Huh, Russia too.

Does anyone else remember the joy of going to a state fair, or local games market/festival/convention to gave their PS/2 modded to play international games? Anyone remember region locking?

Fun times.

He’s 38.

I wonder if Russia understands that the crazed Republican supporters they’ve cultivated to slightly favor Russia with this candidate (Trump) are just as likely (if not more) to be the same ones demanding Nuclear War with Russia next election season, or the one after it.

That’s the problem with trying to inject chaos into the world’s current super power, it might roll over and crush you whilst chaotically flailing sometime later. That’s the nature of chaos.

What you actually want is a friendly calm America, that lets you go about your own business. Not a chaotic America run by wildcards, sycophants, and morality free billionaires.

I got COVID related tinnitus, avoiding beans, and certain soy based oils helps slightly, but it’s not consistent.

I stay healthy by doing painful amounts of exercise each day even if it feels like it’s killing me. It often feels like dying, and sometimes makes me very depressed (all my energy going into it, and being unable to think clearly after). But pushing my exercise limits every day, taking at most one day a week off for rest/recovery has helped.

The Ferengi and the Furious was right there. Also the Phasers and the Furious, The Figures and the Furious, and The Fast and the Field Generators.

JD Vance was appointed on Peter Thiel’s recommendation, beating out the candidate Rupert Murdoch was suggesting.

I believe Vance worked at Thiel’s Venture Capital company named Narya (a Tolkien reference, as that’s Thiel’s company naming preference).

But yeah, Trump was presented with two options from the right wing elite billionaires he serves. So that’s how that worked.

Circumcision.

No dumb ass, nor did I ever say that by pointing out that the Black Panthers were Maoist in their food distribution program (see their Wikipedia page for details).

That’s just how far I’ve given up on reformist Capitalism and establishment corruption.

…but also on well meaning idealism that has little meaningful to offer.

You know what would be great, an honest, true, and transparent political system, and maximum wealth limits.

…like we can express good intentions and desires all day. That’s cool, but there are hard problems in the way, and at some point utopianism is a distraction from realism and genuine analysis of what those hard problems are.

Cool, glad it got resolved so simply and neatly, good job everyone! 👍

P.S remember when the Black Panthers had to enforce the right to have a free breakfast program, by patrolling the streets with guns? They we’re Maoist by the way (Maoism dictates using the community to set up community services). Glad things are so much simpler now. Operating on kind comments, thoughts and prayers 🙏

Very logical if you don’t want someone trying to break through your suppressions. Which propbably indicates she had a real shot with him.

I’ve seen this episode, at first after the revolution there’s three full plates of food. The party is doing well in power, then they consolidate power, the food portions get smaller as party elites get richer and more powerful.

Eventually it’s just three plastic replicas of food, as they acknowledge everyone eats differently. Eventually it’s just a badge or picture of the plates of food. By that time class based Capitalism has been restarted by the new party oligarchs, they even have more control and oversight than the current Capitalists.

What I mean is, you can’t “should” us to a new and better system. You have to fully understand the current one, its weaknesses and strengths and the minds/views/motivations of every class and type in it before you can come up with something that is entirely and peacefully transition motivated, and has a better option to transition to… What’s more the whole journey has to appeal to human nature and satisfy some if not all those needs… Even if you don’t personally share all those needs… And you have to be realistic about such.

Rules for Rulers comes as close as I’ve seen on this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

So smooth!

Wait, where is Leon Skum involved?

Guy taking bong hit watching other two people fight

Most of the deaths under Stalin were from the conman Trofim Lysenko, who created “Lysenkoism” (a set of farming techniques he was faking the data on to get paid), and under both Mao and Stalin were from unwanted famines.

Good, it’s the only reliable sign of intelligent self-awareness there is, to the point that all children progress through it, starting out as bad liars, and getting better at it.

LLMs however might just be stupid, or stocasticaly incorrect.

Fascism is Capitalism’s immune system, activated when the wealth gap gets too large.

It looks great! Don’t know why that ahole is making that face.