Post B6sodSdwSOYgwSEQGe by awl@shitposter.world
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(DIR) Post #B6sWjjJRaxcjCgU2ZE by f0x@dsmc.space
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california has a caniformia on its flag
(DIR) Post #B6sWjjT11NHPgMxgUC by bajax@baj.ax
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@f0x I mean, you're claiming alignment with california here so
(DIR) Post #B6sWjjdIP9VGCFltVg by f0x@dsmc.space
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@bajax i've heard from trusted folk that california is good actually
(DIR) Post #B6sWjjmrpZ9wfwFXQe by bajax@baj.ax
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@f0x I'm honestly being flippant as joke, but it actually has major structural/cultural/psychological problems that go far deeper than just a few bad ideas taking hold-- tldr the best things about it (and those things are considerable-- including in the aforementioned structural/cultural/psychologial domains) weirdly looped around to enabling the worst things.but I'll save it lol
(DIR) Post #B6sWjk0h0ADbMoiZyi by f0x@dsmc.space
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@bajax i will pull aside the man of california and watch you guys debate when i'm not bugging him with other stuff
(DIR) Post #B6sWjkCOIfZlx6BvDE by bajax@baj.ax
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@f0x rofl I don't see that going anywhere good
(DIR) Post #B6sWjkNjcUeMWHUytU by f0x@dsmc.space
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@bajax as long as you are receptive to an autistic mans accounts, that he, like a very normal person, mapped out and explained thoroughly.
(DIR) Post #B6sWjkZ4wJix5So2Zk by bajax@baj.ax
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@f0x I am actually kind of curious though what his arguments for it are going to be like-- if they're any different from the usual stuff I've heard and read from claifornians
(DIR) Post #B6sWjkiIO363Y37OwS by bajax@baj.ax
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@f0x (usually it takes the form of "creativity! dynamism! industry! silicon valley! hollywood!" they have almost a spiritual arrogance-- when they get together and talk about what's special about the place (and they seem to talk about it a lot) it's like they're in awe of themselves. and in a way, yeah, I can kind of see it, maybe they should be, something about the place enables that kind of exuberance, and they have the accomplishments to back it up. but I think something about that level of success kind of changes their calibration, making them unable to see how these same forces also enable delusional ways of life-- adhering to crazy ideologies despite obvious evidence to the contrary, insane competitiveness, decadent wealth etc. it's a place with no balance. nietzche's "why [that] can overcome any how," but their 'why' so often becomes something like self-aggrandizement)rofl holy shit I'm making my thesis now aren't i? I blame the weed-- but at least I seem coherent.
(DIR) Post #B6sWjkxtS3ZcKQPrFo by f0x@dsmc.space
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@bajax cc @p the cat has opinions about california and wants to debate you, or i wanted to see the debate, i forgot which
(DIR) Post #B6sYebAkdHnMPx6AEK by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@f0x @bajax He appears to be talking about San Francisco, which is like that:https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-25/on-the-fringe/uncanny-valley/> The billboards along the stretch of the 101 that sweeps Silicon Valley have been punchy and declarative lately, advertising apps and other software products that transcend all context and grammatical structure. “We fixed dinner” (meal delivery). “Ask your developer” (cloud-based communications). “How tomorrow works” (file storage). The ads get less dystopian the farther you get from the city: by the airport, they grow international-businessman corporate, and as the land turns over into suburbs you can almost hear the gears shift. A financial-services company — one that’s been around for more than a century, a provider of life insurance, investment management, and, in the 1980s, bald-faced fraud — holds a mirror to an audience that perhaps won’t want to recognize itself. The ad reads, “Donate to a worthy cause: your retirement.”> I attend a networking event at an office whose walls are hung with inspirational posters that quote tech luminaries I’ve never heard of. The posters say things like “Life is short: build stuff that matters” and “Innovate or die.” I am dead. Our interior designer tried hanging posters like these in our office; the front-end engineers relocated them to the bathroom, placed them face to the wall. The event is packed; people roam in clusters, like college freshmen during orientation week. There are a few women, but most of the attendees are young men in start-up twinsets: I pass someone wearing a branded hoodie, unzipped to reveal a shirt with the same logo. I google the company on my cellphone to see what it is, to see if they’re hiring. “We have loved mobile since we saw Steve Jobs announce the first iPhone,” their website declares, and I close the browser, thinking, "how basic".
