Waypoint Disjoint
I'm a serial contortionist. Eventually, I will be a black hole.
Mirror Mirror, on the Wall, who is Duckstackest of them all?
Personally, I am a Duckstack early adopter, and I’m pleased to say that my shares have risen all the way up to 46 cents total. I have 46 shares. That’s right, we’re doing finance. Its true we've been nickel and diming it in the past, but we're starting to hit it big, with almost a whole years worth of content to auction off on the black market. Or the red market. Or the blue market. Listen I’m not an economist we’ll just see whoever takes us. Anyway
We hope these rogue Duckstacks will suffuse the national Duckstack supply, inundating the market and establishing a brave new baseline. It really is a grave injustice that you can't hand cashiers a stack of these things1 in exchange for goods and services, but when we're more numerous than termites, we’ll see who’s boss then. The strategy, is that at that point, with those numbers, replacing the penny with The Duckstack should just “make sense”, we hope2. In any case, I feel in a just universe you would derive some value3 from reading these things. If we can crash the economy, we think4 we’ve got a pretty good shot56.
Once The Duckstack replaces the U.S. Penny, we move to phase 2, where The Duckstack becomes a money printer, siphoning value from the economy directly to your email inbox. This is fine and legal and harmless7, banks do it all the time8. The benefits to this will be immeasurable, as The Duckstack is objectively much more interesting than a penny. This will increase the value of the penny, without desynchronizing The Duckstack’s one cent value to the U.S. Dollar. As the penny (The Duckstack) becomes something people want to have, things will start costing pennies. People will say: “Oh, thank you for this penny, I haven’t read this one yet.”, and there will be sincere joy9 for each transaction, single handedly reducing decades of inflation of fiat currency from reckless abuse of the federal reserve. Joe Biden: Hire me.
MUSCULATURE
No sir officer, I lost all my spiritual muscles10 in a boating accident
One doctrine somewhat unique to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is that all things were created spiritually before they were created physically- not only people and animals but even plants and the earth itself. This enables things like the Earth Itself to rise in the resurrection, after its second baptism with fire (symbolic of the holy ghost). Regardless, this concept of a physical being and a spiritual being, it is important, and all things testify of God, especially your body, it being the closest thing you have to God in your physical possession, it being created in God’s image11. When you are close to Him, you will find fractals of meaning spiraling out through all of life.
You might think you have physical muscles12, but you have spiritual muscles too. They function the same way. If you use them too much, they tire out13, and if you don’t use them enough, they atrophy, and if you use them the minimum amount, you suck when it comes time to lift heavy things.
We often have an analogy in the church, that the Holy Ghost is something like a radio signal, and you can be “in tune” to God or out of tune (or not listening) preventing you from receiving God’s guidance. Your soul’s “tuner” is also a muscle, and without regular practice you will find yourself only hearing God’s directions through static, and it will be of an inferior quality that can’t reach the subjects you need him to speak to most.
Virtue is also a muscle. Humility is an essential virtue we have to cultivate to find ourselves right with God14. If you haven’t exercised humility enough, you won’t notice when humility would serve you. Ambition is a muscle. Grasping your path in life, is a muscle.
Most things take practice and exercise, but sometimes your muscles are atrophied to the point you’ll never get them back on your own. I ask you: Is physical15 therapy right for you? Ask your doctor if physical16 therapy is right for you.
HISTORY
Litter Samsara
Little one and I went to a little Bingo activity this week. He was pretty excited to get the bingo: “I winned! High five! And the knucklesss” except they never brought him his prize. He and I didn’t really notice that part until he was telling mama about it. “I winned and got a prize!” “Oh yeah? What was your prize?” “Um.. I don’t know!”, and then he laughed.
His little brother, the Littlest One, has started shaking his arms in the air up and down for emphasis. He can’t talk yet but he will babble at us and and will just be waving his little fists
He has also taken to burying his face in your shoulder when he’s upset. But if you yell at him17, he will fold his little arms and make a little pocket and bury his face into that, I don’t know how they get to be this cute
When we bought our house the yard was in pretty bad disrepair, a lot of trash and stuff. We thought we had picked most of it up, but the Littlest One informed us this week as he was crawling around that we missed one fish hook. (He is fine I think). Obviously, some previous residents were hoping to catch fish in our grass. What did they know?
We cleaned our garage this week, so now we have a nice decluttered wide open space to store our junk
The Mitchells vs. the Machines - A Review
The Duckstack vs The Mitchells vs the Machines
Ended up stumbling across this one on a waiting room TV, and I have to say it is probably one of the most “pop-y” movies I have watched since Ready Player One, which was really quite bad. The Mitchells vs the Machines is full of pop references, extremely on-the-nose commentary, and unbearably thick millennial jokes, but was actually pretty fun anyway. Suspend your disbelief a little. Clutching your disbelief that tightly isn’t healthy.
