All of this is 100% correct, but to shed some light on the perspective you’re replying to: this deep into dystopia, slimy business bullshit as opposed to literal dictates from the surveillance state counts as “organic growth” for a lot of people
Let me get this straight… you’re actually asking for less human input and more slop? Isn’t posting about shit/reading people’s takes kinda the whole game here?
What exactly is your point here? You’re telling a firefighter how sure you are that at some point in history a cop has helped someone in a fire because… ?
Conversely, I’ve had cops actively prevent me from helping stop a very small house fire, literally on scene just to prevent friends and neighbors from doing anything about it. Got to argue with four gun-toting meatheads while a home burned out from an everyday kitchen accident, place was uninhabitable before the fire dept showed up. Of all the dumbass places to wave your “thin blue line” flag, why here?
I think this is a mistake, half the discussion here is just calling it out. “They slopped first” is no justification, it’s still a wildly resource intensive attempt to replace human output
e: also the one where he’s healing Epstein is way funnier :p
“A lawsuit is also seeking to undo the project’s approval.”
because ousting half the local government over it isn’t a clear enough expression of the people’s will
Less control next time please, dunno how old you are but that’s exactly the human immune response that rid us of Google Glass. Early beta testers consistently got rocked whenever they wore them outside and the project went nowhere. I’m too old now and don’t get out enough but pray the kids are up to rejecting round 2
Befriend good customers and start (keep?) selling grey market on the side, only way to get paid as a weed barista
I can understand, disagree, and not be a dick about it. Please work on that last one. I genuinely love to talk about this stuff, but it’s no fun confrontationally. Enjoy your dead, sterile, static zine shrine if that’s what you want. Those butterflies are too beautiful to ever exist again, you’re super special for having witnessed them, good thing they’re pinned in your shadowbox. My “point” here is that this world and that culture is a beautiful, living, evolving, ever-changing Thing still very much available for you to participate in. Come out and play, or not! There was a “post your lab” thread in the selfhosting comm here just a couple days ago that should’ve been able to melt your jaded old phreaky heart, wires going everywhere, scavenged gear, tunnels and proxies and containers, people learning and sharing and experimenting and helping each other out, punk’s only as dead as you let it be
Here’s a ww2, Vietnam, and modern interpretation to get you started. I wanted to include the original, but turns out he’s just a regular dog lol
As best as I can tell your point is to enshrine a medium best known for how accessible it is into something precious. I spread my first lil xeroxed pamphlet in 1992 and last one (so far) a couple years ago and genuinely from a place of love hope to see you do the same rather than sneering at “posers”. It’s way more fun to participate than judge and I earnestly want that for you. One person didn’t make monty python, but they absolutely made your favorite zine and so can you :)
Fuck it, I don’t care if he’s old. Bernie’s Ghost 2028
Heck yeah, happy cruising :)
Buddy fucked up lil “challenge coin” trinkets have been a depressingly common part of military/law enforcement since forever, the burden of proof here is light as a feather. There are galleries of em ranging from relatively banal tough guy “devil dog” marines stuff with their absolutely ripped fursona to unquotable “n-word lynchers” shit with nooses etc from southern police/sheriff departments. This is a weird one to call out
Business degree is worse than nothing imo. All the debt, all the indoctrination, very little exposure to anything potentially educational or enlightening. Come out of a program like that as a certified yes-man with bills to pay, the shame it brings to your family is just the tip of the iceberg
I know it’s a typo but “worst case Ontario” is absolutely becoming part of my lexicon
Hello! Heed me op, got your fix right here. There’s a goofy filler neck that comes off sometimes, a couple people have marked where it’s supposed to be with red squares. It’s gone though! There will be a hole in the top/side of the valve cover there with lord knows what field expedient solution plugging it. ~Mine~ was a chunk of radiator hose that came up to the original location with the original cap jammed back in it to retain convenient access, but we can’t all be the world’s greatest shadetree mechanic. Here’s a video of some nerd actually fixing it with factory parts like a big dumb loser with way more money than me, just to help you find it:
As Bob, my truck is not nearly large enough nor my supply chain so consistent
Try every other day. Even a 24hr break makes a big difference when you’ve been hitting the bedtime/breakfast bowls