eightpix

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[–] eightpix 7 points 4 days ago

I lived in Seoul for 3 years. 청계천 is one of the happiest places of my memory.

[–] eightpix 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Magneto's power set could be very useful and easy to manage. Magnets can certainly be made stronger and weaker. He/I would need to build up to any dangerous level of magnetic power, so meditation before sleep would be clutch. Bullet-proof, flight, what amounts to telekinesis, and the ability to manifest any metallic object is fairly incredible, yet unobtrusive.

Also, Forge's power set would be pretty nice to have. Can engineer, build, fix, and invent literally anything. Solve any technological problem at will. The photocopier would never be broken. Wait, does anyone still use a photocopier? The only thing that'd be annoying is becoming everyone's IT department.

Jamie Madrox is also a great contender. Instant dupes of myself at will (and, yes, magically, they come with clothes).

These are my answers.

[–] eightpix 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Panic.

Panic that I've overslept; that I'll be late and this will be the first and last straw; that I've lost my job; lost my house; that I've relegated my family to an existence at the fringes of society subsisting on canned beans, dandelions, and wild greens; that losing every shred of self-respect and all prospects of any improvement in my life.

Yep, panic is a pretty solid motivator.

[–] eightpix 6 points 1 week ago

Listened to a whole podcast about this with the Paradise Fire. Great reporting, a documentary approach.

Fittingly, this episode of 99% invisible is amid a 6-episode stretch on climate.

[–] eightpix 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

L'appel du vide!

[–] eightpix 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Read Chomsky's Understanding Power (2002) and Manufacturing Consent (1988). It's been an oligarchy since at least the 1980s. It's Reagan's fault. Jimmy Carter — rest in power —was the last, best hope for the kind of America that humanity wanted.

Read the Fred J. Cook's The Warfare State (1962).

President Dwight D. Eisenhower was right about the Military-Industrial complex. It used to just be weapons, technology, energy, and heavy industries. The associated industries have metastasized to include entertainment, finance, housing, and education.

[–] eightpix 1 points 2 weeks ago

How annoying is it to have idiotic anti-intellectuals running nuclear superpowers?

[–] eightpix 5 points 2 weeks ago

Except Harper. He got in with a minority. Fucked around a little, prorogued parliament under threat of a coalition that would have shifted him into the minority, won that election with a majority, then fucked around even more for 5 years.

Then, he got voted out.

Pwah-lie-every was Harper's protégé. Expect every shenanigan there is.

[–] eightpix 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Socrates.

This man upheld his right to think his own thoughts and to go where the evidence led him. He stood trial and was sentenced to death.

Now, the most powerful people do not think, have zero principles, disregard evidence, and would gladly have others die to secure their power.

[–] eightpix 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

USA: 25

Iran: 883? (I've seen numbers between 743 and 798)

China: unkown

Saudi Arabia: 330

Singapore: 9

Bottom line, though, is ANY executions are repugnant.

[–] eightpix 6 points 3 weeks ago

That the Xanatos gambit is what I now expect from all good villains. Any villain worth their salt has a way to defeat the hero — even captured, killed, or frustrated.

[–] eightpix 1 points 1 month ago
 

At the bottom are the couch-dwelling viewers beholden to all above.

I know I've seen this online somewhere, but I can't remember where. It may have been a cut-scene from a video or a standalone .GIF file. I'm not certain.

If anyone in the community has seen this same image, I'd love to know the source.

 

They're all the same. Rotated 90° for each one. Except for the 'e', they flipped that one.

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Trelawny, Jamaica. Not sure what's happening on the southern side of the island.

Being at a resort during a hurricane is peak boring dystopia. The staff calmly fed us breakfast and handed out pack lunches — sandwiches, cereal, and bananas. Fresh towels delivered just in advance of the lockdown. Gas-powered generators provide lights, TV, and Internet. The same fuel the earliest Cat-5 hurricane in Atlantic history. We stay in our room, entertaining two kids and exchange messages with friends back home and the family we travel with. The mattress for our king-size bed covers the patio doors. The staff residence we see below has its windows boarded up.

We've used two streaming services to watch movies.

The false alarm two hours ago showed that our go-bags are ready, and we can head to shelter in under 30 s. They ever actually confirmed it as a false alarm.

 

The Secretary General of the legit United Nations, said this.

Are there any adults in the rooms where decisions like "bomb Gaza" are made? Why are so few saying what defeated Jamaal Bowman are saying, "permanent ceasefire now". And remember how Bowman was defeated. $17K/hr.

Also, cute story, Lebanon is the only other country in the world to feature a plant on its flag. The Lebanese are beautiful, Mediterranean people. LEBANON is at the crossroads of empires, and now — as is often the case — Lebanese are victims of outland calamities; Syria, the dock, and econonic collapse.

Hezb. are based there. Lebanon is thus remade like Afghanistan. Isr. reserves the right to "defend".

 

I've seen this meme before. I have two questions:

  1. What is this meme called?

  2. Is there video of the outcome?

 

There are only a few books that I've experienced both ways. I'm wondering if this is an area for exploration.

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submitted 10 months ago by eightpix to c/liminalspace
 

BMO IFL in Toronto. Rumored to be coming to its end.

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submitted 10 months ago by eightpix to c/aboringdystopia
 

Democracy dies when any administration can laugh off a 4-word rebuttal of a central plank of the world's most pernicious, deadly conflict(s). Regardless of public opinion, America can't be seen to undermine its own interests.

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20 February 1994. (www.gocomics.com)
submitted 11 months ago by eightpix to c/calvinandhobbes
 

Almost got it on the day!

 

I've been listening to a webradio channel from Surgut on Radio.Garden. There seems to be a lot of music produced in Russia, Estonia, and Latvia that pops up on the channel.

Is Chillout big in Russia? Or, is it basically elevator music that no one intentionally listens to?

If it is regarded as music, what — if any — attendant art, writing, or other performance is there?

Is Russia into chillout the way that Americans were into the Blues, ie. does it simply stave off the awful?

 

"We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends on evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear one of another."

 
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