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Bestiality, disgusting.

No, my academic background is political science, not history, but they overlap. ‘The exception that proves the rule’ is generally trite, but I think if holds true in the case. Part of why revolutions are studied is that they’re rare. Most modern human history is a story of unequal distribution of wealth and the exploitation and coercion required to uphold that, and the moments in history where that bubbles into revolution are rare. It’s easy to say the French revolted in 1789, but that ignores centuries of the ancien régime remaining in power.

Conditions won’t just deteriorate until an eventual revolution. A revolution itself generally can’t be planned, but successful ones take a lot of groundwork.

Happy birthday! I’m so happy to have found this insurance.

Any Firefox Android forks that improve the battery life?

Davis describes herself as a trans refugee. Back in Texas, she says, lived in a “pretty hostile and frankly dangerous” place. “I had a lot of close calls, a lot of threats.”

Wilbur also describes himself as a “refugee.” He relates an experience that is a virtual mirror image of Davis’. In Seattle, the local conservative talk show host — who also briefly served as Washington state Republican chair — felt like a stranger in a strange land.

Virtual mirror image, indeed.

I want this to be true, but history seems to me to show that most people just tolerate increasingly worse conditions indefinitely. Exploited/oppressed people rising up seems the exception.

Unironically, I would very much like a turntable (or receiver) with a headphone jack. The headphone output on my current thrifted receiver is terrible.

Police protect capital, not you.

AI IS GREAT EVERYONE USES IT TRUST ME BRO IT’S SO GREAT JUST GIVE IT A TRY BRO TRUST ME BRO JUST ONE TOKEN BRO ONE SQUARE KILOMETER OF RAINFOREST IS ALL IT TAKES AND ALL THE BIG TITTY MICKEY MOUSE JPGS CAN BE YOURS PLEASE JUST USE AI the chatbot is holding my family hostage please.

People don’t like that generative AI is based on stolen content. People don’t like that it’s being forced into everything. People don’t like that it isn’t even good at most of the things it tries to do. People definitely hate it’s attempts at ‘music’ and ‘art.’ People don’t like it’s immense energy costs. People don’t like that it might render them, and everyone else, unemployed. People don’t like that they’re owned by oligarchs.

Oligarchs invested trillions in the hope of firing us all and no longer paying us wages. You need to get some class consciousness.

Thank you, now I know what I’m going to be reading about for the next several hours.

There can’t be many examples in history of an empire being cucked by it’s own client state, but here we are.

Wild that people just casually admit to outsourcing their thinking to a machine. I’d never willing post something that embarrassing. Butlerian Jihad Now.

They aren’t peaceful.

If in your bedroom is all you can do, that’s better than nothing, but the ability to effectively organize online only is limited.

I know this sounds like a stupid platitude, but the solution to doomerism is to organize. In real life, with living, breathing humans.

Join whatever organization is active in your community, start attending meetings, find a campaign to plug into, and spend at least a few hours a week doing something positive with other people that also want to do something positive. And, after you campaign with them, socialize with them because organizing can be hard but feeling connected to members of your community feels better.

I helped found a mutual aid working group in my DSA chapter; we spend all month taking in donations, and then host a monthly Food Not Bombs-style food and hygienic supply distribution for the unhoused and food insecure. The feeling you get when you actually help improve people’s material conditions is genuinely just the best.

And, yeah, definitely get off Twitter.

Isn’t it in the Steele dossier that Putin has tapes of Trump being peed on by sex workers because he wanted to defile a bed that the Obamas had also stayed in?

The media always refers to the Steele dossier as being debunked despite lots of it’s claims later being verified.

Edit: Yep. The Trump scandal train is so long we’re literally looping back into OG Trump scandals.

Hot take, but this whole AI thing kinda sucks.

Steam, too. It was originally unpopular DRM for Half-Life 2. It had a broken offline mode that could only be selected when already online. It had no meaningful customer service and people permanently lost their accounts with no avenue for appeal (and probably no human even involved).

Prisoners: “We’re being sexually abused.”

IOF: “Of course we sexually abuse prisoners, want to see the videos?”

Israelis: “We’ll shut down the country to protest our rights to sexually abuse prisoners.”

Pretty much the only people on the planet that pretend to not know this are the ones writing the blank checks to arms manufacturers.