K-pop to me is like the musical equivalent of extremely over-processed cheese. It’s so corporate I feel like I can hear the execs jacking it to CP in the background of every track.

Smaller communities strike me as more “natural” to engage with, by which I mean, the human brain (or mine at least) seems better equipped to engage with small groups of familiar people than a sea of usernames I don’t know and have no real rapport with.

but when people say they create their own echo chambers Yada Yada thing, even though I would agree with that, it’s interesting to see how people who believe different things, are just amongst eachother.

I think being exposed to the cacophony of “sound” online had given a lot of people strange ideas about “echo chambers.” To me it’s extremely natural and obvious that most people would gravitate towards people they actually like and broadly agree with, rather than toss themselves into online spaces where they’re constantly at odds with the other users. Depending on one’s perspectives and political persuasions, finding those spaces can be fairly easy, or very hard.

Hell, even without the leak, the case started in December of the previous year, so he and the democratic majority in the house and senate had half a year to work on something even before the verdict was delivered. And they should have expected and prepared for a conservative-majority court to deliver such a verdict.

There’s really no viable excuse, they just failed everybody.

Fuck 'em. If Joe / Democrat replacement does lose, be sure to personally take credit.

Pushing a candidate/party to the left (if such a thing were possible) requires leverage.

They didn’t understand this with the whole “Bernie or Bust” thing in 2020 either. Or maybe they did, but either way, they chose to characterize it as petulant. “Taking the ball and going home” was a common way they’d try to deride it.

The parliamentarian is the one I always remember whenever they pull the condescending “do you know how your own government works?” lines, since the president had the power to unilaterally (without any other input from anyone else) fire and re-hire a new parliamentarian that was more amenable to passing his agenda.

There was even historical precedent for it thanks to good old George W. Bush doing it for exactly that reason: the guy they had wouldn’t do the job, so they shit-canned him and got somebody who would! My god, look at that ruthless efficiency! He had the power to solve the problem he was faced with, and he did! With Joe Biden, everybody just whined about the parliamentarian keeping poor Joe from passing his agenda (with democratic majorities in the house and senate) until media moved on, they eventually rotated villains to Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema, etc.

Liberals are fucking jackasses. They understand this shit worse than anybody, but they’re so condescending and up their own asses that they’ll just keep burping up these thought-terminating cliches like they’re making a point.

as if it was ever going to get passed in 5 month …

Bro thinks bills pass in a day

The Dobbs decision was in June of 2022.

“President Joe Biden has suddenly passed away this evening after a meeting with Hillary Clinton. Aides tell us he died peacefully, of fully natural causes, which were fully natural.”

The main thing I associate with Warren (other than the stuff) is that indignant, “upset old-lady” face that she’d do if anybody tried even the weakest “gotcha” comment on her. She’d look so strangely hurt by their remarks. Made her look weak, imo.

USA LIBERATION THEOLOGY MOVEMENT

ICCCP (INSANE CLOWN CHRISTIAN COMMUNIST PARTY)

JOHN BROWN 2

The 1987-88 TV horror-drama series Werewolf. It’s basically just the '70s Hulk show but with a werewolf instead of The Hulk. Guy becomes a werewolf fugitive roaming the US, wanted by a bounty hunter (named Joe Rogan lol), pursues the werewolf the curse traces back to in hopes of killing it and curing himself, etc.

Fun fact, this show was a part of the FOX channel’s debut lineup when it first started airing.

Un-fun fact, this show is increasingly moving into “lost media” territory because of its general obscurity, and the fact that licensing disputes over music rights (such as using the song Silent Running in the pilot episode) prevent it from being re-published on modern media.

If you search for it on duckduckgo, it will likely give you an archive page where you can watch the whole series in considerably-worse-than-standard definition.

Frankly, it’s a series that I would love to see a reboot / remake for, because the basic premise (as well as the premises of various individual episodes) is solid, but the execution is plagued by sloppy writing and weirdly awful editing at times.

targeted at children, with microtransactions

I was right not to like it …

Whatever “Roblox” is. Whenever I see or hear about it, it strikes me as some sort of scam or something. I think it’s some sort of game engine? But seemingly way more proprietary than any other?

How much is supporting a genocidal apartheid state worth?

I wasn’t able to set up my computer early this year without using an account (maybe I just missed the option, but if it was there they buried it).

I was able to switch it to local afterwards, but there was already an unwanted link with one-drive and several of my folders, which persisted even after uninstalling one-drive, and apparently can only be fixed within one-drive’s specific settings.

To fix it I had to re-install the program, and then re-uninstall it when everything was finally disconnected. Fuck microsoft.

You can uninstall it and it will still retain some weird connection with your folders where stuff still saves to a one-drive folder which becomes impossible to delete or use normally, unless you re-install one-drive and do a bunch of stuff in the one-drive program-specific settings, and then re-un-install it, in which case it might stick.

Is there a good article or essay or study or anything that helps articulate why these NGOs suck ass and shouldn’t be trusted? It seems like every other week there’s some new NGO with some new report about america’s enemies.

Apparently this decision came days after a report showing violence against women in Ireland to be at an all-time high.

Judges are always the biggest pieces of shit, I swear. “Got to give him credit for coming forward!” No, not when he only did it to minimize punishment after he realized he couldn’t get away with it entirely, as evidenced by the fact that he initially lied to cover his ass.

I’m not interested in what they have to say, but I will comment that I hate streamer fans more than the annoying streamers themselves. These douche-bags wouldn’t have a platform at all if it weren’t for these legions of annoying fucks propping them up.