16282 pts ยท February 1, 2012
perhaps for all forms of love to be possible, all forms of everything must be possible.
so let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair
Atlas Twerked
here in MI the ad campaigns are pouring in and the main one's catchphrase is "DIFFERENT. DANGEROUS." with a repeating clip of Abdul saying "I'm really dangerous!" i think if there was a commercial just of Mike Rogers saying "HIM BROWN BAD. ME WHITE GOOD." it would actually be more low-brow, but only slightly and not by much.
director Robert Eggers' first film, and one of his two auteur masterpieces along with The Lighthouse (2019). he now makes decent blockbusters like Nosferatu (2024), which are hard to fault but lack any of the Kubrickian boldness that defined his early career.
like all capitalist democracies, the system is predicated on there being some kind of mutual interest between the owning class and the working class, as there was during the era when production depended on the masses. but as capital outgrows this dependency, the interests of worker and owner once again diverge into feudal exclusivity, and the capitalist democracies become powerless to effect solutions for the public good. their lame duck political parties become either sterilized or radicalized
Ted Nugent's first band the Amboy Dukes final album
BOM-oma-bom, ba-BOM-a-bom-bom, va-DANG-a-dang-dang, va-DING-a-dong-ding-blue-moon!
that's it. i'm calling Hippocrates. he's on his way.you fascists are in trouble now.
the whores are $50 and the crack is eleven dollars.
the good news about living on the cusp of The Fall is that enough of the old physical media and infrastructure are still intact, and there are enough people around whose minds were cultivated before enshitification, that with a bit of planning and networking a person can still attain a wide variety of fulfilling, non-digital lifestyles.i seriously doubt this will be possible in a generation or two.
i feel like the crackwhore motel by the expressway is $139
it's always been that way.. if it seems like it was saner and more decent back in the day its because previous generations of capitalist ownership still depended on a relatively healthy working class to mint their billions. but as predicted, capital is outgrowing that need, and so the interests of owner and worker are diverging once again into feudal exclusivity
this is why they hand count such large samples of each district's physical ballots and then compare that number to the digital count. if the two don't match within a slim margin of error then that district is flagged for a full audit. this fail-safe was what legal experts of election fraud repeatedly pointed to in dismissing Trump's claims of widespread interference, so how is this any different? in all those districts why was nothing flagged? how is there no evidence?
why are Reaganism and Thatcherism so similar? because both were acting on behalf of their capitalist ownership class. why did the ownership class renege its contract with the working class in the 1980s? because long-predicted advances in production had rendered capital's dependence on labor increasingly obsolete.without material analysis we are left with soap opera versions of history, in which everything boils down to the perceived personalities of countries and leaders.
that problem was there in Roman times, too.
the solution is the same as it's always been: the workers of the world must unite. but the challenges to that union are more difficult than ever, and so it's hard to imagine any concrete action that doesn't first require a massive shift in public consciousness. ironically, the bombastic incompetence and open kleptocracy of trump-style regimes actively cratering the living conditions of hundreds of millions of people might be among the few catalysts invasive enough to effect that shift.
>> the master plan of some nefarious supervillain. this is not a Musk thing or a Trump thing, these are the largest-scale forces of history and economy behaving exactly the way they've always behaved: in accordance with the grim laws of wealth accumulation. to chalk it up to anything less is not just naive but dangerous.
during its industrial / manufacturing era, capital depended on the participation of the masses. this dependence built the middle classes, but long-predicted advances in the nature of capital, especially its production, have rendered that dependence increasingly obsolete - reverting the middle class back to a serf-like caste of non-ownership, and driving the people into the arms of far-right reactionaries, one disenfranchised proletarian at a time.this is not a national thing, nor is it >>
>> Jews, like Muslims and Hindus, are a minority in this country? an oppressed minority, and we as decent liberals are duty-bound to their defense, just as we are duty-bound to antagonize the Christian majority who oppress them.
