If you’re never seen Columbo, you’re in for a treat.

Wait, wait, wait.

You’re telling me there are other countries?

I remember this!

Atari 2600 box art was kind of awesome.

"This is the gambeson my grandmother quilted for me; it’s very cozy.’

I never found them as comfortable as a pair of good sandals like Birkenstocks or some sneakers.

They make a decent camp shoe though, since they’re extremely light and waterproof; I’ll clip them to my backpack so they don’t take up room inside.

I would still say they’re more evil than stupid.

After all, they’re being promised a return to the time when white Christian men were an untouchable elite compared to all other populations.

Do you think that’s not a realistic outcome when voting for Republicans?

If they vote for getting special privileges that the GOP is delivering time and again, how is that stupid?

Again, I have to disagree.

The rank and file vote for this shit because they like it. They’re fully on board. They want to have their little fiefdoms in the farm, factory, or family where their “subjects” have no choice but to obey or be crushed.

Go into any place where conservatives chat with each other and you can see it play out, and thinking of them as “sheep” is completely misunderstanding their reasoning and ambition. They’re more like ants who will completely destroy any threat to their hegemony using any method available to them.

They know they’re privileged, and they’re terrified of losing that which they are entitled to by birthright: that’s the core of reactionary ideology. It’s not mindless, it’s entirely consistent with their values.

Strong disagree about them being mindless.

They’ve nearly implemented a decades-long takeover of the American government.

This is the plan. You’re right that they’ll go along, but not because they lack substance: they desperately want white Christian men unquestionably on top of society, and this consternation is merely due to it’s unpopularity with voters.

They go along because their ideology says someone like Trump should be in charge: a bloviating piece of shit who gets to skirt the rules due to his enormous privilege. That’s who gets to rule in the reactionary worldview, and doubly so since “the left” put Obama in charge and turned their world upside down.

They have different values than you and me: ones not based in morality, but instead based on hate, fear, and dominance. Putting the “right” people in charge is at the heart of their ideology.

So you’re correct that the details don’t matter much, but there is substance behind the movement: unfortunately, it’s the worst and most anti-democratic fascist shit they can get away with.

That time they banned the word “fascist” was the closest to self-awarenes they get.

The Feast of the Gods- Giovanni Bellini & Titian, oil on canvas (1514)

There is no inherent meaning; everyone must find their own.

For me, it’s to try and leave my little patch of the world better than I found it.

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Doing full co-op with a randomizer is a blast.

Improved Gyro To Mouse behavior when connected over bluetooth.

Wish they added more details; this could be big or not much at all.

Commodore 64 here, too.

First Linux distro was Ubuntu.

The most important part about learning a musical instrument is consistent practice.

1 hour twice per week is not as good as 20 minutes every single day. And you do have to play every day if you want to improve. Work on one thing at a time and most importantly: use a metronome.

Guitar is a meditation exercise: you have to learn to love the process. If you aren’t having fun, maybe it just isn’t for you.

Your Beeness

I hope the Haitian people can make some peace. There’s not many on Earth who were dealt as bad a hand as them.

It must be exhausting to be a conservative.

A republic is a type of democracy.

So it’s really really stupid to be shitting on democracy if you want a republic.

But they don’t actually want a republic; they want an oligarchy in which society is reordered back into the hierarchies where they were unquestionably on top.

I’m so goddamn sick of the pseudo-intellectual talk-radio drivel spewed by brainwormed self-serving reactionaries being treated like it has any merit whatsoever (not by this article, just in general).