John Smith

Goodbye, and tell your mother I said thanks for the chicken soup!

[John Smith @FeeDelly]

@asiathemystic What? The Shirley Temple got its name because she saw her parents drinking cocktails and wanted a fancy drink too, so the bartender improvised the drink on the spot and named it after her.

[John Smith @FeeDelly]

@DalitDetector Probably the biggest disappointment of my entire life was when I realized how rare women with genuinely huge asses/tits actually are. There were like three girls with them in my graduating class so I assumed they were a lot more common than they actually are.

[John Smith @FeeDelly]

@mikerainey82 If you had a blue collar job during the “Hawk Tuah” era you know this is bullshit

[John Smith @FeeDelly]

@mikerainey82 Takes like this are how you know someone’s never worked a blue collar job. The average blue collar worker thinks Burt Kreischer is the funniest fucking guy on Earth

[John Smith @FeeDelly]

1. Demetri Martin
2. Robert Crumb
3. Kristen Schaal
4. Michael Cera

[John Smith @FeeDelly]

Famous people I can’t believe aren’t Jewish

[John Smith @FeeDelly]

@reddit_lies They’re always so obsessed with the idea of a hot woman choosing them over the hot men for being a good boy. Funny how that never goes the other way around. Where’s their ugly chick who’s vegan and vaxxed?

[poet @Candle6667]

what is white culture? reply below

[kidi @kidibillion]

Cannabis is banned cause it opens your eyes to things that society doesn't want you to see and notice.

[ǝʇʇǝɥsǝןɟ @fleshettte]

>secret asian wife and 3 kids

[John Smith @FeeDelly]

The defining feature of the 2010’s to me is the complete and total dominance of Black culture. Obama was in office, the NBA was at its peak, and Rap was basically the only music genre. The 2010’s were America’s blackest decade.

[Carlos That Notices Things @QuetzalPhoenix]

The 2010s are baffling because it feels like nothing happened but also like everything changed at the same time.

[Carlos That Notices Things @QuetzalPhoenix]

The 2010s are baffling because it feels like nothing happened but also like everything changed at the same time.

[John Smith @FeeDelly]

@QuetzalPhoenix The defining feature of the 2010’s to me is complete and total dominance of Black culture. Rap was basically the only music genre, the NBA was at its peak, Obama was in office. The 2010’s were America’s blackest decade.

[Kirschen 🍒 @schlafenkirsche]

just checked up on r/animemes again for the first time in 6 years and, it brought a tear to my eye... they're still posting the exact same dogshit even after all of these years, its so beautiful how some things never change

[John Smith @FeeDelly]

@fleshettte He’s sort of dropped that in recent years. Probably because his average fan isn’t in their 20’s anymore.

[John Smith @FeeDelly]

@FullMetalPicnic @Raindropsmedia1 I doubt they’re putting her in for actual sex appeal. This woman is famous for being a carnival freak show. Rockstar’s definitely using her to make some point about unattainable self-image or some shit.

[John Smith @FeeDelly]

@fleshettte Still one of the GOATs though

[John Smith @FeeDelly]

@fleshettte Sam Hyde’s entire schtick sort of hinges on being a precocious young guy who’s wise beyond his years. Now that him and the gang are older it just does not hit the same.

[Naval @naval]

On Scott Adams.

A man finds, to his astonishment, that he exists. After the elation of childhood wears off, he asks, who am I, why am I here, how does this work? These are hard questions, so after a brief struggle, he selects a readymade answer and goes about the motions of life.

Scott Adams was not such a man. He was a live player, ever curious, intent on figuring out this simulation that he found himself in. From first principles, Scott unraveled, understood, and ultimately controlled his own reality. He hacked himself with affirmations, others with persuasion, the world with simultaneous sips. He explained people as moist robots, two movies happening on one screen, his world as Gods’ debris. He carved a personal mission to “be useful,” and made us all better writers, public speakers, and persuaders. He preached the footwear theory of motivation, the Adams Law of slow-moving disasters, the skill stack, systems over goals, and of course, the Dilbert Principle.

Besides cartooning, philosophizing, and teaching, Scott rose to the occasion and displayed, “the one virtue that cannot be faked” - courage. Scott had the courage to speak honestly as he saw it - about Trump, about his nation, and about his time, even though it cost him friends, audience, money, and his ticket to polite society. Scott had true courage, the kind that makes you unpopular, the kind that is always and everywhere in short supply,

At the end, as any hacker of reality, Scott covered all of his bases - he left as a Buddhist, a Christian, and a player in the Simulation.

Scott, we didn’t get enough time with you, but you were a mentor and a marvel. You were useful and you were courageous. You were incompressible and indivisible. One of a kind, and generous with your drawing, writing, and speaking. Unlike your squealing critics in the chattering class, you will be read generations from now.

On this earth there are many long-lived hells but no lasting heaven. Each heaven must be created and nurtured, ex-nihilo, from mind and from mud. Scott, you created a small heaven for us all, and to a larger heaven you go.

A man finds, to his astonishment, that he no longer exists. He asks why, what it was for, and how will the new reality work? When the rest of us get there, we’ll find Scott, ever useful, ready to explain, having figured it all out.

Notes:
• First line paraphrasing Schopenhauer.
• Courage quote via Taleb.