I watched Come and See, and that was really hard and depressing to watch

HE'S JUST LIKE ME FR

Made a bard for my player character in Baldur's Gate 3 and so far I've weaseled my way out of like 2/3 of dialogues that should have ended in fights. Pathological Liar Simulator 2023.

Walk up to a guard at a massive goblin camp, tell him I'm here to see his boss and he's like "seems legit, come on in". Walk into the stronghold, tell the guard that they're expecting me and she also just lets me through. Walk past the goblin leader without so much as a hello and up the stairs behind him to the treasure horde, no one bats an eye. Pick the lock, empty the horde, walk out the front door.

I'm only level 4 and I have a 1d4+7 bonus on all deception and performance checks.

still thinking about that christian apologist I saw the other day who was like "scientific racism is completely true, except I don't believe in science"

   Assad must go!

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Yall every think about death? Thats pretty weird right? That all the stuff that makes us us can still all be in the same place and connected the exact same way and yet everything has suddenly become completely the opposite of what it once was for us.

Its almost like we arent merely flesh, rather we must also exist in the space between where our flesh connects to and interacts with itself and the external world. Its almost like we're a dialectical system defined and continually redefined by its changing relations to itself and other things.

Maybe the universe just seems empty because humans are so focused on defining the material of the universe by conceiving of discrete individual subatomic particles that build everything, like building blocks all precariously stacked together. When we zoom in on those discrete atomized points they become infintely more detailed and smaller, and the space between them grows infinitely. But if we instead focus on the connective tissue that binds these supposed points together we find that the universe is filled to the brim with stuff. When we zoom in on those connections we dont find them becoming smaller, or growing infinitely thin, rather they become blinding in their stark density as they connect every point in the universe with every other point, no matter how distant or small.

Maybe death is like that. Maybe instead of falling between the seemingly infinitely empty spaces between our atoms, we become tangled in the threads bewteen them. Ever more entwined with the very fabric of the universe itself. Maybe the connections between particles are mirrored in the connections between people, and we continue to exist on the threads left behind in the minds of our loved ones and the people whos lives we touched, no matter how distantly or small that touch was. Just as the universe is endlessly connected with itself maybe all humans are endlessly connected with each other and by extension all other forms of life on earth and to the rest of the universe itself.

happy september 11th hexbears! :amerikkka:

i've been vegan for five years today :im-vegan:

if your company is responsible for the creation of invasive internal technological implants that regulate or augment biological function you should immediately turn over production of these devices to the state or have your company be forcibly nationalized. in any sane system this would be the case but we live in hell where you can have your organ regulators deprecated

i would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, september 11th.

The fact that food is at all affordable is insane. Like, the amount of worker exploitation that goes into making a pound of beef 5 dollars is incredible.

Like, you've got migrant workers getting paid below minimum wage to grow feed crops and to raise the livestock. Then you've got meat packers making around minimum wage unless they're union. After that, you've got truckers who often make below minimum wage taking it to a grocery. This is the most expensive part of the process. A union meat cutter processes and shelves it for 27 bucks an hour and then a union cashier checks it out for 20-25 an hour.

On top of this, you've got the federal government subsidizing the agricultural labor through SNAP and other grain subsidies. Then they subsidize the union labor through taft-hartley trusts and SNAP again. SNAP in turn is funded through taxes which are majority taken from the working class.

All while agricultural and grocery are some of the least profitable industries with farmers and grocers "only" taking 1% profit.

So many working people are living miserable or difficult lives just to make it so that a lb of beef isn't 25 dollars. It's insane. The food system should not be for profit.

the clicky thing on one of my fidget toys broke today :(

this is the second biggest tragedy that has ever happened on an 11th of September

what's this about "stalin didn't go far enough with purges" seriously what the fuck is this sentiment 'ah yes, it would've been better if the entire red army was hollowed out, 4 million casualties in 1941 was far too little!'

hey look at this giant pile of false convictions we found in the purges? what if it was bigger? like do people seriously believe the ills of the party in the 80's could've been alleviated by murdering more soviets in the fucking 30s?

New evidence shows cats are smart enough to use computers, but only to solve captchas.

Bleh, was finally sober enough to start working on my tank's yaw controller (it adjusts aim for roll and windage, which necessarily means adjusting yaw and pitch). The ballistic calculator (pitch only) I've made runs perfectly. But I think I've gotten to a stage where I need to delete what I've written for the yaw controller and start over.

I'm finding when I'm mentally drained, I am drinking a lot. I feel like I have no control, or energy to reign it in. At the end of school, I'm extremely wired but also exhausted. I'm not learning anything, just staring at a wall being present for class (attendance is marked). By the end of the week, I just want to disappear.

I've been trying to go to bed earlier (9 PM-ish) so that at least I'm not being jolted awake to get to class. I feel very burned out. Fortunately, we get a lot of week long breaks.

allah syria and bashar

we are your men bashar

I think I went a little too hard on the 9/11 posting in this Telegram group I'm in. A mod had to ask me to stop.

Does anyone remember that one guy who for years on 9/11 would tweet like a minute by minute recap of the events of that day and then he got a job working for some Saudi PR firm/think-tank and abruptly stopped doing it

I will not take the bait I will not take the bait I will not take the bait

His birthday being on 9/11 changes everything. How powerful is this man?

My dog is barking in her sleep. No doubt she is dreaming about fiercely defending our garden from our nice elderly neighbor.

Alone on my traniversary bc my bf has COVID and I'm feeling sick and its Monday (garfield hours)

reposting my rant because it ended up as a reply to someone else and man that was embarrassing. Yikes:

rant: I've been a part of underground music scenes for a long time and I fucking hate how a lot of white punks are supposed to be so radical/political but don't have shit to say when it comes to issues of racial oppression. I moved to Oregon and it is WHITE WHITE. I never really trusted the scene royalty here, and always complained to my partner about how they seem like they suck and he just confirmed that for me. They talk about "cancel culture" and I guess one goes on drunken ramblings about "wokeism". Like my guy, you know that is a code word for black folk and "race traitors", right? It's so gross I can't stand it. I feel like it's so much worse up here

I fuckin love having a 9/11 birthday. It's been very busy for me lately and the memes are hitting just right

Megathread must stay

happy bushmas!