Chapotraphouse

It's official, I "did my thing" with the vegan teriyaki chicken wraps i made. Source: a college football player

Well, tomorrow is election day in New York and New Jersey. My coworkers are complaining about how unfairly Zorhan Mamdani is going to treat the landlords. This irredeemable nation must perish.

About to write a crank essay titled "Are quality inspectors cops?"

Rant? Rant.

When looking at possible skills to learn, does anyone else find themselves unable to shake off the sense there’s no point because they won’t ever be a good [whatever skill I’m looking at], and won’t be picked by an employer? Do I want to learn coding? In college I was surrounded by many ambitious people and I was trying to tread water when I was trying to learn coding. So much so that coding made fucking calculus look easy by comparison as if my brain is psychically locked from learning anything that might get me employed. I’m great at useless, irrelevant stuff.

So even if I do struggle through to learn coding, I’m not “better” than my peers, and there are a LOT of peers so any employer would rather have them over me. Yes, I understand that a lot of the job market is nakedly nepotism and luck, but then even if I make a coding friend, then there is someone more well-connected than me and I am locked out of the job market.

IDK, what do the rest of you do when you are skeptical of starting something you’re convinced will only end in failure and thanks to the way everything’s set up, failure is a death sentence. I’m not going to go and get myself in god knows how much debt if I’m not going to be hired anyway.

TL;DR: How do the rest of y’all deal with two things: the presumption of failure for any reason, and resisting self-pity?

A Turkish Iranian Houthi Baʿathist Hamas commander and Hezbollah terrorist was teaching a class on Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, known anti-Zionist.

‘Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship al-Husseini and accept that he was the most highly evolved being that the world has ever known, even greater than Theodor Herzl!’

At this moment, a brave, unconscripted, Hebrew-fluent Israel Defense Forces champion of purely Jewish ancestry who served 613 tours of duty and understood the necessity of hafrada and fully supported all military decisions made by the State of Israel stood up and held up an Israeli flag.

‘What does this flag represent?’

The arrogant commander smirked quite Arabically and smugly replied with a blood libel, ‘It represents Jewish supremacy and apartheid, you stupid colonizer!’

‘Wrong. This flag stands for Jewish self-determination. If it stood for Jewish supremacy and apartheid, as you say, is real… then all of the Arabs in Israel should be gone now.’

The commander was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. He stormed out of the room crying those antisemitic crocodile tears. The same tears that antisemites cry for the ‘Palestinians’ (who could live in any Arab country if they wanted to) when they selfishly hoard land from its indigenous Jewish inhabitants. There is no doubt that at this point our commander, Matt Lieb, wished that he had returned to his homeland in Libya and become more than a pan-Arab extremist leader who wanted to kill Jews. He wished so much that he had a human shield to hide his embarrassment, but he himself had thrown his last one off of a rooftop!

The students applauded and all joined AIPAC that day and accepted Theodor Herzl as their lord and savior. A hoopoe named ‘Hasbara’ flew into the room and perched atop the Israeli flag and shed a tear on the chalk. Hatikvah was sung several times, and G-d himself showed up and expelled Ireland from the United Nations.

The commander lost his position and was captured the next day. He served 67 life sentences plus 5,200 years without parole until he was killed by an exploding pager.

Free Gaza from Hamas

An upside of social isolation is that you're never close enough to other people to catch the flu. I say this because I went to the movies recently and now Im sick.

There is an entire cohort of people who animated a bit of Adventure time, got to make one show and then didn't do anything with their careers after that. And I think that's a good model for everyone. Everyone should get to make one show and then fuck off.

Remembering when Kim Jong Un said Biden is like a rabid dog who should be beaten to death with a stick lmao

Kamala in an interview now pinning about starving babies due to SNAP benefits after unwavering in her support for the genocide in Palestine just sums these politicians up

i’m such a Halloween nerd that i’ve tended to get genuinely depressing post holiday blues this time of year lol, but i’m trying to shift my mindset and enjoy that November has a charm all its own, easing from the “spooky season” mindset to the “contemplative, bittersweet, beautiful-but-melancholy quiet” season mindset. they dovetail well too since a lot of horror media has an undercurrent of sadness.

