Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

#moodsnapshot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPqAG0oYYzc

i ate a fish

#TigersDontReallyUnderstandWhatSubtootsAre

Have had the Bojack Horseman theme song going through my head for most of the last day and a half.

Well, that can't be a good sign. Appropriate, probably, but not good.

"...They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean Paul-Sartre

Remind you of anybody?

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors..."

Link to my commonplace book, i.e. personal book of trivia and miscellaneous notes: https://www.evernote.com/l/Ahj14VCozwRCmKPf3jNAGoweu4XXvAVxioo

I think I might start posting a link to this thing once a month, since it's always changing. Most of it probably won't be of much interest to people, it's mostly a list of weird names and such that appealed to me. But if it inspires someone to keep one of their own and link us to it someday, I'll be so happy! ^_^

I am not worried in the least about my country becoming a genocidal, militaristic, totalitarian society. I don't think the people who would like to see that have the numbers for it. I don't think our culture would support it. I think it's clear that, as bad as things have gotten, our bigots still feel they need to couch their bigotry as something else, and that's actually a good sign.

But I am very, *very* afraid of my country becoming a reactionary, autocratic Putin-style kleptocracy.

To be fair... Zen is HARD. And it's a relatively primitive technology, invented with no firm knowledge of the actual structures of the human brain.

But that only increases my cynicism, because if even people who genuinely devoted their whole lives to killing their worldly delusions regularly failed, how the hell are we going to fix any of this?

And our body politics just doesn't care at all. It's actively working AGAINST a fix. I'm just done waiting.

The one thing humanity can still do to win back my faith and loyalty is put some SERIOUS work into cognitive science, and find a software patch for our catastrophic neurological security holes that people will actually adopt.

But I'm not hopeful, since we already kinda *had* something like that. It was called Zen, and it got eaten by the exact same hierarchical thinking and dogma everything else on this shitty planet does. *shrug*

Uspol gets a lot easier to deal with once you stop rooting for humanity, and I think I genuinely have.

Honestly, I don't think we're going to be exterminated, even by extreme climate change, not unless the planet goes Full Venusian-- and I haven't seen a lot of predictions that say we're going that far.

But I'm increasingly worried that humans have some unfixable cognitive glitches and we might be better off letting nature try sapience again from scratch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=626pNZB8xXE

#moodsnapshot

love you li'l guy

#benderwasright

Tonight's "extravagance" is a Spanish cocktail called a "kalimoxto." It's just half cheap red wine and half Coke. It's supposed to be an icon of modern Basque culture, but so far it just makes me feel like Linda Belcher.

#Alright!

DEAR YHWH COLON TY FOR RELIGION STOP INSTRUCTIONS FROM SON WERE UNCLEAR STOP PLEASE ADVISE COMMA WORSHIPPING OWN PENISES UNTIL NOTICE RECEIVED STOP LOVE COMMA EARTH PATRIARCHY STOP END

I read somewhere that it was long traditional to consult a random line in the Aeneid to predict one's future.

Fuck you, Virgil.

mood

Feeling betrayed by left-leaning media outlets that conveniently failed to mention the bit about Elizabeth Warren being, what, 1/512th Native American? I'm really glad I smelled something weird and looked for some news outside my bubble.

On the other hand, it just leaves me even less impressed by Donald Trump's intellectual and moral character. Lazy dishonest fuck had a perfect, factual counter... and lied about making the offer anyhow?! Poorest quality supervillainry. :(

Disclaimer: when I say things like "I'm not actually sure 'Nazi' and 'fascist' are the right terms for Trump's admin," I say it in the same sense that a zoologist might say "technically, that's not a crocodile, that's an alligator."

I maintain there are important genetic/historic differences between 21st-c. racist kleptocracy and 20th-c. industrial militarism. However, for the purposes of someone who doesn't want to get eaten, they are similar enough that you should get running.