(DIR) Post #B6sYn6bDfj6MCeXF9U by f0x@dsmc.space
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coinkydink methinks not. can you tell i am zerked on ~200mg of caffeine? i'm gonna go have another cup of tea.
(DIR) Post #B6sYnBdAxsdZoAUNOa by ins0mniak@fsebugoutzone.org
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@f0xfallout__flag_of_the_new_california_republic_by_okiir_d8x1526-fullview-2697426646.jpg
(DIR) Post #B6sa2JuYYpv9mrOmOW by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@bajax @f0x I mean, this is a thing you see from Silicon Valley and shit but San Diego is farther south than Atlanta and Crescent City is farther north than New York. Like, think about Atlanta versus New York and lumping them in together. Most of the country's cheese and strawberries and shit come from California: do you think there are many dairy farmers "crushing KPIs"? Hipsters in skinny jeans harvesting tomatoes? Lotta fuckin' rednecks in the state. JPL and Cal Tech are two of the nerdiest fucking institutions to exist, and it's Deep Nerd shit, not "analytics dashboards". It is a really big fucking place, you know? Lumping everyone in with SF is like lumping wherever you are in with DC or New York just because you're in the same country. Think about how different Houston is from Austin.A demonstration of the demographics is attached. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_CaliforniaFinally, there are exactly three presidents that make lefties lose their entire shit: two of them were Californians, and the only two Californians to win the office. :5minutes::nixonsmug: Where were Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton from?960px-2024_United_States_Presidential_Election_in_California_by_Consolidated_Precinct.svg-2076452403.png
(DIR) Post #B6saCwpMj4KpNb2RIO by bajax@baj.ax
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@f0x @p rofl instigator
(DIR) Post #B6saCx61j7f8DGpkGW by f0x@dsmc.space
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@bajax @p is it really so wrong for a lass to want to watch two men fight? This has been a spectacle for all since the dawn of time.
(DIR) Post #B6saLSspQWpj7Eiezw by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@f0x @bajax Gladiators :ddr_r: Boxers :ddr_r: Fedi
(DIR) Post #B6saMMW4aJuBesVHIu by bajax@baj.ax
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@f0x @p now watch us become friends thorugh this and you end up thoroughly disappointed
(DIR) Post #B6saNbsOxgWBaQXhIW by f0x@dsmc.space
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@bajax @p i don't think you understand. The only outcome is that I win, either it is entertaining (bad) or entertaining (good).
(DIR) Post #B6saOPHFI6VQnfXjKC by bajax@baj.ax
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@f0x @p ok but there's gotta be one of those outcomes you'd prefer
(DIR) Post #B6saP9Pfl6Zxt7q6qW by bajax@baj.ax
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@f0x @p (I'm obviously messing with you rofl)
(DIR) Post #B6saPbxfcIPYQfxej2 by bajax@baj.ax
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@f0x @p (I know which side you come down on)
(DIR) Post #B6saQ7Zg52EWTWywls by f0x@dsmc.space
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@bajax @p the one where you guys become buds, you're convinced only some parts of california suck, and then you get ear scritches, because, kitty.
(DIR) Post #B6sab3kQeDglnDE6eu by bajax@baj.ax
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@f0x @p if the scritches come from a lass with a righteous ass ofc otherwise GAY
(DIR) Post #B6sahEXZQxyX0F9kI4 by f0x@dsmc.space
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@bajax @p still thinking about that mexican waitress, huh?
(DIR) Post #B6sajEx2sS20rA1qDI by bajax@baj.ax
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@f0x @p I think she was a hostess, or maybe a manager-- she was messing around with slips of paper-- but she was studiously facing the wall when there were a lot of other work surfaces around and she had tight khakis on-- she knew what she was doing.
(DIR) Post #B6saoRKaHGBehPWBbk by bajax@baj.ax
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@f0x @p P will back me up, I'm sure
(DIR) Post #B6sasgUbqfTasfEPFQ by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@bajax @f0x You know they sell pants with fake asses in some neighborhoods in LA?
