This timeline is great. I’m going to go ahead and continue living my life and enjoying the timeline I’m in. Not finding ways to constantly make myself depressed by finding and pointing out every negative aspect I dislike. I try to focus on all of the positives instead.
Are you advocating blissful ignorance as a like. Lifestyle? I’m glad that you have enough money and stability to do that lol if you’re poor or marginalized blissful ignorance is not an option if you intend to survive.
No. I’m just advocating for focusing on the positives in life. I enjoy technology and engineering. Just got a 3D printer and am absolutely loving learning about it and improving my abilities in CAD. Also love going out hiking and spending time outdoors, my state has really being making a lot of improvements in that area.
I mean, good for you, it’s good to have hobbies. But do you have no empathy for your fellow humans? I’m guessing your skin isn’t a shade that might get you sent to CECOT… yet. If you ignore what’s happening they may eventually come for you too.
People on these forums don’t like positive inflections unless you are positively shitting on the west.
Downvote if I’m right.
It looks like people think you are right.
Now what’s our down vote goal if we think you are far right?Get it to -25. They’ll be wrong. But they can think that if it helps them believe downvoting some rando on the depths of the armpit of the internet makes them leftier.
-50 and I’ll falsely claim that I voted for trump.
-100 and we can confirm that it never mattered in the first place.
Honestly, same. It’s just harder to make jokes about life being amazing.
I missed that Pauly Shore movie.
Wie is de koning van Wezel?
I like the theory that the Mayans were right and the world ended in 2012.
A redwood can be dead and still stand for years…
2012 was the start of the end, and it wasn’t just an instantaneous catastrophe.
I have to agree with Stephen King and say that the Kennedy assassination was the moment it snapped.
Going heavy in Vietnam started the destruction of the US economy, and Nixon tripled down on it.
The most unpleasant thing about that novel was that fixing things made it infinitely worse.
“The Big Time” by Fritz Leiber. The Change War is being fought on every planet in the universe from the moment of the Big Bang to the end of time. Two sides, the Spiders and the Snakes, are trying to rewrite history for their own purposes. The Law Of Conservation of Reality states that Time will oppose any change, so you have to fight the same battles over and over and over in order to get any changes.
Fun book.
didn’t know king wrote a book about that, so chatgpt gave me this interview where he quotes the relevant book passage. Whole thing is pretty interesting https://www.jfklibrary.org/events-and-awards/kennedy-library-forums/past-forums/transcripts/a-conversation-with-stephen-king
I used to be a huge Stephen King junkie, read every novel within a few weeks of each release (started young by reading Salem’s Lot way too young). Then he started getting really repetitive in the mid-90s.
So I was reluctant to bother with 11/22/63 but I picked it up because the premise was totally different for King. And I was blown away - I consider it his best, by far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11/22/63
The name of the book is “11/22/63.” There was also a made for TV adaptation.
Was it a lab leak, or live market?
Some say that to this day the weasel is still there being accelerated ever closer to the speed of light.
that lucky bastard.
Shine on, you crazy diamond!
Portal 3 plot leaked.
Weasel is a typo. It’s suppose to be Wheatley.
Wheatley was accidentally accelerated past the speed of light and now exists outside of time in a godlike state.
Still can’t make decent puzzle rooms for shit.
Where’s Gordy when you need him?
The weasel just wanted to go to a timeline where his family is alive.
It didn’t know it would create the Weaselpoint paradox.
except in the other timeline, the hadron collider opened a black hole and swallowed the earth whole.
Correct, but they got sucked into an alternative reality and plan full assault on Judgement Day
Well they should bloody well hurry up then.
Sounds lovely
How do I transfer over to that one. Is there a form to fill out or a portal or something
they got the better outcome regardless
They’re waiting for you, Gordon. In the test chamberrrr.
I heard it was a stoat.
I’m aware of the theory that a stupid cop shooting a gorilla put us in this fucked up timeline.
Dicks out everyone, you know the drill…
People suddenly pretending to care for animals is funny as hell
No, because all this shit can be traced back directly to Regan, and probably Nixon. Nixon cut the break line and Regan shoved it off the cliff.
The murder of Lincoln and not fixing the country after the civil war is probably the root especially for the southern strategy that Nixon would go on to use.
The murder of both Kennedy brothers is the next point, because it opened the door for Nixon who got the economy ready to inflate and fuck over Carter, which got us Reagan and the rest of the “conservatives “ who are actually fascist racists greedy asswipes.
Thomas Paine was right. It goes back to the founding of the country (at least) and the refusal to form a truly egalitarian society, embracing human slavery instead. This made the US Civil War inevitable.
Well I guess absorbing enormous amounts of Nazi scientists, agents and soldiers into it’s service did not help much either.
Weirdly enough that was largely the most negligible effect, most of the ones that were absorbed were revanchists not ideological Nazis. While we can debate the morals of dead men they weren’t the worst of the worst, those were left in Germany or fled to South America and Apartheid Africa. Most of the ones absorbed just really wanted to fuck over the Soviets, which at the time was also the goal of NATO and Yugoslavia.
Why would Yugoslavia actively want to duck over the soviets
Stalin kept trying to kill Tito, also a bunch of boring economic shit.
i’m more or less aware, but as far as i knew their whole thing was noninterference in other countries’ affairs.
The ability of Nazis to cosplay as “normal” conservatives never ceases to amaze me. The utter lack of empathy. The pure joy in making “the others” suffer. Nothing seems to alert conservatives. Even when they position themselves as “just revanchists” they are believed. Breathtaking.
Americans really do think they are the center of the universe
Yeah, man…it’s not like the largest global superpower of the last century has an effect on the rest of the world economically or anything. Must just be burger-brain.
Here’s something not many people consider.
Before Reagan, popular media had tons of intellectual content. Superheroes would hang out with Edgar Allan Poe or Sitting Bull. Cartoons like Mr. Peabody taught kids the names of historical figures and Bugs Bunny played opera.
Then Reagan deregulated kids TV and you got half hour long commercials for GI Joe and The Transformers.
Holy shit, you are right….and I can remember that shift vividly.
I’m getting upvotes, so apparently we aren’t the only ones who figured it out.
I think we made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place.
Even the trees had been a bad move, no-one should ever have left the oceans.
enveloping our genetic material within lipid bilayer membranes was where it all went wrong imo
Should never have developed genetic material in the first place…
deleted by creator
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
And then Trump stomped on the remains and took a shit on them.
McCarthy really fucked it all up for us in 1954 with the lavender and red scares. That helped set the stage for those later cunts.
Wasn’t it when a bird dropped a baguette on it?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/nov/06/cern-big-bang-goes-phut
https://time.com/archive/6933968/did-a-time-traveling-bird-sabotage-the-collider/
