In Johnny Cash’s “Live from Folsom Prison” album there is a song called ‘cocaine blues’. The first verse goes like this:

early one morning while making the rounds

I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down

I went right home and I went to bed

I stuck that loving forty-four beneath my head.

I keep this in my back pocket when conservatives claim that Rap and Hip Hop glorify violence, guns, misogyny, and drug use. I defy you to find something from NAS or Killer Mike that can compete on the level of classic country.

Palestinians have the right to defend themselves.

Thousands and thousands of people line up every day to wait in long, slow moving lines just to get to the barrier around the Mona Lisa to photograph it.

The Mona Lisa might be the most reproduced image in all of history. And the people who get the opportunity to see it in person can only think to photograph it one more time.

It’s almost if that were the point. Taking a selfie with Lisa is the correct way to experience this art. If your camera broke, there is no reason to wait on line just to what, see the painting?

Don’t confuse patriotism with nationalism. Patriotism is love for one’s homeland, nationalism is a delusion of blood and soil.

I was tired of being a Darwinist. Now I follow the writings of Dickens; I’m a Dickhead.

These people are not talking about the science biology, but the epistemic authority of biology and science because “God’s will” doesn’t play like it used to.

Their ideology demands that biology confirms their priors. Don’t bother to check. If some egghead denies it then biology is being political, woke, and distorted.

Capitalists are so fucking innovative that they’re trying to replace unpaid human labor with robots that are worse and cost money.

Your argument is more out of date than Vista. Windows is not the default because people like their software, or would choose it over anything else. It’s because they’ve positioned themselves as the default monopoly since the goddamn 1980s.

To see what happens when Microsoft has to compete on quality of software, just ask yourself why Copilot and Recall aren’t being rolled out on Windows phones.

If you think about it, almost all computer-technology is radio. Wifi, bluetooth, GPS, radar, and cellular are literally radio. Meanwhile everything else runs on transistor tech developed and refined… for radios.

Our modern economy couldn’t exist if people like Hertz and Maxwell didn’t get to toy with their useless hobbies. But we can’t rely on the curiosity of the leisure class anymore. Basic research is expensive, necessary, and a public good. I’m afraid that the Trump regime has already spoiled the secret sauce that makes America the technology leader of the world.

You conflate being Asian (a resident of a continent) with Slavic (a cultural group). So what is race? A coordinate, or a cuisine?

Race is so unreal that you can’t even keep the lore straight in your own head.

Spaces like 8cun and kiwifarms are very welcoming to regular type dudes with centrist politics and mainstream opinions. They’re not nasty, unreasonable, and deranged like us. They’ll never challenge a man who identifies as normal.

It’s really hard to hurt another person when you feel their pain.

Consider the sadist. How can you enjoy someone’s suffering if you can’t recognize it?

The most wicked people are advanced empaths.

What people don’t understand is that Wonka is a visionary. You don’t hinder men of genius with dull government bureaucrats!

Let the man cook, enjoy the chocolate knowing that the little orange men are happy, And really better off than they would be on their scary native island. They appreciate all that Wonka does without demeaning his genius by demanding a salary. If only the tax-man was so enlightened.

The best part about Christianity is the music, but this ain’t it.

I’m rocking a GTX 1660 and have no plans to upgrade. Ray-tracing is a scam and all the “AAA” titles that are too vram hungry for my card are not that attractive anyway.

I think I’m starting to understand the gamergate dudes. They had, in videogames the ultimate trad setup. Women were on display, available for use, and existed for their approval. Much like a powerful man from a bygone era would have enjoyed in real life.

That’s what “they took from us”. A pathetic virtual chauvinistic paradise. It was sadder than I thought.

Heroin.

Of course a suicide would have advance knowledge of their own death. It’s not unusual for suicidal people to lie about their own mental health. Especially to their closest loved ones.

What you point out could only support a vague suspicion; a motive to look for compelling evidence. Hanging a whole murder conspiracy on evidence this thin is not the product of critical thought.