You’re gonna fee real bad when a republican uses this precedent to bend the rules and use naked power to do something bad!

Look at that hat, no way that’s not a reference to Soviet or Chinese propaganda posters.

Stalin gets a few shoutouts in the show too. I bet it’s partly because they just think he’s Brutal but it makes me think someone in the production is a traveler.

While individuals can find space for weight loss regimes, it really is a society-level problem.

Consider an experiment with two populations of rats. One population gets a normal amount of food, the other gets the same food with a bunch of added sugar. Of course the population with added sugar gets fatter. But, while the average rat may have gained 10% weight or whatever, on an individual level you’ll see a wide range of results - some rats aren’t effected by the increased sugar, some gain a small amount of weight, some gain a lot.

This is basically exactly what we’ve done to ourselves in capitalist society over the past seventy-ish years, taken our previous diet and jacked it up with a ton of sugar (and other additives and a lot of increased volume). But while with the rats it’s easy to see that all you have to do to return the overweight population to normal is to stop adding sugar to their food, with humans we can’t see that because we’ve created a system that blames you for getting sick.

It’s like building a coal power plant in the middle of a neighborhood, and then blaming the residents when they start getting asthma or worse, and holding up the people who won the genetic lottery and don’t get lung disease as the example we should all strive to replicate.

The curtains are blue!

The curtains have a swastika on them.

No! They’re just blue! Not everything is political!

TRUE

Even streamers who I like in short doses like Hasan can’t get through a fifteen minute edited video without saying the same thing five hundred times. It’s suitable as background noise, but if I’m listening to a streamer I’d almost always be better off listening to music.

I remember that argument was when I learned that my parents were NIMBYs. It was honestly a shock, they’re lib but I has assumed they would want a playground in the neighborhood considering that at that time there were six kids in the house with absolutely nothing to do inside walking distance.

100% correct, no notes.

I have a theory that part of the function of the “where is your child now?” stuff that really curtailed kids’ freedom in America in the second half of the twentieth century was a reaction to the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam movements. Both were prominently participated in by kids, the anti-war one especially, and when society goes from letting kids have a significant portion of the day to themselves in between school and supper to basically forcing them to go from one controlled location straight to another with no in-between, all of that potential youth-lead political organization falls apart because it doesn’t have anything to support it anymore.

I don’t think it was the primary driver - after all most kids weren’t joining the Students for a Democratic Society - but it is a relevant secondary reason. The primary driver was almost certainly “property values”. I remember one of my only interactions with the HOA where my parents lived concerned plans for a playground being voted down based on the logic that children playing outside would somehow lower everyone nearby’s home value (they also made the equally-bad argument that teens would hang out at the child’s playground to smoke). Multiply this interaction by a million HOAs around the country and eventually even the kids whose parents don’t demand that they come straight home still end up going home anyway because there’s nowhere else for them to go.

he wishes he had a dragon so he could attack Moscow

Did he even read his own books? My takeaway from them was definitely not “all of our problems can be solved by an application of incredible violence”.

Half your age plus seven, a nineteen year old is an adult and they can make their own decisions. As long as the 26 year old isn’t their boss or some other category with power over the 19 year old it’s fine.

and how Cyberpunk Edgerunners subverts it

That show does literally every single thing he complains about, he just gives it a pass because it’s got above-average production quality and writing.

That’s how you can tell these clowns aren’t doing any actual media analysis, it’s all just surface level reactionary gibberish.

:sicko-yes: me rooting for the advertising bubble to pop and take down all of the largest tech companies with it

:sicko-no: me realizing that the company that will best survive that burst and then expand to fill the power vacuum is Amazon

Treat Elf

• Deep analysis of my treats via multiple theoretical frameworks
• Appreciation for a wide variety of treats, not just the ones I like the most
• Understanding of the full context and history of treats
• Haven’t watched or listened to a new treat in at least a decade

I’ve definitely seen yellow “donate” buttons on personal websites before, but every one of them was bespoke so once they stopped being maintained they disappeared.

Yeah but weebs don’t like that she looks like an adult.

It’s me but with [redacted] :hentai-free:

The Mad Max movies are all good, but you should watch them in release order because Fury Road is so good it makes it hard to watch the older ones.

I did find this.

someone has to have done a version of this joke with a super geocities-looking ass website

It’s a funny rant by Brace Belden on the TrueAnon podcast. He’s trying to get across how far away from an actual socialist revolution our society is.

Bitch, you are a serf. We’re in- we’re in fucking 1320, motherfucker. You are a serf. Bitch, you live in Alsace.