Haha I literally read this line and thought, "Jesus who do you think you are, UlyssesT??".

Anyways, welcome back brotherino.

I feel like all the magic has flowed down into the smaller regional burns at this point. Those are obviously hit or miss depending on your local scene, and you don't get quite the same huge community pieces as the big burn, but there's usually plenty enough to keep you busy just checking everything out for the whole event anyways, let alone a thousand times that if you really get involved with volunteering/organizing. Hell in a previous state I lived in, there were a few smaller local burns and then a bigger state-wide one, so even then you could kinda pick and choose how big and crazy of a thing you wanted to attend/do.

I need to start looking at local options around here...

My favorite line on this subject: only call the police when the situation would be improved by the addition of an easily frightened maniac with a gun.

That is to say, usually don't.

They would be bald-ass stealing a Rick-n-Morty quote to make this useless point too, natch.

They are like, so close to catching on to something here. You can feel so good!

To quote my favorite Zammuto track:

Your blood pumps through your heart

And flows to the other parts of your body

Let yourself feel your own heart

Beating and pumping

You know what a heart looks like

That good feeling is always there

You can feel so good

And it's true! You can learn how to capture those good feelings that are usually only fleeting in life and harness them, and make them available to yourself at any time. It's really powerful!

But it's really more a trick of like, TM or mindfulness practice. It has very little to do with cum.

Ok she seems awesome, and I've heard the PSL endorsed by at least a few Marxists I trust, but what do yall think about them and their platform? Any weird gotchas in there or history of grossness from her or the organization?

Seriously, I'm always telling people about this. The most adament speeders are always the "fuck the government", you can't tell me what to do, come-and-take-it types, and it just baffles me because like, yeah, they will come and take it; in fact they love to!

You are giving the pigs a free pass to fully legally and justifiably pull you over any time they feel like it.

Obviously they'll still pull over anyone at any time and retroactively make up a reason, but at least then they are starting on shaky ground, and you've got a way better chance of beating any charges later.

If you hate the pigs so much, why would you make their job so easy? Especially if you're riding dirty in any way, then that just multiplies everything above a thousand times. And naturally, those that are the most cavalier about doing that always seems to be the ones that love speeding the most.

God this game looks so good. It's on my shortlist for sure.

You can get a secondhand Pebble 2 smartwatch for something like $50 or less these days, and even though they are a few years old they still work great with a few software tweaks (s/o to Rebble).

If you've ever thought a smartwatch would be helpful, it's a great way to get started, and they are pretty hackable (not quite as open and hackable as some projects out there, but a lot more polished and put together than most OSS smartwatches).

Really, the only stuff you are missing out on compared to the expensive new ones is calling from the watch (weird), music/videos on the watch (why), and location tracking if you're a runner or something and don't want to take your phone with you. But for me, easily glance-able notifications is the real best part, and the pebbles do that better than most of the new ones. Not to mention the battery lasts a solid week of heavy use at least, compared to <1 day for the fancy new ones.

Grew up in the Evangelical church - the way they always explained it to us is that it's not a religion (which is a dogmatic set of beliefs that one only obey because they are told to), but rather it's a personal relationship with Jesus, and you do the things he tells you to do only because you love him so much.

It also opens the door for some weird loopholes for dealing with apostates, since if you stop doing the things they tell you to, you must not truly have loved Jesus to begin with.

It really feels like they've honed the edge of the mind virus extra razor-sharp. Lots of wacky thought-terminating logic structures, kinda cool if it weren't so devious.

There will be no upward mobility—revolution will be the only way out.

According to my grocery co-shopper, it tastes a little tiny bit different in an unexplainable way, and this minute differentiation is worth several dollars at a time apparently.