How else to achieve the status of hoopy frood

Don’t forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.

I mean, if it’s really a simulation, all of that would be… simulated.

We are all Charlie Kirk now

Everybody only wishes this was true.

Awesome. I love original art, even though I have very little of it. I am a musician, but I don’t have any painting talent at all. I wish I did.

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CSS isn’t a programming language. Programming languages are logical, follow sensible rules and provide consistent output.

I watched Colossal and I uh… well I loved it. It’s so incredibly strange and it stars actors I find talented and easy to watch.

Ironic that the only way to get a government to put the screws to billionaires and their shit platforms is to threaten the hegemony of the party that used the very same platforms to ratfuck their way to the top.

You laugh, but it’s worse than you might think.

First I’d heard of Light No Fire, wow yeah, that looks great. Honestly, I think their style lends itself more to fantasy than SciFi, this could be great.

Both my parents (64) would say it was all exaggerations and he never said he wanted to be a dictator. He just says things to upset people.

And they found this to be a desirable quality in their candidate.

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I approve of this demographic.

ahahaha oh come on, the comment was clearly a joke. To be honest, I’d be far more interested in gothly serious sam on the left.

Yeah but spices what are we talking about… apple pie spice? Or like, Carolina Reapers? Spice is a broad category. The centuries of warfare and dying were more concerned with, I think, cloves and cinnamon kind of shit. Saffron. Stuff nobody could really live without these days.

I don’t have a library card, but do you mind if I check you out?

Yeah but in 2000, I still felt like shit roughly made sense. We entered clown world long about the time the LHC fired its first high energy collisions.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was first “fired high energy” when it achieved its first high-energy particle collisions on March 30, 2010. On that date, proton beams collided at a combined energy of 7 TeV, setting a new world record and officially beginning the LHC’s research program.

I remember hearing that that was going to happen and, you know, being mildly concerned. Then it came and went and I forgot about it. But I distinctly remember 2012. A series of truly bizarre things happened in my personal life. I sold a condo I owned at the time and moved away to try and put some distance between myself and what was happening. It was pants-on-head stupid, like I just couldn’t believe what was going on, but it was personal, not earth-shattering, just truly, deeply bizarre.

Shortly thereafter, Trump happened, then covid - and the whole world began being truly, deeply bizarre. Now things have progressed so far that where I used to think I knew a bit about how the world works and where it’s going, I am now utterly adrift. I don’t even try to make sense of it anymore, just to accept it and roll as best I can.

I’m not saying correlation is causation but when I first heard the LHC theory it made me stop and think.

Thanks! It took almost two months and I think it took so long because there are so many people out there who love the narrative that all you need is AP flour, water, two weeks and BOOM: Starter!

Yeah no, not in the dry desert Southwest anyway.

I had zero success getting a starter active until I included rye, which I was resistant to because I know from my SO doing it a few years ago it imparts a kind of molasses flavor to the loaf. I tried using only wheat, but it just went nowhere. So I eventually caved and went rye/wheat 50/50.

Once the starter was going correctly though, I dialed it down. This loaf was made with a 25% rye starter (and has a much less potent molasses flavor), but I got my next one going strong at only 10% rye. I’ll make that one next week.