

Wait, there’s a person named Noam Chomsky?
I’ve heard the name said on the news before but was never listening.
Isn’t that the name of the gnome in the carnival campaign of Left 4 Dead 2?


Wait, there’s a person named Noam Chomsky?
I’ve heard the name said on the news before but was never listening.
Isn’t that the name of the gnome in the carnival campaign of Left 4 Dead 2?


That’s not his trick. That’s a GOP trick.


I brought this up in another reply, but I’m probably finally moving back out this year. I had a good number of medical issues and surgeries causing me to be unable to work (being held together by staples and having to keep a large and bulky device physically tethered to my body for 2 weeks, for just one example) for the last free years is the problem.
But I’m past that and just waiting for the holiday season to be over to start again. I cannot throw myself back into the deep end of holiday issues at work right off the bat. I’ll already have less stamina than I did before, not starting work on the boss level lol.
Now since '21 the economy has gotten fucked up even more often than it has before that (I’m millennial), so I’m not looking forward to that but actually being able to have literally any spending money and freedom to just yell “fucking Christ on a damn cracker, shiiit” without consequence will be nice.


Well I’m my case I’ve had to have multiple surgeries since about '21 to stay alive, and I’ve been unable to work in the mean time and had to unfortunately move back with them, and pretending to (well they know I’ve voted blue and hate Fox News) be semi neutral as far as being a “crazy leftist radical”.
But I’m about ready to start again soon, but I am not starting the process in the middle of holiday stuff, so hopefully '26 will be the year I can finally start living again. It feels like it’s similar in a lot of ways to what LGBT kids must go through while having Republicans for parents.
And given that one of my younger brothers is LGBT, using this same room before he got old enough to get out, he understands completely and says the same thing.


I’ve been out on medical disability since '21.
I dread this possibility when I try going back to work soon.
I knew as soon as I heard about Win10 having candy crush on the start menu that it would be the last Windows I ever installed. I had been meaning to switch for years before that (actually dabbled with a dual boot of Ubuntu back on whatever version number “Edgy Eft” was-- 5? 6?). I stayed mainly on Windows because I don’t really think Wine or Proton was around yet (who knows maybe I just hadn’t heard of it yet), but I did really like how non-Windows it was.
It was always in the back of my head and I knew my time was coming. Just had to get my system cleaned up (file wise) and ready to move over.
Then I ended up making a new build first so instead of moving I just never put Windows on this machine at all.
Anyway the last time I worked I still use Windows at home. So other than attempting to set up a printer on my sister’s computer one time (which didn’t work out because I was only there for about 20 minutes total and it had some wireless pairing to do but just wouldn’t find whatever it was trying to find), I’ve never even touched 11. But the tiny bit I did see have me the same ick that moving from Win7 to 10 gave me. Things like how they fucked with the control panel and made a new, half-redundant settings app, had built-in cortana in the task bar, etc all bothered me.
But given that the awfulness that was 10 is longed for now, I really hope whatever job I get doesn’t have to use Win11.


So this is why I heard Mom saying it was sad. She hasn’t seen his movies, but knows he’s super liberal and actually gave me whatever you call the vocal version of “side eye” and said “he actually came out as an atheist” as if I thought that was something rare or bad or unbelievable.
She somehow still has no idea about me tho, because I will dodge that conversation forever unless I have to directly and specifically address it.


I meant to say 99% (probably should add the .99) of their net worth, as opposed to what was earned in the last year.
I’m not trying to literally tax them to literal death, just back down to regular people levels.
Make some kinda cutoff for retirement, but then impose a tax specifically for commercial interest purchases/expenditures.


Billionaire tax should be 99%, no breaks or deductions. Boom I said it.
Even double digit millionaires shouldn’t exist.


Probably, but until they see at least 20 pictures of your 5 year old in a bikini, they’ll just beat you.
If you make fun of his disabilities, you’re no better than he is.
That’s the only line in his suffering I will draw. He deserves literally every other kind of abuse.
If you wouldn’t make fun of a lame person for not walking, you shouldn’t do it to someone with incontinence.
There are so many other things to use, and I sincerely hope he starts suffering bad enough to want to end himself immediately but doesn’t die for years. I would watch a miniseries of him grunting in pain and angst and turmoil, while being embarrassed and mocked on his way down.
But I suggest that we leave the disabilities out of it.