If the reduced usage isn’t offset by the burning oilfields, at least.

NSPM-7 in action.

You can be the first one on your block to bring your boy home in a box.

Every time I turn around, they’ve doubled the number again.

Politics isn’t a sport, and the political compass shit is just the sorting hat for (Western) Poli Sci majors.

I am a Marxist-Leninist with a lot left to learn (and read). I was a sort of ultra-left “Marxist” (firmly in compatible left territory) until I started lurking on here and reading comments by Cowbee and other comrades.

What is to be done? Same as it ever was, build the party of the working class. For a global revolution to even be possible, the empire must sufficiently collapse. A year ago, I would’ve said it might’ve taken another few decades to really get going, but it seems we’ve left the decades where weeks happen and entered the weeks where decades happen. Let’s just say I’ll be really curious to see what happens when gas tops $10/gallon on average in the USA.

Make it a paid holiday for everyone, like Christmas, you cowards.

Agreed. PCs will wind up being for power users only, both due to cost and the decline in tech literacy.

But also, Nvidia is already salivating at the idea of people streaming games from what amounts to glorified chromebooks. Whether those are actually running a Google OS or a Microsoft one doesn’t ultimately matter - the point is that they will be locked into a walled garden with minimally-powerful hardware. Can such a device even really be considered a PC anymore?

If you are able to set up OpenWRT on your router and run Mullvad through that, you can cover your whole network as one “device.”

I recommend everyone get their own modem/router if they are able to. ISP’s don’t provide them for free and you have no idea what monitoring they do with their hardware.

How useful is the heart rate tracker on the PineTime? I’ve seen comments saying it hurts the battery life and isn’t accurate, but I don’t know if that’s been addressed with more recent updates.

The implication being that these now-unemployed women will enter into relationships with the blue-collar men to survive. The Epstein class certainly seems to be going all-in on traditional gender roles. Anything to get their human cattle breeding again, I suppose.

I’m not sure how effective it would be. I guess it depends on who believes their bullshit. If they have the military industrial complex firmly behind their grift, maybe they’ll just say to hell with the rest of us. I’ve believed we’re unavoidably headed for civil war since at least 2016, and nothing that’s happened since has changed my mind on that.

I’m now seeing headlines about heightened security at the Oscars. I’m split on whether they’re going to try shooting a celebrity to start riling people up for a ground invasion versus using this as an excuse to ramp up the panopticon. Either one is bad news.

And here I thought Kid Starver’s reputation was already in tatters over his unflagging commitment to genocide.

I suspect the involvement of the CIA or some of their rogue assets, either mobsters or gusanos. He was allegedly warming towards Cuba, and I think that may have been part of the motivation. Blowback Season 2 made a pretty convincing argument for that scenario.

I guess they’re announcing their false flags in advance now.

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man pointing at butterfly Is this Butlerian Jihad?

My “favorite war” is class war. 🙃

I recall reading in a separate study that true literacy, that is, being able to read, comprehend, and make inferences about a text, is at about 10% in the USA. Even those 10% are being mis-educated - taught various myths about history and economics. Without historical materialism, one really lacks the ability to comprehend the broader picture, even when one is ostensibly able to read and comprehend.

Of course, this is by design. Why would Capital want workers capable of understanding the world or their place in it? The brain drain will continue until the empire collapses under its own contradictions.

It’s going to have to hit $5/gallon in the Midwest and Southern US before we really see much reaction from the USians, and it would have to be sustained. There will be plenty of grumbling before we hit that point, but no action. That’s my prediction anyway.