chapotraphouse

Mine is the one in the link.

The soul and body of Amerikkka was writ large. Thousands in their thousands coming back from the most proximal experience of Hashem they are wont to experience, bumper to bumper (cheek to cheek) on the highway, miles turning into hours like the journeys of old, their chariot becoming more and more like a sardine can coffin, turning for reprieve for body and bowel to the rest stop, only to find it painted and reeking.

The 10 miles made into 3 hours made into 1 wet log or splash or mound are a greater trinity than the catholic.

That brown bordering on green bordering on yellow was more the eclipse than the ding an sich.

Everything is so fucked

https://cushcast.com/public/cushcast

I love my weird as fuck friends.

Hell yeah.

this was in the latest episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, wtf is this?

this is the guy's second time on the show. I genuinely don't even remember what he did irl, much less think about this guy in 2024. he's one of those Lev Parnas type guys where I will never care what they did or who they are. he's also quite possibly the worst actor I've ever seen.

Shouldn't have said anything, now I'm getting paragraphs upon paragraphs about Putler and how the West has a moral obligation to prolong the war in Ukraine for as long as possible

Also while apparently it can't be denied that the far right has grown somewhat stronger in Ukraine, the Ukrainian military had to rely on militias such as Azov so they wouldn't lose, we should not worry because they haven't seen that much electoral success

Here, signs merely reflect other signs and any claim to reality on the part of images or signs is only of the order of other such claims. This is a regime of total equivalency, where cultural products need no longer even pretend to be real in a naïve sense, because the experiences of consumers' lives are so predominantly artificial that even claims to reality are expected to be phrased in artificial, "hyperreal" terms. Any naïve pretension to reality as such is perceived as bereft of critical self-awareness, and thus as oversentimental.

Vertical Tapestry Chihuahua Police Dog Thin Blue Line Christian Cross Aesthetic Tapestry

https://www.amazon.com/Gaotaju-Vertical-Chihuahua-Christian-Aesthetic/dp/B0B65HFHXX

Post: https://twitter.com/TizOnly1/status/1777782708657119665

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4226617

Ashton Kutcher the Zionist

Because there is only one thing this could be referring to.

You huddle around the one news screen in your slum. The AI generated hologram of Jim Kramer comes on to talk about the economy. "Sure, China has had 320 consecutive growth quarters but their economy will certainly collapse by next quarter and then we'll be back on top." You smile, knowing that the evil Chinese Communist Party is finally getting the comeuppance they deserve.

(id look up the quote, but it's funner to butcher ideas and re-arrange them in new language)

i feel like that's not just the US as a nation state, but Yankee culture and society in general. Like, I'm starting to think we're just not capable of incorporating new experience into our collective learned behaviors. Not even after COVID - the polite thing isn't to mask up or even hand-sanitize when you have cold or flu symptoms, it's to pretend like nothing happened (and AIDS barely gets talked about and only in the past-tense...)

Most of the art and music and literature getting remixed remade and referenced is from the 20th century, or has roots beginning in that time. In terms of infrastructure, very little built this century seems to have any amount of longevity in mind.

Geopolitically we're still doing Cold Wars and proxy-conflicts -- even when those have been rendered obsolete by our own fucking actions the previous (and first...) time there was a big Cold War. And we never stopped funding and arming settler colonialism, even with practically unanimous condemnation in the UN (take away our VETO for the love of all things good TAKE IT AWAY)

i don't know that i have a conclusion for this. On a personal level, living in the 20th century US but having 21st century tech reminds me way too much of Fahrenheit 451. It's maddening. Like I'm trying not to notice the great big Amygdalae on the Healing Church; there's no outlet for the Insight so it's just hovering there and i'm scared to walk too close to it for fear of how others respond.

I've never been involved with hiring and have only ever worked at companies small enough to fly under the radar when it comes to regulating things like that, so I have zero experience in seeing how it would have actually worked. But there are two narratives I often heard about it:

1. Companies were forced to meet "quotas". For example black people have to make up some percent of their workforce, meaning they would have to prioritize black candidates if they were actively hiring but under the quota

2. Even if a company met the quota, if they were considering two candidates that were equal in qualifications and one was white and the other not, the non-white candidate would get the job because being non-white give them... like extra "points" or something? I guess to give them a "buffer" so if next time they're hiring, they can hire a white person?

I have a strong feeling both are myths, and the reality of it was more vague and loosely enforced, especially since I never heard anything about what the punishment would be for not following these rules. A fine? Prison time for leadership? Complete shutdown of the business? Who knows. I am interested in hearing how it actually worked from anyone who has firsthand experience with affirmative action.

Been doing more reading on it, and found that quotas used to be a thing, but were struck down by the supreme court in 1978. I can't find anything that says the quota system UC Davis used was forced on them by the government.

It’s my chance at ever being able to retire so I might as well do it.

Wish me luck.

https://twitter.com/Caroleeenalala/status/1777479952301953490