Notices by Patrick (patrickoftheg@mastodon.social), page 5

You don't have to wait for unprecedented flooding to humiliate, denounce and attack your local monarchy. You should be doing that every day.

Imagine if people voted for the lesser evil instead of the second worst evil?

Every time I see this, I throw up a little in my mouth. When I do that, I want to spit it into the face of everyone who thinks they are are voting for a lesser evil. The second worse evil is not the least evil choice available to you.

Did you ever think you would see the day when a #Democrat President would *greenlight* and *arm* and *support* a country in its attacks against the United Nations Peacekeepers? Where their successor promises the same? Where you're told these are the good guys?

Fantastic.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-26/un-peacekeepers-withdraw-from-lebanon-post-under-israeli-fire/104520672

@dyckron I probably shouldn't be discounting the good people who don't deserve that, left behind in conservative barbarism.

That's asking me to sacrifice me and mine for them, though.

I cannot wait for America to tell the world not to worry about it, Bibi's on the case and Israel will conduct a full investigation of the conduct of the most moral army in the world. Also, peace is on the way.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/10/10/israel-fire-unifil-peacekeepers-southern-lebanon-irish-idf/

#Israel is the Dudley Dursley of the world, and America his parents.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/10/israeli-troops-fire-on-un-peacekeepers-in-lebanon

@BeAware Doesn't even have to be a paywall for me these days; merely the act of asking me for my e-mail address means I do not want to give you my e-mail address, no matter how easy it would be to block your future e-mails forever.

It is not worth my time.

Those 4 seconds.

@vascorsd The future of the internet is AI-created advertising being watched by AIs, while other AIs are doing copyright strikes on the AIs, as everyone and their sister keeps blocking all advertising.

We have only one world to live on and we're boiling it alive for this glorious vision of the future.

Great.

I don't think I can do games like Doom anymore. The maps just feel like random collections of weird purposeless rooms that are locked by arbitrary key cards? I can't get into it.

Any stuff that I don't have already memorized decades ago drives me up the wall.

I think Dusk spoiled me.

On the otherhand, Ultrakill is just as random so why doesn't that one or the mullet game? Who am I anymore.

My father, a devoutly religious man who is into the kind of religious extremism that's popular in America, once again has gone off on such a tirade about the vice of sodomy that I am left wondering if Cishet was the right way to be.

You are unintentionally making this sound like the most fun on Earth. I love you dad, but yikes, man.

@foone I've been using a crappy giant smart television hooked up to a computer via HDMI. One input away from all the files you could ever watch, also it makes computer gaming a treat.

Wireless mouse and keyboard are pretty cheap these days too.

An idea at least.

@BeAware We should at least be willing to inflict, onto leaders like that, a reciprocal amount of violence in defense of people as they do to attack the most in need.

@BeAware The clampdown on boats is the correct article; I am behind so many extensions that mess with advertising and cookies and things that I may not have the same visibility.

Some people wake up in the morning and ask themselves important questions like, "Am I sufficiently on the side of cancer? Do I promote human suffering? Is there something I can do to keep maximum hypocrisy between saying out loud that I am a good person while totally double downing on trying to serve the devil?"

Some people answer no and try real hard.

https://www.ft.com/content/ada8343c-3783-4600-9726-9aba86f3e38a

@DrALJONES It's glorious when you realize that the companies then kick back a portion of that investment to the politicians through PACs and donations.

The more money the politician spends the more tax dollars they get given right into their private coffers.

An amazing grift.

I don't know why I need to tell you this: If all your candidates are pro ethnic cleansing, or at least pro the money ethnic cleansing will bring, and so you choose a candidate that is less bad when it comes to other subjects?

Your democracy is a failure.

In a better world you would be voting from the rooftops at that point. You would be praying for a disease to wipe clean the whole political class.

You don't live in a civilized world though. You live in one where Kissinger died of old age.

@BeAware I don't understand that one either, mostly because if you don't want people to engage there are platforms that let you do that.

Not the end of the world at all.

But just stretched in weird directions.

I grow increasingly convinced that reply guy is used in the same way that woke is by the right. A sort of "I don't like it" catch-all term on the euphemism treadmill.

@jeffowski Interesting, thank you for the explanation Church of Jeff.