Years ago, I switched to a cotton, wool, and leather wardrobe. Cotton breathes better, wool is warm when needed, and leather for gloves, boots, and footwear. All of it is incredibly durable and easily repairable. Haven't regretted it once.

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Those NASA facilities, oof. I do not blame NASA. I blame the government budget. To whit: "A panel of independent experts reported this week that NASA lacks funding to maintain most of its decades-old facilities, could lose its engineering prowess to the commercial space industry, and has a shortsighted roadmap for technology development."

Hmmm...it's almost like wasting money on pork barrel projects like bridges to nowhere (literally) and military projects that are years over schedule and billions over budget is wasteful spending that could be redirected to endeavors that benefit humanity and science.

Happy National Video Games Day!

Speaking of which, Ghost of Tsushima is currently 20% off on Steam! I may have to finally get it...

Jesus fucking christ. The comments on that earthquake story are fucking NUTS. These fascist Reich-wingers are literal sociopaths. They're talking about WANTING the "big one" to kill lots of "dems". They want a giant quake to happen during the DNC to kill their fellow citizens. Holy fucking shit.

How do we stop this deadly cult? They think democrats are the problem, but they literally worship billionaires who don't give two shits about them, and they want people who think differently from them to be killed. How is this allowed to be discussed? The forum on that fox news site says it's "moderated" but they're allowing domestic terrorists to freely talk about insane shit.

We are fucking doomed as a species.

ForgedReality wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 14:41:
The forum on that fox news site says it's "moderated" but they're allowing domestic terrorists to freely talk about insane shit.

The quickest way to get your comment removed on Fox is to say something bad about donnie/2A/god/gop or something good about President Biden and Vice President Harris.
ask me how i know

What the morans who post on fox don't know is that 1 in every 8 Americans lives in California.

ForgedReality wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 14:41:
Jesus fucking christ. The comments on that earthquake story are fucking NUTS. These fascist Reich-wingers are literal sociopaths. They're talking about WANTING the "big one" to kill lots of "dems". They want a giant quake to happen during the DNC to kill their fellow citizens. Holy fucking shit.

How do we stop this deadly cult? They think democrats are the problem, but they literally worship billionaires who don't give two shits about them, and they want people who think differently from them to be killed. How is this allowed to be discussed? The forum on that fox news site says it's "moderated" but they're allowing domestic terrorists to freely talk about insane shit.

We are fucking doomed as a species.

nawww. They want Los Angles turned into a prison island so they can deport anyone who isn't morally upright or American enough. Their plans are historically well documented and freely available. The plans have also been recently updated and rereleased as Project 2025.

Laundry isn't the problem, its synthetic clothing. Simple solution, tax the shit out of it until people stop making it. Give subsidies for using organic cotton, linen or other organic natural fibers - organic fibers use way less water, no pesticides, etc. - instead. And they're starting to do really cool things with vegan leathers like mushroom leather - it's actually pretty amazing how they make it. Pretty soon the earth will be hot enough we'll all be walking around in shorts and tank tops only all the time anyway.

ForgedReality wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 14:41:
Jesus fucking christ. The comments on that earthquake story are fucking NUTS. These fascist Reich-wingers are literal sociopaths. They're talking about WANTING the "big one" to kill lots of "dems". They want a giant quake to happen during the DNC to kill their fellow citizens. Holy fucking shit.

How do we stop this deadly cult? They think democrats are the problem, but they literally worship billionaires who don't give two shits about them, and they want people who think differently from them to be killed. How is this allowed to be discussed? The forum on that fox news site says it's "moderated" but they're allowing domestic terrorists to freely talk about insane shit.

We are fucking doomed as a species.

What's wrong with wishing people you hate were dead? We're all someone's asshole and we all deserve to die for myriad reasons. The world - and all life on it - would be far better off with most of humanity off of it. They had an article on the NYT yesterday about this tech bro billionaire asshole right-wing extremist POS yesterday who's patented a new way to strip mine trees. And he's managed to fleece the taxpaying morons of Utah for 5 million bucks to do it. All so he could set up a hunting lodge and kill animals with abandon. I fervently hope assholes like that die in a fire. And if you think that makes me a bad person I'd say you're the one with fucked up values. There was no shortage of people wishing Hitler and the Nazis were dead during WWII, were they bad people for that?

Cutter wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 17:27:
Pretty soon the earth will be hot enough we'll all be walking around in shorts and tank tops only all the time anyway.

Speak for yourself. I'll be opting for the skant.

Cutter wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 17:27:
Pretty soon the earth will be hot enough we'll all be walking around in shorts and tank tops only all the time anyway.

"pretty soon" tm -- not in my lifetime. That said, I don't expect the human collective to do much about it by then either....

Cutter wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 17:34:

ForgedReality wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 14:41:
Jesus fucking christ. The comments on that earthquake story are fucking NUTS. These fascist Reich-wingers are literal sociopaths. They're talking about WANTING the "big one" to kill lots of "dems". They want a giant quake to happen during the DNC to kill their fellow citizens. Holy fucking shit.

How do we stop this deadly cult? They think democrats are the problem, but they literally worship billionaires who don't give two shits about them, and they want people who think differently from them to be killed. How is this allowed to be discussed? The forum on that fox news site says it's "moderated" but they're allowing domestic terrorists to freely talk about insane shit.

