I just bought a VR game set in medieval Europe, why is there nobody you can pay to cover you with their clothes while you shit in a bucket in the middle of the town square? I demand to relieve myself in the comfort of a human outhouse, it is crucial to my enjoyment of the immersion

If they have something we don't have, it's theft; if they know something we don't know, it's fraud; and if they do something we don't do, it's sabotage

Stock markets are to economics what bouncy castles are to architecture

Between this and the balloon thing, the US seems to have a broadcast malfunction where the audio channel is CNN and the video channel is Looney Tunes

I'm not pretending I know anything about working in a factory or a warehouse, but I have done quite a bit of walking recently, and you really feel much, much better if you wear additional pairs of socks especially if the shoes tend to rub against your ankles

I mean I suppose it is technically impressive but these morticians are still making a mockery of the trade

Don't waste your fucking time arguing with a billionaire!! He's in on it, they are all in on it, he's trying to buy time

In commemoration of the massacre at Tiananmen square on the Fourth of June 1989, I shall now repeat the names of all the brave freedom fighters who died there:

idk why but the woman in this picture looks about to unhinge her jaw

The main difference is that a chatbot is actually available to talk to you

You're not a light otaku until you can recite from memory at least 25 crystals that are used used in solid state lasers

Even if you ignore the unplastered brick wall with the trident hastily slapped on, the uncomfortably tiny glass table without a cloth, the main course being served on a saucer, and the fact that they brought the emissary of their most powerful ally water in plastic bottles and then just left it there, it really speaks to the post-Soviet rebirth of Ukraine's cultural identity that senior diplomats on state visits are served Italian food

Ah yes, the classic "she wants him to adopt her indentation practices, he wants her entire race to face total annihilation in a death camp" office romance

Lol they can't even buy the bullets to shoot themselves in the foot

According to Elon Musk in 2016, Space X would have produced an unmanned Mars mission by 2018; and according to him in 2020 there should have been cargo trips in 2022

A statue of what though? I think this trident thing is exactly the right symbol to represent the anonymous historical void that is the source and the sink of this regime

This disclaimer actually makes it worse because by invoking "educational purposes" they are pretending to present established historical facts. As in, they're feeding this slop to kids who are trying to learn history

Hot take: Even at its height at the end of the 1970s, the Warsaw Pact never stood the shadow of a chance against global capital, neither in terms of weaponry, nor economy, nor geographical extent. Stalin's legacy was snuffed out long before it could create the conditions necessary for the Eastern Bloc to survive through the brunt of imperialism. The US only panicked about the Soviets because they were pint-sized when all of its previous adversaries were microscopic, and the fact that the USSR survived 35 years after destalinisation can only be credited to the remaining embers of Marxism-Leninism, the brilliancy of its workers, and the uncurable malaise of its enemy.

If even the Red Army could defeat your splinter ideology, how do you see it faring against global capital?

If you happen to be suicidal, apply for a job in corporate software engineering. It is a much healthier alternative that feels virtually indistinguishable from the real thing, and you get to afford commodities from time to time

Israel is already antisemitic in the modern meaning of the word because of its ongoing genocide of Palestinian Jews - among other Palestinian ethnic communities - in Gaza. We don't need to bring up semantics from three centuries ago to refute the conspiracy theory that Israel is defending or accepting the entire international Jewish community