Currently budgeting a mission to resupply the magenta toner.

Fuck the bond requirements, just find a judge who’ll call bullshit. Shell companies are not a new scam.

Those poor independent little oil wells. Totally disconnected from kajillion-dollar global industries.

Reality is a team sport, to some people. They don’t mean things when they say words. They’re just signalling loyalty to their ingroup hierarchy, and playing a dominance game where they get to decide what’s true. It’s not a judgement call. In their worldview there is no objective means to evaluate claims. There’s just whatever their guy says, and whatever our guy says, and their guy is right because he’s their guy.

So please stop falling for it when they declare themselves fiscal experts. They don’t give the slightest shit. They’re just shuffling cards. It’s another song and dance they do, to grasp for narrative legitimacy. Nothing else exists in their moral universe.

Jackpot.

“All words are made-up.”

Yeah… adding other patterns misses the point. It’s a rainbow. It’s a spectrum that covers everyone. It’s not like one group owns a given stripe. As soon as a broad symbol becomes a collection of specifics, you wind up asking ‘why this group, but not that group?,’ and it’s a whole thing.

You want a flag that explicitly supports trans people? We had that. It’s… the trans flag. And also the rainbow flag, because y’all were already covered. You’re even in the acronym.

Why would you not just… use it? You have hospitals, they use this stuff. Reduce how much they’ll need to buy in the near future by dumping a few crates of whatever in their loading bays.

Yeah.

Might work out.

It’s just where they keep the vacuum.

Thoomp!

Skull-with-sunglasses Shaun did a whole thing about Harry Potter as neoliberal high fantasy - arguably arguing that it stems from the tribalist worldview that hierarchies are inevitable and all we can do is shuffle around who goes where. Harry becomes a wizard-cop because he’s the right kind of person to wield power. Things are good because he does them. To people in that conservative mindset, asking why he didn’t question that power structure is like asking an apple why it didn’t fall up.

I think what you want is called Worm.

Infantalizing people for their own good --> infantalizing people as an insult.

More behavior you need to cut the fuck out.

Nobody’s stopping you.

You should stop.

This is not a contradiction.

Modern efficiency has streamlined it to around forty minutes.

It’s bullshit and you should stop.

It’s a pattern of destroying information over puritanical nonsense. Treat people like adults.

Captain Picard drops by, breaks the opioid machine, peaces out.

Proper source in much better quality.