I fasted about 48 hours to experience a semi ascetic acid trip. Was a good time; had some incredible break throughs. Dived into a pool, and it felt like I was diving into a kaleidoscope of colors. Can’t recommend anyone experience it that way, nor would I say I’d do it that way again, but taking your mind and body through moderated extremes can be pretty profound; assuming you have people around you to make sure you’re not doing anything particularly stupid to hurt yourself or others.

I’ve heard from some journalists I follow that them criticizing this chump feels like punching down; I felt validated by that because I felt exactly the same way lmao.

Leonardo’s was literally just running a copy of Besiege 24/7 in his brain, wasn’t he?

They all seemed pretty chummy with him to me. Embarrassing.

https://loops.video/v/e1xKPcZbN_

Iran has negotiated, repeatedly. The JCPOA was negotiated and ratified by the UN Security Council. Even after Iran engaged in renewed negotiations last summer, it faced large scale air strikes on its territory.

About fucking time a media publication like this contradicts the bullshit lies of the Trump admin this way by stating something as benign as just the fucking truth.

For anyone who doesn’t get this reference, do yourself a favor and listen to the album Joy As An Act of Resistance by Idles immediately.

Resist with a resurgence of live music where people witness live talent and skill of their instruments, that write incredible pieces and songs. Get involved with your local music scene. Share music you love with people who appreciate the artistry.

Besides the massive hegemons of the music industry, the vast, vast, vast majority of incredible music that are available on streaming platforms from artists, bigger and smaller, barely made them an income from streaming to begin with; they used it as a marketing tool for people to access their art, and otherwise monetize their brand by selling LIVE SHOWS! Selling merch! This is how they really made money off their work. And even then, many of them still have day jobs to make ends meet. They do it because it’s their passion man.

The Taylor Swifts and Bad Bunnys of the world will do fine; their labels will find a way to profiteer off AI with their brand and image. Yes this screws over smaller artists again, but what more is a lost fraction of a fraction of a penny going to do for them if they already struggle to begin with? Resist. Go to a live show.

Edit: also note, be mindful of how live music venues are in cahoots with stealing profits from artists and smaller venues. Support your local music scene.

I get it. I wouldn’t, at least not outside of voting for the lesser evil. It’d be disingenuous for me to believe this isn’t just going to exacerbate all the reasons that led to Trump taking power to begin with.

Assuming he won in that scenario, I think I’d use the next 4 years to leave the country and try to live where a progressive democracy and the rule of law actually matters; personally of course.

Ironically, that is exactly what would happen with Gavin Newsom if he won presidency in even a far cry of a free and fair election.

Gavin Newsom is fighting a billionaire wealth tax in Cali right fucking now. He’s shut down universal healthcare in Cali when he had a chance.

We can do better than this scumfuck asshole who believes in nothing. Remember that during the primaries people.

It’s exactly why she lost; neo-liberalism failed all of us and made way for the further delegitimization of international law and gave rise to fascism.

I either got ratioed because people don’t understand that this is exactly what I’m saying (you certainly do)

Or they need to wake the fuck up or get out of the way.

Lmao I mean, that’s pretty much exactly what Democrats ran on in 2024.

All Trump bad. We not Trump. We same party since 2008. You vote us because we not Trump.

I hope this only helps push Talarico’s campaign further. His persona and voice doesn’t speak much to me personally, but he’s carrying such a well spoken populist campaign, discussing real issues, and responding accordingly with the nation’s outrage with ICE, and the Gaza genocide.

Crockett’s only campaign tool is reflecting on how much she’s spoken up against the regime, and how many times Trump’s insulted her personally; other than that, really nothing. She’s had no problem voting in pro Israel policy, and taking Israel lobby money by the way.

Republicans can never win without ever bending some of the rules in their favor

You are most certainly not alone; I’ve seen skeptics say that it’s doomsday-prep-crazy, but any statements like that are, in my opinion, denialism in this day in age. A regular savings account isn’t a viable place to store absolutely all of your money, even since before the Trump admin started fucking things up. A diversified portfolio with safe investments after a certain point is the ideal way to handle it.

Only difference now, is that what a “safe investment” has mutated into is something else now; not to mention how little people can afford to save money. Do what you can to take care of yourself with what you have man.

The difference is that for decades the flight to safety has been the US dollar in economic downturns. Now, people can’t wait to dump the dollar; the flight to safety has been shifting to gold, silver, and even the Yuan.

When the bubble pops, it’ll be be an economic fuckening we’ve likely not seen.

This is how the right wing inches into power; with pussy-foot neo-liberalism capitulating to the right, bringing in headlines like these. From a now mask-off, fascist run America, take note that if you care about your country or region for it to not fall into giving far-right ideology a place in power: You protest and grill the shit out of every little thing your leaders do wrong, and threaten their position in power in exchange for true populist leaders in your elections. Do it before any free speech rights become at risk.

OPSEC is a survival skill in the 21st century

Real talk, I remember when Amtrak was fraternizing with the Trump admin, and even considering putting ICE at their train stations. Not to mention the embarrassing launch of their new trains that were supposed to be faster, but wound up going about as well as Tesla’s convention loop in Las Vegas. In other words, it did not go faster or revolutionize travel.

Democrats legitimately would have a supermajority every time if Republicans had to play by fair rules

I’m highly critical of Apple, their philosophy for proprietary hardware with an aggressive stance against right to repair, and some particular design flaws on specific models of their machines that are unacceptable for the price point they sell their products at. Not to mention their ball coddling of the fascist fuck in the white house.

But MacOS is definitely superior to Windows, game developers not focusing on MacOS be damned. The bloat on Windows is beyond overkill, and MacOS’s Unix based build for ultra specific hardware runs so much more efficiently. I used to play around with a hackintosh back when Mac OS X Lion was around.