Eh, that’s what they’re trying to do, but that’s always what groups like them have tried to do throughout history and it never really works for very long. We aren’t reaching the end of anything, it’s just the next stage of the game.

They’ve stopped trying to make fun and started trying to exploit psychological weaknesses and hijack our internal reward systems to rinse us of both time and money

Exactly, and the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was pro microtransactions really tells you the kind of scum we’re dealing with here

Song for Alicia by Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover

Pride Anthem (Molotov Cocktails & Bricks) by Garlic Bread & Roses

Heavy Foot by Mon Rovia

Push by Terrace Martin

Violet by Jeremy Messersmith

The Day by The Roots

Very Much Money by Open Mike Eagle

Broken Ladder by Lil Ugly Mane

Drive by El-P

Freebird II by Parquet Courts

History Lesson Pt. II by Minutemen

Megapunk by Ela Minus

Pack My Box by Patricia Taxxon

Wedding in a Wasteland by Parts and Labor

My Body Fell by Kasko Lunsford

Hold Each Other Up by Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian

The Clash’s “(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais”

All over people changing their votes

Along with their old codes

If Adolf Hitler flew in today

They’d send a limousine straight away

Everyone’s afraid of their own life

If you could be anything you want,

I bet you’d be disappointed,

Am I right?

…

It’s hard to remember, it’s hard to remember

We’re alive for the first time

It’s hard to remember, it’s hard to remember

We’re alive for the last time

“Bloodline” by Mon Rovîa and “What of Our Nature” by Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover when I want lyrics,

Makaya McCraven’s “Techno Logic” “The People’s Mixtape” “Hidden Out” and “PopUp Shop” (4 EPs he released on the same day that are basically one inconveniently packaged double album), Sholto’s “Letting go of Forever,” and “Car Alarm” by Pat’s Soundhouse when I don’t

Made for a pretty good Decemberists song at least

Well that’s epistemological ephemera for ya

An introvert who has come to realize community is essential

Well that’s relatable

I mean, if you want to have access to all of the court opinions interpreting a law (which is arguably more important because some decisions completely change what laws actually do) you’re going to be paying Thompson Reuters or somebody else like that a monthly subscription fee for the privilege pretty much everywhere in the US. Being able to know in a really detailed and specific way what is and isn’t legal is absolutely paywalled in this country.

[says that out loud in American English]

Yeah this all checks out

Another comment in this thread has a link to a source confirming the die is real, doesn’t mention the pillar tho

I am sort of amazed that between Charles Dickins and other serialized writers’ zeal for selling stuff and the Goths’ tendency to love superstitious parlor games somehow nobody in 1800s era ever managed to come up with a tabletop storytelling dice game (at least that I’ve ever heard of)

Except a chain email doesn’t have random commenters who link to the original or archives of the original

https://archive.is/Fv1u6

Also basically every chapter of Habitat for Humanity has a home repair program people can apply to

In addition to that reference, I bet this is a pandemic era joke about public health guidance

I think there’s also a bit of rationality behind that system, because

a) Trolls will just lie and declare an article says something it doesn’t to “win” an argument or waste people’s time making them read their bullshit article (usually something hosted on a website you don’t want to give traffic to)

b) Some people on those forums might have tightly constrained time-frames for looking at things because they’re students or they’re working in a restaurant or retail shop or some other kind of closely managed service job where they can get yelled at by a supervisor for using their phone

c) There’s a lot of content to get to on the internet

So, I think it’s kind of a dick move to get mad at other people for not reading the article, and it’s definitely a dick move to do that if you don’t take the time to quote the specific part of the article they’re claiming contradicts someone else

I came here to say both of those things about the Internet Archive, but I also hope both of those orgs get tons of donations regularly because I wouldn’t want to live in a world without them

Nobody said it was your ruin