Greetings Dramatards

I was supposed to go work in the fields today but we ate some very expired meat this weekend, which our butchery couldn't apparently keep properly refrigerated cuz of loadshedding So I'm stuck in the office for the day.

Today I wanna regale you guys a bit about Cyril Ramaphosa, the current president of South Africa, and head of the ANC. He managed to barely keep his job after this tumultuous recent election, and since the recent ANC congress in which he also managed to keep his position as head after vicious infighting.

For those of you unaware, back in 2018/2019 Ramaphosa was seen as an incredible beacon of hope after the decade of heck which the infamously corrupt Jacob Zuma had finally been ousted from the ANC, and from the presidency of the country. I made like 5 fricking Longposts just to fully cover the extraordinary degrees of corruption in which Zuma was involved, including the most economically devastating being when Zuma literally sold entire industries into tender for the equally corrupt Indian "Mafia" family, the Guptas.

By 2018, virtually every non-Zulu black person was sick of the monumental corruption and economic devastation brought upon by Zuma's regime, and even the average black person had to admit that the ANC under Zuma's leadership had become such a husk, even though the filthy mayos had been clamoring about Zuma's ineptitude since 2005 - but the everpresent SA racial wingcuckery meant it took 12 years before black people finally became disenfranchised.

THE 54th AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (2017):

Before 2018, Ramaphosa had been quietly sitting outside the true echelon of powers as Deputy President from 2012 - 2018, and was unknown to safricans at that time, both because he never held actual influence and because Zuma and his family and cohorts dominated media week in and out due to his endless slurry of debacles and corruption. But he would reach a near instant meteoric rise in late 2017, when he would challenge the Zumas for ultimate power in the ANC party.

You see by late 2017, Zuma had been so mired in corruption scandals by this point that even the internal ANC leadership feared they might lose their 60% supermajority if they had the gall to run the ANC platform once again for the 2018 coming election. You see the ANC has held an (African) National Congress for almost century to choose their leaders, which is how the party had gotten its name.

The 2017 would be known as the 54th National Congress, and would garner the MOST attention of any party's internal election in the history of South Africa at that point. By 2017 internet and mobile data, along with near universal mobile phone private ownership had proliferated to enough of the SA public, that websites like Facebook and Twitter had become large enough within the SA awareness to affect discourse.

Entire media caravans would literally fricking camp out, outside Johannesburg Expo Centre in Nasrec, Gauteng - some an entire week prior to the event, as this party election was EVEN MORE hotly anticipated than the actual 2018 national general election would follow in 2018.

This was because fricking nobody expected the ANC to have less than their traditional 55-60% supermajority, and thus continue their monopolistic rule as they had for the past 25 years, and thus the internal leadership was of utmost and absolute significance to both the ordinary south african layman, and those following SA politics in the media.

By 2017 virtually every non-Zulu ANC member was fricking sick of Zuma, both for his open corruption, his selling out of tenders to family members and the Guptas, and making heaploads of enemies in the ANC party itself. YET EVEN THEN, the Zuma extended family still held enormous sway within in the ANC.

Zuma's literal wife, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, would run for the Zuma faction, in her husband's stead, and would basically allow Jacob Zuma himself to retain power and act as shadow president of the nation. Th entire election campaign for internal ANC powerbases was filled with controversy, as Zuma was gradually becoming radioactive. Yet in spite of that, it appeared as if the Zuma family would yet again emerge victorious.

The entire party election was MONUMENTALLY close, and was a pretty shocking occurrence for the nation which had been held under domination by the Zuma family up until this point.

RAMAPHOSA BECOMES PREZ:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/18/cyril-ramaphosa-wins-anc-leadership-vote

This created shockwaves throughout the country, as many corrupt officials had become complacent to the idea of not having to compete for their posts, and literally buying their way or bribing their way into power under Zuma's regime. A new contender for presidency was also new to many laymen people who knew next to nothing about this Ramaphosa dude.

The Zuma backers were pretty pissed about this

BLACK POLITICIAN ACCENTS DURING ZUMA REGIME:

Now Ramaphosa in 2018 actually managed to bring forth a beacon of hope for many in the country, both black and white, after his 1st speeches, often winning people over quite literally after hearing him speak, often because of the manner in which he spoke English, compared to his predecessor Zuma.

You guys need to understand that [1] traditionally black peeps in SA have not had a great command of the English Language, both in terms of accent and in terms of speaking it well. Usually it was Coloureds, in their proximity to SA brits which commanded the best english, compared to all the other non-white ethnicities. Though Afrikaners don't have good accents either, in comparison they have were far more educated, fluent and had understandable accents, in a similar capacity to the Netherlands, which traditionally are the best English speakers of the european continent. The accents are trash, but the written word and fluency tend to overcome that in the business environment to a great degree.

https://leapscholar.com/blog/english-speaking-countries-in-europe/

Black peeps in South Africa, especially black boomers usually didn't have command of the english language that well, and the unfairness of Afrikaans and English being both european tongues, compared to African languages, AND THEN combining that with a longlasting lack of tertiary education for black peeps in the country, meant that many had bad english accents and bad fluency. Additionally Bongs tended to have themselves relegated to teh Eastern and Western Cape provinces, while Boers were far more wider spread throughout the country in the other 7/9 provinces, and especially inland.

Thus, even without taking the systemic racism of the NP party and the Apartheid regime into account, the average black person when exposed to europeans prior to democratization, would be far more likely to speak afrikaans than english, but as many as a factor 3:1 or 4:1 in comparison.

Yet in spite of this, English would indeed become the dominant language of the country and in Parliament, both for the practicality of black leaders needing to know English to speak to foreign dignitaries, and because of the intense hatred of which many ANC veterans had of Afrikaans as language of the oppressor, and trumped their hatred of boers in particular more than whites in general.

Which is an ironic point because so many black boomers, and thus black politicians........don't......speak it so well uh

To especially make this point on the average lack of English fluency of the average South African politician, you just need to listen to one Youtube clip of an especially disruptive and boisterous slapfight between SA politicians during a parliamentary session, in which the Speaker of the house, in an EVEN WORSE accent than that of the average Afrikaans speaker (which is a bar as low as shark shit shade in the abyss).

Many black boomers can also be very sensitive about their lack of English fluency, especially in wider context of them speaking worse than SA whites on average, and the humiliation they suffered under Apartheid as being seen as uneducated.

It didn't help that very little meritocracy was practiced when a critical amount of ANC politicians found their way into Parliamentary positions, many often quite literally without a highschool degree.

EXAMPLES:

HONNORA-RUBLE!!!! MEMBA OF THA PARLIAMENT!!!!!1

"WE SEE HONNONONORABBLE MEMBARS USING THEYRR HEADS TO HARM OTHERS!!!"

Here's a video of even Julius Malema calling Jacob Zuma a corrupt bastard in his last address to the nation.

ZUMA MOCKS MMSUSI'S PRONNCIATION OF NKANDLA:

It also needs to be understood that Jacob Zuma was very Trumpian in his speech manners, both in Zulu and English, he would make wild accusations, talk and ramble endlessly and behave very crass and low-class sometimes. His command of the Zulu language gave him charisma towards his own people, but his crassness in English made him seem illiterate, not just influent in English.

Also in one hilarious moment, Zuma would mock then-DA (Democratic Alliance) leader Mmusi Maimane in a speech, when Mmusi called out Jacob Zuma for his embezzlement in his infamous Nkandla Residence scandal. Like I'm going on a tangent, BUT YOU GUYS NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS SHIT!!!!

FIRST: Just listen to Mmusi's speech for like 30 seconds, he's got a strong accent but a handsome one, along with a strong and handsome voice. While not spectacular, the DA was decisively more meritocratic than their ANC peers, especially with their black members, whom on average tended to be more educated and with tertiary education on their CVs.

SECOND: Now compare fricking Zuma lmoa Not that bad, but certainly not better than Mmusi's accent, which is gonna be important. He pretty much never ever made any speech not looking down on his fricking exam pad and often read like 2-3 words at a time - like that slowest member of class which always sucked at reading the prescribed book. Now again, an african leader not being well versed in a european language shouldn't be the sole judge of their leadership potential, but oh my God Jacob Zuma genuinely was as r-slurred as his speech pattern!

The shining moment between Jacob Zuma & Mmusi Maimane was after Mmusi made a speech on Zuma's embezzlement of tax money for his infamous Nkandla Residence, Zuma would go full schoolboy mode and MOCK Mmusi's pronunciation of Nkandla, both as a Trumpian abrasive manner to divert attention from the Nkandla corruption scandal, but also becuase Zuma was genuinely that crass.

But it's also important to know Zuma was charismatic in how own way, especially to his own powerbase, and his own Zulu supporters.

Like holy shit just watch this 2 minute video in which Zuma made rebuttal after Mmusi called out Zuma and Nkandla. You can literally hear endless laughing and jeering in parliament as Zuma proceeds to mock Mmusi.

Where Zuma remarks that, when you listened to Mmusi and his strong and educated English accent, you "can think you live in another world." Where Zuma implied, due to his educated sounding accent, that Mmusi was divorced from the average poor black person in South Africa, Zuma effectively literally semi-called Mmusi a race-traitor because of his accent being divorced from that of the average black person.

And instead of defending himself, or even waving off the extreme allegations of Zuma stealing public taxes, to fund his rural megamansion, Zuma proceeded to try and humiliate Mmusi's pronunciation of Nkandla, which is off to the Zulu ear, both because Mmusi was Xhosa and because of his tertiary education in English.

I go on and on on this massive tangent, because of how EXTRAORDINARY this moment in RSA politics was, both in its insanity, and as a microcosm of South African culture!!! Like holy actual fricking shit, i know none of you dramatards will watch the youtube videos i list, but just listen this one clip to understand the context.

In this moment in time, in 2015, a black man, leader of the nation, mocked the black accent of ANOTHER black man, because it sounded too educated/ too different. Thus mocking his ethnic background ANC implying that he was a race-traitor spending too much time with DA whites, to be able to properly pronounce a relatively common placename by Zulus, the most populous demographic of the country, and thus the mispronunciation of Mmusi supposedly made him too divorced from the average poor black, to be able to rightfully critisize Zuma for his corruption.

It sounds r-slurred, but Zuma would play this up for his powerbase, and his ANC-supporters and Zulu-powerbase. To try and make a comparison for Burgers it was like Elizabeth Warren being humiliated by Trump when he called her Pocahontas in one of his crass insults, which was very effective,

because it didn't matter if Warren was competent/foolish, her entire perception by the public (or at least Trump's powerbase) was shaped by this one crude insult - because Trump effectively brought attention to the fact that Warren, like many shitlib Mayo women had abused the Progressive affirmative action of her university to help herself gain a position as a supposed Native American It is irrelevant if she actually has any 10% DNA of actual Native Indians, the perception is that she had lived as a pure White women for her entire life and had never suffered discrimination like actual feather-wearing Native yanks had, and had used stolen minority valor with her white women shenanigans

All of this was communicated in that one crass insult of trump, and similarly in 2015, so very much was communicated by Zuma onto his powerbase, to disregard Mmusi's very real accusations of the Nkandla corruption scandal brought up in parliament.

Zuma would in black safrican meme circles be circulated mocking Mmusi's pronunciation of Nkaaaaandla! Once again an absolutely extraordinary 2 minutes caught on camera.

Because ANC wingucks and Zuma wingcucks would basically bat for Zuma in insanity like this, even as the literal ground minerals beneath our feet were being stolen by Indians and Chinese companies.

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2015-05-27-nkandla-nkandla-nkandla--he-he-heh-zuma-mocks-opposition/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32929411

https://www.news24.com/news24/video/southafrica/news/watch-president-zuma-jokes-about-nkandla-in-parliament-20150528

TREVOR NOAH COMMENTS:

Now this moment became so famous that even Trevor Noah would comment about it in one of his Stand-Up routines (Yes the Trevor Noah which replaced Jon Stewart in that shitty racially wincucked Talkshow for shitlibs) Yet for his Stand Up comedy, Trevor Noah was genuinely GENUINELY funny and fair in his social commentary.

Here is Tevor Noah commenting Zuma's speech pattern and the extreme irony of Zuma pooping on Mmusi's pronunciation of Nkandla, when he himself is so extraordinary garbage at English himself! (VERY FUNNY WATCH IT YOU STRAGS)

Below is a Youtube video compilation of Trevor Noah's many jokes of Zuma, and the specific moment when Trevor mocks Zuma's mocking of Mmusi starts at 23:30 to 30:30

RAMAPHOSA'S CLEAR ACCENT AND SPEECH COMPARED TO ZUMA - AN INSPIRATION TO HOPE:

Yeah i needed to give you guys context just to comprehend the insanity and crassness and stupidity involved with Zuma's speeches specifically and all those imbeciles beneath him. Literally near 15 years of sub-preschool level english reading levels in Parliament and crass baffoonery

So when peeps heard Ramaphosa speak for the 1st time as President of South Africa, a heapload of peeps got hopeful. Compared to Zuma, Ramaphosa spoke with respect and clarity, for the 1st time since Nelson Mandela, safrican peeps heard someone speak english with clarity, and didn't sound like a fricking pre-schooler struggling to read the prescribed book,

Additionally the content of his speeches also gave hope, and his platform of anti-corruption gave many the indication that cleaning house would follow soon in his election in 2018.

Just to give you guys a fricking indication of just HOW hopeful Ramaphosa inspired the nation, literal "Markets rallied strongly the day after Ramaphosa assumed the presidency with stocks rising and the rand reaching its firmest since early 2015. Government bonds also increased in strength."

https://www.news24.com/Fin24/rand-rallies-over-4-as-ramaphosa-takes-anc-top-job-in-close-contest-20171218

Complete opposite when compared to when Erdogan got reelected in Roachland.

https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news-fast-news/stocks-rally-as-ramaphosa-seen-as-watershed/

Ramaphosa emphasised the need to grow the economy of South Africa, increase tourism and youth employment, as well as reduce the size of the Cabinet. In this speech, Ramaphosa also focused on the importance of keeping Mandela's legacy alive.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-02-17-sona-2018-president-ramaphosa-promises-to-turn-the-tide-of-corruption/

Foreigners would also have warmer relationships with Ramaphosa, than with the corrupt Zuma, and international white foids with BBC fetishes would fall for him and praise his COVID response during the pandemic, where he was compared much more favorably than r-slurs like Bolsenaro.

Additionally in 2020 many foreigners and locals would hear him speak in his golden voice, in which he sounded calm, respectful, competent and in control.

Here is a video of him in 2020, where he struggled to put on a facemask, humanizing him to the public, and demonstrating he was a proactive leader in a crisis at the time, when other leaders even denied the very existence of the Pandemic, or at least this was how he was perceived at the time.

A completely different type of character, and a public servant figure much more prone to inspiring confidence and adoration.

My own father lead a committee of farmer strags in the GRAINSA, to communicate with Ramaphosa's cabinet in 2018 on his future policies for Agriculture in the country, and boers legitimately came from these meetings hopeful that "Adults were now in charge at the ANC" and that for the 1st time actual ANC members were communicating with famer organizations of policymaking for foodsecurity and shit - you know actual 1st world class type of gov behaviour.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44238549

Ramaphosa even vowed to donate half his salary to the biggest black philantrophy organization in the country, truly this man was our salvation

Unfortunately the dark dim truth was that Ramaphosa, was alongside all of the ANC stooges since 2000s very very corrupt. He just had a shiny veneer over his past, and a golden voice (literally) to fool peeps.

THE REALITY OF RAMAPHOSA:

Despite all the propaganda and wingcuckery, many peeps had pointed out way back in 2017 that though Ramaphosa wasn't as bad as Zuma and had a golden exterior, he was still just as corrupt as the average ANC stereotype. He had been there in the ANC command inner circle post prez-Mbeki since 2005 and though Ramaphosa had never been close to real power prior to 2018, he had been FULLY AWARE of just how thievingly corrupt every single motherlover on the Zuma inner circle had been had been.

I don't remember, I think he's Venda? But because he wasn't Zulu himself, he was overlooked by the powerful Zulu bloc under Zuma, and was himself not really liked by Zuma himself.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/11/s-africa-ramaphosa-admits-rampant-graft-during-time-as-zuma-vp

As the years passed beyond 2018, and the aging and failing 30 year old national infrastructure continued to plague the nation, and roads became filled with potholes, and electric wires kept being stolen, and an actual draining of the swamp filled with the corrupt politicians under Zuma's regime failed to manifest, so too did the hope and adulation for Ramaphosa waiver.

Articles of Ramaphosa's involvement or at least awareness of Zuma and the Guptas, and the myriad metric shitload amounts of provincial and municipal level corruption scandals under Ramaphosa's leadership, showcased he was just as aware and willingly complicit in all of the robbing of Safrica's taxes into the pockets of ANC politicans.

For all his Golden speeches, it became clear Ramaphosa had no intention of rooting out the worst offenders of the Public sector under his jurisdiction

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49052112

RAMAPHOSA AND THE UGANDAN COWS CONTROVERSY:

But the final straw, which snapped the camel's back in dispelling the illusion for the public that Ramaphosa wasn't just Zuma 2.0, was cattle!

https://www.theafricareport.com/246259/south-africas-president-cyril-ramaphosa-his-cows-and-the-case-of-the-hidden-millions/

Ankoles are Arican cattle bred from 700 years ago in Uganda, they are most famous for their giant horns.

They were specifically bred to have giant horns, which were status symbols in the way giant phallic things are for men

Though these cattle did have large horns compared to Europeans to begin with, likely as successful defense mechanisms against literal lions, the Ugandan ancestors would breed these herds to have especially rediculous horn sizes, which are not universally popular by other commercial or subsistence farmers.

Because the giant horns take up tremendous energy to grow for the animal, both in terms of the nourishment it takes for the animal to grow them to that size, but also the amount of physical energy used up by the animal to just move its head around, these horns are not practical defense mechanisms, and can be easily outcompeded by cattle bulls with smaller and more proportional horns - these giant horns are purely an artificial human breeding element over 700 years.

Due to the biltong and strong meat culture of South Africa, the extra sized horns are not as popular since it competes against the bulking muscle meat of the animal itself.

The Ankoles cattle are still prized by Central Africans for their leather, milk and meat. And Ramaphosa had been importing and cultivating Ankoles since 2004. Ramaphosa has had exclusive right to sell Ankoles on the auction in South Africa ever since he became president, and others suspect he had abused his power of Deputy President since 2012, to enable his monopoly of selling Ankoles to black and white farmers in Safrica.

Cattle plays an astronomical role in Safrican culture, especially in rural black culture, and is the highest sign of prestige, in terms of the ability to show off or determine relative wealth in most rural black communities in places like Eastern Cape, the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal.

