Hey, OP, does it also drive you slightly crazy? Like you might be able to identify with the learned experiences of a homeless schizophrenic?

Lincoln’s.

I’ve no idea whether Reconstruction would’ve been successful with him at the helm, but it almost certainly would’ve gone better.

I’m hoping someone takes it upon themselves to have them torn down after his reign. State sanctioned or otherwise.

I hope people just don’t show up in the first place. Boycott the event. I say this as an American, the only languages these evil fucks in power understand are money, and violence – do not give them any money, do not come here, do not pay to watch the match (pirate it if you must). It is both incredibly dangerous for foreigners in the US right now, and hurting business (like the tourism industry) in America might be the only thing that actually drives the US populace and the money away from MAGA/right-wing christian nationalism as fast or faster than ICE murdering people in the streets. I can already tell you as someone that has worked in the hospitality industry, US hotel chains are probably already feeling the sting of the ICE crackdowns, and the fewer “heads in beds” there are, for longer and longer, the more pissed off all of them will get.

Going out into the big bright blue room and fondling the foliage? Piracy? Hookers and blow? I dunno man, we can’t do all your thinking for you.

they have the opportunity to do the funniest damn things to the tankie triad.

I know they probably won’t, but god, I wish they would.

hello, welcome to the less awful part of the internet. not the right community to post in but you’ll get the hang of it.

what brings you here beyond the great firewall? The search for better shitposts/memes, better news, or better porn?

unfortunately, if ever there was an era of truth, we are now well into a post-truth era. the world is full of, is run on, and is continually generating more: utter bullshit.

Not only does “pics or it didn’t happen” no longer have any meaning, neither does the stock market or the SEC or any of this rule of law or liberty and justice for all horseshit we were fed as kids in school, or any of that trickle down Reaganomics horseshit our parents and grandparents were fed. AI is only the latest in a long line of advancements in the manufacturing, repackaging, commercializing, re-distilling, and the redistributing of greater amounts of complete bullshit than ever before.

It is Bullshit 2.0. It is New Bullshit. Crystal Bullshit, if you’re more a bepis fan. Bullshit Classic was what got your parents and their parents riled up in the aftermath of 9/11 – Fox News and all the other things Rupert Murdoch infected. Now, we can get custom, personalized bullshit for each of us parsed through whatever moral lens ChatGPT is paid to have (or, worse, parsed through whatever moral lens Elon Musk gives to Grok). We have “people” acting as little more than a sausage casing for an OpenAI/Claude API key churning out more infuriating bullshit on the internet every waking minute of the day (and some of them, I’m almost certain, automate some of this during the night while they sleep). And in any form you like – text, audio, video – we have bullshit generators for any and every sort of media you like. Whatever makes the narrative they want to push just that little bit more believable to the gullible.

what a wonderful world indeed.

they’re so close to figuring out that a rising tide lifts all ships and why a min wage increase/paying livable wages in general would actually be a good thing for their bottom line. So close.

I feel like Mr. Roth has forgotten that being taxed is the alternative we came up with to beheadings for the upper class when they got too rich and powerful.

I’m pretty sure I got TM 32-201-1, the master blaster’s training manual, the improvised munitions handbook, and a handful of others from archive.org.

Less reputable sources are available in all sorts of dark corners of the web, and certainly people could upload tampered versions to IA, but it is generally best to stick to resources that have… some kind of pedigree, when dealing with things that go boom when you look at them wrong.

Not that I’d ever do anything of the sort.

users from lemmy.ml, hexbear, and lemmygrad who generally believe that Russia, China, and North Korea can do no wrong, among other things. They (usually) correctly criticize the US or its allies for their imperialist actions or atrocities or human rights abuses while simultaneously handwaving away any imperialist actions, atrocities or human rights abuses in those countries as “Western propaganda”. It is generally pointless to argue with them, and fortunately as of late the latter two have mostly stayed contained to their respective cesspits – .ml users, on the other hand, tend to wander about and regularly start whiteknighting for China on other instances.

Generally, you should block those instances and you’ll stop seeing posts from their communities, but unfortunately you’ll still see their comments. Only solution for that is manually blocking individual users, which is especially true for .ml as the developers of lemmy (who are tankies themselves) have previously tried to position it as a “default” instance, leading to a lot of non-tankies registering there and finding themselves promptly banned for anti-China talk (and there are still lots of non-tankies there so you can’t just block them all indiscriminately)

I assure you, that has stopped nobody here – especially not the tankies – do not let it stop you.

I mean, for you, at home? No, probably not, I don’t believe there is. In a lab with dedicated testing equipment, sure, that’s how they calculate THC levels you see advertised (or at least it’s how they should come up with that number).

Edibles:

• tend to last longer (6+hrs vs ~3hrs for inhaled forms to wear off)
• are, generally, more potent in terms of effect (pain relief, mood elevation, and so on)
• give you more of a “body high” than a “head rush”, if that makes sense
• take a while to kick in (resist the urge calling out to you telling you to take another, you will regret that second brownie more than you could know)

Joint: weed wrapped in thin paper, smoked like a cigarette.

Blunt: A thick joint wrapped in tobacco leaves instead of paper.

Bong: Something that allows you to smoke weed and have the smoke pass through water to cool it before you inhale it. This allows you to take big rips and get very, very high, very quickly.

all in all, I consider any method of actually combusting weed to be inferior, to tell you the truth. Let me tell you about my friend the dry herb vaporizer, where you get your pot hot but not on fire, hot enough that a significant portion of the THC on your pot is able to be carried away by water vapor coming off the pot that you inhale. It tastes and smells nicer than weed smoke, it doesn’t leave behind that smell that clings to fabrics like weed smoke, and what of the rest of your THC? Well, if you save your already toasted pot in a baggie, and then grind that shit up real fine with a coffee grinder, you now have an easy to use brown powder that you can add to brownies or fudge or whatever else you want to make edibles. You get to enjoy the same pot twice.

I want to give a shoutout to a particular kind of dry herb vaporizer, the Dynavap, for being economical as fuck too. Gets you very high off of tiny amounts of weed, it’s genuinely great. Combined with being able to enjoy the same pot twice, I consider it a necessity in these fucked, economically uncertain times. There are downsides (it’s fiddly, it doesn’t produce very thick clouds if you use an induction heater instead of a lighter, you can fuck up and overheat it and then you’re smoking pot through a titanium tube[not pleasant], the screen is fragile if you’re not careful with it and irritating/not cheap to replace, etc.) but for stretching out your supply of drugs, accept no substitutes.

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I poop on company time.

A fate worse than death.

yup. at the moment if you want a truly private, properly useful local AI agent you basically have to set one up correctly, manually, yourself. Having one come as part of the OS already largely set up for the user would be a massive W.

but yeah, If.

oh good someone else remembers he went this way, too, I’m not just imagining it.

Personally I’m quite a fan of Peter Brown, Styropyro, Chronova Engineering, Attoparsec, and Robert Dunn’s channels (the woodworking/maker channel Under Dunn, the car channel Aging Wheels, they’re both fantastic), to name just a few of the better ones. I do genuinely miss AvE’s storytelling abilities and Red Green style humor, but there are still lots of people who are enjoyable to watch who I don’t think support fascists, or at least have the good sense to keep it to themselves.