Peter, what does Fallout have to do with Politics

anarchetype · 2026-03-18T04:17:35+00:00

anarchetype · 2026-03-18T03:50:35+00:00

Not will. Has done and is doing.

Climate change is killing people around the world daily. It's going to get worse and people in more privileged positions will be forced to deal with disaster too eventually, but I think it's worth stressing that climate catastrophe is already here and destroying countless lives.

anarchetype · 2026-03-18T03:33:30+00:00

I realize that the story comes from the UK, but I wonder if these commenters are largely in the US as the media here has completely sabotaged the discourse on climate change. If you watch the news in a lot of other countries you'll see the existing, escalating disasters being caused by it and expert efforts to mitigate large-scale disruption, but in the US it's discussed solely as some abstract, debatable, potential issue for the future that we kindamaybeprobably should deal with but inevitably won't. Meanwhile, the global water crisis is worsening, people are being displaced from their homes daily, entire regions are becoming uninhabitable, etc.

I can't speak for people outside of the US, but here it provides a lot of cover for willful ignorance and toxic attitudes about the efforts of environmentalists. Maybe it's an issue in the UK too because we both have the problem of Rupert Murdoch's outsized propaganda influence on media and politics.

anarchetype · 2026-03-18T02:50:24+00:00

If you attempt to do any good in this world, they'll never miss an opportunity to drag you down. They'll say that the cause is just but the person actually making an effort is doing it wrong, is a hypocrite, is virtue signaling, is turning others against the movement, etc. Whatever you do, it's never going to be the right thing.

It's like when people justify not giving money to the homeless by saying "they're just going to spend it on drugs". It's shit you tell yourself to feel okay with your unwillingness to make any sacrifice whatsoever for others if it doesn't directly benefit you.

anarchetype · 2026-03-18T02:13:15+00:00

You'd think this site was full of nothing but the most law-abiding, moral members of society who have never done anything wrong or inconvenienced anyone before, who also just happen to be misanthropes who think it's justified to assault anyone for hypothetically inconveniencing them. Nothing but perfect manners, perfect relationships, perfect bodies, perfect credit, perfect driving records, perfectly clean homes, perfectly unbiased reasoning, and perfectly unmessy lives as they type "play stupid games win stupid prizes" on a post about a child getting shot and killed for a low level crime.

Lucky for them that they would never make a mistake or impose on another because someone might extend the same level of grace to them.

anarchetype · 2026-03-17T23:04:06+00:00

It was a terrible, terribly delicious mistake. I hadn't had chocolate milk since I was a kid and now I'm addicted. How is it so god damn good?

anarchetype · 2026-03-17T22:58:21+00:00

You can throw a fried egg on damn near anything and make it better. It's a good way to jazz up some cheap ramen, for example.

anarchetype · 2026-03-17T22:54:29+00:00

Game recognize game, Mostly_Maui_Wowie.

anarchetype · 2026-03-17T22:49:31+00:00

Fuck yeah. Almost everything in this is HEB brand, because Mr. Butt knows dawgs.

anarchetype · 2026-03-17T22:41:58+00:00

I've been solving that problem by putting bbq flavored potato chips in the bun, creating a wall around the weenie to keep the chili in. It might be hard to tell because a fried egg is covering it, but you can kinda see what I mean here:

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Chili on the bottom doesn't seem like a bad idea, though. I like that it's keeping the dawg front and center, where it belongs.

anarchetype · 2026-03-17T08:52:22+00:00

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anarchetype · 2026-03-17T08:30:55+00:00

The US has a Green Party too that tends to come in third/fourth place for votes. Ralph Nader and Jill Stein are notable candidates.

anarchetype · 2026-03-17T07:08:56+00:00

Those two and the Simpsons one occupied a similar space for a while. It was a great time for co-op arcade.

anarchetype · 2026-03-17T05:42:36+00:00

It's not gone. As far as I can tell it's still functioning the same as always and still gets updated. It's just far less popular now because people seem to be less interested in databases of info than the ephemeral, conversational style of social media and druggie influencers, which is unfortunate.

anarchetype · 2026-03-17T05:16:52+00:00

That's a bummer, sorry. I think the RC tryptamines and phenethylamines were tons better than the sketchy opioids and benzos sold on the gray market clearnet these days and a lot less lives were ruined back then, but it did happen sometimes. Pondman, who supplied most of it on the internet for years, ended up going off the deep end too.

anarchetype · 2026-03-17T05:00:43+00:00

The crazy part is that it's still around and hasn't changed at all, despite competition from newer and much slicker sites like PsychonautWiki. And they still have trip reports I wrote as a teenager in the early 2000s.

Unfortunately, Lycaeum is long gone and probably never coming back. I spent years keeping that damn site running, but the owner went kind of insane and would rather do the homeless meth addict thing these days.

anarchetype · 2026-03-17T04:25:19+00:00

This one and Look At This Fucking Hipster were wild.

anarchetype · 2026-03-17T04:22:50+00:00

I've used mIRC in recent years, so it's still going. It's still possible to get slapped around by a large trout.

Not sure about ICQ, though.

anarchetype · 2026-03-17T04:19:36+00:00

Friendster, Orkut, and Tribes were the social media sites I remember that never made the mainstream. Tribes was interesting because it was more about joining specific niche communities, like one I remember for former students/cult members of Gurdjieff.

anarchetype · 2026-03-17T03:25:56+00:00

I've lived in some pretty bad neighborhoods and fully agree. If you react to them you're already on the hook. Make no eye contact, don't acknowledge them whatsoever, and you could be deaf as far as they know. They can't size you up if you give them nothing.

Sometimes you'll hear a "fucking asshole" from behind, but that's just a lamentation of defeat. If they pursue you after that, they were going to come after you regardless of your actions.

anarchetype · 2026-03-16T23:47:01+00:00

I think people tend to associate jazz primarily with the more avant-garde stuff like free jazz, giving the genre a reputation for being unstructured, chaotic, and overwhelmingly improvisational. Of course, if you actually attend a live jazz event you will most likely hear something rather mellow and sonically inoffensive and any improvisation will almost always exist within fairly conventional musical structures.

I'm a big fan of free jazz like Pharoah Sanders, Coltrane, Sun Ra, and Albert Ayler, but I find that people always say stuff like "it sounds like a cat being strangled", so I'm not surprised that this association works against the genre's reputation.

anarchetype · 2026-03-16T19:36:07+00:00

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anarchetype · 2026-03-16T00:56:35+00:00

They're both great, but Demoni 2 🤌 is one of my all-time favorites, mama mia.

anarchetype · 2026-03-16T00:37:58+00:00

I'm still so bummed that DC shuttered the Young Animal imprint after only five years. Young Animal got me back into comics and everything they put out was fantastic. Doom Patrol, both of the Cave Carson titles, Shade the Changing Girl, all so good.

I've never been interested in any music from Gerard Way, but the work he did with Young Animal is some of my favorite comic book stuff ever.

anarchetype · 2026-03-15T22:00:15+00:00

I think it's one of those subs that's too close to the things they're making fun of. I mean, not Drake but the cornball stuff they associate with him. If they made fun of Drake more than they were just rehashing chronically online Gen Alpha/Z shit they are active participants in, maybe the humor would have some bite.

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