A poor man might possess 1 cattle, a middleclass man may possess 6-25 cattle and a rich black man might possess hundreds. I am not speaking hyperbole when I state for many black people like the Sothos of Free State or the Basothos of Lesotho, determine the wealth of a man by the amount of cattle he possesses, rather than the size of his mansion!!!

This weekend alone i talked with farmhands on my father's farm, whom work in Safrica during the schooldays and goes back to Lesotho during Semester vacations. One man literally bragged to us that he owned 25 cattle back in his home village in the mountains, looked after by the village herdsman.

By his own mind, even though he worked as meagre laborer in a foreign country, in which he barely spoke the local languages well, he was fricking Middle Class baby!!!

As you guys can imagine, Ramaphosa has made countless millions of Rands from this grift of selling such an exclusive product to his black countrymen, and few questioned this practice until "O1 June 2022, a man named Arthur Fraser filed a complaint against Ramaphosa."

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2024-03-04-ramaphosas-annual-ankole-and-boran-cattle-auction-earns-r15m/

https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/cattle-sale-that-dragged-ramaphosa-into-political-storm-is-back/

The funny thing is peeps only became aware of Ramaphosa's grift after his own personal farm got broken into, and something like 600 000$ worth in cold cash got stolen, which led to the public speculating how the heck he got so rich!

Even now that enough Ankole cattle farmers exist within the country, that Ramaphosa is no longer the lone provider in the country, the whole Ankole Cattle Society, STILL continues to host their annual auction at Ramaphosa's farm. Make of that what you will. It's a bleeding open sore of corruption.

Khohols tried the whole day sell the story that they captured Sudzha

Because they entering 3rd day without progress

They selling 3 days ago pictures as they captured that town

They selling pictures inside Ukraine as they reached Kursk city.

https://x.com/julianroepcke/status/1821974765927854274

Jihad Julian had to double triple confirm that khohols didn't captured that town.

Why this town matters for Ukraine ? Because the road to north goes from that town so if they lose it gg and even if they also don't capture it is also gg since they have less resources than Russian

https://x.com/mylordbebo/status/1821890771563299029

That's the tactic Ukrainian used. Basically bypass any checkpoints and continue moving and that's why they post this map

They tried to do Kharkiv offensive but they pulled Russian 22 offensive in Kiev. Because this time Ukraine didn't had manpower advantage to pull this so all those heroes that moved to much got killed just like all the marines that are now dying in Kilburn

https://x.com/squatsons/status/1821898209943535898

Bypassing multiple checkpoints without behind you enemy groups being destroyed you just end up to far into enemy territory without any supply and retreat options so this is real front:

And as you see they getting pushed back slowly

Ukraine lost tho 4 villages today 2 in Sumy and 2 in Donetsk

Western media is now very excited

You see how they put Sudzha every where ?

This one is fresh just 30 minute old and as you see they still can't find explanation what Ukraine did

if we talk about territory they captured less than Russian Kharkiv offence in 24 hours but local homosexuals live in fantasy I don't want to point fingers but it's @Cobra_Commander. But Russian offensive in Kharkiv had goal to pull reserves so Ukrainian didn't attack Russian in Ovhayne so they could continue the push towards Pokrovsk. If that was Ukrainian goal than they failed since Russian had enough reserves to stop Ukrainian and didn't pulled out any from Donbas. It's basically 15k "elite Ukrainian" vs 45k Russian and unlimited non contractor forces they can use. So holding territory also won't work. Pushing towards NPP is also lost opportunity.

After capturing several small settlements the last few days, Ukraine was battling to take full control of a town near the border and sending small units to conduct raids farther into the southwestern Russian region of Kursk.

Kinda ironic that last 40 hours Ukraine lost 3 towns

Perhaps preparing for retaliation, Ukrainian authorities on Friday said they were evacuating 20,000 people from the Sumy region, which sits across the border from Kursk.

Around 4 villages already lost in Sumy last 40 hours and those that supposed to protect Sumy are now struggling in low land in Kursk

Because who thought that Russia would build its defence line 15km from border

But military analysts have questioned whether the operation is worth the risk, given that Ukrainian forces are already stretched.

The Ukrainian military has enforced a policy of silence about the operation, and it has not publicly acknowledged launching a cross-border attack.

Kyiv's allies in the past have been wary of Ukrainian incursions in Russia, fearing that it could escalate the war, but there have been no public indications from Western capitals that they oppose the assault. The United States has said that the Ukrainian incursion does not violate American guidance.

However, senior American officials have said privately that they did not get a heads-up about the operation and were still seeking clarity about its logic and rationale.

This was such an r-slur move that west had to let Ukraine use himars and shadow storm and even saying they can use f16 because if this genius move of Podolyak fails. Ukraine will be at its lowest point

The Ukrainian military has enforced a policy of silence about the operation, and it has not publicly acknowledged launching a cross-border attack.

Of course they do no public because a lot of military personal saying if this shit fails they want Sirsky head and that absolutely what I need because 2 weeks ago I made a bet with my khohol pal that Sirsky will be fired

I was right about Zaluzhnyy and seems I will be right about Sirsky tho Zelenskyy really likes Sirsky.

The officials said they understood Kyiv's need to change the optics and the narrative of the war, but that they were skeptical that Ukraine could hold the territory long enough to force Russia to divert significant forces from the offensives it is pressing in eastern and southern Ukraine.

"It's a gamble," said one senior administration official.

Still, Mykhailo Podolyak, a top presidential adviser, was upbeat about the international response. "Most quietly approve," he wrote on social media on Thursday evening, adding that a significant part of the world now considers Russia "a legitimate target for any operations and types of weapons."

Mr. Gady and other experts said the main question now is whether Ukraine can maintain the momentum and turn the success on Russian territory into useful gains. The Ukrainian Army has few reserves it can pour into the fight, and it continues to suffer from shortages of weapons and ammunition, analysts say.

It also remains unclear what Ukraine ultimately hopes to accomplish. A senior Ukrainian official who spoke the on condition of anonymity to discuss the operation said the goal was to draw Russian troops away from other parts of the front line where Ukrainian units are struggling. But military experts said that Russia would likely be able to respond with reserves who were not fighting in Ukraine.

"Does it really solve any of the larger military strategic problems that the other parts of the front line are suffering from?" Mr. Gady asked

Even when it was clear that spring counteroffensive was dead I didn't seen so much doubts from western media. Khohols for real did something magical

Mick Ryan, a retired Australian Army major general and a fellow at the Lowy Institute, a research group, said one objective may be to boost morale in the Ukrainian population. "Given the past eight months of defensive operations, constant aerial attacks on infrastructure and ongoing power shortages, the will of the people will be at the forefront of the Ukrainian government's considerations about the trajectory of the war," he said.

It absolutely didn't since soldiers that were bombed in Donbas are still getting their daily bombs and retreats while they were begging for months for reinforcements

In particular, the Ukrainian Army has entered Sudzha, a small town of about 6,000 people six miles from the Ukrainian-Russian border. On Friday, Ukrainian troops claimed in a video that the town was under their control. The claim could not be independently verified.

For frick sake when they stop mentioning Sudzha

Mr. Kastehelmi said Ukraine could not continue further north without widening its flanks and exposing itself to Russian counterattacks. "Time is also running against Ukrainians," he wrote. "Russians won't be disorganized forever."

Time already run out 2 days ago I already wrote if next day Ukraine doesn't gain something meaningful it's gg

But retrospectively it's interesting that they actually could had captured Sudzha if they didn't continued moving in every direction from that town without securing it. Like for real why didn't they thought they could pull Kharkiv offensive when they were outnumbered Russian by 4 and had solid foreign legions back then and first and only good branch of soldiers that completed training in the west. This time Russia also has drones advantage so that just not risky but R-slurred. They have around 4k more soldiers that they can drop in Kursk that mb help them capture Sudzha but it won't push Russian out by much and won't help them hold that territory for long.

Basically khohol IQ

Edit: since the day ain't over khohols continue post disinformation

Showing a woman saying she is from (for frick sake when does it stop…) Sudzha… And asking her what do she thinks about Ukrainian army liberating her she told she is supper glad. I kinda got confused since hold is clearly from somewhere where there is a sea.

She is Ukrainian living in Odessa

And whole fricking day khohols post shit like this

Intro

Greetings, fellow dramatards . When Mr. Beast burgers first launched, I, like any other functioning adult, didn't give a shit. But ever since they announced he was planning to sue the dark kitchen he partnered with for this venture—and in turn, they were suing him back —I developed this morbid curiosity to try them. Recently, with all the drama surrounding Mr. Beast, I decided that if I wanted to try them, it would be now or never, before this affront to all fast food finally goes where it belongs: the grave.

I'll try to keep this brief but informative .

Order

This was my order:

• 1 Beast Style Burger

• 1 Nashville Hot Chicken Tender Sandwich

• 1 Beast Style Fries

• 1 Chocolate Cookie

It's a lot of food , but worry not, I just wanted to get one of all my fast food favorites since I don't think I'll be ordering this shit ever again in my life . Hopefully, it'll be worth it to save half of each thing for tomorrow, rather than throwing it all out... and speaking of being worth it...

Price

I know prices might change depending on the region, so I will add a similar McDonald's order for comparison. On this order, I spent... $9.99 for a Beast Style Burger, $6.79 for the Beast Style Fries, $9.49 for the Chicken Sandwich, and $2.99 for the cookie. That is a grand total of...

$29.26!! (+ delivery fees)

That is fricking insane . For comparison, a similar McDonald's order would cost me $18.60 (Quarter Pounder: $5.95, McCrispy: $5.60, Basket of Fries: $4.05, 2 Cookies: $3.00).

Mr. Beast is 57.3% more expensive than Mickey D's .

Jesus. But I'm sure it'll be worth it, right?

The Food

It came wrapped up in this cute bag.

Something I found really cool were these safety seals which indicate if your delivery guy tried to steal some of your fries .

I gotta be honest, I love it. It's cute branding, and it made me feel like as long as the food is good, I didn't get THAT ripped off.

Taking out the items was easy, and they all came individually wrapped too. Another good thing .

I actually had to wait a good 15 minutes before starting to unwrap my meal since I got busy. Again, credit where credit is due, the food was still pretty hot when I got to it. Didn't even have to pop it into the microwave.

Now, the moment we've all been waiting for... how does it look?

Ok, two things immediately jump to mind:

• This looks really good

• This looks COMPLETELY different from what I saw on their menu and many social media posts .

I don't know if I got unlucky (or lucky ) or if they just gave up and now deliver whatever the frick the dark kitchen is making for themselves (as this comment wisely pointed out).

I guess I am a little disappointed that I won't get the raw meat burger experience I was promised . But enough sulking, let's give them a try.

TASTE

Beast Style Burger

To me, it looks really good... but does it taste good? ...

Yes! Well ... kind of . The patty is pretty tasty, the buns are good if nothing special, the cheese is not bad quality, which is always a risk with these types of ventures, and the mayo-ketchup ratio is good. I honestly can't find a single thing to complain about, other than there's nothing special about it .

It's not THE BEST burger I've had, but it's not bad. Here, I'll give a list of how other burgers compare in my mind, along with this one, so you can get a feel of my preferences:

• Wendy's Baconator: 10/10. The absolute pinnacle of fast food. I love it, and I've never had a bad one.

• Quarter Pounder: 8/10. Pretty good. Not as good as the Baconator, but a solid option that plays in its own field.

• Burger King: No idea. It's trash, all of it.

• Whataburger: 6/10. Not a fan. They are a little dry for my taste.

Now, what would I score this one? ...

• Beast Style Burger: 7/10.

As I said, it's not bad at all, but really, even if you ignore the price (which is a big fricking if), it still gets outclassed by a Quarter Pounder. Overall, not a bad experience, but I'm pretty sure it's a far cry from what a lot of people got to taste.

The one thing that I guess is a constant are the ingredients, and this burger is condiment HEAVY. It has a good amount of mayonnaise , which I never add to my burgers. Despite it not being bad, the reality is that once you account for its price, it's just not worth it at all... let's see how everything else fares.

Nashville Hot Chicken Tender Sandwich

I'll be honest. This one looks a lot less impressive than the burger . It's just 2 pieces of chicken and some lettuce. I actually prefer chicken sandwiches to burgers, but it's rare for a burger chain to nail them. I usually order mine from Wingstop. Is this one even close to the supreme Wingstop Louisiana or Cajun sandwiches?

• Nashville Hot Chicken Tender Sandwich: 5/10.

Nope. Not at all.

I'll explain my scoring system a little, to make my opinion on this one a bit clearer. Anything between 1 and 3 is something I would NOT EAT, even if freely available. A 4 I might consider if I'm starving and won't be able to eat anything else for a good 3 or 4 hours.

Between 5 and 6, you'll find all the things that I am willing to eat FOR FREE. Meaning that I would never, in a million years, order them for myself, but if I attend an event or someone's party and that's what they have, sure, whatever, it's better than nothing. This falls squarely there. It was extremely forgettable and a waste of money, if I'm honest. NEXT.

Beast Style Fries

These are weird . They're just regular fries but with caramelized onions, American cheese, pickles, mayo, ketchup, and mustard. Not bad, I guess, but again, really condiment heavy. To me, this just highlights how much this food was targeted for babies and little kids. No adult needs this much shit added to their fries to enjoy them .

* Beast Style Fries: 6/10.

Now, for the last part, dessert

Cookie

It was not even a fricking cookie. They gave me a brownie. EXTREMELY sugary, but not dry. 4/10.

That's it! I hope you enjoyed my food review c:

!goyslopenjoyers @lain

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NHFvR0ArXPsFRICK IT. I'm watching it I will give you guys the play by play. followup to this post

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• overproduced intro this guy is insufferable, I do believe he's an attention whore who wasn't getting attention anymore

• Bro dressed like he's Ulysses Grant for some reason. He could benefit from burning some railroads

• blah blah blah. Mr. Beast videos are largely staged and fake (duh). He will string along any serious allegations for part 3 because he's an attention whore.

• PDF file accusations from a guy that looks comically like a p-do. Mustache man accuses Jimmy of being a narcissist

• Huge clickbait videos are CLICKBAIT??? PDF man's mom was a good actress over the phone. Thanks mom!

• Complains that he doesn't get Hollywood writer money working for Mr. Beast

• Jimmy bad because he gives 10k to a homeless guy and makes more than 10k in youtube revenue. This mean's Jimmy bad

• He somehow complains about getting residuals on a video that still makes him money

• He was a lab rat for an annual American fast food salary for far less than a year in addition to his normal pay. He's mad about this. His water wasn't hot enough for showers and the lights were too bright. Despite insisting that he has insomnia problems and agreeing to this bullshit, he had 0 agency in deciding to do this stunt to make money for himself and his employer.

Dear god we're only 18 minutes in and he's whining about the Geneva Convention. I really hate this guy if you didn't pick up those vibes

• His dad is currently in jail for sexually assaulting a minor (bad look as the kids say). He gets mad that he didn't get to fake his isolation video or whatever dumb challenge he got overpaid for.

• He's really caught up on people joking about his dad, which I get. He's really mad that Jimmy isn't his friend.

• Sounds like he had a proper mental breakdown, which isn't unreasonable. He also thinks a marathon is 26.2 kilometers which... hehe sorry buddy It's miles! For reference, a reasonably healthy person can run 5 kilometers in 20-30 minutes. I have personally walked (emphasis on walked) a marathon in less than 6 hours just to see if I could. This guy is room temperature butter levels of soft and should probably have never been employed to call people which I think is all he did. Great runners can do a marathon in crazy times 2 hours 16 minutes is what I saw and they're outpacing my 5k for 26 miles.

• Mr. Poor employee paid 44k in taxes in the US... He's not poor

• Complains about blisters like an actual whiner. Calls Jimmy his buck breaker

• NO DOES NOT MEAN NO, which I assume is the accuser's term because nobody with and IQ above 80 would ever term it that. Mr. Beast wants his employees to call dollar stores and see if any of them will allow them to film there. Trying to find a location is a heckin violation of the sacred corporate policy of the Dollar Tree and this is a huge sin . I've been told this was a huge thing, it's just content slop production

• Mr. Beast litters at camp sites . Frick boy

• 38:30 the guy making the video mentions the Geneva Convention again

• Jimmy has the gall to task his production cruw with tasks that are unusual and hard to make happen. Implication is that he's horrible for this

-42:00 is when the only substantive point is made. He says he hung out with Chris/Kris/Ava a lot. Says the groomercord was SUS and Mr. Beast was in there during those days.

• Jimmy knew about the Kris and acted to protect the brand

• "I've heard things, water cooler talk". Says some other of the Beast crew were let go for molesting children.

• Probably the biggest thing is Mr. Beast hiring someone who was a registered s*x offender and flashes Age 1-11 to highlight this. Says this person was "the manager when it all started" and accuses him of literally hiding his face with a mask. Refuses to make a concrete accusation "even if that guy didn't do anything but that guy was still around".

Editor's note: if he's on the registry and spent time in prison like he seemed to say, it's not a liability to call him a p-do. This guy should clear his throat and say it with his chest if this is actually true. Again, have some balls about it.

• P-do gets nicknamed "Delaware" because he can't go back there due to sexual assault charges. He again chickens out and says "the odds Mr. Beast didn't know where astronomically low".

• The video man says Mr. Beast attempted to expunge this guy's charges and plays the worst voice changer call to ever be produced by man. It is more digitized to shit than anything and is incomprehensible even at 1x; I am trusting his transcription of someone being scared of the legal peepee swinging Mr. Beast could do because he has frick you money and it's implied that the caller believes he will play lawyerball if needed to protect his brand/reputation.

• Someone named Reed told Mr. Beast to not frick around with promoting gambling to children and also not keep s*x offenders on the payroll. I don't know anything else about this, but /r/bossmanjack if you like gambling

• twigboy also makes his "if if IF" statements about how maybe Jimmy doesn't know about this and could be an innocent boy

• I assumed that these two were zoom calling or whatever, but there's a camera pan which reveals they were both in the same room for the whole interview.

updoots to the left. I'm going to be real largely a nothing . My biggest offence was Jimmy littering at a campsite. Frick people who litter I will kill you if I see you doing that shit.

All other accusations were super vague and IDK.

I better not figure out who Delaware is.

Where do I begin with this hot piece of trash? It's been lauded as the second coming of Christ when it's the second cumming of Chris. I hate this game so much for so many reasons that it'll take a longpost to fully explain exactly why this garbage should be avoided at all costs. Sorry for the lack of new Hollys. I'm writing this in a bit of a hurry.

The Game is a Technical Nightmare

When the game launched, it was full of bugs and this is something reviewers were too scared to report on. The game started off iffy and only got worse with every Act. It's months later and things haven't gotten much better despite what Larian Studios might tell you. I'm still in the first Act and I am encountering annoying bugs and glitches that force me to reload an autosave. The game is too big and complex for its own good and there are too many ways for things to go wrong.

