SoylentBlake

Some things you aren't told about aging but should know;

Life isnt supposed to be easy. It wasn't for our ancestors and we aren't special.

That being said, I feel like we're currently playing on hard mode right now.

When yr young all the options are available to you in your head. As you get older, those narrow down, but so do your desires. Desire is the antithesis of happiness.

I repeat; DESIRE is the antithesis of happiness.

As decades start stacking you're gonna find you measure time differently. In my teens it was in days, in my 20s it was in weeks. In my 30s; months. Now I think in seasons.

The majority of our own unhappiness comes from self torture. Things will be done when they are done, time as we think of it is a human artificiality. Don't beat yourself up for missing imaginary boundaries. Don't get upset over things that aren't manifesting in reality. It is literally, 100%, you getting in your own way by slowing yourself down, paying penance to your internalized capitalism, from your goal. Circular, round and round, you go, down the drain. Stop, drop anchor, reassess.

The only failure in life is the failure to learn the lesson. You will continue to create the same problems until you address the root of it. You can't run from it cuz whereever you go, there you are. Your struggles, and the lessons, are your reasons to be here.

Don't concern yourself with other people's opinions of you. Concern yourself with your opinion of yourself. Anyone overly concerned with other things and other people isn't spending enough time looking in.

You'll only feel successful when you respect yourself. Until you have that there is no other goal, only side quests.

Everything that has been made by man can be unmade by man. Heirarchy, religion are copium, yet, when you compare the various ones the world over there are reoccurring themes - this is the closest we've come to defining human nature, in the similarities.

And I guess the last thing I want to say is that if you consider yourself a Christian, you need to be actively trying to live your life as if you were Jesus and we are all sons of God. Everything he said implied that and you know it. I've met like 5 Christians in my life. Wonderful people.

The defenders of capitalism complaining about capitalism? It's not like the public has been quiet on this issue for the past 20 years. Get creative. Stop eating advocato toast. Starting wages hover at $35/hr. Somehow I don't hear any sympathy.

Have they ran out of people to qualified immunity? I get that murder is the main draw there but theft by law enforcement is only beaten out by wage theft from corporations. Unless things have gotten so threadbare that they can't make ends meet with all the state sanctioned profiteering.

Maybe they should consider a different line of work. Learn to code. Go to a trade school. Become a plumber.

Then the government should consider that.

To be rich one simply needs to do what is exemplified by them. Obviously, right?

So, don't pay tax,

Assume the law doesn't apply to you

Cozy up to the shadow side of the inner circles, the generally unknown but protected people, think adult children of police and judges.

For whatever reason, drag every court case out and take everything to trial.

Dumping forever chemicals and commiting treason while on national television are also fair game, imo.

When the law is applied unequally = no one, high or low, will respect the law.

I am in the most danger to die when I am in the presence of the police. Respect is not a word I associate with that profession.

Monster. Liars. Abusers. Bully. Serial killer. Murderers. Hellbound. Those words make up my mental association map.

They fed ground up chickens to cows, then fed ground up cows to chickens, who went back to the cows = prions. Run the cycle on repeat until there's enough prions in the cows to burn holes in their brains, until the solid muscle matter is literally like a kitchen sponge = mad cow disease.

Prions are a super spicy protein from cannibalism. Unfortunately, any animal can make them, and prions are hard as fuck to kill, surviving a week exposed to the elements on a surface and will transfer species.

We call Mad Cow, Kuru in humans.

Cannibalism is baaaaad

Waking Life.

If you wrap your head around it after the 2nd viewing, you're doing better than most people.

It took me a few watchings of Akira to really have it all sink in.

Koyaanisqatsi

Visual poetry. Literally. It's conveying a message, it's just you have to come up with the dialogue. Beautiful work. The sequels are fantastic as well.

Imagine a world that would expect Ukraine, who had war declared against it, to only fight defensively on its own soil. The fucking fuk?

Idgaf if Ukraine MOABs the Kremlin or uses Magic to make everyone forget the Tetris theme song, Russia can end the war today by turning their asses around and going home.

I'd slap a reporter asking me such a stupid question. That's like saying to a girl with 2 black eyes, "ah, so ya didn't listen did ya?". How do the reporter speak with Putins cock so far down their throat?

Shit I didn't even realize we were talking to each other in 2 different threads til I tagged you as "real-ass mofo".

