We are conditioned to believe that politics is only election campaigns and inter-party disagreements and compromise.

We are typically not taught that wages, rent, transportation, community, and so much more is also political, and more impactful on our lives than party politics. I typically start there to gently suggest to people that there’s more to politics than just election season theater.

Really big or emotionally heavy topics like Palestine or climate change are too big and too abstract for most people to even begin to engage with.

It hasn’t really come right after the elections though. The law was passed in January, it’s just only taken effect in the past week.

This is also an election-neutral law, as most of the people who are upset about it aren’t citizens and thus can’t vote. People who aren’t eligible to vote are a great demographic to fuck with for cheap political points.

As I understood the process on this law, it was a “concession” to the Christian Democrat opposition, in response to their fears of citizenship being handed out to too many [unwanted] people. Not that the governing coalition needed much convincing to approve the adjustment.

Do you mean work remotely for an overseas company?

Or do you mean emigrate from Philippines?

The irony being that China has the tools to overcome a declining population, whereas the west is a goldbergian paperclip maximizer.

Would be a good comedy bit, much like the opening to Monty Python’s Holy Grail.

As with every other “crisis” capitalism faces, the solution is simple: no more capitalism, no more crisis.

“A reduction in the share of workers can lead to labor shortages, which may raise the bargaining power of employees and lift wages — all of which is ultimately inflationary,” Simona Paravani-Mellinghoff, managing director at BlackRock, wrote in an analysis last year.

Yeah, fuck that babbling bourgeois bullshit. Fun fact though, after plague killed so many people in Europe, the surviving serfs (and their more immediate descendants) had an unprecedented level of power and agency over their living and working conditions.

Based hacking group. This kind of stuff puts “anonymous” and other cosplaying CIAnarchists to shame.

On a slight tangent I can’t wait to pore through “secret” government documents after the revolution.

Maybe I’m offbase, but aren’t most so-called terror attacks in the west precisely that, the pain coming home to roost? And instead of thinking “hmm, I wonder how I could behave differently to help alleviate the perpetrator’s grievance” libs just go straight to “uncultured neanderthal swine did this and they’ll keep doing it until we bring civilization to them.”

This more than anything else shows that it’s a pathological obsession rather than an evidence and merit based approach. A perfect microcosm of liberalism if you will.

So US cops don’t hunt down communists, and therefore the US isn’t fascist? I’m having a hard time seeing the thought process here, but then again I’m not a fascist.

New dead Internet theory just dropped

As far as I know, NASA has two current plans. Either sell the ISS to some billionaire, or deorbit it and drop it into the ocean. Both are really sad conclusions to an important scientific and engineering project.

The funny thing is, the league of colonial crackers don’t have the capability to deorbit the ISS. Right now only the Russian Progress vehicle can significantly modify the orbit of the ISS. If it’s not deorbited quickly and precisely on purpose, it’ll deorbit on its own in an uncontrolled manner, with a slight risk of dropping debris on inhabited land.

I find it really icky and distasteful. There’s plenty of things we can make jokes about without needing to insult others (regardless of whether this is with the consent of the person on the receiving end).

According to it, if you are malnourished and physically stunted because of it, you can still be classified as not poor if you have a phone.

Next the US will claim to have solved homelessness because you can’t possibly be homeless if you have a phone.

If anti-productive things like interest and rent are counted as GDP then so should illegal activity.

Depends on who owns the business. If it’s a bourgeois then yes, if it’s the workers themselves then no.

With how irredeemably greedy Boeing is, I can’t help but think that Airbus is probably just as bad. Everything the US government does and will do for Boeing, the French and EU will do for Airbus.

Unfortunately for us in the US dominated west, flying on COMAC and Ilyushin airframes will never be an option.

Same, although instead of chapo I was one of the “Bernie bros” on Facebook in 2020.

The US Midwest, as well as much of Canada, is built like that. Winters are long and cold, so houses are more or less built to keep heat in, but not to keep heat out, or cool down quickly once hot. I say more or less because historically energy has been so cheap that instead of properly insulating like people do in Europe for example, many just turn up the heat in winter. So even when people can afford to buy and run an AC unit and the power grid cooperates, the AC can often only cool one room, and maybe not even quite handle that sufficiently.

In historically temperate areas like the pacific northwest, homes aren’t really built with extreme temperatures in mind, so anything outside of the usual 5-25°C range is very uncomfortable very quickly.