“Men should take medicine for their violence against women! That’s just how science works!” jesus christ will this ever stop already? It’s just a bunch of alienating dumb shit proposed by a bunch of stuck up assholes who thrive on sowing this exact division between people- “Who should we help- the homeless, or the women? YOU DECIDE!”, while they oppress everyone equally and extremely successfully.

What am I to take away from that title as a man? I should be medicated for something I already don’t do? It’s just a bunch of ragebait bullshit. If you are in favor of civil rights, you don’t profess the equality of only whatever specific group you happen to personally belong to, you are in favor of civil rights for all people. Anything else is just fucking ragebait to keep us occupied with who gets the most of the least.

Remember, women.

Ah shit I would love to take more antidepressants that will let me punch women in the face less which I already do 0 of!

There’s a Mastodon bot that posts videos of random three-body problems (three planets orbiting each other), set to classical music. I figured this community would like it.

I was all ready to be up in arms about this new blight on the social fabric of online discourse, bots? Posting three-body problems? I will fight that tooth and na…ooooh the community likes it! Ok, then, let’s see these bodies solve their problems!

Traveling is not the same anymore. I am supremely grateful I had the opportunity to see the world before it was completely digested by capitalism and the lowest common global denominator culture that rules the planet today. Shit was real back then like you wouldn’t find today unless you went truly off the grid…

It is believed to be, with a fair degree of certainty, in Nineveh. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, in my mind, is like saying, the Great Wall of China. China is a big place.

And I can almost feel it, smell it. Imagine, on the shores of the Tigris (the ancient flow, not the modern one), by some means they hoisted water up the terraces of either the Ziggurat itself, or at an adjoining building. They classically sometimes call it Semirami’s Hanging Gardens, and I like to believe she was a queen or a queen-like figure that had some considerable power in her own right, and issued the order to build a terraced garden overlooking the (at that time, fairly green) desert, filled with flowers and plants and trees and animals, and she tended to her garden lovingly. I get this because I have met some of these ladies in my life, among them most distinguishedly my own mother, who lived for her gardens, and enjoyed them so much, and wanted everyone to enjoy them (I know how these Ladies function on a base level). She must have been very well off and in a position of royal or semi-royal power, and what she created was cited across Near Asia for its beauty and cunning engineering.

I like to believe something like that. Also I do not doubt for a fucking SECOND that it was real. If we had no evidence of the pyramids, and what little material survived told us about them, I’d be incredulous. But a royal garden, unsurpassed in beauty and exoticity, I can very easily see that, especially for these desert folk who would not have seen anything like that traveling all across the Middle East, Asia, and Africa (except the deepest parts, but in any case, being based in Mesopotamia at that time would still have been an arid existence for travelers, traders, soldiers and everyone else departing the river deltas).

I can go on for hours about this, I have a clue. Of course, we can but dream of the things thousands of years ago our ancestors saw and loved…

This is a cogent and succinct analysis of MAGA’s genesis, yes. I mean that’s why we all were like, “hey, guys, funny joke and all but you do realize that if you repeat it often enough, people will start believe you and join your ranks and try to overthrow our democratically elected government, right?”

And they were like

“DA, comrade. Understanding is absolute.”

When I fuck up my rolls they call me a fool.

Wanna keep this collab bar writing going or should I just call a cab?

It was genuinely a joke. The joke was intended to be “the all 5 star book reviews are for classics that are freely available because they were written before patents were invented and patented”.

I read quite a bit of shit.

…could just have shot the mountains.

YOU ARE THE BEST BOEY

I cry while I roll

It’s like I tell people, if you know you know you know?

Call me posh but I don’t read anything with less than a 4.95 point rating. All that shit is free anyway.

Edit: it’s a joke.

I been there! There’s like. A bunch of rocks around. Some random tomb. That was 25 years ago. I’m sure it’s still basically that. I don’t remember the whole story, but, apparently during the crusades the crusaders took the mausoleum apart and built a castle like three kilometers away on a cliff overlooking the sea, which makes sense, but that is not all because that was one of the original wonders of the world, and Turkey has a bunch of’em, one of them being the Mausoleum, another being the Temple of Artemis, not a long ride from there (Izmir? or something like that, maybe Cas or something, Turks be weird with their names my brothers and sisters) and that, too, is basically just a pile of rubble.

Famous rubble. But rubble.

Edit: I saw the most gigantic lizard, and I thought it was part of Artemis’ temple, and I was like, holy shit, wow, look at that, them damn clever Greeks (sic!), and then it RAN AWAY and I was like HOLY SHIT IT RAN AWAY! Then some dude tried to sell me antique coins. I’m pretty sure they were fake, but even back then I had a good sense of value, and I think some of them might actually have been real. Mom din’t raise no dummy tho’, and I left, only to be harassed by dogs. Then I went to some place where there’s been like a natural gas deposit that is on fire and has been for like thousands of years, it’s like “dragon smoke”, we call it where I’m from, like it’s a clear tiny fire that just springs out of the rock and it is very weird, it’s like a gently sloping… slope, but hilly and rocky, and it is absolutely beautiful like, everything is so dry and you can smell that dryness and the herbs and all the odd plants that live in that area, and it is so real, and so pure, but anyway, that’s what I did. I love Turkey.

Another time 25 years later I lived in a tent on the Black Sea coast in Northern Turkey for three months but I had to leave for surgery, buy me a beer and I’ll tell you parts about it!

I WANT TO PUT THIS PERFECTLY CLEAR ONCE AND FOR ALL, this goes for all of you:

People are NOT DUMB because someone comes up to them and screams “watch out, dihydrogen monoxide can kill you!” because they may not be familiar with chemical nomenclature, yet may be acutely in tune with people taking to the streets protesting some substance that may affect them and their families.

If I run up to you and scream: “WATCH OUT FOR THE QUEXALCOATL!”, you won’t go like, “hold on, let me ask ChatGPT about Quexalcoatls first so I know that this isn’t just some elaborate scam to teach me a moral lesson I didn’t need but had to accept because I was actively fooled”, you know what you do? YOU DUCK.

You DUCK!

I always hated that one.

That one and that dumb quote, “don’t attribute to malice what can equally be attributed to incompetence”- yeah cute, but uh, no, that is not how anything fucking works, it’s a funny quote in context, it’s not a rule of fucking thumb, you’d be a dumb sucka to live by that creed, but anyway, while we were clearing the air.

I wish I could ignore the controversy section on my Wikipedia

When I say this was meant as a joke, it picked up steam in the /r/flatearth sub, which I saw back early, and it was kind of an inside reddit joke much like /r/birdsarentreal is today. Mark my words, that shit will be the next flat earth.

People work like this. A sub with 50K subscribers? Maybe there’s something to it!

I had subs once. Big ones. They were taken from me. I know. Buy me a beer and I’ll tell you about it.

Edit: And I swear unto god- I told’em. I TOLD’EM this would happen.

It’s all fun and games tricking idiots into believing dumb shit, until they become fundamentalists.

Whenever someone curls up in a fetal position and has an existential crisis, I KNOW that they are doing something right.