To nitpick further…

It’s yet another iteration of the rich destructively oppressing everyone else. Capitalism is yet another system built and modified by the rich to keep themselves in power. While it may be a preferable system over most of what came before, it’s still not good enough to protect the rest of us and the world from their destruction. When their greed yet again goes too far, the cycle will repeat yet again. We might want to take that opportunity to build a better system specifically without the rich dipshits.

This is a pretty silly take. Look, I’m an atheist myself and I’m someone who is of the opinion that religion has been a net negative for humanity, but I also know pretty well what I’m talking about when it comes to Christian theology, eschatology, and biblical principles, and I can tell you don’t know what you’re talking about when it comes to this subject. There’s plenty to be critical of the Bible about, but you haven’t really hit any of the points at all. If you don’t know the subject very well, you probably shouldn’t form such strong opinions on it.

ABSOLUTELY. I love the book of Revelation, but too many don’t understand how to read apocalyptic literature, nor do they understand the source material to contextualize the heavy symbolism. I blame a ton of the dumbshit premillenial dispensationalism crudely hobbled together to resemble a form of eschatology on a poor understanding of Revelation, Dallas Theological Seminary for spreading the fuck out of it, and Schofield for being the dipass to keep it from remaining the obscure hallucinogenic ramblings of a (probably) sick pentecostal woman in England. Man there are so many cool things about the theology of hope and some strong influences of Stoic philosophy(again), but man does American theology love to fetishize about the unbelievers facing a gruesome divine genocide…

Holy shit, 100% agreed, no notes. GenAI ain’t the problem, it is but a symptom of a fucked up system.

I’m not a doctor. You absolutely should speak with your prescribing psychiatrist as soon as you can about your concerns.

Most everything sounds normal outside of the euphoria. I’m not a doctor, but from my understanding of reading adhd studies, people with adhd usually don’t experience euphoria when taking stimulants, especially compared to neurotypicals. And people with adhd also experience a lower risk of addiction when specifically on stimulant medication. However, I think it’s important to point out that while these things are statistically unlikely, they are not impossible, nor should this be ignored. If you are concerned, that’s reason enough to bring it up with your doctor sooner rather than later. Before you jump ship entirely on stimulants, I would consider an extended release, as stimulant medication is extremely effective for adhd. However, again, I’m not a doctor, and I would defer to your psychiatrist’s advice.

Since you did ask about experience, I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a euphoric reaction to stimulant medication myself, especially not methylphenidate. I currently take vyvanse and it does elevate my mood, but more in the sense of clarity rather than euphoria. I’ve never experienced a craving for medication, and have forgotten to take my stimulant medication multiple times. I have wanted to take more of my stimulants than prescribed before, not because they make me feel good, but more out of desperation to continue being able to do things. That’s about what I can think of for my own experience.

Did you read the post? The Spyware specifically targeted whatsapp, hence my mentioning it.

At this point, it’s hard to say. It’s still a bit early in the presidential cycle to ask if anyone has a plan for post-trump. You won’t really see that rhetoric popping up until early 2028.

Is it possible/likely the next admin will be able to repair America’s reputation abroad? Again, hard to say at this point. Anyone telling you we’re all fucked forever or whatever is a silly doomer. Even someone worse than trump couldn’t dismantle the kind of influence/power America has diplomatically irreparably in such a short time. However, to help inform us of how things might look in the future; every region is the world has pivoted to moving to be more isolationist. Distrust and tensions are and will probably continue rising. Corporate capture is continuing to be a major worldwide problem. Conflict due to climate change is also on the rise. Many conservative movements, strongly encouraged by corporations, are doubling down on old tech in energy infrastructure and strongly pushing a [kinda] traditional nuclear family. Now without consequences, corporations are jumping hard into enshittification. Polarization in American politics just keeps getting worse and so much more stupid. I think these are many of the major issues that the trump admin has been directly responsible for either creating or making worse.

Many of the elements that are currently changing the political landscape because of the trump admin really falls into two major categories: alignment of foreign powers and the problem of domestic corporations. NATO is likely to survive as-is. However, Europe is not only talking about becoming more independent militarily, they’re already actively making it happen. NATO will still be the primary military alliance for the foreseeable future, but if the American government continues to prove unreliable and the EU military reorganization is successful enough, I don’t see NATO continuing to be relevant. As for the trump admin cozying up to dictatorial states, I don’t think those relationships are sustainable due to their very nature, let alone the kind of attitude a Democrat administration would have toward those countries. More neutral countries are finding the increasingly unstable nature of American politics as a kind of vindication. While they aren’t exactly running into China’s arms or whatever, they’re certainly using the time of trump’s second term to ‘play both sides’ and are building some economic goodwill with China. Optically, China is looking pretty alright right now. It’s nothing that will guarantee China true superpower status that the ccp seems to be so horny for, but they can be kinda comfortable with their current position. Their aggressive rhetoric and economic practices will continue to hold them back in the eyes of the rest of the world, though. Russia/Putin? lol.

