Hate to break it to you, Kojima: your career is where it is at becsuse your games are explicitly mainstream. Wow I knew he had his head up his own ass but I didn’t realize how far up there it was really lodged.

Coming soon: A Tiktoker’s Top 10 Tiktok TACO Moments.

Uhhh, lots of people die in jail waiting to get the medications they need.

So don’t expect FEMA to be there when a bomb train derails and poisons your whole community after exploding and taking out half the town.

Figure it out on your own, they’ll say, you’re the one who chose to live near a bomb train rail line, they’ll say.

Gilead

Oh, so it’s assured they will bleed people dry then, based on this company’s track record.

Oh I agree, and I think that voting the chumps out and replacing them with competent people who will stand by their principles and fight is the solution. There’s some real dinosaurs in office who are still legislating like this is the 1980s.

The Democratic party is just made up of people, and those people can be replaced. It’s not the label that’s the problem, it’s the people.

https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/us-economy-strength-rich-spending-2c34a571

Feb. 23, 2025

The top 10% of earners account for 49.7% of all spending.

The top 10% of earners—households making about $250,000 a year or more—are splurging on everything from vacations to designer handbags, buoyed by big gains in stocks, real estate and other assets.

They’re just planning to float on the profits from other wealthy people, they don’t actually give a damn about the bottom 90% as long as they can make profits from the top 10%.

Haven’t you noticed more and more businesses cater almost exclusively to the wealthy and that “economy” options for things like phones, computers, and cars have almost completely disappeared or in the case of phones and computers have been so stuffed with adware and bloatware as to be comically unusable?

Can you absolutely fuck off with this shit? Please stop telling people who are literally in pain and suffering every god damned day that they should throw it all away because “they have nothing to lose.”

Why don’t some of you pussy ass able bodied people step up for us, asshole? Oh because you still have something to lose? Grow a pair and stand up for people who are suffering when you aren’t.

Asking people suffering to step up for you because you’re too much of a pussy to stand up for them. What a fucking travesty of a joke. Get a grip. I hope you end up with “nothing to lose” so you can hear people tell you the same.

The Stock Market has been completely disconnected from reality for over a decade now, if not longer. Whoever first described it as “a graph of rich people’s feelings” was so on the fucking nose it’s not even funny.

As a person with no children and unaffordable cancer medications that I am basically fucked into a corner to be in poverty on medicaid to afford…

These people are fucking worse than my god damned cancer. So because I have no children my cancer just should magically not be a problem and I need to have proof of work?

I want to fucking scream but it does nothing to help. I have a mouth and I must scream but if nobody hears it does it even matter? I will die as just another statistic, a number to be forgotten. To be fair, that’s all my life has ever been in this fucking shithole country.

Because Democrats are efficient at being fascist bastards, I suppose.

Never forget that Obama said "we need to look forward, not backward’ in respect to war crimes committed by Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz and the rest of the criminal gang. Trump hasn’t even risen to the level of war crimes, did we really think they were going to punish him for anything?

The fucking milquetoast pussy shit that the Dems have been feeding us for nearly three decades now is why the Republicans get away with so much shit.

This is the same party that, instead of questioning and critiquing the plans for war in Iraq, needed to “show they were strong on terrorism” and instead signed off on it probably fully knowing the intelligence was faked. This is the same reason Obama had to be “tough on immigration” to show he had his fascist bona fides.

Weak willed idiots who sway in the breeze to follow public opinion instead of standing by any principles at all.

Basically, the rich will get the tax break and get to buy up all the land. Win-win for them.

Are there still morons stupid enough to claim Republicans are good for the economy?

Sadly, yes. Nothing will actually make them turn on Trump because it’s a fucking cult. They will find a way to blame this on Democrats just like they have blamed and continue to blame the murder of Democratic politicians by a right wing nutjob on Democrats.

It’s not about living in reality, it’s about having power and control over other people. Even if they’re low on the totem pole, as long as there’s someone lower they get to lord over, they’re perfectly happy with the situation.

Basically all of the Cascade range in Washington it’s fucking absurd and disgusting.

Rimrock lake will go from a pristine camping destination to clear cut and surrounded by mansions.

Soulseek.

It’s true, I’m in a right-wing hell-hole and that makes it hard. Thanks for the kindness.

The wifi rollout thing is tricky… Especially because who do you entrust the administration to? Technically whoever is managing it can see everything everyone in the subdivision does online, and since it’s all shared, could be doing packet sniffing to de-obfuscate your traffic and if they’re untrustworthy, potentially be stealing your PII. They’re already going to have a lot of your PII simply from knowing who you are and where you live, but basically having your entire internet history at their fingertips no less.

It’s part of why I refuse to move in somewhere that someone else controls the connection, literally for that reason. I want my own private connection because I don’t trust other people with this.

I generally agree with the sentiment of the article, but I do take issue with this part:

Get a therapist. Join some clubs. Develop a well-rounded social circle. It will enrich you beyond words.

For men who have already done the self-work and already go to a therapist and have never had a single emotional support at all, this is heartbreaking. The clubs are all full of men who refuse to do this kind of emotional self-labor and self-regulation and why would I, as a man who has, have any interest in being friends with these groups of men? Is it my fault that I’m surrounded by men who refuse to develop as people and that leaves me with an incredibly small social circle of trustworthy people to be able to share my emotional support needs with? I want to be enriched by a trustworthy social circle but I live in the USA and I am literally emotionally starved. I have never had emotional support from family, from friends, and hardly any from women. Why must I, someone who has done the labor of trying to be a better person, be punished for how other men continue to fail?

The closest I’ve found to a “club” that I actually enjoy being a part of is the private tracker community, and there’s still a fairly large contingent of assholes in that community. The people who are decent are half a world away from me. One of my closest friends that I made in the private tracker game is from Germany. He’s a hell of a dude but it’s very unlikely I will ever be able to meet him in person.

Why is it my fault as an individual man who has put in the work that I struggle to find other men who also put in the work? It just seems like a cruel joke to be alive for this. I’m doing the work, it’s not my fault other men aren’t which leaves me with… *checks notes… still no emotional support network.

SimpleX Chat – Many suggested this and I will explicitly recommend against it due to the founder’s positions on various topics. This includes being anti-vaxx, believing COVID-19 was a hoax, trans- and homophobia, climate denial; In the SimpleX Groupchat he’s also been seen basically bootlicking trump a couple times, but I’ve lost receipts to that

Unrelated to the main points I kind of always thought SimpleX seemed sketchy…

Ben Edlund reportedly in shambles.