backalleycoyote
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- Comment on Trash bags are one product that you buy just to throw away 2 weeks ago:
The spring mix I purchase and forget about in the bottom drawer, only to be found again when it’s a bag of black goo is a sacrifice to the fridge god.
- Comment on All of a sudden he thinks that it's a spectacular plan. 2 weeks ago:
Eh, Mary was a teenager when God knocked her up. Seems religion and power are just convenient excuses for old dudes to fuck kids. Always have been. Fuck religion and the morons who follow it.
- Comment on The artificial gravity generators never seem to get destroyed in space battles. 2 weeks ago:
Star Trek IV: The One With the Whales
A go to for sick days in bed for years.
- Comment on You're cured! 2 weeks ago:
I watch ASMR to fall asleep and quackery of all kinds is very relaxing to me. I’ve noticed that chiro and chakra/aura reading/crystal and herb touching all have the same vibe. The difference is that chiro sells itself as medical, uses a lot more scientific sounding jargon in a professional looking office, where aura stuff is mystical and spiritual with candles, incense, and mandala tapestries. It’s woo-woo for people who think woo-woo is beneath them.
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 2 weeks ago:
Well, he wasn’t invited back for Home Alone 3.
- Comment on I feel like half the time someone is accused of being a bot, the accuser is the bot. 2 weeks ago:
I know it’s older, but here’s how they fought in the analog age.
- Comment on I guarantee this is a waste of time 2 weeks ago:
Slots are awesome because they prefer forking to spooning.
- Comment on Dating apps from 2018-2022 were wild. Might still be but I've been monogamous since late 2023. 2 weeks ago:
I worked at a late night pizzeria that served the after hours crowd. If you think last call is desperate, holy shit.
- Comment on Dating apps from 2018-2022 were wild. Might still be but I've been monogamous since late 2023. 2 weeks ago:
Should have been there during the late 90s and early 00s when binge drinking was the rage. No dating apps, no addiction to socials, just bars full of horny drunk people making bad choices the way nature intended. Some nights you gave the facial, some nights you received, some nights both. Most mornings you had no idea what the fuck you’d done but the lingering stank told you it was probably regrettable.
- Comment on With our new AI 3D rendering feature you can turn any standard 2D photo into an accurate 3D model! BEHOLD! 2 weeks ago:
Stray cats have been rendering their 3D models for years. Process takes about two months though. And you know it’s AI because every once in a while they produce one with six toes.
- Comment on pirate shit 2 weeks ago:
We’ll get a J6 biopic with the finalized version the self-myth the regime wants to cement.
Birth of a Nation 2: Electric Boogaloo
- Comment on Sooo... What's Mike Pillow up to these days? 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure he knows, but it’s his claim to fame, the only thing that makes him a blip on the radar. Like a high school football star who crams himself into an old letterman’s jacket that’s now two sizes too small for the 20yr reunion.
- Comment on Sooo... What's Mike Pillow up to these days? 2 weeks ago:
Shamwow guy and MyPillow guy running for office on their “celebrity” cred is a level of stupid even Idiocracy couldn’t predict.
- Comment on Robots will solve wealth inequality, they say 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 3 weeks ago:
I think Vance’s response depends greatly on if he takes direction from his handlers in Heritage Foundation or if he gains an ego and believes he’s the new cult leader. They learned their lesson with Pence who, with the obligatory “fuck Mike Pence”, still wasn’t invested enough to commit treason.
Vance just doesn’t have the twisted charisma Trump has to be the cult guy. Heritage knows it, but they knew he had a shelf-life and only needed to get in and secure their position. The Third Reich didn’t survive Hitler but he wouldn’t let go (and they couldn’t get rid of him) until it was too late. The Soviet Union survived the death of Stalin because nobody after him tried to recreate his larger than life image, they maintained the control that was established under his reign.
If Vance does what he’s told he doesn’t need to be Trump, and if the regime continues to disregard democracy, the courts, and even declining public opinion among conservatives that rode the wave but are now leopard fodder, they don’t need another Trump, just an institution to defend. These fuckers are embedded and will be difficult to remove.
- Comment on where? 3 weeks ago:
Never met Ozzy, but had a shot with Lemmy after a set by his side project Hedcat. For a god he was humble and a chill dude to shoot the shit with. No fucking clue who the other dude in 9 is but hopefully he like Jack Daniel’s.
- Comment on crazy stuff 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on That's how the world works. 3 weeks ago:
Define biggest problem. Is it the figurehead that has been empowered or the culture of hate that empowered it? Removing the head might lessen the impact short term, but not addressing the real issue that is the culture of hate will just send it to ground, breed a sense of victimhood and lost cause, and pass it on until it surfaces again. On the flipside, start killing your MAGA neighbors (which are more easily accessible than the office holders) and you’re just an unhinged lone wolf that won’t get very far before you’re killed or arrested, plus you’re just adding to the narrative that “these are dangerous people that must be eliminated”. It risks everything, gains little, and strengthens them. Scale that up to thousands of people the ing on their neighbors and you’ve moved on to genocide, which even if you win isn’t going to impress the global community. Great, America’s no longer a Christo-fascist oligarchy, all it took was half of them liquidating the other half… And what do you do with the kids? Kill them along with the parents? Send them off to be reindoctrinated? I have a hard time believing someone who watched their parents get murdered over political beliefs is going to have an easy time growing up compliant in the system where their parent’s killers won.