The problem isn't my machine (I'm playing on the Steam Deck). Even high-end systems have struggled to maintain stable frame rates, leading to frustration among players. The demanding system requirements and lack of optimization further alienate a portion of the gaming community who may not have the latest hardware.

Exploration is Shit

I hate exploring in Baldurs Gate. Having to do that stupid jump move just to get to a chest the burns me when I try to open it. It is always apparent where you should be going, making it possible to walk around for hours, going in circles, talking to everyone and stealing everything without feeling like you're making any progress.

There are environmental puzzles, but they are some of the worst aspects of the game. BG3 frequently fails to provide clear clues or context for solving puzzles, leading to frustration and trial-and-error gameplay. This lack of thoughtful design and guidance detracts from the enjoyment of exploration and disrupts the pacing. I'm stuck trying to figure out how to open a door while the wall shoots fire arrows my way and I don't like it one bit.

Perhaps worst of all, there isn't much reward for exploration. BG3 often fails to reward thorough exploration adequately. Hidden areas and secrets are scarce, and when they do exist, the rewards are often underwhelming. This lack of meaningful incentives makes me want to not go off the beaten path. It's just going to lead to a place where I'll be stuck in a long combat sequence or have to talk to another annoying xenophobic Tiefling or some shit.

This leads to one of the biggest issues...

Lack of Cohesion

One of the most glaring issues with Baldur's Gate 3's quest design is its lack of cohesion. The game offers a plethora of quests, ranging from main story arcs to minor side missions. However, these quests often feel disjointed and poorly integrated into the overall narrative. Instead of weaving a seamless story, the game presents a series of isolated tasks that fail to create a unified experience.

The inconsistency extends to the quality of the quests themselves. Some are well-crafted and engaging, with compelling storylines and interesting characters. Others, however, are mundane and repetitive, reducing quests to simple fetch tasks or combat encounters with little narrative depth.

It's not even obvious when you're on a quest, it all feels like a random loosely related events intercepted by annoying battles and rude characters. I find myself lost so many times, not knowing where to go next to continue my quest, whatever my quest is. There is no consistent storyline, just a series of random things happening that I'm supposed to keep track of. I don't like this at all. The system could be improved by having more defined questlines with clear explanations of what needs to be done next to progress. I may be an unemployed bum but I don't want to waste my time either, and BG3 is king at time-wasting.

Terrible Combat

I hate the combat so much. The problem isn't even that it's turn-based (although I don't like that). The problem is much deeper. Everything is so slow, and it takes multiple turns to set anything interesting up or else it's just a matter of wearing down foes with fireballs. Don't get me started on the magic items that require a specific build to take full advantage of. The magic aspect of combat is so complicated it feels easier to just ignore it entirely and just grab a club to melee anyone and everyone.

Battles can drag on for an extended period, breaking the game's pacing and leading to fatigue. It's easy to just get stuck in a battle that in hindsight is unwinnable, forcing you to load an old save. The difficulty spikes can be unforgiving, with certain encounters feeling overly punishing. This lack of balance in combat difficulty is frustrating. Lastly, the game's reliance on dice rolls for crucial outcomes can also feel unfair, leading to moments where success or failure hinges on luck rather than skill.

I loathe every combat encounter and attempt to avoid them as much as possible.

Conclusion

I would not reccommend Baldur's Gate 3. It is bloated garbage with a false appearance of being a great game. There's no reason to git gud when the characters are so boring, the pacing is all over the place, and the game leaves you so lost at times. It's so easy to run into dead ends, kill the wrong people, or lose companions. It's like the game lacks any proper structure and is proud of that.

I will now play Ghost of Tsushima, a much better game, especially on Lethal mode.

Introduction

Taverns are big business in South Africa. Also known as shebeens, they are places where people congregate in informal business settings to drink, smoke, listen to music, and meet ladies of the evening. Originally emerging during the apartheid era, these informal establishments provided a space for Black South Africans to socialize, often in defiance of oppressive laws that restricted their movement and gatherings.

Today, taverns are integral to township life, offering a place for relaxation, music, dance, and community engagement. They serve traditional South African beverages such as umqombothi (a type of traditional beer) and a variety of commercially produced alcoholic drinks. These venues often feature local music genres like kwaito and house, contributing significantly to the country's vibrant music scene.

It is not uncommon for taverns to technically be illegal and not have the proper alcohol permits in order. It's also not unheard of for taverns to serve underage patrons, especially females.

Enyobeni Tavern

Today, we'll be zoning in on a very specific tavern known as Enyobeni Tavern. It's located in Scenery Park, East London, Eastern Cape and it is two storeys high. It is in a residential area, which has caused many of the inhabitants to complain that the tavern is a nuisance that attracts noise, crime, and doesn't close at the appropriate hours. According to inhabitants, patrons of the shebeen come out and litter and urinate in lawns which one can imagine is a nuisance to deal with. They have reported the tavern to police multiple times but to no avail.

While we're criticizing the shebeen, it is worthwhile to bring up its construction. The original plan for the building was for it to be a single storey building. However, a second storey was added which the owners did not have permission to do. One of the problems with the second floor is that the patrons have a harder time exiting in the case of an emergency. This will become important later.

Kuzofiwa!

In June 2022, students were preparing for a pens-down party. This is an event traditionally held at the end of the exam period to celebrate. Youngsters from Scenery Park chose Enyobeni Tavern as their location of choice. After all, the place was known for serving minors. Enyobeni Tavern was more than happy to host the event. A Facebook post was made ending with the term "Kuzofiwa!" In slang, it means a great time will be had. However, the literal translation in isiZulu means "There will be death". Ominous.

26 June 2022

The event took place on the 26th of June 2022. The venue was packed to the rafters, alcohol was being served freely, and there was even food available. Then, disaster struck. The place was overpacked and there was patrons trying to force their way in. Inside, it was excessively packed and the security guard, had closed the door. Witnesses reported that the tavern was filled beyond capacity, with estimates of up to 400 people crammed into a space meant for far fewer. Children started saying they cannot breathe and they are dying, and some reported that someone sprayed something in the air, perhaps pepper spray.

This is how packed the tavern was:

Initially, it seems like what happened was a crowd crush causing the death of 21 children. However, things aren't so simple. It could not have been a crowd crush event because not everyone died at the event. Some fell ill after leaving the event and some who fainted on the way home. Thus, suspicions turned to something the children consumed. Samples from the bodies of the victims were taken to toxicology laboratories in Cape Town for analysis. A provincial safety officer said that since there were "no visible wounds", the cause of death was likely not a stampede.

It was found that the deceased had methanol in their bodies. This led to the suspicion that the alcohol may have been tampered with. However, a toxicology report stated that the methanol levels were not lethal. Alcohol poisoning was also ruled out. Next, heads turned to the supposed fumes in the building. As many of you know, South Africa suffers from load shedding. Hence, many businesses have generators to keep the power on when the electricity goes out. Enyobeni tavern was no different, and a generator was found inside. However, it was not adequately ventilated. So the deaths must be caused by carbon monoxide poisoning! Wrong! Although the bodies showed signs of chemical asphyxia, carbon monoxide poisoning was ruled out.

So what caused the death of 21 children? We still have no answers. Post-mortem reports state the cause of death as suffocation but we have no idea whether this is physical or chemical suffocation. Parents reject this report because, as previously stated, some children only fell ill later which is not consistent with suffocation.

Enyobeni Tavern Owners and Victims

On the night of the disaster, the owner, Siyakhangela Ngevu, received a call stating there was a crisis. He rushed to the tavern but it was too late - the children were dead. A legal investigation was launched and it was found that the tavern was built illegally. The city has not received any land-use application, nor has it granted any departure for operating a tavern at the location. On 23 February 2024, the club's owners were ordered to pay a R5000 fine or serve 100 days imprisonment.

The owner suspects that he has been sabotaged and that the children were poisoned. He posits that he has enemies who wanted his successful business shut down.

The names of victims and their ages are as follows:

1 Lithemba Velaphi (20)

2 Mbulelo Rhangile (18)

3 Inathi Nkani (18)

4 Kungentando Nzima (18)

5 Ovayo Mateyise (17)

6 Bongolethu Ncandana (17)

7 Anathi Ngqoza (17)

8 Sinothando Mgangala (17)

9 Simamkele Sobetwa (17)

10 Aluncedo Monela (17)

11 Simele Bolsiki (17)

12 Esinako Sinarhana (17)

13 Oyena Ngoloyi (16)

14 Lungile Bekiso (16)

15 Asamkele Thukuthe (16)

16 Azizipho Zilindile (16)

17 Inamandla Wexu (16)

18 Lilitha Methuko (15)

19 Sisanda Mahlahlaka (15)

20 Sisekela Tshemese (14)

21 Thembinkosi Silwane (14)

So what caused the deaths of these younglings?!

Conclusion

It's joever. Another job rejection today. I've lost all hope and want to die to escape the blackness that is my life. I'm

-broke

-incel

-ugly

-5foot1

-too stupid to finish my English PhD

I can't tolerate this shit. I'm going to overdose when I pick up my next prescription. Frick I want to die.

Hi friends!!!

Recently I've stumbled back onto an old subreddit I used to moderate, r/thesecretforum

This sub was created August 7th 2014 and was one of the first things I did on reddit

It was made as an empty prank, a meaningless ARG-type thing that has absolutely no point to it other than to make people wonder what it is and why it exists

Since it's the now 10-year anniversary of this thing I did (yes I waited til today just because), I thought I'd share the story with you! At least, what I can remember of it and piece together through the old posts

BACKSTORY

The idea came when I realized you could create private subs which are only viewable by invite.

"Why not make a 'secret' private sub with no discernable purpose, then start inviting random users to populate it?"

It sounded fun so I made my first alt account, the now deleted /u/_Sideway, created it with the very mysterious name The Secret Forum, and started inviting people from random posts on the front page

Well first I made the background image, which is still up, and instead of upmarseys/downmarseys there's leftvotes/rightvotes for some reason

THEN I started inviting people, and they started to make nonsensical posts like Is this a circlejerk thing? and Roll the Bones

These didn't get much attention, but keep in mind I was inviting these folks by hand over the course of a few days, and only a few dozen had accepted and filtered in by this point

BRING IN THE SCHIZOS

Inviting people from just the front page comments was fun, but I needed some real "curious" types to start pouring in and piecing together the mysterious puzzle I'd constructed (that is, absolutely nothing )

Still pretty new to this site, I started searching for random math, puzzle, and cryptography subs. People who like to solve things and have time to waste on meaningless tripe. And hey while we're at it let's invite some loonies from conspiracy subs, paranoid, and schizophrenia subs and see what they have to say

With this assortment of characters assembled, there were now well over a hundred active users making posts. Some were afraid, some were asking "why me?", some were trolling aficionados and saw right through the whole thing.

It was now officially in motion

Sidenote: my main

As /u/_Sideway I made sure to invite my main at the time as well, which I used to comment alongside the others in order to stoke the flames and keep a man on the inside

THE SECRET MESSAGES

One of my responsibilities as /u/_Sideway was to keep interest going by making occasional posts.

The titles of these posts would always be a simple dot character • that counted up to 2 dots on the 2nd post, 3 dots on the 3rd, etc.

The first post also had the body be a single dot. It garnered much enthusiasm, with commenters leaving beautiful art of their own such as ╞▓╕and 8=====D

Unfortunately, because it was 2014 and I was a reddit newb, I uploaded all of /u/_Sideway's images to postimg. If you don't know about postimg, you're probably in the majority - it's been nuked off the planet by now. If I have the images saved then I don't know where. It's fine though, they were just a bunch of crap anyway like random perpendicular lines with dots and shit you'd see on an IQ test or something.

The second u/_Sideway post had one of these images, masterfully constructed in 10 minutes of MS Paint using the line tool

People speculated, one pointed it out as a "fantastic troll" , and soon after a third post, this time with a video (think it was a distorted picture with sine tones playing ) was uploaded.

One user, the now suspended /u/FutzBucket, was even slowing down and numbering the tones to decipher a hidden message

I liked his gumption, so I made him a mod for no reason other than to cause confusion.

By the time fourth post rolled around, /r/thesecretforum had over 500 users, each working tirelessly to piece together the grand narrative. There were even users making r/OutOfTheLoop posts asking about it. This fourth post was just arbitrary binary, 1s and 0s that apparently could be interpreted as CSS code if you try hard enough

This would be the last of the "regular" posts made by /u/_Sideway for a while. In the meantime, the schizos were figuring out a theory for time travel and immortality, the crypto boys were deciphering the image from the second post, and some of the more observant users were noticing the invites arriving in waves (i.e. I was sleeping and not inviting people)

Now it was time to pull the rug out from under them.

THE INSIDER

Shortly after the fourth post I decided to curb the numbers. Lots of people weren't participating and I had no further plan or anything so I wanted to start narrowing the sub down to the most invested users.

/u/FutzBucket took notice of this and made a post wondering if things are escalating

The few survivors, the chosen, were left in awe and dismay after the removal. Little did they know, my man on the inside was still among them, sowing dissent and spreading distrust among the ranks (I was actually just leaving dumb comments to keep the joke going).

The idea of a traitor being among them was funny though, so the next day I made the fifth and final u/_Sideway post, the first in plain English, warning that one of the users is not who they seem

Now it's funny cause I actually fricked up and committed the classic sockpuppet mistake of leaving a comment on your alt

One user noticed this and screencapped it before I deleted it, which ended up working out well since it only fueled the conspiracy behind the man on the inside.

THE GREAT MODDENING

By this point (1 week in) I was running out of ideas and started to feel so I decided to start modding everyone who was still actively participating and delete /u/_Sideway for good. This sparked some more posts speculating the reasons. Some were using their newfound mod powers to check the logs, even wondering if /u/karmanaut could be involved somehow.

Some were even making dank memes:

But the thrill was gone, the numbers were dwindling, and it was time to hit the dusty trail

My final act as /u/_Sideway was to give full control to my trusty protege, /u/FutzBucket. He announced this change to the rest and they seemed to catch on that this was a sign of the end times.

THE AFTERLIFE

After all this, the little sub quickly vanished into nothing. There's only been 10 posts made in the last 10 years, mostly by the few who were left by the end coming back and reminiscing. They still wonder if it's just binary cs-it neets doing cicada mit glowie like shenanigans or if they'll get any answers after all this time

Overall it was a fun experiment, though I'm disappointed I didn't have a better plan for it. Guess I never expected it to garner much interest. I suppose the lesson here is to never underestimate your gayops and always remember that

• I'm not a bardologist, but this post was legitimately funny. Bardfinn in 2006 was so insufferable that a bunch of LARPers told him to frick off via certified mail, and he longposted 3 times in less than 10 minutes to defend his (now her) honor.

• Bossmanjack is in a weird spot, /r/bossmanjack if you want to discuss that. BMJ is an addict with a capital ADDICT (yes all the letters). He's got his crack/coke addiction, his weed habit, and of course his gambling addiciton (he's an inspiration for helping me quit drinking because some virtual coinflips rule his life). I run it with minimal rules. Don't break reddit rules and don't make plans to frick with people IRL.

• I think an underappreciated cow that I wish someone who knew Linux/low level Dev could explain to me is Hector Martin. It's some Mexican guy turned nu-gurl who is obessive about making a linux distro for modern Macs but acts like the v-tuber who does the exact same low-level dev work and works on the same project isn't him with a voice changer

• Cobes is obviously the king, my favorite r-slur who doesn't hurt anyone and just makes dank food hacks. He just banished the horrible bog which. Jessica accused him of random acts of violence that were almostly certainly projections and both the Kiwi Gurls and the Cobes boys think it's yet another lie for attention as Cobes has historically hesitated even pushing people out of his apartment when they were attacking him. Clocktower trailer is coming in nice toobz.

• If you consider Null a cow, he's thriving. I listen to every MATI, so I should really be summarizing and converting some of that time to precious dramacoin because Null is velcro for drama. It's been all coming up Null both legally and in just real life stuff. He's been teasing a return to the USA , collecting a small personal armory, and his legal fund is still fat as frick. The most dramatic thing that can happen with him is actually suing Liz fong Jones or getting sued by Mr. Beast for hosting Kris Tyson groomercord leaks which are 100% legal to host. I can't consider him a lolcow because he's my ODD displaced, debanked website ooperateor

• Old people who hated AVGN/Nostalgia Critic clone Chris Bores should know that he's doing his current sonichu medallion research.

• I always keep an eye on Bam Margera, because he's going to die any second from now or run out of residual money and end up in a half-way house. When I went to AA for awhile, the old-timers called people like this a walking corpse, so I'm going to do the ghoulish thing and post about him being dead 0.5 seconds after his remarkably strong heart stops ticking.

• Nick Fuentes and Ethan Ralph are both funny, but I don't have 8 hours a day to watch Fox news with someone passed out or want to hear about how the Jews are actually behind every single thing that made a headline this week. Ralph is on my radar much like Bam is, but Fuentes has been a real snooze since the Kanye/Milo thing awhile ago; he's still the least closeted closet homo to ever live who still cosplays as straight.

• Real childs already know about Patrick Tomlinson/Jackie Singh. I might get his book on audible one day because I have like 6 credits left and they magicly disappear when you cancel membership (frick you Bezos). I liked one stalker child tweet and both Pat and Jackie blocked me on twitter one day, but Pat and I are Milwaukee boys. I'd go to Hoolies with him for some brewskies.

• Cyrax, World of T Shirts, and the Daniel Larson guy all should be institutionalized. I really find it hard to enjoy the sociopathic people fricking with him. I know I grew up on Chris Chan, but there were definitely not the same lines being crossed in terms of assault and calling the cops after they did the r-slurred shit that you just encouraged him to do.

• Kirtaner is another tech-adjacent one, I wish someone else would summarize. Bro wears being a janny for his alt-chan as a badge of honor unironically. Huge heroin problem to the point he heats Burger King off the ground.

• I'll maybe add Linus Tech Tips as a potential lolcow. He's not very funny, and his company makes 10 videos on 4 channels per day, but he employs over 100 people to do this and still gets called out by much smaller operations like G*mers Nexus who did a scathing video on how bad their standard practices are even in their 1000000000000 billion dollar testing facility. Linus is both a weird Canadian and also cannot put a computer together reliably despite this being his job for 20 years (other than shilling overpriced merch that doesn't have basic quality control). I'll put my speculation out there: Linus is very proud of what he and his wife have built, but Linus isn't, wasn't, and has never been a tech expert. At best he's me fumbling around a computer in high school and I think I did a better job back then. He and the wife, have no business running a business that large; they are simply not built for that and unwilling to learn what it means to be the provider for hundreds of employees and their families. I can't find the videos because google and youtube search suck peepee, and they might be deleted (sorry i think it's this one around 4:00), but Linus got offered a very generous 8 figures for his business; literal "frick you" money. He did not take it, and has continued to make absolute schlop that doesn't actually test components and doesn't inform buyers. There was some whohah about Anthony being transgender last year (and I did absolutely cash in on those marseycoins when that broke), but LTT is almost all sustained on youtube money, ad reads, and their own merch. I think that if the economy gets bad, LTT is one of those companies that will fell it first because people aren't buying their shit and ads will become less profitable. G*mers Nexus chads have risen up, but I do think that LTT is a volcano waiting to blow as far as internet companies go

• Coffeezilla has managed to piss off logan paul In a really pathetic attempt to intermediate a critic to shut up. Logan Paul has sued Coffeezilla in a defamation case. Coffeezilla is fundraising a legal defense fund. There's a good coffeezilla video about this

• If you want a real story, taysan on reset era is your man. This is a complicated guy https://kiwifarms.st/threads/neogaf-resetera.9636/ kiwis have much information. You too can be a stalker child!

