The Ussuri river conflict, right after the sino-soviet split. But I think it's main characteristic is that it did not escalate into a major war, despite the huge depopyment of forces.

The USPS is good, actually

Most of them think things "will just work themselves out". In short: they don't have a plan. And if you pressed them, they would start talking in vague ways about how the luddites were bad and the industrial revolution was good.

A minority of the real sicko social darwinists think that this issue will be solved through technologically supercharged state violence. And a lot of them are investing in that future.

I didn't make a conscious effort to stop. They got really shitty on their own, and I found more grass-touching activities. I still have accounts on all of the big social media platforms, since people will message me or send me links on them from time to time. But will go months at a time not even thinking about them.

I do spend a lot of time on lemmy and mastodon, as well as groups on the various messaging services (discord, matrix, signal, telegram, WhatsApp, and good 'ol SMS and email). Those are technically the same kind of "social media". But I think everyone understands now that there's a categorical difference between real communities of people using a technology to talk to each other, and the skinner boxes.

If I didn't want to get assassinated in public, I would simply not spend my entire professional career stoking an atmosphere of political violence and making it widely known that I'm a vicious and evil asshole who wants the worst for everyone.

Sun was removed from his position in 2022 after being investigated for his ties to China, a source told the Post on condition of anonymity.

Details of the investigations remain unclear, but MD Anderson was among the first institutions to dismiss China-born researchers after warnings from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of their major funders, about potential theft of US scientific research.

I don't know what's more sick:

• treating medical science like it's stealth bomber blueprints
• treating medical science like it's something to be owned and leveraged

For years now I've wondered why health insurance companies haven't been the regular target of violence by clients who's lives they've destroyed. They're unique institutions because of how they regularly condemn people to death right to their faces for the most bullshit unjust kafkaesque reasons. I guess maybe a situation like that just sucks the life out of you too much to get motivated by revenge.

It's kind of like how Reddit killing off 3rd party apps just made me stop wasting so much time on reddit.

Vote for me, and we can bring order to the galaxy

(Even Darth Vader promised to end the war, lol)

Literally one of the smartest things that Capital could do is to pool a tiny amount of their resources and make Netflix and Youtube free for the masses. These are incredible tools for keeping the masses placated.