[-] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Every time you buy a Big Mac, set one ingredient aside. Then at the end of the week you have a free Big Mac. And you love it even more, because you made it with your own hands.

[-] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 29 points 2 weeks ago

Just today I was listening to Peter F. Hamilton's "Exodus: The Archimedes Engine" and the mention of attack dogs with diamond-tipped teeth sounded a little wacky for sci-fi. Sometimes life can be stranger than fiction.

[-] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is more of a general answer as fascism seems to be gaining more ground globally. A book published in 1997 "The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy" theorized roughly every 80 years (or about a human life span) we face a crisis related to a critical mass of people losing the knowledge and shared values from the previous generations. Imagine the perspective of a Revolutionary War veteran who fought under General Washington to help forge the United States, who would be understandably upset to hear any mention of a Civil War between states, which didn't start until 82 years later.

We are losing that collective memory now both in the U.S. and abroad; the remaining World War II veterans are in no position to punch these fascists when they see a swastika flown at a rally. Unless we vote in numbers large enough to throw the MAGA movement into the dustbin of history, in the future we can expect younger Trump acolytes to take root in the same vacuum of thought.

From a recent article

”With these words Biden addressed the bitter irony that haunted the commemoration ceremonies. While D-Day occurred eight decades ago, America is now just five months from an election that could bring to power a man and a movement who embody and celebrate the twisted authoritarian values of the enemies we sought to defeat so long ago. Fascism has not gone away. The tactics of the Nazis to employ racism and demagoguery to divide society and enable their seizure of power and their gutting of democratic institutions currently are the playbook of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.”

[-] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 29 points 5 months ago

You have to take them off, if you want to sit backwards and rest your phone on the tank

[-] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 25 points 5 months ago

Which of these are used to make printer ink?

[-] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 32 points 7 months ago

With a PA message that there is a free meal in the aisle for whoever wants it

[-] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mormons are different as they don't drink alcohol. They will instead straight up ask couples whether they're trying to have a baby like it's the only possible topic

[-] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You must choose Discard, please kindly do the needful

[-] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

California had free public colleges until Reagan closed them because of Vietnam War protests. The war on woke has been fucking over everybody for a long time.

[-] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 44 points 1 year ago

We all do better when we all do better.

As someone who has only worked freight in an air-conditioned warehouse, moving boxes is not easy work and not many people will be able to do it their whole careers. I'm personally glad I argue with computers for my job now and I have much respect for those lifting things in the elements.

[-] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We all do better when we all do better.

As someone who has only worked freight in an air-conditioned warehouse, moving boxes is not easy work and not many people will be able to do it their whole careers. I'm personally glad I argue with computers for my job now and I have much respect for those lifting things in the elements.

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