Notices by Patrick (patrickoftheg@mastodon.social), page 2

The characteristics they use for deporting "gang members" feels awfully like the characteristics for drone strikes back in the Obama days.

God is the ultimate Shitpiece in it, if you think the Bible is true.

Up until this point, humans live for hundreds and hundreds of years on the regular. Except God gets pissed off and arbitrarily declares nobody gets to live past 120, eat shit and die hummies. And that's why you get to watch your parents and grandparents die so young. Imagine that? Thanks God.

For those who aren't in the know, there were bunches of Gnostic Christians who thought the God of the Old Testament was a different God from that of the New Testament, and also actually an Evil God.

I get that.

It makes more sense than how most people understand it these days. Ever read Noah's Ark? I know you know the story, but did you ever read the version that isn't sanitized for kids at Sunday School or a religious television show?

@GrimmReality A university that is upset students are angry at the way it materially profits from an ethnic cleansing? It probably doesn't care about those students and would let them die too gladly for milk money.

I stalked my brother-in-law's Steam profile to judge him by the games he most played, and realized that other losers might be doing the same to me.

In order of most hours...

Warhammer: Total War Franchise with 1500 hours+ combined
and then a far far second place, like US military spending compared to others:
Elden Ring
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
X-Com: UFO Defense
X-Com: Enemy Unknown
Final Fantasy XV
Skyrim
Battlebit: Remastered
Battle Brothers
Battletech
Darkest Dungeon
Hades
Stardew Valley

@tk It seems like there is an endless human capacity to take a feature that could be used for good, and just make it so rotten everyone wants it to go away forever.

@FlashMobOfOne I think I can go weeks and weeks and weeks without doing anything at all, and not meeting up with any friends to do anything. I love having nothing planned to do. I love not having to go do things. I love not having to pay maintenance tax, for lack of a better word?

I also like having friends.

And my natural temperament and desire is not the way to keep friends.

I like having friends just a little less than I like not having obligations. If this is intelligent design, wow, it's shoddy work.

If the right wing believed in vaccines they could inoculate themselves against the woke mind virus.

@FlashMobOfOne A drug addict who can justify their addiction, you say? Umhum.

There are two stages in a man's life, it seems.

Stage 1: Choosing to care too much and read up on either the Napoleonic Wars or the United States Civil War.

Stage 2: Getting into genealogy in a more than casual way.

The thing about Mark Carney is that more centre-right economics is just going to make things deliberately worse for you and me, on purpose. And it'll lead to something Trumpier still for the next round.

Which is the plan.

The point is to implement mask bans and return to office mandates because we are powerless idiots who have no choice but to die on the terms of the bad guys. Bad guys who probably fund all the major political parties in your area.

If you're the type of person who has hope about climate change or anything else, I don't know how you get through your days.

The SAVE Act is so ghoulish that women should consider saving up for firearms and voting from the rooftops.

Watching Americans do peaceful protests today really puts me in mind of what happened back in 2003 because of the largest protests ever in this world.

Bet it feels like you're doing something real, though.

If you haven't considered leftist purity testing for your politicians, I really recommend you start doing some right away. You could start with something as easy as promising not to vote for anyone who doesn't support single-payer health care and social housing.

What's interesting is what the plan is for the Democrats, who offered managed decay "or else the bad guys will win" now that the bad guys won. I am interested in this because I still live in a country where the ruling party is still offering managed decay "or else the bad guys will win" and thinks that's a good enough strategy.

Dandy.

I am not hopeful by what I see in the UK, France and Germany.

This is all the inevitable conclusion of having a whole political system based on open, legal bribery.

@FlashMobOfOne I think it's just people deliberately going to a place where they hope to cause trouble and disrupt whatever it is going on, more so than anyone naturally just that clueless. Hanlon's Razor is bullshit nonsense that bad people use to camouflage intent.

Imagine going to the theatre and being upset that you see The Gays?

(the truth is that it's just religious fundamentalists out trying to disrupt shows using anything they can as a pretext)

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/feb/10/manchester-performance-of-dolly-parton-musical-suspended-due-to-homophobic-abuse