if that country had a cross on its flag instead of a star and was populated by militant Westboro evangelists the takeaway here would overwhelmingly be: "fuck Christianity, fuck Christians, fuck Christland, religion is a poison that needs to be destroyed."instead we have to make these wordy overtures and disclaimers so as not to upset the delicate sensibilities of a religion that we have been inculcated to sympathize with, but why? the holocaust? media propaganda? or is it simply because >>
the final seasons of GoT ruined TV series for me. like when a girl has a boyfriend she thought she loved but the breakup was so horrific that she swears off men forever. that's me with shows. deep down i'm still attracted to them but i will not put myself through that trauma again.
parenting is like gardening, and as a dad the sad and scary part isn't that AI will snake into my garden and poison my seedlings. it's that AI is making the world a garden-less place, and that there will be nowhere for them to be planted when my job is done.
this game is so good though https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/
it's crazy how much girls are pretty
renowned classicist Mary Beard contends that as moderns, every history we have of Alexander is anecdote. Roman anecdote, to be specific
they used sex, drugs, and a half-naked babe to hook the customer, then they wrote the article demonizing all those things to dupe the censor. an old formula, good for a buck every time in those days.
>> while powerful new media technologies offer us low-hanging, personalized, emotionally satisfying narratives with which the sober disciplines of material analysis cannot hope to compete. this is a global economic paradigm shift, the dawning of a new feudalism as the middle classes are re-enserfed, one young adult at a time, into a fixed caste system - and nobody can see it happening. we're too zoomed in on trump, race, gender, sex, religion and everything else besides our own enslavement.
the children of the world's middle classes are inheriting adulthoods of serf-like non-ownership as capital approaches its long-predicted shift away from the mass production, mass market, and mass participation models which defined its industrial era and which underwrote the explosive growth and social mobility of the third estate over the preceding centuries.the large-scale historic and economic forces behind this process exist at the periphery of our suburban comprehension >>
people aren't weighing any evidence. people aren't interested in truth. the vast majority of them use one simple question to understand the world: "what's everybody else think?"for intellectuals this has always been a blind spot. we prefer to see the rest of humanity as fellow citizen-scientists, logically deducing known from unknown, making objective comparisons and coming to independent conclusions - though sometimes with faulty evidence or equipment!wrong. they don't do that.
perhaps for all forms of love to be possible, all forms of everything must be possible.
so let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair
Atlas Twerked
here in MI the ad campaigns are pouring in and the main one's catchphrase is "DIFFERENT. DANGEROUS." with a repeating clip of Abdul saying "I'm really dangerous!"
i think if there was a commercial just of Mike Rogers saying "HIM BROWN BAD. ME WHITE GOOD." it would actually be more low-brow, but only slightly and not by much.
director Robert Eggers' first film, and one of his two auteur masterpieces along with The Lighthouse (2019). he now makes decent blockbusters like Nosferatu (2024), which are hard to fault but lack any of the Kubrickian boldness that defined his early career.
like all capitalist democracies, the system is predicated on there being some kind of mutual interest between the owning class and the working class, as there was during the era when production depended on the masses. but as capital outgrows this dependency, the interests of worker and owner once again diverge into feudal exclusivity, and the capitalist democracies become powerless to effect solutions for the public good. their lame duck political parties become either sterilized or radicalized
Ted Nugent's first band the Amboy Dukes final album
BOM-oma-bom, ba-BOM-a-bom-bom, va-DANG-a-dang-dang, va-DING-a-dong-ding-blue-moon!
that's it. i'm calling Hippocrates. he's on his way.
you fascists are in trouble now.
the whores are $50 and the crack is eleven dollars.
the good news about living on the cusp of The Fall is that enough of the old physical media and infrastructure are still intact, and there are enough people around whose minds were cultivated before enshitification, that with a bit of planning and networking a person can still attain a wide variety of fulfilling, non-digital lifestyles.
i seriously doubt this will be possible in a generation or two.
i feel like the crackwhore motel by the expressway is $139
it's always been that way.. if it seems like it was saner and more decent back in the day its because previous generations of capitalist ownership still depended on a relatively healthy working class to mint their billions. but as predicted, capital is outgrowing that need, and so the interests of owner and worker are diverging once again into feudal exclusivity
this is why they hand count such large samples of each district's physical ballots and then compare that number to the digital count. if the two don't match within a slim margin of error then that district is flagged for a full audit.