😂😂😂

The right is responsible for almost all domestic terrorism in the states, and that's according to the FBI/NSA, who are far from objective. Police (and the FBI and NSA are just federal police, obviously) are overwhelming conservative. There is no liberal cop to speak of. This is proven, undeniable, by the reluctance to prosecute the right. I guarantee you if anyone made death threats to Mitch McConnell the NSA would know exactly who that is. But every democratic lawmaker, even sympathizer, and it's crickets. Death threats continue. You know, you don't see a leftist version of libs of tictok with its owner bragging about inciting stochastic terroirism. It's proven again with the heavy hand society uses on peaceful protestors. I've been in the protests. I've seen the police strike first. I've been in the tear gas. The polices us vs them mentality, that they are "at war" with civilians is sickening and entirely one sided. A leftist will say ACAB and if you're a leftist, every cop will be happy to prove that correct for you, but no one thinks they're at war with the police. Not acknowledging this is willful ignorance. That's the kind of ignorance thats unforgivable, even by legal standards. That's where you go down by association alone.

Blood is almost entirely on conservative hands. Not the other way around.

But suuuuure buddy. It's the left that's the problem. I'm envious of your ability to see reality as you choose it, no bullshit, truly I am. I'm unable to mold facts to fit my narrative, I simply have to make a narrative around objective fact. if that is how you describe yourself as well, I suggest you relook at the facts.

And as long as we're holding facts high, since 2016 the majority of guns in America, which have never sold better, have been sold to those that identify center or left, so don't think you're a wolf amongst sheep. Trump winning and his entire presidency of eroding our rights and institutions while stoking division amongst us - truly unique amongst presidents, in a baaad way - woke millions and millions of people up...and America acquired about 20million new first time gun owners.

Oh I'm with you, believe me. Theres some great building tech now, things like aircrete and the hundred variations and uses of lime. And if course just caluz it's old doesn't mean better, there was definitely a gradient to build quality back then, same as today.

We can look at churches in Uppsala that were built with pine and have stood for 1000 years...in Sweden...and it's clear we're missing something in our knowledge today that they had (it was their harvesting practices, btw, fucking germ theory levels of brilliance). Or how the Japanese have relied on coppacing for lumber for 500 years and that's why Japan still HAS trees and didn't go all Rapanui/Easter Island. The Amish and green wood timber framing is another example - practices that take the future into account. It's the planting of trees who's shade you'll never sit in.

It's easy, and incorrect, to point at history and say it was ALL better then, because only the cream of the crip has survived. Survivorship bias, clear as day. Of course we can build with the same mindset today - we just DON'T.

For a substantial group of people building their own home, to their own standards, towards sustainability or fingerprint reduction is their main driving goal. Earthships are an attempt. Buckminster Fuller made his entire career building off such ideas. Fuck I want to live in a geodesic dome SOOO BAD. Only have to deal with rain when I have to brave society. (I figure where the segments meet I can channel the rain to irrigation channels for the foliage and trees in the inner biodome...and then I'm raising free range sugar gliders.)

I'm in the middle of building my redoubt now. Everything by hand, it's tedious, requires a ton of knowledge and physically taxing, but it also screams of character, uniqueness and craftiness. I take a lot of fun making things intuitively crafty if you know, but invisable if you dont know. Microprocessors can be a part of that (Im a huge electromagnetism fanboy, I've spun up my own generators from magnet wire for custom windmills, and I'm debating doing it again for some microhydro but currently leaning stepper moters), hidden magnetic locks are fun. shit my firearm safe is a Rube-Goldman-machines worth of steps to open, and that's if you even noticed it was there.

I love the new tech. Don't get me wrong. Maybe it's that I'm a xennial, and that I had an analog youth, idk. I own all the power tools - I also own the hand tool analog version and know how to use them. I've always maintained the position that I had to level up into power tools. Electric planers save a SHITTON of time but if I can't plane by hand...then it's just a crutch. I don't even want to get into metal working by hand, I've done it, i prefer metal to wood so that entire attitude applied to metal before wood.

Anyway. I think we have more in common here than not, lol.

Elder Trudeau opened the floodgates, did he not? My understanding is that Mulroney might have driven the stake but Trudeau planted the cross...to be a wee bit dramatic in my metaphors.

Timber framing, and all Amish framing, is actually done with green wood. Attention is paid to grain of the beams and they are put up so as the wood dries and ages it'll twist into itself making a more cohesive unit.

Sure it makes remodeling a bitch, but plum straight and true were never part of a remodelers lexicon to begin with.

Oh man, the quest for plum straight and true. Rick was well within his right to wipe Morty's brain of it. It was probably the single greatest act of compassion we've seen him do. I wish he'd wipe mine.

It was the mo across the entire current and former Commonwealth before 1980.

In the 70s rental properties made up less than 10% of London's housing, and it was more crowded then than now, where a London's looking at 60% rentals. With more housing to people than ever before... And yet... Something about capitalisms efficiency...idr.

Thatcher, Reagan, Hawke, Rogers, Pinochet etc all fucked the kids. All of em, kid fuckers. I said it, Imma leave that hanging riiiiight there for everyone to digest.

What's been done can be undone. Every hierarchy can be over thrown. There's not a goddamn thing about society that reflects us in our state of nature, therefore, it all needs our permission to continue. It's ALL vulnerable.