(the early sunsets are pure evil tho) (also apologies for spreading temperate climate hegemony)

a second obama phone call has struck the NYC mayoral race

Asked someone if they were dressed up as Harry DuBois last night, but they weren't, and I had to explain to them what Disco Elysium was and I felt like a big fat nerd

My food assistance runs out tomorrow, but I’m pretty good at dumpster diving and found a buddy with some extra vegan food so I think I’m good

Meanwhile I’m laughing that Trump is getting frustrated that the government is shutdown after basically trying to rip it apart

“The Democrats just don’t know what they’re doing,” Trump told reporters Friday. “I don’t know what’s wrong with them. They’ve never done a thing like this. They’ve become crazed lunatics. All they have to do is say, ‘Let’s go. Let’s open up our country.’ And everything snaps back into shape. So there’s something wrong with them.”

Being in the imperial core is fucking exhausting

Having permanent Reddit brain and commenting "Still a better love story than Twilight" under the most horrible news articles you can read. People will look at my comments history and deem my politics inscrutable.

Dark Souls is an allegory for how drinking copious amounts of coffee to stay awake isn't healthy for you and at some point you should really just go to bed already.

Vegan teriyaki chicken wraps, candied sweet potato chips and japanese style salt cured vegetables (sunomono with carrots and radishes)

i hadnt heard about kat abughzaleh but now she's indicted and everyone who sees the articles knows she's cool and extremely hot

this admin, despite being so evil are the stupidest motherfuckers ever--she probably wasn't going to win a primary against an entrenched establishment dem. now it's her election to lose, lmao

Canada is now the fifty-first state in the 10,000-year American Imperium. The annexation will be sealed when Drake is taken to Santa Monica beach, where Kendrick will ritualistically shoot him in the head.

Check out my (very much a working in progress) game

My one (1) weaboo trait is that i really, really genuinely want to forge a katana. Just go nuts with every crafting skill i have, engrave the sheath and finecast bronze guard bits and electro-etch the blade and nickel plate the whole thing into a mirror finish. I want to make it a big fat chopper blade that half cuts and half smashes, something my hypothetical child will struggle to even lift until they're old enough to avenge my death, and even then it'll take a training montage.

I've made a machete before, but that was just sawing plate steel into shape, I want to do the hammering

When knights charged into pikes i wished the horses just sundenlly stop and threw off the knights into pikes

I actually have gotten lost in a corn maze before

I have loved playing the board game Othello but I've never read the play because it sounds too sad. I don't know what relation there is between the two unless it's as simple as light vs dark, and green for envy?

Early this morning I found $80, a Nintendo Switch with Breath of the Wild on it, and a script of Adderall.

New bit, an elder pork who mocks other porks for being so nakedly greedy and fucking over the working class.

“What you do you mean ‘qualifications for entry-level’? What do you mean “I’m picky!” Elites these days! Spoiled for choice! Back in my day, we went out to hire fresh grads and train the next generation!”

“Enshittification? Typical snowflake modern businessman! Me me me! Back in MY day we took pride in our products!”

“You’re doing LAYOFFS when you’re doing well? You’re LEAN?! Awww is the baby too scared of growing your business? Agh, the modern businessman is such a pampered baby! I’m actually going to lobby for the left because all of you need some toughening up under worse circumstances! I had to struggle, so should you!”

oh my god this ninth inning

No babe, it’s a productivity tool for my home office. Yes, of course my job needs a direct drive racing wheel.

It's crazy seeing friends from way back in Middle or Elementary school who I haven't seen since. They seem so old now, barely recognizable, but I guess that's what I look like to them.

daylight savings

Haven't thought about crushes for a long time, I used to crush hard but like given up on it for lack of time and just general realism kicking in. Can't really convince someone to be into you if they ain't into you. It's a bit defeatist maybe but yeah it's helped me pull away from my more destructive habits. I won't find someone and that's alright I'm better as a solo act, I can do whatever I want with my free time and pursue my dreams.

Guy who thinks you have to flatten your penis to accurately size a condom.

One of the ladies on the radlib wine mom podcast struggles with pronouncing Mamdani. They've literally had him on their pod and are both glowing advocates of his. The middle-aged angloid might simply be genetically incapable of pronouncing even the simplest non-Western names.

Experimenting with the greeting meta, so far fist bump up close (especially the bus drivers) is always welcomed but what about when someone is to far away? Well the solution for me so far is smile and wave so far this has worked out well for me and made people smile in return. I'll update as I figure this out more on further results and new strats that work in 2025.

Goddamn, Dodgers with the repeat. I don't really follow baseball much, but I managed to catch the last 2.5 innings of Game 7 and was on the edge of my seat the whole time.

edit: and holy shit, Yamamoto's pitching performance:

World Series G2: 9 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 8 K, W
World Series G6: 6 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 6 K, W
World Series G7: 2.2 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 1 K, W

Absurd.

I know I'm late to the party but damn this performative male discourse is fucking dumb holy shit