It passes from eyebrow-raising to distressing, when a friend I used to be able to talk with about class struggle, now interprets everything in terms of species-competition with the machine people. I try to tell him about the AI bubble and the desperation of capitalists facing a declining rate of profit, but you see he saw a netflix documentary about robots and now has the inside track

By the power of fascist irrationalism and caprice, we may have both within the same week

People use c/earth that way if I'm not mistaken

Can it really be said that an undead below the age of 150 has really honed their powers? Has she really had time to drain enough mortals of their vitality and memories? That upstart Biden didn't seem to have accumulated any memories or vigor despite consuming the essence of multitudes - You just can't depend on juvenile vampires to know what they're doing.

.gif of Chihiro's parents turning to hogs in Spirited Away but the hogs are hastily pasted over with enlarged beanis emojis

Going along with Trump's most recent lies is how you show you are loyal/part of the cult. The lies also flush out people who are impelled to correct the historical record, marking them as enemies.

Sorry, but I was making a display of layered Hexbear irony. There is no transition plan to support a revival of domestic production. The stage is set not for that, but to turn the US interior to a resource colony, illiterate with a life expectancy of 40. Without a social revolution, that's what's in the cards.

Nature is healing

China didn't permit key foundational elements of its state and economy to liberalize. Energy, minerals, steel, cement, and other such basics are cornered by state enterprises, and banking is on a very short leash. Meanwhile Gorby gave everything away, and had no leverage over the black marketeers who couped the USSR and become the oligarchs of the Russian Federation and other former Soviet countries

Naw, Castro's moral vest has chosen a new bearer. France is doomed to send hundreds of assassins to futile deaths

From what I gather, the first goths came out of the punk scene, and the corset goths evolved shortly later, and the outfits were entirely DIY/thrifted for both. But it is on brand for younger punks to be hypersectarian yet horny

Do people really think a piece of athletic equipment is edgy? I trained in an armed Japanese style for many years up until the pandemic began. It's just weird to think people might own these things hoping to look badass instead of to train with it - I thought the former preferred stainless steel swords shaped like early-aughts tribal tattoos or whatever

Desensitizing people to having no privacy from their own state and 'local' corporations will do that

I'm old enough to remember when cell phones were a toy of the rich and were appropriately considered an embarrassing intrusion into life, and I remember later watching in horror as iOS consistently broke in the direction of infantilization, walled garden, and snitching; and the further horror of competitors mimicking rather than contrasting with these practices. Up until then, the overwhelming tendency had been to expand the capabilities of computers (from the user's perspective). It's not as if portable miniature computer/tranceivers have to be done this badly.