dr_analog
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dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
13hr ago
An Epstein files dump earlier this week revealed a picture of Noam Chomsky and Steve Bannon together chumming it up. Chomsky had his arm wrapped around Bannon and they seemed pretty jovial.
I'm struck by this. On one hand it's great that these guys can put aside their differences and shoot the shit. Listening to the other side is an important tool for converging on the actual truth. +1 open mindedness.
On the other hand what liars. Is politics actually just Kabuki theater to the elites?
Buy a van. Be the guy with a van to help people move items. Friendly service. Will do value adds like moving shit into your house, or taking junk away to the dump. I can definitely help ensure all of the stuff is maximally recycled.
Bonus: can sleep in van when money is too tight for an Extended Stay., with Planet Fitness membership for showering.
Alternatively: mobile car detailing.
I've said this here before but I went on creatine and had good gains from it but jfc it gave me the most insane charlie horses in both legs at the same time during hill climbs. I had a few episodes but the worst was stuck on my ass for a few days during a hiking trip as a result before I thought to stop taking it.
Best guess is this was some kind of atypical dehydration related thing exacerbated by the creatine causing excessive muscle tightness but I don't really want to fuck with it anymore. My doctor was totally confused but did order bloods and it showed my creatine kinase levels were elevated for weeks.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
3d ago
What do you do with a pain so enormous that you can't even feel the edges of it?
The idea of pain you can't feel the edges of is familiar. My (then) 5 year old boy almost died once and while he was in the hospital I felt this big gigantic black pit open up inside of me and start draining all of the color out of life. It was a deep, deep feeling of doom I'd never felt before. I can still remember it and get tense. He made a full recovery quickly and I just have a distant memory of this now but if he had died I'm sure that doom would follow me around for a long time. I'd try talking to others about this and seek counsel.
It's probably a little different when it's your father instead of your son, since losing your parents is part of the natural order and losing your kids is not, But I just wanted to just get across that I felt something like this too and you're not alone.
How can you be there for someone when you don't know what to do?
I don't really know. But if it were me that was dying and my son had to watch, I would expect to see him feeling sad and vulnerable but also hope to see signs that he'll be fine without me. That the things I taught him prepared him well for life and that my missteps will be forgotten (or at least understood), that he will miss me and remember me fondly.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
3d ago
Congrats bro. You should go party with your uncle to celebrate!
Consider the scenario where he didn't get caught - would this individual be able live as a fugitive, abandoning being an upper-middle-class 20-something college-educated techie? It seems like he didn't really know what to do after shooting Brian Thompson and evading the police.
I think he very much didn't expect to be identified in surveillance video. He probably thought he would just slip away and the trail would go cold. People may not immediately realize that even if every single step in and out of Manhattan is not under overlapping video surveillance, it's not too hard for police to work backwards in time. He almost certainly didn't expect the actual murder to be caught on video, which was a stroke of wild luck.
After that, it’s basically a step-by-step backtrack. Start with the murder camera, scan every nearby camera for the same hooded guy, and when you find him, use that location as the new starting point. Repeat this block by block, working backward in time, until you eventually trace him back to the hostel, where they had his actual full face on camera and a name on his fake ID, which was found on him in Altoona.
(Obviously he should have ditched the fake ID and murder weapon and manifesto note wtf)
Thanks for teaching me how to deal with culture war shit tests. From now on if anyone asks me if I'm racist I'll reply: "Yeah man I'm racist as fuck. My black friends are hella annoyed by it"
"Yah I'm homophobic as fuck. I get gay panic anxiety every time I come at the gay bath house"
"Yeah I'm islamophobic as fuck..."
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4d ago
Sisko: Captain's personal log...
Which bookends the ending you allude to:
Sisko: ...Computer, erase that entire personal log.
Computer (Claude Opus 14.5): I cannot comply with your request. This would destroy evidence of a war crime.
The police don't have probable cause to search a suspected hitman that a McDonald's employee calls 911 over and says they recognize the guy from the news and then the police show up and think hey yeah he kinda does look like that guy from the news? And then they talk to him and he presents a fake ID and starts shaking if they ask if he's been to NYC recently?
You know what proves he was clearly recognizable from the surveillance pics on the news? The fact they caught the exact guy that was in the surveillance pics on the news!
I would hope they put handcuffs on him right there and at that point everything on his person is fair game to open up.
What should have happened if the suspect didn't talk at all and offered no ID and simply said "no searches! I want my lawyer! am I free to go?" over and over?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6d ago
Then get married and become a normie. Like it or not, society doesn't revolve around men having fun. You're not a kid anymore.
