#pure ideology

[tozluveolagan]

biraz da komedi.

[elbiotipo]

O sea que cada vez que escucho "Flaca" de Calamaro estoy escuchando como le metieron los cuernos con Slavoj Žižek??????

[lemon-curry]

Ok I actually have to write up this crazy fucking dream I just had, completely unprompted

So I had some legit fucking weird ass fever dream about going to a uni for coding and working on ancient computer stuff in a country where there's these propaganda/school material loot drops that are done and managed by the minister of propaganda, who in this case was slavoj zizek. They would drop out of the sky kinda like the drop pod things in lethal company and when they opened they'd just drop random textbooks and vague eastern-european looking propaganda on the ground, and you had to dress up as and pretend to be a Nazi to go over to them and pick stuff up, and he literally shows up in person and thanks you for doing it sometimes and makes sure your Nazi impersonation is up to spec before you open the pod thing.

So I did that and apparently did so well that my entire class got a promotion or something, and I decided to get drunk for the first time in my life, so I ordered two shots of jack and coke because that's like the only thing I know how to order and they just poured me a tall glass of it instead with like a lime on the top, and I ordered fries with it but apparently it wasn't lunch yet so they just made this weird fucking sandwich that was like an amalgamation of like 23 different things instead, and then gave me the glass they already finished pouring after making the sub/sandwich for like a full half hour in front of me.

Also for some reason slavoj zizek was also a visual artist or something and personally wrote and designed one of the textbooks for our classes and literally the entire uni regarded that specific textbook as the "coding bible" and talked about it like it was literally the best coding textbook ever written. It had like three weird esoteric lines of text on every page that vaguely referenced coding and then just a bunch of random designwork that I think kinda looked a bit like the designs on the old US C ration boxes but literally everyone regarded that specific textbook as the best coding textbook in the world. It was some shit like "he who codes, can code" or "arrays let you put stuff in arrays, amen" and then just a bunch of random fucking designs all over the page that had literally zero relation to coding whatsoever, and literally every single page was like that, and there was like a massive essay at the end with like pictures and stuff taking about slavoj zizek and the contributions he's made to the textbook and the nation, and I think my brain confused him with zladislaw beksinski at some point because apparently he also just went by that name for some reason.

I wasn't even thinking about zizek before I went to bed so I assume he must have broke into my house and walked up next to my bed and infiltrated my brain that way somehow.

[7hoenix]

The story behind this artwork so intense it keeps me on a loop

[queerbauten]

So, it’s been almost exactly six months since I made this post. I wasn’t expecting it to gain traction, but Neil insisted upon putting a target on the both of us.

Since then, I’ve had multiple people cry “nuance” at me. After all, Mr. Gaiman supports Israelis and Palestinians.

If that’s the case:

Why hasn’t he called for a ceasefire?

A ceasefire would save Palestinian and Israeli lives (both sides!!). It’s super easy to call for a ceasefire, too: “Ceasefire now!” Not even five seconds’ typing. It’s literally so simple. You barely have to do anything.

Hell, sometimes, you don’t even have to do that. Just find an open letter, sign your name to it, and there you go! You’ve called for a ceasefire! You have successfully done the bare minimum!

So, why can’t esteemed wordsmith Neil Gaiman do that?

Maybe it’s not really about “both sides”….

Neil Gaiman is a Zionist, btw.

[jan-dyntera]

Kill your idol

Jan Dyntera: lost i Face recognition

[glamurizacija]

It's my version of coffee without cream.

[crystalsandstones1]

White King Quartz can purify and help in the transmutation process of negative energies! The white color is a result of liquids and gases trapped during the crystal’s formation. It can strengthen and amplify any gemstones near it.

[mathamaniac]

This is not a capitalist ideology problem that you should dunk on; This is a laws of physics problem that poses a real challenge to adopting renewables!

We string up wires and connect them to power plants to move power around from one place to another. When the power plant goes a little too hard, the wires starts to heat up. (That’s literally how incandescent lightbulbs work.) If the electricity has nowhere to go then the wires will melt and cause wildfires. And blackouts.

