Ah that makes sense. I wonder if the meaning is the same in other sports and I just wasn't aware of the nuance

Sand bagging is a term which refers to intentionally doing bad so your team loses. It's often used in sports or games to describe intentionally losing

"This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we"."

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Different killer Grapes of Wrath quote

Stuart is also. A mouse while Remmy is a much larger rat so.

Remmy in round one

I made the kind of funny one liner about this being a "shrine to the petrodollar" when we stopped there on a road trip. They're nice but gd you got people talking about this place like it's a sacrosanct ritual to pull in there with your family.

Konsi is very cute and I love your work. Hope things are going well!

Love seeing these regularly again. I don't know if I was gone or you were gone but I'm happy one of us is back!

Just wait till we get to the era where bug fixes are dlc locked

Writing quality plummeted. I don't want to just drop spoilers so I'll refrain from commenting on season 2.

I remember being a kid born in burgerland and thinking that the F35 was the coolest shit ever.

Finding it out to be garbage is a pretty good metaphor for my radicalization journey and current view of the US

I remember seeing some bullshit drama about how Jake Paul does show fights without any real substance and he whined about it a bunch. Turning around and fighting Tyson isn't doing him any favors.

It's gut wrenching but also uplifting. Well worth your time and famous for good reason.

Grapes of wrath has interlude chapters which describes marxist concepts. I think the archive of marxist texts online has a few excerpts saved there.

Here's a PDF

https://ca01001129.schoolwires.net/cms/lib/CA01001129/Centricity/Domain/270/grapes_of_wrath_john_steinbeck2.pdf

It's dummy thick and the claps alert me to your position

I don't comment or post much but I know your name! Always seemed cool and I hear you have a nice ass which makes you doubly cool.

Go read up on videogame addiction. Reduces grey matter in the brain. Having socially isolated kids who only play games alone is damaging. Having kids touch grass in order to help avoid that is good.

"Least obvious psyop" after spewing straight up BS. Okay lol

I'm done goodbye

Look man I'm not gonna respond to anymore of this stuff. I just want to point out that most of what you said the first time is untrue and then you just double down and list a bunch of other things as truisms.

Be a little critical of narratives about places you know nothing about yeah?

Religious books are not banned. There are millions of christians in China. There are millions of Muslims in China. Reducing hours of video game playing could greatly assist with insane amount of hours that come with game addiction. It probably needs workshopped more but I personally think this change in coordination with providing youth with solid after school programs and activities would be good for long-term health and well being. That TikTok thing is BS. People in China watch just as much brainrot on douyin. Winnie the Pooh is beloved by people in China. Literally go around for five minutes and you'll see his face plastered on shirts bags and as stuffed animals. As for the companies, this is good if true. Fuck companies doing whatever they want and hurting people. I hope they continue to have significant government oversight.

Xinjiang is a more complex situation but if you look into it all accusations of genocide come from one source, Adrian Zens. He's a CIA asset who claims god revealed to him that it's his mission to destroy China. I'm gonna listen to the Muslim countries (and the UN) that came and inspected the region and said nah it's chill.

Have you ever talked to someone from there? I have and just asking them about this shit is really useful for learning that 80 percent of this stuff is untrue, and 20 percent is misconstrued.

That's the thing, if a lie is a big as the ones you present here, everyone would know. Yet here we are and the average person from china will complain about a lot of things but never the things you brought up here.

Yeah actually though. "You get what you sow" sounds so bad.

For being an "upper middle class" he writes like a child raised by wolves

Other people have tried gum and not had it help them. I find it pretty helpful for me so far. I'm now two weeks in and I only chew 2 pieces a day now. Only have it when smelling others' cigarette smoke triggers my cravings. Overall, I'm gonna try to quit the gum by the end of next week.

I will note that I seem to have way easier of a time with nicotine withdrawal than other people I've talked to.