Beats the alternative.

I am thinking of doing an estate sale on myself. :-/

That’s a lot to cover… I’ve learned so far that Russia is responsible for 4% of the world’s CO_2 emissions, and that emissions in Russia and Ukraine have decreased fastest of all countries since 1990. That the USA is responsible for 28% of all emissions that have accumulated since the Industrial revolution, and that Russia has emitted 11%. Is there something specific you would like me to learn about?

In large part, it’s simply a matter of scale and wealth concentration. If Canada was as large and wealthy as the USA, we’d probably all be cooked by now.

Russia invading is a statistical risk. The USA (as the leading avatar of capital) exploiting, degrading, and destroying the commons we need to survive is an unavoidable certainty. Russia and Sweden are also doing those things, but on a significantly lesser scale.

Which one is killing us faster? I’m pretty sure it’s the USA. Nice that you get to live in a democracy I guess but that doesn’t mean a damn thing to someone living outside the USA and being exploited and abused by it.

I can do anything.

He does, and gaming on linux is an excellent resource we are fortunate to have. OTOH, GFY has now borne a grudge over this for months and makes a point of posting about it at every opportunity.

This link does not even generate any ad revenue (unless I cannot figure out how to turn off my ad blocking). It’s so petty.

The Hobbit is far better than LotR. It’s no contest.

If you can deny the sentience and right to exist without being property of cows, pigs, and chickens, its a very small step to humans.

As much as I hate SEO companies, people who hire them are even worse, so I can only approve of this.

suppressing wages and social housing so that starvation and homelessness make labour cheaper

That people watch them. I can stop myself from watching them, but all those billions of my fellow stupid people are still being influenced, and I can’t do anything about that.

I’d have to say it’s the mind control that bothers me the most. When I cut the cord to my TV way back when, it really felt like most people lived in an ersatz reality where people only did things they saw in TV commercials. Whatever they see on TV is “real” and anything that capital doesn’t have an interest in promoting to them is “weird.”

“Do you have a source?” means, “I already know you are wrong but you won’t believe me unless you find out for yourself.”

like there is a good kind

It has taken the place in people’s behaviour but it has not taken the place functionally. No doubt, you use technology to filter ads out of YouTube viewing, and one could do the same with OTA broadcasts.

You could pick any two examples, and this is what you came up with.

It’s just the name of a particular kind of social get-together.

I went to an introvert’s munch once. It was held at a public library. Everyone just nodded and smiled at each other as they read books. No one spoke to anyone. It was amusing as performance art but it was a shitty munch.

I love unix shops.