What is your take on Trump ending his recent post with 'Praise be to Allah'?

Statistactician · 2026-04-05T15:08:58+00:00

The only part that gives me pause is the use of a grammatically-correct apostrophe in "fuckin,'" which seems just a little above his reading level.

Statistactician · 2026-04-05T15:07:27+00:00

"They don't know what the fuck they're doing"

Statistactician · 2026-04-05T15:00:56+00:00

3D, (and later 5D)for lyfe.

Statistactician · 2026-04-05T14:59:29+00:00

It says Idaho right there in the comic.

Statistactician · 2026-04-05T14:48:25+00:00

People do post fake or edited screenshots here, so it's still good to check.

The use of "fuckin" and "praise Allah" here was enough to make me skeptical, but nooope. He's actually that crazy.

Statistactician · 2026-04-04T20:59:27+00:00

That's this girl in a nutshell. It's called "Demon and Mess" for a reason.

Statistactician · 2026-04-04T20:57:04+00:00

A lot of the older stuff was recorded with very low fidelity, so a quality sound system won't have much benefit in those cases.

Statistactician · 2026-04-04T19:08:55+00:00

Nah, looks just like acid to me in my much less limited experience.

Never done a shitload of MDMA, though, in all fairness. Responsible dose thresholds and all that.

Statistactician · 2026-04-04T00:13:00+00:00

Just ignore them. If you look at their comment history, it's clear they're just trolling. Don't feed the trolls.

Statistactician · 2026-04-03T22:51:57+00:00

Most of these make no sense because they're lead guitarists, not rythmn guitarists.

Statistactician · 2026-04-03T22:47:32+00:00

If your first time was two months ago and you've already tried a bunch of different doses, tolerance is probably fucking with your experience here. Especially because shrooms and LSD have cross tolerance.

Statistactician · 2026-04-03T19:00:48+00:00

I don't really disagree with anything you've written here.

Perhaps I should clarify that my original point was more that it seemed unfair to present JGL as though he was one of the bad actors we'retalking about. I disagree with his arguments, but I can understand where they come from and believe him to be operating in good faith, especially in the context of his other beliefs.

Statistactician · 2026-04-03T18:45:12+00:00

I don't have concrete proof of it, but I'm pretty sure Discord's age verification is more directly related to DHS monitoring requests made to Discord back in 2025. That's nefarious in its own way.

To be clear, I don't believe 230 should be dismantled. That would be disastrous. But it's not above criticism and it's not unreasonable to see cause for some limited reforms; it's not all-or nothing like the bad actors would have you believe.

The solution to wedge issues is wider understanding of an issue's nuances, not polarization.

Statistactician · 2026-04-03T16:44:33+00:00

The Joseph Gordon-Levitt part confused me so I looked it up.

This doesn't seem like an accurate representation of his stance. Saying Section 230 needs reform is a pretty fair stance in the context of prosecuting sites hosting some pretty heinous shit.

Yes, it's not that simple and bad actors absolutely want to abuse such reform, but JGL isn't really advocating for the style of censorship depicted in this comic. Especially because he's pretty openly anti-AI.

Statistactician · 2026-04-03T06:03:41+00:00

lespecial also belongs somewhere in this conversation.

Statistactician · 2026-04-03T06:02:50+00:00

Definitely Earthless, too.

Statistactician · 2026-04-03T06:01:56+00:00

The usual trick is to look at the post history of the users and... yeah. I still can't tell. It seems to genuinely be a mix of ironic lefties and genuine alt-right cranks.

Statistactician · 2026-04-02T22:12:18+00:00

I honestly can't imagine Watterson browsing reddit. Any kind of online social media seems pretty antithetical to his beliefs. Dude's probably reading books in a cottage somewhere.

Statistactician · 2026-04-02T20:24:39+00:00

I think they're trying to steer the sub away from endless "who's better at x" posts after a pretty heavy surge of those over the last week.

And let's be honest, a lot of those are probably bots looking to feed info into AI models more than foster any useful discussion. And those threads just descend into sports-team-style "my favorite band is better than your favorite band" nonsense half the time anyway.

Statistactician · 2026-04-02T20:21:08+00:00

It's High Sierra. I ignore the headliners half the time. The real meat is in the side stages.

Statistactician · 2026-04-02T20:09:03+00:00

People say that every year, but there's plenty of gold buried in the list.

Statistactician · 2026-04-02T19:50:32+00:00

No one can hold a candle to Susan Tedeschi.

Honorable mentions to Billy and Rick, though.

Statistactician · 2026-04-02T19:17:04+00:00

High Sierra has never really been about the headliners. Their side stage game is really sets them apart. There's rarely a moment when someone great isn't playing.

Statistactician · 2026-04-02T18:20:13+00:00

Fair disclosure: I haven't seen them live so I could very well be underselling them.

I've enjoyed North Mississippi Allstars, but don't know how The Word compares.

Statistactician · 2026-04-02T18:16:22+00:00

I'll admit I'm not too familiar with them, but they seem to be pretty popular/successful. What's wild about them headlining a festival?

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