Yeah I never thought end times myths were based on prior events though.

The point of Bernie or AOC or Zohran or any socialist candidate is the movement behind them, which represents the will of the masses. The actual figurehead is largely irrelevant because everything they do is in the interest of their constituents. They might use their charisma to win (but usually it’s the movement that actually wins the campaign), but once they’re in power they just have to fulfill their promises, and they have staff to do this.

A regular politician, by contrast, enacts the will of the corporate class. In this way they’re mostly irrelevant too.

So I always thought the whole End Times eschatology was just bullshit to scare people and convince them that their religion had it all figured out. But now I’ve come to realize the metaphorical power of the stories themselves.

Who would have thought putting all that lead in the environment would have such far-reaching consequences?

Planes are included in space. Or vice versa if that offends you.

We laugh, but this was an actual product.

Common sense. See for example the work of Neil Postman.

I would do the exact middle of the neck.

The guy stumbled upon 5 female elephants and a calf. Pretty sure any human would have been attacked, but yeah, who knows what’s in their collective memory.

Man, David Harvey really went off the deep end huh

If I had a nickel for every time I pointed this out…

Pre-industrial life expectancy was so low because of high infant mortality. If you made it to 38 you were not that much more likely to die before 70 than you are now, precluding outside circumstances like war or plague.

Unrealistic though because most people who ride horses aren’t as cool as Subcomandante Marcos

I can see him starting his own religion instead, once he realizes how much merch he can sell.

Antarctica is a continent made of rock.

Go to a festival with corporate kiosks and grab a free pair.

The sign translates to “buffet”. Cafe is “kávézó”

No link?

The paradigmatic example of this is Orbán’s Hungary.

Guaranteed that no sides will agree to anything over the next 2 weeks.

Not always, usually it’s an evolutionary arms race though. Recent paper I thought was really cool suggests the initial jump from single to multicellular happened because of a snowball Earth which changed the water temperature and therefore viscosity, making larger size equate to more efficient swimming.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/716634