kool_newt

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Trying to spread the idea that humans need to evolve beyond our current stage based on mutual exploitation and learn to again live on this planet sustainably and without coercion.

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kool_newt,

since there’s never a time when the curtain is pulled back on it

In antiquity maybe, but in modern times with access to information – Adulthood, that’s when one should have the mental faculties to understand that organized religion is a scam.

It’s one thing to believe that there may be more than science can currently demonstrate or worlds we can’t access, it’s another to believe the stories organized religions are based on.

kool_newt,

Wow that word is like mouth exercise.

kool_newt,

Many of these are self-selecting neighborhoods though, these are not the result of oppressive policies.

how did you deal with internalised transphobia?

It’s something I’m really struggling with, thanks to it it feels like I’m obsessed with the idea of ‘passing’, like whenever I see other trans women who don’t pass it gives me a little burst of dread, thinking that it’s impossible to pass and I’d never be able to. That horrible fear of looking “like a man in a...

kool_newt,

Don’t waste your life projecting your thoughts on others and stressing over your projections, you can’t know what others are thinking.

The people that passing would matter to are the exact people you I highly recommend avoiding, why care about what they think?

kool_newt,

So, people can’t walk around their own apartment? If I pay rent, I expect to be able to walk around my apartment as much as I want, even wearing shoes, this is not unreasonable. This is a building code problem, not your neighbors being assholes.

There’s a huge difference between walking in one’s own apartment and throwing raging parties and stuff like that.

kool_newt,

Asking is of course fine.

kool_newt,

It really isn’t that hard to be tolerant of someone wanting to move about their own home.

kool_newt,

Sounds get amplified, my neighbor joked I was running a factory etc, it was just me, mostly barefoot, sometimes vacuuming.

kool_newt,

Why is there a mannequin in the thumbnail?

kool_newt,

This trend is about as dumb as the 8th grade make you faint trend.

kool_newt,

One of my cats has what I call social pica. She is always trying to get me to eat paper with her.

kool_newt,

She leads me to her pile of paper scraps and starts munching and absolutely loves it if I take part eat paper with her. I only let her eat a tiny bit tho, it’s not healthy.

kool_newt,

Very important papers. Try spending time with her and her pile, it might make her so happy

kool_newt,

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKM0gKyWYAQJmFB?format=jpg&name=small

kool_newt,

“I’ll take a half-caf nonfat bombachino please”

kool_newt,

Ah the Adams Python Conjecture

kool_newt,

I wonder if there are some good practical reasons though. Like if they were to do this with real towels it could potentially be heavy and dangerous. If a bunch of towels did fall, it would be significant work to put them back, and now they’d be dirty from the floor the public has been walking all over.

Also, the fluorescent lights fade stuff pretty quick so if they didn’t cycle inventory fast enough you’d see fading, and they’d fade at different rates due to being exposed for different lengths of time and look weird.

kool_newt,

they would have done better with just a gigantic poster of ferris bueller in a towel.

You are a marketing genius!

But also, I think it’s just a trend in the U.S. For a while there, and kinda still, warehouse stores are in style; I think because of the reputation for good deals from places like Costco and Ikea, I think other companies thought if they pretend to be a bit of a warehouse people will think they’re getting low prices because money was saved on decor. 'Muricans are easy to fool this way.

kool_newt,

Fuck towel authoritarians!

kool_newt,

Ah ya, I could see that.

kool_newt,

In 2005, Curve25519 was first released by Daniel J. Bernstein.[5] (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve25519)

DJB? Nice! Always been a fan.

Can anyone else feel sensations in their brain?

Last time I checked there aren’t nerve endings in our brain, so it should be impossible to feel sensations in my brain. However, at random times during my life, like seeing the plot twist in Fight Club for example, I’ve felt feelings in my brain. I just felt it again now while doing some intense introspection, and I just...

kool_newt,

Sometimes my hair hurts

kool_newt,

You need to wash your hair.

But it’s only December!

kool_newt,

Law enforcement, I could never respect myself after taking money to be muscle for the psychopathic hoarder class.

kool_newt,

The fact of the matter is that police sign up (i.e. volunteer to do this for pay) to allow themselves to be ordered to do anything including using lethal force against other people they do not know, to ensure the authoritarians in charge get their way.

The fact that a few nice individuals are deluded, were mislead, got stuck, or have hope they can somehow change the situation, this fact remains true.

I knew a cop too, I was friends with his daughter for many years. He seemed a nice guy from what I saw. She told me about how he abused her growing up and yet she still thought he was the greatest man to ever live and dated guys just like him.

kool_newt,
  1. There is much that you are probably unaware of – prior to 2020, many if not most people in the U.S. including myself were unaware of just how problematic the police were. I’m not poor or black and had no direct experience, I thought there were a few bad apples in Compton, CA and NYC etc but assumed most cops were decent and just trying to keep the peace.
  2. If you are correct and your police are not currently fucked up, I think your situation is temporary at best. Many things go through a similar cycle, they start out apparently working great or at least good enough and either the problems become more visible as you become more aware, or they get corrupted over time. Think about how many small companies (ahem, Google) start out with noble intentions and full of good people, but because of the profit motive seek power, and become corrupt. Think about taking a new job with energy and optimism and realizing over months it’s not what you thought because of entrenched power.