this fail-safe was what legal experts of election fraud repeatedly pointed to in dismissing Trump's claims of widespread interference, so how is this any different? in all those districts why was nothing flagged? how is there no evidence?
why are Reaganism and Thatcherism so similar? because both were acting on behalf of their capitalist ownership class. why did the ownership class renege its contract with the working class in the 1980s? because long-predicted advances in production had rendered capital's dependence on labor increasingly obsolete.
without material analysis we are left with soap opera versions of history, in which everything boils down to the perceived personalities of countries and leaders.
that problem was there in Roman times, too.
the solution is the same as it's always been: the workers of the world must unite. but the challenges to that union are more difficult than ever, and so it's hard to imagine any concrete action that doesn't first require a massive shift in public consciousness. ironically, the bombastic incompetence and open kleptocracy of trump-style regimes actively cratering the living conditions of hundreds of millions of people might be among the few catalysts invasive enough to effect that shift.
>> the master plan of some nefarious supervillain. this is not a Musk thing or a Trump thing, these are the largest-scale forces of history and economy behaving exactly the way they've always behaved: in accordance with the grim laws of wealth accumulation. to chalk it up to anything less is not just naive but dangerous.
during its industrial / manufacturing era, capital depended on the participation of the masses. this dependence built the middle classes, but long-predicted advances in the nature of capital, especially its production, have rendered that dependence increasingly obsolete - reverting the middle class back to a serf-like caste of non-ownership, and driving the people into the arms of far-right reactionaries, one disenfranchised proletarian at a time.
this is not a national thing, nor is it >>
>> Jews, like Muslims and Hindus, are a minority in this country? an oppressed minority, and we as decent liberals are duty-bound to their defense, just as we are duty-bound to antagonize the Christian majority who oppress them.
if that country had a cross on its flag instead of a star and was populated by militant Westboro evangelists the takeaway here would overwhelmingly be: "fuck Christianity, fuck Christians, fuck Christland, religion is a poison that needs to be destroyed."
instead we have to make these wordy overtures and disclaimers so as not to upset the delicate sensibilities of a religion that we have been inculcated to sympathize with, but why? the holocaust? media propaganda? or is it simply because >>
the final seasons of GoT ruined TV series for me. like when a girl has a boyfriend she thought she loved but the breakup was so horrific that she swears off men forever. that's me with shows. deep down i'm still attracted to them but i will not put myself through that trauma again.
parenting is like gardening, and as a dad the sad and scary part isn't that AI will snake into my garden and poison my seedlings. it's that AI is making the world a garden-less place, and that there will be nowhere for them to be planted when my job is done.
this game is so good though
https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/
it's crazy how much girls are pretty
renowned classicist Mary Beard contends that as moderns, every history we have of Alexander is anecdote. Roman anecdote, to be specific
they used sex, drugs, and a half-naked babe to hook the customer, then they wrote the article demonizing all those things to dupe the censor. an old formula, good for a buck every time in those days.
>> while powerful new media technologies offer us low-hanging, personalized, emotionally satisfying narratives with which the sober disciplines of material analysis cannot hope to compete.
this is a global economic paradigm shift, the dawning of a new feudalism as the middle classes are re-enserfed, one young adult at a time, into a fixed caste system - and nobody can see it happening. we're too zoomed in on trump, race, gender, sex, religion and everything else besides our own enslavement.
the children of the world's middle classes are inheriting adulthoods of serf-like non-ownership as capital
approaches its long-predicted shift away from the mass production, mass market, and mass participation
models which defined its industrial era and which underwrote the explosive growth and social mobility
of the third estate over the preceding centuries.
the large-scale historic and economic forces behind this process exist at the periphery of our suburban comprehension >>
people aren't weighing any evidence. people aren't interested in truth. the vast majority of them use one simple question to understand the world: "what's everybody else think?"
for intellectuals this has always been a blind spot. we prefer to see the rest of humanity as fellow citizen-scientists, logically deducing known from unknown, making objective comparisons and coming to independent conclusions - though sometimes with faulty evidence or equipment!
wrong. they don't do that.