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I'm not giving up on socialism any more than I'm giving up on democracy. I admit I find socialists dense when it comes to the economic hierarchy. Ownership is not control. Control is revoking business privilege at will. We would vote no confidence on any company attempting to influence elections.

Does this mean Tim Miller and MeullerSheWrote are no longer friends?

I listened to the end of that 2 minutes. I'm not going to listen to Pod Saves, sorry. I think I get what he is saying. Instead of trying and failing to attract Republicans, try and succeed to attract Republicans. He implies that the working class is Republican oyster farmers like him. They aren't.

The hot in the west was hotter than the cold in the east was cold. #climatechange

There is a subtle difference between leftists and liberals. Leftists can criticize liberals without helping Republicans. But liberals cannot criticize leftists without helping Republicans. Remember to hold your nose, and never punch down.

The Red Bull broadcast was too fast to finish in one viewing.

You're all fighting over who gets to be big oil's figure head.

Platner is a joke! Oh, what's that big Nazi tattoo doing on my body for all my life? My bad folks! Anyway back to talking with podcasters about how we need to slaughter everyone except the master race. Don't mind me just being progressive. You're a joke if you support him & I'll say it to your face.

Not driving means I don't care about the strait of hormooz. Too bad for me, I care what others care about. The thing about brainless oil companies is they are doing exactly what ensures their survival, damn the bottom lines torpedoes. Unlike fossil fuel, you have to go outside to build renewables.

You know we are toast when business is not satisfied by the supply "demand" excuse to do harm. The economic hierarchy rolled out AI specifically to break down the distinction between worker and consumer.

Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees? Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey. The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.

California has gone too far. First they passed SB79 to disempower local democracy. Now they passed AB1043 to disempower parents.

People are saying that AI is good at "coding". First of all, it's not coding, its programming. And the programming is the point, not a means to an end. I'm thinking the military investment created a schism between corporations, and the admittedly droll engineers. Internet did not need darpa.

My pet peeve is carrying a lock that is heavier than my bike.

They hate the middle east, because the middle east has so little. It's a desert, not a fertile crescent. Conservatives dislike the fact that our trust in big oil is making us one big middle east, so they fight against reality by bombing the few success stories, abundance in gaza, resilience in iran.

My objection to ascribing emotions to brainless corporate collectives is that even traditionally positive emotions, such as compassion, cause harm when emulated by, oil companies for example. Oil companies grow, as evidenced by the keeling curve, not necessarily out of greed, but out of compassion.

Manaj had Honold on, so I could watch that thing vicariously, since there is no way. In my opinion, people are not as afraid of nuclear war as they should be. There is no them in nuclear war; it is the non-old-age end for all. Climate change is as bad as nuclear war, but for others.

The proclamations of 'good policy' from elites are not representative of people actually building it. I think energy writers and journalists who are not interviewing workers about these policies are missing a major chunk of the story (and am not naive enough to think they want to include this fwiw).

The corporate takeover is slower in cities than farms, because there are multiple corporations competing in cities, but farms are company towns. The business plan, ever since business overthrew royalty, was to collude into a single corporation. Climate change forced business to tip its hand.

I'm upset at the monsters too, and permitting can be a symbolic rallying point, but to survive, we must existentially delicense an oil major. That SCOTUS calls oil companies "persons" means we absolutely can and should vote an oil company out of existence, in addition to the regulatory wrist slaps.

I googled the only thing I did not know about in Brody's 2026 retrospective. Did elon musk give a nazi 1 million dollars? AI responded with "no evidence". But the top search result was "SpaceX Gives $1 Million Prize to Literal Nazi". What's up with that?

Zeteo and one of my faves did a thing on conspiracy. In my opinion, big oil is the first, and still the best, conspiracy theory. Conspiracy implies verbal collusion, and language is important, but the actual collusion is more ironclad than verbal. It is the self correcting economic hierarchy.

When even a simple change passes, after fixing compile errors, I get a burst of pleasure, thinking "I got a freebee".

