Hahahaha I keep one at my desk at work

Creamer was another expense when I was in college, and I kinda wanted to see if I could “make” myself like it. And now I have my scale, burr grinder, pour over, local beans…

Thank you for sharing this; it’s a great story!

some real Strategy of Tension shit. Bleak.

You gotta take care of yourself AND you exist in the time and place in which you exist. Assuming you live in the imperial core like myself, the only possible way you can retire some day is by having investments that you can live off of later. Index funds are a pretty simple and (to my knowledge) reasonably effective way of investing.
Do it if you want to, or don't, but don't judge your moral character as a comrade by it.

From a comment there:

We are quite lucky that China is so bad at being friendly to its neighbors because we keep shooting ourselves in the foot. No wonder third-world countries see a moral equivalence between our countries: there actually is one.

I'm reeling, these fucking ghouls are so goddamn racist, jesus fucking christ. Saying that under THIS article is fucking unhinged. I know that subreddit is ran by literal feds, but fuck.

Public roads in Wyoming have stuff like this happen as well. A popular picnic stop at the top of a small mountain I went to once had a public road all the way to the top until a guy bought the land on both sides of the road and closed it off. Now you have to park about an hour's walk down and hoof it to the top.

Damn, deleted in the seconds it took me to log-in for a response. Should have been a tagline

Don't get me wrong, I love chilling out and being lazy, but I don't think I totally agree: I don't think work is inherently bad. It's bad under capitalism because we're exploited and alienated, but under communism I think it will actually be fulfilling and meaningful.

It’s pretty great, honestly. Simply trying it shows you how completely fucked the war on drugs has been.
Definitely be cautious about over-doing it, but have fun! It’s an incredible enhancer to experiences, but can make you very ok with being unproductive and lazy.

true BUT: corn fucking slaps

I think you’re pretty much spot-on. The actual math behind most machine learning algorithms isn’t THAT complicated, and with tons of computational power, eventually someone was going to stumble into the ideas.
Also, the cats kind of out of the bag. We should use it as a tool to organize around, or even help us organize in general. But I think boycotting it feels like a distraction.

On three separate occasions this past school year, some contractors were removing asbestos from one of the labs in the basement. The only notice was a paper sign posted very inconspicuously on two of the building doors, the day removal started.
They did some sealing on the hallway that room was in, but otherwise no precautions were taken. My office was two hallways down, and all classes in the building ran like normal. Very safe, very good

Those pics from the surface of Venus that soviet rover captured always blow my mind

Learning about Canada’s PM back in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and how he practically had a crush on Hitler was wild.

Oof. Or like. You’re solving the genuinely interesting problem of designing the switch for the track, along with the trolley itself. And as long as you don’t think about it beyond that, you can mostly convince yourself you’re in the clear.
STEM is so cooked it’s overwhelming sometimes. Really hope I can find something that doesn’t make me hate myself or others.

Thinking back to the "GhOsT cItIeS" is hilarious while living in a hollowed out US city with rising homelessness and shrinking opportunity. But, hey, we're getting a new baseball stadium, largely subsidized by the city!

Proof by ponder

Looks like a pic from Jordan Peterson's nightmares

China's electric vehicle company BYD has announced they've developed a new hybrid drive train that promises to deliver a 2,000km (1,250 mile) range on a full tank and a full charge. And one of the new sedans they're putting it in will retail for less than $14k.

Catch me in parking lots at 2:30am doing burnouts in my Chinese car for hours on end. Or don't because