This book club is more like a book cult.
A cult in which they’re not even interested in reading the book, god forbid they should sprain the lump of white fat between their ears; instead they bang everyone on the head with their impenetrable goddamned book, constantly inciting moral panic, we tell you what and how to think and give us your MONEY, we are closer to god than you and god needs MONEY!!!

Potential voters were warned about this shit - among many other things - in 2016 and the sabotage of Merrick Garland’s nomination, the blatant republican disdain for the democratic process, the enabling of fascist frenzy already whistling at full boil.
But vote for a woman?!! When pigs fly!!!

Potential voters were warned about this shit - among many other things - in 2024, the blatant republican disdain for the democratic process, how the fascist frenzy had stormed the Capitol four years prior and people getting killed in the process, the supreme court revoking women’s right to choose, many MANY other things.
But vote for a woman?!! When pigs fly!!!

Non-voters didn’t just shit on their own drinking water, they shat on ALL our water supply. Stubbornly ignorant, erratic, impatient and petty, oh-so-precious-and-pure deadweights that they are.

Star Trek, starring Lech Walesa… or is that Giorgio Moroder, idk I get confused sometimes… anyways, carry on, and may the force be with the eurodisco proletariat, or something.

This, like so many other cruel unnecessary things, could have been easily avoided.
“But… but… muh puriteh! bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe”
vOtE fOr A wOmAn? mE?!! wHeN PIGS FLY!!!

The mental gymnastics so many non-voters use to convince themselves that their lazy mediocrity is not a HUGE part of the problem. They exert a hundred times the energy to stab themselves in the chest with a rusty knife, and as gangrene sets in, they fancy themselves as hero martyrs, because they so bravely did nothing of value to stop this. Useless deadweight flakes that they are.

Queso Casita

Imagine Spock tripping on shrooms in the holodeck, sitting on a tree stump by a creek, staring at the texture of an orange for an hour, regularly muttering - “Fascinating… fascinating…”

Thing is, there is a lot of extraordinary educational content on YouTube, made by people who have a knack for it and do it as a labor or love.

Thanks to some YouTube channels like 3Blue1Brown, WelchLabs and Numberphile, I’m getting the hang of Riemann Surfaces, vector spaces and higher dimensions, the importance of prime numbers and Fourier Transforms… there is an embarrassment of riches bubbling behind so much bad faith A.I.-fabricated clickbait garbage that the algorithm pushes.

There are university professors uploading semester-long courses on cosmology or particle physics. Science channels like ParallaxNick, PBS Spacetime, The History Of The Universe, Terra Physics, The Science Asylum and Ask A Spaceman… many, many others.

But this YouTube treasure may not appear at first glance, and once you select a good path to follow, you have to cultivate that unavoidable algorithm: subscribing to the proper channels, blocking a seemingly endless barrage pseudo-science and conspiracy bullshit and blocking entire topics and keywords (like Roswell, Niburu, etc).

Sometimes the algorithm will suggest new things and it will deliver gold, you can feel the power of the tool and it is awesome, but unfortunately it will also often be clickbait crap, and now more and more often it’s with these god-awful A.I. images and pseudo-friendly emotionless generic narrations. Time to take out the digital machete again and hack away ruthlessly, blocking channels and erasing their videos from one’s watch history.

In fact, right now if anything has so much as a synthetic scent after a minute of watching, it will be purged and blocked.

But also often, I come across content creators excitedly and clearly explaining the quantum spin of electrons in a two hour video, and it is a glorious sight to behold. Case in point - look up Highly Entropic Mind and his two videos “Understanding QFT”. QFT being Quantum Field Theory.
In this case, I also check out the channels that they recommend on their account page. That’s a good way of pulling the thread.

Many of these well-meaning content creators are being drowned by those gaming the algorithm and flooding feeds with crap. So I created a Patreon account and chip in, trying to be a little bit of wind beneath their wings.

boolean root beer float

Pico de gallo is also the name of a street stand fruit cocktail in my town in Mexico.
Chunks of jicama, orange and… there’s another one I’m forgetting.

You sprinkle salt and powdered chili on top, then squeeze the juice of a large lime on top. It’s all eaten with a toothpick, you spear the chunks of jicama, orange and the other one.

The blues singer character Mississippi Gary from The Kids In The Hall comes to mind:

I got the blues so bad, I can’t even close my eyes… I gotta call a friend on the phone and tell him - “Buddy, come over and shut my eyes for me, I got the blues”.

Hey… that looks eerily similar to my own microwave.

Yep, this is the one I was scrolling down to find.

Godfather.
Godfather 2.
The Conversation.
Dog Day Afternoon.
The Deer Hunter.

All five Best Picture Oscar nominees, three winners.

He’s got that ol’ New York City Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Blues again, momma!

The way Apple ruined Foundation, via Mister “I’m better than Asimov!” Goyer.

Fiennes does seem to come from a posh background, doesn’t he?

Then maybe a commoner trained in Shakespeare can and does develop that poshness, the ability to deliver it effortlessly.
Was, for example, Peter O’Toole a noble or a hoodlum? Because there seems to be a bit of both in him at the same time.

But then I take a look at the full Fiennes family name and oof… there’s some olde stubbornly blue roots in there, in plain sight. The kind of thing you would spy on the guestlist for the weekly Saxe-Coburg canasta evening.

So is Rafe like the black sheep of his family, because he went prancing off to theater school and the bohemian lifestyle instead of a sturdy and dignified profession, like banking?

Well fuck me gently with a chainsaw, I am flabbergasted and illustrated, simultaneously at the same place and from a distance at the same time.

the vast majority of US citizens are abjectly fucking stupid who have no clear understanding how absolutely anything works or any understanding of how consequences follow actions

This happens both equally with the maga batshit crazy voters, and the narcissistic “my vote is a pure and delicate flower”/“bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL” non-voters.

Which is of course exploited by bad-faith actors pushing these lazy idiots back down on the couch and stroking their hollow vanity, to not do what they already didn’t want to do - doing the homework instead of just getting their “facts” from twitter or tiktok or whatever, taking the time and effort to register and vote, if just once a year, or at the very least once every two years for the midterms.

These idiots want instant results, have not a shred of a clue as to what political inertia is; just as medieval as maga, they want a political messiah with a magic political wand.

The 2010 midterms proved that these fickle mediocre idiots did NOT have Obama’s back, and lazily initiated a cascade that drowned their own future, rewarded the fascists for their virulent hysterical opposition, and to this day remain mindlessly, narcissistically oblivious to the fact.
Their mediocre motto as a mediocre electoral block is “If at first you don’t succeed, give up.”

So much of the world has rightly lost all faith in the intelligence and decency of the average american. As in - they have none, distractedly and lovingly fondling their purity, then sniffing their fingers and picking their teeth with those nails.

Because the thing you want, is to keep these shitheads living in your head 24/7.

Kessel Run. In less than 12 parsecs.

That’s actually quite an interestingly accurate one, considering that something like 95% of Egyptians live near the Nile River, and anywhere that is NOT near the Nile is desert wasteland.

Other accurate analogies would be anywhere in Canada that is NOT near its’ southern border, or nearly anywhere/everywhere in inland Australia, they call it the Outback for a reason.