Wannabe Astronaut

There's always at least one young man in every open plan office whose phone voice was perfected by years of training spending his weekends in a crowded Beer Garden.

Coercive control abusers should just get a hobby that will give them an outlet for their control freak tendencies.
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Like Bonsai.
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It would help pass the time, while they are in prison.

The purpose of a System is what it does.
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The brain that we evolved on the plains of the Serengeti was very good at finding fruit and berries and avoiding big cat predators, and social bonding. Then we discovered fire.
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A crucial thing missing, that our brains never evolved, was the ability to .......... stop.
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Fast forward a few million years, and: voila.

More corporate bullshit.

Companies be like: "Cybersecurity is paramount!"

Also: "Mandatory: everyone must upload all files to AI's. No! we will not pay for AI. You must all use the free versions."

Adobe PDF software is the actual paragon of Enshitification.

I'm going to start using "Adobe!" as an expletive.

Trump will declare Martial Law in the next few days, to avoid losing power in the mid-term elections.
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Ready? Here it comes.

If Charles Dickens was alive today, he would be writing some bloody good books about tech oligarchs.

If you haven't done enough data analysis, you don't know what you're missing.

Your job is a toxic relationship.

Don't be loyal to them.
They are literally abusing you.

The Internet in 2026:

Every single ordinary fucking thing is suddenly "an absolute game-changer".

You can download all of Wikipedia.
The (only?) way to do it, is through a free & open source app called "kiwix".
The file is a highly compressed format called ".zim"
The most recent downloadable English version (with pictures) is 115.5 Gib, dated February 2026.
It fits on a 128 GB exFAT microSD (ie. 119 GiB).

All cats are psycho dumbshit asshole bastards.
Gotta love 'em 🥰💕

For Doctor Who fans:
The existence of The Doctor and The Master implies the existence of The Bachelor and The Professor.

I know what's going to cause the collapse of civilisation and all of humanity to regress back to the Stone Age:
AI's being given total control over the world's infrastructure, after being trained on the US date format mm/dd/yyyy.

That single fucking idiotic, incorrigible stupidity is going to cause every single physical system on Earth to fail catastrophically, and every single Data Centre to overheat and burn down.

Happy Towel Day, you Hoopy Froods.

There is a type of mushroom (Lanmaoa asiatica) that contains a psychoactive compound, which, if undercooked, makes you see hundreds of tiny people (elf-like or cartoonish figures) everywhere for a few days.

WHILE (Capitalism == TRUE)
DO
MINIMUM (work)
ELSE IF (Authoritarianism == TRUE)
DO
Resistance(by any and all means)
Rebelliion(no Exceptions)
DO NOT
STOP
DO NOT
STOP

CONTINUE

I've been feeling a bit up & down lately.
I don't know whether I'm coming or going,
but that's neither here nor there, is it?
I'll get into it and work it out.

Very soon after the fishing boats start coming back home empty, they will start coming back full of whale meat.

All of the things that we cling to during the night should be available in glow-in-tthe-dark colours. Incl.:
* Teddy Bears
* Retirement Plans
* Hope for Eventual Justice for Nefarious Evildoers

To the tune of TISM's "Who Let the Dogs Out?"

WHO LEFT THE MILK OUT?

WHO, WHO, ... WHO, WHO?

#GoFundMe
#Kickstarter
#StartUp

Imma create a new business: Disposing of human corpses by converting them into cat food.

Though my ADHD is thanks to God
I'm not sure how I feel
Jesus Built my Hot-Rod
And then He took the wheel.

Oscillating between a Hedgehog and Fox.

Berlin wrote that there are three types of thinkers:
* Hedgehogs, who forcefully look at every different problem through the same lens.
* Foxes, who forcefully look at each problem from multiple perspectives.
* Those who look at problems both ways: the way that a Hedgehog would, and also the way that a Fix would.

Personally, I am more like an Ocelot.

Many religious people criticise Atheism because Atheism lacks an "objective morality" (ie. a simple set of rules).

These same people then give other professed believers of their faith a free pass to behave however they want - ie. The Rules don't actually matter to the members of the religion.

Eg. Many, many USA Christians behave and feel perfectly entitled to swap the Ten Commandments with the Seven Mortal Sins, and feel absolutely no twinge of doubt, zero guilt or cognitive dissonance about that.

The problem with having a set of rules as your "objective morality" is that no set of rules can be exhaustive and cover all possible use-cases.

"Real" morality might not be circumscribable - it needs to stay somewhat malleable, and grow and change with life experiences and maturity, to help guide behaviour through life.

So, that argument from Religious people about why religion is "good" and atheism is "bad" is not worth the paper it's written on.

You are very confused about what the Christian God is. We can blame modern Christianity for that confusion.
The Xian God was never about policing people to behave nice to each other.
It was always nothing more than a brutal, cruel Totalitarian Authoritarian Force who must be obeyed without question.
The Old Testament was a set of stories written to scare the shit out of you if you didn't blindly obey this immensely powerful monstrous force that ruled with an iron fist.
Then the New Testament told a story about a man who said if you completely give up your free will to this blind obedience, you will feel a profound sense of peace that comes from never needing to think for yourself ever again and a sense of safety from someone else always making all decisions for you, until you die happily and willingly.
It's a very long-winded way of saying the Hebrew version of "Uncle Sam Wants You".