Hopefully Noem is available, Ive heard the one thing shes good at is putting down sick puppies

Or his university

Or his tie company

Or his steak company

Literally the only thing with name attached to it that doesnt fail are the hotels he sells his name rights too, and they dont fail because they are owned and controlled by other people that arent morons. They just have a moron’s name on the building

Every time I hear about Eid I vividly remember being in 3rd grade and having the teacher ask if anyone celebrated any holidays other than Christmas with their family, and when a girl said her family celebrated Eid the teacher told her not to make things up

Maybe Im just not understanding the point of the centaur analogy, but it seems more convoluting than it does useful. At least in comparison to just making the same points without the analogy.

The point of a good analogy is to make your broader points immediately register with the reader, not create an entirely new concept to explain

Okay now take this and make it not look like tacti-cool bullshit that would come with a glock

If you want to make any difference on that issue at all, the first step would be to clarify who youre talking about

Most people hate “the rich” as in rich people, as in people that can afford a limo and a five star hotel and some lavish lifestyle. They say tax the rich as in people significantly wealthier than them. But even that 5% or 1% or even 0.1% really are not the ones with the money. They just side with the people who have the serious money because they feel targeted by the general rhetoric of “tax the rich”

The reality is that the dysfunction in society and poverty stems from not taxing the 0.0000001%, the like 10-20 people in the entire world who control a majority of the money that exists. Musk, Bezos, people of that level of wealth. For most of the people in the world, anyone making over $50k a year is just as vast of a difference as the one that exists between someone making $50k and someone worth $5M. Which realistically is far less vast than the difference between someone worth $5M versus $500B. Making anything over $50k a year puts someone in the top 10% of wealth holders in the entire world. In America that is hardly a living wage, but globally speaking it is certainly being among the rich.

For any progress to occur its absolutely necessary that moderately wealthy people (who still have a lot of power in society and monetarily) to side with the bottom 99% to tax the 0.0000001% of people whos money never moves. The people who couldnt spend it all if they tried, in a world where money is useless to the majority if it doesnt change hands.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk

Aesthetically, one of my favorites is Zoom Earth. Visually its really impressive. Not the best for granular detail on a local area’s weather but still very cool

https://zoom.earth/

Considering that most of the people supporting ICE view everything through the most basic “us vs them” tribalism lens, Im curious to see how this shakes out.

Assuming a lot of pro-ICE people probably originally imagined the shooters as typical white good ol boy agents making a career of terrorizing brown people, what happens now? How does the white christofascist hierarchy assign placement to a hispanic ICE agent, which in their mind is surely virtually an oxymoron?

With Good’s killing, obviously they still support the ICE agent who killed a liberal, because liberal is obviously an outgroup of lesser people to them

With Pretti, a fairly traditional white good ol boy figure who cares for veterans and carries a firearm but also is protesting against ICE operations is killed by two brown ICE agents. The veneer of him being some kind of liberal domestic terrorist quickly falls apart, and now they have to rectify supporting ICE ops with the fact that now someone closer to their imagined in-group was killed by two officers they would otherise. They have to swallow the fact that they too could be shot dead if they were carrying in the street while protesting government actions. And these are people that hardly ever stop thinking of potentially rallying against the government if it doesnt do exactly what they want

I imagine in confronting that, some people on the right will start to be against ICE ops, and somehow the rest will perform mental gymnastics so impressive that they could earn olympic gold

I, for one, hope Trump goes out of his way to disrespect Kendrick Lamar. How can we have a famous diss track about Drake being a pedophile, but not one about the president? Missed opportunity…

Its a government contractor sourced wrench, so theres no way it cost less than $500

Its a violation of international law to denaturalize a citizen and leave them stateless. Although Im not sure international law or human rights mean anything to this administration

Assumedly if that actually happened, hopefully people from the US would be eligible for asylum in a lot of countries just like when other countries commit human rights violations against their citizens

In other news, water is still wet

Is it weirder that these religious people posted stuff about it being jesus’s birthday on the christian holiday celebrating jesus’s birthday, or weirder that the majority of people celebrate a religious holiday as a secular holiday and then get confused when religious people celebrate the religious part?

Like I dont want to live in a christian theocracy, but also this seems very par for the course of christmas

Slop is terrible obviously, but at least in exchange for the slop we get… higher energy costs and acceleration of climate change

There are literally all of about 10 schools from which an MBA is worth anything. Often people with MBAs from non T10 schools are recommended to take their MBA off of their resume when they inevitably struggle to find a job. A sub T10 MBA on a resume just says “I will ask for more money courtesy of my useless credential”

Bosher salt, everyone’s favorite kosher salt and borax mixed seasoning. Why stop at sodium chloride when you can enjoy the power of sodium borate?

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The difference can be pretty staggering between games even released a short time apart. I recently got back into AC games, and while downloading them I noticed Origins is less than 25 Gb, while Odyssey is over 75 Gb. They were only released one year apart.

I havent started Odyssey, so I cant make a comparison, but Origins is a beautiful and well running game at less than 25 Gb of data. I cant imagine Odyssey is significantly more impressive to a point where demanding 3x the data is justified, considering it runs on the same hardware. But I guess I will see soon enough

Everybody remain F***ING calm!

In British English it is sneaked

it doesnt mean that democratic socialists like Mamdani dont contribute anything to left-wing movements

Yeah, thats because they are definitively left wing movements in and of themselves. Someone doesnt have to be an ML communist to be left wing, and the small tent idea that the only true leftward movement is to be ML is plain stupid. Anything that is not a conservative political movement is a left/progressive movement. ML’s nor anybody else are the arbiters of what is or is not a progressive movement. The defining feature of what is progressive is being in favor of change, which can look like many different things. It’s about being proactionary vs reactionary.

That said, conservative political movements often change things drastically. Just look at the federal government right now. The difference is that those political movements’ arguments are rooted in conservatism, either to keep things the same or return to some imaginary point in the past. Donald Trump can do all kinds of crazy shit to fuck up the country, but he is still politically arguing in a conservative fashion, I.E. MAGA.

That is the defining feature of what is or is not a left wing movement. Failure to understand that, and failure to not see everyone who isnt ML as some kind of enemy is why nobody wants to work with MLs. Even if MLs claim they are open to working with anyone whos goals lean in a left direction, like in this video, they cant go two sentences further without making it clear that they arent interested in compromise or further learning. “Communist or bust, and if you dont agree then youre not a real progressive” is shit-tier political messaging to 99% of people. While it may not be literally said, everyone but MLs seem to realize that is exactly who MLs are. Its baked in to just about everything the way MLs communicate

The vast majority of people in this country dont want radical ML societal change, and it is unlikely to ever be palatable to even most progressive voters. The majority of progressives want the US to be like Sweden or Norway, not some idealization of communism that has never found fruition in the history of the world thus far. The closest anyone has gotten is China, only by virtue of not being pure ML and instead being market Leninists or whatever you want to call it. They certainly arent tossing capitalism out the window. And even with that, their economy is crashing out as we speak.

Its fair to say that none have found real success because the global system is a ruthless capitalist system more than its the fault of the merits of ML. But, I think most people intuitively understand that any ML society is doomed to fail in the wider global system, and the wider global system isnt going to change because there is no effective means of changing it, nor is every country ever going to be on board with changing it at once (as would be necessary to contribute to the success of any individual ML countries)