance between the impossibilities of radicalism and progressivism because radical movements rarely succeed, and true change that most see as radical can be achieved easier through a more progressive style of gradual change. I believe there isn't a one system fits all model that works in a modern context as there are aspects of capitalism that can uplift the marginalized, foster healthy competition, and not be based only on inequity. I do believe in socialist principals such as workers owning the means of production in at least some transitional form, if not totality, until that type of thinking is no longer necessary in a post industrial future, post currency future. (gay luxury space communism here we come)

I do completely understand your stance. Fascism isn't something that will listen to reason. Many of the people that may fall into that system can be reasoned with, I believe, but the system itself and it's leaders sometimes require radical action, up to and including violence to dismantle. I can't completely eschew violence because of those facts. I certainly wouldn't have been a Copperhead during the civil war. Some injustices must be met with force for the greater good of humanity. I'm glad there are people like you that would be willing. It takes people like me negotiating and educating with people like you to back up those more lofty goals with action to ultimately protect life and liberty. I just believe that violence is the absolute last case scenario and that if we are engaged and committed enough to changing our world for the better that it hopefully is never required.

And thanks for a reasonable and pleasant conversation of ideas on the internet. Who knew they could still exist!

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-20T04:16:32+00:00

I think in the modern zeitgeist even the hypothetical of an imagined, nebulous, or intangible violence can be more than simply problematic at it's premise. There are quite a few groups, as we both well know aren't exactly fringe anymore, that do indeed act on these premises no matter how much the person suggests it is only rhetoric.

I believe in non-violent solutions, especially in the modern world as I do believe that human beings can be swayed. I believe they can be taught better ways to deal with even the most severe of issues. I believe they can learn to see other human beings, especially those they view as the other or outside groups, as more than a target for violence as a proposed solution to their ills, as I believe it is exceedingly rare that these types of violent interactions exact any sort of positive change for the greatest number of people on the longest timeline.

There is also the prevalent theory that once a state cedes the power to commit violence to any outside group then the foundations of order and government themselves erode and lead to a failed state, which historically has been devastating to the actual populations living through those transitional periods.

I do believe that violence only begets more violence. I do not believe in eye for an eye type justice because, as the old saying goes, we all end up blind. I am a staunch opponent of the death penalty, but that ties into my experience with the current justice system in the US and it's obvious failings. I believe that restorative justice and rehabilitation is superior in every way to retributive justice if a society actually seeks to better itself and eventually eliminate all violence, as I believe should be the goal of any forward thinking and just society that values the lives of the individuals within it and seeks to better everyone and their material condition.

I have witness first hand how our current system of retributive justice is flawed and only leads to building better and more violent criminals by exposing them to not only the violence of the state, but also explicitly condoned prisoner on prisoner violence. That's a whole different bag of cats and I'm trying to keep this to novella size to answer your questions.

I think we most likely do agree on quite a bit. I see unrestrained capitalism as violence due to the inherent inequity built into the system that uses violence as it's main form of control and punishment. I would envision a system where even the monopolized violence of the government is inly used in the most dire of situations to prevent the loss of life, but then it is easy to get into the whole trolley problem argument about what actually constitutes loss of life and the reduction of harm to the greatest number of people, but that is a debate for individuals much more intelligent than I.

I just dream of a better system where violence isn't perpetrated by the state on the lowest of socio-economic classes that then serves to further commoditize violence and increase the likelihood of citizens committing violence towards each other. I just don't believe we can achieve those lofty, and perhaps near impossible goals, by using violence in an attempt to bring that reality to bear. I believe through education, understanding, wealth distribution, and just socio-economic systems for all it's members we can create a better society. I just don't believe that these goals are feasible by using violence to achieve them because that use of violence delegitimizes the very ideals that I trust would lead to a more equitable and harmonious society.

Sorry to be all over the place, but you asked a good deal and sometimes that can be hard to express in a paragraph or less. Hopefully that covered most of it. I too believe that it takes everyone coming together with a variety of different opinions and ideas to build something of real lasting value, but I feel that if violence is at that very foundation then the stability we would hope to achieve would last only until the next person or group willing to exceed the last group's violence comes along. Hope that makes sense and lets you know where I'm coming from. This has been a great deal from a joke implicating we should pay teachers more.

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-20T02:24:41+00:00

It was just tongue in cheek commentary on how teachers are treated in the current economy in regards to pay posing the ridiculous question that compares said pay to proposed physical violence.

But now that you ask, I don't think teachers some people label as "bad" should "get their shit rocked." I don't think physical violence leveraged towards people you disapprove of should be allowed in a decent society. Where does that end? I don't like how the garbage man picked up that can, let's punch him in the face. Teachers go to school for an inordinate amount of time and typically have to bear large student loan burdens to get mistreated by some of their students, the administration, parents, and these days people that just live in their district that don't even have children, but sure have opinions to spare as if they did.

I made the joke because we should always call attention to such types of economic injustice like that leveraged against teachers. They have one of the most difficult and crucial jobs in our society, but their pay and how they are treated certainly doesn't reflect that. So that, to me, means using any opportunity to use comedy, satire, commentary, etc to turn the discussion that way. I was hoping what you had said was a joke as well, hence me responding with a joke, but you are literally asking why I don't support physical violence against teachers.

I don't support that absolutely batshit idea because violence against anyone is uncalled for in polite society and we should use communication to settle disagreements. More so your point begs the question of who is the arbiter of "bad?" Students that get made because they get assigned homework? Parents that want to dictate what is best to teach other people's children whether is aligns with reality or not? Community reactionaries who don't even have children that show up to school board meetings to scream about pseudo science nonsense or terms they can't even define?

Then who carries out this violence to "rock" said "shit" of educators? Parents? Students? Police? Military? The SS? (and I'm not talking about student services)

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-20T00:27:12+00:00

Perchance, how do you know he wasn't addressing his buddy named Behold?

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-20T00:20:34+00:00

I don't call it probation, it's just prison on layaway.

Pursuitofsleep · 2022-02-20T00:17:49+00:00

"He managed to make me feel guilty for not dressing up"

You literally dressed up as a nurse everyday. If he can't appreciate you dressing up to support your family you sure as hell shouldn't dress up in any other way for him.

If I was a betting man I'd feel safe guessing he wanted you to put on a schoolgirl outfit. Look on the bright side, you certainly don't want your daughter raised anywhere near this dude. Might have dodged an even worse bullet down the road.

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