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the issue is that it seems quite likely that humanity will always have a subset of the population that lords over the rest of them, and that subset has a vested interest in keeping tribalism alive.

Sure, you can be an optimist and dream of a future that is radically different to how human culture has existed in recorded history, but the realistic expectation is that the widespread education that would need to take place just…won’t.

the civil rights movement has been incredibly whitewashed in US education. Americans were overwhelmingly against de-segregation, there was tons of violence against black Americans, and that violence was not solely committed by police officers.

The Klan might seem like a relic of the past now, but the KKK was incredibly powerful during the 50s and 60s, to the point where in my home state, 1/3 of men were Klansmen and were a significant political bloc. They weren’t just voting in politicians that supported their vile views though, they were lynching people and burning crosses on lawns and shit.

I’m finally at a place where I can aim for a 1.0 ratio, but I’ve noticed that a lot of the stuff I torrent just uh…is not very popular lol. Some of them haven’t had a single peer in months! It’s kinda fun keeping an eye on it, sorta like a popularity contest.

I’m pretty sure the shock of taking so much damage at once would kill you

it’s so wild that she never wants to eat them. I’m eating them! I know it’s yummy! oftentimes it’s stuff with fish or chicken, which she knows the taste of! but never even goes for a nibble, just a sniff.

Honestly quite happy that she’s very stupid. The only way she knows what food is, is if it is in her bowl.

yeah I don’t interact with people who clearly aren’t interested in first-hand accounts that don’t fit their narrative

If you’re interested, I’d recommend reading through the works of José Peirats, especially The CNT in the Spanish Revolution: Volume 3 which details the numerous different ways that the Soviets suppressed and terrorized the syndicalists, going as far as imprisoning and torturing anarchists and anti-fascists.

a big part of it was people seeing first hand the Soviet’s sabotaging the CNT-FAI’s efforts, which I imagine was part of what turned Orwell against communists later in his life.

I still contend that if the Soviet’s supported the Syndicalists as much as the Nazis supported the Nationalists, CNT-FAI would have won the war.

yeah people don’t realize just how insidious advertisement really is.

your phone isn’t “reading your mind,” advertisers have such a comprehensive model of you that they’re able to predict your thoughts with an incredibly high degree of accuracy before you even have them. There’s also obviously a bit of confirmation bias in play, you only remember the times they got it right as opposed to the times they guessed wrong.

Been pretty good. swapped over to Bazzite, which does just about everything I need for a daily driver. Only real annoyance is my VPN. I haven’t been able to successfully connect through the openvpn configs that PIA provides, so I’ve been setting it up through terminal every time I log in. I think if I really sat down I could set it up to autologin, but it only “costs” me like 30 seconds and sometimes I like to connect to a server that allows port forwarding instead of a non-PF closer server. I also like getting to make the choice of which server I connect to vs autologging in to the lowest latency server.

I still have to use Windows 11 for work though, and holy shit do I prefer running two commands in terminal when I login to dealing with all the dumb fuckin bloat that OS has when I go home.

oh damn I should def try it then, loved Inuyasha. Also looks like there was a recent adaptation by MAPPA, so lots to watch through.

Could those of us that aren’t aware get the name?

that’s still a great pick

The trick is to not use the whole spice packet. I typically only put half into my noodles.

“No no no, we’re not gonna be like those other guys. We’re even worse!”

I mean, people look back fondly on the Nazis. It just makes them shitty people.

Thing is, as the Western empire collapses, I think more and more people will start to move towards China just for the sake of stability and a basic standard of living. It’s already something I’ve been thinking about, and things are only going to get worse.

All that to say, I wouldn’t write off the idea of them attracting people. Immigration is a possible solution, it kinda depends on if the PRC wants it to be their solution.

Yeah, getting PIA running without the native client has been a bit rough. These days I’ve just gotten use to starting a terminal as soon as I log-in, but I probably need a more permanent solution. maybe it’ll be switching to cachy as well.

yup, looks like fortnite to me

I think it is a little interesting that the U.S. isn’t even bothering with pretense anymore. Everyone with a functioning brain knows Iraq was about oil, but back then the U.S. made up all sortsa shit about terrorism and WMDs to give themselves pretext for the war.

What’s kinda weird is that the U.S. is still offering that pretext, and saying shit like Fentanyl is a WMD so they can use the exact same rhetoric, but then they’re also openly saying they just wanna rob Venezuela. They can’t pick a lane.