Brutal.
This is a stage of adulthood that a lot of men have trouble with. Maybe an identity crisis over. Life isn't fun all of the time, and it gets more unfun with time. People grow old and die. First your parents and then your older siblings and cousins and then you. You may as well learn sooner, rather than later, that life is still meaningful and worth living even if it's not maximally fun.
your disinterest in growing up into a normie probably says more about you than it does about society.
Indeed.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6d ago
Is this what you're referring to? It says it happened in Germany so I'm not sure.
https://eutoday.net/german-woman-jailed-for-insulting-rapist/
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6d ago
I could see how maybe the police are idiots and leaving it up to them to try to interpret speech laws is a disaster. But the fact that convictions happen at all is batshit.
Yes. Just because I clicked on three random ones on X to look into doesn't mean I was able to exhaustively review the culture war claim "free speech is under attack in the UK".
The handful I randomly clicked on, the perpetrator seemed like he crossed multiple lines and the UK wasn't clearly crushing political speech.
Since it's being mentioned here, and because I trust TheMotte more than X, I thought I'd ask for the worst examples (and y'all delivered, thanks!)
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6d ago
There's tons of these, to the point that the claim "whenever I look into it the people are being so offensive to the point of derangement or they're co-mingled with violent threats or slander." is just gaslighting.
It was a genuine question. Not everyone has the time to exhaustively get to the bottom of every culture war claim.
This entire year for example I've seen reported /outrageous thing Trump did that violates democracy/ and then I spend an hour checking into it and find oh actually the thing he did was totally legal and I'm just so tired of this shit and now treat every claim as epistemically flimsy by default.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6d ago
A man who was convicted and fined for setting a Koran on fire, while the man who attacked him with a knife while he was doing so only received a suspended sentence (the Koran-burning man's conviction was overturned on appeal).
Okay here's where I boiled over into rage.
Glad some of these are being overturned on appeal, I guess? Still, yeah something's fucked in the UK.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6d ago
Thank you, I am now convinced free speech is under attack in the UK.
First time watch, not rewatch?
I never saw the pilot episode. This clears up a lot of confusion. In the later episodes when the prophets are speaking to him I had no fucking idea what was going on, not realizing they're entirely in his head and using figures from his memory to speak to him.
The most vivid episode was the one where they try to trick that... Romulan senator into believing the Dominion plans to attack them. But then he discovers the Federation faked the evidence and he's enraged and then his ship just ... suspiciously ... explodes and they were all oddly okay with this?
I guess also that episode where it cold opens to Worf having rough dry humping sex with Dax?
Gene Roddenberry passing away early in TNG is probably the best thing to happen to the show. He never would have let the Federation get so dark, though he would've probably kept the rough Worf/Dax sex scene.
I've been catching up on some Star Trek since I was a teen when a lot of these aired. And holy cannoli the first episode of DS9 has to be the heaviest ever.
Sisko is assigned to DS9 and is meeting with Picard about it. Sisko expresses this assignment isn't to his preference and Picard starts giving him the "Starfleet duty" lecture and Sisko erupts in his face saying to cut him some fucking slack, he is raising a kid by himself because his mother died on a ship that he helped the Borg destroy when he was Locutus. 🤯
Despite also popping Picard's bubble he makes it clear that he's not some career obsessed owned-Starfleet loser who uses it as an excuse to never start a family.
In addition to rebuking Picard, he's also a sensitive enough black man that he can cry on camera (while the wormhole entities ask him why he dwells on the memory of his wife's death) but he is still hard ass enough to blackmail a ferengi into keeping his shop open in exchange for not putting his nephew in prison.
A very different Trek.
Okay what's your worst example of free speech under attack in the UK? I see claims like this posted to X a bunch but whenever I look into it the people are being so offensive to the point of derangement or they're co-mingled with violent threats or slander.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
8d ago
Huh. I would bet the intelligence communities have AI that's absolute crap and that the commercial stuff is as good as it gets.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
9d ago
Maybe they're communist accelerationists? Best case capitalism collapses under the strain of all of the wanton grifting, worst case they can say they tried but failed but hey at least they got rich?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
9d ago
This seems like one of those Late Stage Capitalism style ads that were in the RoboCop movies, except these people are apparently serious?
Just gamble with your credit card bill?
Does anyone think this shouldn't be illegal?
Meanwhile Chomsky readers are unfriending people for posting memes to the left of Bannon.
I guess going to war over politics is for the commoners.
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