chapotraphouse

Man it’s the middle of winter here. Sure is getting hard to get out of bed at 4:30 in the freezing cold

There is a significant overlap in the presence of the "Generically pathetic" stock character (You know, the character who serves as a "comic relief" solely by being perceived as pathetic and lame and that is the entire joke) and shows that forget the main character is actually a prick. I feel like there's something deeper to that, but I don't know what.

I saw some fucked up stuff this morning that ruined my day, and I am always reluctant to tell anyone when this kind of thing happens. Telling someone else isn't going to make it better for me, it will only surely make their day worse. So instead someone friendly will ask how I'm doing, and I'll just say fine while trying to hold down the , and that's what really gets me. Given enough time it's all going to fade into the background noise of the awful shit going on all the time anyway I guess

Long nails will never make sense to me, on a good day I bump into things and hit my hand on stuff, I just imagine impaling myself or them all flying off at the same time somehow.

I try not to judge, but having 6 inch long colorful fingers is justsomething that I don't get. like, how you do stuff? Like scroll on your phone or type. I imagine it's like using stilts, but I don't know.

I'm not trying to insult people who have their nails done, it's just a thing I wonder

America is super wacky with booze laws. Mixed drinks in a can made with fucking malt liquor? My hard iced tea just has vodka in it like any non gross nation would do.

Ok figured out my guilt with flirting. I'm not flirting, I'm leading people on with no intention of it going anywhere. BUT I only do this to people who are jerks, I won't cut them off quick I'll just play around until I cut them lose- never showing extended interest that it'll go anywhere. The nice folk get the flirting, jerks get lead on.

I feel like a completely different person than I was this time last year, I've improved in so many ways that I've wanted to for actual years but im also kinda having an identity crisis

My mom wants to try ivermectin to treat her cancer 😫 my dad doesn't want to tell her not to because he doesn't want to take hope away from her 😫

Describing class consciousness to a middle Dutch speaker: Imagine a burgher

Coheed and Cambria’s first two albums were so strong.

Good Apollo had Welcome Home and that’s it

i don't even remember how many times i've played through DE at this point but this game still finds ways to surprise and move me

Instead of the cleaning I intended to do over the weekend I instead bought and played through all released chapters of deltarune

Thinking about how image generation has kind of settled on a recognizable style, and how this will doubtlessly push human artists to adopt styles of their own that are unmistakably not-generated in response, which will then get trained into the next generation of generators, and so on. Hasn't been a thing for long enough yet but in like ten years I bet it will be a repeating, predictable cycle.

just spent 4 days without weed and boy howdy i don't like being without my medicine, now i finally feel okay

There's something to be said about the nihilism, or maybe just thoughtlessness, of liberal political economy in the modern day

From here:

So we want to revive manufacturing, but the right kind—advanced manufacturing?

The notion that we should be assembling iPhones in the United States, which Trump wants, is insane. Nobody wants to do that work. It's horrible, tedious work. It pays very, very little. And if we actually did it here, it would make the iPhones 20% more expensive or more. Apple may very well decide to pay a 25% tariff rather than make the phones here. If Foxconn started doing iPhone assembly here, people would not be lining up for that job.

But at the same time, we do need new people coming into manufacturing.

But not that manufacturing. Not tedious, mind-numbing, eyestrain-inducing assembly.

We need them to do high-tech work. Manufacturing is a skilled activity. We need to build airplanes better. That takes a ton of expertise. Assembling iPhones does not.

Like, the only way this makes sense is if technology does not advance and low-cost labor is eternal. And yeah, they're liberals, so of course they subconsciously hold the belief that there will always be billions of people of poor people, but they also publish projections about how there will be billions of fewer people in a couple centuries and how poverty will finally be alleviated in just a couple more centuries.

Phones are necessary! It's an economic skill issue if "the greatest country in the world" cannot develop an advanced manufacturing process for them that is cheaper than hiring cheap labor abroad. It just goes to show how undeveloped the entire world is, I guess. There's a lot of talk about how as China moves up the value chain, they've begun to rely on cheaper countries for some manufacturing processes. Yeah, that's unfortunately true in some cases, but in other cases, capital investment has actually kept up domestically and advanced, higher-wage manufacturing in China is able to compete against basic, low-wage manufacturing abroad. That's what should be done, but it necessitates lower profit margins, national industrial policy, taking education seriously, and a society organized around the radical idea of making the future a better place to live in. So, incompatible with capitalism and America.

And American capitalists complain about "stagnation". Give me a break...

@[email protected] you were right, Dawn of the Dead was really fun. Looking forward to Day of the Dead next. Are the later Romero flicks in the series worth doing?

Ok like in terms of ac needed seeing a lot of it also just goes to keep computer from frying, data centers and the like need them badly. Going into HVAC is a solid bet and all the stuff I was reading about this is like 10 years old way before all this crypto and ai.

H I G H L Y recommend eating a whole bunch of Lebanese bread dipped in hummus, my god

Mega mega mega THREAD

It's kinda funny how American right wingers can simultaneously believe that Trump is in control, is a managerial genius and he and Doge owned the corrupt deep state, and also the government flooded Texas on purpose.

People point out how the right wing has such a huge advantage in Internet media. And part of that is obviously the massive financial backing and the total lack of standards, but I also feel like the fact that every right wing grifter will pump out 10 episodes of whatever the fuck youtube show or podcast they're on a week plays a role.

Bit idea: Hexbear but the hexagon in the name refers to Fr*nce.