América Latina & Caribe

Bad/no sleep continuing to wreck me

Solidarity to all other Hexbears who can't fucking sleep right

Update on the bees.

They tried to make a nest in some bloke down the street's car so my little brother went out with his nucleus box and we spent the past few hours taking shifts making sure the bees set up in there properly. No word from local beekeepers about losing a swarm, so these might be wild.

Me when there's a spot on my store bought apple:

Me when i find a snail-eaten raspberry bush near some shitty stream:

And how did your day go?

We should take the whole US military budget and build a space elevator with it instead

That would be cool as hell and way better

The Kamala defense force that sprung up overnight on TikTok is starting to get on my nerves tbh

arch is a fake operating system for assholes that's literally more impenetrable than dos

May be self doxing a bit,but i feel like I have to do something to distract myself I'm in my home rn and the ruskies are striking the Ukrainian city over in the distance hard I try to sleep but it's too hot and I feel like I'm about to have a heart attack Fuck,strike after strike,even though it's far in the distance I can see flashes of light and the shockwaves shake up the windows of the house I feel so goddamn scared even though I'm supposedly safe seeing as I don't live in Ukraine directly For one fucking year this circus has been going on and off and it's fucked my sleep schedule because every time night comes I pray this shit doesn't happen And the alarms are the worst, fucking announcing "unidentified flying objects" coming Death to NATO for making this shit possible and turning a region that was thought to be a quiet backwater into a fucking warzone I hate the fact that I can't feel safe in my own home anymore

Early 90s cars are so goofy looking. Really glad i dont have conscious memory of the era

down with cis

House GOP leaders urge members: Stop making race comments about Harris

lol, lmao even

The libs are very excited and doing their politics as team sports + religion thing and i feel sick they're all libidinal monsters projecting their whims and fears on to these banal careerist killers i feel sick.

day 4 of sketching 30 min a day to grind from practically-zero drawing/visual art priors: headshot from scratch

used what I studied yesterday in facial abstraction to see if I could make a basic headshot sketch without a reference, took me half an hour but here's what I produced

aloha, i have consumed 1x bottle of kahlua in a sitting and i am now a tiki

Once you start making super spicy spaghetti you never go back

209 Good Gateway

FWIIII ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^ ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^ ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^

>get told Arch is idiotproof and there's no need for GUI distros like Endeavour or Manjaro now since you can install your own

>make a live usb and put it into an old Acer Extensa I have laying around

>boot up

>>>get dumped at a text terminal asking me for an internet connection, whose text output goes offscreen.

Fuckin nerds lied to me...

Until we get a public appearance in front of a live audience, I refuse to believe that Joe Brandon isn't fighting an endless horde of prime Corn Pops in hell right now

damn the dick crusher 9000 got hands

Just think if UIs weren't invented we'd have to search what we want to do and type in what we want to do, instead we have the much more intuitive version of guessing what completely random images are supposed to represent.

Today my friend is giving me a bath. It’s fun!

But also I gave myself an owwie because my friend showed me a mirror and I thought it was another silly orange whale like me and I tried to say hi and got really excited and I hit my head.

I’m giving Creamsicle a bath, because my friend’s throwing him in the wash didn’t seem to work very well.

It seems to be actually working, albeit very tedious.

I thought liberals were insufferable for Biden, seeing them flip the script and get excited for Kamala is stressing me out. Or maybe I'm just stressed because I've been playing persona for 2 days and it's exam time again. Either way, I've had no peace

Wonder how soon it will take people to realize that Kamala Harris is doo doo

Hoping my algorithm is broken, all I’m seeing is how “she’s sooooooo brat”

Ludwig: Marxism denies that the individual plays an outstanding role in history. Do you not see a contradiction between the materialist conception of history and the fact that, after all, you admit the outstanding role played by historical personages?

"You say that people don't fall out of coconut trees, but I have definitely heard of this happening."

Stalin: No, there is no contradiction here. Marxism does not at all deny the role played by outstanding individuals, nor the fact that history is made by people. In Marx’s The Poverty of Philosophy and in other works of his you will find it stated that it is people who make history. But of course, people do not make history according to their own fancy or the promptings of their imagination. Every new generation encounters definite conditions already existing, ready-made, when that generation was born. And great people are worth anything at all only to the extent that they are able correctly to understand these conditions, to understand how to change them. If they fail to understand these conditions and try to alter them according to the promptings of their imagination, they will land themselves in the situation of Don Quixote. Thus it is precisely Marx’s view that people must not be counterposed to conditions. It is people who make history, but they do so only to the extent that they correctly understand the conditions that they have found ready-made, and only to the extent that they understand how to change those conditions. That, at least, is how we Russian Bolsheviks understand Marx. And we have been studying Marx for a good many years.

"People fall out of coconut trees if being up in a coconut tree is the context that they exist in and all that is around them."

quotes from https://redsails.org/stalin-and-ludwig/

There's a new essay of literary criticism making the rounds. I'm upset about it because I think it's very bad and I don't know what to do about that

What if instead of physically-based rendering in computer graphics it was

Wonder what the implications of that would be

Welp I think I'm going to take another break from dating, though this one was more successful than my previous attempts. I actually got a couple of dates this time, and although they didn't go anywhere it was still a good experience.

I'll go back to being contently single while I work on myself more, maybe I'll try again in a couple months . It'd be easier if I just wanted hookups but I'm not into casual sex without a connection. Ah well, maybe next time

My new hobby is being a KHiver in YouTube comments

Venezuelan elections are on the 28th.

All my Venezuelan friends are anti Maduro and they say hes corrupt and hes a modern populist figure like Trump. They blame him for the failures of the government.

They never know what an embargo is and what it does. The other conclusion I reached is that corruption is not why a government fails, sure it can be, but the US is corrupt and we are still "successful."

The other problem I have is the amount of evangelist and religious people in the country, it seems like a real problem. One of my friends cousins is a Trump dipshit, worships white people and is super religious.

My other problem is the selection bias regarding the people I know, theyre all musicians and generally not poor and not black. They say that theyre not racist over there and that Maduro bad is a common opinion but I've never met a black Venezuelan or someone who disagrees with them.

What frustrates me is the most is really the embargo thing, that destroys economies and your opinion on socialism is flawed if you dont understand or care what the context around your own country is. "I'm from Venezuela, I know it better than you do. You don't know" Maybe but that doesn't fly if you apply that same logic to Americans. Most of us are completely ignorant animals.