HE KNOWS 🥹🥹🥹

Award-worthy bit

A lot of why's to ask but why a library?

Reading this thread made me realize that I get to engage with this as a barista. I flip switches, press buttons, roll dials; I can get myself burned on heated metal or steam. I touch doodads on a gizmo to make a product, I get to operate it like a mechanist of yore. Not my ideal job but there is something to proper machinery

It is the union army during the civil war that remains the only thing about the US I could be almost patriotic about. Almost. I mean an army of "rebels" that sought to maintain their position as slavers and grow that system across the country? It's like the most despicable thing to rise up for and they fought tooth and nail for it. They would raid northern cities and take black people, born free on that soil, and consider them "contraband" and remove them to the south as slaves. With that as the enemy it's so simple to be the hero.

It was also a real inflection point at which the US could have made a massive shift in its makeup as a country, the possibility and will was there, but it was failed by the worst aspects of this country that sought to just forgive and forget what the south had done and move along to colonizing the west.

Of course the US was never salvageable as it is a settler colonial institution from the get but damn, that was one of those points where a less shitty version was possible.

That's settler love for ya

Some buddies and I once spent an evening passing around a bug zapper and having a go at it, to the concern of the one girl present. We were like 22 tbf

Dudes shock

Get those flags off the floor you damn commie

This is literally a Portlandia bit

Typical fucking new yorkers riding on the coattails of Philly who did this better 2 years earlier

The chicken man

I saw a post about this less than an hour after it happened.

Infrastructure decay in the US has been something to be concerned about for awhile, but when I first saw it my first reaction was from a new kind of horror that will only get worse:

My first thought was that it was AI. The post I saw was written in a way that felt like AI bros excited about their new toy, what it could do, trying to bring the horrors it creates to relevancy by creating a fake news story.

And after all that, it actually is a real tragedy where real people died.

This plus drama about contrapoints and philosophy tube have filled my Twitter feed with the seemingly ever increasing presence of chuds, who seem to be of a new breed lately on social media, much more aggressive towards all leftists on there then I remember.

Anyway, it's hell world

There is a lethal amount of boomer radiating off this display