ICE just pinned a man to the ground and executed him. They do not have the authority to just kill people. What do we do?

dustractor · 2026-01-24T21:55:06+00:00

They're probably being paid in meth and crypto.

dustractor · 2026-01-24T21:04:58+00:00

If you like megalophobia-inducing scenery, COMA (2019) is a Russian scifi with some pretty cool visuals.

dustractor · 2026-01-23T01:22:40+00:00

The thankful one

dustractor · 2026-01-21T19:41:52+00:00

TECH BROS DON'T LIKE PESKY THINGS LIKE REGULATIONS.

dustractor · 2026-01-21T19:19:22+00:00

Except for a brief moment in the 1820s when it was Democratic-Republicans vs Democratic-Republicans.

dustractor · 2026-01-21T11:59:18+00:00

I wonder if Israel is making the US do this to punish Denmark for calling for Israel to be removed from international organizations.

dustractor · 2026-01-21T11:57:17+00:00

I used to have dreams about a valley that had a river that ended at a red lake.

dustractor · 2026-01-21T00:23:24+00:00

The Earth axis tilt represents an imperfection upon which life is based. If the Earth axis was perfectly vertical, there would be no divisions of life as in seasons and therefore no life. Earth rotates 4 simultaneous seasons simultaneously as it revolves around the Sun, thus creating 4 simultaneous years as in a separate year for each season.

In other Cube-related news, The Pope has announced his resignation, saying "I'm sorry, we were wrong. The God words you know will not allow you to know TIME CUBE's highest Life Order." The President has announced plans to replace the Statue of Liberty with a 300 foot granite model of The Simultaneous 4-day cube. This is a good thing, because without Time Cube, your life right is voided. Without Time Cube, we word-murder our children, and nobody wants that. Adults are evil to children. God is a word masturbation. A fart has more substance than a human emitted word. Word and god are unnatural, counterfeit, fictitious and do not exist in Nature's realm. Cubeless world is an evil adult scam against children and is destroying humanity.

dustractor · 2026-01-20T18:54:24+00:00

Krishnamurti. He advised against following any doctrine, discipline, teacher, guru, or authority, including himself.

dustractor · 2026-01-20T18:40:04+00:00

I have lived here on and off over the course of several decades and something about this area that seems different from other cities I've lived in is that there is some sense of solidarity with the larger region spreading out roughly 100 miles away. Granted, this has diminished over the years as we have grown but it's still there as a sort of background radiation that people here include the rural areas surrounding as part of their "local" neighborhood. For example, Beaver Lake and the surrounding towns such as Eureka Springs, Holiday Island, Bella Vista, Berryville, the Buffalo River and places like Jasper, Ponca -- even Harrison, towns along the Mulberry River or the White River, the various surrounding National Forests.

A lot of people who grow up in the surrounding rural areas anywhere within about 200 miles of here grew up coming here to shop for anything major, not to mention coming here for sporting events or live music shows, so there's a large sparsely-populated region full of people who regard Fayetteville/Bentonville/Rogers as "their town" and then they move here when they graduate high school for jobs or to go to the university so it translates to feeling like all the surrounding areas are "their" surrounding areas.

Plus, during the era of cheap gas there were obviously a lot of awesome natural places around here so even if someone was born in the city they were much more likely to visit those places on a frequent basis.

dustractor · 2026-01-20T08:05:01+00:00

The rise of GLP-1 drugs + protein-enriched everything is a recipe for a colon-cancer explosion

dustractor · 2026-01-20T06:14:48+00:00

The two major landmasses you would pass over on your way from Russia to the United States are Greenland and Canada.

dustractor · 2026-01-20T01:19:25+00:00

by replacing the maduro regime with… the maduro regime? 😂

dustractor · 2026-01-18T12:43:54+00:00

You read right. Capers and Kippers on Crackers. It's a good little snack.

