Excrubulent @ Excrubulent @slrpnk.net

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Wow, you sure are a technical genius.

https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-people-planet-are-all-donald-trump

Mine has special patterns on the walls to distribute the waves so there's no need for a turntable. It's nice because there's extra space inside, plus no mechanism so it's super easy to clean.

For like a full year after getting it, my brain would perceive a phantom rotation of whatever was in there, just because it had never seen a microwave without it.

And the logic of fascists is "we can wipe them all out, so then the threat will be gone", ignoring the practical impossibility of actually killing so many millions of people completely, as well as the fact that the entire world can see what they're doing, and have connections to the victims, so they are making way more enemies than they started with.

It's a delusion of superiority, that they are so powerful and their foes so weak that they can overwhelm them.

Thank you for your thorough explanation, I now understand the joke and will react accordingly:

"Heh, that's pretty good."

Things that sound rude but are actually quite modest.

Nobody has this drawer. They're all lying to you, it's some big in-joke like that reddit thread where that person was asking how to switch from Spanish to English and everybody replied in Spanish. You should stand your ground and tell your wi--I can't even joke about the level of gaslighting that would entail. Everybody has this drawer.

I'll be honest though, the scales are a poor fit and probably make it way more cramped. You can stand those up sideways at the edge of a cupboard or in whatever place that you keep cutting boards, because they're a similar shape.

Depending on how often each thing is used, you could optimise by figuring out a hanging solution for some of them. That's quite a common thing, hanging under cupboards or on the backsplash part of the wall. Your wife might appreciate something like that as long as it's agreed on. You'll never totally get rid of this though.

Of course they're crimes against humanity, I'm not trying to undermine anything, I just don't understand where people think any prosecution like this would meaningfully come from. Like there needs to be a realistic understanding of what can happen, and this is power politics.

The US is a permanent member of the UN security council, they can veto anything the UN wants to do, and it's set up that way to ensure it can't go against any of the big 5's interests. That alone should destroy the UN's legitimacy, but corporate media and the political class prop it up and make people think that it's this place where the big issues are discussed reasonably and rationally. It isn't.

No court can prosecute anyone unless it has the power to enforce its rulings, and the UN just doesn't have that.

Look up the Hague Invasion Act. The US has stated, as a matter of law, that it will invade the Hague if they ever try to prosecute any US service member. Do you really need me to break down what that means for the concept of international law? If you're going to call anything cynical, that is cynical. If the UN is the best that exists, then that just means that our current system has no justice.

The ability to solve this problem will come from people organising resistance, not from states, not from courts of law, not from some big in-control powerful body stepping in to help us. We help us.

That would make sense if international politics were any more than thinly veiled terrorism itself. The whole UN thing is an exercise in manufacturing legitimacy, and the fact people actually think that there is a world in which it holds the most powerful actors to account proves that it's worked.

They are a mafia with a protection racket, very little more.

I have been playing Cyberpunk all wrong it seems.

Okay, I see. I'd say they might be obligated to behave that way to maintain plausible deniability. Like, if they admit they were selling a piracy service and users are entitled to a refund when the piracy gets stopped, then they become more culpable. It was always based on a thinly veiled deniability. They had to comply with occasional takedown requests for this reason.

I don't know what the laws are like in France but they may have been worried about jail time or extra fines, and the state would want them to not issue refunds because that would punish the pirates.

Plus if you tried to sue them for it... what are the courts going to say? "You're all pirates, get lost" is the best outcome you could hope for. I hate to say it but the de jure reality is that you were purchasing a grey-market product and the law won't protect you in that case, and you quite literally were not purchasing a piracy service. You were purchasing hosting of torrents of an unspecified nature. That's the risk you take on when you engage in what you have admitted is piracy. It's very naive to expect you're getting any kind of consumer guarantee in that case.

I say that as someone who uses these services. I'm not saying this is right, I think copyright should be abolished, but we need to understand the reality of the system we're under.

Yeah, I don't think that person realises that regardless of how cold and impersonal the resources are, you still need people to get the resources, and those people need to live, and that requires infrastructure, and that requires an occupation, that requires a functioning society.

If they go scorched earth, they get exactly that - scorched earth.

Honestly though I think the goal is not really resources but, as all fascists require, to have a perpetual enemy and a war to fight. Without that the fascists' obsession with a plot turns inwards and they eat themselves.

Nobody said imperial powers were immune to poverty. They thrive off of it, that's where they get their soldiers. Like what, I'm supposed to ignore US imperialism because of the vast poverty that exists in that country?

Either way that doesn't mean you get to turn away the people who were made poor by imperialism and tell them to fix their own country, regardless of how much you personally benefited.

It isn't fucking relevant that you're not in a wealthy country. In fact it makes it harder to understand why you've got no compassion for anyone else. Immigration doesn't hurt you personally.

Someone has taken you in with faux-leftist reactionary rhetoric, but it's clear you don't care to learn the reality, so I don't see much point in carrying on talking to you.

Your empire didn't end until 1976.

And absolutely none of this has anything to do with the fact that stopping people from migrating will do nothing to fix poverty.

You call yourself a leftist and you have no concept of how imperialism shapes our world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire

"Migrate".

Are you for fucking real?

Like literally research a single fucking thing that you are saying.

The weapons you would support being sent to free them in some hypothetical better world, in this world are used to oppress them. These places aren't poor because the people just did a bad job at managing them, they are poor because they were bombed and looted.

You can go to the US's policies in South America, their policy of keeping it under control as their own "backyard", how the School of the Americas cranked out death squads, how neoliberalism was born with the sponsorship of a fascist coup in Chile, and how the Chicago School taught countries to privatise and disinvest from public infrastructure.

You can look at the IMF and the World Bank putting out predatory loans where the rulers of countries are bribed to sell out their own people, leaving them impoverished and in debt.

Or how the United Fruit Company kept several countries under its thumb, coining the term "banana republic", so you could buy cheaper bananas.

Further back you can look at the rape of Africa, where European colonial powers did a campaign of unmitigated atrocities for decades, setting up imperialist structures that keep many of those nations subjugated to this day.

Or you can look at the modern example of Israel, which is sponsored by the US specifically to project power in the region. The extended wars fought by the US in that region are purely to maintain control over their oil.

I'm just pulling these off the top of my head. This is a tiny fraction of all crimes done to keep poor countries poor.

Neoliberalism works to ensure free flow of capital but restrict the movement of people, so that when their infrastructure is destroyed and they have nowhere else to go, they will be desperate enough to accept extremely low wages.

If you're going to claim to be class conscious, you need to educate yourself on these issues and learn to have solidarity with workers everywhere. Talking about how you don't want to sacrifice anything to make others' lives better is the opposite of what we need to win the class war, especially when your better quality of life was bought with their blood.

You put a lot of effort into trying to teach someone who is clearly dedicated to not learning anything. I appreciated the information at least.

Her and Sarah Connor were the main ones. T2 wasn't technically 80s but it's close, and the character started in the 80s.

"Jesus. So dumb."

Yeah, like when was there ever a heroine in 80s action sci fi that was a no-nonsense rough & tumble ass-kicking type? I can't think of a single one, let alone multiple iconic characters that headlined my favourite movies from the era.

Oh okay, you wanna trademark the single most efficient leg-based locomotion system in the animal kingdom? What's next, wheels? You want the rights to all wheels, as well? What else? Sure, you invented water, that's fine.