Honestly, I feel like I lurk a lot of older parts of the internet. I'd really love if people took 10 minutes a day, 2-3 times per week, to document whatever interested them. The best part of social media is the social aspect

E: unfricked my formatting

Honestly, I feel like I lurk a lot of older parts of the internet. I'd really love if people took 10 minutes a day, 2-3 times per week, to document whatever interested them. The best part of social media is the social aspect

E: unfricked my formatting

EE: I can't sleep so you now get a Linus Tech Tips thought.

Heres some absolute bangers:

https://old.reddit.com/r/morbidquestions/comments/14wjedh/why_cant_you_eat_a_fetus/

"Why cant you eat a fetus?"

"Its known that one of most nutrient dense foods are unborn babies. Eggs= unborn chickens, Kaviar= unborn fish. Now imagine how much protein and other vitamins a human fetus has. Im so mad bc we waste good food like this. Abortion clinics would rather throw good food into the trash instead of giving it to me. Thousands of such fetuses are throwm away each year when I could have eaten them. I hate wasting food. So why cant you eat human fetuses? They are unwanted anyways. I get that at some point the fetus starts to resemble a baby and has bones and all, but im talking about the fetuses in their boneless jelly-like form. They could have been tasty with some sweet and spicy sauce mmmm."

https://old.reddit.com/r/femaleseparatists/comments/1b5pmzh/straight_women_in_relationships_with_men_are/

"Straight women in relationships with men are basically prostitutes"

"Well not really, at least a prostitute gets money out of the intercourse, you Just are forced to do it for free lmao. And she forces the man to wear a condom meanwhile your man coerces you to do it without it and you end up pregnant, with Stds or a broken heart. You see what I mean?

Ever occured to you why lesbians have less s*x than straight women? Its not bc lesbians have lower libido or sth, its bc straight women are forced to have s*x with men to maintain the " relationship" . You are still forced to have s*x whether you are a prostitute trying to make ends meet or a straight woman in a relationship.

Stay celibate."

half of her face doxx, ngl kinda cute

theres also tons of posting in conspiratard places like /r/prisonplanet, /r/ghosts

Shes also KIND of r-slurred - she, despite being a grown butt woman, doesnt know about the fresh water cycle. ! polish neighbors is euro education really this bad?

https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1bn8fxi/why_havent_we_run_out_of_fresh_water_yet/

https://old.reddit.com/r/femaleseparatists/comments/1bku4jr/men_could_never_live_without_women_and_its/

"Men could never live without women and its pathetic."

"They are slaves to their own balls and peepees. They are slaves to us and they hate to admin it. The mans life goal is to have s*x with women. Even if he says his goal is to be rich he wants to be rich to get acces to more beautiful women. Everything in a mans life revolves around getting kitty. They only think about s*x or destruction.

I once watched a movie and there was this guy who asked - what would we do if women were gone? Another guy anwsered- what do you mean we would play football or play games. Next dude replies- Yeah but there wouldnt be football players anymore, do you think they play for middle aged ret4rds or to get rich and get women?

Women make their worldgo around. Say to a man that for sure 100% he will never even get to smell a kitty and he will kill himself. Bc thats his only motivator to live. S*x. Truely pathetic.

Men are slaves to their own libido and peepee. If we were gone the whole world would collapse and mass suicides and violence would occur.

There is a sub called /r/neets and these are men who refuse to work for various reasons but mostly bc they dknt get any kitty. Their resaon is , why work if I dont get no s*x? Lmao give me a break. Shows how Men would never do anything if s*x with women wasnt on the table.

Meanwhile us women can get abything done without thinking about men and their nasty disiese ridden peepees. We have life goals higher than s*x."

just unironically adorable

https://old.reddit.com/r/EscapingPrisonPlanet/comments/17hhci2/i_think_nothing_that_you_do_on_this_planet_matters/

nihilist redditor nonsense, kinda feel bad

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/166hn4z/children_are_respected_more_tham_women_are/

ahh nahh blvd is opping with children

"Children are respected more tham women are

Title. As children we are respected and loved, we are told we are beautiful Just the way we are, we are cared for, until we grow up to be women. Then we are whores and bitches who deserve less, were told were too skinny, too fat, too loud etc. Childrens abuse is never justified Our abuse is. Honestly now I get why so many grown women are acting so childlish these days, they probably want to go back to being treated like an actual human being."

https://old.reddit.com/r/Vent/comments/1611ulr/someone_took_away_my_rope/

ok she actually needs help, is she trying to hang herself?

She also posts in eating disorder subreddits

https://old.reddit.com/r/EDAnonymous/comments/15p2msu/soo_does_anyone_else_prefer_to_fantasize_about/

Also unironically and seriously posts in /r/antisex (which is a real subreddit)

https://old.reddit.com/r/antisex/comments/12afpgh/men_would_be_literally_perfect_if_it_werent_for/

kinda cooking here, shes so innocent its cute

https://old.reddit.com/r/antisex/comments/11yim7a/losing_your_virginity_as_a_woman_is_losing/

"Losing your virginity as a woman is losing yourself"

"Im writing this bc ive observed how one of my friends started to act after losing her virginity. So she told me that she lost her virginity to this one guy one day and I ofc pretended to be excited about it and showing support and all. That was 2 months ago. And now shes acting difffrent! She dresses more umm provocatively? Like mini dresses and all, showing off curves etc. And ofc shes blinded by the peepee, she cant stop talking about her boyfriend and spends all time with him. Wihich i dont mind really i like to be left alone as im an introvert. But what matters is that shes changed!

I feel like losing virginity as a woman is losing a part of yourself. That part is being taken by a man of course and you will never get it back. How humiliating is this? Being concured even once by a man, would make me feel like a whore honestly. Imagine having s*x for the first time in your life and then the man dumps you, like i would straight up wanna kms. Hes taken something from me and now I feel disgusting for the rest of my life.

S*x is damaging to women and the more you have it, the more your losing your mind. Look at prostututes, they are mentally ill and depressed bc of all the s*x with men. I feel like all women subconciously or conciously know that s*x damages them in one way or another.

Honestly i think i will be a virgin forever idc. Lose your virginity, lose your mind, lose yourself."

Rare femcel virgin spotted. Yea I kinda feel sad for her, kinda gives me "save me vibes" if you get what im saying. In other words shes perfect i think im in love

also posts in /r/neet shes unemployed

https://old.reddit.com/r/NEET/comments/11htpja/theres_discrimination_against_the_unemployed_in/

yo redpillers were cooking when they said wahman are perpetual children

https://old.reddit.com/r/snowleopards/comments/zd3b4l/smile_to_the_camera/

https://old.reddit.com/r/OneOrangeBraincell/comments/zccgte/orange_braincell_gang_atttac_a_man/

Lol

https://old.reddit.com/r/NotHowGirlsWork/comments/z8rm7r/no_words/

https://old.reddit.com/r/nihilism/comments/vit79w/depression_is_the_true_state_of_our_being/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/vhjomz/my_deep_thought/

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/xd3yby/i_might_have_the_most_insane_case_of_internalized/

yea i just feel bad for her.

So what do we think about our femcel anti s*x xueen? Cooking, or nah?

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/software/527143-most-popular-web-browsers-in-south-africa-2.html

And often I don't get a say in what browser to use, cuz fricking public libraries or workstations at work all have Chrome by default, and I can't just always use my personal work laptop whenever I wish.

Lol nobody gives a shit about Edge.

Like I know I've bitched and moaned about how trash Google is, but every time i see something which encapsulates just HOW brokenshit horrifyingly bad shit has become in just 10 years alone. Video is about 26 min, I'll summarize the bullet points - as in each point is horrifying enough to put a bullet into your own head

[1] Even though Google has been proven to be worse than a decade ago through incompetence, beyond that Google ALSO makes their search results ACTIVELY worse and DELIBERATELY worse. Why???

They need people to "suffer", aka spend more time wrestling with the system because that leads to retention of attention - in other words, the longer a user spends on the Google frontpage to search for shit, the longer they can be exposed to advertisements. And it doesn't matter that 100% of dramatards have adblock, 80% of users are turbo boomer normies who don't know any better and/or are willing to tolerate ungodly amounts of spammy ads and and shit.

[2] Both men are aghast the Top Level Leadership of Google is to actively go against the very objective of the Product of Google: where the original intention of Google was to aid people in finding stuff on the internet, and thus it's bad for ad revenue if peeps find stuff IMMEDIATELY.

One man interestingly makes a comment that he cannot think of many industries which deliberately makes a worse product for the goal of greater income, to which his co-host immediately replies that there are many non-software examples: such as the proliferation of Shrinkflation (trying to sell smaller products for the same price, hoping consumers won't notice), or planned obsolescence (the practice of designing products to break quickly or become obsolete in the short to mid-term, so as to sell more of it to the same targets), and so on. Thus it's unsurprising that Google would follow the same pattern.

[3] From the discussion came that Google deliberately tries to get people to spend time up until page 2 of search results, as that is the maximum target page searchers reach before giving up entirely or using another search engine - the fricks at Google do this for the sake of DOUBLING the potential adverts shown to people.

[4] I knew reddit results shown behind searches increased the likeliness of getting tech or hardware help, but I wasn't aware Google had an active fricking business PARTNERSHIP with reddit which actively promoted reddit's fricking search results.

[5] Google is constantly looking to datascrape "curated" content like reddit subreddits, in order to have databases from which to pull from in their AI models. But it's also small forum sites which Google is pillaging, which in turn could end up being the death of small scale hobby specialist forums or websites.

An example being talked was a metric shitload of AI spam in places like Youtube Shorts, where AI generated crap outnumbers the legitimate content. An example cited between the two men was AI Bloat trash having taken over Gardening Instruction Videos on Youtube and especially Youtube Shorts.

And Yes darmatards I know you high IQ guys probably hate and don't like Youtube Shorts, and I don't either, and I personally don't give a shit about gardening either - but I do care about widescale internet link rot and consolidation, and Gardening Hobbies and other niche shit being fricked over by AI spam will never remain contained.

And apparently many of these smallscale hobbyist channels or sites fricked by AI span were reliant on Youtube Shorts to get a foot in the door of attracting a beginner audience.

Deviant Art has been positively spammed by AI Slop shit - I would scroll cool DA art on my phone and be excited to find my feed clogged up with dogshit uncanny valley bullshit

Thus Google's AI generated bullshit may end up being the death of niche hobbyist websites or communities.

[6] Soooooo much AI spam crap already exists on all corners of the internet, that AI models scraping shit like Deviant Art for example are being polluted by existing AI art - so that they frick up the models, because these new art are not always labelled as AI, and currently AI is too stupid to detect IF art is AI to begin with.

Thus a perpetual incestuous cycle can begin, where the uncanny valley might be increased constantly

And this is also the reason the men are most Doomposting in their talk because AI or Gemini shit replacing tech support search or niche hobby/topic websites would mean future content be perpetually degrading AI swill to support it.

Thoughts dramatards?

Also it's official: what not-chrome alternative is the best, how does Opera GX compare or is it gaymer trash

Donald Trump's temperament has been a focal point of discussion throughout his career, particularly during his time as President of the United States. He has never been afraid to go after his political opponents based on truth or lies, their looks and their mannerisms. His style of rhetoric has ushered in a new era of politics that is mean and aggressive. Nothing is off the table.

He often employs a combative style when addressing both allies and adversaries, making frequent use of derogatory nicknames and sharp criticisms. This aggressive demeanor is evident in his public speeches, debates, and interactions with the media. While supporters view this as a sign of strength and a break from traditional political decorum, detractors see it as inflammatory and divisive.

Today, I'd like to look at Trump's most vitriolic moments.

Rosie O'Donnell

To call Rosie and Trump friends would be a blatant lie. The conflict started around 2006 when O'Donnell, a comedian and television personality, criticized Trump on her daytime talk show, The View. She mocked his role in the Miss USA pageant and questioned his business acumen. This public criticism seemed to ignite Trump's ire.

He called Rosie a slob, ugly on the inside and outside. He bragged about her failed magazine, and said she had a fat, ugly face. Hilariously, he said he'll send one of his friends to steal Rosie's gf from her.

You'd be in jail

The election race between Hillary Clinton and Trump was a barbed and tense one. Clinton aimed to become the first female President of the United States. Her campaign focused on building on the policies of the Obama administration, advocating for a range of progressive issues such as healthcare reform, women's rights, and climate change action. On the other hand, Trump's campaign was characterized by his "Make America Great Again" slogan, a focus on immigration reform, renegotiating trade deals, and a strong stance on law and order.

The debate between the two was heated, with Donald Trump constantly speaking over Clinton. There were several burns that came Hillary's way but the best was when Hillary said "It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country" to which Trump replied: Because you'd be in jail.

Denied Handshake

During a meeting at the White House in March 2017, President Donald Trump appeared to ignore German Chancellor Angela Merkel's suggestion for a handshake while they were seated together for a photo op. The incident was widely covered by the media and led to much speculation.

Some analysts speculated that it might have been a deliberate snub, reflecting the strained relations between the two leaders at the time. Trump and Merkel had different views on various issues, including immigration, trade, and NATO.

Your Mother's Voting for Trump

Trump's rallies are known for their high energy, but not everyone is a fan of them. They attract protestors who oppose Trump's rhetoric which they deem xenophobic and racist. On one event, a protestor appeared and Trump told him to go back to mommy before adding "your mother is voting for Trump". It was a mic drop moment.

I'm the president of the United States of America

Donald Trump's relationship with the media has been fraught with tension and mutual antagonism. He popularized the term "fake news" to describe media coverage he perceived as unfair or inaccurate, targeting organizations like CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. During a press conference, he was disrespected by a journ*list to which he replied "I'm the president of the United States, don't you ever talk to the president that way!"

Conclusion

In a nutshell, Donald Trump's time as the 45th President of the United States was anything but dull. From his love-hate relationship with the media to his Twitter storms that kept everyone—supporters and critics alike—on their toes, Trump managed to make politics a reality show that affected the whole world.

Trump is a mean man who says horrible things to people. Time will tell whether Trump will win the 2024 election.

An Assortment of Quotable Quotes

• "Pudge." She shook her head and sipped the cold coffee and wine. "Pudge, what you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person." – Alaska Young to Miles in Looking for Alaska by John Green.

• She thought all Janine's snivelling and repentance meant something, she thought Janine had been broken, she thought Janine was a true believer. But by that time Janine was like a puppy that's been kicked too often, by too many people, at random: she'd roll over for anyone, she'd tell anything, just for a moment of approbation. – The Handmaid's Tale

• "Shame is the sense of being singular" – Fitz Hugh Ludlow, The Heart of the Country

• 'You see, Dumbledore?' said Phineas Nigellus slyly `Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own -' Order of Phoenix

• "I been silent so long now it's gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen." – Ken kesey, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

• "facts are facts, the world is the world, and we've got to live in it" – George du Maurier, Trilby

• "It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire," Yann Martel in Life of Pi

• "Besides, now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know." – Septimus (Mrs Dalloway by Virgina Woolf)

• "'Good words,' I replied. 'But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.'" – Wuthering Heights

• "He refused to be moved, saying he needed the seclusion and the rural air to finish the book he was writing. If he went and mingled with the English in the streets and spent all his evenings in their pubs watching football on TV, he would lose the edge of his recollections and there would be no point to anything he had done." – By The Sea

• "We all desire to find out how we began, force the legs of memory open" Ariel Dorfman, headed south, looking north.

• "Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts." William S. Burroughs

• "Truth is a matter of fitting words to the world." – Metaphors we live by

• "His heart beat faster as Daisy's white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete" – Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby

• "If you feel someone resents you because of expectations you've set for them – or you resent someone such as your boss or co-worker for expectations they've set for you – talk to them." – John Hoover

• "People of character do the hard work first. Then, as a result, they are ready for things to be easy for a long time." Dr Henry Cloud

• "But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing" – The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it" Albus Brian Wulfric Dumbledore (Goblet of Fire)

• "Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last;" – Proverbs 31: 30 (A Wife of Noble Character)

• "Don't let people hold you down." Sydney of The Internet (Purple Naked Ladies album)

• "The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages." - Virginia Woolf

• "I am a horse for a single harness, not cut out for a tandem or teamwork… for well I know that in order to attain any definite goal it is imperative that one person do the thinking and the commanding" – Albert Einstein

• "It's not that I'm so smart, it's that I stay with problems stronger" – Albert Einstein

• "I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talk can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth." – Mahatma Gandhi

Conclusion

As organisms, we generally strive toward that which betters our existence. That is to say, we are driven towards pleasure rather than pain - the pleasure principle. This is basic Darwinism. Freud throws a wrench in things and complicates the matter a smidgeon. He proposes we have two drives - a death drive and a life drive - call it Thanatos and Eros if you must.

The life instincts, also known as "Eros," are focused on survival, reproduction, and pleasure. These instincts encourage behaviors that foster growth, connection, and the continuation of life. They include things like nurturing relationships, seeking food, and engaging in activities that promote well-being and happiness.

On the other hand, the death instincts, or "Thanatos," represent a more destructive aspect of human nature. Freud suggested that these instincts drive people towards aggression, risk-taking, and self-destructive behaviors. Rather than aiming for survival and growth, the death instincts are about reducing tension through destruction and ultimately returning to a state of inertia or calm. This concept is more abstract and complex, reflecting a drive towards the end of tension and the restoration of a more primitive, non-living state.

As humans we have to wrestle these drives while striving for sanity and happiness. What happens when the death drive wins over, but not quite enough to trigger suicide? My theory is that we get into the realm of self-harm. As the name suggests, self-harm is a behavior that involves physically harming oneself, though not suicidally. This might involve behaviors such as cutting, burning, hitting, or other forms of self-inflicted injury. People who self-harm often do so as a way to manage overwhelming emotions, express feelings they find hard to put into words, or feel a sense of control over their own bodies.