It’s going to be a mix of fighting, lives and livelihoods getting lost, and consequences like being stripped of the rights to hold offices, own businesses, and vote- things that should have happened to those who participated in the Confederacy- to win. A lot more than one person is going to have to get their hands dirty with the knowledge they might not live to see it through, and it even then what they’ve done will be on their conscience for the remainder of their lives. You ever killed anyone? Ever beaten someone so savagely they had to go to the ER? Even if you can live comfortably with having done it because you feel morally justified, still weighs on you when you consider “goddamn, I beat the ever loving fuck out of that person and don’t feel bad”.
I’ve found most people aren’t as comfortable with committing violence as they are talking about it or empowering others to do it for them, so I’m not at all surprised we don’t have a lot of lone wolves murdering their MAGA neighbors, just packs of state sanctioned thugs called cops doing it on behalf of their handlers.
Whatever we do, however we fight back, not one of us alive today is going to get to live in a decent world. We’re here to duke it out for the foundation of what kind of society our grandkids and great grandkids get to live in, and even then they’re going to have to work to preserve their version of it because hate, intolerance, greed, and entitlement always reinvent themselves.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 3 weeks ago:
Gonna take a lot more than one person to end it. The president is just the cream of the crap. It’ll take dismantling the power of his cronies, their wealth/businesses, and their supporters. From the billionaires to the paycheck-to-paycheckaires that scream bloody murder when you suggest taxing their heroes to fund the welfare they think they’re entitled to but is a theft when someone else receives it, the problem isn’t just in high offices. It’s living next door to you and will vote this hate in again even if the current regime is removed.
- Comment on This is heresy but lol 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad I got to see them live but unfortunately they just weren’t great that night, played faster than they should have and it was kind of a mess. Also didn’t help that they were opening for Priest and, well, you ain’t going to upstage them for stage presence and virtuosity. Still a wild show and a killer pit.
- Comment on Guess who will be classified as an extremist by Palantir in 2030 for expressing criticism of pedophilia 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it never took much. Take a video of a factory farm abusing their animals? Fucking radical leftist Antifa-extreme menace to society level terrorist.
- Comment on Could my daughter, who is a lawyer, defend my son’s girlfriend, who killed my cousin’s family in a DUI accident? 3 weeks ago:
Defense isn’t about helping people escape consequences, it’s about making sure they receive a fair trial and the consequences are appropriate for their crime. Even with this system there are still wrongful convictions and police/prosecutorial misconduct.
Many years ago we had a deadly DUI crash that the local news went apeshit over because the story was easy to hype. Drunk driver kills a young mom, dad, and their 3yo daughter. It was covered non-stop, until it came out during the trial mom and dad were high as kites on meth and pulled out in front of the drunk driver when they should have waited for him to cross the intersection. Dude still got convicted, he was driving drunk and killed three people, but his sentence reflected the dad’s impaired driving and what that contributed. Also, as soon as the news couldn’t sob story their coverage they dropped it, barely a blip when the verdict came out.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 3 weeks ago:
On the bright side, robot dogs don’t die when the pig they’re assigned to leaves them in a hot car. Also, nobody cares if a robot dog gets shot/stabbed/kicked.
- Comment on Do most comedians invite heclers to their shows? And they go over the bit so it seems sporadic? And get them more views or clicks or whatever? Kind of like a magician does with a plant? 3 weeks ago:
Demographics mostly. Blue city in a red state. The downtown clubs rarely had hecklers, gigs in the outlying towns were more likely to draw ire for the material. How people handle their drunkenness is also part of it. People who are assholes sober seem to feel more entitled to blast their opinion while drunk, and not surprisingly I found a lot more of them in the suburbs.
- Comment on We should be thankful that humans only evolved a sympathetic yawning response and not a sympathetic farting response 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Maybe we were too quick to dismiss DLSS 5? 3 weeks ago:
“He’s an asshole sir.“
- Comment on jim carrey 3 weeks ago:
Mirror universe Odo blew up Alderaan.
- Comment on We should be thankful that humans only evolved a sympathetic yawning response and not a sympathetic farting response 3 weeks ago:
Found the skunk.
- Comment on Infinity vape gauntlet 3 weeks ago:
When the villains make their version they summon Captain Meth.
- Comment on Do most comedians invite heclers to their shows? And they go over the bit so it seems sporadic? And get them more views or clicks or whatever? Kind of like a magician does with a plant? 3 weeks ago:
I never invited hecklers back when I was doing it, but I did figure out which clubs and which nights tended to draw certain crowds that were more likely to heckle and was kind of mentally prepared to deal with it.
