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Ohaulick
Oct 28, 2010
46,526
No excuses, Tsunami.

Speaking of which, I am back in the US. Flew into Newark, complete with Sinatra music en route.

Now I’m in a great crime scene hotel - a Comfort Inn in the old steel town of Bethlehem, PA. This week I’m facilitating AI innovation design and AI Leadership workshops at the Global Village of Lehigh University’s Iacocca Institute… some 55 entrepreneurs from 38 countries here for a 5-week program.

It all seems cool. But this hotel is the stuff of horror movies. The cleaning staff look like they survived fetal alcohol syndrome, and everything about this place makes me want to look for the bloody knives from previous guests. :scared:
Oh shit, how long are you in PA for? I’m unemployed now, we should grab a beer or hit a local winery , they’re surprisingly decent
 

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L'autista
Administrator
Sep 23, 2003
84,750
Oh shit, how long are you in PA for? I’m unemployed now, we should grab a beer or hit a local winery , they’re surprisingly decent
Ah, bummer. I'm back in PT now. Interesting place. It's the sort of place nobody goes to intentionally, which was kind of cool. The distilleries were pretty good. But most of the food was definitely fuel for Pennsylvania Butt-Swell.

Is there a easy way to blok TikTok on my WiFi router?
You might be able to configure your router to add blacklisted domains/hosts.
 

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Ohaulick
Oct 28, 2010
46,526
Ah, bummer. I'm back in PT now. Interesting place. It's the sort of place nobody goes to intentionally, which was kind of cool. The distilleries were pretty good. But most of the food was definitely fuel for Pennsylvania Butt-Swell.



You might be able to configure your router to add blacklisted domains/hosts.
I’m going to Lehigh valley tomorrow with some friends intentionally. They have a place that does skeet shooting
 
Jun 16, 2020
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For years we have the gay parade in Amsterdam, it’s very degenerate but in general I’ve never had anything against it. That’s wasn’t enough though so they’ve added a second pride parade which lasts 15 days so now the degenerate capital of the Netherlands hosts two gay parades.

This is where they lose me. Wtf is going on with all this rainbow shit. Where is family parade? Where is ‘work your ass of to not reach the end of the month but thank you for sustaining society parade’?
 

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Tickle Me
Moderator
Oct 11, 2005
75,659
For years we have the gay parade in Amsterdam, it’s very degenerate but in general I’ve never had anything against it. That’s wasn’t enough though so they’ve added a second pride parade which lasts 15 days so now the degenerate capital of the Netherlands hosts two gay parades.

This is where they lose me. Wtf is going on with all this rainbow shit. Where is family parade? Where is ‘work your ass of to not reach the end of the month but thank you for sustaining society parade’?
Well done you. You did it! Yay, buddy! Congratulations!

I’m so proud of you!
 

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L'autista
Administrator
Sep 23, 2003
84,750
For years we have the gay parade in Amsterdam, it’s very degenerate but in general I’ve never had anything against it. That’s wasn’t enough though so they’ve added a second pride parade which lasts 15 days so now the degenerate capital of the Netherlands hosts two gay parades.

This is where they lose me. Wtf is going on with all this rainbow shit. Where is family parade? Where is ‘work your ass of to not reach the end of the month but thank you for sustaining society parade’?
Well, let me remind you that capitalist society is a steamroller that needs to pulverize as all into a undifferentiated soup of blood and guts, allowing us to be poured into ice cube trays as fungible, completely interchangeable assets as good little consumers. The more we can be commoditized, the more the brain-dead machinery of mass market capitalism can optimize for performance and profit.

Homo economicus, servitis societatis bene.

Now a funny thing happened on the way to interchangeable human unit spreadsheet mathematics: we're actually not quite all the same. Some people have dark skin or kinky hair and not everyone sees them as part of the same undifferentiated soup.

It gets worse. There are people who don't follow the demands of mass marketing and might want to buttbang someone of the same gender. Instead of settling down, building a nice, traditional family together, and generating all the predictable commercial opportunities that come with that to sell them more crap that the capitalist society demands of them. And despite the existence of rainbow ponies, studded piercings, tight shirts, and bike shorts, some of them are complete a**holes and can't even be bothered to even wear the uniform.

Which makes it very hard to notice they exist in a crowd. Because if people don't know you exist, they can happily plod along with capitalism and government decisions that eradicates the fact that they actually do exist.

So you know why there isn't a family parade? Why there isn't a ‘work your ass of to not reach the end of the month but thank you for sustaining society parade'? It's because those parades are 24x7, 365 days a year. They are called the life parade, and the favorite parade of the capitalist society steamroller. They all make great soup and don't cause any trouble for the mechanized gears that make the soup.
 

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