[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 4 points 3 hours ago

I think you have to be put in bonding scenarios really, and even then it's about luck. At school I made friends. At uni, I made friends. I hang out with home friends at home, and uni friends in the big city.

Then I transferred to a different uni in the same city. I didn't make any friends at the new uni, apart from my partner. I've got some acquaintances from it, I suppose.

Further than that? Prospective friendmaking seems tough. You're just not forced into the same social environment with people otherwise, and in the professional world I think it's even harder for some people. My school best friend and uni best friend are both not at all career motivated. But when we're together it's like we're sharing a brain. Clearly, I just like genuine people who give no fucks. I theorise that the higher I aim, the harder it'll be to make a friend, lol.

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I'd say 'guess who I am', and then I'd smack the arrow I had attached to my hand into my eye and go aggghh

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

that's what I thought but so far everyone has drawn blanks

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I'm going as King Harold Godwinson. Am I a moron? Does ANYONE know who that is?

The last true Anglo-Saxon king, who was famously killed doing battle against William The Conqueror. He's the guy on the Bayeux Tapestry with the arrow in his eye (this is now disputed)... but I feel like people know him as the arrow in the eye guy.

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

Gen Z love Radiohead

I feel like they've got more listeners than ever as of late

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

RAND

lol

I remember seeing one of their papers about the Russian 'firehose of disinformation' strategy

they literally just described RAND

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

obviously it's ridiculous and the bag is wasteful

but in terms of the psychology

imagine if they gave you 5 sweets

no bag

they just throw them at you like a neglected dog

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

there was free painkillers in vending machines when I worked there

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the signs are already there (JP Morgan circling 'rebuilding' efforts), but damn, when the full details start to come out and if/when the establishment becomes comfortable saying it was a mistake (ala Iraq), it will be shown just how much of a ratfuck this is.

Meanwhile the NHS crumbles more and more every day.

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

37 generations doesn't take us back to pre-human times, does it? Or is that not what you're saying?

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

so predictable that it would go like that

someone else summed it up but it is absolutely bizarre that they think they can get away with having fuck all policy, and then do half arsed panders like this to make it up. Seriously dog brained from whoever came up with this shite.

Of course, they can't talk concussion crisis or anything at all important because that risks placing them on a 'position', when the Dems approach is to have no position at all... but from an entertainment perspective -

why wouldn't they just get Walz to get 'coached' by someone who knows how to play on stream? Walz can do his whole fuddy duddy uncle routine like your dad who doesn't get vidya, eat a fucking hot dog, say thanks everyone, remember to vote, and call it a day.

The American political system is so rotted through with nepotism and cold-dead-eyes that it's incapable of doing anything at all.

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begone

Is that a liable defense? Can I just amend 'Opinion' onto calls for mass murder?

(not that im calling for that)

Seems to be working for them.

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Hitler was staring right at them.

they also had Bin Laden in a cage

they had a wax figure of zelensky and the dalai lama right next to each other

bonus points for Trump:

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lol, the age of total homogeneity is underway

the age of endless simulation

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'the age of extinction is supported by theguardian.org'

bonus:

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SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH die

EDIT: the video makes it so much worse https://news.grabien.com/story/amy-klobuchar-picture-this-bernie-sanders-and-dick-cheney-together-hol

The audience fucking loved it. Their cackles will haunt my dreams. The utter jackals.

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The buildup is in the video if you rewind.

The reporter asks if he'd take a fight in BAD country like Red China or Russia...

He says the country doesn't offer the money, a promoter does.

She doubles down and asks if he'd fight in a country that has an unfavourable opinion towards black people.

He says "like America?"

The room laughs. He holds his serious stare.

"ain't no place worse than America to black people."

Has my vote for an emote: (without the watermark)

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Hello all.

I won a bursary to write and produce a very small budget 5-10 minute film. I pitched an idea to them, but I've realised that I'm not sure how viable the scope of my idea was - it was overambitious from me.

The people who gave me the bursary are fine with me doing anything sort of relevant to my pitch, but that would be overcomplicating things to get all of you in on the details.

I was so excited to do it, but now I'm slightly anxious about what I'm going to do.

Anyone got some good short-short films to share? I'm open to anything, but the vibe is 'serious/activist' I suppose. I do like comedy though. I'm much more comfortable writing comedy, really. Or something arthousey.

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TLDR: How do you treat 'pleasant' reactionaries?

Long story short my cousin was visiting, but couldn't make it. My family asked if I could show his friends around regardless, and of course I was happy to oblige.

I knew they were going to be sort of rich frat-bro poli-sci stereotypes from the outset, maybe a little bit ghoulish, but nevertheless I find Americans very entertaining in their ways and I'm a nice fella so I took them to some bars and some comedy.

Conversation didn't exactly flooowwwww, but what can you expect meeting someone for the first time? I can't tell if they had no opinions about anything or were embarrassed about the opinions they did have. And then I found out that they were descendants of CIA/NYPD.

I'm now going to be a joyless communist:

I just knew they were bubbling with totally oblivious reactionary ideology, but outwardly they were very pleasant and enthusiastic. We never did broach a topic that was too controversial. About the election, all they had to say was a quick sentence of 'well, most people think both sides are bad... It's a controversial topic because we're unfortunately so divided...' - just absolute platitude spoken very very seriously.

We also talked about the concussion crisis in contact sport, and again, they were just like 'yeaahhh, seems inevitable really, not a lot you can do... anyway...'

Never have I met people so un-opinionated.

When the comedy acts came on, they had a wail of a time. One comedian was a stereotypically attractive woman, and as she came on stage, while everyone applauded her onto stage, these two 25 year olds were giggling like schoolboys, prodding each other, and shouting "lets fucking go!! Lets go bro!!!". At other points in the set one of them especially would give a 'lets gooooo' to a punchline.

Very funny to watch. Americans are such a different breed. Still, they were just having a good time on holiday, and 2 of the sets were very gay and autistic, and they liked those too. And they bought me a couple of drinks as thanks for taking them. I would be lying if I said they weren't nice and friendly guys. I would place them as Democrats or perhaps libertarian.

Anyway, what do you tend to do in scenarios where you know someone would find you a disgusting godless communist if they had any idea?

What I did was just to be normal, and genial. But it is an odd position to be in. Can someone truly be considered 'nice' and 'pleasant' when they harbour staunch ideology that is inherently racist and so on? How do you reconcile that? Aren't like 90% of people like that (though some to more of an extent than others).

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