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Had a weird interaction at work today, now to overanalyze it on my way home.

Learning about the dairy lobby. We MUST eviscerate the farmer class by force.

it is may 29 and stalin saved the world from fascism

For the second time this year I've had an issue pop up that I called out, which was initially hand waved, end up being confirmed a month or two later. I'm expecting a pay raise or promotion any day now... any day

I decided to stress test my Ural 4320 in stormworks to see if the engine's cooking system works, but couldn't even get the engine to the point where the cooling system activates :(

I always get very irritated when I hear some right-winger screeching about some conspiracy involving children. Like just about everyone they dislike is some sort of child molester, involved in child pedo rings, or outright mutilating them.

This came up when I overheard some American saying that teachers were pulling kids out of class to make them go through transgender sex changes. This person also claimed to work as a teacher.

I really like the phrase "mandate of Heaven". I want to use it more.

Butts in line

"Hey dude wtf, why did you butt in line?"

"It is not my wish to cut in the line in front of you. It is the world I simply inherited from Genghis. I didnt want this Mandate of Heaven but it is what I inherited."

It's kind of funny that Americans treated Morgenthau as crazy for his plans for Germany, but everyone memory holed that Roosevelt aired the idea of creating a country called Wallonia by handing over a third of France to Belgium (So the Wallonian part of Belgium would be so much bigger than the rest it would just be Wallonia) and then semi-permanently putting France under military occupation just to fuck with De Gaulle.

Edit: in case people don't believe me https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_government_in_France

Huge shout out to cats. I love them and thinking about them makes me happy.

Another night where I spend five hours rolling around in bed trying to get to sleep. I wish I had an offswitch that just conked me out for 8 hours. I don't care if I die in a fire while I'm asleep

decided to research why kiwi tastes so uniquely, i dunno, prickly (how cactus should taste in my imagination)

finding lots of ai websites it's kind of an allergy, now i'm in zone. What if one day glorious kiwi betrays me and i get anaphylactic shock

*ooh found a website that says it's some proteins, like pineapple, i will believe this one

I'm starting to think too much about my relationships again. Wish my brain would stop doing that

Started rewatching Please Save My Earth! last night and I love Issei and Jinpachi's relationship and that Issei is kindof a representation of a trans woman it's so sweet

If humanity ever makes an artificial general intelligence, we'll somehow fuck it up. No disaster, we probably won't even give it a terminal goal. No paperclip maximizer - SamsarAI. Feels apropos to me

Nightreign is like kinda stressful as a game in a way no previous fromsoft game has been.

Friend of friend: vote for Obama 3rd term liberal quickly turning towards "I hate homeless people and anything that helps people get a home conservative." After being with a partner in finance for a bit. This is why I can't stand libs because at any given moment they have no problem going fash.

Mariners blew it in extras

i used to like DougDoug vids a lot but now hes frequently using chaptgpt and shit for stream challenges and "content" i just hate him now

I watched Babylon 5: The Road Home.

Spoiler-free thoughts:

You'll never look at a pair of blue socks the same way again.

This is very good. This is JMS putting in 100%. He is in peak form on the script. If you're a B5 fan and have been ambivalent about watching it, have no fears. It'll make you smile, cry, rejoice, despair, grin, smirk, think, and feel. It is peak B5. It's basically a love story, and fans of the show will know exactly whose love story I mean. The ending feels so right and so earned. The opening voiceover is amazing. The station looks gorgeous. The music is flawless.

This is not a phone-in by any of the returning actors providing voices. Obviously some recasting had to be done as half the live-action main cast have passed away.

Bruce Boxleitner returns to voice John Sheridan, and he is killing it. This wasn't "aging actor can't sound like they used to". From the instant you hear his voice you totally buy that this is genuinely Sheridan. And Bruce puts the same drive and emotion and slightly-nerdy-goofy vibe into the character as he always did.

Claudia Christian returns as our favourite slightly-snarky slightly-cynical always-ready Ivanova. And it's another blowout performance. You're not hearing Christian in a sound booth, you're hearing God Herself.

Peter Jurasik also returns as Londo, and my god he is every bit as good at reprising the role convincingly as Boxleitner and Christian. And not only are you hearing genuine Londo, but JMS is just as good at writing him as he was during the original show. Londo, Sheridan, and Ivanova are in a tragically comedic scene later on and every single line is convincing.

