came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]

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Attention Kmart Shoppers…
The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry.

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Cake day: September 15th, 2020

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  • ive seen all of the “Burger Has Fallen” movies and willingly celebrate the filmography of Gerard Butler, like a pig rolling in hot August garbage. Angel Has Fallen is the funniest one, just for an extensive scene where his paranoid PTSD hermit father goes vietcong tunnel rat in the mountains of Jerkwater, West Virginia against the Blackwater-standin mercs. fuck i think im gonna rewatch that shit again this week.

    anyway, the first Greenland movie is hilarious. like some kind of eugenics-central planning + apocalypse fever dream of suburban dad vs a doomed Burgerland. i can’t even fathom how they franchise it into a sequel, so that will be the subtext of its sequel for me while i stuff potato wedges into my laughing gob.

    Gerard Butler, you have done it again.








  • yeah, what’s notable to me is that LASD is notorious for their internal gang activity and running the county lockup like an institutional kill house. like its an open secret now. it’s probably one of those most vicious and entrenched administrative units in the entire US, which is a high bar.

    i guess it makes some kind of sense, because the worst of the worst are going to be the most sensitive to even the most symbolic, minor “disrespect” of their colors.



  • i saw that cartoonish gta knockoff Saints Row (The Third, not remastered) on sale for like $2.47 and that it is supported for steam deck/linux, so i got it over xmas break.

    the SR setting and plot makes the GTA franchise look like it was crafted by Tolstoy or Chekhov. basically the Jersey Shore meets the mind of a 12 year old in dire need of adult supervision. i cannot discourage playing this game enough, because it’s all oversexed and offensive. even for its time in the mid 2000s, and it has not aged well. but it cost me less than a 2 liter of soda.

    admittedly, i have kept playing it. i have taken over like 95% of the city despite barely finishing the first act of the story lol.

    i like the mechanic of filling in the map so my gang takes over a whole city. that was one of my favorite parts of GTA:SA, when you can just kind of stop doing missions and instead fill in LA to be all green for Grove Street Families. of course, i did that after maxing out how absurdly jacked my guy was at the gym, lmao.

    so, now my gang members appear everywhere and i make really strong cash everyday from all these businesses for my upgrades. i also like that i can customize (and recustomize) how i and my gang members look (sort of). i made them all ninjas, so it’s like the foot clan because everything “mine” has to be purple in this game. a ludicrous, high saturation purple. most of the other gang appearance choices are too absurd though: exotic dancers, sex workers, BDSM gear. like i can appreciate an SUV pulling up just loaded with completely roided out, well oiled and armed men in leather thongs getting out is intimidating, but that’s not the vibe i am going for right now.

    if they just sort of made a sandboxy style game that was this organized crime syndicate takeover of a city to fill in a map of territories and neighborhoods, extorting businesses in my territory (kind of like Godfather: Black Hand), but let me customize (and re-customize/refine) the shit out of myself and my gang (name, colors, symbols), i would pay the hell out of that. tagging over markings, lighting up dudes / taking over strongholds, beating up small business tyrants, stealing/modifying cars, and occasionally making an example of cops before losing their partners in the dangerous alleys of my territories.

    that kind of thing has a nice “pick up and play for a half hour” kind of feel that works for me. steadily getting incrementally stronger with more resources until you have an entire area dominated.






  • maybe he’s comparing it to the windows version he last installed in the mid 90s from like a gateway OEM install which was basically a single click disk image push from a manufacturer CD.

    because, yeah, i’ve installed 3 distros in the last two years across 3 different machines (manjaro mint, ubuntu LTS, fedora atomic/bazzite) and the longest and most difficult of those took probably 20% of the time and 10% of the attention a windows install has always taken in this millennium.

    it’s almost disorienting how easy and fast installers are now. every time i’m like, “wait, that’s it?”



  • for sure, though that study was for basic facts, like you mentioned. current events, results of studies, etc. statements of reality not in dispute among those engaged with the material.

    and it’s a bad sign that cable news viewers can’t even get those right, but i guess i want to highlight that this goes beyond that, to critical engagement. people who watch this garbage not only frequently lack the basic facts, but they are completely decoupled from reasoning and contextual comprehension.

    which is why we get people who listen to NPR or watch CNN but will blurt out “Maduro is a brutal dictator” or “We are not arming neo-nazi paramilitaries in Ukraine, that’s Russian propaganda” or, a favorite, “Putin is trying to re-establish the USSR”. they tune into the “correct” media, where the basic facts are in line with reality but these simple facts are comingled with analysis of a distinctly liberal/imperialist framing which reaffirms the values and positions of the ruling class.