ID411
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- Comment on Genocide apologists deciding if they can counter a Wojak meme by accusing the poster of antisemitism 4 months ago:
What’s a wojack
- Comment on Anon's gastric emergency 4 months ago:
Like my old man used to say, look after your sphincter and your sphincter will look after you.
- Comment on Compulsory voting in Australia is 100 years old. We should celebrate how special it makes our democracy 4 months ago:
I like the way it’s celebrated as “we must make everyone is heard”
When it was probably “I don’t want these cunts moaning after I win”
- Comment on Shocking 5 months ago:
There is a funny sub at the other place /r/whywomenlivelonger. Or something similar.
- Comment on Linguistics 5 months ago:
“ sorry, xzzyghaoi Isn’t in the dictionary “
It’s not fuckin rule book , suzi
- Comment on Linguistics 5 months ago:
I think the words “pious cunt “ has been with us for quite sometime.
- Comment on People Close to Biden Say He Appears to Accept He May Have to Leave the Race 5 months ago:
I think it’s all pretty well orchestrated. All they are doing now is waiting to see which replacement polls better, because Harris doesn’t beat Trump, sadly.
- Comment on Don’t Lose Sight of Project 2025. That’s the Real Trump. 5 months ago:
That’s the real Trump adminstration.
Donny don’t care. Only the people who fund him.
- Comment on Why is the US not considered a third world country? 5 months ago:
I resent this, as Brit. Toilet paper itself is perfectly fine - it’s those people that have to wipe their own arse that are heathen.
- Comment on Why is the US not considered a third world country? 5 months ago:
I applaud this because it will enrage a lot of Americans, who through no fault of their own , live in a better media bubble than most - although they are by no means alone.
Any “1st world” people are prone to believing the government. In Eastern Europe, Latham an other places - people are much more realistic about what Government is and what to expect.
Anyway, America is not 3rd by any means, but it is at risk of becoming a failed state .
According to Professor C. GeePeeTee :
A failed state is a political entity characterized by the collapse or extreme dysfunction of its governmental institutions, leading to the inability to perform basic governance functions and provide public services. Key features of a failed state include:
1. Loss of Control: The government loses control over its territory, and non-state actors such as warlords, militias, or criminal organizations may take over. 2. Weak Institutions: Public institutions such as the judiciary, police, and civil service become ineffective or nonexistent. 3. Political Instability: Persistent internal conflict, violence, and political turmoil prevail. 4. Economic Collapse: Severe economic decline, high unemployment, and lack of infrastructure and public services. 5. Human Rights Violations: Systematic human rights abuses and widespread lack of law and order. 6. Mass Migration: Large-scale displacement of people due to violence, persecution, or economic hardship.
I wouldn’t say any of these are slam dunks as of today, but for 1,2,3 a case can be made I think.
- Politics and the government is inarguably in the hands of Big Money - individuals or corporations.
- Institutions are weakening : the Supreme Court is pulling outrageous partisan shit right now.
- there was an attack on the capitol building, there is gun violence at poltical rallies.
So IMHO it’s hanging on by its fingernails at the moment. It’s hard to asses how strong those fingernails are. As long a people can enjoy NFL and McDonalds, there’s a chance. If that should change, more will be active politically on one side or the others.
- Comment on Anon makes up a word 5 months ago:
You do get credits ingenuity. In the Ingenuity Exam.
this was Linux class
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 5 months ago:
It’s a superb book - I was being mischievous.
He’s into meditation is a big way, as was I when I read it, although I have since lapsed.
The advantage I think this gave me at the time, was to deeply connect with his writing perspective - ie not human-centric.
Buddhism cautions against human exceptionalism in various ways and invites anyone to discover this through meditation.
The quote about wheat profoundly expresses this, with great concision.
My quip was about historians being vulnerable to artistic license to tell a story !
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 5 months ago:
Wonderful storytellers !
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 5 months ago:
I think he’s a historian by trade, so no
- Comment on I genuinely feel like I wouldn't live that differently even if I suddenly became ultra-wealthy. Am I kidding myself? 5 months ago:
100%
- Comment on Why is the current labour party in the UK considered more center left? Do you think they will pass any policies that are considered left leaning now that they have won the majority? 5 months ago:
I guess we’ll see , eh ?
- Comment on Why is the current labour party in the UK considered more center left? Do you think they will pass any policies that are considered left leaning now that they have won the majority? 5 months ago:
Wait and see.
- Comment on Why is the current labour party in the UK considered more center left? Do you think they will pass any policies that are considered left leaning now that they have won the majority? 5 months ago:
I think your information is out of date
- Reeves has decided, she won’t be banning them after all :
amp.theguardian.com/…/labours-new-deal-for-worker…
- They are not in fact going the ban fire and rehire ft.com/…/5518e6d7-3abb-41fd-b8e0-238d66f4cb28
The unions have describe new version of a “new deal for workers”. As having “more holes than a Swiss cheese”
- Comment on Why is the current labour party in the UK considered more center left? Do you think they will pass any policies that are considered left leaning now that they have won the majority? 5 months ago:
May I mention the fact that Starmers acolytes in the party were actively working to undermine Corbyn during the campaign?
Leaking racist smears to the press and so on ?
- Comment on Why is the current labour party in the UK considered more center left? Do you think they will pass any policies that are considered left leaning now that they have won the majority? 5 months ago:
Which workers rights are expanding?
- Comment on Why is the current labour party in the UK considered more center left? Do you think they will pass any policies that are considered left leaning now that they have won the majority? 5 months ago:
It’s a good question. There’s nothing Left about the party at the moment. They are neoliberals who have already sold workers down the river to the Corporations, walking back basic promises for worker protections etc.
Policy wise, there is not much to look forward to. We can hope for more integrity and competence, but it’s slim.
The risk I see, is that they flop around in the centre, don’t deliver anything for voters, and leave the door open to right wing loons in one or two cycles from now.
- Comment on Explain that, science nerds! 5 months ago:
If you weren’t licking your toy cars as a kid, you were missing out.
- Comment on Explain that, science nerds! 5 months ago:
Fuck liberals.
- Comment on British charity founder Peter Fouché dies while working as a combat medic on the front line in east Ukraine 5 months ago:
Strange story. South African by Birth. Founded a charity with 3 or 4 people of which now only 1 remains alive.
How they supplied vehicles and drones is unclear.
- Comment on *nonchalant whistling* 5 months ago:
You don’t get shit storms, you just get bans.
- Comment on Physics 5 months ago:
I’ll bite - we understand turbulence, don’t we ?
- Comment on What are you doing this weekend? 5 months ago:
My god . He’s so…… upright.
- Comment on That's just what happens. It's life. 5 months ago:
Well that told him!
Prick.
- Comment on Is it generally safe to walk through a field of cows? 5 months ago:
NEVER STARE DIRECT INTO THEIR EYES
- Comment on From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction 5 months ago:
Yeah - I think people do have slightly rose tinted spectacles.
They were engrossing, but sometimes obtuse - and parsing instructions was really frustrating.