I wasted twenty minutes of my life learning enough tumblr to understand the second note. tumblr is a strange and fascinating country, like Listenbourg.

whoa that one is like 4000% worse than the others. Jesus. they’re not all bad though, just wildly inconsistent. it’s giving radical centrism.

my dad’s tongue turned black and he developed jaundice when he was living in Germany. they sent him to a tropical disease institute. never figured out what it was; it eventually went away. I’m guessing he happened to cross paths with someone who traveled from an exotic location.

there’s a lot of viruses: rhinovirus, other coronaviruses, RSV, etc. and other kinds of bacterial infections too. checking ProMED Mail I don’t see anything too out of the ordinary. there’s usually a flurry of emails there before an epidemic emerges.

if both parents are very sick it’s extremely unlikely to be ME/CFS. ME is a rare consequence of viral illness.

I headcanon that Han can’t understand a word Chewwy says and just goes on vibes.

Jesus wouldn’t narc on you, but he might tell you to surrender yourself to police. no murder is one of the Ten Commandments. this is how Catholic confession works, at least (I am not Catholic.)

I suspect the kid consented to the pastor calling the marshals, after deciding to turn himself in. otherwise how would they know where to find him that quickly?

guessing that granddad wasn’t Jewish and served in WWII, so the spam was what he ate in the trenches.

did Ground News report that as fact? journalism 101: when you report on a rumor, clearly mark it as a rumor. or just don’t report rumors in the first place.

he called his dad and confessed. his dad advised him to turn himself in. he said he’d rather commit suicide. his dad called his youth pastor to talk him down, who called the US marshals to secure him. I feel bad for the dad… that’s got to be a genuinely horrible situation to navigate.

update from the future: the suspect is Tyler Robinson, a young white Utah man from a Mormon family, with unregistered party affiliation. he confessed to his father, who called a youth pastor to talk him down from suicide, who then called US marshals to take him into custody.

rule of three is broader than Wicca though. something like it is common in a lot of pagan beliefs.

the Overton window has shifted so far right that racism went from unacceptable to fringe but acceptable.

look at all the propaganda memes depicting anti-racists as only having white friends, and racists as having PoC friends they jokingly razz. they’re trying to rehabilitate overt racism.

1. say as many unhinged, hateful things as possible to farm outrage.
2. leftists share her content out of outrage.
3. fascists flock to her because she triggers the libs.
4. fascists gain power, she rides their wave.

there’s so many examples of this kind of thing. Richard Spencer and Nick Fuentes are other examples.

I can only think of USSR and DPRK. maybe Maoist China, but China (at least now) allows religion (though it prohibits Tibetan Buddhism and iirc Islam.)

I definitely wouldn’t consider DPRK to “shine with the best of humanity.” good luck to you if you decide to move there; don’t pull an Otto Warmbier!

are they called dongles because they dangle?

if the idiot in question got your fingers cut off as well as theirs, I would take some pleasure in their pain. I’m not proud of that. it’s very corrosive, and it’s not good for my soul. but… it quenches my anger, somewhat. :/

I hope they get what they voted for. specifically, I hope that they’re on the receiving end of what they voted for. the Hitler Youth turned out for the Nazis, and paid for it in the trenches. same right now with a lot of the young Russian soldiers who supported Putin.

they have Parliamentary systems :/

the US is fucked because the President is enormously powerful and elected directly by the people.

the proper way is to do a hostile takeover of the Democratic party.

Trump wasn’t really a Republican, he was a nationalist (in 2016) and now a fascist (in 2024.) Republicans were neocons, libertarians and classical conservatives.

in 2017 he purged the actual Republicans from the Party, and filled its hollowed husk with MAGA. by 2024, the takeover was complete. actual Republicans (e.g. Liz Cheney, Romney) abandoned ship. the name is the only thing that stayed the same.

so, we need to do the same with the DNC. the formula is simple. hijack the primaries, shove the existing leadership out and show the Republicans what “socialism” really means.