We are fucking doomed as a species.

What's wrong with wishing people you hate were dead? We're all someone's asshole and we all deserve to die for myriad reasons. The world - and all life on it - would be far better off with most of humanity off of it. They had an article on the NYT yesterday about this tech bro billionaire asshole right-wing extremist POS yesterday who's patented a new way to strip mine trees. And he's managed to fleece the taxpaying morons of Utah for 5 million bucks to do it. All so he could set up a hunting lodge and kill animals with abandon. I fervently hope assholes like that die in a fire. And if you think that makes me a bad person I'd say you're the one with fucked up values. There was no shortage of people wishing Hitler and the Nazis were dead during WWII, were they bad people for that?

You're actually equating people who want everyone to have better lives with the exact opposite. Capitalist billionaires and literally every single other right winger could die, and, yes, the world would be far better off. Nuking California would have the opposite effect.

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I'll be that loser who butts in with his opinion when no one agrees with him, but I vote for universal compassion where we mourn everyone killed and wish the absolute best for everyone. Not as sexy as all of the bickering I know, but it's not like I speak for a majority of people here. I'm the guy who wears bunny slippers out in public - I'm proven nuttier than a fruitcake.

Prez wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 21:50:
I'll be that loser who butts in with his opinion when no one agrees with him, but I vote for universal compassion where we mourn everyone killed and wish the absolute best for everyone. Not as sexy as all of the bickering I know, but it's not like I speak for a majority of people here. I'm the guy who wears bunny slippers out in public - I'm proven nuttier than a fruitcake.

fuck bRUH, for real tho; fruitcake nutty AF!.

And I don't even like fruitcake! Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Prez wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 21:50:
I'll be that loser who butts in with his opinion when no one agrees with him, but I vote for universal compassion where we mourn everyone killed and wish the absolute best for everyone. Not as sexy as all of the bickering I know, but it's not like I speak for a majority of people here. I'm the guy who wears bunny slippers out in public - I'm proven nuttier than a fruitcake.

Cute, fuzzy, pink bunny slippers at that! Anyone comment on them?

Despite my somewhat bellicose nature, I am generally a live and let live kind of guy. However, when a person, or group, unconditionally and blatantly advertises their desire to visit ill intentions, harm, and death on others without provocation...sorry, they have to die as a service to humanity. We will not proceed forward as a species with these malingerers acting as anchors.

I will never, ever agree that certain people just need to die. That will sometimes be the only option left for the greater good, but I will not wish death on anyone, ever. As Tolkien prophetically said: "Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be so eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the wise cannot see all ends."

EVERYONE deserves a chance at redemption.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 19:38:

Cutter wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 17:27:
Pretty soon the earth will be hot enough we'll all be walking around in shorts and tank tops only all the time anyway.

Speak for yourself. I'll be opting for the skant.

Commando mode, I'm sure. Just like a kilt.

Prez wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 22:53:
I will never, ever agree that certain people just need to die. That will sometimes be the only option left for the greater good, but I will not wish death on anyone, ever. As Tolkien prophetically said: "Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be so eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the wise cannot see all ends."

EVERYONE deserves a chance at redemption.

That's great and all from Tolkien but it's one thing to sit on your ass in a cozy room pounding away on a typewriter imagining clean scenarios that will never exist in the real word and quite another to watch people harm or kill other people simply due to the color of their skin, their gender, what is or is not underneath their pants, or any other characteristic. It's really easy to preach the moral high ground when a person has never gone face to face and toe to toe with the ugliest humanity has to offer*.

Redemption is when you are presented the opportunity to redress a mistake that you've made that affects others. It is not a get out of jail free card from the willful intent to damage or destroy another person based upon one's warped ideology or blatant disregard for the safety of others.Not now. Not ever. You (general "you"), as an adult, have every opportunity to change your ideology before you permanently impact another person. There is every opportunity to do so in every minute of the day. When you choose not, when you choose to injure, harass, or kill another human being because of that ideology, you're pretty fucking far from redeemable in my world. If society is willing to put down a dog that has bitten someone, it should be pretty damn well OK with the same approach to a human being who's done much worse.

*I am familiar with Tolkien's participation in the Battle of the Somme. His participation involved sitting his ass in the rear twice and serving as a signals officer for a brief amount of time before contracting trench fever and being sent back to Britain.

jdreyer wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 23:12:

Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 19:38:

Cutter wrote on Sep 12, 2024, 17:27:
Pretty soon the earth will be hot enough we'll all be walking around in shorts and tank tops only all the time anyway.

Speak for yourself. I'll be opting for the skant.

Commando mode, I'm sure. Just like a kilt.

Skants actually do have an enclosed bottom part so probably not a good idea to go commando unless you like swamp ass or swamp crotch.

I am not surprised by your answer. Surely it reflects the attitude of basically everyone to one degree or another. But I will never be swayed by people wishing death on others or thinking that anyone's life is more important than another's. It's easy for me since I don't have to worry about having friends and everyone thinks that I am nuts. You could pick apart my life and decide easily that I am not to be listened to as well. But I'd argue that universal compassion is healthier than selective hatred. To each his own.

But seriously, if some of those comments didn't have you at least snickering, text me and I will send you a pic of me still wearing my bunny slippers. If that doesn't lighten you up, nothing will.