Make no mistake, if it’s not already this way, the laws will be changed in favor of the police as their unions get more powerful and their ability to get friends into high place improves. As the number of bad apples comes to outnumber the good ones, any real freedom or obligation to go against orders or do the right thing and blow a whistle disappears. As the number of atrocities that must be covered up grows, the mechanisms become darker and darker (just like in the Catholic Church) and the people involved more and more sick in the head.

Any time you have a concentration of power you will attract those that want power. It may take a couple decades but the “good cops” you have now will be replaced and then you will have little recourse to correct the problem because you will have a heavily armed, well funded gang full of sadists with a license to kill and powerful unions to protect them.

Authority is like a pile of steaming shit and psychopaths and sadists are like flies. This effectively leaves each society with a choice to make:

  1. Make piles of shit (positions of power) and just deal with the flies and the consequences (i.e. eventual fascism or something like it)
  2. Make piles of shit and attempt to keep the flies away (this has never in history worked for more than a generation or so)
  3. Don’t make piles of shit (arguably how humanity lived for 200,000 year prior to the emergence of state power) and live a life with few flies, nothing you can’t swat away. This is called anarchism.
kool_newt,

people want specialized agents for specialized functions

All of us have grown up in authoritarian systems, trained to look to the state for answers and safety. It’s not surprising that people trained to look to police for safety and penalized for protecting themselves “want” police of some sort.

Take notes. Might be useful to someone.

I never said might isn’t useful, it’s incredibly useful to those looking to coerce others. I’m saying it’s the desire to coerce others that is the problem, and law enforcement is the muscle behind the coercion. What reasons are there to coerce another that are not fucked up?

kool_newt,

Your reality is not universal

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lHPSBOvfnU

kool_newt,

Money is a hell of a drug.

kool_newt,

I got some shit trees at the dispensary, I thought that was bad.

kool_newt,

Poop is quite good at spreading disease though, which is also natural. A sustainable animal population leaving poop is different than a hiking trail that adds quite a bit to the load of poop the environment has to handle.

kool_newt,

Leave your ID with the bag of deuce to ensure your return.

kool_newt,

Sounds like something un unidentified walker would say 🤔

kool_newt,

nice

kool_newt,

Oh man me too, especially because I’m always in a political mood when I wake up and then I have to defend my shit later on.

kool_newt,

Huh, my character is apparently about itching orifices.

kool_newt,

Effectively yes

kool_newt, (edited )

It is exactly what it sounds like when people say to vote for the “lesser evil”

You do realize that if you don’t get the"lesser evil" what you get in fact is “more evil” right? We don’t default to “not evil” by not choosing.

(edit) People that say this often seem to think the choice is between (A) Choosing one of the evils (B) Revolution that ends capitalism and sets up communism.

kool_newt,

Ok then, thanks for supporting Trump I guess.

kool_newt,

You’re really sticking it to those fascists

This reasoning is part of your mistake about me (and many others I presume). I don’t vote for Democrats to stick it to fascists. I don’t vote thinking that voting is the solution to the society’s fundamental problems. I vote because my other, non-electoral efforts to make the world a better place are significantly more difficult and dangerous with far right wing leaders vs right-ish leaders like Democrats.

Not voting because voting can’t solve the world’s problems immediately the way you want seems like you’re letting perfect be the enemy of progress.

You see the right wingers banning books, closing libraries, trying to take basic rights from minorities, those things make it harder for people in those groups to make real progress outside of the electoral system.

kool_newt,

Ah, an accelerationist I see. For me, I don’t think it’s my place to choose to sacrifice other’s lives to achieve my political goals with expediency.

kool_newt,

Option C – Hold your nose and vote for the least right wing choices available and work your ass off to build community and independence from capitalist systems.

We should probably join with the UAW and their plans for a general strike in 2028. Prepare to survive without grocery stores or a job for 1 year by working with neighbors. Anyone talking about any sort of revolution without thinking about how 350 million people that are currently 100% dependent on capitalist systems people are going to eat when the supply chains break and stores shutter is being childish.

kool_newt,

your participation legitimizes the false choice

No, it doesn’t, this is a silly nonsensical argument. We are forced into this system and a voter can neither legitimize nor de-legitimize it to anyone except themselves or maybe their simps. Regardless of whether you participate in the voting, your going to get the consequences. A prisoner isn’t effectively fighting the system by refusing to choose their dinner option and ending up with kitchen floor slop.

kool_newt,

And how exactly is forfeiting your vote helping the people in Gaza?

kool_newt,

a prisoner does effectively fight the system by refusing to submit to prison slavery

I said nothing of prison labor, that is not the same thing. I agree with you that refusing to submit to prison slavery could effectively fight the system.

kool_newt,

Is that how kimchi is made?

kool_newt,

The Cat Daddy!

kool_newt,

This scene runs through my head any time I need to name something.

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