I Lack Tact

Catholic. 06-07 OIF vet. Proud father. Proud husband. Aspiring author. I tweet religion, politics, video games, anime, 40k, FF14, and guns.

[I Lack Tact @LackTact]

Still trying to get better

[Isaac Young @HariSel57511397]

Counter argument:

[Multipolar Press / Constantin von Hoffmeister @constantinvonh]

"Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate."

— Tsunetomo Yamamoto, 
Hagakure

[☥ @GoonExile]

How to get your girlfriend’s attention

[The Random Recruiter @randomrecruiter]

Recruiter: The salary is competitive

Me: Ok so what is it

Recruiter:

[Andrew Zywiec, M.D. @AndrewZywiecMD]

That's because you ARE the screaming kid...

[The Laconic Sardonic @FabricateClaim]

Sure bud.

[Templarpilled @Templarpilled]

These days, I am reminded of the famous Solzhenitsyn knife quote

[𝔞𝔱𝔩𝔞𝔰 @1AtlasInvictus1]

-spend all day with her
-take her to dinner
-take her to a movie
-take her back home, she wants to cuddle
-start cuddling, she falls asleep
-you turn on the ps5 in another room

[Paul @WomanDefiner]

"I don't even see scientist or experts anymore just people who want me dead"

[Classic Hex @DoomerCoomer]

@MatthewTorbitt Turning point for what? If you can't recognise that Henry is dead because he is white, and that the police helped kill him because of the state's ideological commitment to treating racism as the worst crime possible, and white people as guilty of that crime, you change nothing.

[I Lack Tact @LackTact]

@mantarayning @Ada2987_art friend, you almost exclusively tweet about k-pop stars and yaoi. YOU ARE A GOONER

[Mark Taylor @Mark___Taylor]

Holocaust survivors: “I’ve been fighting Nazis my entire life.”

Really what did you do?

“When they told us to go to a camp we went without a fight and then waited to non-Jews to save us.”

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

Around 1,950 years ago in Pompeii, a weaver named Successus fell in love with a barmaid named Iris.

She did not love him back.

We know this because his rival, a man named Severus, decided to humiliate him publicly. He grabbed something sharp and carved this into a wall for the whole city to read:

"Successus the weaver loves the innkeeper's slave girl named Iris. She does not care about him at all. But he begs her to have pity on him. His rival wrote this. Goodbye."

Imagine walking to work and seeing that with your name on it.

Successus found it. And instead of letting it go, he carved his reply directly underneath:

"Envious one, why do you get in the way? Yield to a man who is better looking and being treated very unfairly."

Severus came back one more time to end it:

"I have spoken. I have written. You love Iris, but she does not love you."

Then, in 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted and buried the wall, the tavern, and the entire argument under 20 feet of ash. The thread was frozen mid-beef for almost two millennia until archaeologists dug it up and translated it.

We will never know who got the girl. We do not even know if any of the three survived.

Pompeii has over 11,000 of these inscriptions. Bar reviews. Bragging. Bad poetry. A bakery wall that says "Welcome, hungry people." Two guys fighting over a girl in the comments.

The technology changes. We do not.

[HWIOC @NobodyIsOurGuy]

We just keep pretending that these companies don't take attractive women and intentionally uglify them after the face scans.

[phillip @philliplede]

They aren’t denying it. They’re just hurling death threats at this guy for pointing it out.

[Cal1bern @GyzmoFyre88]

Same Energy:

[Rock Solid @ShitpostRock2]

Yep people are totally so scared of playing as a woman, it’s not conceptually stupid at all

[RÈBELs RÄÎDÈRs @Rebels_Raiders]

Ah yes, human economics. Very fascinating. Very concerning.

*wheeze*

“Who does Earth owe $350 trillion to?”

Mostly itself.

You owe money to pension funds, banks, insurance companies, investment funds, foreign governments, central banks, corporations, and millions of individual investors.

*wheeze*

In other words, humans have invented a system where they borrow money from themselves, pay interest to themselves, panic about it constantly, and then argue on the extranet about who is responsible.

As a Vølüs, I find this arrangement delightfully profitable.

The more interesting question is not who you owe. The question is whether the debt grows faster than the economy that supports it.

* wheeze*

If I owe 10,000 credits and earn 100,000 credits per year, nobody cares.

If I owe 10,000 credits and earn 12 credits per year, suddenly C-Sec starts asking questions.

Hah hah hah…* wheeze*

So when a human says, “We owe $350 trillion! Who do we owe it to?”

The answer is:

“Mostly other humans. The real question is whether future humans can keep making enough money to convince everyone not to panic.”

* wheeze*

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have several sovereign debt instruments to sell to the Elcor. They take a very long-term view of investments.