(Actual) Quarterfinals: Battle Of The Thinky Bois

(Actual) Quarterfinals: Battle of the thinky bois

Remember, I don't want the one you like the most. I want the one you'd fuck.

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"This Christmas Party Was So Fun That Now I’m a Communist"

Brennan Lee Mulligan's anti-capitalist origin story

(Link at the top and bottom)

In the the most recent Fireside Chat for World's Beyond Number (episode 7 "Kahuna", available on their Patreon), Erika prompts Brennan to talk about "that crazy Christmas party you went to".

Brennan recounts an experience from when he was struggling to get by as a young performer/writer in New York City. His day job was as a caterer, and they had been hired to cater an ultra-wealthy NYC Christmas Party. It's full of details of gross decadence, but focuses on on what affected him the most:

"The thing that really fucked me up [about that party was that] I was at a period in my life [living] in New York where I was like 'Yea, I'm really hungry and scared all the time, but I'm living the bohemian dream! I'm a struggling artist! When I go out on the weekend and I'm dancing with my friends, no one will ever feel the depth of joy I feel [because it comes from] struggling and grinding out here with my friends."

"[Then, at that Christmas party,] I saw those rich heirs and heiresses dance... and they were having a better time than me, and it wasn't close! I watched these rich people dance with the most reckless abandon, and their faces [wore an expression reflecting that] 'We're having a great time, uncomplicatedly! We're not examining this! It's so fun!'... and then I heard my stomach [growl]."

(Edited for clarity out of context. Please forgive me if you find the edits to be excessive.)

You can listen to the whole chat on the World's Beyond Number Patreon. It's $5 and they have only the one tier. If you're a fan of collaborative storytelling, it's worth at least one month for the Children's Adventure prequel campaign.

THAT SAID, he also wrote a fantastic short story about this experience that you can read on his website for free (linked at the top and bottom). If you've read this far, you should give it a read. Until the Fireside Chat, I wasn't sure if the story was a work of fiction or if it was inspired by something real.

"This Christmas Party Was So Fun That Now I’m a Communist"

I can't fix him, but by god, I can fuck him

What do you mean exactly when you say that we can deal with nuclear “waste” by putting it in a fast reactor or something like that.

yeah sure burn it in fast reactors, but the main thing is there is just not that much of and it's actually easy to handle and dispose of. the entire lifetime energy usage of a person in a rich country corresponds to about one beer can of spent nuclear fuel. this is an incredibly tiny amount of waste.

and its in ceramic form, not green goo like the Simpsons and idiots who get their information from the Simpsons, like Greenpeace, would have you believe. it's not volatile or particularly hard to contain. it's spicy rock.

just putting it below several hundred metres of geologically stable rock is enough to keep it out of the biosphere for the time it's dangerous. scientifically illiterate greens will be all, oooh but no one can predict what will happen over ThOusAnDs oF yEaRs. this is, of course, like, young earth creationism levels of "geology doesn't real". we know from the oklo natural reactor that radionucleides don't even move more than a few centimetres.

this was figured out in the 70s and early 80s, by the way

tl;dr nuclear waste was a solved problem 40 years ago and enemies of humanity like greenpeace have been lying and spreading FUD about it ever since. "no one knows what to do with nuclear waste" is as false as "no one knows what to do about measles"

Charmer SWEEEEEPP

Round 2a, Match 5: Tri-Brigade vs. Charmer!

Tri-Brigade // Awakening of the Possessed