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@nugger another thing that is lost on modern lovecraftian authors is that humanity is supposed to be a fly on the wall. we witness the imposibilities of exponentially more complex alien intelligence, while they consider us in the same way we might consider a stray ant while mowing the lawn.
THERE IS APPARENTLY SOME ALAN MOORE COMIC BOOK ABOUT LOVECRAFTIAN MYTHOS AND I HAVE TO LAUGH

IF THERE WAS A BROADWAY MUSICAL ADAPTATION OF SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH (AND ITS ALWAYS SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH) WITH CHIPPER SONGS AND DANCES, WOULD THAT BE "LOVECRAFTIAN" ?

LET ME PITCH YOU A STORY, 1920S HARD BOILED DETECTIVE GOES INTO A NEW ENGLAND FISHING VILLAGE AND INVESTIGATES A MURDER AND TURNS OUT THE LOCALS ARE ALL SECRETLY IN A CULT, ADDICTED TO A DRUG THAT A GIANT SQUID THEY FISHED OUT OF THE SEA SECRETES AND THEY FEED IT HUMAN FLESH?
IS THAT "LOVECRAFTIAN"?
95% OF "LOVECRAFT FANS" WOULD SAY YUP THATS THE TICKET. THEY CAN'T EVEN TELL THE DIFFERENCE.

WHY SO?
WELL, COSMICISM IS EXISTENTIAL HORROR. AND ALL HORROR IS AT ITS CORE -- CONFRONTATION WITH THE STRANGER. WITH SOMETHING OUTSIDE THE BOUNDS OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE.
NOT ALL FEAR, NOT ALL DISCOMFORT AND ANXIETY. BUT ALL HORROR.

FOR EXAMPLE
THE THRILLER OF JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING IS THE GROSS PUPPET GORE AND DEATH SCENES. THE HORROR OF JOHN CARPENTERS THE THING IS THAT IT IS AN ALIEN ORGANISM THAT TAKES OVER HUMAN BODIES AND SEEMS TO DISPLACE OR ENVELOPE THEIR PERSON -- AN EXTRA LAYER OF HORROR ON TOP, THAT THE THING CAN APPROPRIATE AND UNDERSTAND HUMAN EXPERIENCE WELL ENOUGH TO FOOL HUMANS INTO BELIEVING ITS ONE OF THEM, BUT STILL HAVING NO EMPATHY, STILL EATING THEM.

EXISTENTIAL HORROR AND COSMICISM IN PARTICULAR, BRINGS A PAIN SIMILAR TO THAT OF ROMANTIC REJECTION. KM ACTUALLY NOT GONNA WRITE THIS PARAGRAPH IGNORE THIS.

IDEAS LIKE LIBERALISM OR UTILITARIANISM OF THE CRASS PRAGMATIC KIND ARE KIND OF LIKE A CANCER OR A VIRUS OR AN INFECTION OF SOME OTHER KIND. ONCE IT TAKES ROOT IN THE MIND, ONCE THE IDEOLOGY IS TRULY INTERNALIZED AS FOUNDATIONAL BELIEF, ONCE YOU ARE A TRUE DYED IN THE WOOL TAXIDERMIED IN A GLASS CASE BELIEVER -- THE IDEOLOGY DISPLACES THE POSSIBILITY OF ALL OTHER IDEAS.
IF YOU ARE UTILITARIAN ENOUGH -- SO IS EVERYONE ELSE FROM YOUR POINT OF VIEW.
IF SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING, THEY DO IT SELFISHLY FOR THEIR OWN REASONS.
IF SELFLESSLY FROM TRUE FAITH -- THEN THERAPEUTICALLY FOR THE GOOD FEELINGS UPHOLDING THEIR FAITH WILL GIVE THEM.

DITTO LIBERALISM. IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF A LIBERAL, EVERYONE ELSE IS A LIBERAL. THEY COULD BE A POOR OPPRESSED LIBERAL, OR THEY COULD BE AN EVIL OPPRESSIVE LIBERAL FAILING IN THEIR OBLIGATIONS TO THE IDEAL OF LIBERALISM. BUT THEY CAN'T EXIST OUTSIDE OF THE PARADIGM. BECAUSE LIBERALISM IS ULTIMATELY ALL-ENCOMPASSING, ALL-INCLUDING -- THERE CAN NOT POSSIBLY BE A STRANGER.
HORROR IS INHERENTLY ANTI LIBERAL, OFTEN REACTIONARY.

ALAN MOORE COULD NEVER WRITE A LOVECRAFTIAN WORK, HE COULD ONLY WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT HARD BOILED DETECTIVES INVESTIGATING A SQUID CULT.

No random open source application, I do not want to join your Discord channel for support.

There's this really cool technology called hypertext markup language, and if you use it for your documentation another piece of amazing technology called a search engine can help me find the answer I'm looking for

And the real magic is you only have to answer it once and the answer helps anyone. You don't have to answer the same question every day. This frees you up for more fun development

ancoms are psychopaths.

they say they love all mankind, still place themselves _over_ others who they deem to stupid.

their enemies will not be jailed or shot but placed into an environment where they have to forsake their own convictions "out of free will" to survive.

(coincidentally just like i would have had to forsake my own convictions "out of free will" and should have gotten "the jab")

fucking psychopaths.

