Return of the Meme: 1403 (ayahuasca router)

CodyBurkett

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Let's get this bread.

Fell last night down the last stair going down to my apartment level, and my ankle is still in pain, so that's reassuring.

Anyway.

Me, to taking out the trash.

It's the last treat we are allowed to have in Late Capitalism.

Sanderlings are a favorite sandpiper.

Seriously, the Oklo Natural Reactor is AWESOME shit.

Here's your extremely esoteric history meme, per tradition.

Depending on the ruler in this hypothetical, honestly? I could see the Eastern Romans REALLY pissing off either the West or the Islamic East, by basically buying them off with a savvy, competent ruler basically saying "heres 1000 pounds of Gold, go fuck off and attack Hungary/Poland/the Caliphate."

I mean, you get an idiot ruler and it ends up really bad, but I don't THINK the Mongols could take Constantinople--so they'd be in a heavy tributary relationship and vassals, but i digress.

Please do, so I can kick his fucking ass.

Kingbirds, Rufous Hummingbirds, and Northern Mockingbirds are all on the top right of this chart. Bottom right? Hmm. Killdeer, Western Wood-Pewee, and Pippin himself. (He's watched me play Civilization and Helldivers too many times)

Pippin tax!

Today's message from Pippin: "I love you too. Beep. Beep-beep!"
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1) Are you on the run to a safe place and passing through Arizona on your way to safer grounds? My apartment is open to you to crash at, and it is a safe space. Pippin and I will make you a meal and gladly share tea, wine, or mead with you.

2) Hey! If you're a woman or minority in a STEM field in Arizona living north of Phoenix and you need new headshots for this website or another detailing your experiences/research/accomplishment because our monstrous regime has deleted your experience from an official government website, PM me. Pippin and I have a good Nikon DSLR, and we'll do the photos for free, and, uh, you'll get to meet Pippin, I guess?

(If you know someone who could use this who's not on Imgur, feel free to PM me to get my email address for them and tell them they're free to message me.)

3) Take your meds with a full glass of water, please. Do it for Pippin, or Space Mom, or better yet, do it for yourself.

4) Ĝefeloað wē. We will carry on.

5) all funds from the sales of items at these two links will be sent to support charities aiding to fight for Trans rights in the US (not just T-shirts!)

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/74812801-all-conures-are-anarchists

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/74811778-whiptail-pride

Leaving you with this rant and a book suggestion I posted elsewhere:

Look, if you think the only reason a State should exist is to have the monopoly on violence within (and outside) its borders, and to only benefit the elite echelon via extraction of resources by grinding the poor into dust...

Congratulations, your political ideology hasn't changed since the first rise of state societies! Your view of the state is 5000+ years old! Unchanged! Hope you feel swell about that!

Here's the thing. The state doesn't have to prey upon the poor. It shouldn't. We're not living under some Lugal-God-King in Uruk anymore (despite what many MAGA folks seem to be thinking/believing).

The government, the State, if it is going to be something that exists in the modern world, should damn well help support it's citizens. Social aid. Food aid. Medical aid. All those things that were cut courtesy of this bill. These are things thar, oddly enough, every other major world country seems to have figured out how to peovide to its citizenry. Maybe the way they do things isnt perfect, but perfection can be an enemy of the good.

Government and the State should be a contract between it, and the people whom a government rules.

See, heres the thing: little people like me have really nothing to lose except the Elite capital and resources that are extracted from us when we rise up and get slain.

Eventually, there will be nobody left to extract from.

The likelihood that tomorrow you're going to be a millionaire suddenly, and be able to be part of the elite, and fuck over your fellow people as the elite of a state is far less likely than me coming into your house and reciting the opening of the Epic of Gilgamesh, while stabbing you with a sword.

(Me, looking at the news, thinking back to my reading earlier this year of Against the Grain, by James C. Scott, about the origins of statehood, which literally changed my whole view on State Society... And overthinking about it today, while making a mead inspired by ancient Mesopotamian state societies that I'm going to call OKSumer)

YellowHoodieExpress

#46 my friend here doesn't get it. Can someone please explain? Thank you!
It looks like two lungs to him/her.

2 months ago |

TooRexyForMyShirt

obarey

#3 we execute drone strikes, fire fucking missiles when the pigeon we trained tells us the silhouette of some guy in a blurry video looks like our target.

