Tom Waits? like the artist? I’m confused.

Eugenics has always been a popular idea, all you have to do is call it something else.

In internet culture, the movie Idiocracy (2006) is extremely popular and the most common sentiment is that it’s coming true. It’s a cute move, but it’s central premise is Eugenics: the idea that if humans are allowed to breed naturally, it’ll lead to societal collapse. There are so many online people who think that movie represents how evolution works. It’s scary.

I used to do meter work for the Power Company. I was taught that an arc flash would reach 40,000 degrees (F or C doesn’t matter, don’t ask), and could instantly vaporize tool-steel.

I have a melted pair of pliers to prove it. Luckily, I was probably the only worker who actually used my PPE and was fine.

Brosheph Goebbels: this is what they call each other at The Daily Wire.

I don’t know where this gender war crap comes from. I always dated people that I liked and wanted to be around. It was even fun sometimes.

This sounds like an updated variant of “I hate my wife” boomer humor.

In the Middle East: drones deliver to Amazon.

Our passwords are screwed because the companies that store them can’t be bothered to secure them. All of this could be solved with a regulation that every compromised account means the user is owed $500.

But of course the contributors to the NYTimes can’t find fault with businesses, instead scolding customers that they’re not protecting the data that they didn’t want collected and the credentials and credit scores we didn’t ask for either.

Nobody is going to steal your identity, they’re stealing credentials that you didn’t ask for, do not benefit from, and have no control how they’re stored or maintained.

I think Ai is a solution to our fucked up relationship with naked bodies and sex.

I think your attitude to sex work is a fucked up relationship with naked bodies and sex.

I have an elderly cat, and I share your aggravation. I stop using bottles when they’re like 1/4 full. When I’ve used up enough of the new bottle, I pour the old stuff in.

You know it took 80 years between the time someone who looked like Obama could vote, and the time that someone who looked like Harris could. It shouldn’t be surprising that this same pattern would appear in electability.

Harris probably can’t win, but it’s not her policy or resume’. It’s her vagina. Because at the end of the day, two women have run for the chair, and Trump beat both of them. Maybe their weakness is the obvious thing they have in common?

Harris lost because America is such a misogynistic country, it’s a problem on the left too.

If you disagree, then please explain why Harris’ weaknesses don’t apply to the (cock having) Joe Biden. I don’t remember Biden being a socialist hero, but he was still able to defeat Trump without leaving his basement.

Did you know that when obstetrics and gynecology was new, it was seen as absurd. Because midwives and clever-women had always dominated reproductive care and the idea of going to a man was ridiculous.

The American Medical Association needed to discredit midwives and clever-women. Part of that campaign was legal oppression, by making things like abortion illegal. This is the birth of the anti-abortion movement in America. Not moralists, but capitalists; same as it ever was.

Loosing the brand is a big deal. But not as big of a deal as being de-platformed. Alex’s troupe is a ghost compared to what Info Wars was in 2015.

What Alex has accomplished is dragging this out until a time when right-wing media is in decline nationally. Yea, Alex is still around, the same way Blockbuster has a store or two.

In the future, when Windows users say “advanced users can turn that crap off” they’ll mean the power button, not the group policy editor.

Try to remember that progress is not linear. Rather, it is a constant pattern of three steps forward, two steps back.

That’s funny, because I have studied history and the idea of “progress” being inevitable is an article of faith by people who happened to live in times where technology changes quickly. As you point out, society is much more sticky.

Human history features century-long periods of stagnation and decline. That’s the norm. And there is no reason to think that can’t happen again.

I also want to point out that successful social movements are often aligned with the interests of capital. For example feminism expands the labor force. I think the role of capital’s acquiescence or encouragement is an often overlooked engine of social “progress” in the West.

I guess what I’m saying is History can be comforting, so long as you ignore philosophy.

China is a big place. Saturation with security cameras is an urban thing.

Also, something I’ve learned in America is that people make a lot of noise about keeping kids safe, but that’s all just smoke. I can’t speak for China, but in America children are the least valuable humans, in economic terms, and they get prioritized accordingly.

This just isn’t true. Our healthcare system isn’t bad because we’re cheap. Or because the Pentagon sucks up all the money. We already spend more on healthcare than the military and it’s not close! The truth is that we’re getting ripped off! In fact, Medicare for All would be cheaper and we’d have more money for bombs.

Medicare Advantage alone costs more than the Army and the Navy. The whole Medicare program is slightly bigger than the entire Pentagon. Add in Social Security, Medicaid, and the VA, and if anything, the military starts to look like a real bargain.

The people who are satisfied with status quo are the beneficiaries of it.

People like Epstein can’t exist without a universe of assholes who figure it’s not their problem.

He got his social justice, time to pull up that ladder.

My wildest dream is to die in a world that is marginally better than the one I got born in. At this point I’d settle for marginally worse, since catastrophically worse is a real possibility.