Nostr notes by Patrick

I think that's the joke of it, and a laugh out loud one too. ...

2026-08-14T22:47:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…2aah
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I think that's the joke of it, and a laugh out loud one too.

If your students are phoning it in, or cheating, or using LLMs, and they are passing and finding employment anyway, and their employers aren't unhappy? Then what you are offering is a hurdle to jump over so that HR can legally discriminate against poor people names by requiring degrees.

Doesn't apply to all fields, but enough of them.

The universities are cashing in on that. Willingly.

100% banishment of anything resembling privacy seems on par with ...

2026-07-16T02:36:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…n38j
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100% banishment of anything resembling privacy seems on par with what's going on. What, with Europe trying every cycle to read everyone's SMS and email and images via Chat Control. And every government in the West wanting you to upload your real ID to use any sort of public digital space, why not just push for the thing they really want from the start?

I'm surprised they backed down.

I love how God prepared a lake of fire for the angels, you know ...

2026-07-12T13:21:49Z

I love how God prepared a lake of fire for the angels, you know the ones who saw the Throne, walked in the divine presence, and decided to nope out on Him and the whole thing.

But you, puny human?

You go to a silent place *that gets thrown into the same lake of fire* because you were born into ignorance, got showed a thousand different religions that were all as plausible-sounding as each other, and then failed to guess which one was true.

That's a God of Cruelty, not love.

#sundaythoughts

Okay, I will take the bait. Your Democrats are more right-wing ...

2026-07-11T18:32:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…wz9e
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Okay, I will take the bait.

Your Democrats are more right-wing than the Conservative Party in Canada. It takes a deranged American mindset to not see that, but that's why you're in this position to begin with.

I should not have taken the bait.

I feel like I don't see people's posting as much as I ...

2026-07-11T17:35:07Z

I feel like I don't see people's posting as much as I should. Like, I'm on this God damn service all the time and constantly scrolling and constantly refreshing and always disappointed by not enough new things posting.

And yet I will click on someone's name and see a shit ton of stuff I would otherwise think would be in my feed. Even from the same server.

Perhaps it's a psychological trick my brain is playing on me. Seems more plausible than actually being a problem.

Gee golly, going through endless backbreaking labour for the rest ...

2026-07-11T13:40:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…amcm
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Gee golly, going through endless backbreaking labour for the rest of your life, at the mercy of factors out of your control, to earn, end of day, about as much as if you'd just picked up a shitty call centre job?

I wonder why farming is going away.

Courier services, Fedex, UPS, DHL, they're a modern miracle ...

2026-07-09T21:09:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…kkfz
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Courier services, Fedex, UPS, DHL, they're a modern miracle and a nightmare curse all rolled into one. It's amazing that we can even deliver things to each other so easily, and there's so much that's broken and wrong with them or just downright shady.

Something of a joke that we've covered up some of the best ...

2026-07-09T15:38:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…qjn5
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Something of a joke that we've covered up some of the best farmland in the country with cookie cutter suburban sprawl.

There's nothing unethical about robbing from a thief who is actively robbing you.

Nothing stopping you and a friend from getting gay married to ...

2026-07-08T12:31:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…j9yw
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Nothing stopping you and a friend from getting gay married to reap the tax benefits, at least in Canada there isn't.

But also I sort of get it. It's in the best interest of the country for the people of that country to be making more people in that country, and that ought to be incentivized in the same way that local agriculture ought to be incentivized as a kind of backup.

It's more about not putting yourself at the mercy of someone ...

2026-07-07T22:36:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…nz6u
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It's more about not putting yourself at the mercy of someone who will consider your their personal property, or find themselves in that role if the future keeps going south.

Bonus: If more people normalized the concept of not getting married, more people would not get into bad marriages for the sake of being married as if just the concept of marriage in and of itself is a virtue.

Not a perfect solution, just a small improvement over the status quo.

Dear Women, Do not get married, even to a good man. By all means ...

2026-07-07T22:18:44Z

Dear Women,

Do not get married, even to a good man. By all means be a happy part of a mutually loving, dedicated and exclusive forever relationship. The people of Québec basically do not get married and yet have forever relationships. It's fine, really, but do not get married.

Also, whatever your feelings, if you're American you might want to buy a gun and learn how to use it. Suffragettes everywhere died for you to vote, be willing to keep it.

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/06/nx-s1-5822558/pastor-doug-wilson-interview-pete-hegseth

I forget that I can make this nonsense go away. ...

2026-07-06T02:34:24Z

I forget that I can make this nonsense go away.

I might be joining another hundred and fifteen billion dead human ...

2026-07-04T18:14:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…8ck9
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I might be joining another hundred and fifteen billion dead human beings in perfect oblivion. And it was all meaningless anyway. Good enough for me, though not preferable.

If a ghost showed up, a real honest to God spook, even if it made ...

2026-07-04T17:48:39Z

If a ghost showed up, a real honest to God spook, even if it made my life miserable from haunting? It would also be the most reassuring thing in the world to me.

Hey, there's life after death.

Nice.

Okay, so it breaks my things and may try to kill me. I don't need supernatural terrors to kill me. A slippy bathtub could kill me. Too many cheeseburgers will kill me. Congratulations, evil from beyond, you're no more dangerous than a mugging gone bad.

I was trying to explain this to my brother in law, since we live ...

2026-07-02T18:27:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…ef5z
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I was trying to explain this to my brother in law, since we live next to a trail near a road in the city. There's a big totally wild section of grass that's just grown over there, and for two years in a row, on my day time and evening time walks, I've seen either nothing or less than a five finger count of bugs.

For like a hundred meter stretch of *bush*.

My wife and I both think this is almost apocalyptic levels of bad, and he doesn't get it.

Proper television is like browsing the Internet without an ad ...