So, all these things considered, America losing superpower status is extremely unlikely still. The dollar still reigns, the American military is still oversized, and American political influence is still very strong despite being weakened. Life in the west is still too comfortable to shake up the world order. While the trump admin is really fucking it up, the infrastructure to leave American hegemony is still fairly nonexistent. China is still not trustworthy and just not really built right for the task. It seems American allies are kinda holding their breath for the next admin to be more cooperative because they don’t have much of a choice. However, for Europe being put in this kind of position, it seems as though it was enough of a wakeup call for them to seriously make an effort to build themselves an exit. Canada is kinda geographically and economically stuck with the US. And Australia? lol, their government officials are basically just as unhinged as their American counterparts. While the political rhetoric of traditional US allies has been pretty vocal about permanent loss of trust in the US, it’s far from being so irrevocably broken as to kick the US out, less so because they don’t really want to leave, but more so because American power and it’s resilience tends to be underestimated somehow, realistic and desirable alternatives don’t exist, and the amount of damage trump can do/has done is usually blown wayyyy the fuck out of proportion. American hegemony isn’t under existential threat, but it has been weakened. Less like “THE CRACKS ARE SHOWING” and more like HP is at 95%. I’d keep an eye on how things develop over the next two years, but the needle only just showed it’s ability to move.

Man, I truly can’t be happier with my upgrade to Linux(CachyOS). I even went on to replace my bullshit-ass Eero router with my own hardware running OpenWRT. I’m looking into dropping android as well to continue chasing that high.

Anytime I see someone describe some form of software, I do generally understand what they’re trying to mean, but I can’t help but think of it as software that runs so inefficiently that it consumes a ton of power.

Also, hey man, stop using whatsapp.

I never understood why conservatives would get so bent out of shape and adamant about this. Like, just because the nazis were right wing and conservatives are right wing, that doesn’t mean conservatives are nazis. Edgy 13 year olds will make that generalization, not a serious person.

Hitler and king Leopold are great answers. The things they perpetrated are very difficult to stomach. I consider myself someone who is fairly desensitized, especially growing up during the wild west of the internet. Unit 731, though? I can’t. Absolutely the most vile humans to have walked the face of the earth. Humans aren’t born good or evil, but rather have potential for either. The fucking shitstains of unit 731 found a way to maximize the human capacity for evil. Naming anyone in that group is the correct answer.

I’m just… so tired. As a non-tankie leftist that loves space, I only find pain in the industry. From the “commies” in the USSR internally competing themselves to death, to the amazing strides in historic American spaceflight being powered by LITERAL NAZIS, to the stagnation of space innovation because of capitalist dickheads dragging out government contracts, to space funding and long-term projects being at the mercy of political football like this. Also the most advanced, successful, and innovative launch provider has their name attached to a fucking bitch-ass wannabe nazi edgelord. Also, most other space fans are either bootlickers or privileged dickhead “i JuSt DoN’t LiKe PoLiTiCs” types. Also, there are so many ways to be more environmentally friendly with space that are increasingly being ignored. Also, the involvement of capitalism making Kessler syndrome an effective inevitability. Also, most other leftists’ aggressive ignorance about the benefits and importance of space in favor of the unspoken premise of attaching anything space program to ‘right-wingness’. Also, the general public just being so ridiculously apathetic toward something that benefits literally everybody by gigantic orders of magnitude. Also, tankies and their extreme ignorance as to what a “space race” even is.

I’m just tired, man. Please just fund space good, thanks. Also, please fund clean orbit program many good, thanks.

Well, that’s not really how that works. SpaceX doesn’t compete with NASA. In fact, a good portion of funding for their programs comes from NASA. And to call SpaceX the temu of space is pretty silly considering how much more reliable and advanced they are as a launch provider over everyone else on the planet. They’ve dramatically dropped launch costs in the last decade, made landing first stage boosters a boring routine thing, and caught a flying skyscraper from the sky three fucking times. Everyone else is just so far behind and still trying to play “old space” where they drag out government contracts on super dated hardware. Unfortunately, they have a real piece of shit attaching his name to them, clouding the judgement of SpaceX because of their [extremely warranted and correct] hate for elon. Also Unfortunately, that same dipshit might run them into the ground now that he’s making them go public.

