Uncommon, sure, but definitely not unprecedented these days. Hurricane Michael destroyed the gulf coast back in 2018, category 5

This is almost comical at this point. The parties supposedly did what the GA Secretary of State told them to do, and the court just decided that wasn’t correct? PSL and Cornel West will be on GA ballots but they literally won’t count those votes???
How in god’s name does anyone have faith in this system anymore, genuinely? I walk around at work and stuff and feel like I’m in a daze sometimes, seeing people in Kamala shirts or whatever the fuck. The covid response definitely threw my worldview for a loop, but the past year has really done a number on me.

The example that helped things start to click for me was the relationship between poverty and charity. At first glance they feel like opposites, poverty is a lack in essential needs, charity is an concentration of those essentials, distributed to those without.

But once you think about it some more, the only reason there is poverty is because some people have hoarded enough resources that they can dole them out as charity. Charity can only exist if poverty does, and poverty can only exist if the conditions for charity exist. Each contains the seed of the other within it, and they push and pull on each other. The more poverty there is, the more need for charity there is. The more charity exists, the more poverty that there must be. This is a dialectical relationship.

They’re sick as hell

Yo hit me up once you start talking Hilbert and Sobolev spaces. That’s when the real hits

My midwestern roots taught me that Culver’s is for date night, Taco Bell is for sustenance.

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jimmy jam

Yeah, I think it has to be that. Just sucks that people who cared so much get overwhelmed to the point of giving up.

The wildest to me is how far some people have swung back.
The person who, back in 2021/22, would walk out of their way in the hallway to keep 6 feet of distance between us, who has two kids at home both younger than 3, doesn’t take any precautions anymore. Or the guy who wore aura respirators before anyone else and did everything on zoom until 2023, I never see wearing a mask anymore. Or people I organize with who actively refuse to wear a mask, even at actions. It’s just so strange.

Man, I’ve definitely noticed I’m a lot more tired these days. As far as I know I’ve only had it once, so who knows, but it definitely makes me wonder.

Not a clue where you’re located, so maybe this isn’t relevant to your situation, but when I worked at Target they explicitly told us they’d let shoplifters steal many times, until they had evidence you’d stolen enough to get a felony charge. Then they’d call the cops to ambush you outside the store.
And stores would communicate about specific shoplifters who went on sprees at a bunch of different stores in an area.
I imagine other retailers have roughly similar policies. So, all that to say, keep the monetary value low, shoplift at stores not close to where you live, don’t hit a place too many times, and mix up the places you shoplift from.

It’s so funny that in a non-election year you can maybe get (a shrinking minority of) liberals to recognize the anti-democratic nature of gerrymandering and the electoral college, but every four years they’ll use examples of that anti-democracy to berate you for choosing to vote for a third party.
The state I live in has gone for the Republican in 9 out of the last 12 elections, and the margin has gotten bigger every year since 2000. The bubble I circle on the top of the ballot is literally irrelevant to the outcome of the election, and that’s ON PURPOSE. I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but

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Fuck I gotta sell out (main)

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I think this other one works well here too. A little more explicitly focused on the hysterical narratives chuds indulge themselves in

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Calculating syrup residue at infinity

This plus @[email protected]’s comment above is a crazy shot+chaser

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