zifnab25 [he/him, any]

There’s a special sadness in techbros spending the last sixty years trying to invent the Robot Dog, given how many real dogs are in need of adoption and ready to give you their entire heart and soul for a head scratch.

The way they jerk themselves off after every successful missile strike, you would never know they were losing.

It’s a shame we never invented a Space-Time machine

The 90s Are Alive Again

If voting isn’t enough (I didn’t think it is) then do more. Go knock on doors for the candidate that you like. There are a million ways to participate in democracy.

Love to door knock for Heinrich Himmler.

These “both choices bad. Better to not vote” people really don’t make any kind of sense to me.

Hey, listen. I vote every year. This year, 90% of my ballot is going to be blank, because so many of the candidates are absolutely abhorrent. But when I am presented with the Himmler / Hitler choice, I will be firmly bubbling in © None of the Above. I might even knock a few doors and tell my neighbors about how great © None of the Above would be. If I could figure out where to send my money, I could even see myself donating.

Image being unhealthy and saying “it’s going to take more than a 20 minute walk once a week to get in shape. Better not even do that then cuz what would be the point?”

Its funny, because I’m picturing you trying to recover from a broken leg with that mentality.

Americans: “We’re going to engineer hypersonic air travel in the 1970s.”

Also Americans: “We lost the arms race to the Hermit Kingdom in 2024.”

He says, ‘Hamas’s military capabilities have indeed been damaged, undoubtedly eliminated by the IDF, but they still have thousands of terrorists. The territory in terms of civilian control remains in the hands of Hamas; the organization is alive and is still kicking.’

When every third fatality in Gaza is defined as “another dead terrorist” I don’t know how to read this except exterminationist propaganda.

Had the opportunity to throw some time at the FF7 Rebirth on my friend’s PS5. I’ll have to wait until June before I can expect to see it on PC, but its been a lot of fun to date. Eager to see more of it.

Meanwhile, Unicorn Overlord on the Switch has been a great travel game.

Diploma mills gonna mill diplomas

Seems like it’s the only way anyone knows how to make money anymore

War is always just the prelude to diplomacy. Gotta wonder how many more people will die before talking starts.

Republicans. Would. Be. Worse.

We will be more like China

We won’t be like China. We’ll be more insulated and divorced from Chinese media, culture, and conversation.

That’s the stated end goal. Bringing up sharp walls between nationalities in order to control the flow of information between people.

If we keep TikTok open, we risk exposing American young people to Chinese norms, ideals, and social standards. We might even be exposed directly to Chinese mass media (ie, propaganda).

This is a real security risk, as it raises a possibility that younger Americans won’t accept American mass media at face value.

Indian Muslims generally

Othering 172M residents in a country prone to fractious internal conflicts and with large nuclear armed majority Muslim neighbors next door?

What could possibly go wrong?

Nintendo gets to do this (the Yuzu shit) because so many other developers have stopped making anything except slot machines.

Behold, the unlimited power of a fully nationalized war time economy.

if they look at your communist history

I doubt they’ll look much harder than

You are betting on racism over competence of the police force if you do that.

In my experience, it’s been a safe bet

I would report her as a Chinese spy to my local police / SWAT team and just kinda let the American Security State do its things