- western capitalists get tired of lower profit margins maintaining a wartime-boom industrial middle class, move most manufacturing to China - China gets extremely good at manufacturing and R&D - western failsons aghast at the world's manufacturing hub being good at making things it's all so funny

The self and the cyberself in quiet introspection

"why, of all the science fiction out there, did you find the Dune books to be so compelling as a kid" oh, who knows. it just kinda felt like the place we were speeding towards

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

Operation Epstein Fury

a goodly selection of premium "action bronson looking at assorted meats like it's the first naked woman he's ever seen" shots here. also Mamdani is in it

just remembered this and started crying again ty @jonbois.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeKC...

Live look at the 82nd airborne arguing with the JCS for a combat jump onto Kharg

RIP to all the 20 year olds with 22% apr car loans whose last thought is gonna be "damn why does it sound like a lawnmower is flying toward me"

taco bell moved the beefy five layer from the second-item lower-tier list to the first-item primary-tier list in the $7 value box

Idaho is the fruit of the sea. there's Ginaz swordmaster Idaho, mentat Idaho, Alia's husband Idaho, boil him, bake him, sautee. there's Fish Speaker Idaho, pineapple Idaho, Idaho you kill with Sardaukar, Idaho soup, Idaho stew, Idaho executing the finality of the Golden Path, Idaho and potatoes,

the takeaway for any state after this is that, in lieu of atomic weapons, a good stock of conventional and reasonably-priced (which is to say, Chinese) long-range ballistic missiles, and a competent military to target and fire them, will still suffice as a means to maintain regional power

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

The difference between the Democrats and Republicans is the Republicans like the sound of the screaming and the Democrats find it interrupts their meals.

By popular request

"omg did you see Rotta the Hutt? He's Jabba's son and he is going to fight the Mandalorian and Gr-" You bolt awake in the hills of Burbank. It is 1976 AD. You are Marcia Lucas, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Star Wars must match George's original vision

ope, turns out billion-dollar Lockheed Martin ABM systems can be defeated by just competently launching a shitload of much cheaper missiles American conservatives shredding the concept of military hegemony because they underestimated a smaller state. now where have I heard that before?

Iranian military: maintaining successful missile battery saturation fire Iraqi militia groups: drone operations and hype vids American military and coalition forces:

This Is All So Goddamn Unnecessary

yeah, that tracks

evergreen

I love this thing that happens every once in a while where I find out (from cinesansar on twt) that there's somehow yet another deleted scene from Pirates of the Caribbean that serves as functional socioeconomic commentary and it got cut because this was unfortunately still a Disney production

I will be trying the new Marathon this weekend.

while I must unfortunately remind people that our governor, Jared Polis, is a heinous conservative on many issues (thinks RFK Jr. is a Certified Genious, fervently anti-China, loves supporting AIPAC candidates), he is at least solid on LGBT+ issues, so giving to this organization is a good move

Trans Am

hollywood is COOKED something like this used to cost $100,000,000 to make and i just did it for free with one prompt 😎

watching the John Oliver DHS segment, and the best motivation you'll ever get to hit the gym is seeing these dickheads' physical training minimums a 14:00 1.5 mile is 4.6 minutes/mile, which is a middling score for the army's 2-mile run standards - FOR THE 52-56 AGE GROUP, THE LAST BRACKET THERE IS

i often think about this review

"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars

Bluesky management would point to the attic as soon as the SS knocked at their door. Bookmark this site and check it periodically for some the best antifascist research being done right now; bywayofplymouth.noblogs.org

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Wait was that two guys grinding on each other lol Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

hilarious to watch 30% of superbowl ads be a variation on "no, you don't understand, our *competitors* are the ones with the dogshit AI that enables you to poorly mimic human behavior. WE, on the other hand," anyway: fuck microsoft, fuck the patriots, and fuck adrien brody for taking turbotax money

look, kid, whatever the other guy's henchmen said, we can't unionize. "the boss can't beat all of us" she easily can. we're goddamn putties. one hit to the chest and we die, and she's got a staff. our job is to obstruct teenagers and we can barely do that. our health plan is, if anything, too good

THEY GAVE ME MEDICATION SO I WOUDNT SPEAK IT PUT A STORM IN MY ARMS AND A STORM IN MY LEGS AND A STORM IN MY CHEST AND I CANT LIE DOWN FOR TOO LONG AND I CANT STAND FOR TOO LONG AND I CANT WALK FOR TOO LONG AND THE LIVING IS QUITE A JUGGLING ROUTINE BUT AT LEAST I SHUT UP A BIT

ANNOUNCER: in the first round, the Greater Los Angeles Area Cuddle selects… Lilly Demonia (It/they) from Santa Cruz state! ETHEREAL NONBINARY IN AN ILL FITTING ROSS SUIT, WEARING AN LA NEW ERA HAT, PEAKING THE PODIUM MIC: It’s an honor to be here, and I’m excited to take my talents to SoCal

if you're running Linux, it is the ethical equivalent of [MY LAWYER HAS ADVISED ME NOT TO FINISH THIS SENTENCE] uh, taking out your trash when you have lazy roommates