Gargle + blaster = Gargleblaster

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • During the Iraq War, Kurt Vonnegut was asked about the anti-war protests… His response was that, during Vietnam, he was part of anti-war protests firing on all cylinders and laser-focused and going to stop that war. He said it was ultimately about as effective as climbing to the top of a ladder and tossing a pie on the ground. This time will be no different.

    So I don’t know what you’re hoping to gain. The ‘Ima take my ball and go home’ approach didn’t work out so well in 2016. Threatening not to vote isn’t going to phase anyone in a country where more than half the population doesn’t vote anyway. Maybe instead of threats you should work with other people trying to help the people you want elected get elected.








  • Well, there’s also the fact that after WWII, while the Allies were dividing the world up like a giant birthday cake, they created most of these problems: North Korea, Iraq-Kuwait, and plunking a new Jewish country down in the middle of Arabia.

    If the Allies had decided that Ohio is a new Jewish country, what would’ve been the fallout from that?

    As much as we seem a step removed from this issue, we made the problem.


  • Go to an employment agency/temp agency.

    There’s paperwork and possibly tests before you can actually get work. Do all of that now so that you don’t have to wait while they process the paperwork if you get furloughed. Be sure to explain that you’re expecting to get furloughed.

    With the holidays approaching, retail stores may need extra staff. Not yet, but post-thanksgiving.

    I’ve never done it, but there’s the payment for taking surveys online.

    I agree with others that the car is a major money sink. Can it sit in the driveway and wait for you to get through this?

    Paying a friend to drive to work together probably costs less than gas + insurance + repairs.












  • They birthed and normalized shitty internet behavior: rickrolling on the lighter end, trolling, doxxing, and swatting.

    They would also do shit like make fun of mentally handicapped people, which would lead goons to harassing the victims IRL and teaching kids that this was all OK.

    And they would go after people who talked shit about about them, criticized them, or otherwise attacked them. The 4chan army would come out in force and try to ruin people’s online existence.

    Before Q-Anon showed up, they had started calling Trump God Emperor during the election. I think they may just have chose him as the candidate who would cause the most chaos, but it’s easy to see how others others would take their goals more seriously and want Trump as president.

    And the cycles of shitty behavior over decades attracted more and more rightwingers. I used to think of them as a chaos collective, but the politics swung hard right.

    And then they spread to other platforms with r/the_donald, pepe the frog, and calling each other pedes.