IUpvoteFuturama

#24

FaceplantingCheetah

#5 Bold time to be pushing both-sides-ism like this. WTF OP?!

G0MeatCube

#11 I've gotten to the point where I just forget the things I've done.

Ronelyn

#11 I know it's not the same, but that's what all *us* nerds are here for. *hugs*
You're smart, funny, and kind. I wish you were local enough for real hugs. You deserve 'em.

KyleZombie

#5 go fuck yourself

#34 Aaaayup. I didn't understand Lovecraft's phrase, "the hills rise wild" until I'd lived away from New England awhile. In a lot of places, you can see the horizon a long way off. You can sense more "world" out there. In New England, you go over a couple hills and there's just no evidence there's anything in the world but looming forest.

oldguyexlurker

#28 My $3k used/immaculate Honda Shadow 750 was quicker off the line than the other old guy's, $60k 'vette at the traffic light the other day. I couldn't really afford the $3k, but $60/mo payments aren't bad, $80/yr insurance, and 50mpg makes it a REALLY affordable mid-life crisis that's also fun.

ParaspriteHugger

#36 beat it? I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.

mercyPandaRunner

#16 Boys from Argentinia be like, "Wie bitte? Nein, den Namen habe ich noch nie gehört. Bitte gehen sie und hören auf Fragen zu stellen. Das ist ein ganz normales argentinisches Dorf und hier gibt es absolut gar keine spannenden Familiengeschichten zu erfahren! Guten Tag!"

#27 good.
Now buff that illegal stuff with some powdered milk.
Make milk so strong empires crumble and nature itself is not only afraid of what has been created, but also of whom created it.

Neednoggle

#6 cool, aliens!!

arajad

#38 You ain't kidding about mockingbirds and hummingbirds. I've heard hummingbirds whacking into each other from thirty feet away, and we had a mocker that was absolutely determined to take chunks out of our cat's ears on the fly.

StarscreamAndHutch

#7 how long is ‘brief’? Like a few minutes or a couple days or?

samwyze

Long enough to enjoy, short enough to not get caught

pineapplecatastrophe

#5 I realize the irony of calling this out but: whose boots are lefties licking exactly? Can’t “both sides” that insult, need a different one lol.

Careful, that centrist is enlightened.

ImOnlyALurker

The closest I can think of is tankies, but they aren't really left-wing, just right-wingers with left-wing aesthetics.

al3xinw0nderland0000

Tankies, usually Leninist or Maoist school of socialism, and they really fucking believe that anti-American jackboots are fine. They're a much rarer breed but still common enough to fully derail democracy/liberty focused leftists' attempts at good faith community conversation in many places. Also, faux-left figures like Caitlin Johnstone who serve as (eg Russian, Chinese) propaganda broadcasts under the disguise of "revolutionary leftist bloggers"

WhoWantsAMustacheRide

You mean "Marxist-Leninist", not Leninist. This was the label that Stalin used to legitimize himself as he took control of the USSR. Actual Leninists are not Tankies.

DocBenny

CCP simps maybe?

CedricDur

#3 Like most shit it's really a case of seeing if it works, and if it does then sure, adopt it. In practice it's even if it doesn't work keep using it.

DanFendi

#1 IDK if this'll help you, but it helped me: put the stuff away before you eat the sandwich. Make it part of the making process. Thinking of clean-up as a separate process was self-sabotage.

grimbor

Or leave the stuff out ready for tomorrow’s sandwich

jasjourno

Also good for around midnight and any existential crises over questions such as "I can't stop thinking about a third sandwich, should I just get up and do it?"

Housemaster

Internet stranger bestows sandwich-making wisdom:

Not sure what kind of sandwiches you guys are making. Mine is slicing open a loaf of bread, slicing a slice of cheese, maybe something ham-adjacent. Park cheese in the fridge, park ham in the fridge, eat sammich.

BishlamekGurpgork

Absolutely 100%. The only way I ever get around to even doing dishes is to get at least the heavy scrubbing done before leaving to eat.

Fantelroy

I thank my mum for hard-coding this one into me

LadyAerlevsedi

I learned to do this almost on instinct watching my "I don't have ADHD or Autism you must have got it from your dad" mother forget to return perishables to the fridge after making sandwiches as a child. So much wasted lettuce, oily/filmy butter and spoiled milk.

