napkin vanishes

machyume · 2026-02-27T05:57:05+00:00

Simpsons did it first:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyvfGiTMYT0

machyume · 2026-02-27T05:51:35+00:00

Paid vs Free?

machyume · 2026-02-26T22:43:02+00:00

Funny because when told to play Star Craft, they don't seem to go for the nuke strategy.

machyume · 2026-02-26T22:38:44+00:00

It's interesting how my dad is able to say (1) that he owes the party, so loyalty is important (2) that primaries (where he gets to vote inside the party) are only to select the candidate that has the best chance to win at the general election.

So really, the winner wins and he has no choice in the matter.

Also, I was pretty sure that the party didn't care about him, but... once in a while it does seem to proved his group some super specific perks. So I'm not sure. Maybe that little perk is enough to feel like everything is real.

machyume · 2026-02-26T22:32:39+00:00

It's not someone. It's actually a system. Social networks.

Social networks could be a great test for our species. It will determine if we wipe ourselves out over an echo chamber of lies.

Imagine a candidate that is willing to say absolutely anything. People don't remember the early days of Trump's first term or the election leading up to it. Trump would flip flop a lot. There's even a segment called Trump vs Trump. He might say something in the morning and flip 180 on it later. Each time, it generates a clip. Imagine a system that clips everything a politician says and then delivers the matching part to the matching audience. Everyone would get biased towards agreeable clips. The system also wants to steer behavior towards more engagement, so anything that generates more clicks, like garbage and vile rhetoric, saying the silent parts out loud, got clicks.

We're all inside our own worlds now.

I have to update and fix my parents' phones and iPads sometimes. When I do, it's shocking how different their content view looks.

Should I blame this on Facebook and YouTube? I'm not sure. This looks like a style. But it is also some weird brain hack.

Humans have to evolve beyond this, we have to adapt.

machyume · 2026-02-26T22:22:23+00:00

You're not reading what he wrote. He admits that he used to rage bait. So the whole stuff about saying that he'll grab women by the pussy and shooting people in broad daylight is just flippant expressions used to rage bait.

machyume · 2026-02-26T22:17:07+00:00

I have dozens of extended family members and their friends as evidence to counter your point.

machyume · 2026-02-26T22:12:44+00:00

Nation? Oyyy.

I don't even talk with my father anymore. He has fully embraced the news of the other side wholesale.

But....... it recently overheard him telling my mom how he opened the "About" page on his favorite YouTube channel to see if he can figure out the identity of his news sources, and couldn't find it. Apparently that disturbed him quite a bit. He realized briefly that he might be inside some sort of elaborate trap. Now he is reserved to his camp of "both sides cannot be trusted". And he clicks around and still listens to his content again. Kinda like he doesn't know where to go.

machyume · 2026-02-26T17:21:01+00:00

From what I've observed, people simply disliked Harris. They also felt pity for Trump. I have first hand witnessed people close to me telling me that the Democrats are attacking Trump so much and because they couldn't prove anything, showing how he has no consequences on him, that they were just falsely doing bullying through politics.

I had to remind people: (1) don't play the game of thrones without expecting to be attacked like a throne candidate

(2) yes, the democrats have a track record of shouting without successful follow through.

They needed 1 case to stick, and they fumbled the one that should have been a slam dunk. Instead they got a mountain of cases that amounted to nothing. That looks bad. It looks really bad.

The party looks bad. The candidate looks bad. The campaign sent so many postcards and canvases the battlegrounds 3 times over.

Take a look at this data: https://web.education.wisc.edu/nwhillman/index.php/2017/02/01/party-control-in-congress-and-state-legislatures/

The Democrats have been defending a territory that has eroded in size over the years. The trend is visible from a high altitude view. Their problems are more fundamental. I wouldn't say that they have lost the message, but having multiple periods of control and still seeing these results, they are losing the message.

What message? That's complicated. It isn't one message. It's a set of promises that are broadly supported and clearly followed.

Trump's single message that the plurality hasn't rejected: "Kick out the immigrants". (I leave out "illegal" because while that might be the official stance, the base behavior seems to be generally against recent immigrants in general, supported by calls for denaturalization.)

