still waiting for those molten fuel MHD reactors

hey that top right one was me at 24 some luck huh

took 10 years to fully recover

Boeing trying to claim another victim i see

also i’m not a fan of those space-x suits they look kind of cheap. like latex bodysuits or something

fuck. that’s just one small step away from standard reddit brained “you need to take personal responsibility, FAFO” bullshit

what’s wild is listeria can take up to a month to do it’s thing. it slowly grows, i guess colonizes, your gut until it basically just punches tiny microscopic holes in it

oh yeah. they are a million times better then other political streamers for this reason alone. most do walk the walk or at least raise money for causes that actually help people

oooh did not know that.

i know there is underwear in the game but it’s not for combat just for sexy times. probably a mod to give it armor stats and make it wearable outside of those scenes

i know there’s a cool harness that im pretty sure i already own IRL lol

the game just seems so much more queer coded in it’s horniness vs the kind

i mean yes in the end it’s all streamer drama (to all those that will be like “who are these people ?” to sound cool)

but at the core but it does demonstrate the outsized influence that can be deployed against even the mildly leftist pipeline types. there is precious little in this space for younger people that isn’t chud, chud-adjacent, straight fascist, or fascist adjacent zionazi.

it does show how quickly and throughly the entire tiny ecosystem of leftist creators could be absolutely shut down if there was a cross platform coordinated ban. imagine just every leftist instantly having all their socials closed, banned from every platform, utterly silenced and how little anyone would be able to do about it.

because it’s coming

oh god they better not make the batmobile a cybertruck

You could be openly Islamophobic in public

this was so fucking bad during that period. like jim crow levels of racism. it’s just openly practicing Muslims were so rare in the area i lived. i really only came into contact with them closer to the big cities. and that was my Pashtun friend, hanging out with Iranian foreign exchange students, and this Syrian guy who liked to throw huge parties

so maybe i lucked out somewhat

i also had a (childhood) friend that did the PMC thing after serving. in Iraq then Afghanistan. he was a tech but last i talked to him he also seemed to have liberalized his war on terror-era brainwashing as well, probably from working alongside locals. big contrast to my other friend who became a bloodthirsty psycho.

but yeah i almost feel like i was really insulated, especially from things you describe. my parents are libs and I intergotated them on their feelings about israel and they agreed it was doing a fascism but refuse to shake off the news medias conditioning and still see the Palestinians as equally bad and think the campus protests are racist.

the student becomes the master

get that bag!

although the bag is really thin, clear, and has a greasy sheen to it

but seriously, congrats

there are some old crusts out there these days. know a few pushing 60, they finally have some cash and wouldn’t mind a place inside to sit and chill

pretty sure Asheville NC was a big hub for this type (as well as other small mountain towns for some reason)

not looking forward to the american zoomer freikorps “2nd ‘Fighting Andrew Tates’ Battalion” surrounding my house and emptying thousands of rounds into it

as a millennial person of burger i got to experience the immediate post-911 state encouraged racism first hand as a teen and later young adult

i came from a pretty lib family with a new deal/socdem political heritage that were never openly racist. my liberal internationalist grandfather wasn’t a Zionist but held weird ideas like that Palestine should be turned into a U.N. administered territory and totally demilitarized (with the IDF turned into a local police force at most)

had a (not really close) friend who was a Pashtun, immigrated when he was 8 or 9, and just kind of a chill grunge rock listening stoner guy. he was mostly secular, but similar to my Catholic upbringing he would be a nominally devout Sunni only when going home to visit family. i remember asking him how tough it was to fly in and out of Pakistan (this was 2003) and he said it sucked

another (white) friend went to Iraq as part of his army reserve unit and came back to tell me of the actual war crimes he committed and we all broke all contact with him. he recounted personally murdering wounded “insurgents”, encouraged by his squad, and should probably be in the Hague right now if that was legal

everything else came from media and was shaped by it. even my grandfather, as he got older and his only source was the news and newsweek magazine, started to believe the bullshit form the Bush era propeganda. meanwhile when i woke up the morning of 911 only thing i thought was “well that’s it our government is going to create a police state”. libertarian brained stuff

ah yes my solution:

a bush era call to total war with Iran with a massive invasion requiring us to draft all these despondent Gen Z men and give them some skills, identity, community and patriotism:

by watching three-quarters of their friends blown to pieces by suicide drones and hypersonics as they loiter in the Persian gulf, crowded together in amphibious assault ships!!

wow that is very satisfying. just like obliterated that fucking tank and that piece of human excrement inside

in some states they are just listed as two women with no party affiliation so use that how you will

as a person of Spaghetti heritage this is great