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This felt like hearing one of those hardcore grannies dropping a truth bomb on their spoilt grandchild in public, and all people in a 10m radius shut up and start thinking if it also applies to them.

Doesn't happen often, but Balkan grannies are like Speed Metal when they hit.

In all seriousness, this would make the most sense in terms of progression in design. It already sorta' is just that, but it's been stepped on.

Hah! Just hit me, if I'd seen a USB-C plug back in the day, my first thought would've been "oof, someone isn't playing bootleg cartridge games for a while!"

It would be hilarious if they made it exactly like a headphone jack, but the USB-D slot wouldn't support headphones.

Oooh, yeah... reread it more carefully... wellp! At least we do get some of that from 'shrooms!:))) Partial win!:)))

USB-D!😎 Shaped like a crescent moon! Also, we're going back to brick phones to accommodate the shape.

Please be a "yes," please be a "yes..."

Edit: WOO! It's a "looks that way in cell cultures so far!"🥳

Honestly, doesn't even have to be... Handwriting is slowly but surely becoming an obsolete means of recording information, most everything's typed nowadays. Unfortunate (*purely subjective opinion, I enjoy writing by hand A LOT!)

As long as someone else can understand it at first (or second, s'fine!) glance, no need for it to be pretty:D

Yeah, tends to get like that after speed and comfort start having more weight in the process. Switched to D’Nealian Handwriting (apparently), with more inertial Cursive motions than evident in the example given on the site, because I started having trouble reading my own handwriting once I got into high-school and had to fill up half a damned notebook during Maths and Geography classes....

This is how we've (myself and the kids in my class, at least) been taught to write cursive, yes - m's and n's rounded at the top of the swing, and u's and w's with the downward side being rounded. The only acute downward swing I know is in some version of v's, but I've also seen a lot of people rounding their v's out of inertia a lot of the time.

Awesome, thank you!❤️

Wish I was 20 again, miss pulling all-nighters reading without needing to recoup for half a year afterwards...

Because, like it or not, everything is intertwined nowadays. We've grown and developed so much and so expansively as a species, that nations are really almost literally just lines drawn around bits of land on a map. In terms of interconnectedness, however, no piece on the board will be unaffected by another's movement - just like when you have a bunch of marbles in a box, with the free space remaining being smaller than a marble, or downright non-existent.

As such, defending NATO has the exact same worth as defending the USSR's Army - none. The blame game is a distraction, the point is that shit's fucked up enough for us (*the human species as a whole, referring to ALL nations with a standing Military) to have hordes of highly trained, highly armed people who do violence against other people. Which is the epitome of self-defeating stupidity.

Without Reagan's "The Aliens" trying to take over our planet, we don't actually need to defend ourselves from any major threat as a species (last I checked, we're currently the ones eating everything else around us, so...), it's just that sociopathic shitheads who hold the reigns want what other sociopathic shitheads "have", and they use everyone else to get it.

Agreed, and thank you! Yes, that's, indeed, what I meant, the symptom covers both the action and reaction sides of this aspects!

Which is why I don't much pay attention to "who is the dirtiest," as long as the whole deal sucks. Sure, some are more... prolific than others, but it's an ultimately irrelevant qualifier in the greater scheme of things, imho...

The Military in general is a symptom of a very defective society, yes. Not judging anyone in particular, just think that a healthy society would have no need for a massive, organised force trained almost exclusively for grand scale violence.

Yep, that makes a lot of sense. I mean, it's much easier to change things if said change is built upon what's useful from the old. No use throwing out the things which actually do work (whether by design or incidentally, doesn't matter, happy accidents are still happy), plus it has the added benefit of maintaining some degree of familiarity, so I would imagine that makes the pill easier to swallow.

I'll most definitely take it in the order given, the new is always prioritised:)) Sounds delectably thorough, my brain will be happy, thank you! And, yeah, that's pretty much the basis on which I've started pulling hard to the Left (used to be Undecided, a.k.a. I'm Severely Depressed And Don't Have The Space For It). Existentialism steered me toward an understanding of what a satisfying life means for the human psyche, which then shoved me into "well, hey! Sounds like something which would be nice for everyone!" Then I finally saw the world for what it is and... yeah...

Completely agreed, change starts from home, always. It looks daunting, but the fact that so many people remember that Fascism is objectively bad, actually, means it's not impossible.

Thanks so much once again, both for the resources and the conversation! And sorry again if I came off as hostile, I've been struggling to manage a hefty case of misanthropy for the past almost-decade.

Most definitely have a lot of Leftist reading to do! If nothing else, I at least know I'm well Left of Center:))

Now that I've mulled it over some more, I think it feels very intentional to me because I do see a lot of similarities between it and Feudalism, yes! It's like Capitalism is comprised of multiple smaller monarchies, referring to Corporations and any organisation/person with a large amount of capital at their disposal, and thus influence. But, yeah, we're talking orders of magitude of complexity above traditional feudalism, so it would stand to reason that it's most likely just a mathematical whirlpool of sorts. I do agree that capital is the main point of power in Capitalism and that everything else has formed around it.

Which, on a personal side note, is so sad when looking at the big picture! It means that the people in power aren't actually driven by anything concretely Human™, so to speak, they've ceeded full control of themselves and their lives over to the accumulation of something entirely fictitious... It'd be lamentable if it wasn't so damned dangerous...

Thank you so much for the reading list! It's so nice to have a quasi-curriculum for these things! And I probably will drop a line or two once I get started with the reading! Truth be told, I'm at the point where I know enough to understand just how little I know about the subject, so I can't even think of relevant questions at the moment. I've focused more on existential philosophy and such so far, needed to fix myself first:))

As for joining an org, that's in my 2-year plan (life got upended, again, so it's running alongside several other need-to-do stuff). I will lean very heavily into volunteer work, hopefully that'll open up some political networks as well. If nothing else, it is urgently clear that it's time to act as a citizen. Thank Christ we've managed to pull another 4 years of European Union (Romanian)... We have a lukewarm Centrist now, but at least it's not a raging Fascist...

Ssooo, one could say he's a bit... forced?

I regret nothing.

And will continue to do so, yes! Aw, nuts, this thread made me sad :-<

Maybe you're right, maybe I'm just so completely lacking any faith in greedy humans that I now suspect everything was a ploy. I dunno, maybe it's one of the pitfalls of hindsight, that it can easily seem to have intentionality when the string of failures is so smooth and perfect. I mean, at the end of the day, Capitalism is, to my mind, uniquely insidious as a system.

Either way, I really don't want you to think I was disagreeing with you about anything else, whether planned or not, it is most certainly worth learning everything we can from its evolution. As you've said, we need to have the future in mind, because this thing'll be around for at least a bit longer...

Sincerely thank you for the theory! I'm not as versed in these aspects for now, so I don't know where I'd land on the political/philosophical spectrum exactly. All I know is that I sincerely want everyone to have a truly fair chance at life without having to worry about being persecuted for who they are, without having to be relatively rich to afford basic healthcare (I'm including the various hormone therapies here because it's well past time we grew the fuck up and stopped obsessing about other people's genitals, as... uuh... someone smarter than me put it) and without the fear that they may starve or become homeless, ffs... And I also know that what we've been doing so far obviously ain't it...

How does he fit into the campaign, I wonder:-?

Yes, I fully accept my punishment for this.