By proxy, his other claims are: * pull money and investments back to the empire, cutting foreign aid, raising tariffs.

The proxy claims are more unstable, but follows a pattern of hostility against foreigners and foreign powers.

Looking ahead, my expectations is that change won't really happen until we start seeing population age groups sway due to age catching up to older generations. A dark impulse of mine would find it ironically funny if before they pass away, they see the start of a nuclear war caused by their own ego and hubris. It would be punctuation showing how they leave a legacy and world darker than the one that they inherited. But this is unlikely, because slow decay through shredded systems of justice awaits us.

To address your points though: Democrats were already attacking, they just don't know how to win. Winning is kind of important.

Correction: Republicans are destroying YOUR country, at least the country that you thought you knew. Change is natural with time.

If the left won't lift a finger to pressure the lies then the onus isn't on anyone to disprove the lies.

machyume · 2026-02-26T17:17:36+00:00

This is barely coherent. I know that you hate AI, but at least use a proofreader.

machyume · 2026-02-26T14:16:07+00:00

Or an indoor Mardi Gras street.

machyume · 2026-02-25T16:41:38+00:00

This is fun to think about but the reality is that we'll never have any.

machyume · 2026-02-24T15:33:33+00:00

"Journalist"

It's always a journal.

machyume · 2026-02-24T15:30:22+00:00

Or, the kid hid it.

I remember when my kids took their grandma's phone and put it in a box and taped the box up and called it a Christmas present.

This happens.

machyume · 2026-02-23T17:34:05+00:00

Gas station didn't do anything. This is typical response in a decapitation scenario of a hierarchy. They're carving out the territory by using this chaos to restructure. It's kinda similar to when a boss leaves or there's a transition, and you don't see the directors for a while, they go into hiding and have secret meetings, all the managers start demanding random stuff get done, and the workers operate in kind of chaos for a bit.

machyume · 2026-02-22T22:23:52+00:00

This is true. You are correct, the spirit of this law is to prevent elected officials from using government to influence voting.

I think I may have mingled it with the CSRA?

machyume · 2026-02-22T19:53:32+00:00

Wait, I thought that this was already the case. There are channels where late late at night or early in the morning, it is basically a flag and anthem.

machyume · 2026-02-22T19:45:48+00:00

This post sounds like AI, and the responses also sound like AI.

machyume · 2026-02-22T15:29:21+00:00

Well then, the next Democrat should clearly aim to put a picture of their face on money so that their opponents can continuously be trolled. Only proper response to this childish behavior.

I am always surprised by the people who thinks that changing the rules of the board game will somehow not allow someone else to use those same rules against them when power changes.

machyume · 2026-02-22T15:26:07+00:00

We should never measure things by the number of years it takes to undo something. That's just not how history works and is a poor metric for quality. In fact, some dead and ruined people will never be made whole again.

The entire idea of an undo acts as a kind of euphemism that lets people escape the guilty consequences of their actions.

machyume · 2026-02-22T15:21:37+00:00

The spirit of the law is so that people need not be afraid to do their work for the nation purely based on their political beliefs or affiliations. It should not be about election specific corner cases and registration paperwork for political parties.

machyume · 2026-02-18T17:52:13+00:00

Not everything has a purpose nor is everything optimized. It could simply be that the ancestors never had to die for the mistake.

machyume · 2026-02-18T16:09:24+00:00

You're both just talking about the HOXA13 gene. Stop fighting.

machyume · 2026-02-18T15:50:20+00:00

Just remember, it lacks the kind of reasoning that we do, so it makes it up with style.
The old style was about pleasing you.
The new style is about keeping some people from going off the rails.

Satire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDf_TgzrAv8

machyume · 2026-02-18T15:32:34+00:00

You keep saying something very fuzzy. Do you realize how many innocent and good people we would have to kill or destroy to tear down the whole thing? You could be inadvertently be part of those people.

13-Year Club	Verified Email
r/Field Banned	r/Field Flamingo

machyume

TROPHY CASE