Waiting periods and background checks probably help with this to at least reduce the number of people that can buy a gun while actively dealing with a mental health crisis. On the other end of things, assisted suicide would probably help people with terminal conditions choose a less risky method.

A gun craves the blood of its owner most of all.

It’s quite the paradox, considering how much more gently police deal with armed protests than unarmed ones.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-us/

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!”

“What is it? What’s wrong?!”

“All the usual stuff is still going on!”

This is important and highlights some problems with trends in the modern world. At one point, we had an agreement that the average family would sacrifice 40 labor hours to the economy in return for enough resources to sustain a family. Now it’s 80.

Parents should have plenty of time to engage in childish pursuits alongside their kids. It’s natural, traditional, healthy and constructive to multi-generational, extended family households. I know that’s not what everyone wants, but I feel like it should at least be an option.

It should be okay for a person to work 20 hours per week. We have the technology to make that sustainable. If someone wants to work 80 to accumulate luxuries for themselves, I think that’s fine, too. What I hate is observing people being forced to live in poverty while working 40+ hours. I am aware that almost no one working full time is below the federal poverty limit, but that’s because it’s a nonsense metric. It’s unconscionable that anyone should have to live in poverty in the modern world, but it’s insane that full-time wages don’t necessarily cover the cost of living.

I believe this creates a situation which raises children without a sense of community outside of work, and now we’re watching them burn down the village as 70-year-olds. There’s a saying about how bad times create strong people, strong people create good times, good times create weak people, and weak people create bad times. I don’t believe it for a second. Strong people and peoples are those with strong social bonds. They needn’t be biological. Screwed up families exist and it’s okay to get away and find a real family elsewhere.These communities create good times, which create even stronger people.

So therefore, go and do silly things with kids. Play Minecraft or Fortnite or kick-the-can or hide-and-seek, sing baby shark, or watch Bluey. Not just because our future depends on it, but because it’s fun. We are supposed to be happy as a minimum standard. Not all the time, but at least as an average. It’s not even the goal of life; it’s the method. We’re supposed to enjoy doing constructive things. That’s how positive reinforcement works, and the current system is not only failing to acknowledge that, but it’s diverging from it.

Go and be childish.

One of the worst things about stuff like this is that it’s essentially accurate. There’s a long and well-documented history of veterans suffering crippling trauma from slaughtering people.

Obviously, the people being tortured and killed are, by far, the most victimized in this scenario. Still, the people being raised on propaganda and compelled by law to murder peaceful people are also being used and harmed.

I understand that this propaganda piece isn’t mostly about that. It’s about using suffering to exploit people’s sense of empathy into promoting an otherwise unconscionable geopolitical agenda.

This isn’t exclusive to Israel either. It’s a long-standing tradition of organized violence that’s at least thousands of years old. I don’t know what else to say about this phenomenon except that most of us probably agree that it needs to stop, and that whatever group is doing the most killing is most in the wrong. I regret that I don’t have a good solution. Historically, anything less than violent rebellion doesn’t work. Sometimes even that fails.

Because it would be backward. The bourgeoisie should be servicing the proletussy to the satisfaction of the proletariat.

Bourgussy

Maybe in general, but Eastern-Carolina style is the superlative barbecue form.

This must be how the Jurassic Park Scientists felt when they first realized what was possible.

Man, I hate it when that happens.

I wish I could give you gold for this, but all I got right now is this box of one dozen starving, crazed weasels.

Also, there are bars on which’s jukebox one can play Weird Al’s eleven-ish-minute song, “Albuquerque.” Not everyone will appreciate it, so you probably shouldn’t. I just wanted you to know that you can.

It has some strong David Lynch vibes. We’re presented with a pretty mundane situation. Then, the events of the story slowly chip away at the familiar elements of the environment, revealing it to be a facade until we’re left staring at the ever-growing gap between individual perception and empirical, objective reality, calling into question various ontological and epistemological assumptions. It’s like staring at a photograph until we can see it as the cloud of particles that it is and then realizing that it’s always been that way. The intensely surreal feeling reveals itself to be the process of the mind resolving cognitive dissonance while accepting the infinite and stochastic nature of the physical universe. A game, a mislead, a piss beaker, and a bus. These elements changed us as we changed them by perceiving them, and then, life goes on.

If you’re not published, you should be.

I’d recommend them, if you enjoy that experience/process.

I did like that Tenet has layers. You can watch it as an action movie, no problem, but you can also go as far down into the story as you want to also.

Ruh roh.

I don’t think that’s wrong at all. I gave it 3 tries and then started looking for outside analyses. Movies are made by groups of people. It makes sense that it would take groups to understand them. I had to do the same thing with Coherence and Primer.

Subtitles are great. I almost always have them on to aid comprehension. I find that I pick up on more subtleties that way. I feel like I still want to be able to process almost all of the dialog with audio alone so that the subtitles add an extra layer of understanding.

You’re probably one of the few people that has heard the dialog from Tenet then. Christopher Nolan films are some of my favorites, but wow, was that audio messed up. I had to create an equalizer profile just for that.

You can’t trust the system…maaaaan!

https://youtu.be/gAYL5H46QnQ