the entire world comes to a screeching halt for a plague…

“guess I’ll develop opticks I dunno shit…”

What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.

which works great in a novel. how do you make that work in a series / film setup?

Seveneves by Stephenson.

having used grease pencils before, no thanks, due to the remainder of greasy paper you unwind as you use it.

nice alternative, and that’d make great sense except… now you have a bunch of long strings of grease covered paper floating about the cabin.

so no. no thanks.

and thin paper shavings = space kindling. the entire argument is fucking dumb.

perhaps the sovs gnawed their pencils sharp and consumed all the graphite fragments and shavings lol. good lil soviet space beavers

also, fucking pencil shavings?

pencil shavings contain graphite (great for getting into shit and shorting shit out) and thin paper (think, kindling)

did the russians gnaw the fucking things sharp? no? idiots…

http://www.tesladeaths.com/

https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/tesla-fans-exposes-shadiness-defend-autopilot-crash/

Read that last bit and think of all the accidents these things drove people into, just to ‘hand off’ control .5 seconds before impact.

If we had a real government, Tesla would be in public hearings TODAY.

can anyone suggest a tool to re-assess all my ripped mp3s and flacs with artist/track title info? I ripped ages of music from CD, and at some point a lot of the data got dicked up.

WA state here - it’s ridiculous that I have to subsidize chuds in Mississippi and Louisiana when they won’t even give their citizens human rights. they’re all about fiscal responsibility until it comes to paying their own fucking bills.

edit: love the chudvotes, do we have some cranky MS and LA types? pay your fucking bills jerkfaces. fuck, half your budgets come from federal funds we pour more into.

he does billions of dollars of labor by pollinating fruit and crops.

you zap him with an electric attractor festooned with lights.

the human species deserves it’s fate.

blighty has it’s problems but they’re resolvable. rejoin the EU. Support Ukraine. Restrict 5 eyes intel until the US get’s it’s shit together. Lead NATO.

problems, but feasibly resolveable problems.

+1

would subscribe to your newsletter.

ketamine is one hell of a drug

Yup. Proglib? right of center. Anything that doesn’t label itself as LEFTIST is hard right according to them.

You have to be at least anti-capitalist to be a leftist.

oh I must have missed the “YOU MUST BE AT LEAST THIS ANARCHO-MARXIST TO RIDE THE LEFTIST LABEL” sign at the front of the line.

damn is this really how you think? are these really the thoughts that just bubble up in that grey matter?

way too much time on your hands if so

you’re so fucking busy delineating who’s not a good leftist that the conservatives are going to destroy you all and you’ll be quibbling about who was a real one and who’s faking being in the concentration camp.

yeah, liberals are conservative scum lol.

liberals are literally on the left wing of the spectrum, but apparently that’s not good enough for ‘arbitrary decider of who’s a leftist’ here

so you’re suggesting, what, exactly?

say I’d observed this trend as well, and agreed there was a risk (I don’t but let’s follow your chain of thinking) - what then?

Because I’m sure there’s a desire for conservatives to have alternatives to reddit, but I as they can federate their own instances and have damn near free reign over whatever communities they want to create, I don’t really understand what’s to be gained from any actions that might be taken. We won’t convince them it’s a conservative haven, and that’s genuinely what they want, a safe space where no one questions their conservatism.

so what is it you’re thinking?

it can take tens of thousands of years bouncing around inside the sun before they exit too. always thought that was pretty neat.

damn bro, that’s bathroom-stall-at-hot-topic level profound.