(DIR) Post #B6satCboRQFgUGqbuy by f0x@dsmc.space
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@bajax @p p will yell at you for not wedding her right then and there, i think.
(DIR) Post #B6sauVDqiqDEVPG7JQ by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@f0x @bajax It depends!
(DIR) Post #B6savAkYK9jXIhsJTk by bajax@baj.ax
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@f0x @p well I don't think he'd be *that* enthusiastic about marriage
(DIR) Post #B6sbgjVGvekqhIPFaK by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@pwm @bajax @f0x I MEAN
(DIR) Post #B6sbhGwiadJiPyV8Rk by bajax@baj.ax
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@pwm @f0x @p rofl well I mean, 8you* should've... you're the homey type. I'm a damned tomcat man!
(DIR) Post #B6sbhjwMn1GcLHYlQO by bajax@baj.ax
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@pwm @f0x @p like nothing negative you just seem like the type who likes to relax by the fire you and your sweetheart in rocking chairs
(DIR) Post #B6scG7eh7lvbjrgksK by bajax@baj.ax
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@pwm @f0x @p rofl sorry
(DIR) Post #B6scOjhJZHJk2d1O64 by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@pwm @bajax @f0x :dracula:
(DIR) Post #B6scRHbQTsUJm7Tur2 by bajax@baj.ax
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@pwm @f0x @p aw you could man you're funny you're sociable
(DIR) Post #B6scVMbVpNswReT3c8 by f0x@dsmc.space
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@bajax @pwm @p I am always pleasantly surprised by meeting internet people, they, so far, have been wonderful.
(DIR) Post #B6sdL1UrY6jU2YzTRA by f0x@dsmc.space
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@pwm @bajax @p northerners are genuinely disgusting individuals.
(DIR) Post #B6sdTbHSOE79L2oHOy by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@pwm @f0x @bajax It's the entire east coast, Florida to Maine.
(DIR) Post #B6sdUuedqLmxiPHRHk by f0x@dsmc.space
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@pwm @bajax @p i'm technically southern, but because of the technicality, i'm actually northerner. People there are terrible.
(DIR) Post #B6sdf14qooiCWyMD32 by bajax@baj.ax
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@pwm @f0x @p >if they are nice, they tend to be strangeI feel called out
(DIR) Post #B6sdla4vb7bcp4WWAq by mrsaturday@shitposter.world
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@p @bajax @f0x I imagine a trip to Bakersfield and Fresno would change a few minds about California. I did phone survey work a while back, and people from Eureka seemed really chill. None of the preening vanity you see in LA or the snobbery you get in SF.
(DIR) Post #B6si88aSNNdw2KHY8G by f0x@dsmc.space
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@p @bajax not just gladiators. you have jousting, you have brawling (global occurrence, obviously.), the brets had "shin kicking" the sport. Scandinavians, and specifically the nomadic ones, had "leg tug of war", it was over fires. they tied fire resistant animal skin-ropes to eachothers ankles or knees and played tug of war until someone fell into the fire
(DIR) Post #B6siEZM3lcConDcBaS by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@f0x @bajax I mean, ladies is the main reason for a dude to punch another dude, directly or indirectly.
(DIR) Post #B6siFBkqzscLt7VWVc by f0x@dsmc.space
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@p @bajax wat
(DIR) Post #B6siKjT15CkRtPo8Su by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@f0x @bajax Yeah. It's like padded bras but for a butt. This is not an LA thing but there are some demographics in which this is popular and thus where the pants are sold.
(DIR) Post #B6skJcWJcpSnxywqtE by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@pwm @bajax @f0x > ya dick I'm not beating these charges.
(DIR) Post #B6skOU8KEdiVP22xQO by f0x@dsmc.space
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@p @bajax @pwm i'm willing to believe this, something about our water also touching european water. It taints the coast.
(DIR) Post #B6skQPSIb9OxTRJ5Zw by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@f0x @bajax @pwm Shit, New York basically *is* Europe. We should just donate it to them.
