Everyone wants to belong

Everyone wants allies, close friends, brothers and sisters they can rely on and love and support

In the modern world we have pale imitations and crap. There is no village, there is only a dim landscape through which we shuffle, largely alone.

And so there is craving for some substitute, because the under structure is unfulfilled

Real bed pillow

Once you try it you will never go back to the horseshoe neck strain weak sauce

What are the lions even gonna do?

“Haha I will bite some of you! And then sit there doing that thing where I make a chewing motion with my tongue out and shake my head vigorously, because it isn’t working!”

Ants all the way man

Yeah. They used to be the OG good stuff. No more. 😢

Breyer’s has become an unrecognizable watery filth

A lot of ice cream makers have started manufacturing a substance which is a little more like plastering putty with sugar mixed in. Presumably it is cheaper than the ice cream substance which they used to make.

I recommend Häagen-Dazs. Turkey Hill is alright but it seems to have succumbed a little bit to the putty consistency. The Costco stuff is decent too. Get vanilla, then mix it up in the bowl with a strong spoon, to soften it, with big chunky chocolate chips (also available from Costco) sprinkled generously within it and then stirred in during the preparation phase.

Hope this helps

If seeing dumb video thumbnails on YouTube impacts your mood I think you need to stay away from YouTube.

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That is clickbait nonsense. I think it’s designed to induce as revenue. I generally don’t watch and avoid all versions of it, electoral and not (“You won’t BELIEVE what this HERO CAT did for Pennsylvania mother of 3”)… I get what you’re saying and it’s dumb but why does it cause you rage?

I have a question

Why is election stuff rage inducing? Like what’s an example of a thumbnail you would see that would induce rage?

ITT are a bunch of bad explanations; some are ok but here’s more detail:

Imagine a transparent sheet of glass with words printed on it. Hold it up so you can read it. Now stand in front of a mirror. You can read the words, both in the mirror and on the glass in front of you. Neither set of words is flipped.

Now imagine turning the glass around so the words face the mirror. As you rotate the glass 180 degrees horizontally, it flips around mirror image. Both in the glass in front of you, and in the mirror, you can now see a “mirror image” view of the text. But the mirror didn’t do anything – you did, when you chose to flip the glass around horizontally instead of vertically to face the mirror. If you’d tumbled it top over bottom to face the mirror, then the text wouldn’t have flipped left and right, but it would have flipped high and low.

Your head is similar to the text, except you can’t see through it. But, if you rotated yourself to face away from the mirror, and your head was transparent, someone looking at you would see a not-mirror-image face of yours, both looking at them and in the mirror from the other side. Same as the text. Nothing is flipped. When you chose to spin yourself horizontally to face the mirror, instead of doing a headstand, you chose the transformation that will led to seeing the mirror image instead of the high-and-low flipped image of your face. If you face away from the mirror, and do a handstand instead of spinning horizontally, you’ll see a vertically flipped face with its left and right preserved.

Hopefully that makes sense.

Wait, no no - I think I was thinking of NeverDead, not Painkiller.

The painkiller thing where you can tear off your head and throw it at someone and then still control it well enough to bite them

There is a particular type of emotion which “The VVitch” and “Hereditary” get absolutely perfect. It’s actually not really my favorite type of movie; it’s not particular scary, per se, but it is just some stuff that is really awful that you don’t want to see. If you don’t want that, they may not be good, but if you vibe with that particular emotion they are hard to beat for it.

The HBO “Chernobyl” miniseries is absolutely straight-up horror. It has pretty much all the elements of a perfect horror movie, except it’s (with tiny exceptions and artistic licenses) all 100% true.

“As Above, So Below” is fairly good “normal” horror of a fairly unspicy flavor.

That’s honestly all I can think of that really does it well. Horror books in my experience are far better. “The Shining,” “Pet Semetary,” “Night Shift,” and “Skeleton Crew.” Also lots and lots of HP Lovecraft; the “Dunwich Horror” collection is wonderful.

Hope this helps.

He was a weird motherfucker in several different ways

He had money though. That’s the great thing about money; you can just kind of motor around with whatever priorities you want and for the most part no one intervenes or tells you to stop

Weird angel investor took us all out to a fancy dinner and made a weird extensive speech about the importance of the future; kind of “Godspeed my young protégés I know you’ll do wonderful things.” Kind of sounded like he finally believed in us and wanted to let us know with a nice gesture. Idk. No one could make any sense of it.

The next day his lackey informed us we were all fired. Oooh, that’s what that was about; makes sense, oh well, we have to get real jobs now apparently.

You missed a golden opportunity for a subtle and unnecessary joke by making it Kicking Dogs Party and Supporting Dogs Party

Or… IDK… Kissing Dogs Party and Ned’s Stabbing Dogs Always Party. With Supporting Dogs Party as the middle.

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Just me?

The dems are absolutely still corporate dogshit.

Most of them, yes. Hey, quick question, what’s happened to corporate taxes, and working-class wages adjusted for inflation, over the last 4 years? How has the NLRB’s role in economic life changed, and what have the results been?

Speaking of putting people in boxes, everyone criticizing from the left is a secret trump supporter, and lying about their values.

Not everyone, no. The people raising objectively false criticism of the Democrats and occasionally accidentally saying “Democrat Party” or saying they make $400k a year and as a good communist, their big concern about the Democrats is that they’re raising taxes and all you other communists should definitely feel the same way and stop supporting them – those guys are secret Trump supporters, yes.

If you want to invest the time, read the whole thread and then come back and tell me that that person isn’t (1) clearly lying, in a particularly hamfisted fashion, about why they don’t want you to support the Democrats (2) not from the US or even familiar enough with it to be aware of how common or uncommon a $400k/yr salary is.

Three things are happening:

1. It is easier to dismiss someone’s argument outright if you can put them in a box without needing to engage with anything they’re saying
2. Historically and particularly in the 1990s, Democrats were sort of corporate dogshit, so a lot of the left got used to opposing them (often bringing up MLK’s “white moderates” speech)
3. There are a lot of shills on Lemmy who really want Trump to get elected, and do it by attacking the Democrats “from the left” with various dishonest talking points, and if you point out that any of what they’re saying is objectively false, they will call you a centrist as a way of dismissing you (see point #1)

The center isn’t automatically right (often in the American political spectrum it works out as the average of killing all the immgrants and free school lunch, which is not a happy central point to reach). But also, simply applying a label to someone and dismissing them doesn’t automatically mean you’re right either, no matter how popular it may be.

This is a common talking point, totally dishonest in this case. What are you claiming the real inflation number should be, and why are you saying the prices of what real world goods went up by that amount? Like with citations and precise numbers.

I feel a little weird about being your dancing monkey in terms of answering this question just because you singled me out and told me to, but sure:

The platform is a pretty good start; there’s a lot in there about economic inequality and working on climate change which are two key priorities.

Most urgent things I would add to that:

• Peacekeeping in Israel + Palestine backed up by force of US troops and/or UN peacekeepers. Y’all (meaning Israel) have had your chance at running things and you failed. Be thankful you’re not in the dock in the Hague, now get the fuck out of Gaza; we start shooting in 6 hours if you’re still here
• Attempts to tamper with the ability of people to vote, or for their vote to count like it’s supposed to (meaning having an impact in an unbiased and reasonable fashion), is a felony. Doesn’t matter if you were a guy with a gun outside a drop box, a congressperson trying to pass a law, or a Supreme Court justice.
• Speaking of which, there are some justices we should be impeaching. If we win enough of congress we can put them on trial at least; we may not be able to remove them but fuckin’ hassle them. Absolutely nonstop. Make it a priority to make people’s lives miserable if they’re trying to destroy democracy. That is a dead serious statement.
• Use the pre-Thatcher British solution for high rents: The government buys up a huge amount of property, rents it out at reasonable rates, which pierces the bubble so the rates from private landlords have to reduce also to stay competitive.

There are some other big things but that all is the most urgent I think. Even that is a pretty fuckin big list to be able to do.

Maybe something about internet propaganda, but I honestly don’t see a real clear government-involved solution to that that I have any confidence in, is the only reason it’s not on the list.