Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger: That is not - no, that is contrary to what the Chancellery has been told. I have directly been assured - I have - that - purge the Jews, yes, but to annihilate them - that we have undertaken to systematically annihilate all the Jews of Europe - that possibility has personally been denied, to me, by the Führer!

Reinhard Heydrich: And it will continue to be.

Conspiracy, 2000, based on the translations of the Wannsee Conference, 1942, Berlin

What if we get married move in together and adopt kids as a joke?

Yes. It's a common feeling among economists that neoliberalism is dying. The Democratic party will have to go much further left (like radically progressive) or fade into insignificance. Probably the latter.

Same criticism is being levied on the UK Labor party and neoliberal parties across Europe.

I have a negative view of health insurance companies. In fact, I have a negative view of corporations, from the local mom-&-pops that underpay their employees and expect long hours, to Amazon. They all suck.

But people who create policies that cause immense loss of life (and cost and destruction) are really asking for ten-plus times the vengeance that actually comes their way.

I'm not interested in that vengeance since it won't solve the problem, but I don't begrudge those who suffer at their hands from wanting to kill them back.

The unfortunate implications of the daughters flex are overwhelming. Also rule 34bis not merely a rule of the internet but biology. All the critters that weren't sufficiently thirsty desperate to rut as often as possible died out long before simioids descended from the trees.

It is always morally preferrable to pirate things made by giant corporations

Fixed It For You.

Regardless of what is regarded as a crime against the state, it is wrongdoing against the public to support corporations that seek to extract more wealth than value they produce.

Intellectual property rights were a (very) temporary monopoly to give creators an incentive to create in order to build a robust public domain.

Copyrights, patents and trademarks no longer do that. So charging for content is now rent-seeking

Corporations, their share holders and the plutocrats who own them pull wealth out of the economy by hoarding it. The whenever you buy from anything but directly from the creator, you are reducing the wealth in the economy since your money goes straight into Scrooge McDuck's swimming coffers.

And our public domain only contains stuff from a century ago. Steamboat Willie became public domain just a year or two ago. Copyright holders and courts even assert all content should be owned and licensed, including SCOTUS. (Though the US Supreme Court is a traitor to the United States and its constitution.)

Pirate everything. Steal from companies for they have already stolen from you.

a certain type of person just can’t let it be

It occurs to me that certain kinds of cosmic horror might actually be appealing as the world gets more and more hazardous, between climate-crisis related events and government destabilization. Why not investigate the phenomena that defy our current models of mechanics with stories of dread gods and fell beasts that pose a risk of life and limb but of unmaking comprehension of reality.

It is much the way that while I do think we should strive towards creating ethical, human-friendly AGI and implement safety measures to prevent them from empowering oligarchs with swarming armies of killer robots who do their bidding, that is a less boring path to human extinction than us polluting the atmosphere until it's unlivable.

NOSTALGIA BOMB!

In the 1980s (when women just got to have their own bank accounts and credit cards, and we just invented no-fault divorce) there was still a lot of prejudice that women were too driven by emotions. My dad (a boomer) still believes this to this day.

The thing is, in the 1970s, we switched to two-income houses rather than the one-income houses of the 1950s. (Shit was evil then too, but that's a different rant) and so women were required to do all this adulting that they allegedly couldn't do. In the 1990s, women were regarded, at least by Gen-X and younger to be able to adult, and of which taking responsibility, being able to lead and / or follow without being a dick, and respecting others. If there was anything different, it was that men were expected to have higher incomes and be able to put more into rent, utilities, dating etc.

(I was dirt poor, but a solid friend so we went out less and ate in more. The VCR / DVD played the same role as Netflix in the Netflix-&-Chill paradigm.)

The way I put it came from the 1983 techno-thriller, Wargames, cut and pasted from a different thread, the man code was this:

🔸️ DON’T launch the LGM-30 Minuteman nuclear-tipped ICBM. Evar. Even if the President of the United States orders you to. (He’s bluffing.)

For most people it was allegory, but for some people, it's a literal thing (also, I know of USAF missileers who admitted they would not launch even under orders, and they've been kept in the same post even during the cold war, so go figure.) Incidentally, women were assigned to missile posts, in 1977 in the USAF, so it seems that the US government trusted women with the decision to launch a nuclear weapon well before US culture got the memo.

Nowadays, we see masculinity as it's expressed by politicians and pundits reminds me of Joffrey Baratheon insisting I am the king which I was specifically reminded of when Trump was strangling his own Secret Serviceman screaming I am the fucking president!

Any man who must say "I am the king" is no true king. -- Tywin Lannister

I wouldn't trust any of these bros not to abuse their lovers and kin, let alone with an LGM-30 Minuteman nuclear-tipped ICBM. But it seems seventy-seven million Americans trust that capacity to Trump.

My teachers were fierce about our capacity as fourth-graders to take responsibility seriously. Also to pronounce nuclear as NOO-klee-ur, so I had to cringe all the way through the George W. Bush era. It's worse in the Trump era, watching my elders acting like overgrown toddlers.

Zucky is feeling insecure.

I'd say provide links (maybe in an escape hub page) for all the Meta main service pages, to assert dominance.

If you want to be nasty, track how often those links have been clicked. (Meta can't win. If it's too low, it shows nobody wants to go there. If it's too high, it means people are using the page as a Meta hub.)

Except in crisis, a society benefits when everyone does nothing renegade.

