MonkeMischief

And tractors retrofitted as combat technicals.

Yeah see...that got me into a metric poopton of trouble and conflict as a kid so now it occurs to me in my head, LOUDLY, but I clench my jaw shut. Lol

driving and fighting for a week straight without sleep or rest.

Holy crap I was gonna ask if this was literally possible but...yeah...I guess so!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_sleep_deprivation_experiment

I'm still surprised there weren't more accounts of them losing their minds. A week without sleep? That's terrifying to think about.

Sidenote: Weird seeing this after I only learned about the "Russian Sleep Experiment" creepypasta like a month ago. Lol

Ohh yep! Then I found out the "one jackass with ADHD" trying to maintain my body is also the one-man pit crew on my own car because rates on mechanical labor are often way out of reach.

I agree with you somewhat and I don't like how much downvote spam you're getting. You bring up some good points we ought to be mindful of.

Right now it seems very clear who the oppressors are, but the scary thing about reactive movements is that even if they accomplish their goal, they tend to seek to justify themselves indefinitely before everyone gets bored and it dissolves.

Everybody wants a revolution on paper, but things get messy and blurry once the powder keg goes off, and people en masse would be looking for the next enemy, the next oppressor, that must be hunted down to finally secure Utopia.

While I'm an anarchist and want the "ownership class" to answer for their wicked ways, I also don't think a bunch of independent actors picking targets and gunning them down based solely on their own justification is an ideal solution. Even if I understand why it happens and don't defend the perpetrators that push people to such extremes in the first place.

I can hold two ideas at the same time here, where I understand why it happened as a consequence of rampant evil on behalf of the ownership class, and it's a natural comeuppance after pushing the wrong person too far. (I think we're all shocked it took this long to happen.)

But also, unfortunately as much as we love a good revenge story, planting 3 slugs into another human being, even a nasty one, in cold blood, is not self-defense. The goal of self defense is the reduction of an attacker's ability to cause direct and imminent harm to the defender.

This was assault, and it was murder, and we can reason about the justification behind it, but I sadly don't really know what it will change, besides the bourgeois getting allocated even more of our money to have protection detail and hold their board meetings in walled enclaves or yahts away from the populace.

Violence begets violence. Blood begets blood, and those who live by the sword will die by it also. I think any sane rational person can agree this guy reaped what he and his ilk sowed every day, but still be against slaying human beings on the streets to make a point.

And the occasional lenses for my eyeballs.

I know I'm asking for a lot because adequate vision is positively absolutely a luxury, and not at all necessary for doing the vast majority of work or existing in society...but y'know.

Nice!

Tangentially related: So is Automate The Boring Stuff With Python!

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/#toc

I keep forgetting that one! Thanks! I always use up arrow and then waste time getting the cursor back with maybe the home key or ctrl+ left-arrow LOL

The NoStarch books are excellent overviews for newbies to go beyond being "just a user" though. They're written in a very friendly and approachable manner. If you're enthusiastic about learning how the OS works and playing with commands, they're really good about that! I think it's cool OP is repping rhem. :)

If someone was like "Hey I wanted to try Linux!" and thought they needed to go through LPIC/LINUX+ doorstoppers or had manuals about the kernel or something, I'd be like "Woah there. Calm down." LOL

That's so brutal. The foster system is also really strange, from my broad thousand-foot view of it.

Maybe I'm way off base but it feels like some weird dispassionate state shuffle system where kids don't get a stable family situation, they just get passed around a series of "halfway homes", develop psychological problems from these constant disruptions in their development because duh, and then suddenly are "of age" and booted out to go work or something. (And likely end up on the street? Shocker!)

(This constant attempt to reinstitute child labor scares me even more in this context)

My wife and I were consulting various sources about adoption. We basically found out adoption is like some weird underground "baby market" that obviously favors the rich, and prices different genetics traits differently. (YEP!)

Directed to the foster system, it sounds like you just end up as a revolving door extension of a failed, undercut, under funded social program that "processes" kids through your house like inmate transfers.

No wonder statistics are so grim! My research suggests to me it was a replacement for the antiquated orphanage system of old but... Sheesh was it really an improvement? (Of the best examples, for the sake of argument, not the worst ones).

All this rabble rabble about abortion being legal or not, but it could be legal again universally, tomorrow, and conservatives wouldn't have to worry about it actually happening so often if they fixed their freaking obtuse child-as-market-product system. If they actually cared about children, that is. Fat chance they'll even think of that though.

Sorry I didn't know this was such a button with me but I hope I added to the conversation LOL. Thanks for your post. <3 So many people are just...invisible. And it's heartbreaking.

I like how part of the reason she got super successful is appealing heavily to the working class instead of pretending to be some monolithic impossible "you wish" standard of fame, money, and power, to self-destructively aspire to.

Dolly is based.