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Cake day: May 19th, 2024

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  • Seeing as it was just patched together from other releases with Russian disinfo laced in between - it should have been removed a long time ago. Look up who submitted it to Wikileaks: Guccifer 2.0… who turned out to be a Russian agent (aka Fancy Bear).

    Go look at Guccifer 2.0’s Wikipedia page, or the US intelligence senate hearing that confirmed Russian interference in the 2016 election. All this info is put there.

    Assange thought it was win favor with Trump and maybe get him a pardon. Went as far as to continue to attribute the “leak” to staffer Seth Rich, even after Rich’s death in a botched burgulary.





  • I don’t get where do the “regular” balloon danglers come from… Do they just choose to go up with a balloon?

    The balloons are stories right? Like it’s a visual metaphor… But then does that mean people are only reading one story per person in the entire world?

    How did people end up in the bog? Did they just let go of a story they didn’t like? So are the danglers are people writing stories rather than reading them, and the danglers are the authors?

    That makes sense… A comic book author writing about an aggrandised version of themselves. That checks out from my experience hanging out with authors… But they don’t give away or latch on to each others stories that I’ve seen, that doesn’t seem common.

    Where do the danglers come from again? Because the guy constructing the balloon wasn’t dangling from it… Are the green people minions in some reading dimension?

    I don’t think I really get the metaphor. Maybe it’s just not supposed to be examined. Lots of fiction collapses under examination.



  • It’s not a question of class, it’s a question of labour vs motivation/reward.

    This still has a behaviouralist slant though, and perhaps that’s because I find the concept of unalienated labour hard to envision the practicalities/pragmatics of. Perhaps due to having never seen such a thing (having always lived under Capitalism).






  • This is a classier version of how lobotomy started as a procedure… It was pioneered by a scam artist who wanted to be a doctor, and his employee who was a vet. A large amount of his practice was honed being hired to make asylum patients quiet and more docile. Gruesome stuff… And being untrained he was completely unsanitary about it.