America is a warrior nation. What they call news is actually fear mongering twaddle. Their heroic archetypes in film solve problems with violence. The state itself increasingly behaves like a robber baron. They are obsessed with weapons. School shootings are but one grotesque outcome of this pathology but however disgusting those events are, gun ownership is ubiquitous. It’s a society that would destroy itself rather than admit it’s wrong.

Subconscious has been deprecated in favour of unconscious.

The conscious part of any given activity is what we think of as the source of free will but it’s not certain how free that part is. I’ve had experiences where I don’t know who is deciding the actions I’m taking. When we become aware of a thought, what is the origin of it?

Looking good lemmings

Gen X in the firing line. Bring it on mfs, I’ve survived far worse and now I’m pulling the ladder up.

I remember talking to an ice-cream seller in Egypt and he asked me what I do for a living. When I told him I was an engineer he said ‘so am I’. The predatory behaviour of Egyptian street sellers made more sense after that exchange but it never stopped grating. I think the best way deal with it is engage with the people in a friendly way and have a laugh. Most of the time people just need acknowledgement, that goes a long way.

The toxic limit for alcohol is half a glass of wine per year. Literally every drink you take is causing some damage. Personally I would legalise all drugs and provide harm reduction but people are delusional about the harm any given substance causes. Most people consider LSD a hard drug because it is scheduled but it doesn’t have a toxic limit and has zero recorded fatalities. It’s actually a known therapeutic for PTSD and other conditions.

Social media platforms and the services you cite are fundamentally distinct in that social media is addictive by design. You could argue that people behave badly regardless of which platform they choose and I wouldn’t disagree but addicted people are being robbed of their autonomy and as a byproduct it is supercharging the proliferation of bad behaviour, toxic outcomes, etc.

In time we will look back on the era of social media in the same way we view the era of smoking now. It’s a poisonous melange of big business, profit, lies and addiction.

Fat Americans out here standing in the world’s largest glass house hurling rocks with gay adandon.

Em dash will sour your milk and lose your car keys. It will cause your socks to become odd pairs and fart in the lift when your crush alights. Em dash is responsible for the failure of the mars climate orbiter but ran a successful misinformation campaign against SI units.

I would fetch my divorce attorney shovel.

The Americans found an unfinished Nazi research project on LSD and took the obvious next step, added it to the list of crimes against humanity. No, wait, that’s not what happened.

The history of LSD is tragic, given what we now know about its therapeutic properties. Tripped by Norman Ohler is an interesting text on the subject.

Do Neocons live in Neocities?

It’s almost as if this is a computer architecture designed for idiots who don’t know or care what a file is or for what purposes their data is being harvested. Everywhere I hear people falling over themselves to declare that the tablet smartphone was apple’s golden gift to the world. Try to do any serious work on one, it’s fucking annoying.

Whenever we make technology accessible to stupid people it becomes irritating to use and a privacy nightmare.

Magic Feral Submariners will take over the world one day.

Right? When any service offers to ‘store your data’ or ‘remember your history’ it’s cause for concern.

Playing with children can be pretty exhausting. My daughter loved her Lego pirate ship set and had me narrating the lives of ten swashbuckling sailors on the high seas every day. I needed to be on top form or she would catch my day to day continuity errors 😅

What about the moose knuckle?

I also wear a hardhat to write software.

An extinct civilisation called Heetzah Putt, rumoured to be near the lost city of Atlantis.

Wehrmacht was not a Nazi organisation. Members were free to join the party but they were not under any obligation. The SS was an explicitly Nazi army but completely separate from the Wehrmacht.

German people were compelled to ‘support the troops’ in the same way that Americans are compelled to support their many illegal invasions of sovereign territory. The British continue to build and operate colonial era warships. The main difference is they were on the winning side, lmao, etc.