this goes hard. every drivers license should have this printed on it

Clean energy nerds have been excited for decades about the idea that developing countries might leapfrog fossil energy systems, much like leapfrogging land lines for cell phones. Very cool to see it becoming a reality!

we need a tim o'reilly of the left

And here's "dead channel" from Gibson's own childhood.

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

i actually kinda want to see it painted blue out of curiosity

Still cant get over the extent to which Millei looks like a 1970s BBC presenter with a wikipedia "controversy" section that is 80% of the word count

lol

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

HEGEL, leaping across the rooftops of Jena: the WELTGEIST should be somewhere around here. If I hold down R3 my Dialectic Method I'll be able to track it down

random hypothesis: nixon is probably the closest thing anglophone world has to an experience of nomenklatura idiolect

it's very funny being a communist in pzpr because it either gets people yelling at me for being too pro or anti-nationalist elements

So, the sheikh hears that the wait for a Trabi is 15 years, even longer than a Rolls-Royce, so he orders one. The factory is so delighted to get an export order they ship him one immediately. He gets it and thanks them for, while his car is being made, sending him a plastic model in the interim.

i wanna eat the phone sized goyblock so much

This is the kind of thing Hannah Arendt was talking about when she said people have a responsibility to think.

the anti-grooming maga base? huh?

spiro ends powells probe

I thought we'd already debunked the "lack of anonymity would make the internet better" hypothesis when Facebook normalized having people post the most turbo-bigoted nonsense imaginable on their public accounts with their full names and employers easily visible.

“Not every new technology has to be wireless & not everything has to be only digital.” But the cord on my dial home phone will hardly reach the front door. No way I can take in the car with me

Something instead of nothing

i will be real, every time i see or think about this image of bordiga i imagine him driving one of those walmart scooters

Ptolemaic pharaohs be like:

TERFism cashes out into bog standard right wing homophobia and patriarchal sexism, every single time

Sweets were distributed in the Lebanese city of Tripoli in celebration of the arrest of the criminal Amjad al-Youssef, the main person responsible for the Tadamon massacre in Damascus.

you know how some leftists have a seemingly disproportionate hatred of Buttigieg because of how much of an empty suit he is (and some miss the boat and get homophobic about it)? Slotkin's sort of like that to me. Her model of the Democratic party is repulsive, left-punching, empty politics.

You're telling me that there's this thing called comparative advantage? That the elasticity of substitution between labor and capital is not infinite, even for AI? I'm hearing this for the first time

The thing is I don't really care who likes or hates Hasan, but I need people to be smart enough to realize the main reason the media is trying to turn him into a human purity test is to make him a proxy for antizionism now that antizionism is no longer a workable purity test since it's popular.

polish jazz always had swagger but i didnt know they were already rolling like that in the 20s

it’s 1929 and I’m trying to cheer up my buddy who just lost it all in the Wall Street crash:

beastmode

what did he mean by this

median voter syndrome hearing this

hahahahah "1905 was occupy wall street" incredible

Frankly a Jewish father of Ukraine is one of those end of history moments.

infowars brain pills that are just estrogen

203 dollar barrel for the past 6 months and you kinda start to wonder whether there wont be some kind of political voltage spike when the votes get counted, house getting prc chamber numbers is uh not something average american mind can visualise on federal level until it happens?

Wisconsin - Generic Ballot Polling: 🔵 Democrat: 50% 🔴 Republican: 43% RMG / April 14, 2026 (Republican Pollster)

whimsy miku would never

2020 still looks like this

dopiero teraz dotarlo do mnie info ze jeden z synow morawieckiego ma na imie jeremiasz i mnie to bardzo bawi przez breaking bad - bebinson

i dont understand how baseball matches work why is it so frequent every day i just see something new about mets humiliation

is he seriously giving up on prices and just trying to make a case it was all worth it bc iran doesnt have nuclear capacity "anymore" (ie never) its so over

Actually it's the last picture of C3-PO before he was executed by the Empire

This is a genuinely very good idea and should be paired with land-use reforms to make building out renewables a lot easier.

jedyny, ktory potrafil to powiedziec otwarcie na glos - bebinson

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

w tym chlewie jak sprobujesz komus pomoc to cie spala zywcem w lesie albo przypadkowo rozjebia autem - bebinson

WHOA! Ivan Moore, the best Alaska pollster, shows that Peltola has a solid lead in #AKSen against Dan Sullivan. The Alaska Senate race is definitely in play!