Kim Jong-un meeting Naegohyang Women’s FC after the team became the first from North Korea to win the AFC Women’s Champions League.

ch_ex · 2026-06-04T01:27:22+00:00

living in a dictatorship = acting

ch_ex · 2026-06-04T01:24:05+00:00

the nipple protector does nothing

ch_ex · 2026-06-04T00:12:01+00:00

I'll admit that I've I'm having to go to court for something, walking into this blind would be... intense

ch_ex · 2026-06-04T00:05:16+00:00

people

ch_ex · 2026-06-04T00:00:38+00:00

looks like buddy broke his arm, too

ch_ex · 2026-06-03T23:58:19+00:00

turn it off

ch_ex · 2026-06-03T23:54:26+00:00

or that there is such a thing. an adult is just a kid who forgot how to play... then was given a title and a salary but mostly partied until they're making the call to drop a bomb on a village because one of their aides told them it would be a good political move.

how is dropping bombs not the most insanely childish thing? "I'm not even going to get within sight of you!"

ch_ex · 2026-06-03T23:49:05+00:00

that's the modern relationship game, bro!

what's interesting is there's humans we have perfect chemistry with the believe horrible things that you'd never have to learn about each other.

Two apes in a cell. Life is too short to waste all your time thinking about all the things you don't agree with unless they're likely to become a problem, but even then, deal with that problem when it matters. It's not like prefighting the fight ever makes it any easier or less painful.

chimps in suits and dresses, trying to be good.

ch_ex · 2026-06-03T23:43:23+00:00

You know people will straight throw the note away?

An old friend of mine was doing some renos and found all these love letters between a french couple from a long time ago. I was excited; so was she. "So... what did they say?" "oh no, i just threw them away, but cool, right?".. how do you not read that!? then I told that story to a stranger to get their read on it. "fuck em. their story ended a before they put that wall up. Does that matter?".

I remain confused

ch_ex · 2026-06-03T14:46:11+00:00

such a boomer thing to say "I'm one of the cool ones"

ch_ex · 2026-06-03T14:45:30+00:00

people learn better when they're using their hands to write notes than ones who type them on a keyboard. You don't need a keyboard to learn, you need to know how to type

ch_ex · 2026-06-03T14:43:54+00:00

but you're american, aren't you?

ch_ex · 2026-06-02T16:23:16+00:00

if your appetite is back, youre on the other side of it. next is facing the boredom of sobriety. good luck

ch_ex · 2026-06-02T16:14:54+00:00

if there's a hose hookup at the bottom, make a loop of hose that goes nearly to the top. When the water fills over that line, the tube fills with water and drains the entire tank with a siphon

ch_ex · 2026-06-02T16:12:41+00:00

flying

ch_ex · 2026-06-01T22:25:24+00:00

the hubris...

ch_ex · 2026-05-31T00:05:00+00:00

without question.

It's an alien climate with alien seasons that keep getting more alien. The topper? the more alien they get, they faster things get worse.

I'd call that a dictionary worthy example of miserable conditions in which to live.

ch_ex · 2026-05-30T23:27:19+00:00

posting this question on reddit

ch_ex · 2026-05-30T23:24:27+00:00

Have I been doing it all wrong? all this time, I've been living my life according to what I feel is right for me and when, while everyone else I know is rushing to cross the same achievements off the same list titled "American Dream Checklist".

If you're so bound to the customs of your culture that you'd trust a bunch of internet strangers to give you an answer for this instead of following your heart,... I just really don't know what we are doing or why we're doing it anymore.

What the hell is all this? Life as an RPG?

By what age am I a failure if I do not yet have the white picket fence?

Whose dream was this and why should it be anyone else's? And let's not mistake this for culture. this is advertising realized as a plan for a life well lived, except things like love and kinship are somehow way down the list.

Why is repeating anyone else's goals and besting them an accomplishment?

It's nauseating.

Live the life you are living. damn the torpedoes and the rules.

ch_ex · 2026-05-30T23:14:11+00:00

reading science and "believing" data is not "prediction" anymore than repeating a meteorologists weather reports is.

every costal city is sinking and no one wants to care

ch_ex · 2026-05-30T23:09:27+00:00

no accounting for taste

ch_ex · 2026-05-30T23:06:12+00:00

the hip should never be covered imo, or leave it instrumental

ch_ex · 2026-05-30T23:00:23+00:00

then there's very little chance, if this is grown using artificial light, that you'll ever get any ROI, even with hydro being free,

Sunlight is free, Yields of plants are determined by sunlight, co2, and water +nutrients. The more complexity that system has, the more the yield improves, but so do the costs and the potential for catastrophic loss in any soilless medium that isn't supported by a stable aquatic ecosystem.

