I'm not sure if that's enough time to pay off my student loans....

Not that I like even thinking about stocks. But I wonder if betting against a rise in stock price for NVIDIA is actually worth it right now....

My god it must be freeing to be able to ignore US sabre rattling

It's cute that the UK still thinks they're an empire. The sun has set my dudes. Get over it.

Its like they think siding with the americas will make them relevant, really its the americans that made them irrelevant in the first place. So maybe they should help end the empire. It only makes sense.

Last night I watched an "election special" episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes (a Canadian political comedy, I think it's the only one).

2 things:

Do "democratic voters" not see anything wrong with the "democracy ends if Trump is voted in!" line? Like, if a candidate/party/etc. is so bad that it could spell the end to your country, and your electoral system allows those sorts of politicians to not only have a platform but a real shot at power, shouldn't you be concerned that the people you are voting for have done nothing to bolster your democratic institutions? How is it so hard to see that saying "he's the literal devil and must be stopped!", while doing nothing to protect "democracy" is just political theater and you are being played for fools who must choose which cult to be a part of?

Thing 2:

OMG THINGS ARE SO MUCH WORSE THAN I THOUGHT I know a comedy show cherry picks photos and videos, but do Americans not realize that the cult of personality surrounding two politicians IS NOT NORMAL!? It gives me the same kind of ick I felt when I was a teen visiting a friend's Pentecostal church, everyone started speaking in tongues as we surrounded the altar (or whatever it's called) and some middle aged white man put is hand on my shoulder from behind and started praying or chanting or something.

I'm usually psychologically resilient when it comes to Capitalism and empire because I have developed some level of understanding. But the crazy cult gatherings I saw.... That gave me feelings of dread and sadness I haven't experienced in a long time.

On the plus side it did help me see just how far along the empire is towards its collapse into irrelevance.... But why do they have nukes? Like damn....

I hope y'all in the usa have a pleasant day, find new comrades to organize with, and experience health, happiness, and safety.

It will also monitor the local supply and demand for donor organs. If the demand rises, Tesla Boticon will use ai to determine the value of your life (through labour costs, amount consumed, epidermis RGB values, and investments value) against the value of the organ recipient. Should your life be deemed lesser, Tesla Boticon will immediately off you and harvest your organs, selling them off to the highest bidder.

Haha so funny!

It's very interesting when someone conflates:

"Please stop worshipping this politician, they are not a good person. Here, look, the things you are upset about that this other politician said have also been said by this politician you like. Maybe you're caught up in the political spectacle? Because neither one of these politicians have your best interests at heart."

And:

"ThEyy ARe tHe SaMe!;:; "

Have an actual conversation about facts, and the real things a "representative" has actually done historically. If you believe the electoral system works, then the only way to hold a politician accountable is to make sure they know your values/interests/etc ., and THEN should they not up hold these values, DO NOT vote for them. If you vote for them because they are not the other person, no matter what they do, why would they bother to do anything for you? They know you'll vote for them anyway.

Which I suppose (bit of on the fly analysis here) means the Republicans need the Democrats and the Democrats need the Republicans. Both are easy scapegoats for each other, and make it so the voters will choose the party that presents the image and ideas that you most align with, without ever having to do anything.

It's Utopianism at its finest, and an incredibly effective tool of control.

Taken steps mean they have begun a meeting about setting up a committee to see if creating a committee to look at meeting about building drones is a good idea. Then, after several years, they will decide whether or not they have the productive capacity to do so. Which will lead to them asking China if they can manufacture drones for them.

I thought this changes absolutely nothing materially other than emboldening his clowns? He can still run right?

Reading this at first I thought "no it won't fail without intervention". But this time it's different (also arguably we just ignored fascism last time but whatever). It's not just a single country or two, it's basically the "world government/police" that is fascist. But we are also no longer in a mono-polar world, people have non-state affiliated media, and within the empire the lives of the empires subjects are falling apart.

The "good guy" narrative is falling apart.

But we definitely need to organize before things get too bad.

This has been thoughts whilst pooping (a subsidiary of TED talks).

The shit we are going to have to go through so that we can one day chill and enjoy life, should be unnecessary.

It's like the easiest thing he could do to accelerate the end of the American empire.

It's crazy how fragile capitalism makes .... Well everything