This life isn't worth living. It hurts too much and I want to end it all. I'm so suicidal but I'm such a kitty all I can do is cut myself, turning myself into a mutilated monster. I need the rope

https://time.com/archive/6675462/books-the-american-tolkien/

A common discussion in Fantasy online circles seems to be "who's the new Tolkien?", this article by Time magazine dates from 2005 and is responsible for popularizing the idea that George RR Martin is the "American Tolkien".

What really distinguishes Martin, and what marks him as a major force for evolution in fantasy, is his refusal to embrace a vision of the world as a Manichaean struggle between Good and Evil. Tolkien's work has enormous imaginative force, but you have to go elsewhere for moral complexity. Martin's wars are multifaceted and ambiguous, as are the men and women who wage them and the gods who watch them and chortle, and somehow that makes them mean more. A Feast for Crows isn't pretty elves against gnarly orcs. It's men and women slugging it out in the muck, for money and power and lust and love.

Now I have to say a like ASOIAF a lot, but I never understood why those two authors get compared to each other. They both write Fantasy and love (loved in Tolkien's case) world-building and lore but that's it, their writing styles are different, their stories are different, their themes are different. Is it just because has a "double R" on his name (the second R which he added by the way). Is it because the "what's Aragorn's tax policy" quote?

The article talks about Robert Jordan too @kaamrev and what's funny is that it comes as a review for "A Feast for Crows" which is… well, ranked low among ASOIAFcels, most fans feel the series peaked in "A Storm of Swords" and AFFC can be a slog for many.

I think it can be argued GRRM is currently the best Fantasy author alive (I guess this speaks more of the current state of fantasy but many would claim it is ), there's a lot of his writing which is good but also what is bad tends to be very bad

Like this:

Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up, she was pooping brown water. The more she drank the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew.

Daenerys last chapter on ADWD lmao

Or this from AFFC which I don't know if it is good, bad, funny or what

Ten thousand of your children perished in my palm, Your Grace, she thought, slipping a third finger into Myr. Whilst you snored, I would lick your sons of my face and fingers one by one, al those pale sticky princes. You claimed your rights, my lord, but in the darkness I would eat your heirs.

Cersei describing licking Robert's c*m instead of finishing inside her, she says that while anally fingering a woman. Maybe we can qualify it as a realistic

Then there are the thematic differences, Tolkien's Legendarium is mythology, which was Tolkien's life passion, he gets criticized for making "black and white" characters instead of "morally grey" ones but the thing is his main themes are "Good vs Evil" on a cosmic battle, envy (Morgoth) and the will to dominate (Sauron) are the ultimate evil, he's not aiming at historical accuracy as mythology is always anachronistic. ASOIAF is an attempt at European Medieval History but "what if dragons and evil ice elves existed?" Is not good representation of Medieval Western Europe either as medieval peasants were just passive NPCs which lords like the Boltons could skin alive without repercussions, the evil characters of ASOIAF like the Boltons, the Mountain or Tywin get away with too much shit. The high lords of Westeros are also weirdly and modernly atheistic or irreligious, so for all of GRRM's talk about his saga being "historically well grounded" it doesn't seem better than any other fantasy novel, not that it is a problem as it doesn't affect writing quality and storylines just something to point out.

A good way to conclude is that GRRM is not the American Tolkien, in fact no one is and that's ok. An author should be it's own thing, they shouldn't live under the shadow of another author to be compared and I feel like every time the media or fans say stuff like "X IS THE AMERICAN Y" or "A IS THE NEW B" they're doing X and A a disservice.

Here are some reddit threads on it

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/hw0ls4/the_american_tolkien_isnt_george_r_r_martin_its/

Here this redditor argues the American Tolkien is not GRRM but Stephen King

And here's Robert Jordan's thread

https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/61k1v0/robert_jordan_the_american_tolkien/

I never read Jordan so maybe their fans can tell us if that's an apt comparison but I'm certain having Jordan just be Jordan is much better

https://old.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/1fim7a/no_spoilers_the_american_spectator_is_george_rr/

The Game of Thrones sub (normiest ASOIAF sub ever).

!bookworms !ringbearers

Prologue:

Before I can talk about Bungie's current bed-pooping I have to give you the context of yesteryear's bed pooping. During the thirdish quarter of 2023 the full weight of Bungie's massive screw up by releasing one of the dumbest, anti-climactic, and poorly written game expansions (even by destiny standards) had been realized. This gave Pete Parsons the CEO of Bungie, you're going to be seeing a lot of seethe surrounding this guy, the justification needed to start layoffs in the company.

https://bungie.fandom.com/wiki/Layoffs_2023

On Monday, October 30, Bungie laid off a sizable chunk of its staff in departments including community, QA, audio, and more. According to a report from IGN, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons cited Destiny 2's declining performance in 2023 as a cause. A report from Bloomberg noted that Bungie's upcoming projects were internally delayed as part of the move, with The Final Shape quietly moving to June 2024.

That underline section is going to be important later.

In an internal town hall meeting addressing a Monday round of layoffs that impacted multiple departments, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons allegedly told remaining employees that the company had kept "the right people" to continue work on Destiny 2.

This tone deaf remark caught Pete a lot of flak, as if he would give a shit, and he was criticized for not taking a paycut to prevent the layoffs. He instead chose to purchase 2.4 million worth of Antique cars and offer to show his female employees his collection.

https://kotaku.com/bungie-pete-parsons-layoffs-classic-cars-sony-buyout-de-1851610196

Speaking to multiple current and recently laid off employees, IGN has confirmed reports that Bungie took responsibility for the layoffs, rather than laying them at the feet of parent company Sony. Parsons told employees that the layoffs were largely due to underperformance of Destiny 2 over the last year, as well as lower-than-expected preorders for upcoming expansion The Final Shape.

As it so happens Lightfall was actually Destiny 2's best performing expansion. The newest expansion The Final Shape failed to break the previous expansions poulation record on steam (although that could also be sttributed to the amount of server issues during the release of TFS. Despite this the expansion still technically "underperformed" because bungie had likely over-promised Destiny 2's performance after releasing expansions during the height of the pandemic when everyone was trapped inside playing videogames.

Employees were also told that Destiny 2 player sentiment was at an all-time low. Sources tell IGN that this issue had been flagged to leadership repeatedly for months prior to the layoffs, with employees begging for necessary changes to win players back.

One former Bungie employee recalled that they were repeatedly assured following the 2022 Sony acquisition of Bungie that there would be no layoffs, and cited an item from a Sony quarterly report that claimed $1.2 billion of the $4 billion acquisition was going explicitly toward staff retention. Multiple employees confirmed that money was distributed to employees who were fully vested, with money split into multiple payments over time and varying based on discipline and seniority.

>t-there's not going to be any layoffs r-right Pete?

>yeah yeah sure, could you pipe down I'm trying to order more ferraris.

Of course since then there have as of now been 2 rounds of layoff. womp womp!

The first round of layoffs targeted those who had stock in the company cutting a lot of senior workers including the lady that designed the flipping Halo logo and Michael Salvatori the composer of pretty much the entirety of the music of the 10 year Destiny Saga ever since they canned Marty O'donnell. Around 100 workers got axed, some very high notoriety, and this isn't even including workers who got shifted into sony positions.

Today's Crisis

https://old.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/1egpwx6/the_new_path_for_bungie/

As of writing this 3 days ago another hundred or so Bungie employees had found out they had just been uncerimoniously laid off in the same darn community update that any redditor can read for patch notes. This time the layoffs were centered around shuttering all projects that weren't Destiny or Marathon related. This means those projects that were delayed in the underline section before were all cancelled. This time around a lot of leadership roles had been hit as well. Mark Noseworthy and Luke Smith, two guys known for almost killing the game at least 3 times, and one of which had been with the company since before Reach, had been let go. These guys were responsible for side projects and bringing Destiny into other mediums such as T.V Shows. With them gone there's nothing left in the works besides Marathon.

https://old.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/1ehxulq/mark_nosesworth_and_luke_smith_are_said_to_have/

Bungie shrank from 1300 to 850

Sony's Bungie is shrinking from 1,300 people to 850:

• 220 laid off

• 155 moving to Sony

• ~75 to a new studio

"We were overly ambitious, our financial safety margins were subsequently exceeded, and we began running in the red," says CEO Pete Parsons

https://x.com/jasonschreier/status/1818674500013097178

On top of the layoffs the annual plan for the release of Destiny content has been alterd, and the consensus is looking like future releases are not going to live up to the previous standards. In other words this 7 year old game might actually die this time, for real...maybe. Idk tbh.

https://old.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/1ehuabx/liz_from_d2_leaks_posting_new_info_regarding/

This leaves Marathon, as the sole entity for Bungie to rest its future on. Bungie has to hope an extraction based looter shooter, a reputably anticasual gaming experience. As well as a hero shooter which have become comically despised by gaymers in the current day (see Concord) will be enough to save them from complete collapse.

This is all that exists of Marathon right now. If I'm not mistaken the studio behind these cgi trailers and cutscenes for Bungie got shutdown too. Little else is even known about this game.

Could be worse though. They could be DICE.

Tl;dr

*Bungie got bought by sony in 2022

*Bungie released a shit expansion, and had a round of layoffs in 2023

*Bungie released a good expansion, and had another round of layoffs in 2024

*Bungie's current cash cow Destiny 2 is being put out to pasture

*Bungie has no other projects in development right now besides Marathon

*The future of this studio lies in the fate of an extraction based hero shooter

*Pete Parons like cars

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I did it... I effortposted !jannies

This is like the 10th time this same screenshot is being posted

Posting about how /r/drama is ineligible for mod request must be the greatest hustle in rdrama.net Anytime someone posts this (AGAIN), it will get considerable upmarseys for a single screenshot.

Stop marseyfarming from posting a single cropped screenshot of a bot reply and start finding which notorious admins came up with this plan and why.

Now, with that being said:

Take a look at these clowns, shall we?

How /u/KeyserSosa aka Reddit CTO Chris Slowe (miss me with that doxx shit, he literally posted it https://old.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/13ly1tb/hi_everyone_im_chris_slowe_cto_reddit_ama/ ) is a Harvard PhD in Physics but spends his days posting xkcd comics from 1998

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/10y427y/we_had_a_security_incident_heres_what_we_know/j7vzgt6/?context=8

Or https://old.reddit.com/user/madlee whose personality is entirely just making up shitty games for the manchildren of reddit (place was this guy's idea btw)

https://old.reddit.com/user/rram - SysAdmin who has 3 roles in reddit, announcing planned shutdowns for maintenance, shilling San Francisco and ranting about United Airlines

https://old.reddit.com/user/hueylewisandthesnoos - UX/UI designer who is a top tier

https://old.reddit.com/user/redtaboo - hope he dies from anal cancer

https://old.reddit.com/user/matinverse - Bong Brexit commenter

https://old.reddit.com/user/Drunken_Economist - Prolific redditor, active in /r/army , some dnd shit, gives the ladies advise on /r/amioverreacting , gives poojets advise on /r/tsa and /r/immigrant . Active on Illinois gun sub too. Potential manifesto publisher.

MOST IMPORTANT PART:

https://old.reddit.com/user/agoldenzebra - who perhaps already spilled the tea 7 months ago on how the admins decided to get rid of /r/drama when he said how sub takeover can be restricted by admins (ban the mods one by one, make it restricted, then ban it for good)

There you go, !metashit mystery solved

https://old.reddit.com/user/SingShredCode - millennial, fat, jew foid with a broken voice perpetually virtue signalling about her sympathy to Palestinians

NSFP(Not safe for Peepee): A video of her doing some weird shit

https://old.reddit.com/r/Otamatone/comments/186yauj/otamatones_are_absurd_and_im_obsessed/

https://old.reddit.com/user/goatfresh - Very active in Wsb, superstonk, vespa (?), bicycling (??), vandwellers (???) and ooni pizza ovens. Genuinely might be schizophrenic (and perhaps the only interesting admin)

https://old.reddit.com/user/PretzelsThirst - UX/UI - Rave, NYC, Motorcycles and Analog Photography enthusiast. Not cringe unless you see hidden gems like him arguing how the retail banking part of Chase has good service or migrants in NYC are the real heroes who stop terrorists while police play Candy Crush on their phones but also NYC is a shithole when he rants about housing. Pure cognitive dissonance

Also lol

https://old.reddit.com/user/Chtorrr -

https://old.reddit.com/user/dmoneyyyyy - Active in AsianAmerican, Sephora, SkincareAddicts, Lexapro, findhandbags, outfits and gives advise on places in LA where "you can self date yourself"

>Didn't know @HardIsLife became a Reddit Admin

https://old.reddit.com/user/liltrixxy - "Adopted Admin" don't know what the frick that means (guessing token foid), but resides in Salt Lake City, posts in breakingmom, toddlers and of course, 2XChromosomes.

Her job seems to be certifying mods

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCertification/comments/z15rq3/this_week_well_be_giving_thanks_when_we_would/

So if you want your precious /r/drama back you know which mormon fat foid's gussy and butthole you have to rim !dramatards

https://old.reddit.com/user/Whuuu/ - Sanest admin in this list. Never posted anything. Only comments about mountainbiking, motorcycles, cars, mountain tires etc. Very undramatic

https://old.reddit.com/user/bro - UX/UI. Not too cringe or anything unless I saw it's a packers fan. CUTE TWINK

https://old.reddit.com/user/SYN_SYN-ACK - not an admin anymore. Only included because of the dramatic name

https://old.reddit.com/user/zloober - Hasn't posted in a long time, still an admin though. Pinned post from 5 years ago - "Wifey and I are proud to announce we joined the Tesla family. Named our car Morpheus"

WIFEY, MORPHEUS

I wonder if he still has the car after all of Musk's antics.

https://old.reddit.com/user/booshdawg - Former Admin. Now spends his time on reddit posting cricket match threads

https://old.reddit.com/user/mark - Part of the team brought in for RPAN, still an Admin after it ended. Used to post about guitar pedals and astrophotography till about 2 years ago, then idk what happened, did he start ing out or /r/place just broke his brain; somehow nowadays he just posts about another interactive reddit pixelshit called /r/pixelary

https://old.reddit.com/user/woodpaneled/ - Former Admin, Director of community

This was the guy who started redditrequest so that modfrickery can't stop a sub.

https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/a5xz9b/a_word_on_unmoderated_subreddits/

Of course they broke his mop

https://old.reddit.com/user/D_Steve595 - Part of the old Reddit Admins (12+ years), Software Engineer, publicly disclosed his name (Steven Schoen)

Used to be one of the Ben Shapiro type ones who used to debate about marijuana legalization and wasn't against banning it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/vh8il/redditors_out_there_who_are_against_legalizing/c54jjip/?context=8

Probably caught the drift and nowadays just posts about programming

https://old.reddit.com/user/twantsadog - bottom tier code pusher - Epitome of average redditor.

!oldstrags you might get a kick out of this too

Last time on the OS Wars: we covered a brief overview of Unix and the Windows NT kernel and a strange document known as the UNIX haters handbook.

In the modern age its common for people to decry the anti-consumer practices of big tech and long for the old internet. Well let me say tech companies have always been corrupt pieces of shit even before the advent of the internet. Case in point Microsoft who has a list of anti trust suites so long I have to break it up into multiple posts, and IBM who taught Microsoft many of these practices ("I learned it from you dad "). In fact IBM was so evil back in the day Apple made a name for itself by just being not IBM. Thats what the famous 1984 Macintosh is about. It is Apple saying "IBM and its clone licensee program are a hair's bredth away from monopolizing the industry and doing god knows what and only Apple can stop them by providing competition".

Some of Microsoft's most infamous general mafia tactics include threatening OEMs who offered other OS's on their computer or tried to ship duel boot . Vaporware: whenever a competitor had a shiny new innovative project you claim you are working on your even better version of that concept which is almost out even if it has barely entered development (most notably done during the making of Windows 1.01 to try and remove the steam from other DOS based GUIs like GEM, Top Veiw, and Vision).

FUD (yeah this doesnt just come from crypto) where Microsoft would spead Fear, uncertainty, and doubt about competitors projects working on their software such as the AARD code debacle where Windows 3.1 would throw random, nonsesical error messages if any DOS version (most notably DR-DOS) other then MS-DOS or PC-DOS was used even though the user could simply exit the error messages and everything would work as normal.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish: a three step process where microsoft embraces an open standard, they then add a bunch of proprietary features on top of said standard which make it incompatible with the open standard, and then let your improved standard become the new standard and since it is proprietary everyone is forced into your ecosystem. Basically it is a roach motel easy to enter and hard to leave. Examples of this include word, internet explorer, and java++. Of these the office suite was the most successful, and Github is shaping up to be the next major EEE event.

In 1987Andrew S. Tanenbaum a computer science professor created the UNIX like micro-kernel known as Minix which was intended as a companion to his textbook Operating Systems: Design and Implementation to give students a toy OS to learn from. In 1983 Richard Stallman formed the GNU foundation, a group which seeks to free the computing world via the GPL license which was created in response to the UNIX wars, a subset of the OS wars cause the unclear licensing and copyright of the UNIX operating system, and the increasingly closed source nature of programs. In 1989 Lynne and William Jolitz began work on the 386BSD, an OS based on the Berkley Standard Distribution of UNIX, which was set to be the first open source OS inspired by the GNU foundation had BSD not gotten into a length legal battle with UNIX System Laboratories at AT&T. In 1990 Finn Linus Torvalds was taking a UNIX course at University of Helsinki which had Operating Systems: Design and Implementation and Minix as required reading. He wanted to play with Minix but was frustrated with its restrictive licensing so he created his own Unix like Kernal known as Linux. As Linux became licensed under GPL it began being worked on by the GNU foundation who replaced many of the Minix like aspects of it to make it more in line with UNIX. Releasing in 1991 Linux became the first free and open source operating system as 386BSD ended up releasing in 1992. Throughout the mid 90s as UNIX languished under the UNIX wars and Windows was looking to win the OS wars many institutions and corporations began to switch to Linux to avoid the monopoly of Windows.

This growth especially in the server market began to concern Microsoft who began holding internal disscussions and memos on how to best deal with Linux and free software. These documents became known as the Halloween Documents as they were published by FOSS advocate Eric S. Raymond which consist of leaked internal memos and emails, and official Microsoft press statements on Linux and FOSS software. In these documents Microsoft shares their fears of Linux whose free and UNIX like nature made it more attractive for previously UNIX based servers to switch to over Windows NT. They explicitly state that FOSS software is too useful to just be FU'd awayMicrosoft also feared that competitors like IBM or Sun would used Linux to reduce dependency on Microsoft and that OEMs like Dell could begin offering Linux based machines in order to crib better licensing deals on Windows. Microsoft also notes that Linux's FOSS nature allows it to receive bug fixes at a faster rate the Windows giving them a leg up on Window's "third times the charm" release strategy where Microsoft ships a buggy and shitty product which users beta test into a better one.

