The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible.

1984 - Appendix, George Orwell

Also Stalin:

Rape and subsequent murder/gulag is fine tho, as long as its coming from one of my inner circle, and it doesn’t affect me or my daughter personally.

From OP’s link:

MA HA!

lol, google it

(or well, you know, use a less shitty search engine if possible)

https://www.horsesandus.com/the-4-basic-horse-gaits-explained/

Neat breakdown of walk vs trot vs canter vs gallop, for horses.

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-biodiversity/hippos-dont-fly-but-the-massive-animals-can-get-airborne-2

Non-nonsensical headline and brief summary of hipoos gaits: evidently they have been observed reaching a trot, which does include moments where two feet are coming up, and two down, thus for that brief moment, the hippo is ‘suspended’ or… “”“airborne”“”.

How long till it switches over to a ‘sissy hypno’ mode based on further responses / profiling?

Oh lord, gotta love that the entire tech industry, snd many other industries, are putting all their proverbial chips on investing into an actual SCP, Euclid class cognitohazard machine.

They’re just using verbiage and phrasing common to … well basically any coverage of Police in the US these days.

Passive voice!

Indirect verbs / verb tense!

Respect and obey!

Entirely seriously:

The last time I heard anyone talking about this conspiracy theory was when I was homeless … this idea was fairly popular with the meth and fentanyl addict crowd.

I also witnessed some arguments over whether or not Kayne was a clone.

As a filthy vape user / hey at least I don’t smoke cigarettes anymore:

Fucking good.

Disposables are an environmental nightmare, you can get a similarly sized, refillable vape for maybe twice the cost of one single use pod, but then after that you’re only replacing pod+coils and refilling with juice you can buy as well.

Doing it that way is cheaper in the longrun for a vaper, is at least better for the environment, and also makes it so its probably more trouble than its worth for every small shop to stock a set of reusable vapes and pods and juice… which makes it less convenient, now you gotta go to a specialty shop, and making it less convenient for kids to newly get addicted to nicotine is a good fucking thing.

(for the record, no i do not use some insane rig that blows clouds of ‘vape’… i use a roughly 4 inch long vape that barely makes any visible cloud in all but basically film noir detective’s officr lighting conditions)

The last one there has been dead for about two decades, if you go by class mobility / ability to get a better income and life than your parents.

Just for uh, emphasis:

His fuckin’ eyes man… just meandered up to the sky, zonked outta his fucking gourd…

EDIT:

And who can forget the classic 'im just wearing shades cuz its so bright in here…

…Oh dear lord, here’s a bonus, breaking news!!!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/30/musk-explains-black-eye-oval-office-trump/83948898007/

Sorry to cite Fox News but Im on mobile and they have an actual static image instead of some auto play bullshit.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/elon-musk-sports-black-eye-farewell-presser-oval-office-horsing-around-x

Somebody in Trump’s cabinet fucking decked him, he has a black eye, and he is blaming his 5 yo.

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

My gamedev-fried brain interprets the beans image as like, the texture for the uv wrap of the side of the cylinder of beans that is inside of a tin can of beans.

… I think I need to go outside more often.

Yes, we have one party here. But so does America. Except, with typical extravagance, they have two of them!

• Julius Nyerere, first Prime Minister / President of Tanzania

(Actual attribution of this quote is possibly in dispute, but I’ve seen it many times)

One particular thing that helped me with ‘eliminating’ snacks:

Replace things like potato chips… with trail mix.

You can usually get a fairly decent sized bag, you can probably pick from a few different mixes of varying kinds of nuts, dried fruit, m&ms or some tiny treat mixed in.

Of course, if you have nut allergies… sorry you’re SoL for this one, but if not:

Its a crunchy, salty snack, and you can get a whole lot more full feeling, satiated… from a lot less of a portion of a bag… its just literally more dense, and has protein and other good stuff that isn’t in chips or cheetos or what not, at all.

I will get a 40z mix bag and either have a handful or two or three, and an apple, as a small snack… or maybe along with some other meal I’d normally have chips with.

And that 40z bag tends to last me roughly 3 weeks.

Way, way, way more cost effective than the cost of eating chips in that way… chips are just stupidly expensive now, and are quite unhealthy to eat regularly.

…

But yeah, if you can turn a ‘snack’ from basically junk food or candy or mini cakes of some kind… into something like trail mix and fresh fruit?

Way healthier for you, and probably works out to costing about as much or potentially less, especially if you can acclimate your ‘sugar’ desire back to some kind of fruit that is not seasonal, not stupid expensive.

…

Also, make a big ass salad with some kind of meat, maybe some shredded cheese (buy a block and a cheese grater, pre sliced or shredded cheese is way more expensive per volume)… but no high calorie dressing… into a normal just ‘whole meal’.

(This is also a good idea in tandem with eating more nuts: you’re gonna want more fiber or you’re gonna be shitting constipated bricks if you’re older than about 30, rofl)

Vinegrettes tend to be lower calorie, but you have to do some investigation, a lot of them are also as bad as ranch or blue cheese or whatnot.

…

Beyond that: Get a rice cooker and / or crockpot, and either keep some kind of stew always going, or learn how to cook rice properly, and make soups/stews with veggies, seasoning, beans or meat … a whole category of things you know how to cook well.

Personally, properly making rice still eludes me, but I am learning… crockpot with just some chopped up veggies, potatoes, and either meat or beans is… easier for my culinarily disinclined white ass, lol.

You can also get various broths and soup stocks to basically turn making decent stews into easy mode, they’re fairly cheap by volume, and you often don’t need as much as you might think you would.

Well, according to these industry-funded/conducted research papers, it works quite well, quite often!

Just as your current local or national politician who used to work for us, is being funded by us, and will go back to working for us if they lose their next election!

I am in my mid 30s and am thus fucking ancient by tech / internet culture standards.

Apparently the new lingo is ‘unc’, I have reached ‘unc status’… which is more or less literally accurate in terms of age description (shorthand for uncle), but it seems to be a term used almost exclusively in derision, as basically an ageist slur?

I’m not sure, but that also means that I am in fact old, as I can no longer follow the lingo, rofl.

1: How is talking about weird quirks of English vocabulary that differ regionally and among different groups of people… off topic?

2: Many people online pronounce ‘loli’ with all kinds of different pronounciations of the ‘o’… at least in part because there is much regional variation in the US as to how all vowels are pronounced in just all words.

Some pronounce it with the same sound as ‘low’, the long o. Other pronounce it as ‘lawl’, others pronounce it as ‘lahl’, the way uh… Data’s sort of android adopted daughter’s name is pronounced in TNG.

I have heard Brits, Aussies and Kiwis pronounce ‘loli’ with all kinds of vowel sound variations as well.

Pronouncing it the same as in ‘lolipop’ is a very common pronounciation, amongst many different regional English dialects.

Yep.

The contentious but somewhat agreed upon story of how this happened is roughly: US troops discover ‘fries’ in restaurants in Belgium, after WW1, but in an area of Belgium with mostly French speakers.

Americans appreciate alliteration, and don’t care so much for actual accuracy, so… ‘French Fries’.

The average adult American has the literacy skills of a 6th grader.

The errors add authenticity.

Further, covfefe.