I was losing it over seeing an electric car that had its charge port door behind a motorized door. Car "engineers" and "designers" are jokers. Why have a simple latch and spring system, when you can have a slow and easily breakable motor without even an obvious button to open it that you can charge $2000 to repair?

So cool that we bailed these freaks out in 08.

Concentrated products would solve a lot of problems. Dry laundry/dish powder for example is usually accepted as the most eco-friendly option. You get more loads/lb because it isn't 90% water. You can have unique formulas because you can physically seperate components. You can store it in a cardboard box without plastic because it isn't liquid. Can be cleaned up dry. Etc,etc.

But of course its less convenient, sometimes requires more care (some require you to dilute them or not dump it all in at once or whatever), or is otherwise less "cool". Like I associated laundry powder with my granddad. But its being promoted again because you can have a bucket of it that is equal to 10 jugs of liquid.

Or like drinks, whats "better", buying premade tea or buy a box of tea packets? Its nice to grab a bottle of tea once and awhile, but a single box makes many gallons of tea. And you can control how it tastes, what you put in it, etc. I like some yerba mate (overly sweet American style, haven't had "real" stuff yet), but its all premade here. Gimme some of the leaves and I'd buy it just like coffee beans.

HODL your Ubicoins! The feds MUST buy them for whatever price WE decide! We WILL OWN THE WORLD!!!

(This post totally not inspired by listening to This is Financial Advice from Folding Ideas for the 5th time because I needed background noise.)

To be fair, they also killed the big bad (Snoke lmao) in movie 2 of 3. Without any plan or reason. So they needed a big bad ultimate evil, because Palpatine was behind it all in both previous trilogies. Having him be the big bad in the prequels made SOME sense, but it was slop the third time. I enjoyed it for being a giant embarassment as wells as "old man has way too much fun being goofy evil".

Like they could have had Kylo Ren become the actual big bad, but then people might be upset that their bad boy becomes Space Hitler (despite already being Space Hitler Youth).

They toyed with the girl... That I literally can't recall the name of now. Rei? Ray? whatever. They toyed with her becoming evil, but resolved it so loosely I don't even recall there being a "no this isn't me, this is bad, I'm good" scene.

They could have even had some banality of evil shit, where the rank and file Hitlerites become the villians for a movie. But nah, completely jumping the shark.

Can't wait for my therapist who said Charles Entertainment Kirk fought for free speech to insist this guy is Jesus 2 for the next 3 years.

Really need to find a leftist one or at least one who won't stab my brain with liberalism.

Anyway,

Who knew the self reinforcing markov chain would do this?

Literally anyone with a brain in compsci 5 years ago? Nah that's "hallucinations".

Whoever came up with the whole "blame literally anyone, but especially the Soviets/Russians" bit needs a prize. Its gotten literally over a century of use. Once you notice it, you see it fuckin' everywhere. It goes beyond any historical level of "foreigners bad" because it really is just used for literally anything. Advanced xenophobia I guess.

Maybe if libs broke out of it they could actually see results, but nope, RUSSIA, CHINA, CUBA! for any little thing, nope can't be anything else, can't be domestic, can't be our allies, can't even be random.

Because a few movies did "tragic villain" decently, audiences liked the switch-up, and the talentless hacks took it to mean that ever villain has to be "complex".

Can't wait for him to get the "felon" label officially applied, spend 2 weeks in jail, then get elected while in jail, pardon himself, send the judge and jury to the border camps, then the liberals to cry and do nothing about it.

Americans literally watched tanks roll down suburb streets in 2020. Liberals never will.

The dox is a great read on how they did it. . Lots to learn how NOT to erase yourself from the internet. Basically, don't spill yourself online, don't reuse names, don't use your real name ever.

If you want to skip MOST of the bad crap or just want the details of what they did: ctrl + f "Joining The Dots" on the accollective link in the OP.

Some key parts: Followed a BBQ place on both twitter accounts Mentioned he was at an 8chan event in New York on reddit. Was in a gab leak and used his first intial last name email Reused some bitcoin forum username to promote his comic on reddit Reused even more accounts for reddit and twitter (and boosted his comics with them) confirming the link. Did some weird shit that makes it incredibly obvious his name is "important" like: Remove his name from random obits, claim a bunch of websites with his firstname/lastname email, have his house censored on google, and botch some scrubbing.

Not related to the dox per-say but: Worked for a soy company in Nebraska and got 23 bitcoins stolen.

The only bad news is that this didn't happen half a century ago. ( 🦀 still )