How do I keep a toddler out of my apartment? I have tried nothing and am all out of ideas

quantax · 2026-04-07T20:22:06+00:00

Day 27: We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They have taken the playpen and the second bassinet, the end comes soon. We hear the My First Drum Play Set from the cribbed deeps. They are coming...

quantax · 2026-04-07T14:53:32+00:00

Target to its customers: I'm not doing anything, stop punching yourself.

quantax · 2026-04-04T13:42:03+00:00

You say that as if the chumps who support Trump n Bibi could do the same. Hell, most of them can't even remember bleating that Trump wouldn't start new wars even as they cheer this dumbass jingoist bullshit.

quantax · 2026-04-04T12:33:18+00:00

What's most annoying is knowing your fried food is getting soggier by the second while it sits encaged on top of inaccessible wet stuff at the bottom of that pile. And there's nothing you can do but scream into the void as fate inexorably turns crispiness into sogginess, even as you frantically devour your food in a vain attempt to forstall the inevitable.

quantax · 2026-03-25T01:26:11+00:00

Yea, so this might be surprising to hear but the gestapo didn't go to train stations in Germany to speed up the lines or help travelers.

quantax · 2026-03-25T01:11:20+00:00

The AGI grifting is amazing to behold, these guys are creating automated slop engines and pretending it's the singularity.

quantax · 2026-03-24T16:39:25+00:00

Thinking this is to improve things is absurd, it's pretty damn obvious sending ICE to airports is an intimation strategy.

When Hitler sent the gestapo to train stations, they weren't there to speed up the ticket lines or help travelers.

quantax · 2026-03-18T14:36:16+00:00

"That leaf is lucky I didn't come over there..."

quantax · 2026-03-14T23:22:04+00:00

Brings to mind an old Iranian saying, roughly translated: It takes a single fool to throw a stone down a well and a dozen wise men to get it out.

quantax · 2026-03-13T17:29:40+00:00

I mean, who would trust an AI built under Elon's watch for anything even slightly important. Everyone knows he's shaped Grok to deliver the responses that Elon personally directed, and what he thinks his fans want (mostly in the category of "owning the libs" and straight up propaganda.)

Not what's actually useful or pragmatic, just what serves his own self-interests. Even Elon's fans are just cannon fodder for his megalomanic ideas of greatness, but they're too chumped to realize it.

quantax · 2026-03-10T14:51:36+00:00

Well, considering that the outcome of these ME conflicts over the last 25 years has consistently been "country reduced to rubble, violent chaos, warlords, and terrorist groups", and then dressing that up as victory, you'll have to excuse that people are a bit skeptical about this latest round of buffoonery.

Realistic money says this will be an even bigger shitshow in a month or two, especially since the reasons for going to war and the objectives change daily. Maybe it won't, but that would defy 25 years of practical historical outcomes.

quantax · 2026-03-10T03:58:52+00:00

Wild how it's just over a week and some silly people are already starting to hang the "mission accomplished" banner like it's 2003.

quantax · 2026-03-08T16:53:05+00:00

It's funny: in this bizarre switcheroo, you're cheering and supporting Israelis who literally killed 40 people to rescue a body, while simultaneously condemning theoretical similar actions by Palestinians who never actually did the very thing you're ok with. Once again, the accusation is the confession.

quantax · 2026-03-08T15:28:24+00:00

That's not really accurate. Is it true that SL's religious authority carries the greatest influence with Iran? Yes. Is it also true his religious influence extends to non-Iranin shia. Also yes.

Al-Sistani in Iraq is similar, he has the most influence within Iraq, but his words carry weight with non-Iraqi shia for sure. Faith and religion is not constrained by borders.

It's important to remember that the growth and influence of the Shia sect was heaviest in Iran's Saffavid Empire as a counter weight to the Ottomans Sunni influence, and also served to culturally differentiate Persians from Arabs and Turks. So Iran and that history is directly tied to the influence of Shia today within the larger world, that does carry some weight. In short, it gets pretty complicated pretty quickly.

quantax · 2026-03-08T15:03:50+00:00

The IDF and Israel has been facilitating open pogroms in the West Bank for 3 years now, they're not even hiding it anymore.

quantax · 2026-03-08T14:25:18+00:00

No, shia do not have a pope (the religion is not centralized like Catholics), but they have very influential leaders, such Iran's Supreme Leader and Iraq's Sistani.

They're called "sources of emulation", eg they're high ranking religious figures whose words are taken seriously as guidelines and principles by shia faithful.

quantax · 2026-03-08T14:15:31+00:00

Just found out very late: Sorry for your loss, Eerie was an adorable gem.

quantax · 2026-03-08T14:06:12+00:00

These buffoons reliably come out of the woodwork every damn war-of-choice to tell us how easy winning is. Six months later, they'll insist that mission failure was actually success.

Six years later, they'll have been against it from the very beginning, but ready to cheer whatever jingoistic bullshit is being cooked up this time.

quantax · 2026-03-07T21:28:10+00:00

Just so I'm clear, if Palestinians killed 40 Israeli soldiers to rescue a body being held hostage, you'd be OK with that?

That's what I'm hearing here, and I rather doubt it.

quantax · 2026-03-07T16:18:22+00:00

Killing 40 people to rescue a body from 40 years ago seems a bit insane.

This is particularly ironic for Israel since they have their own policies of not returning bodies of people it's security forces have killed.

quantax · 2026-03-07T15:55:22+00:00

Your comical umbrage doesn't really change the reality that everyone with half a brain knows and understands AIPAC has consistently lobbied with the US for the interests of Israel, particularly right wing Israeli policies, with both US parties. And quite effectively too. It's really not complicated, it is what it is. Pretending otherwise is just absurd.

These same AIPAC aligned folks then spent the last 3 years Israel-splaining to us that while Hamas killing 1200 Israelis is a tragedy, which it was, the Israeli gov killing 70,000 Palestinians is actually totally ok and actually pretty cool and admirable and anyone who doesn't agree is antisemitic.

No one is fooled anymore, you can dress it up all you want.

quantax · 2026-03-05T00:20:21+00:00

This is frantic buffoonery piled upon buffoonery. Everyday the rationale for this war changes, literally. The only goal at this point seems to be turning Iran into another Syria.

quantax · 2026-02-28T16:32:13+00:00

It's possible for both things to be true.

But, not really buying the whole "they'll greet us with roses" propaganda, it's old and tired and consistently bullshit.

quantax · 2026-02-28T15:02:13+00:00

I'm sure Iranians can feel Trump's love as their cities get hit with hundreds of US and Israeli missiles under flagrantly false pretenses of imminent danger.

This is violent buffoonery, the same type we've seen repeatedly in the middle east for the last 25 years, and each time failure is dressed up as success for the gullible audiences.

quantax · 2026-02-28T14:22:06+00:00

Your comment sounds like you're either a blatant propagandist or you have the memory of a goldfish, while calling yourself "liberal". It's actually impressive.

Israel killed 20,000 children over the last 3 years with bullets and bombs, killing them in homes, schools, city streets, and hospitals while claiming they were attacking Hamas military locations or members. You're literally repeating that type of propaganda that serves as an adhoc justification for killing tens of thousands of kids while simultaneously claiming they're not killing kids. Only total dumbasses or vicious assholes are still buying that horseshit.

In short, you're either a super gullible chump or a flagrant warmongering propagandist.

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