Brutticus

"That is literally the worst name I have ever heard"

Which phone should I pick up to run Graphene? like which do people like for this best?

Oh my god, I am not disagreeing with the fact that genocide is bad and Israel is doing it. Tarring all Jews with the brush of Zionism is something both zionists and nazis do. Surely you understand the statement, not all Jews are Zionist? And just how much of your ass is showing with an extremely racist, racialized meme?

Whew lad, literal nazi behavior

Yeah. I remember episode of Chappo Trap House where they were making fun of Itamar Ben Gvir's name, and I just turned it off and unsubbed. Like, as an antifascist Jew, who grew up in these spaces, yeah there were always Jewish fascists and zionists, but like Peyot and names like that are just normal. Just like, wtf, you guys are just showing their whole ass.

I think this answer varies depending on how old you are. A 16 year old asking for dating advice is different from a 25 year old is different from a 34 year old.

When I was in my 20s I did a lot of sleeping around on apps. I had some personal tragedy, and being a slut was a way toxicly masculine society approved of a man expressing grief, especially since the hellscape of private insurance meant that it was a few years til I could afford to speak to a therapist.

I learned a lot of harsh lessons on apps. People will ghost you for no reason, even after a few weeks of sleeping together. Maybe you said something you didn't think about, maybe they got a better offer, maybe it has nothing to do with you. That's if you're lucky, like I was, and got matches. The algorithm is harsh also, and these things become skinner boxes for incels (its no mistake the concept of "sexual market value" arose from the generation who learned courtship on these things). You take it too personal, or start looking at this system as a game to be optimized, and your already lost. I also callously ghosted some people, especially when they got too close. Maybe these were good fit.

In any case you learn to pick yourself up and move on. But you also learn to not to get too attached or invested. Which is obviously not a good lesson when it comes to relationships. Still there are some good lessons. In your 20s, you have to invest in yourself as a person. You'll go to school, sure, but sometimes your degree isn't really proof you know how to do something. So get out there and learn to do something. An artform, sure, like an instrument, or dance, but also any hobby that is not being mediocre at video games and shouting at a screen until the wee hours. Plenty of girls like anime, or D&D, or other traditionally "geeky" hobbies. The biggest thing you can do to up your game is learn to cook. Cooking and Writing have ingratiated me to most of my partners.

Literally anything to put you in front of real human beings in a social context.

The other thing I will say is that you're 20s is for finding out what works for you sexually. Do you want someone to hit you? Tickle your feet? Shove something into your urethra? Do you have preferences for specific ethnicities or sizes? Do you get sprung when you see a posterior of a certain size? These are things you need to know about yourself, before you can start screening for a prospective partner who can check these boxes.

If you are in your 30s or older, apps have nothing to offer you at all. You should know by now what you like and what you do not. You really shouldn't be looking for hook ups, especially with partners ten to fifteen years your junior, (unless you just got divorced and you need to prove yourself you still have it... the apps will not validate you). That assumes the apps do what they advertise, which they do not. They are there to annoy you into paying for premium services. The gender imbalance on something like Tinder is 80-20 (in case you were wondering where the incels got that number from) and its unknown how many of those are bots, or sex workers. Hook up apps, in this day and age, translate to a deluge of dick picks to any femme presenting user.

The last one I used was OKC, and that was in 2020. I was ghosted and I just decided I would rather be single. And I was, for about 5 years. I went on a few dates here and there but it didn't go anywhere. I'm dating someone now and its going on 6 months. I really happy.

So I guess the last thing to say is, just learn to be okay being single. Keep accumulating experience, both in sexual matters and in life, and just understand that you might just be single and that's okay. When the right one comes, you'll know.

Super nintendo chalmers! Im learnding

fuck... its... llewyne sinclair?

I think both things are true. Donald Trump has decided thousands and thousands of lives are worth the sacrifice, and the American populace has been conditioned by years and years of imperialism and war, in this region and others, to value those lives less, so of course they simply do not think about how those are real people. Donald Trump, subjected to those same forces, probably didn't think that those lives were worth less consciously.

Dont remember the joke. Homer is buying bait to catch the big catfish

Taste of springfield. this tunnel goes to moes

crack that whip! licorice whip

this is the 138th episode spectacular, the Simpsons variety hour segment

It's the confluence of several factor, but essentially, suspicion of the Medical Industrial Complex has been building since the mid 80s. Medical care is so expensive and the MIC so squirrely that it always had people desperately looking for ways around it, which opens the door to con artists. In the mid 90s, discredited now but not at this point in the story British doctor Andrew Wakefield was invested in (and I think part inventor of?) some new vax that targeted one of the components of MMR. In order to market it, he published a paper suggesting (quite softly iirc) that the MMR had some flaws, and advocating for parental choice to vax for each separately.

This is hogwash. The MMR has been safe and in use for something like 100 years (possibly more?). Wakefield was disgraced for this, and when the paper was cherry picked (even after the Lancet retracted it) and misquoted by the then still quite powerful but not yet in their final form anti-vaxxer movement, the disgraced Wakefield had to pivot to a new grift; speaking to Anti vaxxer gatherings, and lending them credibility to those who did not know the story (for which he did have medical license revoked).

So it follows with all of society's issues in the 2020s; Instead of fixing a severe systemic issues, like say, our broken medical system which bankrupts people or kills them because they cant afford life saving medicine, which might involve curtailing the power of capitalists, blame instead pivots to the products instead, which people can understand. They understand their child is dying and they cant afford it, while maybe not questioning why. This opens the door to con men, which starts a cycle, as conmen want to open the door further. The conmen become the power, and then cheating just becomes business, and an army of marks becomes numerous enough that RFK becomes secretary of health, and your mom dies in a hospital hooked up to a ventilator refusing treatment because a conman said a fucking horse dewormer that he owned shares in would protect her.

Every Cyberpunk setting has a gang of clowns. Jokerz, Halloweeners, Bozos

I mean the end of the world is always coming. Going to work to maintain the system that is actively digesting you is inhuman but making dinner? thats the good part. Youre always going to have to. We care for each other. Even after capitalism, it will be an honor to make dinner and care for the people you love.

was this the one where they go to Flander's vacation home and Lisa makes new friends? I dont rememberthe joke, but I do remember Lisa being sad no one (else) signed her year book

I love going in cold.

I dont remember the joke. Is this episode where Homer is an inventor?

The chore hat? But this was practice.

I dont remember the ep

HEY BIG SPENDER

Two bad neighbors? With George Bush

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Brutticus

Moe, I need your points [Simpson, Eh?]

Should I go for GrapheneOS, e/os or LIneageOS on a new phone? (see description)

It's literally the guy's actual face

It's literally the guy's actual face

It's literally the guy's actual face

What advice do you have for dating in 2026?

These points will rust up on you like that [Easy]

He is crushing your fragile point [Simpson, Eh?]

stop this way of thinking

That's why your points abandoned it [Medium]

You're a long way from home, points boy [Genius at Work]

My points are blinding me [Hard]

frontends for whatsapp?

CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL

It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology

Rulesponsibilities

Sweet merciful crap! My points! [Hard]

Fans of live theater: when you see an older peice do you read the play first or go in cold?

But it, uh, does point easily [Easy]

Now we're going to draw points from the Frinkiac hat [Medium]

Dig this blender, point suspenders [Medium]

Advice on which retrogaming handheld I should buy?

Recommendations for a new phone

I made some Pumpkin Cheese Cake

I have this corner in my basement

Youtube Embedded player acting weird for anyone else?

I made Jam

yt.dlp and age gated videos on youtube