Actually guys the Israeli death penalty law is just really complex, the history of the conflict is really nuanced, you see you have to understand the granular details, you just don't get it, you don't have the context, which is really difficult to comprehend. Anyway Palestinians are subhuman trash.

I made kung pao chicken tonight and, well, it was not pretty by any stretch. Flavorful? Spicy? Numbing? Hell yeah, this is great stuff. I am not, however, going to post a picture of this dish ever.

I just had another engineer tell me "use AI to write it" and I had to restrain myself from writing "fuck you" in response.

My wife is apparently still in line after 1.5 hours waiting for a car rental after a flight, with _many_ other people. It's not even just TSA of ATCs, I feel like we're watching the US fall apart in real time. So much for a relaxing vacation with an old friend...

This was all it was ever about. No one in power ever gave a single fuck about the people of Cuba or their rights or freedom. All we did for 60+ years was starve, immiserate, and kill its people so we could hand the whole country back over to the rich gusano pigs who enslaved them in the first place

It is so god damn nice outside here in the southern Willamette Valley in Oregon, 7:40pm local, and it's fuckin' scary.

Trump's BLM plans to open old growth forests in the Northwest for exploitation which will damage ecosystems and contribute to climate change. Links and comment template here to voice opposition on the plan. Please.

Capitalism is a social order rooted in perpetual violence, class against class. Socialists expose & highlight that, stripping back the illusions capitalism puts up to conceal & mystify that violence. Liberals are probably more uncomfortable about this than about any other feature of left politics.

*watches American fascists do American fascism 101 in the same way they always has* I can't believe how Chinese this is

The Democratic Party solution

Nobody: Me: Falling in love with doubanjiang and pickled red chilis, and trying to cook anything I can with Sichuan flavors for me and my daughter while my partner is on a job trip.

Iran is called the greatest terrorist in the world. But actually I think you will find the greatest terrorist in the world did this...

SV tech oligarchs overestimate the intelligence of LLMs because LLMs sound exactly like the supposedly bright yes-men they surround themselves with. This is also why they were the first people to cook their brains talking to the things.

BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATS WANT WAR WITH IRAN THE DEMOCRATS WANT WAR WITH IRAN THE DEMOCRATS WANT WAR WITH IRAN THE DEMOCRATS WANT WAR WITH IRAN THE DEMOCRATS WANT WAR WITH IRAN THE DEMOCRATS WANT WAR WITH IRAN

She knows where they keep the treats

My kid learning Love Will Tear Us Apart on the bass tonight... <3

You fuckin Democrats better come correct if you're sniffing around for votes...

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My favorite thing on reddit, aside from the r/rmbrown community, is when some dumb advertising bot comes into r/traveller and everyone discusses the post as if it's a serious 3rd Imperium question. "What sector is Oahu in?" "Are you paying for high passage or risking low?" Small joys.

It is difficult to keep calm when reading outrageous speeches like these.

the year is 2026. the most important person in politics is the guy from Home Alone, the most important person in media is the guy from Fear Factor, and the most important person in technology is the owner of MechaHitler. what we need now, more than ever, is to defeat the left

I finally did it, homemade vegetarian mapo tofu: king oyster mushroom instead of pork, doubanjiang, pickled peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, and everything else. Not the best presentation dish but this was a practice round. Best part is my kid loves it.

Devs in the sprint review literally salivating at the idea of having LLMs price us out of a job by doing it cheaper. Motherfucker, six months ago you were complaining about how hard it was out there and how lucky you were to have this job...

This system is not designed to liberate people, but rather to keep them subjugated by the shackles of poverty, beholden to predatory capitalist landlords to avoid the nightmare of the streets. redphoenixnews.com/2026/02/12/1...

As capitalism allows and demands the commodification of everything and submission to the profit-motive and market, academics also succumbs to it, which allows even complete fools to become scholars as long as they create profits and do not endanger the system. This is why Jordan Peterson is possible

Fuck it, let's send Cuba aid ourselves. Help establish the flotilla headed for Cuba and stock it full of supplies and much needed help!! act.progressive.international/flotilla/

Me rummaging around in the cupboards: Is this the sichuan peppercorn? Also me after tasting one and getting a numb lip: yes, those are the sichuan peppercorns.

Any socialist/communist system threatens the capitalist order, and the capitalists will do anything and everything in their power to maintain that order, up to and including exterminating entire countries full of people.

God I fucking love trolley problem memes, especially when they come oh so correct

The Liberals have been accustomed to console themselves with constitutional illusions and phrases about the rule of law, and close their eyes to the real relation of forces, to the class struggle.

Genuinely asking, after all this time and evidence, why would you expect the Democratic Party to do anything but either assist the current fascist administration or nothing at all? They're useless and entryism can't fix them, time for a new, actually democratic party.

Bunch of fucking amateurs who can't be bothered to put in a little mental effort make my job harder by pushing "vibe coding" as normal practice, with predictable results.

Listening to Ed Zitron talk about data centers and these AI/LLM companies, and how they're just handing money back and forth, I'm getting flashbacks to 2008. Trunk will probably bail out these companies (who will likely take the money and run) at our expense. Too big to fail.

Finally found something I am *almost* not ashamed to use an AI chat box for and that's a self-review at work.

20 years ago, KBR got $385M to build an immigrant detention center capable of holding 5K people. Why? "Oliver North organized the Rex-84 “readiness exercise,” which contemplated [FEMA] rounding up and detaining 400K...possible suspension of the Constitution" www.projectcensored.org/14-homeland-...

"What shall we do with a drunken sailor" as sung by my kiddo's middle school choir goes pretty hard

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

It’s weird to have a political memory

Took the kiddo out for ramen. While in the car she remarked about not bringing a coat (Oregon winter) but then remembered just how hot the restaurant is. Now we're sitting in what is basically a sauna waiting for our food and I'm lamenting my sweater.

Fascism is a form of class struggle. It is an extreme form of reaction by the most aggressive capitalists against any social progress they feel might threaten their system of private property and profits.

the murderer having been in Iraq is probably the least surprising bit to me, where else is the average 46 year old gonna learn to casually kill unarmed women

Raw imperialism is nothing new for the US, it just seems really bad because of who's in office and how they present. This country has always been one of gangsters, murderers, and thieves, some are just more polite than others. Watch your reps today, they're going to laud the outcome, not the act.

Cleaning up an old computer for donation/recycling and I forgot just how slow the old platter drives were (and these were some of the fast ones). Running a simple dd on the drives to wipe them is taking all afternoon and into the night (1.25 TB total).

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Out at the in-laws for Christmas, lost power and internet (they have a generator). Honestly a great opportunity to disconnect and also give my kid shit about managing boredom (she did great). Me and my mother-in-law did a puzzle, and it was fun. Hope you all had a great Christmas!

When you find the secret ice cream stash what's been staring you in the face every time you open the freezer

Ceding so much economic power to corporations is a sign of working class setback in the ongoing class struggle. We need to expand the unions we have, sharpen their ideology against capitalism, & increase their militancy. See? You can make this argument without defending racism. Write THAT article.

Winter day mood

Windows seemed to sense that I was going to install Mint, I literally received an upgrade to 11 plea after booting up to create the USB stick. Too bad, I checked and pretty much all the games I care about will run (almost) seamlessly, and that's the only thing I kept Windows around for.