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2012 Firestone Sucaba barleywine
December 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
2012 Firestone Sucaba barleywine
jerry is ai
December 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
jerry is ai
"they won't tell you this important health fact"
December 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"they won't tell you this important health fact"
amex has more essential vitamins and nutrients fyi
December 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
amex has more essential vitamins and nutrients fyi
what I'm trying to say is eat plastic
December 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
what I'm trying to say is eat plastic
Jerry all plastics can be microplastics if you believe enough
December 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Jerry all plastics can be microplastics if you believe enough
Democrats need to respect the opinions of the voters. Republicans force opinions down voter's throats until they are literally broke and dying.
Who is in power? 🧐
Who is in power? 🧐
December 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Democrats need to respect the opinions of the voters. Republicans force opinions down voter's throats until they are literally broke and dying.
Who is in power? 🧐
Who is in power? 🧐
Deeply embarassing
December 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Deeply embarassing
MAGA reminds me most of the Spartans. A highly ineffectual cult of masculinity, built on the backs of a society which is 80% straight up slave labor. Cruel, spiteful.
December 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
MAGA reminds me most of the Spartans. A highly ineffectual cult of masculinity, built on the backs of a society which is 80% straight up slave labor. Cruel, spiteful.
Modern influencer culture is epicureanish, MAHA is nietzchianish, tiktok brainrot is straight up Diogenes barking at the moon
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Modern influencer culture is epicureanish, MAHA is nietzchianish, tiktok brainrot is straight up Diogenes barking at the moon
I've been reading Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus and it's shocking how un stoic modern society is.
December 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I've been reading Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus and it's shocking how un stoic modern society is.
Thank you
December 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Thank you
Fortunately, the library remains. I spend an afternoon there each weekend and leaf through a few periodicals. I buy a few magazines. But I'd rather just pay some people. I know I'm not the target consumer.
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Fortunately, the library remains. I spend an afternoon there each weekend and leaf through a few periodicals. I buy a few magazines. But I'd rather just pay some people. I know I'm not the target consumer.
Instead, I need to enrobe myself in ten, twenty, or more subscriptions to create a media availability sphere which approaches what we used to be able to get by picking up 2-3 magazines a week at the newspaper kiosk. I (personally) hate it. It feels suffocating, cloying.
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Instead, I need to enrobe myself in ten, twenty, or more subscriptions to create a media availability sphere which approaches what we used to be able to get by picking up 2-3 magazines a week at the newspaper kiosk. I (personally) hate it. It feels suffocating, cloying.
I would be so happy, if I saw an article I liked, to have the option of pressing a button that would pay the author $1, $5, or whatever the standard because. But I'm an outlier. Those system have been tried, and they don't work. Not enough people press the button.
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I would be so happy, if I saw an article I liked, to have the option of pressing a button that would pay the author $1, $5, or whatever the standard because. But I'm an outlier. Those system have been tried, and they don't work. Not enough people press the button.
I become the one to have the burden of remembering, somehow, not to pay your governing organization. I now pay for everything your organization produces, not just the article I wanted to read. Paper copies of most media do still remain, and I do buy newspapers on the weekend.
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I become the one to have the burden of remembering, somehow, not to pay your governing organization. I now pay for everything your organization produces, not just the article I wanted to read. Paper copies of most media do still remain, and I do buy newspapers on the weekend.
I do want to add a little nuance. Just 1%. It used to be that we could access a lot of this work for free, before the internet, or for a lot less. Buying a magazine, or sharing.
Now bombarded, left and right, by 'services' asking me to 'subscribe.' I hate subscribing. I find it inherently scammy.
Now bombarded, left and right, by 'services' asking me to 'subscribe.' I hate subscribing. I find it inherently scammy.
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I do want to add a little nuance. Just 1%. It used to be that we could access a lot of this work for free, before the internet, or for a lot less. Buying a magazine, or sharing.
Now bombarded, left and right, by 'services' asking me to 'subscribe.' I hate subscribing. I find it inherently scammy.
Now bombarded, left and right, by 'services' asking me to 'subscribe.' I hate subscribing. I find it inherently scammy.
I 99% agree. Everyone should get paid for their work. Period. There's been a slide in how much value good writing has been worth that should be halted. I come from a family of writers, and was encouraged to pursue that path in life. I didn't, because I could see how little it was paid.
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I 99% agree. Everyone should get paid for their work. Period. There's been a slide in how much value good writing has been worth that should be halted. I come from a family of writers, and was encouraged to pursue that path in life. I didn't, because I could see how little it was paid.
This is what pisses me off about the current 6 member majority. How arrogant they are, to assume their judgement is so much better than literally hundreds of purists who came before them. Hubris, raw and untamed
December 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is what pisses me off about the current 6 member majority. How arrogant they are, to assume their judgement is so much better than literally hundreds of purists who came before them. Hubris, raw and untamed
"Was it the thousands of super heated explosive shell fragments passing through their bodies at 5000 ft/sec, or undiagnosed early stage diabetes, which actually killed them? We may never know."
December 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"Was it the thousands of super heated explosive shell fragments passing through their bodies at 5000 ft/sec, or undiagnosed early stage diabetes, which actually killed them? We may never know."
Can they just be hyper competent nerds jeeeeez
December 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Can they just be hyper competent nerds jeeeeez
Easier equation: civilization = woke
December 4, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Easier equation: civilization = woke
You'd really have thought so.
December 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
You'd really have thought so.
Good point in that it's more complex than the simplified version I laid out. I do however think it's a point not absorbed by Dem politicians. Talking to Trumpy relatives, they always fall back to "he's a businessman" whenever you win an argument. Framing him as a "Bad Businessman" was never tried.
December 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Good point in that it's more complex than the simplified version I laid out. I do however think it's a point not absorbed by Dem politicians. Talking to Trumpy relatives, they always fall back to "he's a businessman" whenever you win an argument. Framing him as a "Bad Businessman" was never tried.
This is an important insight I recall from Karl Rove. In the military, attack your enemy's weakness. In politics attack their strength. Kerry's strength was his military record, so they made fun of his purple hearts, and 'swift boating'.
December 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This is an important insight I recall from Karl Rove. In the military, attack your enemy's weakness. In politics attack their strength. Kerry's strength was his military record, so they made fun of his purple hearts, and 'swift boating'.