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PatrickoftheG

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Life is a preposterous horror.

Money speaks for money, the devil for his own
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone?

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.

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RickiTarr, to random
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I get so mad at myself when a commercial makes me feel something besides just disgust and annoyance.

PatrickoftheG,
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@RickiTarr I feel exactly the same way. However:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n0Frzj0mKM

PatrickoftheG, to random
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I feel like my English mother and French father did me a real disservice by failing to teach me that either language was more important than my essential humanity.

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-premier-threatens-referendum-on-immigration-if-trudeau-fails-to-deliver-1.6840162

PatrickoftheG, to random
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I was thinking about Catholics and Protestants getting together both to disrespect things like Santa Meurte.

It's like, yo, friends, if the peasants are chasing after the death personified because it seems to be more reliable at performing miracles for the downtrodden, maybe, just maybe, God and the Tiered Heavens could pick up the slack? Remember when Jesus sent the apostles out to heal people with Godly powers? Oh, and then some of them did miracles?

Good enough for 2k years ago but not now?

PatrickoftheG,
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Patrick, maybe it's something evil pretending to be good to trick people away from the light?

  1. I don't exactly think any of this is real.
  2. Assuming for the sake of argument, then if the good guys are so neglectful, or so subtle you can't tell they're doing their bit, so that something can eat their lunch by doing a little bit of good, that's a bigger problem that the Heavens aren't doing their job than the evil things doing their job really well.
johnefrancis, to random
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Tested some eclipse glasses. Didn't find an address printed on them. Made in China

Test 1: utterly black and opaque indoors. OK...
Test 2: utterly black and opaque outdoors, except perhaps for bright reflections of the sun off shiny surfaces. I was able to see a reflection off my car, but it was extremely faint. OK...
Test 3: brief glance at the sun. The sun was visible, and a dark brownish orange colour, not bright at all...OK....
Test 5: longer looks at the sun.
Test 6: Am I blind tomorrow?

PatrickoftheG,
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@johnefrancis My lady went ahead and made this during lunch, and it's good enough. I don't think either of us were even planning to do this but meh, I guess if we don't it won't happen unless we travel somewhere.

Cassandra, to random
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For some reason, I'm not actually interested in the eclipse.

It's scary-cool when the light changes dramatically, but I don't need to be outside looking up for that. I can look at high-quality photos later if I want.

But contrast: that time they were demolishing a government building. That I got out of bed early for.

PatrickoftheG,
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@Cassandra I feel you, Cassandra.

I feel the same way? It's going to be dark in the middle of the day for a real small amount of time and that's fun as a novelty I guess but I wouldn't go out of my way for it.

I just, wish I cared more? I want to want to do these kinds of things. I want to want to be like Hell yeah travel. I want to want to something other than surround myself in my creature comforts and pass the time passing time.

But I don't.

PatrickoftheG,
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@Cassandra I had a decent time with my better half in the end. I am glad she inspired me to do more than we were going to. Have to admit it moved me more than I was prepared to give any if it credit for. Just eerie enough to be special.

I remember something similar in elementary school, except some of the teachers had welding helmets. I guess it was a partial.

PatrickoftheG, to random
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Thinking about why it is a double u in English but a double v in French

#w

PatrickoftheG, to random
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My parents loved to drive when I was growing up. They still do now, come to think of it. It was their favourite activity, just popping in the car and driving two or three hours in one direction, no destination in mind, and then turning back.

They drafted me every time. We couldn't have the light on in the car because it would disturb father to read so that was out most times at night. I didn't have a walkman or tape player. It was difficult to read. And of course there was radio on their terms.

PatrickoftheG,
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Which was either right wing nonsense or nothing at all. Bonus points in that I was never allowed to sleep in the car, because that would ruin my night you see.

I think what I hated most was that I wasn't permitted to just, you know, zone out with empty brain and open eyes they would always try to engage as soon as that happened. I still fucking resent that too.

Bonus Points: Patrick had to take a bus 1 hour to school in the morning and 1 hour back home at night.

PatrickoftheG,
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I guess it wasn't enough to inflict Hell on a person, you also had to make sure they were fully experiencing the Hell with no way out of it.

