Nacarbac [any]

A source for the quote: https://redsails.org/stalin-and-ludwig/

Wikipedia, line 1: “Socotra, locally known as Saqatri, is a Yemeni island in…”

Oh please, please, try.

Edit: Slightly further down:

The island is under the control of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), a United Arab Emirates-backed, pro-Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), “secessionist” faction in Yemen’s ongoing civil war.[5] The STC seized control of the island following a coup in 2020, ousting the local authorities and establishing its own governance.[6]

…lame, but still try.

The Bullet Curtain system…

Straight outta Touhou it seems.

Ah yes, the “researchers think best on no sleep, intense stress, and no life” approach.

Afterall, it’s not like they’re doing real work - like golf meetings and lazy financial crimes - because that would imply their lives have value and they do something their bosses cannot. They’re just mobile tools, and can simply run for longer, so I dunno, set a big bowl of modafinil and protein slurry in the lounge, they like that crap right? I gotta practice my swing.

Yyyyyeah, eventually resulting in a dogshit article on “The rise of the Haremfluencer”.

Well, hell then, build it. All the techbros will get lost in the labyrinth and eat each other.

All I remember of it is that journalists are the real heroes, pictures are exactly like bullets, and that any mention of politics would get in the way of a civil war movie.

He should have done a Fatal Frame movie instead.

Random aside, but Battle Angel Alita did the wartime-journalist-as-voyeur side story better!

Possibly from Climate Leviathan.

The monkey’s paw of absurdly successful geoengineering projects to deflect solar irradiance and cool the Earth, but only in this form:

There are 14 stripes…

Damn cryptofascists, gets annoying to be sensitive to their patterns. Makes it tiring to guess when it’s just coincidence - which is part of the point of it, but still.

“Pounded in the butt by the AI graduated from Facebook’s pirate training operation, but not very well compared to the lean efficiency of the pounding provided by DeepSeek with significantly less illegal torrenting, despite the eyepatch and parrot.”

I think the tantric side of Daoist mysticism/alchemy has semen retention as a way of preserving vital energy, but… as to whether that has its own terminology or not I am also not going to investigate.

I did read a few cultivation webnovels a while ago, and I recall a few jokes to the effect of “The great sage has been furiously seeking immortality in his cave for days now”.

Garrett Wang (Harry Kim) and Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris) did a podcast called The Delta Flyers where they do a full episode-by-episode rewatch of Voyager and often rant about the many problems of the show (and about the bits they enjoyed, as well). Didn’t get through it all, but it was decent travel listening.

Both of them are pretty often annoyed about how their characters (and most of the others) were stuck on a writing treadmill to obey that absurd syndication demand of an eternal moment, such that new viewers can drop in without feeling like they’ve missed anything.

Buddhist position of the empty nature of the self based on dialectical materialist epistemology

I’d be quite interested in any texts along these lines you might recommend.

An interesting-ish and anti-verifiable thought about nonexistence is that since we cannot perceive nonexistence or time “while” nonexistent, and all things necessarily change… stretching that then any kind of law or logic or universal pattern that decrees we are dead may also eventually change and we just reappear. No matter the infinite infinities that may need to pass. And not just “an exact duplicate of ourself”, but “ourself”.

Which is to say: isekai is, alas, inevitable.

Perhaps as the guns that make it so easy will never be controlled and the social care will not be funded, there must instead exist a constant baseline terror of other people. So the people need to be controlled instead. They need to be kept in line. And the more they need help, the less they deserve - the victim is the threat.

Not that I think there’s any actual conscious intention there, per-se. More of a general structural disinterest in making healthy people (capitalism being antithetical to the health of the masses) that has various specific manifestations.

“The police are looking for a Mr John Kler…”

But a little cleverer.

He’d be a great DM (Dungeon Marx) - I just wanna play a tabletop RPG game without the default feudal/capitalist anachronisms.

My level 3 Flaxman casts Thresh the Chaff and- wait, I also want a Magical Labour Theory of Value addenndum, because that was something that came up while discussing a rather interesting homebrew setting elsewhere which is trying to hash out a basically-democratic mageocracy with an economy that isn’t just Wizard!.

Reddit speculation was going wild over the idea of it being an expensive and easily traced welrod, so I wonder if the police just got the idea from them…

Goon getting instantly spun around.