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A project for someone at Google.
Apr. 30th, 2015 10:53 amDo a search of everyone's gmail and give us a list of all the people who started using the phrase "would you kindly" in business/legal/personal communications around 2007-2008.
Admission that makes me sad
Feb. 1st, 2014 01:36 amI've been more talkative online and IRL than usual today, because I took some kratom after a break, and said semi-illicit substance broke me out of a four-day-long nearly-unbroken fit of Republican-related rage.
I did stop to get mad at my medical insurance company instead a couple times, but every other second of those days was like: "there's a houseboat. How many Republican congresspersons can feasibly fit on this houseboat, how can I get them on there, and how can I get them out to sea before they notice?" There is no discrete object upon which I have laid my eyes, these past few days, that has not been complicit in an imagined act of cruelty towards conservative officeholders.
Basically I don't know why they want to ban kratom, I didn't come up with even a single nasty campaign stunt for my run against Rand Paul today.
(I'm too young to run against Rand Paul. But if he knows what's good for him, he'll have retreated to his dystopian underwater city powered by little girls' dreams by the time I'm legal for it.)
I did stop to get mad at my medical insurance company instead a couple times, but every other second of those days was like: "there's a houseboat. How many Republican congresspersons can feasibly fit on this houseboat, how can I get them on there, and how can I get them out to sea before they notice?" There is no discrete object upon which I have laid my eyes, these past few days, that has not been complicit in an imagined act of cruelty towards conservative officeholders.
Basically I don't know why they want to ban kratom, I didn't come up with even a single nasty campaign stunt for my run against Rand Paul today.
(I'm too young to run against Rand Paul. But if he knows what's good for him, he'll have retreated to his dystopian underwater city powered by little girls' dreams by the time I'm legal for it.)
You And All Your Communist Friends
Apr. 13th, 2013 12:32 amI was trying to find the lyrics to the See Colin Slash song of this title, and discovered this amazing how-to guide:
Okay but like, what about the libertarians. What about those.
Okay.
How to Be Okay with Having a Communist Friend
Edited by Mike Massaroli, Sondra C, Mike Morris, Richard and 10 others
Worried that you are beginning to hate one of your friends or family members because they have told you that they are a Communist?
Steps
1) Understand that you don't have to agree with them. Many people are pro-capitalism, and that's fine.
2) Show respect to any Communists you know. Don't constantly criticize their beliefs. They have the same rights of opinions as you do.
3) Learn about the history of persecution of communists in the Red Scares[1] and McCarthyism[2].
Okay but like, what about the libertarians. What about those.
Tell those shitfucks to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea, here's a bucket.
Okay.
#underwaterlibertariandystopiaproblems
May. 24th, 2012 10:36 amYou get suspicious when you get an email from opposing counsel that starts with the words "would you kindly."
(I WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING OF AN INSURANCE DEFENSE FIRM)
(I WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING OF AN INSURANCE DEFENSE FIRM)
So instead of playing Bioshock, I watched playthroughs on YouTube.
* I'd read that parts of the game were a polemic against Objectivism, but I hadn't realized that one of the villains was actually going to be Ayn Rand. She's a guy, but immediately recognizable.
* Why do we have narratives in which Nazi scientists discover some kind of amazing scientific/magical thing that will change the world? All other objections aside, my understanding of the situation is that they were not exactly together enough to do that.
I guess it's part of this Sauron-like mythology they've acquired, which I think is based on the anxiety that there exists the possibility of somehow simply "turning towards evil" in some single massive gesture, freeing oneself of the necessity of feelings of guilt and responsibility, and in doing so acquiring a sort of power unavailable to those who do not make this choice. (I wonder if this is a fear that existed before Freud?)
In this case they at least didn't make the discovery themselves - Mengele just brutalizes a little girl in a way that somehow primes her to become a brilliant scientist.
( Major spoilers for Bioshock and some-Metal-Gear-game-or-other. )
* I'd read that parts of the game were a polemic against Objectivism, but I hadn't realized that one of the villains was actually going to be Ayn Rand. She's a guy, but immediately recognizable.
* Why do we have narratives in which Nazi scientists discover some kind of amazing scientific/magical thing that will change the world? All other objections aside, my understanding of the situation is that they were not exactly together enough to do that.
I guess it's part of this Sauron-like mythology they've acquired, which I think is based on the anxiety that there exists the possibility of somehow simply "turning towards evil" in some single massive gesture, freeing oneself of the necessity of feelings of guilt and responsibility, and in doing so acquiring a sort of power unavailable to those who do not make this choice. (I wonder if this is a fear that existed before Freud?)
In this case they at least didn't make the discovery themselves - Mengele just brutalizes a little girl in a way that somehow primes her to become a brilliant scientist.
( Major spoilers for Bioshock and some-Metal-Gear-game-or-other. )
