Hellscape Navigator
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not as well read as I'd like. will ramble about politics, gaming, dogs, and books.
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drop a “well not with that attitude” in your group chat today. respect the classics
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"exile from a hunter gatherer tribe wouldn't necessarily be worse than going to prison" is really revealing in terms of "how much of day to day life people ignore totally when making judgments about things" on this site
November 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"exile from a hunter gatherer tribe wouldn't necessarily be worse than going to prison" is really revealing in terms of "how much of day to day life people ignore totally when making judgments about things" on this site
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I feel like I've said this lots of times but it would be IMPOSSIBLE for Gaetz to be more cartoonishly evil. And it sucks that my first thought was "this BETTER not distract from Trump's little problem."
A sitting congressman paid for a homeless teenager’s braces in exchange for sex
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I feel like I've said this lots of times but it would be IMPOSSIBLE for Gaetz to be more cartoonishly evil. And it sucks that my first thought was "this BETTER not distract from Trump's little problem."
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More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
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just laughable to say that this wasn't "publishable information" after the Mamdani college application story and using Discount Peter Wiggin as a source
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
just laughable to say that this wasn't "publishable information" after the Mamdani college application story and using Discount Peter Wiggin as a source
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"lol nothing matters" can be self-fulfilling in any case, so let's avoid doing that
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"lol nothing matters" can be self-fulfilling in any case, so let's avoid doing that
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I genuinely believe nerdism's insistence that story is a thing to be quantified, compartmentalized into tropes and trivia, to be literalized, has been utterly poisonous.
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I genuinely believe nerdism's insistence that story is a thing to be quantified, compartmentalized into tropes and trivia, to be literalized, has been utterly poisonous.
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yes, he has long loved the idea of ripping off everything in the culture novels but the underlying political and social ethos that makes the cool tech stuff possible
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
yes, he has long loved the idea of ripping off everything in the culture novels but the underlying political and social ethos that makes the cool tech stuff possible
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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
i know there's a lot more important things going on, but i'm still salty Alien: Earth stated FTL travel hadn't been invented yet.
when the Nostromo 100% travels faster than light in ALIEN. like full stop they just go that wrong. just because it's slow doesn't mean it's not faster than light, guys.
when the Nostromo 100% travels faster than light in ALIEN. like full stop they just go that wrong. just because it's slow doesn't mean it's not faster than light, guys.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 AM
i know there's a lot more important things going on, but i'm still salty Alien: Earth stated FTL travel hadn't been invented yet.
when the Nostromo 100% travels faster than light in ALIEN. like full stop they just go that wrong. just because it's slow doesn't mean it's not faster than light, guys.
when the Nostromo 100% travels faster than light in ALIEN. like full stop they just go that wrong. just because it's slow doesn't mean it's not faster than light, guys.
i'm gonna cling to my prediction that When Prophecy Fails would never be debunked no matter what happens, i've spent too much of my life predicting it would never be debunked to change now
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
i'm gonna cling to my prediction that When Prophecy Fails would never be debunked no matter what happens, i've spent too much of my life predicting it would never be debunked to change now
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all of this is also true for sexism. you tell me you think women are biologically less smart and i’ll suspect that i could probably convince you to drink your own piss
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
all of this is also true for sexism. you tell me you think women are biologically less smart and i’ll suspect that i could probably convince you to drink your own piss
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bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
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you have to be a genuine fucking idiot to believe this. there is no plausible genetic mechanism for this, especially if you go looking for "IQ" genes. there are a few genes which if you turn them off make humans gravely intellectually disabled. other than that it's a million point mutations.
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
you have to be a genuine fucking idiot to believe this. there is no plausible genetic mechanism for this, especially if you go looking for "IQ" genes. there are a few genes which if you turn them off make humans gravely intellectually disabled. other than that it's a million point mutations.
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"but it's actually bad if SCOTUS stops the tariffs because it will make things suck less, thus blunting the blue wave" this might apply if Trump suddenly became a very sensible individual with a great sense of political strategy. if they strike them down he's gonna flip his shit & do bad things
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"but it's actually bad if SCOTUS stops the tariffs because it will make things suck less, thus blunting the blue wave" this might apply if Trump suddenly became a very sensible individual with a great sense of political strategy. if they strike them down he's gonna flip his shit & do bad things
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I had thought most of my naive idealism had been stomped out of me by now, but it’s amazing to me that this level of public animosity could be directed by Democratic leadership toward a sweet and personable young candidate of their own party seemingly exclusively because of his background.
