You might find this 10-month-old Vlogbrothers video interesting.

A friend of mine got fired from his old job by telling his boss that Babylon 5 was a big pile of sh*te.

And if you’re a nerd, you’ll know that that wasn’t actually a friend of mine, but Tim Biseley, one of the protagonists of turn of the century TV show Spaced, played by Simon Pegg.

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So I don’t get to the cinema much, but I got to see The Muppets when it came out (over a decade ago, good grief), and Kermit singing Pictures In My Head totally broke me.

Dunno whether it will work for anyone else, but like many of a certain age, I grew up with the original Muppet Show on TV and it hit too damn hard.

The ability to deal with the rush and then persistence of negative feeling whenever anything bad happens, my routine is thrown off, or even I have to do something I’d rather not, because I do not cope well with any of those, and it causes me to shut down.

The usual advice is to “bury it”, “hold it” or “suck it up” for some unspecified later time, but that was basically my old coping mechanism and It Does Not Work™ any more.

So I’d like the upgraded version of that. Whatever it is. Preferably a version that won’t break or occasionally malfunction (we call those “Warning signs”, kids) like the original one did.

They’re insulated from a lot of the bad things that happen under either form of government, so all they see is a “grass is greener on the other side” situation. They haven’t lived under a dictatorship and they think they can influence the transition and running of it to be in their favour, so they push for the change because they think it will make things better for them.

Whether it will or not is entirely dependent on various unspecified factors, some of which may or be outside human control, or even human reckoning without the benefit of foresight.

I’m fairly certain this means that in a world full of dictatorships - and by the gods, we’re trying to do that like the silly little idiots we are - the billionaires might well push for a democratic society for exactly the same reason.

But only if they’re not in the dictator’s inner circle, which is why dictators like to have the rich people on their side.

Well, horses (and most other herbivores) are actually opportunistic carnivores, so they’re only a few generations away from switching from opportunistic to actively hunting some of their food.

And by opportunistic carnivore, I mean they’ll chomp an unsuspecting small mammal or bird if the mood takes them.

Yeah, they’re trying new things again. Gotta squeeze that stone for all the blood that’s in it.

One of my accounts has been getting a long delay before the video starts. Pre-roll ads are trying to load and play but the add-ons I have installed are still stopping them from completely succeeding. For now.

I also have auto-play turned off, and I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

Pretty sure the systems at their side think that I’m seeing the ads because I’ve had pop-ups during the delay offering free Premium.

Been there done that.

A few years back I went back to an old Internet haunt that I hadn’t been to in more years still.

People were there, chatting, including at least one person I knew who’d been there previously. I should have taken the hint when he joked that he “didn’t spend a lot of time there, honest” (paraphrase), but I basically picked up where I’d left off years before rather than feel out the new vibe. There were about twenty or so people there at first, and I only really noticed when there were ten or so left and they weren’t saying much.

I left. Haven’t had the nerve to go back. If I do, I’ll try to feel out the vibe first.

In the meantime, I’ve found other places to hang out and different people. But I still try to reel myself in occasionally, just in case.

Thanks for finding him. I’ve amended my comment with better details.

Journalists for RFA aren’t being sentenced to 3 generations of there family being out into concentration camps for disagreeing with the US govt.

Careful. If Trump could read, he’d think that was a brilliant idea.

My brain makes some dumb connections. This is basically Dom Joly with his enormous mobile phone, shouting INCREDIBLY LOUDLY into it.

Reminds me of that SCP Buddhist monk who has been in deep meditation for over 200 years, except he doesn’t troll people, and he can be roused if absolutely necessary. The hardest part is communicating because Japanese has evolved beyond the language he speaks.

Edits: … As a reply points out, he’s SCP-1520 and he’s apparently more aware of his surroundings and more interacted with than I remembered. Still mostly meditating though.

So, has Musk straight up admitted to being a white supremacist or has he only dropped anvil-sized hints so far?

Dude’s already there. What’s he supposed to do, crawl back up the oviduct?

(… Oof. I don’t even have those and I’m having sympathy pains for it.)

I wonder what would happen if someone else threw a similar tantrum with the topic “people who throw tantrums (like that other guy) shouldn’t get what they want”.

I mean, I know what would happen, you’d get permanently trespassed and the other guy would get a comped meal, but you know, it’d be funny for five minutes.

They either can’t see it or they see it perfectly well and they like what they see.

You may find either or both of these disgusting.

This logic can also be applied to elections.

I’ve seen that picture online before, and pointed out (in whatever forum I was on) that it looks a lot like a cricket sweater, which doesn’t fit with his image at all, and I doubt he’s ever worn, let alone owned one.

At the time, someone suggested that it might have been a “portrait in search of a head” (my paraphrase) and Trump commissioned the artist to put his face on it. I reckon the artist might have been hoping to sell to someone like Shane Warne, but Donny bought it instead.

Indeed. We should be suspicious of this doctor’s diagnostic ability, if that’s not another leap of logic too far.