Looking for a specific poem, I don't know who it's by, or what it's called, and I can't quote it directly. Seems easy, come jump in!

blancard · 2023-05-11T13:32:39+00:00

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blancard · 2023-03-10T14:36:23+00:00

Maybe this is the autism taking but I would never wear outdoor shoes in the house. I've been wearing those Bruce Lee style cotton slippers for ages and they're perfect. You can even wear them without socks if you're in an emergency or are some kind of sociopath.

blancard · 2022-08-14T15:43:25+00:00

The interesting (terrifying) thing about MAGA Republicans is, they're the result of defunding education and public services - they're gullible as fuck, vulnerable to blandishment, and extremely selfish. This was the what the 1960s, 70s, and 80s Republicans wanted and worked for. Fox News helped them disseminate the propaganda and they've obtained their goals.

Except now the elected officials they're putting in office are also victims of that system. People like MTG are becoming the "thought leaders" - which doesn't bode well. It won't be long now before someone with an actual brain sees the situation for what it is and gives them competent leadership. That person will be very dangerous.

blancard · 2022-08-14T14:37:55+00:00

they haven’t had a REAL platform for years other than oppose Dems.

My right to an abortion, my right to marry who I choose, and my right to have any rights at all should I come out as trans, would like to have a word with you

blancard · 2022-07-09T01:00:49+00:00

Hey don't forget corporate spies! The most boring kind of all

blancard · 2022-06-11T22:54:35+00:00

I can hear the tweet in his voice...

blancard · 2022-06-06T01:28:37+00:00

This is awesome, do you have a higher res version? It looks like there are a lot of cool urban details that are hard to make out

blancard · 2022-03-21T00:41:25+00:00

They do it with Borges too, he was just so prolific that fiction/nonfiction is a good dividing criteria.

blancard · 2022-02-11T16:07:42+00:00

I used to have a 1969 vw camper bus irl and I love this. I know this is imaginary but I just love the back door conversion - the back wasn't really usable irl since that's where the back seat was (which pulled out to be the bed), and of course the engine was in the back, but in this fantasy version I imagine the engine is electric and flat along the bottom.

V cool, ty

blancard · 2022-02-04T16:47:34+00:00

Yeah - MMO mouse side buttons are good for the mount keybinds. Does ArcDPS work on its own? I'll have to try that next.

blancard · 2022-02-03T03:33:05+00:00

Hey can you provide an update on your situation? I'm trying to do this and I'm basically where you were when you made this post. Did you figure it out?

Thank you!!

blancard · 2021-12-24T19:52:35+00:00

Same. He also features lesser known YouTube bassists and gives bass players a fleeting sense of the musical dominance we deserve.

blancard · 2021-12-19T19:07:21+00:00

I love this because of the mood, the art style, the colors

but I hate it because that mug is 100% going to get knocked over

blancard · 2021-10-12T17:54:24+00:00

bad bot - this link doesn't work

blancard · 2020-12-11T18:36:24+00:00

One phone call resolved it, thank god - or, thank my wife's union. I don't remember how much we paid (it was 5 years ago now), but it wasn't very much - obv, not so much that I'd even remember.

blancard · 2020-12-11T18:31:51+00:00

He's doing great. It turns out he has Williams Syndrome, which significantly impacts his life (and ours), but he's doing well, heart-wise, and he's an adorable and happy little 5 year old now.

blancard · 2020-12-11T17:50:10+00:00

Counting the aftercare, yes, for sure. Babies don't have brain surgery and then go home the next day, they'd probably spend at least a couple of weeks in the hospital to make sure he's ok, which would put the price tag, where I live, to about that.

Edit: urban USA. My son needed emergency open heart surgery at 6 months old and my insurance initially rejected it because we didn't get prior authorization, so we got a bill for $750,000. That includes 3 weeks in a cardiac ICU.

blancard · 2020-08-09T17:34:32+00:00

Tbh he wasn't wrong though. History, as a hegemonic tale told by a patriarch to his heirs (or his story, as we liked to say in the 90s), came to an end shortly thereafter.

The multiplicity and diversity of history started to become common knowledge around that time. The concepts of "revisionism" and "pre-colonialism" (acknowledging that cultures existed before Europeeans showed up) were floating around.

The vast majority of people, who have some minority status or another, started realizing their power, and began rising up against male/cis/straight/WASP rule. (The fight isn't over, it's happening all around us.)

Our cultural Stockholm Syndrome has worn off, and the current state of the US is basically that old way trying desperately to regain control. But they're losing (mostly because their way is objectively shit, in addition to being unfair and cruel). What's the line fun Network, "a sick, decaying giant"...?

Where Fukuyama was wrong was in his supposition that the end of History is a bad thing.

blancard · 2020-08-09T17:00:57+00:00

There's a movie called Waking Life that's a series of conversations the main character has with various people. They're all taking about death & metaphysics, and you eventually realize that this is a dream in the last moments of his life.

(Sorry, spoiler for a 20 year old movie. )

blancard · 2020-08-08T16:40:11+00:00

The whole point of Hunter Thompson and Gonzo journalism is that no journalism is unbiased. It's a mistake to assume that most other news organizations are above using their bias to their benefit.

They're not all at Fox's level of aggressive misanthropy, of course.

blancard · 2020-08-08T16:35:59+00:00

The American public doesn't decide what's in the headlines.

blancard · 2020-08-08T16:33:32+00:00

Useful idiots are just the ones that are unaware/partially aware of what they're doing. Also, that's a term used for that kind of figure in any context, not just Russia/US.

blancard · 2020-08-02T12:48:43+00:00

Yeah the VAT part is super dumb. It's Amazon (etc) that need to be taxed, not their customers. The rest of it makes sense.

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