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Remember how they blatantly sabotaged Bernie’s primary campaign and justified all their dirty tricks because they felt he was ‘unelectable’?
Funny how now they have a blatantly unelectable candidate in office, they’ve done a complete 180 and are demanding voters support him unconditionally.
Quick let’s feed it to cattle by the ton
I must once again post The Night Watch [PDF]
I don’t care that it’s outdated, everyone still needs to read https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
It would delay them I guess, but unless you plan to clone everyone forever, it wouldn’t be a longterm fix. The genepool wouldn’t get any bigger, so once your population did breed, you’d have the same problem.
Swiss cheese theory.
Genes code for all the differnet protein molecules in your body; if any of them are damaged, they don’t produce that particular protein and your body is all messed up.
This is bad. Luckily, you have two strands of DNA, one from either parent - and a copy of each gene on either strand. If the copy of the gene you need on strand A is broken, no problem, you just use the copy from strand B (or vice-versa).
However, this relies on both strands having all their broken bits in different places.
Think of a slice of swiss cheese - if you need 100% cheese cover on your sandwich, and you have two randomly-selected pieces of swiss cheese, all the holes are going to be in different places, and you’ll probably be fine. Maybe there’ll be a couple of tiny gaps, but you’ll probably get by.
However, if both slices come from right next to each other n the same block, then most if not all the holes are going to line up with each other, and you are fucked.
You have to understand both conservatives and narcissists.
Conservative morality isn’t based in utilitarian ethics; it’s nothing to do with greater good or least harm. It’s about pecking order: those at the top are protected by rules and not bound by them, while those beneath them are bound by rules but not protected by them.
And the important thing to realise is this isn’t a cynical observation of a regrettable truth for them, it’s aspirational and idealistic. That’s how they think it ought to work, and they admire it when they see it.
For them, the world is full of winners and losers. Not only is it good and right and moral for a person in power to abuse that power and violate laws and customs, doing so makes them a winner who deserves to get away with it. To attempt to hold a winner accountable is an affront to the natural order, blasphemy, sacrilege, dragging god from his throne.
And similarly, it’s good and right and moral for losers to be punished for violating rules, and to submit to abuse and oppression. All the rules and double standards around gender roles, racial roles, etc are not hypocrisy to them, they’re the whole point. High-status people in society (eg rich cishet white men, or police or military officers etc) are celebrated for getting away with things that others are punished for, and demonstrating both sides of the dichotomy is actively desired.
If a cop beats the shit out of a black kid and is rewarded rather than punished, that’s justice on both sides for them. The authority figure is allowed to revel in their license to abuse, as is their due, and the black kid is punished with humiliation and further trauma for daring to complain. If a woman is punished for promiscuity while a man is rewarded for having sex with her, ditto.
That’s why LGBTQ rights are such a threat to them - making gender identity anything but hardcoded messes with all their hierarchies, as does any change to man=fucker=winner, woman=fuckee=loser, and of course queer=victim=super-loser. It’s their whole social order turned on its head and dumped out on the floor.
So amidst all this, dictators are the the ultimate celebrities to them: they don’t just get away with murder, they get away with genocide, and wholesale flouting of both national and international law. They are rockstar-gods, accountable to none, the highest status imaginable. They will fawn and grovel and dream of being that great.
(That’s why they’re all so fucking pro-israel, and why pointing out their genocide and torture of the Palestinians is so completely infeffective - all it’s doing in their view is establishing Israel’s credentials as untouchable winners.)
On top of that, DJT is a malignant narcissist - as conservative leaders tend to be, since conservative voters admire those personality traits like dictators in miniature.
And narcissists are pathetically dependent on praise from the people above them - it’s the strongest hit of self-esteem they can get to fill the eternal sucking void in their souls for a tiny instant, even better than victimising someone themselves and mocking them for it.
So when Putin and the Saudis and the russian mob and every other fucker tossed him some sad little scrap of status, he whined and pissed on the floor like a submissive little lapdog, desperate for more. He got suckered into shady deals that left him owned body and soul, he got suckered into kompromat of all kinds leaving him even more vulnerable to external leverage, and all of this left him grateful for being able to attract the attention of vicious bastards, because it made him feel important and special.
no wait let’s talk
All your basic staples: salt, flour, oil, sugar, pasta, pasta, milk, eggs etc. There’s literally nothing to do better or worse, so for god’s sake don’t pay for the label. Fancy olive oil is nicer, and fancy butter for actually putting on bread is nice too - but for cooking, cheap the hell out.
Get your spices from an Indian / Asian / etc grocer - you can get a huge bag for the price of a tiny supermarket jar, and because they have so much turnover, they’ll be plenty fresh.
Store-brand laundry detergent and dishwasher tablets work just fine for me (and dear god you can save a lot on those).
They didn’t really call for it to stop military action though. They called for it to stop doing things intended to be genocide; I predict that Israel will just disagree that it intends genocide, and keep on doing it.
Israel doesn’t give a shit what anyone else wants them to do. They’re going to continue slaughtering the Palestinians and taking their land until someone physically prevents them.
Unless there’s an ‘or else’, this is meaningless.
Get half as terrible at juggling.
Nope, never. I never prick the things, just straight in on the rack as they are.
They clearly just really love genocidal fascist bastards.
I have no doubt in my mind that the ICJ will find a way to fuck Palestine over even harder.
They will either smirk and say ‘nah’, or they will throw up their hands and declare themselves powerless to actually change anything.
Most places serve coffee that tastes like warm milk with a hint of beige, by default.
Adding an extra shot is your best hope of it actually tasting like coffee, regardless of caffeine content.
I can still taste that toothpaste
It’s not hubris, it’s neediness. Some people have a desperate need to be speshul, not just matter, not just a process, but something magical and ineffable and inherently intractable. They want their non-overlapping magisteria back, and they use ‘quantum’ as a little reservation it can hide on.