Notices by Patrick (patrickoftheg@mastodon.social), page 4

Every now and then I remember that my loved ones and I will die and I get mad at this universe for being garbage tier. I wonder if there is a garbage tier God who set it all up this way, my little worm's eye view having no choice but to accuse it of hideous incompetence or just plain evil. Or is it all oblivion with no afterlife?

We all deserve better than this. None of us get better than this. And even if there were an afterlife? What a crock of shit we only achieve immortality after dying.

@BeAware I don't think it's a good living, mind you.

Biden might just help the people of Gaza after all.

Double Bonus: It would help the people of Israel too.

@amaditalks First initial dot last name @ email.com , and not even a common last name, sees you, friend, and is impressed by how much worse that has to be than his struggle.

Yikes.

My father, who I love and I am lucky to still have, occasionally makes bizarre arguments about how lucky I am that Islam hasn't taken over.

I keep trying to impress on him that the Christian Republic he yearns for would not be radically different, no drugs, no booze, no porn, no fun, but he insists that it would have much more freedom somehow.

Would be nice to believe in something as strongly as he does.

My life is so good that if I could keep my health and my standard of living, I would choose to live forever.

Meanwhile, historically, things have been so bad for so many for so long that all the mainstream religions make suicide punishable in the afterlife to stop people from opting out of the whole bullshit program early.

Sisyphus is not happy, let me tell you.

What a cosmic joke. And imagine if any of those religions were actually true? An indictment of the incompetence of upper management.

I like Ukraine about as much as anyone else, but I wonder how long before this goes the way of:

1. Russian warship fuck yourself
2. Ghost of Kyiv
3. Tank-Stealing Farmers

It's fun stuff even if made up I guess. Got to hand it to Ukraine to get this stuff published uncritically in the West too.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/07/14/isnt-it-time-to-shoot-him-down-russians-grow-frustrated-with-ukraines-yak-52-drone-killer/

Observations about America and its Americans:

Blue no matter who ironically have strong opinions about which who will do.

All of this seemed pretty obviously going to happen from the primary before this time.

I do not like concerts.

The amount of money that people pay to go to concerts blows my mind. I don't understand. I am jealous of how much they must be getting out of the concert-going experience that I simply do not.

I suppose that, depending on your perspective on certain issues, this election in America has some good picks.

Like, if you're big on the ethnic cleansing, hate single payer health care systems, love fossil fuel subsidies, want more domestic surveillance and just love just pouring money, hand over fist, into police who you don't want to be accountable for their actions, you really can't lose no matter who wins.

It's the other issues you have to look at to break the tie.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is just coming up with solutions, isn't he? Final ones.

Good work, Biden.

I don't have any advice for you.

I am currently working the best job I've ever had at the best place I have ever worked at, and I am constantly afraid it may change.

I have worked very bad things for very long times, where I sort of thrived, becoming a monster in the process, and I can guess maybe the struggle you are going through. When I got laid off, and like two weeks later slept all the way through the night?

First time I realized I was happy in ten plus years.

@AnarchoNinaWrites There are two three options.

Use one of those heroes that block movement.

Bait the AI with a worthless junk army and your real army in ambush mode next to and hope the random number generator spots in your favour.

Install a mod that lets you move at 125 percent distance by default.

That last one feels cheap but not as cheap as the AI moving one pixel precisely out of your range each time, perfectly.

@maggiejk @jeffowski I am waiting for someone to tell me that I am attacking philatelists now.

If you are thinking to yourself, no, you clearly aren't, that's silly Mr. Silly Goose. Then yeah, that's my point?

Anyway, like I said, I am dropping the subject because I feel like I am being a force of antagonism that I do not want to be and I really still cannot connect the two points as per the above and that's on me.

Thank you for trying, you two.

@maggiejk @jeffowski I think it's very relevant that someone involved in X, and tries to force X on strangers, and force it on children, and overthrow democracy for X, is out doing the total opposite of X in a way that, during their day job, they are trying to make criminal?

If someone who wants to ban postage stamps and jail people who use them has the world's largest stamp collection at home, it should kind of be pointed out?

No shame on stamps or stamp collecting.

@jeffowski

I am still trying to figure out how you are drawing that conclusion from what I wrote right there.

Let me be clear: Moms for Liberty being in the orgy scene is the thing I love to bring up; the people who make all their money and get all their power fighting so hard to ban books because there's mentions of boys kissing. The ultra Christian Nationalist lunatics.

Out swinging because they don't believe anything they preach.

I am not shaming the orgy scene.

That seems clear to me?

@jeffowski What are you talking about? If you could point that out my text please I'd be happy to change it.

I am on the side of shaming the rubes who buy into religious nonsense pushed by a leadership who clearly is having a laugh on their behalf. I think it is hilarious and good that political leaders do not play by the rules they push, and it kind of tickles me pink that they don't even hide it.

And idiots throw money at them.

@jeffowski

Moms for Liberty leadership being involved in the orgy seen I love to bring up. On the other hand, if the Moms for Liberty Lady was like, yo, Pattycakes, help me ban a book for some nook, I'd be seriously tempted.

@LALegault Boeing's Missing Right Wing.

Question for the Fallout (show) enjoyers.

I just watched episode two and I saw the puppy eyes that were made by Maximus in the direction of the protagonist. If this is going to be an awkward and ineptly written relationship story, I am going to be bailing out pretty early.

Is it going to be an annoyance or should I continue?