It looks like it was produced mainly by Netflix, which has some pretty big risks18, but it seems lately even Netflix has been getting the memo about the unpopularity of wokeness- the only hints of SJW stuff is in an unobtrusive pride pin the daughter wears throughout the movie, and a very oblique reference asking if she and an unseen character are “a thing” towards the end, and in fact the overall message of the movie subverts both of these things, stating: “Family Is More Important.”
There is also a lot of reactionary messaging- an out of control tech company, the beauty of mended family relations, the dangers of consumption and indulgence are all prominent themes throughout. There is also some of my beloved surrealism, and done well too, which improves any media in my estimate by at least 2 points.
The movie at no point takes itself seriously so you shouldn’t either, but I think if you do watch it you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the realism- each character is an over-the-top caricature, but the dynamics end up very relatable; I think everyone has friends or family that looks almost just like this. You can tell there’s a lot of Millenial “processing” of their family dynamics, among the writers and producers and such, but the direction the show takes that throughout is always towards glorification of family as good, sacrificial, and something to be grateful for. It ends up very wholesome and enjoyable, and I think it would be a great option for family movie night.
THE LOST CITY OF ATLANTIS
The man, the myth, the legend, except not a man
The Duckstack has some hard news. We had a team of scuba divers searching for treasure in the Atlantic, and, well, they have not returned. At this point, it is unlikely they will ever return19. We did send a team to their last known location, and we have confirmed retrieval of multiple belongings of the original team members, including one flipper (scuba), a mostly waterproof video camera, one flipper (pinball) (for good luck), a mostly not waterproof notebook, and a small hamburger. These were discovered floating in the ocean, with no sign of their owners, nor their transportation.
I won’t tell you its hopeless, but the contents of the video camera are not encouraging. It seems that these brave Duckstackers™20 discovered a civilization of what appears to be seaweed people, under the sea, and engaged in frantic battle. From what we can tell, there were a lot of “blub blubs”, some gurgles, and at least one fwoosh, as some sort of projectile zoomed past the camera, before the video shuts off.
However, their sacrifice will not be in vain, because one team member, ever the scientist21, did the right thing, and pulled out his mostly not waterproof notebook, and frantically (but diligently, as all Duckstack scientists are) began taking notes, underwater. Here is the contents, in full:
“not seaweed. Mint. seamint. I can smell it.”
“4 feet to 5 feet tall. They do not bleed or need air, photosynthesis unclear. Maybe they go to the surface like whales to get air and stuff before going back down?”
“stabbed my hand with trident, no apparent concept of handshake”
“favored weaponry tridents and spears.”
“not too fast, I bet I could outrun them if I still had both legs.”
“trident spear mint people. Rubbery consistency.”
“Not much time left”
“Chewy”
“low nutrition content, estimate nonviable candidate for livestock.”
That’s where the extremely waterlogged notes end off. We’ve sent the team’s artifacts to the museum of Duckstack Scubary22, and the notebook to the scuba team’s families (who are also Duckstack scientists) for further inspection and analysis. We are confident the bereft families will be able to extract much more data, furthering Duckstack knowledge and the cause of Science everywhere. I think this will bring us all a lot of happiness, and we can all look forward to further developments in this department. If results pan out, we are already putting together plans to triple the scuba department’s budget. A medals and awards ceremony will be held for the departed on Saturday, please bring potluck entrees. Thank you, and see you all then!
Duckstack emails
“These things are more plentiful then termites! Might as well use them instead of pennies.”
One cent
We have conducted zero research
This is econoterrorism kids, do not try this at home. We’re professionals.
I just finished watching an anime about this, it was basically pokemon battles except instead of pokemon it was bank accounts
Banks do it all the time
Banks are harmless,,,, right?
I really hope that’s what is experienced
Gunna give the devil a taste of THESE GUNS
Genesis 5:3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
We’ve all been so indoctrinated
Great prophets, when they receive a big vision of God, end up catatonic for a while, because it just takes so much to process the glimpses you just got. This is
Mathew 18:26 The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
27 Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
28 But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
29 And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
30 And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.
31 So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.
32 Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:
33 Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
34 And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
35 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Well I mean spiritual physical therapy, not actual physical therapy, and definitely not spiritual therapy, though that is what it is, but we mustn’t use laden terms
not physical
Not like “you useless stupid idiot”, don’t say that to kids, instead say “do not put your fingers in electrical sockets”
Including in animation style, netflix animation has some signature burrs that just look gross and weird, always, and when netflix produces actual anime they overrely on CGI in clumsy and unnecessary ways.
At this point, it is unlikely they ever existed at all
Still Not Actually Trademarked
Duckstack scientists are rigorously trained to keep their cool, even in the heat of battle.
half price entry this week