brain dead take

At this point half the reason i use Lemmy is curse management. I can’t tell you how many times a week I’ll be going about my business and then wham, I get hit with a curse. The other day I sat down to eat dinner and found that my burrito was full of spiders. The spirit that haunts my apartment block sure does have a sense of humor. Not sure if he was a shaman or a wizard or what. I’d move, but the rent is cheap, and sometimes the curses have a silver lining. My kitchen tap ran red with blood the other day, so I made sausage. Tastes awful, but probably saved me a good $40 with the amount I was able to fit in the freezer. Anyway, I appreciate the semi-regular curse-lifting I get from lemmyshitpost.

On second thought maybe collecting things made of volatile petroleum compounds wasn’t a good investment

Unfortunately they had to shut down the Bermuda Triangle due to austerity.

Look, all I’m saying is what you’re expressing now is fucking textbook, dude. There is no way you have a complete list of every brand that has ever pissed you off. Heightened emotional arousal makes you more suggestible. Not less. As long you’re human, that’s how it works. And understanding that, understanding that you are not immune to propaganda, is the first step in fighting back. Not violent fantasies, or visions of revolution, not by “if only everyone else would…” Not by getting pissed off, even though they’re infuriating. By avoiding them when you can, and trying not to react when you do see them.

Edit: On a reread my tone here sucks. My apologies. Clearly I need to take my own advice about not getting pissed off about stuff a screen puts in my face. I stand by what I said, not by how I said it. I hope you have a good night.

Have you ever heard of the “third person effect?”

Okay, you’re the one rational detergent actor. They don’t have to get you. They want your mom, your neighbor, your boss. Your kid. Saturation works, it’s literally proven. Repetition legitimizes. They do studies on this shit.

Yeah, but you still gotta buy laundry detergent. You are not immune to propaganda.

bad news

It’s Loss. It’s funny in a repetitive memetic sort of way, kind of like “The Game.” (u just lost teh gaem lololololol11!!!1!)

Could you elaborate wrt Fedora being a shitshow? It’s my daily driver and I haven’t experienced any kind of instability and (to my knowledge) I have not been compromised.

aw fuck nothing changed, that must mean my shitty sleep schedule and general malaise are not a curse but are in fact the consequences of my own choices

unfair to capybaras

Open with a sound clip of some dude venting about his feelings in public, slap some twinkly guitars on it, and you got the makings of a mediocre midwest emo song

Well it certainly is a shit post

Sounds like a plan! Sure, why not? I’m there!

Am I missing something or did you just quote their first sentence and then restate the second

I know it’s a distraction but I abhor the way the man speaks.

“I was informed this morning by the joint chiefs of staff that at so and so time in such and such operating theater we lost communication with blahblah asset. All US service members were recovered safely with no loss of life. We are committed to peace, but if this was, as we believe it to be, a violation of the ceasefire agreement, this provocation cannot go unanswered. I am urgently seeking communications with the leadership of the IRGC and am directing our forces in the region to move to a state of enhanced readiness.”

• serious
• sounds like something a Sorkin character would say
• leaves diplomatic buffer in case it turns out something other than an Iranian missile caused the loss of equipment

“Army told me IRAN shot down our very fancy helicopter in operating theater, amazing pilots safe but now im mad. I’m gonna bomb them back >:( >:( >:(”

• unserious
• less room for backtracking
• sounds fucking stupid

I checked with the poopsmith and while he says he can’t offer you his skills hes proud of you for being number one at going number one.

“Why the hell do people keep letting ducks loose on my bus?”