Maroon

Worked for the first time in a long time today. Dug holes for ~ five hours. Got a sunburn on one arm and not the other. Wore a hat so no sunburnt neck or face. Hats are good.

2026-05-27 02:01:25 UTC

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The federal governments founding was a big mess and the official history you learn in school is a much cleaned up version.

2026-05-27 02:00:40 UTC

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Eh, it's not quite that simple. Early American Christianity is puritan Christianity, and their dislike of the church of England led to the anti-king sentiment, but it wasn't nearly as wide spread as is now taught; it was in fact the political trend among the ruling class, not the folk that led to the no kings idea. American peasants were calling George Washington 'Your mMajesty' and in all but name treating him as a king, it was at his request that they called him and all future presidents Mr. President. The constitution and the structure of the federal government was also highly contested, it was the liberal freemasons (as was the style among the rich at the time) who won out; and not without quite undemocratic shenanagins! Modern Americans have been brainwashed with Democratic ideals their whole lives, but one look at how much importance is placed on the head of state as opposed to say, the much more important subprime court and you'll see that autocratic rule in it's nature isn't at all unappealing, just the words and forms we've been taught to hate.

2026-05-27 01:49:22 UTC

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We used to have tons of legends, about cowboys and mountain men and lumberjacks and lakemen and river men etc. It however was right in it's final stage of development when mass media, radio and eventually tv, arrived and one shot the cultural development of Americans. Americas age of legend was only 200 and some odd years ago, the myths were still being writen. It wasn't just chance, there was a very intentional move away from folk stories to cosmopolitan fiction. One of the most tragic events in history, so many rich cultures cut down right as they were about to finalize.

2026-03-21 03:44:57 UTC

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zopw7WQpwsI
Oh yeah this is good.

2026-03-21 03:31:48 UTC

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He's an umironic libertarian; of the right wing variety. The premise of that series was to have the most over the top straeman of a democrat and a republican debate whatever topic. I this no I'll rewatch them and see if they hold up.

2026-03-21 03:29:24 UTC

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Now that I'm reminicimg you know what political slop was really gold? Freedom Toons. His debates with strawmen were some of the funniest videos ever made.

2026-03-21 03:27:43 UTC

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I liked that he tried to be funny instead of just being news all the time. And he even was funny quite often.

2026-03-21 03:26:06 UTC

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I can't believe his into it I was. Especially Crowder (not daily wire but he was my folavorite of that ilk.) I don't even remember what got me to stop watching, I just did and couldn't ever go back. Probably Stat Wars video essays or something else like that became my background noise/time sink.

2026-03-21 03:22:08 UTC

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I am ashamed. At one point I consumed the entire Daily Wire podcast lineup.

2026-03-21 03:20:06 UTC

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You should be ashamed.

2026-02-12 17:21:40 UTC

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I just don't get the joke. What are you expecting to happen. I ran artix for years and the only time I had an issue updating is when I didn't update for over two years and the repos changed.

2026-02-12 14:04:36 UTC

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The fuck are you talking about? Are you drinking raw seed oils?

2026-02-12 13:59:12 UTC

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Canola is lotterally a marketing renaming of rapeseed. They are the exact same oils.

2026-02-07 15:59:55 UTC

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Good.

2026-02-06 21:42:31 UTC

Okay what is a young person actually supposed to do to save money nowadays? Cash? lol. Stocks? Hope your 401k didn't go into anything that crashes in the next 40 years. Land? If you have enough money to invest in real estate you've made it already. Cyrpto? That's allways been wildly unreliable; for speculating and dark net markets (a worthy use case to be fair). Metals? Those were supposed to be the thing but those crash too now. I actually just don't see a reliable way to have money saved against inflation. I don't want to risk it to get rich, I just wanna stop getting poorer and not have to work retail in my eighties.