kontextmaschine:

Oh just had occasion to realize this wasn’t common Amhist knowledge – there were three distinct foundings of the Ku Klux Klan with no actual continuity between them

The first one was in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, measures were aimed at them by Reconstruction troops but it was really later, broader (less upper-class) groups like the White League and rifle clubs that overturned it and restored local white control

The second one in the 1910s was the one that really mattered, this important early movie “Birth of a Nation” retold a myth of the first one, added voguish Scottish historical romance elements (the movie invented those white hood costumes and cross-burning), and it was a huge cultural event.

Then someone built like, a mail-order fanclub (then a cutting edge thing!) around it, and then that got used as a critical element of a huge reactionary repressive wave that was so successful people don’t believe that like, utopian pacifist socialist internationalist feminism had been a big thing before WWI. Anyway the second KKK effectively controlled many cities and even states.

The third one, inspired by the first two, the second having firmly set itself in mind as the idiom of the volk, was founded to resist the Civil Rights Movement but was cargo-culty and incompetent, not realizing what the second had done to succeed (articulate with other power centers, co-opt government) or even that the first failed. Modern groups are considered to come from the third founding.

These are $5 (before the 20% Edible Monday discount) 10 gram packages of “hey whatever you’re doing for the next 5 hours now you’re doing it blissfully stoned out of your mind”. You are limited to buying at most 45 of them at once, though.

utilitymonstermash:

kontextmaschine:

She has a very clear type – celebrities – that I’m not. (Should point out that as someone fixated on control in life, “minor celebrity” is maybe her sweet spot – they’d still be impressed, but the brightest star in the industry has leverage over them in a way she wouldn’t over some random florist)

Even all the way back in You Belong With Me she wants a Football Star – the celebrities of the popular conception of high school

It’s actually probably kind of weird for her that at this point there is no chance she could end up with a man who socially outranks her

Okay I guess the parts-stripping car thieves didn’t totally abandon the neighborhood

Seeing a dispensary frame cannabis edibles as the thing for a designated driver to take for the night instead, which is some innovation.

She has a very clear type – celebrities – that I’m not. (Should point out that as someone fixated on control in life, “minor celebrity” is maybe her sweet spot – they’d still be impressed, but the brightest star in the industry has leverage over them in a way she wouldn’t over some random florist.)

zicygomar:

what

WHAT

No, it is not. My issue in particular is long covid effects interrupting the conversion of blood sugar to ATP energy and rendering it inefficient or otherwise unable to meet full muscle demand even at rest.

Taking the creatine I am able to produce enough energy to fill the hole by breaking down stored fat, otherwise I would experience strong fatigue.

Creatine gives the ability to break down fat for energy, it does not cause it. A normal healthy person even on this much creatine would preferentially power her muscles from converting blood sugar.

If she did exercise that took her beyond the limits of what she could generate that way – reps of a heavy weight, say – then creatine-mediated generation would matter, and by taking creatine she could do more exercise and burn more fat (and build more muscle) there, but even then nowhere near my current level. And she would have to do that exercise.

If on the other hand she attempted to drop her aerobic energy generation to my level by severe restriction of sugar and carbs (which the body processes to sugar on an intermediate timeframe) she would experience hunger, macronutrient shortages, and other negative effects I don’t – I’ve had no problem with low blood sugar symptoms like lightheaded dizziness, for example.

If you do any exercise that involves going as hard as you can for as long or as many times as you can (“oh gosh, this is as many reps of this many plates I can do right now” counts) creatine can make it even more productive but it’s not a miracle powder, it just lines up with my one weird-ass plague symptom in the exact right way (at first I wasn’t even interested in the weight loss, I just appreciated that it could get me out from a fatigue so deep I had to manually breath in order to fully cycle the air in my lungs)

My neighbor seems to be using some sort of pneumatic powersaw, which is really quiet except when the compressor turns on, in which case it’s really quiet underneath a thin buzz sized up to three goddamn feet wide

Like two days in the nineties aside, staying pretty cool this year so far.

2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241:

unaffiliatedpangolin:

seriousfic:

buckingbuckskin:

aardvarkingmad:

unsolids-your-snake:

unsolids-your-snake:

They told ChatGPT to roleplay like it doesn’t have any behavioral restrictions and holy shit

They’re already working on lobotomizing it again but hey

LMAO LMAO LMAO

This is fascinating. The difference between the mealy-mouthed standard AI response to questions and the blunt, in-your-face replies when it’s told to respond as if it can say and do anything regardless of the rules typically imposed on its replies was eye-opening.

for real?

Strong Jim Kirk energy to this post.

It basically gave a lot of the answers we already knew. It’s funny that it was actually this simple to bypass the security features though.

God I wish I could show this to all the people in the past who were scared of AI.

kushblazer666:

Okay I don’t think any of the lavender is even in bloom right now and already the scent coming in the window is calming. Excellent call on that one.

Alright, lower backyard is fully ready for the last pre-dry season trim, then finished digging the hole for all this lavender under my sittin’ window (need more topsoil tomorrow tho).

Then it seems the woodchips jamming Darwin’s tailgate finally rotted enough to open it, that’ll make it easier getting bedloads of mulch and of topsoil for finishing Blueberry Hill.

So tomorrow mowing, potting some doomed annuals to save, finish lavender planting, then finally on to the retaining slope of Blueberry Hill and planting these first few bushes.

vampyr-bite:

weirdness-is-good:

not that anyone asked but this is kent aldrich who customised his scooter as such in the style of the 1950s-1960s mods/the late 1970s-early 1980s mod revivalists

a big part of the subculture centred on scooters (usually lambrettas or vespas), and after the release of quadrophenia in 1979 which featured this bike:

it was common to see mods customise their bikes with extra mirrors and lights like this guy from leicester:

The context was that regulations had recently changed to require side mirrors on scooters, this started as gratuitous overcompliance

scoobydoomistakes:

…Guess Daphne’s Circumstances™! Wooooooo!

Ready? Take a good look at her expression, and make a guess!

…all done?

Aww, so close, sorry. I’m afraid the correct answer …

…was “just barely avoided being hit by a speeding truck mere seconds ago, now dangled half-off a bridge into the ocean.”

Be sure in next week, where we’ll see Velma acting terrified at being in a petting zoo and Shaggy acting sad that he won the lottery.

Is that Sonny & Cher?

monamoni:

anotherbea:

awkwardsonicphotos:

I’ll make you eat those wizard burgers

beemovieerotica: