@no_earthquake arguably so many swe are paleo con / libertarian / crypto-monarchist/ neotrad because they try to solve social issues from first principles and that's where their brain runs out of fuel
RFK Jr: "I'm going to reverse 80 years of farm policy in this country, which have directed us toward industrial agriculture, industrial meat production, factory farming, and chemical-based agriculture, carbon-based fertilizers"
Industrial meat production and factory farming, huh
@esstee_jay@suchnerve I was noticing while gaming the other day: it is normal in real life for people to have delusional or manipulative accounts of important or traumatic events. people mythologize constantly. we fill in gaps. but in narrative art this is rarer, because it would undermine exposition
The Onion has acquired Infowars in a bid at bankruptcy auction. The last morning of Infowars under Alex Jones' control is playing out right this moment, with Jones and Steve Bannon doing a last, frantic broadcast. https://t.co/sgBsG7oDMw
@Tameranian3d@SemiOcelot@nescartridges if you are comfortable with the command line, there's a Linux program called sox that has nearly every old audio format. you can override the number of channels, bits per sample, sample rate etc. etc. manually. try various conversions until one comes out clean.
The Guinness record holder for "lowest voice" claims to be able to sing a G-7 (0.189Hz). Here's the problem with that: It's nonsense. "Singing" a G-7 would mean having your vocal folds click once every 5-ish seconds. Total bullshit record.
@nowhesobs@ChodeEmperor@jetzchiclete George Lucas has demonstrated fondness for black women (eg. his wife) and corny old fashioned jazz for white people (eg. the music the aliens played in star wars). these biographical elements are combined with a constellation of stereotypes about autism and nerd culture to produc