(DIR) Post #B6skR0ljrpw7CRgdW4 by f0x@dsmc.space
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@pwm @bajax @p he thinks the south is terrible, i think the south is a place. It's not meant for autists. So it is terrible for some.
(DIR) Post #B6sntifIYWXfJP3Se8 by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@mrsaturday @bajax @f0x > None of the preening vanity you see in LAAll transplants. It's why I can't stand West LA, like, there's this weird idea of an "LA type" and it's based around greasy record execs and vain actors and models and whatnot and people show up and then try to imitate that type of person; shitty feedback loop. Luckily, outside some very specific parts of the city, people don't tend to be movie-adjacent so you don't run into them.I will say, like, the constant influx of hot transplants is why, once you've been in LA a while, you don't think twice about the number of dimes that work as baristas or whatever and this kinda spoils you when you go to other parts of the country.
(DIR) Post #B6snv9D1LrnxvTVdQW by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@pwm @f0x @bajax I liked Houston.
(DIR) Post #B6so9xPVV7Fhg2PZL6 by f0x@dsmc.space
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@pwm @bajax @p you have something. i think it's literally just a high intelligence. You are super normal.
(DIR) Post #B6soDe0FbC7Ke1M8GW by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@f0x @pwm @bajax He's affable. This makes him think he doesn't have the autism.
(DIR) Post #B6soFQQH3qIH6aNT6G by f0x@dsmc.space
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@pwm @bajax @p thank you for clarifying i would have been very confused otherwise (genuine)
(DIR) Post #B6soGapxpHclh6x08e by f0x@dsmc.space
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@pwm @bajax @p i love parentheses ... could you tell
(DIR) Post #B6soLzoSOWTCbRp1nc by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@pwm @f0x @bajax pwm loves parentheses and then likens his writing style to Lisp and Forth but does not have autism.
(DIR) Post #B6soMdLRPp1lD2YQ7s by f0x@dsmc.space
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@pwm @bajax @p i hope my posts become incorrectly spelled dracula flow style with lispy forth breakdowns. i'll leave the human words to the blog or whatever.
(DIR) Post #B6soNu8OTgWzZS3cG0 by f0x@dsmc.space
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@pwm @bajax @p I DON'T HAVE ONE YET I AM WORKING ON IT! p told me i should start one and i agreed because i need to work on short story publicity and tell the world all my crazy thoughts!
(DIR) Post #B6soX1prDO0k3rjnwe by awl@shitposter.world
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@f0x @bajax some people up in MN make me really want to smack them and challenge to a duel @pwm @p
(DIR) Post #B6soamghTY8AEwFHWK by awl@shitposter.world
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@pwm “duty to retreat” @bajax @f0x @p
(DIR) Post #B6socrMz2U0bL90rCK by awl@shitposter.world
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@pwm also only at the clan level. If you’re Somalian. @bajax @f0x @p
(DIR) Post #B6sodSdwSOYgwSEQGe by awl@shitposter.world
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@pwm @bajax @f0x @p if I had vetted this state before settling purely for the demographics, I would not have chose this state.
(DIR) Post #B6soneAMTCQ7ZjFiu8 by lolitechengineer@loli.church
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@p@fsebugoutzone.org @f0x@dsmc.space @bajax@baj.ax swamp ass pants
(DIR) Post #B6sopeH32XRoUNKoXg by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@lolitechengineer @bajax @f0x That is probably popular with some demographics. (Hessians.)
(DIR) Post #B6sosKi4Efh8gFFjhg by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@pwm @bajax @f0x I should probably inform you that you have guessed incorrectly.
(DIR) Post #B6spERXVWWs8EVrA5Q by mrsaturday@shitposter.world
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@p @bajax @f0x I've only visited OC and a small amount in LA proper. Considering a Nebraska dime is a Chicago nickel, I can imagine what it's like there.
(DIR) Post #B6spHQHyd5NBDv0s40 by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@pwm @bajax @f0x "This is a reverse-secession. We don't want you any more. Goodbye."
(DIR) Post #B6spKMsRlqgdVjTZB2 by lolitechengineer@loli.church
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@p@fsebugoutzone.org @f0x@dsmc.space @bajax@baj.ax @pwm@darkdork.dev @SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo you guys want new amsterdam back?