Microsoft pointed out two main avenues for attacking Linux. One, by attacking UNIX using EEE via their UNIX subsystem for Windows NT add on. Two, to find some way to use copyright and patent law against Linux and GPL.

https://www.gnu.org/software/fsfe/projects/ms-vs-eu/halloween1.html

Consequently, OSS poses a direct, short-term revenue and platform threat to Microsoft -- particularly in server space. Additionally, the intrinsic parallelism and free idea exchange in OSS has benefits that are not replicable with our current licensing model and therefore present a long term developer mindshare threat. [...]

Loosely applied to the vernacular of the software industry, a product/process is long-term credible if FUD tactics can not be used to combat it. OSS is Long-Term Credible. OSS systems are considered credible because the source code is available from potentially millions of places and individuals. [...]

Beating Linux [...]Fold extended functionality into commodity protocols / services and create new protocols. Linux's homebase is currently commodity network and server infrastructure. By folding extended functionality (e.g. Storage+ in file systems, DAV/POD for networking) into today's commodity services, we raise the bar & change the rules of the game.

https://www.gnu.org/software/fsfe/projects/ms-vs-eu/halloween2.html

PC OEM's. Other worst case adoption scenarios are subsets of the Sun / IBM case and involve other PC vendors such as Compaq and Dell. Note, however, that Compaq and Dell merely have to credibly threaten Linux adoption in order to push for lower OEM OS pricing. [...]

Beat UNIX. The single biggest contributor to Linux's success is the general viability of the UNIX market. Systematically attacking UNIX in general helps attack Linux in particular. Some Linux-targeted initiatives in this space (not a comprehensive list) include: UNIX services for NT Add-on pack [...]

The Linux community is very willing to copy features from other OS's if it will serve their needs. Consequently, there is the very real long term threat that as MS expends the development dollars to create a bevy of new features in NT, Linux will simply cherry pick the best features an incorporate them into their codebase. The effect of patents and copyright in combatting Linux remains to be investigated.

After this leak Microsoft released a press release explaining that the leaks were real but did not express the actual opinion of Redound as a whole and was simply a routine analysis of competitors with no ill will or malice towards linux:

https://archive.is/VEu6l

On the Memo:

It appears to be a document written within Microsoft in August, with some annotation by others. It is routine and appropriate for Microsoft - and we would assume all other vendors - to research, write about, and assess all competitors ... both from a business model point of view and from a technical point of view. It is not an "official position" by Microsoft on Linux. It is a technical analysis written by an engineer in a staff capacity, and designed to encourage discussion.

On Linux:

Sometimes Linux competes with Windows NT. This is hardly news. But it is not NT vs Linux. Dramatically demonstrates the wildly different business models of the OS marketplace and the vigorous competition at every level (technical, alliances, applications, channels and business model) that characterize the industry. In addition, however, Linux is an alternative to/competitor for other versions of UNIX, especially RISC UNIX - in fact this may be the more powerful affect in the marketplace. Has an utterly different business, support, and investment model from the comprehensive, integrated Microsoft model for Windows NT, which has attracted millions of developers and tens of thousands of applications. Linux is a philosophy as much as technical phenomena. On the positive, and Microsoft is interested in better understanding and finding ways to accommodate this dynamic, it provides for extensive peer review, and for a lot of independent parallel work on a variety of features. The negatives are stark, however: no long term roadmap ... and no way to get one, individuals are a non-scalable factor in the development at various control points, no intellectual property protection means that the deep investments needed by the industry in infrastructure will gravitate to other business models. Unless Linux violates IP rights, it will fail to deliver innovation over the long run.

Notice that pesky IP claim again interesting.

As UNIX languished Novell, creators of the Netware OS and was the #2 software manufacture behind microsoft, purchased numerous companies including Word Perfect and UNIX System Laboratories from AT&T in the mid 90s. Becoming a distributor and licensor of Unix. In 2002 SCO Group purchased out Santa Cruz Operation and their licensed UNIX products

In 2003 SCO Group claimed they owned UNIX and that all other UNIX companies were violating their copyright. They also claimed Linux and Minix contained stolen code from UNIX and were also violating their copy right. They were so confident in their claim they said they would sue every UNIX and Linux distributor, client, and end user. Their claims were immediately met with skepticism as the previous UNIX legal battle of AT&T and BSD had been very unsuccessful. The court found that much of UNIX had been written before the copyright act of 1976 and was such a mishmash of third party code actually untangling the copyright of individual code blocks would be next to impossible and pressured AT&T to settle out of court.

Still SCO Group pressed on and launched a series of lolsuites across 2003-2004 so disastrous some wouldn't end up fully complete until 2021. One lawsuit against IBM alleged IBM stole UNIX code to add into Linux. One against Novell accused Novell of slander since Novell claimed they owned Linux which hampered SCO group's ability to collect protection money licensing fees. One against Red Hat was just because they sold Linux. One against Autozone since Autozone used Linux. Finally, one against DaimlerChrysler since they switched from UNIX to Linux and didn't immediately respond to a letter from SCO Group asking them to recertify back to UNIX as somehow this was illegal. Also changing OS's was apparently not allowed in the UNIX licensee agreement even though this was stated nowhere. At the same time in March 2004 Halloween Document X contained a leaked email from Mike Anderer to SCO's Chris Sontag about Microsoft had given over $86 million dollars to SCO Group via the BayStar investment group:

Chris:

I know you were going totalk to Bob later Friday, but I figured I would outline the issues.

1. Baystar is easy as they were just a Microsoft referral and would be 2% [...]

I realize the last negotiations are not as much fun, but Microsoft will have brough in $86 million for us including Baystar. The next deal we should be able to get from $16-20, but it will be brutial as it is for go to makerket work and some licences. I know we can do this , if everyone stays on board and still wants to do a deal. I just want to get this deal and move away from corp dev and out into the marketing andfield dollars....In this market we can get $3-5 million in incremental deals and not have to go through the gauntlet which will get tougher next week with the SR VP's.

We should line up some small acquisitions here to jump start this if we do it. We shoudl also do this ASAP. Microsoft also indicated there was a lot more money out there and they would clearly rather use Baystar "like" entities to help us get signifigantly more money if we want to grow further or do acquisitions

This Microsoft deal is the Ante to the poker game...We should get this done and go after several $2-3 Million deals from the expense side of their company.

Having destabilized the UNIX and Linux market they were a part of SCO Group had tanked their revenue and were rapidly on the verge of bankruptcy due to all the legal fees meaning Microsoft was at the time a primary factor in keeping them from bankrupcy.

By 2007 the main Novell case was ended with the courts determining Novell was the rightful owner of UNIX owning UNIX System Laboratories and that SCO Group only owned a UNIX license. This meant SCO Group was behind on a shit ton of license payments to Novell and also owed all of the license fees they had collected to Novell. Novell on their end said there was no copyright infringement with Linux and would pursue no further legal action.

Meanwhile in 2004 another Linux copy right case was brewing. The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution was a right wing think tank which published books and papers on a variety of subjects such as the B-2 bomber program, education funding, and associated with the cooler heads anti climate change group. Most famously they published numerous papers decrying open source. The most famous being "Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code" a preprint book which alleges that the Linux kernel was illegally copied from Minix, Open Source code is untraceable and liable to contain copyright infringement, and that the GPL license is anti-capitalist and bad for the economy. The book never made it out of preprint since it was so terrible everyone lambasted it out of the gate. Its primary reasoning as to why Linux was stolen was that there was no way Linus would be smart enough to make it on his own. Kenneth Brown of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution had hired Alexey Toptygin to prove Linux stole from Minix when Alexey Toptygin found no evidence of theft he was simply kicked off the book with the study never being mentioned in it. Andrew Tanenbaum had talked to Ken Brown during the writing of the book and repeatedly explained Linus didn't still from him which Ken Brown ignored. Linus had not been contacted by Ken Brown and again denied that Linux was stolen. On top of that the claim that closed source programs never stole code was laughable as Microsoft has been proven to have swiped BSD code a few times (which was permissible under the BSD license but a instance of rank hypocrisy on Ken Brown). With both the Linux and Minix creator disagreeing with Brown the book had 0 legs to stand on with its theft claim and was never published.

FOSS advocates were quick to point out Microsoft had funded the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution for 5 years but Microsoft denied having any say in the precise research done and dismissed Samizdat as "an unhelpful distraction from what matters most—providing the best technology for our customers" which is a very typical Microsoft deflection.

Later in 2004 Microsoft began another FUD campaign against Linux known as Get the Facts a dedicated website which purported to tell you the truth about Windows Server that those Linux users were hiding from you. They would use a vary similar tactic in the windows 7 era to attack Macs and in the browser wars to attack now IE browsers.

By 2007 things seemed to be turning around. Microsoft shut down the Get the Facts website and entered into a partnership with Novell. Things seemed to be cooling down until Microsoft claimed various Linux FOSS projects violated 235 patents. Conveniently Novell and its customers would be immune to any legal action related to this, hinting that Microsoft may try to threaten every single Linux user like SCO Group did. Novell seemed blindsided by this claim and denied any validity to Microsofts accusations of patent infringement. FOSS advocates called Microsoft's bluff and demanded Microsoft turn over the patents which were violated and then nothing more happened.

By 2014 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stepped down which seemed to usher in a new era for Linux at Microsoft. By 2015 Microsoft was putting out press released saying "Microsoft loves linux". As Microsoft moved into the cloud Azure began supporting Linux to appeal to a broader customer base. By 2016 every version of Windows contained Linux built in via windows subsystem Linux and many have noted Windows adopting more Linux like attributes like a package manager in winget, taking ques from OSX and KDE desktop environments , and is even working on adding Sudo to Windows. Microsoft also began massively funding the Linux foundation and the open software foundation. On the open source end Microsoft has made various projects of theirs open source and has become one of the biggest contributors to github projects.

To some this represents a positive change. Now with a change of leader and a focus on SAAS Microsoft no longer needs the mafia or cold war tactics of the OS wars I mean who cares if you use Windows, most people get it for free* anyway, or Linux if either way you are logging into a web app like Office 360 or Azure or One drive. Now they can play nice with Linux and OSS. More astute people may notice that Microsoft only loves the parts of Linux which benefit them. In the server space Linux is king so for Azure to actually be a viable cloud server it would need Linux support. Developers are increasingly moving to Mac and Linux for coding as the programming environment is faster, less bloated, and more POSIX, so WSL keeps these users on Windows by offering a Bash terminal within Windows. Microsoft loves open source software which let them take other code for free and they like other people doing free work for them maintaining their own projects.

Even more astute readers may note this sounds exactly like the Embrace part of EEE. We are already seeing Microsoft Extend some open source offerings too. They Embraced the open source Git and are now Extended it with proprietary elements like code spaces and copilot in Github. They have Embraced open source in Visual Studio Code and are Extending it with the proprietary extensions store which makes VSC actually usable as an IDE. It likely wont be long until Microsoft starts extending their Linux offerings too. Who knows maybe they may even try to buy out Canonical or Red Hat, both have already tried their own EEE schemes with Snap and CentOS Stream respectively, and then force them to turn Linux from a competitor to Windows to just one more cog within the windows environment itself.

Oh yeah on the SCO Group thing Xinuos, the now owners of SCO group, launched another lawsuit against Red Hat and IBM alledging IBM stole code from SCO's UNIXes for their own UNIX and conspired with Red Hat to lock SCO out of the market. This as far as I can tell has gone no where.

!fosstards !linuxchads !codecels !effortposters What are your thoughts on Microsoft's new "love" of Linux?

Dramatards, today I'll tell you a bit about one of the most schizoid and polarizing figures in the recent history of Brazilian politics, Olavo de Carvalho (1947-2022)

Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho was born in Campinas, São Paulo in 1947. He was a "philosopher", writer, journ*list, professional politicuck, conspiracy theorist and astrologist and was considered as one of the "intellectual figures" of modern Brazilian conservatism.

In 1966, during the early stages of the Military Dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985) he joined the Brazilian Communist Party , he left in 1968 and became a rightoid. In 1976 he entered a psychiatric hospital after a meltdown and in the late 70s he studied astrology at PUC (Pontificial Catholic University) in São Paulo.

He became famous for publishing rightoid books in the 90s like "O Jardim das Aflições" and "O mínimo que você precisa saber para não ser um idiota". He became a Youtuber and gain followers, in 2005 he moved to the United States because he couldn't stand Lula and died in his ranch in Virginia after getting Covid in 2022 (he was antivaxx)

He was one Bolsonaro's most trusted advisors and I remember him getting an interview on Globo (mainstream news and literally globohomo) by Pedro Bial.

Now, there are many who said "he's the Brazilian Alex Jones", but that comparison is flawed. Alex Jones is an r-slur, Olavo wasn't, he was a very intelligent and articulated man and you could tell that in his interviews, the thing is the guy was insane, like clinically mentally ill and he believed every single schizoid conspiracy he came up with.

I'm gonna detail the schizoness now, if you want to learn his general ideology I'm linking his wikipedia page in English along the "Garden of Afflictions" his "magnus opus", I think it was translated to English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Jardim_das_Afli%C3%A7%C3%B5es

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olavo_de_Carvalho

So, beyond the standard "Global Warming is a hoax" and "vax causes autism", Olavo went farther and claimed dinosaurs are a hoax !dinochads. And he also believed in the Geocentric model and actually criticized Galileo.

Here's a video of him denying the existence of fossils and claiming "fossil fuels" are not of fossil origin !ifrickinglovescience

I'm gonna translate for you guys, he curses a lot and that's a bit difficult to translate so i'll do it word by word on that.

>on fossils, I even remember the book by Georffrey of (didn't understand last name) "Mutation Point" he spoke horrors of fossil fuels, and he claimed that by the end of the 1990s fossil fuels would be abandoned (phased out), that there would be other sources of energy, I'm still waiting for it, it's been 20 years and it hasn't happened yet. It just happens that scientists found hydrocarbons on a galaxy which is on the whore who birth it! Where there were never any fossils nor dinosaurs frick! So, "fossil fuels" are the whore which birth it you get it? Fossil fuels are you mom's butthole, there are no fricking fossil fuels or anything like that, this is a farce, a clownshow

On the blacks he wrote this

1. Blacks have no rights to reparations as it represents an incompatibility and bias as blacks used to enslave arabs and jews when they were Pharaohs

2. Slavery was the fault of blacks for falling because of their decadent, degenerate and unstructured societies pushed by their animistic religions

3. blacks had no cultural contributions to western civilization, only material contributions due to slave labor, having no rights to claim anything from the white Western world

4. Black culture is inferior to western culture and judeochristian traditions, the greco-latin onthology and the Renaissance, which shows blacks won more than what they lost with colonization

!macacos !nooticers thoughts on this fellow?

@Aevann, @MAGAshill can this get pinned please?

Henlo freinds! Here is the second part of my fanfiction of lappland being raped behind a dumpster

!rapists can you please upvote and rate five starts and comment4comment!

It's okay. The love I had faded once we had our fun together. I don't like lying. Dishonesty is just something I can't support. I should've looked a little more, I'd have found your secret. But you can't trust the people you love. You were just wearing a mask, all the greetings and talking about your day wasn't real. The hair, the face, the chest, everything two-faced and a lie. I thought your face was wide open but it was all closed up and hidden so I had to make a scar in it, a mark of where it should've been split.

I was in my car, far part of the lot sitting in the darkness, I was late. Felt sorry. Clients always want specific times so I couldn't help it. Didn't even get to eat. I was famished. Then I saw you.

YOU. Walking outside with a ten gallon bag with the normal sway of your supple and tight hips being suppressed by your struggle, turned into a slow backwards drag of the black mass along the rocky asphalt. I felt anger at an angel from above getting filthy filling a dumpster. Anger seeing your pretty hands handle the sticky residue, anger at how you swing with the full weight of the bag to try getting it airborne.

And God you were in that dark area trying to fit them in the compactor, finally picking them up like an atlas stone of rubbish to the chest and caressing its bottom to get over the edge. I remembered though, the words "Sorry I'm not wanting one" go through my head over and over.

I opened my door and slithered out, slow to close it.

I thought we were similar. You  seemed lonely, never talkative. Even at those little events but I was wrong. Lie after lie after lie. You never told me why either. I can guess, not everyone is a model but it'd be nicer if you were direct. Didn't hide it, just say what you mean. I've dealt with worse.

You didn't notice, I wonder how you would have acted if you saw it coming, would you have smiled? Would it have been genuine or a feign for your discomfort, another mask you slip onto a mask already on a mask. Maybe you weren't so happy because you didn't know it was me at first but seeing me would have made you happy, that you wanted it real bad but were shy and this was a nice place.

Wanting it rough with a push into the compactor and a rag right against your mouth as my other arm felt along your body, tracing with my hand along your elegant thin hips and grabbing along. A bit of the thin thighs, some more of the hip and some playful squeezes of your pert ass.

I heard your groans and little cries as I circled my finger around your inner thigh, drawing circles and shell spirals in its dry sands.

But when I squeezed you down there, grabbing along your crouch I didn't feel any firmness. Nothing. The beach was wet and it was smooth along that mound. You kept squirming and shaking and crying and more while I felt myself go blank.

I was the fool.

You made me so.

I grappled at your belt while you still kept shaking like a wet dog until I managed to free your pants from their constraint and further your panties. White boxer looking ones and I kept until finally your ass glistened under the moon. I could feel the tears of your face mimic my soul as I felt from your stomach down again, the smooth curve and the slight wetness of your slit. You could feel as I moved away from you, I died down quick.

You were a girl.

I said that and you tensed a bit, let the rag a little loose to let you speak. More cries and asking me not to hurt you in little whispers but you danced around it and rubbed me like a kitten for attention.

I gently brought you down as you finally knew your role in our dance.

You have me a burbling yesh and some more streamed tears as you let yourself be gently led down near the metal beast with me atop. My knee was hitting your crouch from how I knelt over you, my arm holding down yours.

But seeing you sprawled around, your legs moving and shifting under my weight as they still refused to concede, wrapping around and loosening my legs like you were trying to simultaneously pull me in and flee. I pinned you with just one arm and used the other to prepare us both. It wasn't long, they were quick thrusts and I felt your wet, sticky face with that hand, trying to caress your cheek. Your little cries turned to silence by the end of the first minute. After the tenth you looked sort of dead, at least inside, eyes halfway open looking glazy like a doped fish, puffy from the tears. I didn't see the need to bring protection with me since normally I don't need them, you're not my type. This real you isn't my type, at least. You're so thin with your ribs sticking out that I thought I could see it poke from the stomach. Being that thin means it should be safe for you. I overheard that it makes your type have period issues. I think it's safe. You never leave home now so I don't know. I started to get up, leaving, letting you hit the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur.

