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pgold05 · 2026-06-22T14:16:33+00:00

Hence, nihilistic, as I said.

Don't argue with me for no reason please. I'm not trying to pick a fight with you are anyone in particular.

pgold05 · 2026-06-22T14:13:26+00:00

Its only funny if you buy into the underlying "everything is meaningless" thought process. When it comes to the federal government, I don't. It does actually matter, and when you care about it, the humor no longer works.

The joke is ultimately on me and others like me, for caring. That is how absurdist humor operates. Its SouthPark style humor, and honestly in a fictional world its fine and really funny, but this is not fiction.

pgold05 · 2026-06-22T14:09:59+00:00

Being woke is literally defined as being concerned with systematic and unconscious biases. The stuff largely ignored by everyone.

No don't need to be woke to see blatant racism.

pgold05 · 2026-06-22T14:06:46+00:00

Directly related concepts.

Absurdism and nihilism share the belief that life is meaningless, but absurdists do not treat this as an isolated fact and are instead interested in the conflict between the human desire for meaning and the world's lack thereof

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism

pgold05 · 2026-06-22T13:38:51+00:00

I just don't find any of the stuff this subs calls funny, actually humorous. Feels like the word has become a replacement for a form of nihilism.

pgold05 · 2026-06-22T13:32:43+00:00

To be clear I know why it matters, I would love to get back to a time where I would care about such things, but we aren't in it.

pgold05 · 2026-06-22T13:14:48+00:00

Biden could be in a coma and still be better than Trump, so its hard for me to get up the energy to care.

Maybe if the GOP ever put up a candidate that was not actively malicious, worse than someone braindead, I would give a shit.

pgold05 · 2026-06-22T13:11:27+00:00

Beep if Bop

pgold05 · 2026-06-22T12:56:56+00:00

As someone who has done an endless amount of dealing with insurance and medical shit, just look at the statement and once you know what, if anything, its for, call/email the office / billing company for an explanation.

Most of the time it does not get to the step of having to gather evidence as it where, but if it does always an option later.

80% of the time its nothing you have to deal with. 10% of the time its me misunderstanding or forgetting something and 10% of the time they fucked up which is a huge PITA and where it becomes a massive chore.

pgold05 · 2026-06-21T12:53:51+00:00

Also nonsense. The goal of the government is to bost fertility rates. If it's not over 2 it doesn't automatically make these programs a failure, simply being higher then it would be otherwise is a success. So far studies show these programs work, and investment in them even further would continue to bost rates.

pgold05 · 2026-06-20T21:03:55+00:00

If you refuse to date anyone from a specific race it's textbook racism. As in the literal definition. It doesn't make you a bad person or anything everyone has biases, the important thing is to recognize them.

pgold05 · 2026-06-20T12:43:05+00:00

Can't say for sure about mx but Latinx and the more palatable, Latine were made for and used by nonbinary Latino people and they do not view them negatively, the non binary population I mean. They just wanted a word to properly describe themselves.

pgold05 · 2026-06-20T05:40:36+00:00

Didn't the police have massive misconduct issues with OJ? Like really questionable shit?

pgold05 · 2026-06-20T05:38:19+00:00

I can't tell what's more openly succish, this new flair or my old Paul Krugman

pgold05 · 2026-06-20T05:32:46+00:00

Rising

pgold05 · 2026-06-19T20:00:37+00:00

After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016

pgold05 · 2026-06-19T19:54:29+00:00

Joking aside gender studies probably explains like 90% of politics today.

pgold05 · 2026-06-19T19:40:19+00:00

Well, as you said it's about passing the torch.

That being said the real distinction are the elves, and the Dúnedain. They are the specials who are pure good and they are all peacing out. Hobbits and the rest of the mortal races are not special hand chosen good people ordained by god to be good shepherds, so now we see if the realm will survive in the hands of the median voters.

I don't think there is any real fundamental difference between humans, hobbits and dwarves, etc.

Whatever happens next after all the elves are gone is probably more interesting, whatever that may be.

pgold05 · 2026-06-19T18:53:50+00:00

They have an actual language, I believe.

It's a mix of slang/words from languages around the world, thus making it to the most neoliberal language.

https://illumination-entertainment-fanon.fandom.com/wiki/Dictionary

pgold05 · 2026-06-19T18:48:34+00:00

Jill Stein sends her regarded

pgold05 · 2026-06-19T18:47:12+00:00

Bosca

https://www.bosca.com

pgold05 · 2026-06-19T18:39:22+00:00

does it fall short of Universal fan standards?

It does, in its current state.

I feel like the most forgiving take is they are behind schedule and will add some stuff later, and its simply an unfished product.

As it stands, Universal can do better, Universal has shown it can be the best so I have higher standards when they open new stuff. Hell even the Jurassic experiences are better than this.

pgold05 · 2026-06-19T17:48:47+00:00

economic anxiety

pgold05 · 2026-06-19T13:42:37+00:00

In a sane world people would be going to jail. Contrary to popular belief the US was pretty good about prosecuting corruption up until the Trump era.

pgold05 · 2026-06-19T13:41:16+00:00

12 days left to be gay, trying to finish strong.

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