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  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I was about to ask you about what you'd put in an "MIT bunker", but then I remembered that MIT does have a "bad ideas competition". Still, though, even Hell has standards, and a survivalist bunker filled with sketchy manga is something that would be neither particularly interesting nor particularly clever.
  • Huh, I had not been aware of that.

    @Bluesy_Cowgirl: It apparently depends on the cat, and I had three cats before this whose teeth and gums were all fine their whole lives. So I just figured that most cats' teeth would be fine without brushing based on personal experience, and it was a surprise to find out that it's only 33.3%.

    Anyhoo, it doesn't hurt that the toothpaste is chicken-flavoured and edible. She might not particularly like having the toothbrush in the back of her mouth for any length of time, but she always licks it clean after I finish up.
  • edited 2017-12-06 22:00:33
    I was about to ask you about what you'd put in an "MIT bunker"

    Besides food and stuff needed to survive, all the Open Courseware material, several books of related topics (especially EECS ones), plus guides and whatever else might be useful for studying and thus become powerful.

    Speaking of which, I kind of tried to retake it (I gave up on a homework problem and didn't continue afterwards). It's kind of gotten hard to keep going without the motivation of failing courses for real.

    Also, my mother has recommended me against doing a Master's, which kind of surprised me since she'd always been on the pro-education side. I'd disregard her advice but she's a former university professor so maybe she knows things. Also because doing a Master's means I'd have to do another thesis *shudders*
  • edited 2017-12-06 23:00:53
    "In a mad world, only the mad are sane!"-Akira Kurosawa, Ran
    Hell yeah, I'm encountering the Tankies Against Imperialism again, possibly one of the stupidest parts of Twitter.
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    What's Tankies again?
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    sovite genreal bear expounds on de gommunism idealogie. kaksoispiste de de de de
  • edited 2017-12-07 04:14:34
    The person who tweeted this and the kid in the video are tankies:




    They are actually making the bloody Fox & Friends crew seem sensible by comparison, which takes a special kind of insanity.

    I used to follow and engage with Sameera there, due to agreeing with her on issues that had nothing to do with Russia or the USSR, but her opinions on Russia-related stuff became more and more irritating, and the tweet above was the straw that broke the camel's back and made me decide "You know what? Fuck her. Unfollowing."

    I mean for FUCK'S sake, what the hell does an increase in the USSR's population have to do with Stalin's body count?!

    Was the guy in the video saying "Well, it was okay for Stalin to kill all those people, because there was still a net gain in the population"? Because that's fucking disgusting.

    Or did he mean "There were more people and not enough food to go around, which is why people died in the Ukraine famine, not because Stalin decided to just make them all starve"? If that's his position, then why didn't he say that in so many words?

    I've seen other tankies talk about how Stalin was a good man, and how the kulaks had it coming. Which...no, just fucking no. You deranged shitstains.

    I'll be the first to admit that capitalism in its present form is fucked up and unfair, and that we need a different system to replace it. But how ANYBODY reaches the conclusion that the Soviet version of communism is the perfect thing to replace it with, and how some of those people admire the most brutal leader the Soviet Union ever had to boot? That is beyond me.

    I hate tankies. I hate imperialism and imperialists too, but the enemy of your enemy isn't necessarily your friend, and definitely isn't in this case.
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    There are occasionally strange loud bangs coming from outside.

    Could be coming from practically anywhere given how the area outside where we live is rather open and there are many residences in the distance.
  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    ^^ Not to mention Stalin in particular wasn't exactly the least imperial guy ever.

    ^ Unexplained ant infestations and lizard sightings, strange noises... my memory might be playing tricks on me, but didn't you speak one time about walls seeping blood? Although that strange explosion stuff kinda moves you from haunted house story into a conspiracy thriller story.
  • There is love everywhere, I already know
    but didn't you speak one time about walls seeping blood

    Okay yeah GMH's life is a horror movie.
  • > socialism

    Speaking of socialism, I made use of consumerism day to buy my mother a tablet, it was really cheap (a Fire HD 7 for $30) though I'm not sure if she'll use it much. The relatives I shipped it to should be arriving soon.