I get the hate considering basically literally every other company he’s had a hand in has been pretty shit, however, SpaceX is an exception. And it’s in no small part due to the execs at SpaceX doing a decent enough job of keeping nazi elmo away.

This is so catoonishly evil that if you write something like this in some dystopian movie or game or whatever, you’d tell those edgelord writers to calm tf down. Like seriously, what the fuck.

Well, at least he’s dead. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I don’t know who that is, but if I could verify/clarify by looking at their post history, I’d probably block them if what you say is true… ohhhhh hey, looks like the dipshit himself commented on this very post like an edgelord and is conveniently the most downvoted comment.

Joke with a message aside, I noticed I already had downvoted the guy multiple times before. Looks like he likes to post ai slop as well and becomes a combative baby bitch when called out. Even better, some of the ai slop uses the “hUmAn BaD” trope. And I did indeed check up on and confirm the cropping out artist credit. He’s a combative baby bitch when called out on that, too.

Guys, look! He’s so cool! It was a post about how much of a dickhead he is and he still upvoted, what a Madlad(inc)! Even taking a stand against all those invasive ads like uhhhh… an artist’s signature on their own artwork. It’s basically the same thing as those overly sexual ads for dishonest mobile games cramming themselves into videos made for kids, amirite??? He definitely understands the ethical principles of advertising without lazy hasty generalizations.

Also, it’s such a great idea to comment on a post about your own shitty behavior. No one takes that opportunity to look at your profile to verify the behavior themselves. And it’s not like when you comment to identify yourself that you give a convenient link for everyone to block you without having to look you up. Truly some kinda 5d chess move. I tip my fedora to you m’sir.

Well, I worked as an apprentice for a bit doing commercial work. It’s pretty easy to hit up the local union to work as a wireman to get into the apprenticeship program. You’d be working full time with good benefits while getting all your classes in. Not sure how involved you’d be willing to get to “try out” electrician work. You might call one of the local electricians around to see if they’d be willing to let you job shadow. Some master electricians run off to run their own business once they get their hours and pass the test, so who knows what they’d be willing to consider, although I imagine a majority probably wouldn’t be too comfortable with the liability risk.

Either way, you could probably call the local union to see what they have for those curious, might let you sit in on a class or something, I dunno. I can answer some questions as well if you’d like.

I’m not sure what you guys are worried about. All that extra heat will just dissipate into the atmosphere and eventually radiate into space. It’s not like there’s anything in the atmosphere that would interfere with this cycle… right?

It’s the same thing. Lucifer isn’t a name or proper title or anything, just a kinda symbolic claim. It’s a reference to Venus, having a different symbolic meaning depending on when/who you ask. I guess it’s important to contextualize the book of Revelation as apocalyptic literature, being much less about predictive prophecy and more about revelatory prophecy. Revelation relies very very heavily on the Old Testament(probably the LXX) as a source. So in Jesus referring to himself as the “true Lucifer”, it can be seen as a correction of the claims made in Isaiah by the devil, calling himself the bright morning star.

As for the whole Latin thing, well. So Isaiah was originally written in ancient Hebrew and the text the author of Revelation would have probably used for the Old Testament was Greek(LXX). Revelation would have also been in Greek. None of the original texts would have used Lucifer. However, the texts in question do use the symbology of Venus and could technically use Lucifer if they want to translate to Latin. I think a good portion of the confusion comes from the KJV’s translation of Isaiah 14:12 just straight up saying Lucifer. For that translation, I agree with the sentiment, but strongly disagree with the execution since this should be an English translation for one, but more importantly shouldn’t impose Latin symbology on ancient Hebrew symbology that will have a different take. Either way, they all refer to the symbology of Venus as the “bright morning star”, hence my correction using the vernacular of the misconception.

And, just a little semi-related thing here that I think is interesting in considering the evolution of religion over time: the original passage in Isaiah 14 was really only talking about the Babylonian king, most likely Nebuchadnezzar II. It’s kind of a Christian ‘retcon’ to include the devil as the subject in the passage. Many of the early Patristic fathers of Christianity were pretty adamant about opposing the view that it’s about the Babylonian king and the devil, but eventually the Christian remytholization became the majority view, even up to this day.