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Periodic reminder that your mind is a high value target within the battlespace.

Question: "Hmmm here's a hyper-energetic system whose dynamics are fundamentally chaotic. What should we do with it?"

Answer: "Poke at it above one of the major population centers in Indian Country!"

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Today I talked myself into believing that the US government was flagrantly negligent at multiple levels leading up to the Rapid City Flood of 1972.

By 1964, the National Academy of the Sciences had already concluded that weather control was being hyped up on uncontrolled experiments rigged together with a posteriori findings. But Congress had already doled out the cash 3 years earlier, so Project Skywater was full steam ahead.

Surely enough, another uncontrolled experiment in 1972 killed 238.

There's some really grim lyrics coming out of the ass-rock / ass-rap-rock genres these days. I'm listening to these guys working next to me and it's like, "I am incapable of feeling sincere emotions anymore. My whole life is a performance and I long for the grave to give definition to my life."

Sometimes I think about the guy who I knew from Scouts who got massive burns on his chest at a campout. I knew his first girlfriend. He became a research scientist.

What is his life like now?
Does he still have scars?
What does he think about them?

"it's called BOUNDARIES sweaty and it means you have to do what I say"

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what if our world is just cybersyn's projection of the worst case scenario if pinochet's coup succeeded?

@enkiv2 A rare example of intersection between the eschatology of Philip K Dick and the holism of Stafford Beer, or as it's better known -- "Dick-Beer theory."

All the jots are correct, but the tittles are a fucking trainwreck.

Oh yeah, I have all the correct opinions. People approve of what I think, deep down.

This is the black rectangle that turns frozen flesh into hot food. This is the black rectangle that turns dots and dashes into pictures and music. This is the black rectangle that turns my inner life into someone else's problem.

@dankmilk69420@stranger.social I alone understand the sadism of this question.

In western politics we have a bunch of vanguards pulling elite persuasion campaigns while waiting for a mass movement to catch up with them. Meanwhile, the masses that would constitute a movement are only willing to do shoe-on-head not-even-wrong stuff.

TFW a file format is so old that it includes an "insert paper tape this way" arrow as part of the header: Looks like this traces back to the PDP-11.

my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. the boys will do anything my milkshake tells them to do. “all hail the milkshake,” they chant in unison as they begin their descent upon the townspeople

Remember what Carse says: performatively low status is an anti-title. To play at being below everything, to posit a conspicuous absence, is the same move as playing above everything.

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