Patricia Tallman comes back as our snark-hiding-a-heart-of-gold resident telepath. She doesn't get much screen time but she makes the most of it. Same for Bill Mumy as Lennier, and Tracy Scoggins as Captain Lochley. I actually liked Lochley as a character in season 5, I think she did a fine job both then and now.

No major complaints on the recast voice actors except maybe Marcus. He just sounded too stiff. Marcus is supposed to sound way more casual even in tense situations. Fortunately he has very few lines.

JMS wisely showed a lot of restraint in nostalgia callbacks. They're there, but they're subtle.

The animation style took me a bit of getting used to, but I soon started enjoying it as its own style. Movements look realistic, characters look like they should, facial expressions are spot-on. Londo looks extremely Londo.

just finished my second full day of rideshare driving. I guess it was really only a half day since I had other jobs lined up in the morning, but it felt like a full one. Took me three hours to drive thirty miles because I was in stop and go traffic for so long, fukken suuuuuucked.

but hey i averaged $25/hr so that's something. I'm also gonna be back in that area tomorrow cuz I have to go back to the same mall for my real job (that pays $50+ but doesn't give consistent hours) but my plan is to start the day earlier and go home at 4pm cuz fuck rush hour.

I finally caught another permanent ban on twitter

Leaving treats out for my gangstalkers to show I appreciate their hard work.

Spinosaurus is cool, didnt understand why they had haters.

I have officially hit the 10,000 word mark on my fantasy novel, which means I'm actually making a habit of writing. I've written 1600 words today and intend to keep going. I'm making actual plot outlines and character bios. I'm like a real writer hell yeah

My heart sank for a second.

Ironmouse is streaming a game fundraising for the IDF.

It's the Immune Deficiency Foundation. She has an immunodeficiency that keeps her in her room. She is incredibly celebrated as she once held the title for the most subscribed to person on Twitch. Her good friend, CdawgVA, if memory serves, has raised over 3 million dollars for the cause. It's about as heartwarming as the situation could possibly be and moves me to tears.

The r/asksocialists subreddit has been taken over by PatSocs. I'd care a little bit if it wasn't r*ddit

You fuckers got me bean-headed. I was just singing "dancing queen" with my partner and to be funny I started replacing words with "bean" at the end of every line. It was funny, but it was one of the most online things I've ever done in the real world.

Dancing bean young and bean only 7 beans

Whenever Anglos are first exposed to the Irish language written down they're always like "omg haha it's so weird thats not how you should write those words". FUCK OFF!!! ITS A DIFFERENT FUCKING LANGUAGE!!! It's way more grammatically consistent than English, you just can't read it because it's a different language. There's a million interviews where an American talk show host has an Irish person on and goes "haha Aoife, that's a weird name! Haha Saoirse, that's a weird name!" Fuck off fuck off fuck offfff

The Helldivers 2 devs made the invasion of Super Earth by the illuminate extra-hard so they could have an epic finale for the players in the defence of the Capital but Chinese players are going extra hard in defending the Chinese Megacity which is slowing the plans of the devs since they cant open the Capital defence map until the last Megacity falls

Its very funny chinese players have been meming about it

Maybe a hot take but if leftists are going to do an adventurism they have an obligation to at least try to get away with it.

it is may 28 and stalin saved the world from fascism

I'm reading "No More Tears", a book about the Johnson & Johnson company. It's kind of unreal how evil that company is, yet we don't hear much about it.

They were more responsible for the opioid epidemic than the Purdue Pharma. Not only did they fund more of the research that led doctors to over prescribe, they also grew the majority of the poppies used to make them. Far more people overdosed on their fentanyl patches than oxycontin. They also continued creating and selling new opiates as non-addictive, like tramadol and tapentadol, despite knowing this was not true.

They also sold talcum powder 30 years after they knew it was contaminated with asbestos, and at least 15 years after they had evidence that talc itself was causing cancers.

They sold Risperdal despite knowing it was worse than the Haldol it replaced. They created 2 new markets for the antipsychotic, children and the elderly, despite the fact it was never approved for anyone other than those with schizophrenia. More than 1.3 million elderly people died as a result of Risperdal, the vast majority of whom were being drugged by their nursing homes. J&J knew that nursing homes were using the drug to sedate difficult dementia patients, allowing them to get by with less employees.

500 calorie 20g protein breakfast

DEMOLISHED the wordle, mini, and connections

Full clear pokedoku

Blessed morning. I'm fucking unstoppable