I wuz writing the second part and learn that Lappland is NOT BOY

and i dont want to write GIRL rape but I NEED TO FINISH

I thought maybe I have Lappland get her head beaten in with rock and disfigyured and bleeding

but its called rape not justice

so i made it quikc. it be more epic but you are not a man

dis is in lit because lit cause this is pretty skibidi lit

why is the words purple WTF

EDITED FOR UPDOOTS

Lapp is a man MAYBE I GOT TRICK

SAD DAY

: I'll explain what Colonel Sanders has to do with any of this, you scurvy landlubber! He has everything to do with it, because without him there'd be no KFC, and without KFC there'd be no fried chicken, and without fried chicken there'd be no reason for me to be a pirate! So you best be thankful to the good Colonel, or I'll make you walk the plank!

— @goodNews4U

Today's RWBYffortpost is on a legendary goyslop patron saint, somewhat unique among fast food mascots in that he was a real person and also the legitimate founder of the company

But did he actually serve in the military to be called a Colonel? How did he start KFC? And did you know he was actually involved in lawsuits against his very own company later in life?

I wasn't sure about writing an effortpost about a person without it becoming indistinguishable from a regular old encyclopedia entry, so I've decided to prototype a model in which properly dramatic facts about the person are listed off in rough order of date. Such a system should show that the people featured in my posts lived suitably dramatic lives worthy of this website

Learn about the above points and more as we explore the subject of my first such biographical effortpost: none other than Colonel Sanders

Since I couldn't find many rDrama comments that were actually informative about Colonel Sanders and KFC, most of the quotes are here because I thought they were funny

Early Life

I've heard that women can't remember giving birth because it was so traumatic.

I've taken shits like that after kfc and morphine

— @ReeTardyOswald and @WayOut

Harland David Sanders was born on September 9, 1890 east of Henryville, Indiana. He was the oldest of three kids and lost his father at the age of five. From then on he was taught to handle the family cooking while his mother worked and by the age of seven he was learning to cook with meat

And so began the legend

(To the right is the future Colonel Sanders at chicken-seasoning age. Start your kids early )

I saw a native lady come back to KFC and yell at the staff that they served her raw chicken and that her kid could have gotten sick.

The manager asked why she didn't come back sooner instead of eating the whole bucket, which just made her yell louder.

— @SexyFartMan69

Did You Know That Colonel Sanders: Dropped out of school

Sanders had several step fathers and in particular didn't get along with William Broaddus after his mother's 1902 remarriage and the family's move to Greenwood, Indiana. He also said that seventh grade "algebra's what drove [him] off". For these reasons he dropped out of public school and got his first proper job as a farmhand at the age of 12.

Worked many jobs in his youth (and was briefly in the army)

Like a veritable Jack London, Sanders tried his hand at all kinds of occupations and would do anything he could to sustain himself in his youth. At 13 Sanders left home to paint horse carriages, then to work on another farm.

In 1906 he worked as a streetcar after moving in with his uncle, who worked for the company.

But later that year he falsified his age to enlist in the army. At the time US forces were still stationed in Cuba as an ultimate result of the Spanish-American War, making Sanders a veteran of the on and off Occupation of Cuba. He was honorably discharged in 1907 and would be awarded the Cuban Pacification Medal.

So he really was in the army but was only ever a private

I once went to kfc and recognised a gypsy foid I seen couple years ago who back then was telling she is Syrian but this time she was Ukrainian so I asked her in Ukrainian from what region she did 180 degree move and walked away

— @WeihnachtenSalvador

Sanders' subsequent other jobs include,

Blacksmith's helper in a railway workshop

Cleaning out the ash pans of steam locomotives

And Steam engine stoker until he was allegedly fired for insubordination

He met his first wife Josephine King in 1909 and would have his three children with her.

THEY TOOK AWAY THE DOUBLE DOWN

THE DOUBLE DOWN KFC TOOK IT OFF THE MENU FOR A LIMITED TIME THEY TOOK AWAY THE DOUBLE DOWN

— @SexyFartMan69 and @Joe_Manchin

Delivered babies and practiced law before cooking chicken

For a time Sanders would study law at night while working with trains and living with his growing family, but a brawl with a coworker got him fired and he moved to work at another railroad company. Meanwhile his wife took the kids and lived with her parents.

Sanders went on to practice law in Little Rock, Arkansas (the famous segregation Little Rock ) and his wife came back to him. He was able to practice in the Justice of the Peace Corps because at the time it did not require that lawyers pass the bar.

But he would lose this career after another brawl, this time with his own client As written by biographer John Ed Pearce, "[Sanders] had encountered repeated failure largely through bullheadedness, a lack of self-control, impatience, and a self-righteous lack of diplomacy."

Sanders moved back in with his mother and worked at another railroad

Then briefly sold life insurance.

Then started his first corporate venture, a ferry boat company that actually did well for itself

He also took a job as a secretary at the Chamber of Commerce in Columbus, Indiana but wasn't a good fit for it

For whatever reason Sanders chose to sell the ferry business and started a lamp oil company. This failed after Delco introduced electric lamps to the developing region.

He finally made his move to Kentucky to work as a salesman for the Michelin Tire Company, but lost this job after the plant closed.

In 1924 he met the general manager of Standard Oil of Kentucky and got a position running a service station. This lasted until the station closed in 1930.

Sanders would get his real start in food service after opening a Shell service station in North Corbin, Kentucky. He was also said to have helped deliver babies here. According to his autobiography, "There was nobody else to do it. The husbands couldn't afford a doctor when their wives were pregnant."

Chicken

i hate kfc r-slur

— @Penny

Sanders' very first restaurant was a hole in the wall food stall operated out of his gas station in North Corbin. Having already been cooking his whole life, he started selling fried chicken as well as other meals like country ham and steaks. His local popularity grew, and, in 1939, food critic Duncan Hines visited Sanders's restaurant and included it in Adventures in Good Eating, his guide to restaurants throughout the US.

Corbin, KY. Sanders Court and Café

41 — Jct. with 25, 25 E. ½ Mi. N. of Corbin. Open all year except Xmas.

A very good place to stop en route to Cumberland Falls and the Great Smokies. > Continuous 24-hour service. Sizzling steaks, fried chicken, country ham, hot biscuits. L. 50¢ to $1; D., 60¢ to $1

And around this time in 1935, Sanders was made an honorary Kentucky Colonel by Kentucky Governor Ruby Laffoon — the most well known colonelcy in the United States in part because of Sanders. (US Governors in multiple states can bestow this as an honorific. The origins of this tradition trace back to colonial and antebellum times when wealthy landowners were given the title to commission companies or finance local militias without having to be in the military.) Laffoon was known at the time for handing out a record number of Colonel titles (Other colonels commissioned by Laffoon included Mae West, Shirley Temple, Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Will Rogers, Fred Astaire, Jean Harlow, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Jack Dempsey and W. C. Fields.) But this didn't make the commission any less legitimate and Sanders would certainly make use of it throughout his life.

Such is the origin of Sanders' famous title, meaning he was technically a private and a colonel

Once had a shootout with a competitor

https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/kfc-colonel-sanders-shoot-out

The colonel was one of the most based men to have ever lived.

— @Fabrico

While running his gas station on Highway 25, Sanders had a large sign painted to direct customers to his station. Business rival Matt Stewart started painting over Sanders' sign, and Sanders would respond by repainting it. This escalated into a shootout in which Stewart killed a Shell employee and was wounded after Sanders returned fire

Sanders was arrested at the scene but had his charges dropped. Stewart went to prison for homicide and suddenly the competition was no more.

Tried to kidnap his own children

At around this time Sanders' relationship with his first wife had deteriorated and he was seeing a mistress, Claudia Ledington-Price, that he would later marry. After getting a very critical letter from his brother-in-law, Sanders came to visit and found all his furniture had been distributed amongst the other in-laws. He felt the need to get back at his wife's family.

The originally dramatic plan was to camp out in the woods until his children came out to play and just take them He eventually thought better of it though and worked out a deal with Josephine. The two divorced after the kids were grown.

Opened the first proper Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Utah

make sure to log into your KFC account and do your daily quests like eat three double downs for extra slopcoins

@peepeehands

In July of '39 Sanders also acquired a motel in Asheville, North Carolina, but the original service station would be destroyed in a fire. Sanders then built a Corbin motel with a new restaurant inside.

By 1940 and at the age of 50, Sanders had perfected his chicken recipe and started cooking his chicken using a pressure fryer — faster than pan frying but without unacceptable moisture loss. This new technique might have immediately made Sanders money had it not been for America's entry into WWII Gas was rationed and tourism dried up, leading to the closure of the second motel. He went to supervise cafeterias for the government at an ordnance works in Tennessee, followed by a job as assistant cafeteria manager. He left Claudia to manage the original location and waited out the war and immediate post-war economic stagnation until '52, the year the world would be blessed with its first KFC

Japan kfc sells out of their Christmas fried chicken dinners every year

You can see the pyramids from a sit down pizza Hut in Egypt

After a visit to a Roman coliseum you can wash it down with a coke and big mac

America has culturemaxxd the world lmaooo

— @johnnypoop

The original "Kentucky Fried Chicken" opened in South Salt Lake, Utah on the 24th of September, 1952 The restaurant was operated by Pete Harman, who was already known for having the city's most popular eatery. He worked closely with Sanders to develop the franchising concept and would ultimately be able to use the Colonel's recipe in exchange for 4 cents off every chicken sold. His other claims to fame are the development of the bucket packaging and the emphasis on the "Finger-lickin' good" motto.

The name "Kentucky Fried Chicken" was chosen because it seemed exotic in Utah and invoked an air of southern hospitality. Sales more than tripled in the first year with around 75% of total sales coming from fried chicken. Several other restaurant owners would also franchise the concept after Harman's success.

However, this wasn't quite the start of the modern KFC corporation.

Wasn't wildly successful until he was old and grey

Don't quit cos you're 65. Maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.

— Colonel Sanders in multiple interviews

For the most part, Sanders still made his living off profits from his original North Corbin restaurant, but at the age of 65 he was forced to sell it after President Eisenhower's new interstate system directed traffic away from his once prominent location. He was left with only his savings, social security payments, and the small amount of money gained from those early franchisees. With nothing else to turn to, Sanders devoted himself to expanding his food sales by incorporating Kentucky Fried Chicken. He traveled the country in his '46 Ford trying to sign up as many restaurant owners as he could.

Though he'd started dressing the part with his trademark white suit and bleached facial hair, the Colonel wasn't yet famous outside of a few Kentucky circles. He spent nights in his car and did all the legwork himself, to the point of personally cooking the chicken in demonstrations with potential business partners. Sanders' autobiography mentions hundreds of restaurant visits and that he was usually turned down, but more and more franchisees gradually signed on as the '50s continued.

Fun Fact: One of the franchisees was Dave Thomas, the eventual founder of Wendy's Thomas developed the rotating red bucket sign, was an early advocate of the take-out concept that Harman had pioneered, and introduced a bookkeeping form that Sanders rolled out across the entire KFC chain

Another was John Wayne Gacy

I've seen Taco Bell and KFC and I've seen A&W and KFC. Does there exist a mythical PizzaHut/TacoBell/KFC/A&W?

— @RWBY

When KFC finally took off, it took off. By 1960 there were about 200 franchised restaurants. By '63 there were over 600, making it the largest fast food chain in the nation at the time. KFC was notably the first and biggest fast food chain to focus on chicken, or really, anything besides hamburgers. In the meantime Sanders had grown into something of an icon, and was now making five cents for every chicken sold

He was even considered as a potential running mate for George Wallace's 1968 Presidential Campaign. (He ultimately chose Curtis LeMay)

Mascot and Icon

People just don't have lives like this anymore

— /r/todayilearned

However, KFC's unprecedented expansion had become too much for the Colonel to manage. In 1964 and at the age of 73, Sanders sold KFC to a group of investors led by John Y. Brown Jr. and Jack C. Massey. The deal stipulated that he would remain a salaried brand ambassador and quality control consultant. He also retained ownership of Canadian operations.

In '65 he and Claudia moved to Mississauga, Ontario. The Colonel actually spent the rest of his life there as a leaf

Was Drama-Pilled

It's not even a secret [Jersh] () once talked openly on the podcast about how if you stalked the KFC near Belgrade university you'd see him pretty quick

— @BFBugleberry

For the most part the Colonel spent his old age being dramatic and enjoying his status. He remained (and still is) a living icon of the company and would travel over 200,000 miles a year on the company's behalf while also filming advertisements of all kinds. He was happy to play the part of a southern gentleman, though he could also be a shit-stirrer

Apparently whenever Sanders traveled with blacks in the south, he would go out of his way to open doors for them just to mess with people. In one instance when traveling with a company spokesman, someone asked the man who he was to have the Colonel open doors for him. Sanders replied something to the effect of, "He's my son, but we don't talk about it."

The Colonel loved pulling surprise inspections of restaurants and would become infuriated if the food wasn't up to his standards. He was fond of throwing food on the floor and swearing at employees. At times he would barge into the kitchen and insist on showing the cooks how the chicken should have been cooked.

He hated the "extra crispy" recipe in particular since it wasn't an invention of his. As other chicken chains began to emerge, KFC created it to compete with places that used a traditional batter instead of a flour dredge. Sanders never forgave corporate for it In an article published by the Louisville Courier-Journal on October 8, 1975, he told journ*list Dan Kauffman:

My God, that gravy is horrible. They buy tap water for 15 to 20 cents a thousand gallons and then they mix it with flour and starch and end up with pure wallpaper paste. And I know wallpaper paste, by God, because I've seen my mother make it. ... There's no nutrition in it and they ought not to be allowed to sell it. ... [The] crispy [fried chicken] recipe is nothing in the world but a darn fried doughball stuck on some chicken.

Eventually came to hate KFC and was involved in lawsuits

Most maulings are done by ghetto trash guard dogs owned by hoodrats. These have about as much relation to a proper pitbull as the the current slop KFC serves has to the Colonel's original golden recipe.

— @911roofer

KFC was acquired by Heublein Inc. in 1971. They actually sued Sanders over his comments in interviews and because he and his wife had opened a new restaurant, "The Colonel's Lady's Dinner House", and were considering expanding it.

The Colonel won this and countersued over the use of his image in products he hadn't developed.

This ain't no goddam Tennessee Fried Chicken, no matter what some slick, silk-suited son-of-a-b-word says

-- Sanders following the move of corporate headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee

The two sides settled out of court, with Sanders receiving $1 million and a chance to give a cooking lesson to Heublein executives in return for his promise to stop criticizing Kentucky Fried Chicken's food. The Colonel's new restaurant would not be franchised though it remained and still remains open as the Claudia Sanders Dinner House. It is the only establishment besides KFC legally allowed to use Sanders' original recipe.

The Colonel would remain an active and well traveled figure until the end of his days. He is said to have only worn his trademark white suit for the last twenty years of his life for all public appearances and never dropped the character even after leaving KFC. He also continued making surprise inspections of random KFCs until '79. He was also a Freemason

He died in 1980 at the age of 90. His body was laid in state in the rotunda of the Kentucky State Capitol after a funeral attended by over 500 people. A memorial service held at KFC's headquarters was also attended by over 1,000 people. By that time there were over 6,000 KFC outlets in operation

Once cursed a Japanese baseball team

There's a KFC and Dominos Pizza a few miles from Bin Ladens secret compound in Pakistan. His neighbors could have been eating halal thin crust pizza while Navy SEALS raided the house next door. These places have infinite reach (US Goyslop Forces) .

-- @Yakub

The Colonel's continuous status as an icon and mascot hardly needs explaining, so I'll end this post on a fun example of it. The Curse of the Colonel states Sanders put a hex on the Hanshin Tigers after the baseball team's joyous fans celebrated a 1985 championship by tossing his statue, taken from a local Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, into an Osaka river. They appeared in the Japan Series three more times and lost in 2003, 2005 and 2014.

The statue was retrieved in 2009, but it wasn't until 2023 that The Hanshin Tigers finally won their first Japan Series title in 38 years.

If there is one person who has done more to discredit leftism than @Impassionata, it's probably some reddit moderator.

But between Impassionata's wide-eyed histrionic projections that Trump was finished, their vicious attacks on hardworking Americans like @TracingWoodgrains, and their ill-considered repetitive longposts about fascism that no one reads, the state of leftism on the Internet these days can only be described as 'in shambles.'

The simple truth is that Impassionata and the other leftists who hiss and screech about Trump never gave Trump a chance.

Politics isn't about being liked. Politics is about getting what you want. People who support Trump or Vance are getting what they want out of the arrangement, and that, I think, is what makes leftists so angry about the situation.

Let's look at what Trump accomplished:

• Got us out of Afghanistan, though Biden did his best to sabotage it,,probably on purpose.

• Met with North Korea's leader in a genuine peace overture.

• Put conservative justices on the Supreme Court.

• Connected with Putin at a time we need to be diplomatic and thoughtful towards the Russian people.

• Killed terrorists like Iran's minister of terrorism.

Let's look at what leftists talk about:

• Trump firing Comey for investigating him, even though Trump is the president.

• Trump's campaign connections with Russia, even though the Mueller Report indicated that they could not charge Trump with a crime

• Trump's call with Ukraine pressuring them into fabricating lies about his political opponent, even though the subsequent impeachment did not lead to his conviction.

• Trump crushing protests and touching a Bible. Sometimes state violence is called for. We must have order.

• Trump's bombastic rhetoric. The leftists can't understand the concept of 'kayfabe,' to them everything Trump says is a real threat.

• Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Though many people went to prison for the fake electors plot, Trump has been ruled to be immune to prosecution for it by the Supreme Court. This makes the left mad, but the law is the law: we must have order.

• On January 6th, Trump and his crowd enjoyed their freedom of assembly in a mostly peaceful protest.

But let's look at what Trump says:

• His sincere call for unity in the wake of the unjustified and egregious attempt on his life at the RNC touched many.

• His calls for a peaceful day on January 6th.

• When asked to condemn the various enthusiast groups who have some views that leftists find distasteful, Trump told them to 'stand back.'

The violence of leftists, however, always goes unacknowledged by these leftist types. We all know that leftists are little more than pack animals, striking at vulnerable targets, wielding social consensus against people in ways which harm people.

Leftists are and have always been the real authoritarians.

And Impassionata doesn't have the authority to make the rightoids listen to the leftist ideological confabulations, and that makes Impassionata, and the entire left, angry in their powerlessness.

When will these sad leftists understand that politicians are a means to an end? A means to good policy, implemented by clear-thinking, rational and considerate discussion?

Leftists will lose election after election until this lesson sinks in.

Christian fundamentalists and child exploiters Britney and JD Lott (instagram: @/americanfamilyroadtrip) are finally under investigation for endangering the health of their 8 kids after forcing them to live in JD's version of "Noah's Ark": a 217 sq ft old Air Force transport bus with one bathroom, 6 cramped, twin-sized bunk beds squished in the back of the bus and a drop-down queen-sized bed where their 3 most recent kids were conceived.)