2026-06-30T18:35:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…x8y4
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Proper television is like browsing the Internet without an ad blocker, and that's upsetting.

Might even be able to sell it to yourself as if I did have access ...

2026-06-30T17:47:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…gap3
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Might even be able to sell it to yourself as if I did have access to this thing, I would enjoy it. Little bit of anticipation. Instead of having the access and not.

A thing about me is that I feel like I am constantly missing out. ...

2026-06-30T16:07:05Z

A thing about me is that I feel like I am constantly missing out. Like, other people get to enjoy things at a level I do not understand.

Music is fine, I guess, but I see people rocking out all by themselves and having a blast? I see people watch golf and car racing and whatever sport and have so fun while I just don't. Shit, I have friends who have made their whole personality the pursuit of pussy, and I'm like, uh, sex is good but it isn't *that* good?

I am envious of people's passion.

I am glad to be corrected then, LFP, by someone with actual ...

2026-06-30T15:02:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…qn07
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I am glad to be corrected then, LFP, by someone with actual knowledge.

I think the opposite. I think they are being designed around the ...

2026-06-30T14:25:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…0q7n
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I think the opposite.

I think they are being designed around the notion of handing off really shady construction contracts to your friends, with no thought in this world about use or sustainability or future. It's all about the immediate short-term cash out.

Now that's an adventure and a bit and then no more adventure.

2026-06-28T23:09:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…tzt0
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Now that's an adventure and a bit and then no more adventure.

Reading an article about parents upset that having children seems ...

2026-06-28T12:40:33Z

Reading an article about parents upset that having children seems to have ruined the concept of travel vacationing, except if they can ditch their children. I already hate travel, can't imagine it being improved by having children.

Or life in general.

Protip: If you're from a country that supports ethnic ...

2026-06-27T17:21:28Z

Protip: If you're from a country that supports ethnic cleansing in the Middle East, because it puts a little milk money in the hands of arms dealers, you're in a country with a leadership class that is completely and happily willing to kill you, yes you sitting at home, via climate change to the same end (that sweet sweet milk money).

Power expects you to be too dumb to realize that. Thankfully, for Power, we are that dumb and vote for the people who make this happen.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jun/27/europe-heatwave-germany-poland-france-uk-temperature-heat-latest-news-updates

I don't understand why anyone out there believes we should be ...

2026-06-26T15:00:52Z

I don't understand why anyone out there believes we should be releasing animals back into the wild, ever, for any reason at all? Zoos and menageries are aquariums, for all their cruelty, are the only ways that wildlife will survive what's coming.

Stop being so selfish as to think putting animals into the wild is good, just because it makes you feel good.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm20lg095ylo

If Americans knew anything about democracy they'd understand ...

2026-06-20T16:39:00Z

If Americans knew anything about democracy they'd understand they live in one of the least democratic forms of it. They are so proud over so little it's ridiculous.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-americans-believe-arent-taught-enough-democracy-rcna350900

Everyone loves to believe that a nonviolent protest is useful, ...

2026-06-18T17:09:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…d3hm
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Everyone loves to believe that a nonviolent protest is useful, and I suppose it can be useful if the implication is the protest could immediately go quite violent.

I love these articles from parents confused why their children ...

2026-06-18T00:55:26Z

I love these articles from parents confused why their children aren't aching to learn to drive.

1. They can't afford it.
2. There's nowhere to go anymore.
3. If they could afford it and there was somewhere to go, they probably couldn't afford that.
4. If they live in a reasonable city, they don't need it.
5. You created a nightmare world for them through your, best case, inaction, or worse case, bad action.

I feel a little bad for the guardians in Zelda II. They've ...

2026-06-15T03:10:30Z

I feel a little bad for the guardians in Zelda II. They've been protecting the world from evil for how long, and doing a good job of it too, and then some pointy-eared asshole comes by and slays them and all the people who *are stopping the real bad guy from ever coming to power*.

Just to wake up a sleeping princess?

You think all those lives are worth waking up a princess who is just fine and safely asleep? That's a lot of death because you want some strange.

I thought Brexit was mostly old people choosing to ...

2026-06-14T21:28:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…2nau
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I thought Brexit was mostly old people choosing to turbo-beast-fuck their grandchildren, out of love for pure and applied xenophobia.

A kind of deranged gift before passing on.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/520954/brexit-votes-by-age/

Privacy Derangement Syndrome: The belief from Western ...

2026-06-14T21:26:28Z

Privacy Derangement Syndrome: The belief from Western politicians, law enforcement agencies, and large corporations, that anonymity and privacy are oversights that need to be corrected.

I don't mind that Scotland wants to leave the United Kingdom ...

2026-06-14T19:40:01Z

I don't mind that Scotland wants to leave the United Kingdom or Basque areas want to leave Spain or Québec wants to leave Canada or parts of Québec want to leave it (or Alberta). Am I just a weirdo who believes in regional autonomy?

I have no vested interest in making people part of things they don't want to be part of.

Also, can you even pluralize y'all like that? Feels wrong.

2026-06-13T22:25:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…v53n
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Also, can you even pluralize y'all like that? Feels wrong.

I love y'all but not y'all's tastes. Eww.

2026-06-13T22:24:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…a02y
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I love y'all but not y'all's tastes. Eww.

Oh shit, I remember when myself and the partner went on a tour of ...

2026-06-12T19:35:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…7ul3
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Oh shit, I remember when myself and the partner went on a tour of all the fun places in Orlando about a decade ago, and every single live performance being dedicated to the troops with a little preamble?

We looked at each other like what the fuck after the 3rd or 4th time, is this is a parody?

You this proud of someone poor and mercenary enough to go kill some innocent brown people somewhere? At the best of politicians you know are corrupt? You've lost your fucking minds.