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OftenBen

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Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.

Don't take me too seriously.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Cui bono?

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo


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OftenBen  ·  5 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A good gaming site with bonuses

mk you gotta do something about this bullshit.

OftenBen  ·  5 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 14, 2025

Whoever wrote this bot needs to be placed inside boats, force fed milk and honey and left to rot while maggots pick the meat from their still living body.

OftenBen  ·  8 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 14, 2025

I have no clue what's supposed to be important right now.

No idea what should have my attention as priority.

I can try to keep to a schedule but just trying to do that seems to cause conflict.

I just go to physical therapy, drink too much caffeine, play world of Warcraft and sleep. Not satisfying.

Started Blood Meridian. Enjoying the prose, mostly. Cormac feels preachy in some weird way. Hard to describe at present. I wonder who else finished it eventually.

OftenBen  ·  16 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 7, 2025

Glad you're aware. Cheers to shit working.

OftenBen  ·  16 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 7, 2025

The H1 is also a serious fire risk unless you have the newest revision.

This is the end of my TED talk.

OftenBen  ·  30 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Scamming Pizza Hut Was My Family Tradition

Now I'm crying, thanks.

OftenBen  ·  30 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 603rd Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

I have beaten GTAV Twice and can't remember it being in there. Maybe I should beat it again before 6 comes out.

OftenBen  ·  30 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Osama won right?

My point was mostly about how the attacks on 9/11 allowed for all of the worst of America to take charge. How we sold our liberty for security and now have neither.

UBL didn't make us refuse to spend money on infrastructure, but he gave every bloodthirsty republican an excuse to spend the entirety of the national budget of my childhood and adolescence on the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.

OftenBen  ·  30 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Osama won right?

Is there a book or three I could read to better understand your point regarding credible militaries?

Excluding china from the roster seems short sighted given that they are actively building hardware to take Taiwan.

OftenBen  ·  30 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Osama won right?

Is there a book or three I could read to better understand your point regarding credible militaries?

Excluding china from the roster seems short sighted given that they are actively building hardware to take Taiwan.

OftenBen  ·  30 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 603rd Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

Gen Z has rediscovered The Highwaymen. I remember being a teenager and hearing this for the first time too.

Does any of this materialize/coalesce into anything that makes a tangible difference?

Because I am pretty sure all the vile idiots are still going to be cheering the evil on, no matter how many 'conservative thought leaders' say otherwise. Personality cult being a personality cult and all, and not a reasoned supporting of a reasonable political leader who follows the law, and all.

Trump has openly defied every court in the land including the Supreme Court. What level, what agency would be the ones to enforce a change, or court appearance? On whose authority? If not a constitutional crisis why constitutional crisis shaped?

OftenBen  ·  35 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 16, 2025

I'm not that good at painting yet.

OftenBen  ·  35 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 16, 2025

Time to make 'Who Would Jesus Deport' signs just in time for Easter.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Where's the village idiot to defend trumps right to deport whoever he sees fit so long as Democrats keep being mean to straight white men?

OftenBen  ·  46 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 2, 2025

There's a finance bro crying in the sauna here at the gym and he threw his phone at the rocks. What does this mean?