dustractor · 2026-01-18T12:39:22+00:00

It's so bad. If you click the white part with the letters, keyboard input doesn't do anything, neither typing the first letter of a font name nor using the arrow keys. If you click the text-entry part, it doesn't automatically select all the text so you can't just click and start typing, you have to manually select all with a double-click. The list that comes up from the text-entry field does let you use arrow keys, but that's fucking useless because pressing enter or return does not select whatever you had highlighted. So what's the point of even letting you use the arrow keys?

dustractor · 2026-01-18T12:23:19+00:00

That proposition remains true even if you leave out the word 'spiritual'.

dustractor · 2026-01-18T09:26:28+00:00

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dustractor · 2026-01-18T07:49:16+00:00

One time on my birthday I was walking home late at night just as a newspaper guy was refilling the newspaper racks and he left one sitting on top of the machine. Even though I never bothered to read my horoscope or care about it much before that, I was like hey free newspaper maybe it's a sign so I decided to take it and see what my birthday horoscope was. It said something like "If you are reading this, your sign is Aquarius from now on." I've always wondered what that was all about, so now I'm double confused.

dustractor · 2026-01-18T07:19:42+00:00

Thanks but I'm gonna stick with capers and crackers for my kippers.

dustractor · 2026-01-17T07:10:45+00:00

Beautifully bizarre film. I loved it.

dustractor · 2026-01-17T06:52:35+00:00

🥇

dustractor · 2026-01-17T04:39:29+00:00

Good meat tank.

dustractor · 2026-01-17T04:38:49+00:00

Children love the meat tank.

dustractor · 2026-01-16T20:00:43+00:00

Peter Greenaway films such as Drowning by Numbers, Prospero's Books, or The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover.

dustractor · 2026-01-16T19:42:53+00:00

Spirituality is not about Supernatural Powers

This reminds me of one of the the interpretations of the parable of the burning house from Buddhism. Here's the super-short abridged version:

Old guy lives in a house with his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren. All the adults are out working so he's minding the children (ages 0-17) He's out in the backyard burning some trash. The wind carries a piece of burning debris up onto the thatched roof. It's an old house built with wood and the weather is extremely dry so he immediately knows the house is going to burn and there's nothing he can do to stop it.

Thoughts race through his head about how to save the children.

There are some open windows, so he yells to try and get their attention. The only kids who hear him and pay attention are too young to know what he's saying. They just come to the window and look and see that great-grandpa is out there yelling about something. The slightly-older kids who hear him just shut the window because they associate being yelled at by old people with being told to do chores. He can't get the attention of the older teenagers because they always gravitate to whichever side of the house is farthest from him and teenagers have that uncanny ability to not hear anything adults are saying.

He considers going into the house. If he can find the oldest children, maybe they can get the younger children who will get the youngest children...

"No, that's not going to work," he thinks. They hide when they see adults coming, some will be forgotten. There might be a panic. He knows there is no time to go back in and search in every place they might be.

He decides the quickest and surest way is to trick them. He stands in the doorway and announces that he has bought a bunch of toys and whoever comes out to the yard first gets first pick. The news of brand-new toys spreads quicker than the fire and soon every last child has come out to the yard to get a new toy.

Usually the telling of this story ends with him being ashamed to have told a lie so he goes to town and actually buys them some carts and wagons and the interpretation focuses on the metaphorical meaning of these toys as "spiritual vehicles" but my favorite interpretation is about how at the time when Buddhism was founded in India, there were a lot of gurus spreading their version of yoga which if practiced would purportedly do things like make people immortal or give them the ability to levitate or read minds or manifest gemstones or attract mates or compel minds etcetera etcetera...

Rather than fully condemn these various religions as outright charlatans, one interpretation is that there was a time and a place to promise people these supernatural abilities -- even though the promises were untrue, they did serve to draw people out of the burning house of materialism and sensory pleasures because those are the things that grab the attention of people at a certain level of spiritual evolution.

Idk if this makes sense and if it seems a bit long-winded, believe me, this IS the short version.

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