bobbyfiend

Finally being able to (mostly) make decisions without undue influence of horniness.

Wow. This forum.

"Ukraine has corruption so..." (Implied: the US should let Russia invade and annex them)

"Russia and the US have some details in common if you blur your eyes so they are morally and politically identical"

"Zelensky sucks"

"How can anyone know what truth is in this topsy-turvy world?"

OK, it's been about a week with no replies. I am starting to suspect that perhaps there is no plan.

Ie this take sometimes but I don't know what the alternatives are. When you win your revolution, what system will you put in place?

ITT I've seen "random elections", and plenty of people saying "socialism", plus someone (I hope) is thinking "anarchism", but how is it managed? What takes the place of elections for public office?

So... Why Photoshop the Ukrainian flag onto this meme?

Opalstack for webhosting.

Mostly afraid of people realizing I'm an academic. Em-dashes are a dead giveaway.

Next we ask how many women and other non-guys are on here.

Hey, this guy lives just up the road. Cool that he has made the jump to the fediverse (sort of).

middle aged cis guy here. Thinking of opening a WhatsApp account to see if it will give me cleavage.

An account on a personal website or maybe a kayaking forum from around 2000: a sea kayaker described paddling with friends off the coast of Nanaimo, BC (I think). He wanted to paddle a bit more when the friends headed for shore. When he decided to join them, huge swells had started to come from the north, making it dangerous/impossible to ferry (paddle crosswise to the current) without getting broached and dumped. So he surfed down the swells, trying to angle toward shore as much as felt safe. He described riding a single swell for a long time, maybe multiple hours, before the sea calmed down enough for him to get to shore, now many miles south of where he started. I remember his description of combined terror and thrill: he could get flipped and--in the big sea--maybe never get rolled back up, just hanging onto his boat hoping for rescue, but here he was, surfing down the face of what seemed like an eternal wave, constantly at the edge of his ability to keep a line.

I've looked for that thing over a dozen times, spent maybe 20-30 hours searching over the past decade. No luck, yet.

This is a guy from the 18th century speaking his thoughts about his time, which was quite violent. There is no reason to believe he was a prophet seeing 250 years into the future of the nation he helped create, or even that he was some kind of ultra-insightful historian who understood all the cycles of the world better than all the historians before or since his time.

He was just a guy in a time. A smart one, but just a guy.