Nah, it looks great but it’s totally unwieldly and may in fact be dry-rotted out and may shatter if you actually try to use it to hammer the ground to send that imaginary Earth Shockwave towards your enemies. That would be pretty embarassing.

Which were you more jealous of?

Racism AND capitalism.

The “single family home” was barely a concept before American development early last century. For the majority of human history, people dwelled together, raised families together, stayed together and supported each other their whole lives.

It was the housing industry making these “neighborhoods of the future” that started pushing the idea of moving out at 18 and getting a home on your steel-mill salary of $10 per week, and then it became shameful to still live with your family past a certain age. Forcing so many Americans into a role of being a sole-provider for an entire household as wages have dropped and house prices have soared, and we all still keep “investing” into homes in suburbia despite nobody feeling fulfilled in these cul-de-sac lives, and both parents of children having to work 6 days a week or more just to afford to sleep there.

many are too worried about their potential moderate republican voters corporate donors, the same donors who donate to republicans.

FTFY

That’s the point of the comment, and why there are “=” signs preceding the translation of what the term actually means for many people.

People say that every generation and as a result we have a whole-ass society who never made actual plans for themselves or their community, from the death-cult evangelicals who think World War 3 is a good thing because it means Jesus is going to take them away to play with their dead grandma and dead pets, to the tech-oligarchs and their fetid simp followers who think we’re going to have a “singularity” any year now and everyone is going to get whisked away to play with their virtual dead grandma and dead pets. Down to the basic doomers who feel emotionally stunted and look forward to nothing for themselves.

Avoiding your emotions is a great strategy for having a middle-age breakdown like no other.

You’re doing nothing but baiting and trolling this whole post. Why don’t you take your anger out in a healthy way and go for a jog or something. A worthy block if I ever saw one. Get helpful or get out.

Neither of you are wrong.

Everyone’s problem with the sea shells was that you wouldn’t be able to clean yourself properly when you imagine physically using them.

That’s… not the joke. Holy shit have people over-thought the three shells. It’s not supposed to make sense or have a physical utility that you can imagine. THAT IS THE JOKE.

User above was kind of right that it reflected an anxiety about change to personal habits for “environmentalism” and other things that were happening at the time like people pushing for saving water in the bathroom.

I rather we have all our basic needs met and be advocating for rock music. It’s not like the people enforcing the laws there are at all dangerous or violent, the whole world there is just a clash of ideology that apparently enough people are fine with that there’s no mass marches or protests.

At risk of diving into theory here, If I had to choose between the two, I rather be in a dystopian system that preserves its dystopia with calm, naive civility rather than armed death squads.

Attempts to explain the joke have thoroughly ruined the joke.

I always took it to mean “I wish I could believe that this is real, it ignites my hope and dreams, but reality is still ruling it out so I have to accept what facts tell me.”

Unfortunately, that does not appear to be the message that most people took from it, which if you were to boil down to just its essence in America at least, it says “Believing is just as good as anything else. Go ahead if you want it.” and I think it made way, way too many young, impressionable people who never picked up on the irony of the show to go on to accept conspiratorial thinking and self-delusion about utter nonsense.

I think neither view is accurate really, people who readily believe in the supernatural have been very much been the same kind of person for the last half century, which is that breed of person who doesn’t know a lot about science and history and related fields, but will immediately start tying together disparate pieces of evidence to support a pre-conclusion that the answer is supernatural, while more scientific minded people are usually like “It’s probably not aliens, but we need to learn more and study more to eliminate everything else first” and are generally very ready to consider the fantastic if they can learn anything about it… it’s just that reality is what actually rules it out, not some stuffy adherence to science as a dogma.

This is why I dislike X-files now despite loving it when I was younger, it fed deeply into the uneducated mind that they too can be a “Mulder,” casting aside process and “going against the grain” to find the reality that THE MAN doesn’t want you to know. It led to a whole ass generation of middle-americans believing in magic oil and horse dewormer, which was one of the many forces that opened the door for massive harm done to our society and collective understanding of objective reality.

When I was little my family got invited to join this rich hippy’s commune, we got to see the “plans” ahead of time, and noticed that every bathroom had multiple toilets facing each other with no privacy barriers, the organizer also kept boasting about how they would use their sewage to fertilize the gardens.

I’m sure this all creates a lot more questions than anything else, but the short answer is no, my family wanted nothing to do with that kook’s crazy caca cult compound when they were making their own.

“Grok, write me a propaganda piece for my substack.”

“I hate politics” = “I don’t want to get into an argument with some right-wing foulmouth chud who doesn’t listen to reason.”

“I don’t follow politics.” = “I am a right-wing, foulmouth chud who doesn’t listen to reason and don’t want to get fired or put on social media so I will abstain from revealing my feelings at this time.”

“I don’t understand politics.” = “For the love of fucking God, I work 6 days a week and am raising two kids and three dogs, I have to pack my entire personal life into several hours on a weekend when everything is closed, and people are trying to talk to me about the latest Epstein thing and I don’t get what I’m supposed to do about it, I just got told my insulin brand isn’t covered anymore and need to find a cheaper substitute and the insurance hotline won’t return my calls.”

Translation: they’re going to make everything else more expensive, like they already do to offset hardware prices, but like turbo edition price hikes.

“Oops! All price hikes!” edition shit.

Fun fact, if you do itemized tax returns, you can make cash donations to your school, fire department or road authority, etc. and get a receipt and then deduct that from your taxes, it’s basically forcing your state to spend your taxes where you want it spent.

Note: it’s been a long ass time since I did itemized returns, your mileage/laws may vary.

Okay then, you don’t actually care. I’m done with the convo and will never see another message from you.