I turned 44 just the other day; honestly, without a doubt I’d have taken the pill the day before my 21st birthday. One big do-over and minimal responsibilities to manage after the de-aging.

• ✔️ Someone taking care of me 24/7 for a period measured in years?
• ✔️ School? What a joke. Ace everything, be a social and intellectual prodigy?
• ✔️ No bills, no responsibilities?
• ✔️ Boundless energy and Wolverine-like healing?
• ✔️ One set of friends in their 40s with life and professional advice/connections for you as you turn 21; and another set of friends your own age bursting with enthusiasm, ideas, and a gleam in their eye?

Like, I’m not seeing a downside to this over here…

That if I touch myself down there I feel funny. Haven’t stopped since

Too true man, but sadly not enough people have broken out of the walled gardens and still get their info from FB, Insta, X, etc…

Comparing what I see on here vs what friends on traditional social media see…there is a start contrast in the volume of pro Israel comments and such. Probably a function of number of users

Israel has been running a very effective crowd sourced propoganda arm for years and years…they even had an app at one point directing sympathizers in what to say, where to say it, and what to look out for.

Good news for us is that the sheer volume of pro Palestine posts and comments make it so the bots and bad faith actors can’t really keep up and brigade all of them in a sustained way.

NYT manufacturing consent…here it is in real time

Reminder that this happened, and the ‘testimony’ of Nayirah was instrumental to W. for the support he wanted for the Gulf War.

I see through your ‘cunning’ plan Biden

A towel, [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

Traveling with a towel in my carryon bag has saved my ass more than a couple of times. It’s a towel, it’s a pillow, it’s a small blanket, it’s a privacy shield, it’s a surface to sling your fake watches to passerbys and earn enough for your return flight home.

Want to freshen up prior to landing or during a connection at an airport? That towel will get you dry after washing up, brushing your teeth, etc. No silly paper towel, or Dyson hand dryer nonsense.

I was reading up on this here and saw the same worrying thing in this article

Following high-level negotiations to win over Washington, the resolution no longer dilutes Israel’s control over all aid deliveries to 2.3 million people in Gaza. Israel monitors the limited aid deliveries to Gaza via the Rafah crossing from Egypt and the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing.

So basically the US delayed the resolution for 4 days while people died, so that they could argue that a UN monitoring mechanism would ‘slow’ down the process and that Israel should continue to monitor the distribution of humanitarian aid…to the same people they’ve been desimating and who need the aid.

On which planet does majority of this aid make it to the people it’s directed to? It’s just going to end up funding more bullshittery and the people who need this aid desperately have their current enemy as the gatekeeper…

Probability. Nothing is impossible, only improbable.

So no matter how unlikely it is that the universe exists, and that there is sustained, complex life on this one; probability says that at some point; given enough time, enough iterations, etc it would have all lined up to create our little blip in time…and in some likelyhood, others too.

My man over here living their best life inside the matrix

The universe handed you a golden opportunity to blame-Meta, and you…dropped the ball. 😉

Don’t worry, I know it’s a sensitive question and I’m not saying it’s a shit one.

I was saying a couple of things at once.

1. It’s basically what the British were thinking/doing
2. It takes a certain size of iron balls to ask Indians/Pakistanis a question like this

Oh hey, it’s a hornets nest! Let’s give it a shake and see what happens!

Hello WiFi

Devil in the details, as with all things he says…

If we redefined what “turn off” means, and make it more like “no access to internet” the end result of turning off the internet is achieved.

So far, forcing telcos into action might be the most applicable? They can pick and choose services to disable I assume

Wouldn’t that obliterate a ton of other infrastructure and do much more turn turn off the internet…basically turn any electronic device into a brick?

This is where I was leaning when thinking about it initially. It would almost have to be a non-technical solution. I’m guessing he’s more of an “internet for me, but not for thee” kind of turn-off-the-internet guy so infrastructure and service would need to operate on some level

Hahahaha pretty reasonable

Man I’m not pushing any political agenda or party. I don’t now what propaganda you’re talking about. I read an article, and posted it here for context behind the purpose of the post.

Just thought it was a fun train of thought to chase down. I try not to take myself too seriously

Wasn’t this some aspect of the qanon stuff? I swear I’ve heard this shit in those fringes

Great read, and I got a ton of context around the German reaction to current events.

I literally just finished reading this piece, and it provides so much context to this ridiculousness