I love this guy’s channel. Two of my other favorite things he’s done are: Uppest Case / Lowest Case, and that time he Reverse Emulated a NES.

Incredible.

'Cause I’m drunk on a Thursday (Friday very early in the morning), and I’ve lost control of my life.

… Or you could just read a history book that wasn’t written by a Mao fanboi.

I had to take a friend of mine to her colonoscopy today, and this was the first thing I saw when firing up lemmy after getting home. It’s like the universe is committed to trolling.

To be fair, Anton Chigurh also flipped a coin to decide people’s fate, and that dude was fucking terrifying. And he didn’t even use a gun. Most of the time, anyway.

My bad! Another classic. Mel Brooks just does not miss.

Is it fair to say that Mel Brooks movies are uncommon now? Have they gotten old enough that people today are generally ignorant of them? If so, “Blazing Saddles”, “History of the World: Part 1”, “Young Frankenstein”, and “Spaceballs” are incredibly worthy of a watch.

It’s a fool’s errand to try to make sense of the US justice system. One of the main problems is that there are so many laws, each with their own individual sentencing guidelines or suggested financial penalties for breaking them. The police are in charge of enforcing the laws (and ruining random people’s lives as a little treat), the courts are occasionally in charge of making sure that the laws comport with the constitution, and the legislators in a given area make laws for their area. But nobody is in charge of sorting everything and making sure that all of the laws on the books make sense with each other. Or that the sentencing guidelines are sane and reflect a certain set of values. It’s a fucking mess.

So, when you have a case like serial rapist Danny Masterson, you can’t really compare it with a case for anti-masturbation, brown white supremacist Enrique Tarrio. Different sets of people with different goals and beliefs wrote the laws against rape and sedition, and nobody has ever taken the time to make sure they are in the right places on the punishment scale.

Same. It’s so much better now; same amount of porn, but way fewer morons.

My favorite bit about Flat Earthers is that most of the ones who consider the question of other planets / moons believe that they are all spheres. Because they can see them. But the Earth is somehow a special case.

WTF is up with all the NSFW tags, and the massive ChatGPT-like spam?

You have a very limited set of data available to you to come to that conclusion. It is possible that I believe that everybody who doesn’t share my beliefs is a terrible person. But it is also possible that you are a special case. You have one data point to go on. It’s telling that you choose to believe the former rather than do the tiniest bit of introspection. Probably why you’re a TERF piece of shit, and everybody in your life should be disappointed in you.

Well, if they aren’t disappointed in you, I’m sorry to say that everybody you’ve ever met in your life including your parents, teachers, religious authorities (if you swing that way), etc, are all awful people. It’s pretty sad, really. You never had a chance to be a good person, given the terrible role models around you.

Well, I’m glad that you’re happy being a disappointment to every major influential figure in your life. That’s nice, at least.

Yeah. You’re a terrible excuse for a person. I wish your parents did a better job. Unfortunately, they made you.

So are you just reposting your shitty memes to both Reddit and Lemmy, then?

Except you kind of have to be stupid and cruel to think that the mere existence of people is a joke.

Y’all really only have the one joke, huh?

I think that, in the moment, online arguments can feel extremely real and heated. But, then you go out and do other things, and it becomes less and less important over time.

Of course, then you come back and find a notification from one of those morons you’ve been arguing with, and then you’re right back in it. So I guess just practice? Like, just keep reminding yourself that it doesn’t actually matter, even if it feels like it does.

Also, shrooms help. I remember I got into a heated snit with some idiot online an hour or so before eating a bunch of caps. Then, when I was trying to explain what the argument was about to one of my friends, I couldn’t finish because hearing myself explain it became apparent just how ridiculous the entire thing was. I think psychedelics just give you perspective that you’re lacking in your normal day-to-day life.