This is fucked up, but it’s still somehow better than a Murphy Bed backdoor.

Hadn’t heard these guys. This is some good shit, thanks!

The way the singer does his lyrics kind of gives me The Hold Steady vibes.

That sounds entirely plausible to me. Once again, when it comes to PewDiePie, I have no idea what the fuck I am talking about.

I knew this was coming after 9/11/2001. That was my first brush with how absolutely vile, ignorant, and racist most US citizens could be.

I used to always say eventually they would bring the tools of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars home and use against their own citizens and god damn it, it sucks to be right.

Interesting, I kind of assumed that he’d been long forgotten by the YouTube crowd, but he’s still number 10 top youtuber going by how many subscribers he has.

So, this may actually have an impact on Linux perception, but I’d wager with people in PewDiePie’s age group more than younger people. He’s 35, a lot closer to my age than expected.

If I sound like an idiot it’s because I never followed PewDiePie except for watching him scream and flail in Dark Souls that one time.

Oh there’s also Sweeping Promises, they’re kind of a lofi post-punk, but they dropped an album in 2023.

They’re from Boston, so also not midwest.

What you’re seeing is the end of Truth.

Especially in the face of AI generated photos, we’re dealing with a future where the youth can easily be misled about what actually happened in the past, or even in the current moment. There is very much an upswing of young people questioning established narratives of the past, often under the guise of “well you weren’t there, how do you know for sure?”

Reality is perception, and they are busy managing reality to deny any perception of Nazi behavior.

It’s why Musk especially lies so fluidly and easily in the face of hard evidence.

It’s all perception management, and as long as they keep talking and keep repeating the same lies, a significant number of people will believe them.

Musk still claims it wasn’t a Nazi salute, and a significant number of people believe him. It’s kind of like Trump’s statement that he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th avenue and not lose any support. It’s all attack, never back down, never admit fault.

EDIT: It’s also Bannon’s “flood the zone with shit” strategy at work, too. We’ve been in an Attention Economy for a long time now (at least since 2007 when the iPhone put a screen in everyone’s pocket), and they know people’s attention is limited, so they work to force themselves into people’s limited time and attention spans. If your message is the only one they have time to hear, they’ll probably be more likely to consider yours true. This, for example, is why Musk forced himself into everyone’s Twitter feeds, he’s force feeding himself the limited attention of millions.

FIDLAR and the Mean Jeans both put out new albums in the last year.

FIDLAR is kind of a mix between punk and california surf rock, and the Mean Jeans are very Ramones-ey.

They’re both solidly west coast, though. No idea on midwest punk.

fecal forebears

Incredibly true and good advice.

It’s actually how I bagged the most beautiful woman I ever dated when I was younger.

However, there’s other aspects of it, too.

She stopped talking to me after about two months, and I spent years wondering how I fucked up.

Years later, when she was with someone else we would reconnect and she admitted that it was actually because I was the first man who had actually wanted to know what was on her mind and respected her as an intelligent and thoughtful woman, and she really didn’t know how to handle it, nor did she feel like she deserved it. She had been pushed to be a traditional blonde cheerleader type, but by college, when I met her, she was finally trying to break out of that mold that really never fit her well. She would go on to further admit that she used to drive by my place and wonder how I was doing, and this was after I had moved, so she had found out my new place from a mutual friend.

It was a head rush to find out. She still lives in my head as “the one who got away.” I’m not really sure there’s much else to boost a guys self esteem than to know he was being stalked by a smart, thoughtful and stunningly beautiful woman.

Anyway, point being, those beautiful women may really not be what they look like on the outside, too. They might be a lot more like you than you think.

Hope she’s doing well these days.

shake hands with ass.

Still better than the reddit one

I don’t know about girls but in high school my group of nerds fell in with a “popular guy” who turned out to not have any close friends because he was so popular people always assumed he was busy and didn’t call him.

So he fell in with some nerd freaks who did call him. Fun times.

Congratulations! Happy for you and your wife.

I hope I get to ring that bell one day myself, providing the medicaid cuts don’t kill me of course. 🤷‍♂️

Butt Brothers.

Me, myself, and I

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Yeah Sagan did that kind of a lot.

Speech-to-text is cool and all (especially as a disability aid) but every company has enough data on me already without me voluntarily giving up my voice to them.

I know, and I often use them, but they’re a complete pain compared to using something native. KDE Connect breaks very often.