Gonna assume it’s like the Mafia where you never truly “pay off” your debt even when the required amount of money is transferred.

I just use the web UI. It scales really well on mobile.

Do vegetables actually need to be refrigerated? Always wondered. Is it an actual safety thing or just a preserving flavour/texture thing?

Yeah, how amazing that I can see anti-US propaganda Lego movies whenever I want. That’s what will ignite the revolution that makes our lives better, really some serious dissent that can conceivably lead to real change here.

Shitposts and memes about dissent to satiate the mases while all the real political discourse by activists with any real chance of accomplishing anything are censored and criminalised. Look at what happens to journalists objectively covering Iran, Israel, ICE, you name it. Look at how the protestors against oil pipelines or police racial violence are treated. So much freedom of speech for those people.

China and Russia haven’t been “communist” since… Well, forever

Technically correct because they are and were socialist respectively. “Communism” as a system is the endgame of socialism, characterised by dissolution of the State, and unfortunately has not yet been realised. Kind of like truely pure functional programming on our current stateful computer architectures.

So it’s particularly ironic when Israeli “communes” exist under the protection and apartheid enforcement of the checks notes STATE of Israel.

because they don’t have political freedom. there’s no stuff like “you can speak your mind as long as you’re respectful”

And the West definitely, absolutely has that

Hey remember when they accuse Hamas of this? They’re a terrorist group by their own criteria.

Eh, very little though. The components themselves are orders of magnitude more valuable but you have to know how to steal them to make money when even slight damage in a few spevcific places can make it nonfunctional.

If there’s one silver lining from this horrific situation it’s showing the world just how vulnerable petroleum infrastructure is. Not sure if the lesson will stick though, I suspect most people/companies/governments will get right back to putting all their eggs in the oil basket the instant this blows over.

Allies: Israel

In other news, a galaxy far far away has formed a new, better rebel group. Allies: The Empire.

Also “anti-some other group” is not an ideology. Stop calling that by itself an ideology. “I don’t like this group and don’t support them.” Cool, but what do you support then? What makes you different? Ideologies are positive assertions about what you actually believe in and what you would actually do. Negative assertions like “anti-whatever group” tell us nothing about who or what you actually are. Imagine if Marxists’ arguments started and ended with “capitalism bad” with no proposal or discussion on alternative systems and why they would work better.

There’s a strong cultural aversion in China to drugs in general (in large part due to the trauma of the Opium Wars) that need to be overcome for cannabis to be accepted, and there are signs that some progress is being made albiet very very slowly. But like you said it’s indeed a contradiction that alcohol and tobacco is much more normalized. I think a lot of the heavy handed drug enforcement in China is conflated to be due to socialism, but IMO it’s more due to culture and the socialist government, as any government should, conforms to the will of the majority on this issue. So the majority opinion/culture needs to shift first, kind of like the path toward legalization in Canada was in response to a similar cultural shift in its population. Am Chinese but don’t live in China so this is second hand information though.

Man they never stop trying to shoehorn caffeine in with liquor do they? Even when every doctor says it’s one of the worst things you can do besides drinking at all.

That makes sense. But still, tons of countries criminalize hemp as a material even with negligible THC levels. Which is bullshit even if you think recreational cannabis is bad.

Damn that’s some high praise.

Also, which is it libs? Did the USSR have a war on drugs a million times worse than the US where even touching a weed leaf got you the death penalty or was cannabis so normalized the government literally gave awards to producers? I’ve mostly heard the former in countries like Canada along the lines of “we never would have legalised weed if we were socialist! You’d be dead or in a gulag right now, stoner commie!”

Don’t want carbonated alcoholic drinks spraying on the books and dissolving the ink I guess? IDK that’s the only vaguely logical explanation I could come up with.

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Engineering spirit >>>> enterpreneurship spirit. I prefer to put all my energy into solving problems for the masses as the end goal, not maximize profit for the few as the end goal with solving problems almost as a side effect. Nothing suppresses engineering spirit more than enterpreneurship spirit. The amount of times complete, sustainable solutions get shot down by enterpreneurs in favour of partial, temporary solutions designed to manufacture dependency on the business is disgusting.

Yes, because the white investor of all people is the one we should be feeling bad for. Sure.

Y’all get paid enough to survive?

After renewing it “one last time” though. Real junkie that will “go to rehab after I use one last time” energy.