Roomba of Earthly Delights

Hypernikáō. πραΰς. μολὼν λαβέ. 無心の心. “There is no shame in honest poverty so long as one has a plan to escape it.” Just think robo-vacuums are neat.

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

Statistics don’t matter when they happen to you.

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

@DrunkestDriv3r Like I care the opinion of a “drunk driving enjoyer”.

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

Kipling:
——
The Beginnings
——
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late
With long arrears to make good,
When the English began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were icy-willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the English began to hate.

Their voices were even and low,
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show,
When the English began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd,
It was not taught by the State.
No man spoke it aloud,
When the English began to hate.

It was not suddenly bred,
It will not swiftly abate,
Through the chill years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the English began to hate.

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

@Spivonomist @RoofKorean7 Indeed. Many are.

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

@averykimball Dirty bags of mostly water

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

@it_unprofession @bitmaelstrom Observation: The multiple choice test correct answers are, >60% of the time, the longest option available.

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

I worked at Kodak, just past their peak.
Literal miles of buildings.
There were “Backrooms” … vast floors abandoned, open, odd forgotten items, collapsing ceilings, decaying fluorescent lights uselessly on & buzzing, rare distant sounds of explorers or a couple enjoying the seclusion, entrancing darkness, tantalizing fear of discovery where none care.

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

@DonutOperator Feed that text to Grok … and … 😬

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

@sci_explore1 Was a tremendous effort costing billions to send a minivan there to look at dead rocks.

We got bored and spent $ on other things.

Cost to make lunar travel & residency profitable is staggering, needing tech only coming into existence now.

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

@MorlockP Not the first trilogy with more than 3 volumes.

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

1. Yes, and I’m not inclined to deeply engage with it.

2. There were some narrow/tangential/tenuous connections with what are now considered liberal/communist but were not so firmly defined as today. Early republicans weren’t “communist” just because they found some slight agreement with Marx on a narrow topic.

3. You’re playing motte-and-bailey games now, which I’m not interested in. Modern “liberals” are far from classical “liberals”; discussion was the former.

Your wanton confusion bores me. Shoo.

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

@Alexarmstrong @elonmusk To the confused: “government” here does not refer solely to the current collection of individuals elected in 2024, but to the parliamentary system of legislators/executives/judges operating since the mid 1800s.

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

@L0m3z @travis4nh Red State … Venus?

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

@Kossack57756254 @Oilfield_Rando Disingenuous to use centuries-old words framed as modern talking points.

Republican Party was not founded by what we currently term “radical liberals and communists”.

I’ll leave the extensive rebuttal for Grok to summarize. https://t.co/im4oevxb4N

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

@KarenBassLA Then why is the emergency reservoir empty?

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

The definitions & accounting of “murder” and “suicide” differ between the countries, making comparisons difficult.

What Americans call “murder-suicide” (i.e.: parents kills children and spouse, then self) is just “suicide” of several in Japan. That looks like, say, 1 suicide and 3 murders, vs 4 suicides and 0 murders.

Official statistics can be problematic to compare.

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

@japan_nobunaga “Japan also averages fewer than 10 firearm homicides”

A disingenuous statistic.

It doesn’t matter what tools people are murdered with.
It only matters that they were murdered.

Give us the homicide total, using the same definition of “homicide”.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

He’s the President of the United States — not your ex, not your personal villain, and not the cause of your misery. You don’t have to support him. That’s America.

But if someone is simply backing the sitting President and it makes you rage, cut people off, attack families, or act like garbage — you are the problem.

You’ve turned politics into a personality disorder: nonstop outrage and toddler meltdowns online. Grow up. He won. The sky didn’t fall. Pay your bills, care for your family, touch grass, and move on.

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

@soncharm He FA, he FO.

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

@soncharm Apparently the modern version of Mike Wallace & Morley Safer, thinking himself the king of the show, and not just the popular jester.

[Roomba of Earthly Delights @ctdonath]

@SamH0816 Yeah.