"Anything that hurts my ideological enemies is good"

do you want maga? this is how you get maga

"Honey look the neighbors we hate just jumped in the car and took off! This is great news!" you say while the block is burning down

"Why are they being canceled?" is a reasonable question to ask.

It's because of problems in our electrical infrastructure and our inability to build-out capacity

So, yeah, that's not good news. That's actually really bad. If we want more solar capacity and better transmission this is bad.

Returning to the 1920s general store model

Get anxious when anyone in their 30s chalks any issue up to aging like no, you should not be a creaky stiff person who struggles to recall words! You should not be experiencing physical and cognitive decline in your 30s! That's not aging!

[once dropped a brand new cellphone before I bought a case for it and a small corner, not even the screen, just the edge, got a little crunched. I could not look at it, I obsessed abt it, I bought a case & was too afraid to ever take it out of it bc I was so scared of SEEING the damage]

that shit

not socially unacceptable ones or nsfw ones, like the kind of just absolutely embarrassing NO ONE WOULD CARE ABOUT THIS WHY DO I CARE ABOUT THIS fixations/irrational anxieties. the stuff you’re afraid will make ppl think you are childish/selfish/pathetic/stupid

god so real

thinking about making a submissions-based zine where ppl send me submissions to my po box (or an online form, i’m not a monster) about their weirdest ruminations/obsessive anxieties so i don’t feel alone

may you get the housing you expect poor people to live in 🙏

Long-term infrastructure problems caused by decades of austerity and exacerbated by a death-cult of conservatives?
Nah, that doesn't make me feel good.

Let's instead claim it's all because of projects that haven't even happened yet sending their energy demand back in fucking time

Now I'm fun-mad!

Honestly hilarious to be blocked for saying "but the conservatives are killing our renewables and grid improvements and that's the primary cause"

This is why I don't bother talking on the internet anymore because people don't want to hear about reality they want to be facile like anti-vaxxers

Hell, people can't even blame data centers consistently. Most of the build out in the last few years was because of our shift to remote work and online services since 2020.

But no one is proposing we give up remote work and YouTube forever.

It's just plastic straws all over again. People have a new culprit for environmental problems that they feel good about. It's a simple problem. It has an easy solution.

There's no complicated trade-offs

People don't want to drive less or stop eating fish, they want to ban straws

This is like people blaming datacenters for water loss in the southwest. Half the Colorado river diversion is for farming animals! Everything else is a rounding error

We're literally just straining gnats and swallowing cattle!

God but this isn't the primary reason your power bills are getting worse

Our power generation and transmission infrastructure is crumbling and the Trump admin has been slowing down improvements and repairs to the grid, they're killing our renewables

The folk logic is focused on the wrong culprit

It's such a weirdly fun movie

I will attack and dethrone god for that

😍

oh phew

Oh god did you eat it

I honestly love coconut but I still think it's overused

We should probably just pick a little round table as a stop gap very soon

Oh no this is such a good story

......???

god it'll be sick with an actual sink and a pocket door instead for smaller footprint

Oh I just thought you forgot Piss in a Can: Gamer Fuel

y'know, the super caffeinated drink you like because you're a real gamer

I wasn't gonna judge

<3

I think that's from The Office. I can almost hear Rainn Wilson's voice saying it

big mood

???