Reminds me of the PSUV in late 2025 restructuring into decentralized “Bolivarian committees” in anticipation of US aggression

Joining the military is a pathway to middle classhood. You get healthcare and education, even if they could be better. There are many perks like on-base grocery stores that are way cheaper than off-base. In general your employment is stable. You have to really fucking screw up to get dismissed/fired. And of course, a lot of that extends to the employee’s family too.

About community, the military is itself a community, an insular one at that. People don’t want to leave because everyone they know is in it somehow or another.

The volunteers already in the military are more than fine. And recruiting, although it waxes and wanes, is always going to be fine because of that, if not even better when the economy shits the bed.

China has been working on modular thorium reactors which passively “turn off” if malfunctioning (or destroyed). This in addition to thorium being naturally far less radioactive.

International Manifesto Group is currently live, discussing Iran and recent events: https://www.youtube.com/live/IsIW8wypBX0

Seems like Iran wants a narrative that gains regional allies rather than giving them reasons to oppose Iran. If you are Bahrain then the calculation right now must surely be that the US is the one causing the mess, not Iran who are defending themselves with strategic attacks on military infrastructure. That narrative is a harder sell for leaders if Iran is attacking their boats in the Strait.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of struggling in class. Or something, idk I’m not a cosmologist.

I appreciate you sharing all these

They are an open and self-described ML and basically spend all their time educating the masses

It was sarcasm, /s for the sound she makes

Warren catching strays 😔😔

Even if it’s possible, don’t make it easy. Too many people post here hyper specific details like “my grandfather with <rareDisease> has an adopted daughter from Bangladesh who became a rural doctor”

Don’t make things too personal here, even if most of us are friendly

That sliver of a few decades between, on the one hand, slavery, ethnic cleansing, and brutal industrial labor including children; and on the other hand, the current “late-stage capitalism” involving debt traps and monopoly —

Those few decades were enough to convince liberals of the “true” benevolent nature of this system. Just don’t look outside of your own immediate circumstances, nor read history; that might ruin the illusion. Don’t even ask your parents what their own life was like during this fabled golden age.

Neither spoke about how to be a good person and what you should be doing.

This is a parenting principle I’ve heard from the Conscious Discipline crowd: tell your kid what to do rather than what not to do. They don’t have the presence to immediately know a better alternative to what they’re doing, and all they can think about is what they’re told not to do. So most likely they will continue doing that.

Mr Chazz talks about this a couple minutes into this parenting analysis: https://tankie.tube/w/sKdHBXjZ8cTqbxsJC8cJxe

If they show the content, they’re doing it to rip off the poor Hollywood producers.

If they don’t show the content, they are blocking free speech and shamefully blocking the Good News of the free world

It’s the only way to do it

It’s weird phrasing, but I think it means 400k per unclogging event, during which the acid is flushed thru the system. Not 400k per toilet flush, I don’t think even US military budget could sustain that.

Just think

Not required. Line go up

lol never heard of some of those. Some are too apt, like old timer’s disease

Erika Kirk’s stash

Now, and not just with LLMs but before that, people are outsourcing their thinking.

I agree with your main point. This part, though, is misanthropy disguised as anticapitalism. People don’t just turn off their brains when a certain form of thought becomes obsolete. The simple calculator has obviated the need to perform manual arithmetic. Did people stop thinking or doing math? No, instead what used to be the product of mental labor became an object of a new mental labor at a higher level of abstraction.