This would be a problem even if the power lines were strung up from one socialist commune to another.

Obviously we want people to use power that is sourced from carbon free sources. But we also want to avoid burning down the electrical grid. One solution is to store the excess power during daylight hours by charging batteries, pumping water uphill, or spinning extremely heavy metal cylinders as kinetic batteries. But batteries are still extremely expensive per KW and most of the sites that would be appropriate for water pumping are already taken (or involve major ecological risks).

So instead what we get is called “curtailment”. If you drive past a wind farm and see half of the windmills stationary despite a lot of wind, that’s what’s happening. They have not been “dispatched” because their power would only put stress on the transmission lines and isn’t needed by anybody.

Only capitalism could turn unlimited free electricity into a problem.

[nyancrimew]

i'm a us liberal and i think you're cool

i highly doubt you're a liberal then and just think liberal = leftist which it very much does not

[estradiolivia]

John Green's video about Johnson & Johnson is cool and necessary but the chronic liberalism of it it's kinda of off-putting.

Don't think appealing to good emotions might make changes but protests maybe will.

[obsessive-compulsive-destroyer]

You either die a philosopher or live long enough to see yourself eating from the trash bin of ideology.

[ruporas]

i killed. i murdered. i'm nothing like these sleepy people here… nevertheless, you can actually be grateful? bastard… i’m saying… thank you. because you spilled blood, you saved all of these people’s lives. i couldn’t have done it without you. (ID in alt)

[10001gecs]

again like i get it but people saying "man the guy found with a gun a manifesto and the same id that the guy in new york used is probably the killer" is not like. bootlicking. it is simply a fairly reasonable train of logic

[what-have-i-unleashed]

hmmmm somewhat a continuation of this

imagine one day killer is captured by the efforts of both the star sanses and epic sanses. but the thing now is that they don't know what to do with killer. like, he's almost impervious to all interrogation attempts, and none of them would stoop to torture to gain information of course.

while everyone is arguing over what to do with killer, color stands up and says he can deal with killer, with the condition that no one spy on him or killer while they're talking. everyone else looks at each other and agrees, since there's not much they can object for now.

so color enters the room where killer is held. and killer is very happy to see his fated enemy after entertaining so many boring side characters.

would be a bit fun/creepy if the interrogation room has a one-way mirror. and during a previous asking (maybe done by delta or swap), color was standing behind the glass watching the procedure, and killer immediately zeroed in on him despite color knowing that the glass is one-way so logically killer couldn't see him. but killer did, just intensely staring at where color was. color moved to another spot, and he swore killer turned his head to follow too. creepy killer yeehaw.

anyway, back to color and killer talking. killer is super ecstatic upon seeing color and starts dissing the other sanses for sucking at interrogation, proudly blathering on and on about he's gonna torture a hypothetical prisoner if he was in their shoes. color cuts him off being like "let's talk about something else" and asks about killer's injuries. killer is all "nah they're nothing compared to the worst ones", and color humors him "are any of them done by me?". killer blows a raspberry like "pfft, you think you're so terrible, o shining hero?"

and now they talk about their previous battles. which ones are the most deadly. which ones are the most fun. killer seems proud about the permanent marks he left on color, and also nostalgic about the ones color left on him. color keeps his opinions neutral throughout the whole conversation. it's best if this feels as if two friends having a chat after a long time not seeing each other. and aren't they friends now...?

and so color finally pops the proposal. he asks if killer wants to change side. he promises that killer doesn't have anything to fear if he joins color. and killer is silent for a moment before bursting into hysterical laughter. like suuuure thing, obviously people are gonna magically forgive him for terrorizing the multiverse. obviously nightmare is gonna leave them alone if he defects. he's been in too deep now, can't color see? there's no hope for him to rehabilitate.

and color is like "of course not! you're worth saving!". but killer wouldn't listen. it's cute that color thinks so. but the reality is that they're fated to be on opposite sides. that's their story decided by the players after all. and killer is content with it. content with having color in his life, even like this. it's best to have color than nothing at all.

{tagging @what-have-you-contained as revenge} {also @howlsofbloodhounds since i think you'd like it}