    Also since yesterday I've been smelling cigar smoke a lot.
  • Bovarian Mammarian
    I want a milkshake
  • edited 2017-12-10 15:53:02
    I spent a bunch of time reading old threads (or rather, this thread's old posts). Again. I completely forgot about Jaooooo (green-haired anime girl) and SigurdrifaAnduril (european history girl who I suspected of being Annebeeche).

    I wonder how our former regulars are faring.

    On unrelated news, my phone no longer connects to the net through my home's wi-fi.
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Jaooooo I think hangs out over on the Transformers forum The Allspark.

    Dunno about SigurdrifaAnduril.
  • edited 2017-12-10 09:18:50
    Jaoey JoJo doesn't go on Allspark anymore.
  • Bovarian Mammarian
    Jaooooo is a good name
  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Huh, apparently Sigurdrifa was a TVT regular whose previous handle I vaguely remember from the forums. Her last edits come from 2015.
  • edited 2017-12-11 15:31:39
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    Is it weird that I miss OurGloriousLeader? I think I missed whatever he got banned for.

    I just discovered royalty free video, so I'll be in the editing bay staring at a computer for the next seven years of my life with no respite,
  • He was banned for doing the lmgtfy link to "child porn" thing, then came back as AutumnPumpkin and eventually got banned for ban evading.

    I miss Alex.

    Anyhows, I'm not feeling well. My muscles are weary and my joints hurt.
  • I'm feeling better now.

    But I haven't had luck with crime recently at (my) home. Two days ago someone stole a garden hose (presumably used something to reach it, then pulled until setting it lose), and this morning someone cut off a bunch of metal spikes from part of the front fence, those spikes prevent breaking through the gap between the gate and the fence, although even without those spikes the gap is not large enough for an adult to go through (at least not without bending the base they're on) so maybe the intention wasn't to break in but to steal those spikes, supported by the fact the cables from the lamplight there were also stolen, but contradicted by the fact that four (out of nine) spikes were left on the ground, although that can be explained by the fact that without the lamplight working it may be too dark to retrieve fallen objects.

    Regardless, it's something more to be fixed.

    Besides that, I'm done watching over those relatives' home, so I guess I'm free again.
  • I'm sorry that happened, Storm.
  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Breaking in to steal a length of hose doesn't happen often even here.
  • That does seem like a strange thing to steal...
  • I was expecting it to happen at some point, actually.

    Mind you, they probably didn't break in but simply used something to reach it from the outside. On the other hand a neighbor of the restaurant I used to work in did have someone break into her seemingly well-fortified home to steal a hose. So...
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I still need to think of a good christmas avatar.
  • I just remembered about HabitRPG (now called Habitica, the RPG about accomplishing real-life chores). I think I'll rejoin, it really helped me being productive while still being a NEET.
  • There is love everywhere, I already know
    Just looked up Habitica; seems fun, but I'm not the best at keeping up with apps.

    A few years ago I made the conscious decision to sort of just ride out the Christmas train and not really take part but by the last week of November this year I'd changed most the music in my life to Christmasier stuff and was listening to Disney Channel star versions of Christmas songs when I wasn't doing that.

    By the last week of December I was done with Christmas shopping for people, and I've amassed a ridiculous amount of festive Christmas wrapping paper that I'll never get through.

    I think I enjoy the idea of Christmas a lot (I mean, I enjoy made up capitalist holidays a lot in general) but not the actual event since that involves seeing lots of family who you only ever see at Christmas who are literally the worst not your favorite people.
  • Bovarian Mammarian
    As a kid I used to really like Christmas. It seemed like a magical time of year.

    Now I just find it annoying. What happen
  • edited 2017-12-15 09:56:37
    I still like Christmas. OTOH I dread birthdays now.

    So I did get back to Habitica, some of my old tasks were about weeaboo language flashcards so I figured I'd start doing them again. Besides that I'll be doing MIT OCW stuff and drawing and whatever else comes to mind.

    Besides that, due to the prospect of criminals breaking in I became nocturnal.
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