Look I just don't think that's a helpful mindset, there are still good people who don't understand and or don't agree. They probably treat these videos and news as misinformation or just tell themselves it's a necessary evil in a fight against an even greater evil, remember they think that gazans are mostly united in their hatred against Jews and would like to see them eliminated woldwide, not that this ought to make much of a difference in the calulation of whether or not to kill an entire culture with no power to fight back... but I have to admit that if I believed this to be true I would be less invested emotionally. Or they just haven't seen the information at all, that's probably the bulk of it actually.

It's incredibly hard to let go of an ideology, and liberalism and to a lesser extent democratism are quite powerful and seductive from the standpoint of someone embedded in American society who hasn't seen the light when it comes to the whole America being evil thing. As emaciated and I'll defined as our culture it, it is still a culture nonetheless, or it appears to be at least, it's something many people cherish and will want to protect, and when an inclination is so deeply ingrained it creates enormous potential for self deception and willful ignorance.

So do I have trouble not hating them, yes, but on the other hand I also see where they're coming from, their experiences have likely been quite different from my own, and that means there may be potential for conversion via the inception of new experience You have to admit it's already happening to an extent, there are a lot of libs out there who have been partially black pilled by this whole genocide thing, which they still see as merely another war, albeit a particularly gruesome one. They're on the right path. Are they moving too slowly, more disinterested in completing the journey of enlightenment than they need to be, perhaps not even aware they haven't reached the end? Yes. Will most of them never make it? Probably. But some will and I happen to believe that if you are potentially a future ally you should not be treated as an enemy, at least in the absence of other mitigating circumstances.

What lies between us and the truth of this situation is a window crystal clear to you, to me, to some still in the "progressive" category who keeps themselves well informed. What we sometimes forget is that it is our ideology and education and personal inclinations give us X-ray vision, we see certainly things with such clarity that we forget the window is there at all, and that it is opaque to certain frequencies of light. But that type of vision is not yet available to all, some may have ways of devoping it to various extents, but they all will involve some level of pain, guilt, loss, grief, and sheer effort.

The effort, we're all quite tired, we need our sleepy time, and yet some person, who my friends tell me I should hate or ignore, is telling me to get out of bed and embark on some spirit quest which, if my friends knew I had gone along, could jeopardize our relationships? Oh and this person btw appears to be even more tired and quite miserable compared to me, and filled with anger? No thanks, I'll just get a good night's sleep instead. After all I have work in the morning.

We have the majority very roughly on our side, but we need even more and we need to smooth out that roughness, that is part of our job right now. We need to recognize when this is and isn't feasible and accept that polishing a surface is sometimes a many step process, especially if that surface is particularly hard or too brittle, but if we are too picky about the tools we are willing to apply, the raw materials we're willing to work with, we are using our labor inefficiently and we end up with fewer and lower quality products which might otherwise have been unique items of great use in enacting our plans.

Breaking news: Whitehouse aide dies after being pushed up

It seems plausible it could be a poison, for example:

Symptoms of ricin poisoning depend on whether a person breathes in the ricin, eats it or gets it in a shot. When breathed in, ricin causes fever, chest tightness, cough and breathing problems. Ricin can cause a fluid buildup in the lungs, known as pulmonary edema.

Palestinian Solidarity Committee at UT is collecting for bail fund: Venmo @psc_atx

It's from this I believe: https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf

I'm not going to read it but I believe they compared amplification of hashtags on tiktok to Instagram or something and found that "anti us" and "pro China" tags got more traction. Idk if that's deliberate, if so then good! But how do they know it's not Instagram de amplifying the same links and/or the userbase just being more, uh, based.

It's like marvel logic or something, good is just a reflection of evil across some axis of low resistance, fight fire with.. idk blue fire, pit the misanthropic industrialist against the cool friendly one. Ethno nationalists a problem? No worries we've got a bunch of them with different ethnicity, wheeeee!

If I were homeless in San Francisco I'm sure I'd be doing drugs, also if I were employed and homed in San Francisco, also any combination of employment and housing statuses outside of San Francisco

So he could talk almost as pretty as the dumbest person in historical deadwood, great, how was his wind turbine impression? How polite was he when receiving a gift of lakes? Thought so

Does anyone know where to find Palestinian solidarity protests in Minneapolis? I'm not there but asking for a family member

Oldness can come in big lurches. I suddenly went from being carded for alcohol every time to maybe 2 times a year. During the last 20 months I added 1:30 to my mile time, my cognitive activities decreased significantly, I lost a 3" patch of hair off the top of my head and the rest thinned 75%. I have to stop myself from telling my adult kid to make sure they're getting regular sleep whenever they tell me they've been up late studying. I haven't been asked by a stranger if I have any weed for several years.

Pretty cheap compared to keeper.ai, which is $100 to get started, 8k per physical date and 100k per marriage

As a technology, Roblox is actually impressive, it's not shitty Minecraft you can make some sophisticated stuff without a lot of work, the tooling is decent and can be learned by a beginner. Source: my kid plays it and has enlisted my help occasionally making stuff in the studio