> “How will you treat counter-revolutionists taken prisoners during an engagement?”
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> The revolution must find new ways, some sensible method of dealing with them. The old method is to imprison them, support them in idleness, and employ numerous men to guard and punish them. And while the culprit remains in prison, incarceration and brutal treatment still further embitter him against the revolution, strengthen his opposition, and nurse thoughts of vengeance and new conspiracies. The revolution will regard such methods as stupid and detrimental to its best interests. It will try instead by humane treatment to convince the defeated enemy of the error and uselessness of his resistance. It will apply liberty instead of revenge. It will take into consideration that most of the counter-revolutionists are dupes rather than enemies, deluded victims of some individuals seeking power and authority. It will know that they need enlightenment rather than punishment, and that the former will accomplish more than the latter. Even to-day this perception is gaining ground. The Bolsheviki defeated the Allied armies in Russia more effectively by revolutionary propaganda among the enemy soldiers than by the strength of their artillery. These new methods have been recognized as practical even by the United States Government which is making use of them now in its Nicaraguan campaign. American aëroplanes scatter proclamations and appeals to the Nicaraguan people to persuade them to desert Sandino and his cause, and the American army chiefs expect the best results from these tactics. But the Sandino patriots are fighting for home and country against a foreign invader, while counter-revolutionists wage war against their own people. The work of their enlightenment is much simpler and promises better results.
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> “Do you think that would really be the best way to deal with counter-revolution?”
>
> By all means. Humane treatment and kindness are more effective than cruelty and vengeance. The new attitude in this regard would suggest also a number of other methods of similar character. Various modes of dealing with conspirators and active enemies of the revolution would develop as soon as you begin to practice the new policy. The plan might be adopted, for instance, of scattering them, individually or in small groups, over districts removed from their counter-revolutionary influences, among communities of revolutionary spirit and consciousness. Consider also that counter-revolutionists must eat; which means that they would find themselves in a situation that would claim their thoughts and time for other things than the hatching of conspiracies. The defeated counter-revolutionist, left at liberty instead of being imprisoned, would have to seek means of existence. He would not be denied his livelihood, of course, since the revolution would be generous enough to feed even its enemies. But the man in question would have to join some community, secure lodgings, and so forth, in order to enjoy the hospitality of the distributing center. In other words, the counter-revolutionary “prisoners in freedom” would depend on the community and the good will of its members for their means of existence. They would live in its atmosphere and be influenced by its revolutionary environment. Surely they will be safer and more contented than in prison, and presently they would cease to be a danger to the revolution. We have repeatedly seen such examples in Russia, in cases where counter-revolutionists had escaped the Tcheka and settled down in some village or city, where as a result of considerate and decent treatment they became useful members of the community, often more zealous in behalf of the public welfare than the average citizen, while hundreds of their fellow-conspirators, who had not been lucky enough to avoid arrest, were busy in prison with thoughts of revenge and new plots.
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> Various plans of treating such “prisoners in freedom” will no doubt be tried by the revolutionary people. But whatever the methods, they will be more satisfactory than the present system of revenge and punishment, the complete failure of which has been demonstrated throughout human experience. Among the new ways might also be tried that of free colonization. The revolution will offer its enemies an opportunity to settle in some part of the country and there establish the form of social life that will suit them best. It is no vain speculation to foresee that it would not be long before most of them would prefer the brotherhood and liberty of the revolutionary community to the reactionary régime of their colony. But even if they did not, nothing would be lost. On the contrary, the revolution would itself be the greatest gainer, spiritually, by forsaking methods of revenge and persecution and practicing humanity and magnanimity. Revolutionary self-defense, inspired by such methods, will be the more effective because of the very freedom it will guarantee even to its enemies. Its appeal to the masses and to the world at large will thereby be the more irresistible and universal. In its justice and humanity lies the invincible strength of the social revolution.
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> No revolution has yet tried the true way of liberty. None has had sufficient faith in it. Force and suppression, persecution, revenge, and terror have characterized all revolutions in the past and have thereby defeated their original aims. The time has come to try new methods, new ways. The social revolution is to achieve the emancipation of man through liberty, but if we have no faith in the latter, revolution becomes a denial and betrayal of itself. Let us then have the courage of freedom: let it replace suppression and terror. Let liberty become our faith and our deed and we shall grow strong therein.
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> Only liberty can make the social revolution effective and wholesome. It alone can pave the way to greater heights and prepare a society where well-being and joy shall be the heritage of all. The day will dawn when man shall for the first time have full opportunity to grow and expand in the free and generous sunshine of Anarchy.

@m0urs
Ich bin Vater einer 23 jährigen Tochter und ich weiss, wie sehr der eigene Hormonhaushalt sich auch noch mit 18 oder 19 einrüttelt.
In dem Alter schon Hormontherapie zur Geschlechtsumwandlung zulassen, halte ich für Grund falsch.
Aber ist das jetzt so eine boomer Haltung und habe ich die Zeichen der Zeit nicht kapiert?
Wie seht ihr das?
Gerne nach Abstimmung #boost|en

Worst year in recent memory?

This isn’t “socialism.” This is pure communism thug tactics. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, and Hugo Chavez would be proud of this Biden regime.

The hallmarks of communism are rigged elections; bans on free speech; silencing all dissent; censorship; propaganda; the weaponization of government; forced experimental vaccinations; police state raids on your critics; arresting your political opponents. Look around. We are there.

> Einen Tag nach der Attacke in Annecy ist das Entsetzen weiter groß. Präsident Macron besuchte die Opfer und dankte den Helfern - darunter auch einem Mann, der sich dem Angreifer entgegengestellt hatte.

tagesschau.de/ausland/frankrei

schon komisch das die dann alle lächeln auf dem foto wenn das entsetzen so groß ist. wenn mir sowas passiert wäre, wär ich vermutlich nicht so fröhlich. aber vielleicht bin ich nur komisch drauf.

a retired NGO executive lecturing others about gluttony of the north from the comfort of a stressless chair.

the irony is not lost on the casual observer.

Today in absolutely wild things: a CA abusing an RCE in ACME.sh to add their own validation methods to it! github.com/acmesh-official/acm

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