Link to a tour of the bus (it hasn't changed since this was posted)

A short background:

Britney and JD met in 2008 on deployment in Iraq and got married in 2009. JD has a hard-on for getting rich quick, so they bought into a gym franchise in 2011 while they simultaneously started procreating (kid 1 - 2011; kid 2 - 2013; kid 3- 2015; kid 4 - 2016). During this time, they were living in their 5800 sq ft house, and Britney pulled their oldest out of Christian private school and started homeschooling their army as they didn't agree with the school's "secular approach"???

In 2017, JD got a vision from god, and god told him he needed to build an ark in the form of a bus. He told Britney and within a week, MotherBus and FatherBus were well on their way to living la vida loca. They had their 5th kid in August 2018 and started their bus bullshit in October 2018. The 3 youngest bus kids were conceived in 2020, 2022, and 2024. As of today, their kids' ages are 13, 11 (only girl), 9, 7, 6, 4, 2, and 3 months old. All kids share the 6 bunk beds together (the 13 year old shares a twin bed with the 2 year old), and all kids go to bed at 7:30 PM so that Britney and JD can have "date night" from 8-9 PM.

Abuse allegations

Britney and JD love swinging their newborns around for the internet. The earliest documented occurrence of this was in 2022 with a pic of Britney not supporting her newborn's (now 2 years old) neck.

Since they literally fund their life through posting daily videos of their kids doing choreographed dances while Britney eye fucks the camera, a lot of their neglect of the most recent kid is all over their instagram:

• Baby Boone was born in the bus bathtub unassisted

• MotherBus brings newborn to have a chiropractic adjustment

• FatherBus forcing Boone's leg straight to measure him as he screams in agony

• BusTards take Boone to a local UPS to weigh him

• Britney constantly leaves Boone on a piece of sheepskin rug on the floor all day while the 5 youngest kids constantly crowd him and walk all over the rug. Boone doesn't have a bed either; he sleeps on the sheepskin rug underneath the parent's drop-down queen bed.

• Britney continually brings Boone onto the beach and into the sun without a hat, shade, or sunscreen (She's mentioned before that she doesn't believe in sunscreen and she puts beef tallow on her kids for "natural SPF")

• Boone is literally jaundiced when he's not sunburnt

• They treat him like a ragdoll

• Boone is extremely lethargic, doesn't respond to voices, doesn't make eye contact, and won't unclench his hands. Any comments on developmental milestones or telling MotherBus to take Boone to the doctor are deleted and the user is blocked immediately.

This caught the attention of concerned family members who anonymously reported MotherBus to the Florida Department of Children and Families. The shitlords are convinced that the users of /r/FundieSnarkUncensored are anti-Christian "online trolls" who are weaponizing the government to attack and "defame" them. They are quoted online accusing FSU of geolocating their family from Instagram screenshots and calling the manager of the campground they were at to send CPS on a "nationwide manhunt" of the Lotts.

JD and Britney claim their kids were cleared at an undisclosed hospital where a doctor "took a look" at Boone and the other kids and determined the cops didn't need to take the kids at that time.

Speculation

Through some digging, FSU reddit discovered that the initial call took place in April 2024, when Boone was 14 days old. It's July 24th, and the BusTards are just now going public with the story. Two weeks ago, FatherBus was seen at an express passport office getting a passport for BabyBus. One week ago, they posted that they bought plane tickets for their entire family and they plan on leaving the country. Now yesterday, they post an absolutely IRATE video about the CPS call.

Are MotherBus and FatherBus planning to run from CPS, or is the investigation still ongoing and critical to the point that CPS told them they aren't allowed to leave the country?

They're addicted to the clout, so I'm sure they'll post an update within a day or so.

All in all, his appointment makes me take seriously the possibility that Trump's second term will focus seriously on setting a policy foundation for the future versus just being cult-of-personality stuff.

Why would you believe this?

How could you actually believe this?

An entire generation of would-be intellectuals attempted to treat Trump as a politician with policies instead of as an incompetent authoritarian using overt fascist rhetoric, creating a cult of personality. The Republicans are still calling out 'civil war' and then realizing this makes them dramatically unpopular.

And TracingWoodgrains continues to think: could this ancient person who just today or yesterday claimed to be a 'young vibrant man' turn his focus towards setting a policy foundation?

Remember (for those who haven't been paying attention), after all the fascism was invited into Scott Alexander's culture war threads in 2016-2020, they turned so violent that Trace created /r/theschism.

And this is one of a few places where the pseudo-intellectuals who couldn't perceive the fascism, but could believe that wokes were out to get them, retreated to in a world where one party was fascist, and the other party tended to insist on calling out that fascism.

It boggles my mind that Trace could be appalled by the violence, but never understand that the violence was the fascism. And now the 'dissident right' is nodding very seriously about Trump's policy positions, as if there is anything to the Republican Party but a bunch of authoritarian sycophants tripping over each other to praise Trump more while they state directly that they'll engage in civil war if they lose.

The Onion says it best: Trump vows to unite nation against common enemy of other Americans.

TracingWoodgrains is the sort of person who believes Trump when Trump calls for unity. TracingWoodgrains requires that we live in the reality where a few kind words erase years of violent rhetoric.

Why, TracingWoodgrains, are you so easily duped by Trump?

When will the greater SFBA Rationalist Cult wake up from the fugue of confusion brought about by Woke Derangement Syndrome?

Scott Alexander semi-ironically tackles 'an orgy of vengeance.' He starts to unravel, hopefully, the failure of the ideological wasteland of his home ground, in his recent essay: Some Practical Considerations Before Devolving into an Orgy of Vengeance.

I was cancelled from the culture war threads. I didn't take it personally, at least in the sense that I didn't think: all rightoids are like Scott, or all rightoids are like the moderators, who were crippled by their necessarily authoritarian connection to the space: whatever Scott said was true.

Cancellation is just part of human nature. The most egregiously obnoxious position of the SFBA Rationalist Cult is that it is somehow above or better than cancellation.

Scott Alexander gets close:

Liberals invent a fictional entity called "The Right", which is full of all of the most racist and fascist things that NYT was ever able to produce an out-of-context quote showing one Claremont guy saying, then believe that any action is justified against "The Right" because it's an ontological threat against democracy, then rile up a mob against a Google guy who sends the wrong memo.

What a terrible paragraph.

Scott Alexander was part of the Woke Derangement Syndrome crowd.

But the NYT doesn't have to produce out-of-context quotes demonstrating Trumpism's authoritarian dialogue.

The problem is that Scott Alexander suffocated his worldview with racism. Never forget: he self-consciously invited fascists and racists (neoreactionaries) into his audience. This level of racism and fascism became normal for Scott--and for TracingWoodgrains.

You have an entire coup attempt planned by Trump in the wake of the 2020 election, starting with the fake elector plot and culminating in January 6th. And Scott Alexander's take is that the liberals (HE IS INVENTING A FICTIONAL ENTITY HERE) are inventing a fictional entity around it and hallucinating its racism and fascism. (To put it in idiot SFBA Rationalist Cult terms, his priors are 'trapped.')

Trump is an "ontological threat against Democracy"

And if you don't understand this, there is in fact a very basic political intelligence test which you have failed. It's ok. The fascism fools people.

The fascism fools young men especially. Young men who feel persecuted by a society that doesn't care much for them. (And to be clear: society does not care for young men. It treats them as disposable, and always has.)

Scott Alexander took these young men and said: it's ok, the evil SJWs are evil and bad and we can create our own little space where we don't cancel people for their beliefs. Then he pulled the people with the worst beliefs on the planet into his space, and leftists were driven away by their racism and violence. This is what happened.

What they never seemed to understand is that you can in fact treat an egregore as an entity with beliefs and conditions provided you are careful to make distinct the voices. A mob of rioters that burn down their police station is in fact different from a mob of rioters instructed by a president who attack our Capitol.

Thus a vast wasteland of pseudointellectuals. Right now the King Pseud is Elon Musk, who is bewildered that other people find Trump morally repugnant. "Shouldn't we treat politics as an exercise in getting what we want?" thinks Musk. "All of these intelligent people in my circles are supporting Trump hoping for policy implementations," reasons Trace.

None of these people possess reasonable social skills. They're perpetually confused by politics, but worse? They think that's the problem of the people who can understand politics.

Which is why I'm here, where they can't cancel me.

**210 BC: The First Emperor of China dies

His plan was for a dynasty to last the millennia. His son was to be the next in line.

Instead, immediately after his death his preferred narrative is abandoned. His son was killed. Others ruled the throne through proxies.

1185 AD: Andronikos Komnenos

Andronikos oversaw a 'terror state' of reckless bloodshed against his political enemies in his paranoia. When he was finally killed,

At last he was led to the Hippodrome of Constantinople and hung by his feet between two pillars. Two Latin soldiers competed as to whose sword would penetrate his body more deeply, and he was, according to the representation of his death, torn apart; his remains were left unburied and were visible for several years afterwards.[18] He died on 12 September 1185.[19] At the news of the Emperor's death, his son and co-emperor, John, was murdered by his own troops in Thrace.

69 AD: The Year of Four Emperors

A bunch of delusional people swear loyalty to anyone who happens to be a leader. The temple of Jupiter burns.

If there's one thing I would do to Scott Alexander in person, it's slap him so hard he falls to the ground and then put my knee on his back and force his face into the mud and whisper into his ear: your shithead following believes in effective emperors. They believe in a Caesar. They believe in Augustus.

Force is the only way to get through to these people through their woke derangement syndrome.

But the problem of succession is so fricking huge that the one genuine accomplishment of our American system is the peaceful transition of power. This is what Trump threatened on January 6th and if you don't understand that you're a fricking idiot who should never have written about politics.

Trump is an "ontological threat against Democracy"

And Scott Alexander continues to fluff Trump in his mock political debate writing. Scott Alexander is thus a pseudo-fascist: one who propagandizes Trump as an effective politician.

Honestly I have to admire the irony: Scott Alexander doesn't understand why the left freaks out about the things Trump does. Scott assumes that explanations of Trump forcing their reaction are true, so Trump must be effective as a politician, because he produces a desired result through his speech.

Scott does not put these things together, that because the desired result of Trump's violent rhetoric is violence, this is what makes Trump dangerous, this is what makes leftists broadly correct.

Trump is an "ontological threat against Democracy"

There is nothing more to a narrative of state than the people following the story of its leader. The competing narrative of Trump as to the legitimacy of the 2020 Election makes Trump a dangerous instability to be reckoned with forcefully. By any means necessary, including slicing up the worldviews of people like TracingWoodgrains, Scott Alexander, and Elon Musk.

TracingWoodgrains continues to tell the story, bizarrely, of a man who might turn to serious policy.

Scott Alexander continues to tell the story, bizarrely, of a left that is producing 'out-of-context' quotes.

Musk is in a pathetic search for legitimacy on Twitter, getting told by other rich people of his mistake.

Thankfully, Biden has promised to 'finish the job' and I think we'll soon be rid of this old person boomer confusion. (Just because he's incompetent as a leader doesn't mean the movement around him isn't fascism.)

But I haven't forgotten the weakness of the pseudointellectuals whose Woke Derangement Syndrome prevented them from perceiving the authoritarian fascist movement which began in 2016. They still have a chance to correct their answer, before the history books close on them as collaborators with the insurgent traitor Trump.

Soon Impassionata can retire.

Two nukes lead directly to this

Vtubing is a form of online streaming or videos made with an anime character as the speaker, for entertainment. Their predecessors include normal webcam letsplayers and streamers (

If this sounds incredibly neurodivergent, it is, but this is the very tip of the iceberg.

The typical vtuber is a biological woman(1) that uses a camera to rig a 2-d model or a 3-d model of an anime girl to follow their face and head movement, so that they appear fully animated.

They take on various forms of entertainment, from essentially being normal video game streamers but with an anime girl facecam, idol-type singers, "wacky" Japanese "humor" types, porn, to even news commentators. A lot of them make a big deal out of their model and character, with intricate backstories and keyfabe. Generally speaking, Japanese companies and vtubers are a little heavy on this and hype up the vtubers as idol singers, while Americans and Canadians are a little more inclined to know they're effectively regular streamers juiced up by weeaboos, but also keep up the keyfabe and idol stuff.

Vtubing is enabled by advances in camera tracking equipment, Youtube and Twitch allowing livestreams to receive money from viewers in "super chats" and memberships, and a proliferating online community that broke containment from Japan around 2019-2020. It appears that COVID led to a ton of weebs looking into alternative spaces to interact, including parasocial relationships with streamers. In turn, the community of artists, 3-d modelers, and riggers exploded, and now anyone can be a anime girl with their iPhone, paying for the model of their character, and a few software cowtools for streaming. In the last year or year and a half, it appears that some of that COVID-era parasocial engagement has fallen, but the cat is out of the bag, and I wouldn't be surprised if this type of media continues to grow. If you type in "vtuber" on youtube or twitch there are a ton of shitty setups with 1 or 2 viewers live all the time, it kind of reminds me of when every guy thought he could be a letsplayer. In terms of the rdrama userbase, users may be familiar with Kirsche, the /pol/tuber, or Pippa the variety streamer, who are both 4chan and KF adjacent. Overall, the largest company is Hololive, recently known for their most popular vtuber singing at a Dodgers game

The Fans

But what happens when you take an already strange group (weeaboos) and combine them with the parasocial experience of wanting to frick an anime girl streamer? Unmitigated schizophrenia. Reddit is as normal as you can be for entertainment like this, twitter is usually weird over the top care for their favorite vtubers (like when someone cancels because they are sick, fans will write out detailed concerns and fifty heart emojis), but elsewhere is hilariously insane. 4chan rarely adds boards, but they added /vt/ for vtubing as a containment board, and it is now almost as fast as the fastest boards /vg/ and /pol/. It goes faster than fricking /a/ and /b/, and would completely swamp where it would be otherwise, /jp/. KF has a vtuber general with 8000 fricking pages. There's a KF splinter site dedicated entirely to vtubing. Oh, and a solid proportion of vtuber models look and act like children, so a lot of pedos are into it too.

There are a ton of boundaries that vtubers aren't supposed to cross because it is seen as dangerous ("yab"/"yabai" in moonrunes). Usually it's related to how idols are supposed to not smoke or drink or publicly talk about s*x. However, because essentially what these women do is talk or play video games 20+ hours a week, things inevitably slip in. Even the agencies that acknowledge they platform actual psychiatric patients or are kinda edgy generally try to keep their vtubers with some level of keyfabe, some level of idol stuff like songs, and no talking about relationships.

Remember how this is about mid Asian women playing video games and singing with a little bit of pretending to be a dorky anime girl? A lot of r-slurs think it's real.

• First, there is "gosling". AKA falling in love with the anime girl on your youtube. Think of Ryan Gosling's character from Blade Runner 2049

• You may come to the obvious conclusion that this is r-slurred, but think of the kind of community that this attracts

• Because vtubers make money from fans sending money on their streams or by buying their merchandise, they are incentivized to grow their fanbase to include lonely weirdos who will drop $500 on their streams

• However, these same weirdos end up cataloging every single snippet of personal information that you say because they are in love with the vtuber

• Then when the vtuber slights them somehow, they will dump all that info attempting to dox them

• This could range from political opinions, personal hypocrisy, not reading out the chat they sent, or just schizos building up tangential evidence that you have a boyfriend

Now that I think about it this reminds of something here... ... but somehow more neurodivergent, because once again, they're in love with an anime girl and don't even get to have s*x with it. And this isn't "oh I'm literally handing out my full name, phone number, job and location " but this:

. It's fricking insane.

In the funniest instance, accidentally revealing you have a boyfriend on stream directly :

https://streamable.com/lnjg6z

led to some schizo dropping a 60 page google doc of groomercord screenshots and accusations she led him on, leading her to retire her character and rebrand. He still shows up on /vt/ occasionally to sperg out AFAIK

Vtubers

So the viewers are obsessive weirdos that will literally track weather and note that their vtuber said it was raining at exactly 10:19 AM EST to narrow down where they live, while compiling insane screeds because they want to frick their favorite clumsy nerd dragon anime girl in real life... what about the vtubers themselves?

• They often have considerable issues, but are usually just gross femcels

• The rabbit girl at the top of this post, Pippa Pipkin, is IRL trailer trash, had a drawer she would puke in, lived with mold on her stuff, did not brush her teeth, and is just generally really gross:

• Rushia is the name of a former vtuber who lost her job because of lolcow-tier crazy, revealing that she was married, cheating on her husband, then divorcing him while cheating on him and making a ton of accusations, and was threatening lawsuits to a ton of people over this information

• It explains a lot to learn that the average vtuber is neurodivergent. On this test, https://embrace-autism.com/raads-r/#test, where 65 is minimum score considered for autism and 130 is the mean score of neurodivergent people, the company Phase Connect had many of their vtubers take it and most of them scored above 150.

Why is this dramatic?

The slightest negative thing that a vtuber does gets amplified by schizos and a-logs, which often snowballs into drama. For example, Pippa is gross and weird, but there's a thread right now between her white knights and a-logs that is like 50 pages long in two or three days as if its a update

The juxtaposition of vtubers to normal media is still fricking hilarious, like tell me this isn't funny: https://rdrama.net/post/285799/apparently-there-are-rightoid-redpilled-vtubers

It's only going to get more neurodivergent and parasocial from here

• The Japanese Communist Party has a vtuber:

• If J.D. Vance, a rightoid twitter user who follows "Mid Castizos" and Steve Sailer can become vice president, we will eventually have a weeaboo vice president that'll get questioned why he followed Kirsche

Pissing off vtube fans is funny and unfortunately a proportion of them are pedos and/or gooners

• Do NOT look at any pictures from conventions. A lot of these guys look WORSE than your worst stereotypes. There are people in real life who buy anime body pillows.

Vtubing could be an innovative form of media. The motion tracking and animation is really interesting. The interactivity that some streamers have can be original and interesting, from the way they break the fourth wall to the way they can manipulate elements of their character model and background on the fly. Some vtubers are surprisingly talented but either too ugly or mentally ill to be regular streamers or did not make it as singers, and this offers a track for them to continue to be an entertainer and make bizarre content.

However, vtubing is ultimately more likely to be known on the internet for pedos jacking off to their favorite 4,000 year old shark girl and donating their Burger King paychecks to Youtube.

Finally, pretty much every single thread on vtubing anywhere turns into this.

(1) Yes, I was honestly surprised at first too. Technically it would be hard to tell if an independent streamer passes hard enough, but agencies have to verify their vtubers and are almost always looking for women only. If you've ever been to weeb convention or related event and you see 4/10 Asian or white women cosplaying or doing related things like /cgl/, there is a nonzero chance they've tried vtubing. Surprisingly, there are even attractive ones, though the correlation between attractiveness and being a vtuber is obviously negative.