schmorp

I think the use of ‘-powered’ in a job description is a clear indication that you are applying for a bullshit job.

I moved into a traditional farmhouse in winter and thought it was rather strange that whoever built the house had built it right over a stream that flows all winter till way into April through the ‘loja’ (a kind of half cellar built into the slope). Now I know it’s a natural AC, the room remains cool even though the sun is hitting the front wall all morning. So luckily I won’t have to make that kind of investment any time soon.

(In winter the stream probably kept the animals clean-ish by permanently floating some of the piss and shit layer out of the stable, while plant matter kept being added on top. The fermenting mass would keep stable and top floor warm.)

I had seen a few of these houses and had my doubts that people would just be so stupid as to accidentally build on a water line. Thanks for coming to my info dump.

Tldr: evaporation cooling good.

I live in the reality I have now following my convictions - that means if that kills me it does. That’s what convictions are.

You seem so desperately wanting to deny me my opting out of reality, telling me I don’t get to opt out. Who are you to tell me what I get to opt out of? Or to tell me what reality is in the first place? I only engage with what I want to engage with. And if it knocks on my door with guns? Well shoot me, if that’s what humanity has to offer I don’t want my place in it anyways. It probably would help non-humans a lot if we all perished. I assure you I’m not that gloomy in real life.

Disclaimer: I try to survive in this stupid timeline just like the next person, painfully aware that currently we are all complicit in genocide and murder for the sake of our comfort and our habits, not just in Gaza (which is just one of many ghosts in Capitalism’s haunted house). The last bit of moral ground I feel I have is that I can loudly proclaim that I will not be sent to war.

Kind of answering to both your answers here. Capitalism sucks, but at least don’t let them send you off to kill and get killed.

Sometimes stubborn grandmas have to go sit in front of tanks if change is to happen in this real world full of real men and their real weapons.

Childish is that you believe you have to be stuck forever in the reality that presents itself to you. Direct action means saying ‘No’ to what you don’t want directly.

A refusal to engage is engagement as well.

… And about the camps: if you are in any country backing Israel or the US you are currently supporting concentation camps. So don’t tell me radical pacifism is worse than what everybody is doing already by their non-revolt.

And as long as you keep working under capitalism it will keep existing.

Yes, I understand that sometimes the other option is to die. And the personal line I draw is that I’d rather die than be sent to war. Of course, if the real situation actually arrives my self-preservation instinct will probably kick in and I’ll end up dying anyways, just in some trench. But I do wish I had the mental fortitude to tell them to fuck off. In practice it’s unlikely to occur at all, I’m too old and a woman.

I’m not cool with being inside any made-up lines. Fighting for any of those mental constructs perpetuates the problem, even though it might be tempting.

Living inside any of those lines doesn’t seem to guarantee that. ‘People on the other side’ is a story the powerful have been telling us for years. What if they start a war and nobody attends?

They are defending a made-up line on a map full of made-up lines and names. I don’t care about the make-believe show.

Ersma ne Tüte bauen = chill

1. I can handle a ride with no ass house.

2. I power the bike cell now, k?

3. I own my mitochondria wipe.

If bedbugs get involved I swear my last brain cell is going to be sucked dry and I can’t guarantee for anything. This is slightly different from Kafka by the way, as I am gradually turning into several tiny bugs by ways of being consumed, not one giant bug by metamorphosis.

One might ask, how did the commenter get into this situation? Are they a filthy peasant? Did they get infested through circumstances out of their control? Yes and also yes. I really hope the nasty chemicals I ordered arrive fast and are efficient (both has failed last week, so wish me luck this time).

Also, it is entirely possible that the worst (or best) has already happened and the bugs are writing this comment.

Try to get some fleas, to distract from the flies and mosquitoes. Works like a charm. Also, ticks, to distract from the fleas.

Makes my brain hurt. Thanks, I hate it.

Why slop?

But … that’s cheating! No way it passes the toddler aviation aesthetics check.

Also, non-native needs to know the difference between ‘further’ and ‘farther’ …

You probably meant ‘further’ but I was wondering for a while if your comment counts as inverted dad joke in its current state. Also, which paper plane? Inquiring toddlers need to know.

Hits too hard for a shitpost

I’m getting too old to be sure anymore whether these are jokes or not

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Real people having to go to real places in the mountains here just use the car they happen to have, usually a small and cheap one.