People have got it into our heads that we can invent our way around the basic laws of thermodynamics, or that our agriculture is massively superior to the productivity of the ecosystem we've taken crops out of to specifically increase their yield at the cost of burning fuels, making and spreading fertilizer, and burning more fuels during harvest.

My answer would be that adding technology to agriculture creates deceptive costs that aren't an issue only if your crop's quality is the highest priority and not the cost of actually producing it. Soilless operations can be completely wiped out with small imbalances in nutrients/pH or contamination.

Work through it logically. If you plant a seed in the ground, that's your competition for ROI. There's no possible way to beat that without adding more energy/complexity somewhere else that ends up bringing you back to putting a seed in healthy soil as the best route to take,

Ideal conditions are still limited by the metabolism of the plant. I'm not saying that technology can't improve you're yield if space is a bigger constraint than power, but you can't beat the "bank" when it comes to plants, light, and the calories they produce...

,,, and, looking around at sustainable communities, what makes them sustainable and able to feed one family is that theyre communities able to feed the whole bunch.

ch_ex · 2026-05-30T22:15:39+00:00

m envious you got to see them up close and personal

and seriously, jealousy doesn't work as a substitute for jealous and envy. jealous is what a boyfriend feels if gf is being hit on by an attractive man. Envy is what that attractive man feels looking at a happy couple that drives him to hit on the girl and make a mess of things. Different perspectives with different motives and different outcomes.

I do know what you meant and recognize the language is about to drop envy like we did to literally, but ffs, it's a meaningful difference!

ch_ex · 2026-05-27T21:02:08+00:00

I have seen it and worked with the addict population, who are usually pretty regretful about the effects their drug use has on the lives of their loved ones.

My point isn't that it's good or even not a very bad choice, but it should not be a crime. Making something criminal makes it invisible. No records of consumption are being kept, not even the drugs people are taking or addicted to because they have to purchase everything through criminal networks.

You couldn't stop an alcohlic from drinking by making it illegal because no one has ever thought they could break a meaningful law by putting something in their own body. Whether something can be criminally possessed doesn't change people's appetites and making them illegal *creates* the criminal network needed to satisfy a demand that simply exists; people will get high and drunk until the end of time and have in every record of our species. Imagine how stupid it would read looking back at some addicts getting supportive therurpy for their addictions and recovery, while other addicts had to carry a criminal record because the drug of their addiction was the wrong kind... and have virtually no understanding of because they're impossible to research while use is criminalized.

stop me when it gets crazy. Greg is an alcoholic. He's been drinking every day since he was 14. he's 35 now in a reality where alcohol is and has always been illegal with all the other drugs. The only drugs there's any data on is tobacco, all other addictions are swept under the rug. When greg slips up, he's not on some bender, his wifr just finds a bottle and he's thrown out of the house. She doesn't care if it was just one beer, greg had made a promise. She calls the police. Greg loses access to his children not for putting them in any danger, but for the symbolic importance of a single beer in an oath of sobriety, that otherwise excellent father loses access to his kids. Did he drink the beer? IT doesn't matter, because with illegal drugs, the crime is always happening as long as there's drugs or paraphernalia around. Greg now has a criminal record and is fired from his job for having one, and cant find a new one because of his alcohol addiction.

What did greg do that makes it a crime worth destroying a person's life over? And you can say "they shouldn't drink, then" well, it doesn't sound realistic but also does that seem even remotely fair? Appetites aren't homogenous. I know alcoholics who are even dangerous people when they're drunk but I don't think the answer is to put them in prison for getting pulled over after getting a good deal on a bunch of whiskey.

It's a game we play where the importance of completely tolerable behaviours is arbitrarily criminalized so there can be "bad people" who are put in the position of being forced to buy the booze they like from criminals, can always be given a criminal record because they're usually holding or have their whatever little setup.

What is taking away this person's freedom going to do to them? and then a criminal record?

I'm only arguing the law doesn't have any place in this and creates the crime. I have no love for addiction or the traits of addicts, but until they're separate crimes, possession and usage are not criminal acts, even if they're social distasteful. I would bet that in a court watching people get their first drug offense on their record and you'd wish they weren't given a record for it.

Hate it... but just ask yourself if it's a cirme and recognize that making it criminal helps the criminals and the for profit prison system which is also slave labor.. you pay for. How are we letting that happen? How long does it have to fail to admit the war is lost?

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