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Cake day: May 9th, 2024

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  • "The sword of God, the blood of the lamb, vengeance is mine, millions of dead motherfuckers, all because they gave the wrong answer to the God question. ‘You believe in God?’

    ‘No.’

    BANG Dead.

    ‘You believe in God?’

    ‘Yes.’

    ‘You believe in my God?’

    ‘No.’

    BANG Dead.

    ‘My God has a bigger dick than your God!’"

    -George Carlin


  • The living Earth will be fine, and has recovered from worse than us, even other runaway mutations from within that wreaked havoc, see the carboniferous period and the trees that couldn’t yet effectively decompose and release their carbon, doing the opposite of us, creating an ice age.

    The Earth recovers, It just won’t recover on a timescale we can perceive.

    There’s life that’s evolved to survive in acid pools, at depths we can’t touch, in crevices we can’t reach. We arrogantly fashion ourselves Gods of this world, but we couldn’t sterilize it if we wanted to.

    We will be gone, sooner rather than later because of our actions, but the 3.8 billion year old living Earth will be fine with a negligible few million years of cleanup, and to paraphrase George Carlin, it will be like we never even existed at all, thank goodness for that.


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    The ones we just hunt to extinction are the lucky ones.

    We put the ones we find cute when we “develop” their land into cages, and force them to breed despite being effectively extinct solely so we can gawk at them for our amusement.

    We pump the ones we find delicious with laboratory hormones to make them freakishly obese, and cramp them in factory farms until they’re obese enough to kill.

    As far as the rest of the natural world is concerned, we are the monster under the bed.







  • You know what will happen if Harris wins decisively?

    The SCOTUS will say Trump won anyway, just like in 2000 when they were far less emboldened. And what they say will go again.

    And the feckless people will allow it yet again instead of justly rioting for having their voice silenced in the name of the profiteers our Federalist Society SCOTUS works for.

    I’m voting for Harris to say I raged against the dying of the light, but this country is over, because our people are beaten dogs more concerned with preserving the continuity of their fast food and social media capitalist opiates than being a society.



  • Let’s be honest, our “free market” is a regular casino for the plebs that own about 10% of shares in their 401ks and Robinhood accounts, and an intentionally rigged casino for the oligarchs that own the rest, with marked insider information cards, and loaded market manipulation dice.

    Gotta love when the bootlickers defend this economy, and market investment, as somehow inclusive, when 93% of stocks are owned by 10% of Americans.

    (Saved Fortune article) https://archive.ph/DW0A8



  • Capitalists, duh.

    Climate scientists aren’t qualified because they don’t prioritize maximizing short term private profit, any expert that matters will tell you that is the only consideration that ever ought to be considered about any topic. That’s what makes them an experts to begin with, obviously.

    This is a problem that needs to be addressed by respected business leaders that understand we can’t disrupt economic growth and quarterly earnings expectations for something as abstract as humanity’s medium to long term survival.

    Civilization may collapse in 20 years from catastrophic ecological collapse, but there’s like 80 quarterly earnings calls between now and then, and if it does collapse, the only people that matter won’t be rich anymore when the glorious dollar is no longer valued, so nothing will matter anymore anyway, problem solved.



  • More confirmation the world is right to see us as backwards. (US study)

    So many sexual hangups. Makes sense considering we were founded by Puritans escaping to the new world to be more backwards and repressed.

    Sex is a part of life. A massive part of the human condition. A part to be celebrated, not mourned or minimized. That’s how we get pedophile priests and sexual education summed up in “do not do it because it does not exist and you’re dirty for asking.” It’s not Gen Zs fault though, social media is designed to emphasize the darkest possible side of everything as it gets clicks, so sex as a concept is just a vector of potential trauma to them.

    If only we had the same hangups about our violence boners our media gluts us on with abandon. Sports concussions, gory explosion movies, and our most celebrated exports tools of mass murder 😎👍. People giving one another physical pleasure 😱👎.



  • The enshittification continues.

    Turns out greedy fuck capitalists trying to streamline and privatize the creative process of art to be just another cog in their money printer… turn all art to shit a dog wouldn’t bother to piss on. There have always been studio notes maligned by the creatives hindered by them, but now the studio notes are basically the entire script, generated by algorithm based solely on what the algorithm believes will sell. It’s wrong, but it makes the capitalists feel like they’ve got this art crap pegged, and no amount of box office bombs or reality will make them accept the truth that their core value of avarice poisons any capacity to comment on the human condition in an engaging way.

    There’s no deeper truth, no engaging narrative possible in “give me MOAR! I want MOAR! Give it to me NOW!” which is all these soul killing, unloved, blatant attempts at IP nostalgia manipulating cash grabs are. “Hey, my conglomerate owns the film rights to this character, here, they’re standing in front of an explosion like that game you stupid peasants loved 20 years ago for reasons I don’t care to understand! You pay me now yes?!”

    From games to movies any other form of media, if you traded your heart for that gaping blackhole in your chest that needs to suck up ever MOAR capital they installed when you got your MBA, you can’t be creative, and you can’t be inspirational, because the great stories creatives dream up usually have someone like you in them, the one dimensional, buffoonish secondary villain complaining about what they own not being respected over the course of the narrative.

    Even some greedy fucks of the past understood that their place was on the golf course sucking each other off in their dapper lil pastel polo shirts while the creatives and actually talented/useful cast and crew made them their money.