What do you mean ‘why automatic’? Does Canada not automatically start applying laws when they’re passed?

Australia’s next invasive problem, once I get the funding together to import some.

But muh division

I could not get out of there fast enough, lol

Grew up with a 405 area code. The cops out there are absolute bullshit, they once pulled over to interrogate my friends and I waiting at a bus stop. My brown friends got a patdown and a bunch of questions about why we were hanging around an abandoned building, and I, the blonde girl, got a stern talking to about how hanging out with “the wrong kind” was going to ruin my life. Nevermind that we were literally standing at a bus stop, and we were all honors students, the cops saw an opportunity to be assholes, and they took it. Fuck 'em.

Skibidi is hilarious in a sad kafka-esque way. I’m a millennial, and remember enjoying Scatman John as a kid, and the adults complained about it being gibberish.

Now I’m an adult and watching adults complain that Scatman John is gibberish. It’s a little surreal.

So a better analogy would be your cat puking on you in the middle of the night? It’s a highly emotional performance that’s audience interactable, top shelf art.

Evil doppelganger

much can be done with robots and “ai” but fuck if I’m going die with only “ai” by my side

I hate to break it to you, but you better start saving if you want a good human next to you when you die. I did palliative care for developmentally delayed adults, $12/hr in 2018. Fifty cents more than minimum wage. I was watching people die, and I couldn’t even take a vacation.

I went from being a caring person, to wishing people would die faster, to wishing I could die myself because that was the only form of a ‘break’ I could think of getting. Drove into traffic, got t-boned by an SUV going 55mph, and I think the month in the hospital is still the most relaxed I’ve ever been.

start to grok its limits

Teehee

but I’m not trying to accomplish anything

This is the problem. Co-conspirators don’t grow on trees, and protests are for networking because online chatter is too obvious. If you’re going to protests, but not trying to accomplish anything by doing it, you’re doing it wrong.

Here’s a higher resolution image of the packaging. It’s in the bottom right corner, above the nutrition labeling.

Or all the “Not treated with hormones!*” then in tiny print somewhere at the bottom it says “*the USDA does not permit the use of hormones”. Good job following the law, I guess?

A crown made of internet points isn’t heavy at all.

Yes, it’s hard and it is getting worse. But the revolution will not be televised. There is an overwhelming interest in keeping people from knowing about each other, they’re not going to make it easy for us to organize. The internet is complicit, as it’s controlled by only a handful of companies, who don’t want to lose their monopoly either.

One of the ways in which to drive a wedge is to highlight the failings of the other side. It’s more personal for you and I, and therefore more effective. We cannot focus more on the failings than on the successes, even if there is more fail than success, because success is birthed from failure. Yes, it feels weird, it feels like you’re ignoring how badly we’re all doing, but we have to keep our eyes forward and not get bogged down with despair.

I saved more than a handful of young men from falling into that darkness

It is just a small thing, but you are only one droplet in a cascade. People who have stood on the precipice and stepped back are in a more valuable position to reach others on the edge of darkness, and you have enabled that to spread. If darkness can spread like a mind-virus, so can the sun.

I see that my definition comes before yours, so I am king.

In correct. “It” does have many definitions, but none of them are ‘first’.

It’s that the police tend to recruit from the lower classes, and primarily protect the interest of the ruling class.

but when I see all the people actively turning off their higher-cognitive functions on purpose

Counterpoint, it’s not all the people. You and I are depressed as fuck, our brains like to tell us that everybody is against us, it’s all worthless, and the only good part is the end, but that’s not very accurate.

I burnt out as a caregiver for developmentally disabled adults, due to lack of support in the community. I was working nights, working with clients that had violent behavior (unfun fact, 100% of people with Down’s Syndrome will develop early-onset dementia), and my friend group imploded with the stupidest drama. It’s too easy for me to think “most people have never had a client have a seizure in the shower and spray shit and vomit all over them, blah blah addicted to comfort”, but it turns out that’s a really terrible way of getting people on your side.

I’m going to a local meetup this weekend to discuss plans and mutual aid in my rural town. There’s not a lot of us, but nobody can argue it’d be better to stay home.

It is indeed not serious, lol.