It’s uhhhhh a little weird that much of the debate over the definition of “working class” in the U.S. is about what you want it to be a euphemism for and not about, say, one’s relationships to labor or capital

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

I haven't been able to stop noticing the billionaire class' obsession with physics ever since I saw this @acollierastro.bsky.social, and they always say things that prove they know less than an average high schooler about the subject

Many people are making the mistake of taking Will Stancil seriously on the economy. His is a clown on this and if you know so and continue to engage him or his arguments without complete dismissal using the appropriate data, you share a big red nose in his circus.

So is the limit it 300 characters or code points or what?

I keep reading books with absolutely awful introductions that do not give proper credit to the sense the author is making because they’re judging it from modern academic (specifically academic!!) standards and it’s starting to piss me off. Can you let me decide? This should’ve been an afterward!

"I'm too old for this imperial shit" - Black Skin, White Masks

When you’re reading a Penguin Classic and see the edge of where the original page was scanned…

I’m getting that itch to post again even though my life has improved greatly from not doing so. Sometimes i just have thought idk who to share them with.

American Century of Humiliation is manifesting in ways I did not predict.

Elden Ring talisman

Some people are calling it the flag of Woke 2

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

“When asked about the consequences of the assassination of the Romanovs, Heyden declared, ‘It’s too soon to tell.’”

Well, that’s enough for today.

I think you see the liberal constantly holding on to revolutions and partisan action in fictional stories only because they are ideologically incapable of reckoning with the violence of such courses of action or, worse yet, that such actions would depart from the existing status quo.

The fact that the masses are spontaneously being drawn into the movement does not make the organisation of this struggle less necessary. On the contrary, it makes it more necessary

Your brain without dialectical materialism or reason:

There’s this idea about the moral progressiveness of the neoliberal west that somehow leads white euro twinks on x the everything app to post memes about gay rights being non-negotiable while being citizens of countries in which they are indeed entirely negotiable.

There’s part of me that thinks the GUI and simplification of the computer was a bit of a mistake. Teaching people programs instead of programming? The computer is supposed to be able to be told how to do our jobs for us. Not to be interacted with as our jobs.

jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind

It’s getting harder every day to find the motivation to go to work. I have such beautiful days away from work.

Learned the other day the method for creating a new process the POSIX way. Lol

BTW remember when prediction markets seemed to know who the Nobel Peace Prize was going to a tad early? Toje, member of the committee, is apparently texting buddy with Bannon.

There is an actual argument that this curse actually worked.

I got my money up, but my funny? Nobody laughs anymore…

How often do they switch out the syrup for beers on tap

Heartwarming. The worst people you know are lonely

“I just got back from fleeing Comrade Di Blasio, and now this?” said Lying Fakeman, a bricklayer from the upper west side. He plans to move to North Dakota and kill himself.

Firstly, billionaires are not physically made of stocks, if a billionaire falls down a hole and expires his stock portfolio persists and continues to have value, secondarily, this is why one diversifies one's investment portfolio outside of the stock market, thirdly, okay, let's test this hypothesis

Our holy brother Luigi has come to us from the past, it seems

Grrrr, still so pissed at Howard Zinn’s dumb little history book of all this American tragedy just to conclude some bullshit like “the cops and military will get sick of it and join us :)” what kind of ahistorical hippy dippy bullshit is that??

I forgot I done like publicly posting

One of my most knowledgable homies unfortunately has chud characteristics

I hate this fucking settler ass narrative so much. Nobody looks at the lines before FDR, really investigates what FDR was trying to do, and then the reason why it finally worked (not because of the New Deal). The “good thing” is just super wages 95% of the time.

I don’t think blocking him is good enough, tbh

Lenin had that line about political and historical obsolescence and it feels most relevant now today in the West as free market fetishism runs out of steam. All but 0.1 percentage points of US GDP growth this year was in data center capital expenditure.

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

Can't believe i found perfectly good fursuit on the streets of NYC. This adorable character even came with a name, "Bedbugs"

“What’s Hot Classic” served me dick and balls 😐

One thing I’d be nice if Schatz and others acknowledged is that even judging their hard right turn on immigration in Spring 2024 on its own terms it failed miserably. In July when Harris took over Trump led on “immigration” by 9pts, by election day he led 13pts. At best it, electorally, did nothing

The whole empty, centrist Dem scam is collapsing in real time. This is a leg sweep, followed by a quick boxing of Schatz’s ears. These hacks need to go away. They are killing us in so many ways.

I miss being a reply guy so bad

The most shocking thing to me in reading this is the degree to which Trump and people in his circle actually believe the lowest-level right wing talking points, like the stuff they target at total morons like “democrats import Mexicans to vote for them” and “George Soros funds antifa”

It’s funny to see how slow new information disseminates. My mind turns, in particular, to the general advice that you should use a switch over a chain of if-else statements because of the assembly produced will be faster. These days, however, compilers optimize it the same way either way.

Erm, does anyone else feel like the best option for the current political moment for anyone left of center is to be vehemently anti-western, specifically drawing the line between settler-colonialism in Palestine and those same or similar evils delivered by Europe into the whole of the world?

For some reason, the first and only Ruri Dragon fanart I’ve ever seen. The rarity of it is almost as tragic as there being no Pattadol figures 😢