contains dairy, typically? so I guess the cw is for animal products

cursed

down an engine doesn’t usually mean “engine ripped off the airframe” it just means it’s damaged or not running

yeah its a known viewing area for spacex launches. I mean the article isn’t 100% clear but contextually it seems like its the bit of beach right there where the rio grande meets the gulf. I bet someone got annoyed with people going to mexico to watch DoD spacex launches or something

they do this thing where even if the car was stolen, or other circumstances where the owner bears no fault, it often just gets taken to the same impound lot with all other towed vehicles, where it starts accumulating storage fees for every day it sits there.

again, you shouldn’t just dehumanize people because you’ve projected americanism onto all annoying or antisocial behaviors. I mean fine, it feels good to rant on the internet, you do you, but I think it sucks.

And an SRA one!

The combo is really something.

Burger americans: get to know your comrades, know your orgs, do not fucking organize with fascists like this. They are out there

famously americans are the only ones who ever exhibit annoying behaviors like playing music out loud on the bus/train.

there were a few comments in there about not masking or relaxing their masking practices majorly, which when I read them last night were sitting there undisputed. But yeah, there’s a tendency to only see the bad, not the overall positive community consensus that’s been cultivated on this site.

hot take but people who are annoying are still people

I think the assurance only feels needed for that exact reason, many people do not have any IRL community that is covid-aware.

I feel very lucky to have almost half my IRL sphere be on their shit about masking. I don’t know if I would still be masking if they weren’t, just to be frank.

I think we should do more to combat the relaxed liberal attitudes slipping in around masking in that thread like “I’ll only do it when I’m sick/in flu season”. I can understand the fatalism that produces those desires, but they probably shouldn’t be allowed here, or at least should be strongly disputed.

but is the state not also to some extent at the mercy of the bond market? obviously they have more options though.

Very true. That would help. Maybe Mamdani will be better, though honestly I’m not confident in that.

Yet another layer of structures to enforce capitalist realism and push austerity. Genuinely not sure how you push through all this besides just like, gaining absolute power and doing Socialism in One City which obviously isn’t super viable.

This chapter underlined for me something that I first started thinking while reading the jakarta method: Do not under any circumstances try to effect positive incremental change from the inside of the imperial government.

At best your efforts will be wasted, but in many cases, you will actually strengthen the imperial machine in unpredictable ways, and enable it to commit even greater atrocities, as happens with the FDR admin’s reformers here, and the more sympathetic ambassador in Indonesia in the jakarta method.

honestly, browsing libgen and/or annas archive, then getting the actual file from the source torrent is workable and reliable, but it takes probably an extra 60 seconds (or more if you don’t have a torrent client already)

Audiobook ping! It’s two chapters this time, catching up with the threads

@MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net

• Intro
• Ch 1
• Ch 2

Chapter 3:

Ch. 3 Mirror: https://vocaroo.com/142XNgpLWMQR

Chapter 4:

Ch. 4 Mirror: https://vocaroo.com/1lUiQIDZSxex

Edit: also please don’t mind the mispronunciations, I’m trying to break the habit on a few of them

It is specifically not supposed to be for opsec, there was a whole struggle session about this years ago where people were arguing we shouldn’t mandate pronoun tags and I think at the time the account creator made you pick, but when we federated it went back to just having a default value.

I think we should have none/use name, but change the default to they/them to piss off transphobes, make people explicitly go in and change it to none/use name if they want that.

yeah for sure. Audiobooks are weird there isn’t really a standard format besides just a bunch of audio files in a zip file. So maybe mega link for that plus a combined upload somewhere