ostensiblystupid

2265 pts · February 26, 2026


Isn’t this just pure authoritarianism logic on full display?

2 hours ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

The weirdest thing i found about this prediction betting scheme is the gap between when the event that decides the winning bet ends, and when the betting actually closes.

That and the fact that “what ends up being a prediction betting event” is directly influenced by Xitter, Musk, and Trump Jr.

So yeah, Polymarket is here to stay, and receive minimal (if any) regulation.

5 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I wonder about my parents from time to time, but I don’t feel guilt or shame on any level that affects my health. For me, I realized I was carrying that the whole time, and it was never mine to be responsible for.

5 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ahhh. I thought when you said “proof of life isn’t enough” that you meant there was actual verifiable proof of life.

6 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There is no proof of life that’s tied to any consequential entity. Take a look at who is actually making the statements, how they’re saying it, and what their actual verified sources look like. There’s nothing behind it.

6 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If it helps, they all operate the same way. Opaque back end behavior, surface level ambiguity, and inferred meaning.

When I see a heated conversation now, I start looking past it towards what verifiable evidence exists behind the conversation, and where it came from.

Our govt procedures continue to honor due process over making compromises to catch bad actors. The lack of compromise has turned edge cases into everyday actions. The bad actors move swiftly, and the truth is left in fragments.

6 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We may already be too far in. Media outlets aren’t even reporting the real details that matter anymore, such as:

-Mitch McConnell’s hospital picture being received not as a digital image with metadata, but a printed out photograph delivered in an envelope as proof of life

-Trump’s slush fund having back alley government distribution channels that are currently being pursued, while the news goes on about “fear of revival”

Objective truth is no longer a feature, it’s a bug.

7 hours ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This looks like a housing conglomerate top executive watched the movie “Vivarium” and started excitedly taking notes.

7 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That’s the shape of the weapon isn’t it? The wake up call is a direct threat to the current regime.

7 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The infrastructure for that is almost set up. The antifa narrative backed by domestic terrorist policy has not been standing still.

Reporters and prominent commentators merely catching Trump, Musk, etc. in the lies they’re telling are already being publicly marked as traitors to the country.

7 hours ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I think agnosticism is too much of an umbrella term to encapsulate any overarching subscription as to “what god might be”.

The general uncertainty can allow room for reinterpretation in the face of new evidence, which implies flexibility as a functional utility as apposed to rigid adherence.

I get more annoyed when people claim to have defined “what is” without adequate attribution to “what is known/unknown”. There is quite a bit that we can’t responsibly claim about reality without evidence.

7 hours ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I just arrived from the opposite end at 36. I know my parents did the best they could based on what they understood, and they obviously care. That being said, those aspects alone aren’t enough to support a healthy relationship.

I stopped talking to them a few months ago and I’m now healing from problems I couldn’t identify before, or put into actionable steps. The difference is astounding to me.

8 hours ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 2

Criticizing the Atheist isolated meme context through the lens of another belief system at all strikes me as an attempt to reconcile the cognitive notion, with internal rejection itself creating a reconciliation discrepancy.

The criticism is then externalized because a religious person is bouncing the idea off of load bearing cognitive asymmetries into a misdirect. This is an extension of why the meme was made to begin with.

9 hours ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Death: “I’m afraid you’ve warranted your void, and the covered universal maintenance on your continued existence is no longer valid. You’ll have to purchase another reincarnation”

20 hours ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I would still say that at this point the feudal lords of modern technology are nearing their limit on acquiring digital real estate without launching into all out legal war with each other over it.

The stratosphere surrounding the current online environment (Copyright, IP, Etc) is already an ambiguous legal tornado of on call buttfuckery.

22 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I mean, he is pretty obviously trying to shove his scheming ass, democracy killing “SAVE act” down everyone’s fucking throats, so I think it fits.

1 day ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Getting scammed so hard you brought a moving van (for instance) is pretty hard to reconcile psychologically. I don’t condone it, but it seems like a very human reaction to think you’re being bullshitted by the person at the door before emotionally settling into the fact that you were bamboozled out of thousands of dollars.

1 day ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 0

It really sounds like he’s confined to the playpen and isn’t even cognitively aware enough to know it.

1 day ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Whether or not the person downstream solves a problem that could have been solved beforehand, pointing it out does not reflect poorly on them. No one downstream is obligated to fix the issue by design, and treating it like an issue of morality is passing the buck twice over.

1 day ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I’d be interested to know if taking it down caused a clear amount of surface damage. There’s definitely at least 37 holes in that wall from where Trump’s name was.

1 day ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I think the precedence established matters. The hierarchy of posting places comments below. Ergo, the hierarchy or context moves in the same direction.

If the publicly approved recycling team was proven to have ignored picking up a bottle and you had to do it instead, it’s not about the time it takes to pick up the bottle.

1 day ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Then the reaction makes total sense. Aggressive de-validation strategies, and a “totally not manufactured” quick viral online spread of misinformation and emotional hooks. Seems like the modern day Nazi playbook to me.

1 day ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Fun fact: the news outlet that received Mitch’s hospital picture and reported on it, obtained it in an envelope, as a printed out photograph, with a vaguely worded script as evidence.

1 day ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

It’s easier to think of the 40+ years of building up to this like a launch pad. The US built out all of the back alley corrupt procedural infrastructure needed for the Trump Administration to launch modern society into a dysfunctional orbit.

Corrupt business procedures that were never properly addressed grew and gave bad actors the ability to brag about the slow motion breakdown like it’s part of the process, instead of an act caused institutionalized raccoons creating garbage to steal from.

1 day ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

“Weapon” in the La Croix sense: A vague aura of violent intent.

How far are we really from cops claiming they shot someone because “the vibes were off” as a defensible strategy?

1 day ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

In particular, “rich compared to other parts of the world” is an abstraction in comparison that carries no evidence of functional validity in reference to the argument of US quality of life metrics.

A helpful abstraction is what you defined, where the comparison carries the ability to be actively measured and acted upon.

The function of the first is to prevent measurement and action from taking place, unless someone is able to tell me where the quantifiable economic data is hiding.

1 day ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What’s wild to me is how much the standard burden of proof has inverted.

We want from “prove that this thing can be trusted” to “prove that this thing is directly our fault”.

1 day ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

He obviously thought he was living up to his last name instead of dying for it.

1 day ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Worth noting: if your income is below a certain per year threshold, you can get several different types of emergency procedures covered by state government.

I don’t know if that still applies to as many states, because we’re obviously in a dystopian nightmare, but I share this information whenever I can because a lot of people out there could use it.

1 day ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0