1 month ago |

dtallen243

I would like to have a word w/ who/whatever signed of on the engineering specs for the human ankle

drbwaa

#43 Well this is perfect

firmleafgrasspit

#30 As a recovering Calvinist (Christian Reform Church, but same difference,) Amen. I know more than a few people with bats predestined to meet his kneecaps.

2Soon4Baboon

#5 ain't no "left wing bootlickers" those are called "centrist" and centrist are right wing.

GoToQuirkProviderZooeyDeschanel

In my mind the state should only exist to protect the vulnerable. Simple

blaghart

#5 name a left wing bootlicker. Inb4 you name a tankie, a fascist lying about being left wing using the exact same tactics as the national socialist worker's party of germany.

LucianofSamosata

thenetbear

#3 I see you’ve never met a hiring manager

I mean, even if they're awful at they're job, at least they actually make a judgement instead of just making a statistical guess.

MySushi

#3 Oh, we are well past that already. We trained a pigeon to determine which human beings are worth giving life-saving treatments, medications, therapy to. Also, whom deserves citizenship, residence, protection under the constitution, life and dignity. The pigeon will soon be the ultimate authority in this dystopia and its orders, issued through brain-dead humanoid puppets must be carried out without question. Only a few Palantir and other megacorp top-rankers will be excepted from the commands

I for one welcome our new pigeon overlords.

Pilgrymm

Even if I did become a millionaire somehow/suddenly I wouldn't want to do anything other than help others with it. I don't understand those who become rich and then use it to actively harm others. Businesses that pay their CEO's 3000x more than their workers astound me. I'd love to start a restaurant (I want to start a burger truck and even laid out a business plan but I got injured) someday and maybe even have an "employee" but I would never want to mistreat or pay them poorly.

RedTally

The problem is that you became a millionaire suddenly/somehow. The suddenly means you'd have more money than you know what to do with, but people who get there slowly also slowly become accustomed to greater expenditure. More importantly, you became a millionaire "somehow". Many who become a millionaire intentionally, do so by being heartless. Some do get lucky, but the system prefers sociopathic behaviour, so the very rich have more often than not, some form of cruelty or selfishness.

I heard it said once that people who are angry at others and seek to mistreat them or whatnot had bad lives growing up. Like abuse or mistreatment. But hey I'm textbook bad developing life, my parents were awful and abusive. But I made one crucial decision when I got to college age and left their influence. I promised myself I'd never be like them,no matter what. My dreams are helping people, not ruling the world.

Dannyalcatraz

I remember reading a police interrogation transcript in which a serial killer was asked (paraphrasing):

Detective: “You’re smart. You’re good looking. You’re relatively well off. You could have done anything you wanted to. Why did you kill all of those people?”

Serial killer: “I DID! I did EXACTLY what I wanted to!”

I *am* a millionaire. I *hate* feeling lucky for being able to go to a doctor when I need to and not pinching pennies at the grocery store.
We do a bunch of charity, support friends and family, and grind our teeth in disgust a lot. Fuck rich people. Tax the shit out of us. Build an actual humane society. FFS, universal preventive care is CHEAPER in the long run, ya greedy rich fucks. Giving away MOST basic needs is cheaper over the long term.

Thank you for your humility and perspective. One of the most valuable things you can do with lucky-but-not-F-U-money is to use it to give marginalized people (poor, non-white, immigrant, queer, etc) a platform. Think of what Bernie did with AOC or Jasmine Crockett, he used his popularity to platform her and then got out of the way for her to speak.

It must feel like the sword of Damocles for you. 🫂 but remember you can use your capital to give your comrades a voice.

SOLIDARITY FOREVER!

Reminds me of the final interview question I had at Superstition Meadery: "If you could be any mythological creature, what would you be and why?"

My answer: "An Ethical Billionaire. And if that's not an option, a griffon, because i love me that scythian stuff."

Glorious. *hugs*

Good on ya dude. I've been disabled for the last 6 years and on medicaid and ebt. Highly doubt I'll ever get anywhere close to where you are, especially now that they've passed that bill. I dream about being rich and helping others because if I didn't I'd go crazy.

*hugs* Several disabled friends. We could do *so* much better as a country.

So much 🫂.

PineappleLoopsBrOether

#5 what boot is there on the left wing? Treating people unreasonably nice to make them feel ok?

Tankies who want American Jackboots.

I have no idea what you're saying..... tankies?

Are you talking about pro-soviet communists when regarding american liberals? WTF

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