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techno hippie

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  • I'd love frequent visits from the fire service, to check up on eliminating fire hazards around my home, making sure I have the correct fire extinguishing equipment and know how to use it, checking fire detectors and alarms, etc.

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  • I've seen police commit crimes and breach statutory regulations an order of magnitude more than I've seen other people do so... and they're, what, 1% of the population? If that? ... Which means on average they're each generating about 1000 times more crime than each member of the public are, and not catching the culprits, let alone preventing it. They're causing it, and letting the perpetrators get away with it, because they are the perpetrators.

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  • Cops deterred me from having a productive life, leaving me a wreck with PTSD, after a gang of thugs broke into my home, tied me up, stole my medicine, and threatened to have me be raped as their prisoner for over a decade. And I could not call the cops on them, because they were the cops.

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  • [At least] One of these are lying.

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  • Drugs.

  • Science wins again

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  • That's kinda like saying the movie on the cinema screen is the projector at the back.

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  • Triple twist: They're all just cartoon drawings, and we're the research subjects.

    & we don't get to see the psych researchers.

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  • The shit they put in those placebos to rig trials... eesh.

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  • Is that like breaching the 5th wall?

  • Shots fired...good thing Storm Troppers can't hit anything

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  • Yeah, and cow shit's better than pig shit.

    But it's all still shit.

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  • It's at least nice that they're not so much a big military hierarchy for a change, in sci-fi.

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  • No.

    None.

    Lexx is like a bad salvia trip.

    Feels like suffering brain damage and sexual abuse.

  • What do you think of people who CONSTANTLY talk about religion?

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  • I've not met anyone who constantly talks about religion.

    If I were to, I could hold my own with them, I suspect. May broaden their horizons quite a bit if they've only been talking about only one religion. I can draw correlations and convergences across several religions. Heck, I may eventually even get them to accept the existence in the flying spaghetti monster. ... [And/]Or at least know to what it refers. Maybe even take that insight to other religions with a fresh eye.

    And re: "only way" & "Christian", pick which kind of Christian carefully... [e.g. not this one ->] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8swSkk9yeV8

  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • First thought: Mattias Desmet's book The Psychology of Totalitarianism, may offer some insights.

    ... Oh, I thought I was going to have a long list of thoughts about this. But none better not already covered in that^ are yet springing to mind.

  • Malarchy Masquerades

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  • Ah, thanks. Happy to expand on that.

    Malarchy, I suppose is a bit of a portmanteau1 neologism2.

    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=malarchy offers us

    malarchy

    mal-ark-ee

    Something that generates a lot of work or fuss.

    "I can't be bothered with all that malarchy."

    or "Organising this was such a malarchy!"

    or "This organising malarchy isn't easy."

    by Rabid Giraffe May 24, 2006

    or

    malarchy

    Word orgin: prefix "mal" meanining inappropriate or askew as in "malpractice", "archy" meaning "form of rule" or > "governing body" as in monarchy.

    Definition:1) action resulting from foolish judgement.

    1. Foolish statement.

    • That statement is malarchy.
    • That malarchy kept me sweeping up shadows all day.

    by koafancypants September 19, 2007

    There is also the word "malarkey",

    malarkey

    /mə-lär′kē/

    noun

    Exaggerated or foolish talk, usually intended to deceive.

    But I like koafancypants's definition of malarchy better.

    mal, as in malice, malicious, malfeasance, malefic, maladaption etc.

    archy as in ruler, ruled by, dominated by, archons, arch nemesis.

    mal-archy.

    malicious [& deceptive] rule/ruler/ruling [feigning offer of liberty/freedom/goodness].

    Websearch on the etymology of the two parts, mal, and archy, provides me the summaries:

    mal noun

    1. Evil; disease.
    2. A prefix of Latin origin, through French (equivalent to dys- or caco- of Greek origin), meaning ‘bad,’ and implying usually imperfection or deficiency, and often simply a negative, as in malodor, a bad odor, malfeasance, bad- or wrong-doing, malformation, imperfect shape, maladroit, not adroit, malcontent, not content, etc. The prefix in this form occurs only in words taken from the French, or formed upon the analogies of such.

    (Oh, I did not know that... "The prefix in this form occurs only in words taken from the French, or formed upon the analogies of such." Interesting. And I dare say, fitting, what with all the revolutionary spirit in France.)

    &

    archy adjective

    1. Arched. archy brows
    2. A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch.

    Archy, ruled by.

    Mal, bad.

    And that it's typically pronounced phonetically identical to malarkey, the foolishness and lies are also highlighted in malarchy.

    I hope that wasn't too long, and helps.

    1 Portmanteau. Here are a couple relevant definitions of portmanteau I copied from websearch summary blurb

    • A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words, as chortle, from chuckle and snort."
    • A word or part of a word that is analyzable as consisting of more than one morpheme without a clear boundary between them, as French du “of the” from de “of” and le “the.”

    2 Neologism. Here's the relevant definition copied from websearch summary blurb:

    • A new word, expression, or usage.

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  • What is what?

    Can you clarify what you're seeking clarification on?

    I thought I was thorough in the accompanying text, so I could use some help to know what you're asking about that was not already/adequately covered.

  • Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why

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  • The tighter they squeeze

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    There was no other way!

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  • A monad is when you can do shit and return stuff.

    LMAO. XD

    Fun as that is, I think I'll lean more to the "Burrito" explanation [~ a-ha, you do get to that further down]. Or maybe even something refining "maffs all the way down".

    monad transformer stacks

    ... that like a "super monad"?

    It sounds fun. ... like an advanced form of chasing your own tail like trying to program almost entirely with GOTO.

    elm

    When I heal from burnout, Ima go learn elm.

    (Wont heal If I don't heed "recovery from burnout takes twice as long as you think", and stop trying to jump into geekings or political/philsophical debates the moment I have 1 spoon back.)