Dunning Kruger is supposed to be the red pill. But it was debunked. It turns out that Dunning Kruger was gate keeping. Common sense prevailed over Dunning Kruger. The downfall of Dunning Kruger was predictable, because plebes have more time to think about themselves than experts do.

The most encouraging thing to me is that the court is distinguishing between impotent taxes and powerful importation. Taxes merely sphincter flows. Prohibiting a product from going on the market changes the system. That is why we must destroy oil companies to even dent the keeling curve.

You can't fix cybertruck owners. You can reduce the glut of energy they are preventing from going to waste. You can make corporations responsible. Your passion towards individuals prevents you from imagining how. Direct your hate at SCOTUS "persons". Existentially delicense an oil major.

People that think MAGAts want the things Trump represents are more conservative than I am. I believe that, given the option, the vast majority would agree with me that we need to destroy an oil company, open the borders, empty the prisons, ration gas, and price control housing.

Kavanaugh is in the Epstein files.

California should open a BYD plant, not to reduce emissions, only shutting down a refinery could do that, but to snub conservatives.

Anti-Mamdani crowd desperately wants Mamdani to ignore homelessness, rather than address the causes of homelessness. Mental health is no more the root cause than human nature is. Capitalism causes homelessness, and allowing only way below market rate housing is a solution.

Natural gas is just as bad as coal, because 99% of the energy is going to waste anyway. Plants hate each other more than they like CO2. The plants you get from global warming are not the ones you can eat.

There are followers and followees, and the algorithm enforces that, because there is no understanding of systems, let alone the will to change it. The arguments between followees are inconsequential. Followers can get each other banned, and it is often the victim of invective that gets banned.

Unless you're making mistakes with your vote, it's not a democracy.

My driver's license is expired because I don't own a car and don't want to jump through hoops at the dmv. If you want to know who I am, you're going to have to do some work. If they don't send me a ballot, I'm not going to vote, because at that point, voting itself is an endorsement of fossil fuel.

If it were the nazi tattoo guy vs the vote third party guy, who would you vote for?

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Flip Texas just rolls off of the tongue.

The reason more conservatice Democrats differ from less conservative Democrats more than any Republican differs from any other Republican, is the same reason audio amplifiers distort when the input signal is too high. It is physically impossible for Republicans to be more conservative.

Yes, it's incrementalism. Self correcting systems such as USof$ "democracy" and the economic hierarchy don't respond to incrementalism. Trump made pipelines incrementally stickier, and Canada oil companies just exported more. Paris banned cars, and cars moved to less famous places. And so on.

The Blue Dog Democrats did not even need imagination. They recycled the Yellow Dog Democrat name. The USof$ has always been a corporatocracy. The electorate is becoming woke. Any moment now, my idea to existentially delicense an oil major will take off, because it advances every other cause.

YouTube bleeping "nuclear" and "missile" is funny. Corporations are trying to undermine section 230. They are getting desperate because the sleeping tiger electorate is getting woke.

Big oil can produce as much or little as it wishes. Consumers are sheep that burn everything produce, if only to keep it from going to waste. That's why YIMBYs are so wrong. You can't push back on car culture by building protected bike lanes. You have to create artificial scarcity of fossil fuel.

Is this the same gooy-foil as in the Trump administration?

I credit my success at programming to a non-cringe third space that was not a YIMBY cringe alcohol bar. There was (is?) a public museum called Lawrence Hall of Science that my mom took us to, and they had a ~20 page manual for BASIC on their time shared teletype computer.

Here is an argument conservatives cannot counter. Incrementalism results in "too big to fail", because the economy self corrects. You can ridicule fear of big oil as much as you like, but the keeling curve is a measure of the size of big oil. What conservatives fail to understand is systems.

How worried am I about screwworm? For livestock industry: 8/10 For wildlife: 8/10 For pets: 3/10 For humans: 2/10

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

One of ICE's brainless goals, besides appeasing white nationalists, and invalidating the next election, is to replace local law enforcement. Why is local police push-back so anemic? You know me, I think it is because big oil has already captured law enforcement, the primary driver of SUVs.

alternate history where the Berlin wall never fell, and China became a third superpower