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I had thought most of my naive idealism had been stomped out of me by now, but it’s amazing to me that this level of public animosity could be directed by Democratic leadership toward a sweet and personable young candidate of their own party seemingly exclusively because of his background.
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Schumer is plainly just a massive bigot. he will not support a Muslim for elected office
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Schumer is plainly just a massive bigot. he will not support a Muslim for elected office
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I HAVE NO READING COMPREHENSION
I AM ANGRY
I AM ANGRY
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I HAVE NO READING COMPREHENSION
I AM ANGRY
I AM ANGRY
they call it the thousand island stare
November 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
they call it the thousand island stare
cult of the bloody tongue endorses cuomo for new york mayor, saying he's one of the chosen of nyarlathotep
journalist jackson elias, longstanding cuomo critic, could not be reached for comment
journalist jackson elias, longstanding cuomo critic, could not be reached for comment
November 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM
cult of the bloody tongue endorses cuomo for new york mayor, saying he's one of the chosen of nyarlathotep
journalist jackson elias, longstanding cuomo critic, could not be reached for comment
journalist jackson elias, longstanding cuomo critic, could not be reached for comment
the best job i ever had was just sitting in a warehouse going through 100 year old documents so dust coated i developed a bad cough
shoulda been a historian. instead i'm the international jewel thief known only as the The Stranger and man it's just a drag these days getting health insurance
shoulda been a historian. instead i'm the international jewel thief known only as the The Stranger and man it's just a drag these days getting health insurance
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
the best job i ever had was just sitting in a warehouse going through 100 year old documents so dust coated i developed a bad cough
shoulda been a historian. instead i'm the international jewel thief known only as the The Stranger and man it's just a drag these days getting health insurance
shoulda been a historian. instead i'm the international jewel thief known only as the The Stranger and man it's just a drag these days getting health insurance
the non-fundamentalist strain conservatives started turning against science when the science-magicians started being more non-white and non-male, and when environmental science started revealing bad-for-industry truths about all kinds of stuff
and the fundamentalists were already mad about darwin
and the fundamentalists were already mad about darwin
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
the non-fundamentalist strain conservatives started turning against science when the science-magicians started being more non-white and non-male, and when environmental science started revealing bad-for-industry truths about all kinds of stuff
and the fundamentalists were already mad about darwin
and the fundamentalists were already mad about darwin
the entire extraction loot shooter genre is predicated on the lizard brain activation of finding some duct tape in a bin when you need duct tape
i'm okay with this
i'm okay with this
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
the entire extraction loot shooter genre is predicated on the lizard brain activation of finding some duct tape in a bin when you need duct tape
i'm okay with this
i'm okay with this
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the next democrat needs to pass legislation requiring that all sci-fi media have a constant disclaimer that "none of this shit is ever going to happen"
Lunacy. tech.yahoo.com/science/arti...
Jeff Bezos Says He Doesn't Understand Why Anybody Alive Now Would Be 'Discouraged'—Because Soon, 'Millions Of People Will Be Living In Space'
Jeff Bezos says the future is so bright, he "doesn't see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now." Speaking at Italian Tech Week 2025 earlier this month with Ferrari and Stellantis chair...
tech.yahoo.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
the next democrat needs to pass legislation requiring that all sci-fi media have a constant disclaimer that "none of this shit is ever going to happen"
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it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it
October 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it
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i will note again that there is a really unhealthy, unpleasant and strong current of consumerism that runs through the left in a way that genuinely didn’t used to be true
The responses this post is getting, combined with the animating grievances of large swathes of politics, has convinced me we need a kind of society wide PSA about how Buying Things Is Optional.
You don’t think video games should cost $100? Don’t buy the videogame. Buying Things Is Optional.
You don’t think video games should cost $100? Don’t buy the videogame. Buying Things Is Optional.
AAA video games should cost $100 on launch. this would still be extremely cheap for the amount of time and enjoyment you get out of them! But an audience of whiny babies has kept them literally at the same price for *two decades* despite both general inflation *and* sector-specific costs rising
October 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
i will note again that there is a really unhealthy, unpleasant and strong current of consumerism that runs through the left in a way that genuinely didn’t used to be true