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Cake day: March 19th, 2024

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  • It’s like, he was pretty woke for a Pope, but, he was still a Pope.

    I don’t think things would have worked out well had he gone full prog anyway. There’d be schisms for sure. Hell, Trump would probably declare an American Catholic Church and have himself elected Pope of it. (Shit, I really shouldn’t have given him that idea)

    I don’t really know which way he personally felt. But even a Jesuit at the end of the day is a Catholic.






  • Had one as a kid, with training wheels that weren’t on right, and I never felt safe on it. Constantly felt like I was going to tip. Gave it away to a friend years later.

    Bought another one about 10 years ago, never rode it, my wife did something with it idk.

    As a kid I mostly did scooters, also had a razer scooter a few years back that I would use to commute when I lived near work, but these days arthritis in my knees makes that less fun.

    I tried one of those electric scooters, and didn’t feel safe on it, decided to walk instead. Which I’m a pretty fast walker, even still now with the bad knees.

    Wish they’d make narrow trikes, which I think I’d do better on, but most of them are like 2-3 feet wide in the back which is way too big for most purposes.


  • Somedays I wonder if that was driven by actual rightwing sentiment, or by a desire to just destroy and hack everything. Go back to the days of gaming American Idol to push Sanjaya, or the gags of gaming other polls to like, send Bieber to North Korea or Pitbull to Alaska etc.

    Like, they realized they could do a lot, and just keep finding ways to go even further.

    I look at what TFG is doing nowadays and honestly if it wasn’t a system I depend on to live, it would be easy to mistake him for some kind of grey hat hacker exploiting every single hole he can find in said system in the worst possible way in order to compel people to close them.

    I will say this, too… 4chan’s opintel is completely amazing. The way they were able to track Shia Lebouf’s HWNDU by doing things like… correlating airplane noises with flight patterns is like… beyond next level.




  • Hot take, but I dare say 4chan was the source of as much of what’s good in internet culture as it was for much of what’s the worst in internet culture.

    Rickroll, Caturday, the modern meme format, reaction gifs, “TLDR”, Anonymous (well, the good versions of it), spoderman, Rule 34, trollface, rageface, quite a bit of pet abuse justice, … they may have even successfully set back AI chatbots nearly a full decade with their gaming of Microsoft’s Tay chatbot… quite a lot of modern Internet slang such as win, fail, an hero, based, copypasta, creepypasta, “god tier”, lulz, moar, sauce…

    The thing about anarchy is that it brings out both the best and the worst.