(DIR) Post #B6spzHXaW4RUpiEEO8 by subnetter@shitposter.world
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@p @bajax @f0x @mrsaturday people treat CA like it's all LA and San Fran and they will never understand really. Even for conservatives who hate California don't realize how conservative it actually is in parts outside major cities.My co workers on the west side of the city act like I came from the gutter lmaooo
(DIR) Post #B6sqfjnBrqoMcHlr7Y by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@subnetter @bajax @f0x @mrsaturday > Even for conservatives who hate California don't realize how conservative it actually is in parts outside major cities. Yeah, or, like, people don't tend to understand that LA is not SF, even. San Diego, in fact, spent about ten years forgetting that it isn't LA, to its own detriment; if they'd continued, then there wouldn't have ever been a reason to drive down there.But yeah, you drive up the coast and you see farmers with signs about Nancy Pelosi; people near Ventura call it "Ventucky". LA isn't quite like people tend to think, and the rest of the state isn't LA. Like, even just a little ways out, Chino or Lake Gregory or whatever, you wouldn't know that you're not far from LA if you suddenly woke up there.
(DIR) Post #B6uAacXzZONMwJSXlA by bajax@baj.ax
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@p @f0x I knew about the ones with shading to make their asses "pop" but I don't think that's what this was lol
(DIR) Post #B6uAbm5nZAbYpip2oK by f0x@dsmc.space
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@bajax @p i saw what p is talking about on say yes to the dress... a tiny mousey black woman used one.
(DIR) Post #B6uD7DYNiUbat5JRoW by bajax@baj.ax
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@p @f0x I'm gonna respond to this later
(DIR) Post #B6uD9XaUCZqpbJPA5Q by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@bajax @f0x I don't think you'll manage to tell a native anything that he doesn't know.
(DIR) Post #B6uILM6xCCx3Fm2oj2 by bajax@baj.ax
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@p @f0x the gist of it is that the most obvious things are often the hardest to see. it's gonna be more a psychological profile of the whole state-- and keep in mind I don't actually dislike california lol. my direct experiences with it were actually all people from redding lol but this is the legendary Pete we're talking about here, I want to go in without distractions and right now I'm trying to meet a deadline that's kicking my ass (boss keeps "helping" and making things harder)
(DIR) Post #B6uILMJMS4sNsFqj44 by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@bajax @f0x > the gist of it is that the most obvious things are often the hardest to see.This sort of thing never sounds like it rests on the assumption that someone else knows my homeland better than I do or like I've never lived elsewhere and thus have no basis for comparison. There are things you've seen and things you've heard and some of those things are interesting but going much past that is a little like hearing a European's grand theory on America: "That's nice."> it's gonna be more a psychological profile of the whole stateThis was kind of my point: you can't really do that. You can do a city (being spread out, LA's a difficult city to do; takes a month to see the whole place and most people are confined to Hollywood, Santa Monica, and a thin stretch between them. You take an equivalently sized strip of the east coast and you get an intractable problem. The state line is a line drawn on a map, it's not the people. Austin and Houston are not remotely similar and they're closer than LA and San Diego. Try to come up with a unified profile of the whole of Texas and you will be wrong.> my direct experiences with it were actually all people from redding lolWell, people in Redding when you stayed in Redding or people that left Redding? These are different sample sets.> legendary PeteHa, no pressure.
(DIR) Post #B6uMDS2jemZt9QYdqS by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@JollyWizard @bajax @f0x I haven't seen that show.
(DIR) Post #B6uME2QOOItLzDu2iW by f0x@dsmc.space
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@JollyWizard @bajax @p this has to be bait
(DIR) Post #B6uYaeA9xdOwqlrDEW by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@JollyWizard @bajax @f0x I loved the Twilight Zone and some of the pieces of X-Files, so it sounds fun.
(DIR) Post #B6yJoNvKLDZBSKRwzg by p@fsebugoutzone.org
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@mrsaturday @lnxw37b2 Well, parts of the desert art in the city proper, though obviously the city of LA doesn't extend past the county line into Riverside.