The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
>>0x000002
> a broken clock is right twice a day
It speaks to how much the American liberal has changed in the last 20 years that this quote seems out of place now.
1830 – 1886
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air –
Between the Heaves of Storm –
‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all –
>>0x000001
Imagine going – your whole life –
and this – is the only
thing you have – to spank your monkey –
to –
are you ready for this summer?
are you sensitive to the heat?
what's your temperature limit?
any tips for staying alive this summer?
optional bonus: from what climate area are you from?
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i'm not ready and will not be ready... ever. i'm verrryy sensitive to the heat, and i'm dying if outside is hotter than +20°C. i'm originally from beyond polar circle, and now i live in central europe.... EU guys yall insane how do you handle this nightmare every year?
i have one tip: live in the freezer.
Invest in talc. It massively reduces stickiness and chaffing in the groin and arm pits.
Stay hydrated.
Make ghetto air con - put bottles of water in the freezer and bring them out to melt in the room you want to chill. Put them behind a fan for best results.
Close the curtains of the windows facing the sun.
At night open your doors and windows to cause a breeze to pass through the house.
Use thin sheets to wick away sweat.
Buy some fans to move air around your house.
Don't cook - eat more salads and sandwiches so you aren't running a box of fire in your house.
Turn off lights and get low energy lightbulbs - they put out less heat.
Keep windows closed if it's hotter outside
Grow trees and plants in your garden - they reflect heat and also absorb it. They also release water which draws the heat away.
I dread summer and it gets worse every year. Fuck climate change.
Rising like a phantom from the skyline of Pyongyang, it’s a towering relic of retrofuturism, where ambition and reality collide. Constructed to be a symbol of power, it instead became a monument to an unfinished future. 105 floors of unrealized potential, forever suspended in time, a glitched masterpiece on the edge of a utopia that never came.
Step inside, where smooth elevator music echoes through empty halls, and pastel sunsets wash over distant horizons. This is the Ryugyong Hotel—where the past meets the future...
And where websites go to die.
ITT post screen caps of social media tier stupidity.
Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon. It's all the same shit if you ask me.
>>0x000001
Flux, this was a good thread idea. The main problem is that almost no one uses Mastodon anymore. But lucky for us, all the social media platforms are just as stupid as each other, so we can farm any of them potentially.
I'm hijacking the OP of this thread because that's something I have the power to do. But it's only because I think this thread has potential.
See how 0x000004 is now at the top but you can still tell the original OP was 0x000001?
That is a feature.