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At this point half the reason i use Lemmy is curse management. I can't tell you how many times a week I'll be going about my business and then wham, I get hit with a curse. The other day I sat down to eat dinner and found that my burrito was full of spiders. The spirit that haunts my apartment block sure does have a sense of humor. Not sure if he was a shaman or a wizard or what. I'd move, but the rent is cheap, and sometimes the curses have a silver lining. My kitchen tap ran red with blood the other day, so I made sausage. Tastes awful, but probably saved me a good $40 with the amount I was able to fit in the freezer. Anyway, I appreciate the semi-regular curse-lifting I get from lemmyshitpost.

On second thought maybe collecting things made of volatile petroleum compounds wasn't a good investment

Unfortunately they had to shut down the Bermuda Triangle due to austerity.

They could replace it with an area that has a bunch of different modes of transit and gives you a scavenger hunt of bus stops as a goal, maybe with flavor of the week interactive futurism/science exhibits at each one they have to write down a fact about. It could handle thousands of guests, and have infinite replayability. Collect all the badges. Kids would love it, parents would see it as STEM enrichment, and everyone would secretly be learning how to read timetables and routemaps. Then again I have an agenda so of course I would like them to build world's biggest model trainset in order to indoctrinate the youth

Look, all I'm saying is what you're expressing now is fucking textbook, dude. There is no way you have a complete list of every brand that has ever pissed you off. Heightened emotional arousal makes you more suggestible. Not less. As long you're human, that's how it works. And understanding that, understanding that you are not immune to propaganda, is the first step in fighting back. Not violent fantasies, or visions of revolution, not by "if only everyone else would..." Not by getting pissed off, even though they're infuriating. By avoiding them when you can, and trying not to react when you do see them.

Edit: On a reread my tone here sucks. My apologies. Clearly I need to take my own advice about not getting pissed off about stuff a screen puts in my face. I stand by what I said, not by how I said it. I hope you have a good night.

Have you ever heard of the "third person effect?"

Okay, you're the one rational detergent actor. They don't have to get you. They want your mom, your neighbor, your boss. Your kid. Saturation works, it's literally proven. Repetition legitimizes. They do studies on this shit.

Yeah, but you still gotta buy laundry detergent. You are not immune to propaganda.

bad news

Granny's crocheting group won't know what hit 'em

Every dollar printed affects the value of every dollar already in circulation. Where that money goes changes who feels it. Printing money to blow up and then subsequently rebuild infrastructure in Iran is going to hurt basically all Americans, although some people (guess who) are probably going to see their share of the pie grow even more because their assets are not held in USD.

It's all so goddamn stupid. If I allow myself to turn to illiberal thoughts I begin to feel like perhaps anyone who supported this clown should have their voting rights permanently stripped. He's the worst president in maybe 150 years. I guess Trump supporters should be thankful the rest of us are so goddamned liberal.

It's Loss. It's funny in a repetitive memetic sort of way, kind of like "The Game." (u just lost teh gaem lololololol11!!!1!)

It works well, until it doesn't. That first part lulls people into complacency. I rented a Kia last year that had automatic cruise control and lane keep assist and it kept me on the road far past when I should have pulled over and taken a nap from being sleep deprived after a redeye flight. Dangerous? Yes. Skill issue? Maybe. What I took away from the experience is that it is frighteningly easy to get used to a thing "just working" and forget about its limitations when it is convenient. I also learned that I do not want lane keep assist or automatic cruise control in my personal car.

Could you elaborate wrt Fedora being a shitshow? It's my daily driver and I haven't experienced any kind of instability and (to my knowledge) I have not been compromised.

Invade Puerto Rico. Got it.

Obviously the solution is to invade Panama and make it a US territory

What a coincidence, I was bitching about how far away his communication skills are from anything Sorkin has ever written a mere 2 days ago:

https://startrek.website/comment/23278425

And to think i used to be mildly annoyed by sterile bureaucratic politician speak.

Edit: or one day ago as of the original time of the top post. Having a life is hard, I wanna go back to being a chronically online teenager with time to waste and the certainty that I could solve all the world's problems.

Surely this gaffe will-

I can't, even as a joke. I am so tired, so very very tired

aw fuck nothing changed, that must mean my shitty sleep schedule and general malaise are not a curse but are in fact the consequences of my own choices

unfair to capybaras