They are good people mind you, but this I forgive. I also wonder if it's a large of the reason I immediately moved as downtown as I could, never learned to drive while I a little bit regret, and don't do anything that takes more than 20 minutes to get to and back.

PatrickoftheG,
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@Cassandra It's all good Cassandra, just something that I think about every now and then.

PatrickoftheG,
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@Cassandra I wonder if it's easier for the youth these days, what with everyone having the internet in a pocket. I think long drives and miserable shopping trips would have been a lot better had I something to distract myself with.

kcarruthers, to random
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Note to self. Never live downstream from a dam in Russia.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/06/more-than-4000-people-evacuated-in-russia-after-dam-bursts

PatrickoftheG,
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@kcarruthers This is a worryingly common issue in North America too. A lot of dams went up during the Great Depression as make-work projects. There hasn't been a lot of maintenance. There's not a lot of budget for maintenance.

PatrickoftheG, to random
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I would boil alive, spending fortunes and leveraging the best medical technology to prolong the pain, the person who decided that searching my local devices also searches the internet.

PatrickoftheG, to random
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Laugh.

I love this place and how deranged we are.

PatrickoftheG, to random
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I used to be able to ctrl-alt-delete, look at the task manager, and kill Internet Explorer in one shot. The innovation of all new Microsoft machines is discovering 10+ copies of Edge all working at once.

PatrickoftheG, to random
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I came so very close to "big winning" IVAN for the very first time. I have been playing this for like 15 years. I even managed to trap Shererax the Mistress Queen in one part of a level, meaning she didn't have time to behead me, the usual thing that ends my runs.

I killed myself by drinking sulfuric acid by accident.

I am so angry at myself.

SirTapTap, to random
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It's an election year

Hear a shocking claim and don't recognize the source?

Discard it. If it's real, it'll be on AP/Reuters.

And no, this isn't unique to the US, watch out regardless of what country you're in esp during election years.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/pink-slime-local-news-outlets-erupt-all-over-us-during-election-year/

PatrickoftheG,
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@SirTapTap Hookers and chicken Parmesan sounds like it's a dangerously good time.

eyesquash, to baltimore
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from
Misty Spring

Water flowing down the center of a great concrete alley reflects golden sun rising behind distant trees. There is a small dog on the right, looking forward. The sky is white with mist and light.

PatrickoftheG,
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@eyesquash Mist? Blizzard Spring.

PatrickoftheG, to random
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"If you think you're going to give any of us a well-deserved Eichman treatment, you can't hang a machine for the banality of evil."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes

DemocracySpot, to food
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📺 Cooking shows are a happy place. Just wrapped SALT FAT ACID HEAT (2018) @ Netflix, a 4-part series with chef and author of the bestseller, Samin Nosrat.

▶️ 1:32 trailer plays in the post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oKbs4jAf7M&ab_channel=Netflix

PatrickoftheG,
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@DemocracySpot I am not a person who cooks or enjoys cooking or even cares too much about the food part.

I loved the Hell out of this series, my partner too, and watched Salt/Fat/Acid/Heat it at last three times now just because of how fun it is.

johnefrancis, to Ottawa
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Angry, cold, covered in burrs after chasing the garbage & recycling into the shrubbery a 2nd time.

PatrickoftheG,
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@johnefrancis @YurkshireLad Sitting pretty in Montreal, thinking it's too warm to be anything other than rain.

grrrr_shark, to random
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By the way, Switzerland, get your shit together.

My marital status is "single".

Yes, I got divorced. Dude even remarried.

I DO NOT NEED TO GIVE YOU INFORMATION ABOUT DUDE EVERY TIME I DO SOMETHING OFFICIAL. WE WERE NEVER EVEN MARRIED TO EACH OTHER IN SWITZERLAND.

So fuck you for making me put "divorced" on every form and then information about my "former partner".

PatrickoftheG,
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@grrrr_shark What on Earth?

It's a little fucked they would even care about your currently partner, but the former one takes the vile bullshit cake world by storm.

PatrickoftheG,
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@grrrr_shark What would have happened if you had been like, yo, I do not have a clue whatsoever what he's up to I haven't spoken to this person in ten years? Like is everything just denied?

I am trying to parse in my head how something so backward can still exist. Lord I am sorry that you had to put up with this nonsense.

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