I had to headspace some spark plugs recently which not being a car guy, I did not know was done by prying the prongs back with essentially a specialized bottle opener and then tapping them down if you went too far. When I bent one too far and had to tap it back down to line up to 100ths or 1000ths of an inch you better believe I felt like I was channeling the ancestors.

Thank you for your effort, screenshotting and posting all that must have taken some time. I saw most of what you shared this morning then got the last part a moment ago, like delicious leftover slop. I think you already pointed this out, these folks have the vibe of Nu Atheists but ostensibly religious, just such a unique strain of reactionary.

Thanks I’ll check her out, I certainly meant to imply that I did not believe this notion but also had to admit I didn’t know. It speaks to common experience that if we’re all sharing something and see it going to shit, the community of users will have the sense to come up with customs to preserve it. And if humans were unable to do that on their own without some greedy lord imposing order I doubt we’d have ever made it this far.

This is something I would drive myself to madness with. Tuning in to NPR’s Marketplace show in the morning and they’d talk in their very clever and very polite ways about how the Fed wanted to raise interest rates to “slow the economy” to “combat inflation” and knowing that nakedly meant the plan was to immiserate working people.

Thanks, I just might have to! I see it ran from nineteen hundred and ninety one to '94 so I think younger millenials and later may have not even seen this.

I’ll have to educate myself on whether common resources really do become depleted through mismanagement, but I can say that all the formally educated people who sold me that idea hadn’t heard of things like the Enclosure Acts. I’m just going off the cuff here but I know that swathes of North America when the settlers arrived were a paradise on earth thanks to intensive management by the indigenous people they dispossessed, this wasn’t some untamed wilderness. Someone here shared something the other week from a Scots socialist lamenting that landowners had displaced thousands of tenants from the highlands to depopulate their land holdings to create the lords’ preferred wilderness.

Whom’st amongst us. Let him without sin bust the first load.

Yesterday: I should stay of /c/slop, that shit is just infuriating.

This morning: Oh hell yeah this is gourmet, how fortunate am I that a poster has brought such complex slop to my snout.

I remember this showing being cool, the anti-war episode about pistachios where the boy’s uniform had a literal target on his back made an impression on my malleable young brain, but I didn’t know it was this based.

SMH at this cultural appropriation, the frogs can take my ahegao from my cold dead hand (the other one is busy).

I also don’t know anything about anything, and I’m not going to write off the conspiratorial angles, but the idea he was wearing a vest and the bullet ricocheted is confusing to me. If he was wearing soft armor, the thirty ought would’ve gone straight through and probably back out the other side. Am I supposed to believe he was wearing some super secret squirrel plates that’ll stop a rifle round but don’t show under a t-shirt, was hit in the upper torso, then the bullet ricocheted up and then diagonally or laterally through his neck? I don’t want to be gruesome, I don’t know what the entry and exit wounds on that should look like. If’n it were the camera behind him then how come it done gone out t’o’er side?

Edit: Likewise, if this boy Tyler hunted, 200 meter ain’t nothin’, that’s point blank range. And with taking an animal a good shooter’d have’ta say a prayer to the creator an’a spirit o’ the animal he kilt, but when one take a Charlie’s life one ain’t’n needin’t’a have none such compassion.

Me: I adjusted my belt awkwardly at work 2 or 3 years ago, no one called it out but I’m still embarrassed.

Jeffrey: Yeah I was caught straight toobin’ it but I’m back on cable news.

I think that normalizing that it’s okay to have fun at the expense of these things we’re supposed to be so reverential about has utility. Obviously your coworkers were ready for it and didn’t know you can just like, YOLO it out there like that.

I have a friend who I wouldn’t call normie, they’ve got good politics and know I’m leftist, but is certainly not online like your average hexbear. When I talked to them on the 10th and hit them with a “hawk Utah bleed on that thang,” stolen from u/segfault11, they were kinda like wow too soon, but every day after that I could get a sensible chuckle with an OwO what’s this or an if you read this you are gay LMAO. Not to say real life shitposting is going to shift muh Overton window but I think you tapped into something.

Prrreeetty concerning. Obviously there is no Antifa as an organization and but I would be cautious to call this meaningless. Seems more likely they will use this to slap domestic terrorism charges or conspiracy charges on anyone who is organizing against incipient fascism fascism in progress in this country. Stay safe out there, hopefully this won’t affect me because I am a center-left Democrat.

I do like that they list anti-fascism as obstructing ICE and law enforcement, which means that those groups are … hmm I’m drawing a blank here.

Yeah those guys have a nihilistic worldview and a very big platform, sometimes people will discuss SP and I need to get comfortable speaking to the fact that I think they put shitty views into the world, and that I’m not complaining about it being crass or whatever. They’ve really had a significant influence on attitudes of multiple generations at this point.

Someone who actually does “need it for work” and they’re a poster, hell yeah. Also

credit onion

heh

Consuming the news but not wanting to discuss or analyze or reflect, that is a good observation. It seems almost obvious but I hadn’t looked at it quite that way before. I’ve certainly observed and seen it discussed here how one might carefully, painstakingly have a conversation with someone like that and feel like you have made some progress, then the next day or the next time a similar story comes up, it’s like they’ve completely had the reset button pushed.

With the US forces withdrawing from Afghanistan a few events stick out to me. Missile-striking a man and IIRC his children because he was doing door to door deliveries of meals or water to people who needed aid. The attack at the Kabul airport that killed I think north of a hundred people, but all Western media talked about was ThE tHiRtEeN as they wanted to wave the bloody shirt over the service members that were killed. That also may have involved occupation forces firing into the crowd, which they definitely would want to cover up.

I remember our media class going after Brandon for pulling out, but hey!, this was already negotiated, set up under Trump 1st term, and it’s good to end a 20 year occupation! Plus the ANA was collapsing and Taliban rapidly advancing territory so what even could the US and Afghan govt have done. And yeah sanctioning Afghanistan after the withdrawal is just damning people to starve.

Also I did change it in the post since you pointed it out, even though the thread has gone inactive I think that is a useful detail I appreciated learning.

Footwear paid by employer is a good feeling. Sounds like the shoe is too small honestly. If they are new and you’re just noticing that, imagine how bad it’ll get as you keep wearing them. Anecdote time, I mail ordered some new shoes recently in a wide width and a full size larger than my last ones of the same model. When I pulled them on for the first time I thought, damn I bought some clown shoes, but after a couple long walks I decided that really is the size I needed just so my toes wouldn’t rub the front or sides of the toe box. Good luck!