on top of that, for every stupid statement, there’s somebody who actually believes it.

I’d be willing to work 14 hours a week voluntarily if i didn’t have other responsibilities.

as another user in the comments here put it quite well:

we shouldn’t be laughing at the people in the US just because we’re fucked in the ass with slightly more lube.

think of the economy! /s

Laughing at your misfortune because I’m getting fucked with slightly more lube

i should not have laughed so hard at that.

So you’re saying that UBI would lead to higher costs of living, because companies can charge more because people can spend more.

Then, explain to me, how did it come that in the 1960s, Americans were wealthy? How could they afford so much stuff back then? Corporate greed already existed back then; why didn’t it just eat up the wealth of the citizens?

Cutting heads off is like eating potato chips. You can’t just stop once you’ve started.

I’m worried about the very same thing. I have just yesterday read about the actual French Revolution and the Reign Of Terror that followed short after simply because - guess what - the revolutionaries couldn’t stop killing people, for some reason.

It in fact even went to absurd extents, where they ended up killing other revolutionaries and eventually they themselves got guillotined themselves.

I think the lesson to learn here is to take the oligarch’s wealth, but not kill them. In other words: “Tax the Rich”, not “Eat the Rich”.

I was so surprised when California Protester Shootings happened and everybody acted surprised.

I had always just assumed that the US is a terrorist state and these things happen regularly. It surprised me a lot when people acted all shocked about it.

Why are there pyramids in egypt?

Because they were too big for the british museum.

Rail Gauge Map

could be

they just want to test how much public outcry there would be

actual inflation should be based on food prices. i think

I like saying that society is a hot gas.

It is a mass of small particles that barely interact with one another, heated up by the heat of anger and hate, floating in a large space aimlessly.

My type of society would be a liquid, where particles are free to move but close to other particles.

“In the face of the disruption of order and acts of systematic violence, the state will enforce its constitutional mandate to guarantee peace,” said Juan Carlos Orillac, minister of the presidency.

It is telling that the only direct quote in the article comes from the side of the state, not from the side of the workers.

Journalists, do a better job. Report on people’s view, not company’s point of view of things.

There’s a nice story i heard a while ago about why russian street infrastructure sucks so much.

Russia was worried about getting invaded by the US. Invasions (permanent ones especially) happen over the land, more than over the air. So they have to move a lot of land troops (soldiers, vehicles, tanks) over a significant distance. By keeping the russian infrastructure weak, any invader would face significant logistical difficulties, where they couldn’t move troops through the country quickly.

By the winter, the troops would get stuck, food re-supplies would be difficult, and they would starve.

Or so i was told. Maybe it’s a myth, but i like the idea: Invaders (especially if they have more soldiers, more weapons, more power) are best fought by disabling their biggest advantage: their flexibility and speed. Disable the street infrastructure. Make it difficult for cars to pass in and out of the area.

A nice analogy for today might be to not take on ICE agents directly (i.e. one-on-one fist fight or sth), but instead disable their mobility. Slash their car’s tires. Put obstacles in their paths. Park other cars in front of theirs while they are operating. They might be surprise-predators, but their biggest advantage is that they appear out of nowhere, abduct someone, and leave. If you can slow them down, make them stuck for an hour, bystanders / community has a chance to organize and fight back.

Here’s what i meant by “russian street infrastructure”, in case anybody finds it interesting :) (i do)

i kno, i just took the chance to propose my favorite safe word >:D

sunflower oil

I was in school when i realized that doing homework faster doesn’t mean you get to go home earlier. You just get assigned more homework.

For the past two months, Iran had been in diplomatic negotiations with the Trump administration, and both sides appeared to be getting closer to a deal that would drastically curtail Tehran’s enrichment of uranium and prevent any path to the bomb.

Then Israel attacked. It acted less to pre-empt an Iranian bomb than to preempt American diplomacy.