@mightyeternal
THE FIRE THAT DOESN'T BURN
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2023-09-30 21:19:59

    its really bizarre how after a couple decades of mostly uncensored internet access and raunchy premium cable made it so nobody gives a shit about swearing, we're now re-entering an era of quaint self-censorship in the name of platform marketability rather than politeness. im sure nobody actually cares. im sure none of the advertising dicks, or boardmembers, or anybody really cares that much personally. they just think it will scare people off somehow. so now grown adults are saying "h-e-double-hockey-sticks" ass bullshit on the same social media websites where they try to get their meat slonked and find a dealer.

    calware

    funny phrases to use when something goes wrong instead of jokingly saying "i'm going to kms":

  • i'm going to kill god
  • i'm going to delete my blog
  • i'm going to explode
  • i'm going to blow up this entire website
  • i'm going to become the joker
  • this is going to be my villain origin story
  • feel free to add on

    calware

    THIS ONE WINS

    calware

    oh you know

    polishbarnowl

    What is homestuck? Is it like goncharov?

    Early witnesses described the anomaly as having a glowing form before the arrival. Containment within the church has been successful.

    Members of the church reported seeing the Face of Christ” within the anomaly (which our cctv cameras have captured as well). We are unsure if this is a form of communication or mimicry from its surroundings.

    Direct contact with the anomaly results in contamination.

    Victims of the anomaly are kept in a quarantined medical bay where they receive careful treatment. All four victims (two staff, two church) have survived direct exposure to the anomaly.

    Rooftop cameras have picked up footage of an entity (several?) trying to enter the church. We assume that they are drawn to the anomaly. Measures have been taken to keep the entities from breaching the containment area.

    Second director ██████ has often been referred to as the “Eyes of God” by the staff, due to his unique connection with the anomaly. He is able to see everything that the anomaly sees (including the various ‘hosts’). This allows us a great advantage over the entities.

    Congregation outside of church.

    original-honeychiles

    Read this and save a life - YOUR OWN

    From a surgical nurse and certified CPR teacher:

    Please pause for 2 minutes and read this:

    1. Let’s say it’s 7.25pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job.

    2. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated.

    3 Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home.

    4. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far.

    5. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy who taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

    6. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE? Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

    7. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

    8. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.

    9. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!

    10. A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we’ll save at least one life.

    11. Rather than sending jokes, please... contribute by forwarding this mail which can save a person’s life.

    12. If this message comes around you... more than once… please don’t get irritated... You should instead, be happy that you have many friends who care about you & keeps reminding you how to deal with a Heart attack.

    please take the time and boost this post by reposting it and sending it to those you love because we all need to understand how to quickly deal with heart attacks

    thosevesuvianthots-deactivated2

    Hope you all stay safe.

    thecaitiff

    Fair point. Back in the 90s, Clinton had an aggressive plan for the “National Infrastructure Initiative”.

    Verizon, AT&T, BellSouth, CenturyLink and others got $200 Billion in funding, plus tax breaks, favorable changes to laws, and other perks in exchange for a commitment to upgrade the telecommunications infrastructure across the nation to all neighborhoods rich and poor.

    Specifically there was supposed to be fiberoptic lines run to every house capable of running at least 50mpbs up and down and up to 500 channels of video costing the average consumer around $50/month. This fiberoptic system was by law supposed to be open to ALL competitors and not be a Comcast owned set of wires or a Time Warner set of wires. This was written to PREVENT area based monopolies and allow everyone to access a “free open market” of service providers.

    There were even specific deadlines and goals to reach by state. At least 50% of Pennsylvania households were to be hooked up to this fiberoptic system by 2004. At least 75% of New Jersey by 2005….

    Then the telecommunications industry came back and said, “Hey… Look theres been a lot of mergers and acquisitions going on so no one really knows where the money is anymore, not to mention price increases all around…. Give us ANOTHER $200 Billion so we can finish.”

    All told, the direct payments, tax incentives, regulation cuts, etc have cost the US almost $5 TRILLION since the 90s.

    Do you have fiberoptic internet in your house? Do you have a market of internet service providers competing to provide high speed service to your home? Do you pay less than $50/month for your TV and Internet service?

    No?

    Then you see that the telecom industry has not fulfilled their side of the bargain and have earned the penalties that are coming their way.

    If you paid someone to build a house on land that you own, you wouldn’t keep paying the builders rent as if they were your landlord. You might hire them for routine maintenance if they did a good job though. That’s your monthly bill, routine maintenance of a system that we the people are supposed to own.

    Nationalize all telecommunications infrastructure. We paid for it, they were just the contractors who built it and never left. They did a shitty job, never met any of their deadlines, and THEY DONT OWN IT.

    opuntialiberacion

    I remember last year there was a post that was really excited about the concept of community-created, community-run and community-owned internet  and how simple it is and projects creating it in working class Detroit neighborhoods (much more exciting and empowering than internet owned and run by a neoliberal surveillance state IMO) but now these telecom corporate lobbyists have funneled their vast resources to roadblocking it or making community internet illegal in 26 states