The problem is we're in crisis, largely due to a lack of information about the scope and breadth of that crisis.

I assume by more masculine energy, Zuckerberg means:

• More posturing by Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson and Donald Trump, the US exemplars of manhood.
• Trolls, more trolls, trolls trolling trolls. People fucking with anyone else that makes them uncomfortable.
• People boasting about how rich they are, how fast their car goes, and how many women they bed. Comparisons. Leaderboards.
• Doxing. So much doxing.
• So much AI porn. So much futa AI porn.
• So much misogyny. All the misogygy. Al Misogyny. Misogyny leaderboards.
• Tons of hate speech against the targets of the week. Immigrants, trans folk, Jews Arab Muslims, libs (not liberals, neoliberals or left-wingers, libs )

Essentially Zuck wants Facebook to become 4chan/b... or 4chan/pol, only where everybody knows your name.

For inspiration for strong women, let me offer:

Spiders (actually most invertebrates) are the dominant sex. Yes, the females sometimes -- not always -- eat the males, but then spider children eat the mother. Protein is in very high demand at that scale.

Lionesses do all the hunting, and when they're in heat, the Lion (who chased out all the other males) is jolly sorry, and welcome all the other boys to the yard.

Bonobos, in which the females run the matriarchy, and the males love it. Also sex for everybody!

My own street block is run by a queen feral cat and her gang. We keep trying to catch her for TNR but she's too wily.

Human men, especially our leaders and pundits (Donald Trump, Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro) have completely lost the plot. They don't act like wolves, but ungulates: They fight each other to be the dominant who (allegedly) gets all the females. Even dominant chimps might have one or two partners, while others males woo the rest away with kindness (pets and food) to elope in secret (I'm simplifying. Chimp relationships are pretty complex.)

We human men should aspire to be like eagles, who share in the upbringing of the young (without the threat of the -40° -- C or F? Does it matter) that penguins have to suffer.

The whole strong women in media question, as Lindsay Ellis observed with the Transformers movies, speaks ill of men that we can't bear to let women hunt and war with the rest of us without feeling offended. We're pathetic and can totally do better, as Governor Walz has shown us.

I feel called out.

Sadly, I have that John Nash thing where my brain notices connections and correlations (spurious relationships? dunno!) but without all the cool game-theory math skills.

WARNING: Fringe Hypotheses Ahead! 🕶🛸👽🧬

A recent one is the interaction between Trump's state of being an insurrectionist (according to a commission and some legal entities and not denied by SCOTUS) and the insurrectionist clause of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

As things are SCOTUS has suggested (in dicta) it's up to congress to legislate action to block Trump's presidency if they want to, that the insurrectionist clause is not self-executing.

What this opinion doesn't do is change Trump's status as an insurrectionist. Nor does it rule the 14th amendment doesn't apply, only that congress is required to pass legislation to make it happen.

This means members of the public and government workers might decide among themselves President Trump is not legitimate. After all, the January 6th Commission presented an ironclad case he committed treason against the US, and the 14th amendment is in effect.

And this could be useful when the Trump Administration gives orders that are contrary to the duties of the department, or are unethical. Say if the DOD is ordered to put down public protests against current policy, or the Department of Education is told to disband.

And Then if SCOTUS can neuter 14-3 (the insurrectionist clause) by insisting congress has to enforce it, they can also neuter 14-1 (the birthright citizenship clause) the same way, maybe even insisting each person born of foreigners on US soil has to be given citizenship by legislation. Trump is particularly interested in killing 14-1.

In fact, this suggests the US Supreme Court can reinterpret any part of the Constitution of the United States by adding further obligations to assure it is enforced. And this puts SCOTUS above the Constitution.

Will anything come of this? Dunno. Could be nothing. Could lead to civil war.

I mean I'm mad so take my ideas with that consideration. 🐰🎩🫖☕️

And by piles or hemorrhoids he means the epymonymous body part isn't working right. They inflate (with blood) as a cushion during a bowel movement and then are supposed to deflate and retract shortly afterwards. If they fail to do either or bleed (usually profusely) that might be hemorrhoids, the condition.

I have a lot of not-uncommon butt troubles, and no one bothered to explain any of this to me. So here we are.

But then my experience with tech people and medical people alike (at least the ones I know) they're use to friends and family coming to them with questions particular to their field, and are willing to help.

Myself included, and would suggest that yes, if the computer is portable, bring it, and we'll sort it out.

But then I'm in California and a lot of non-californian Americans think we're weird.

Also I'm a pinko communist and am motivated to help others just to spite imperialist capitalism.

YHVH is biblically the god of earth, and that is a promotion from god of Israel.

Only in the last few centuries has our understanding of the scope of the universe expanded to make that infinitesimally insignificant in the scope of the universe, even if the earth is still critical to us.

Sadly, the dominionists may drive us to extinction.

New gospel: All Gods are real

That's the old gospel. Even at the time of the apostles polylatry (like idolatry, but different). All the gods are real but this god is your god. Hence all the proscriptions against idolatry and other gods.

And they fought in spirit and by archons. When David slew Goliath (or his chroniclers stole valor from Ethanan), that was a contest between gods, even as modern interpretations of the fight coach it in materialist terms.

The rising denial of gods via monotheism occurred after Caesar became Christian since prior Caesars got into the habit of persecuting those who didn't worship Caesar's god, or eventually Caesar, himself.

Yes, the link is this:

When all the adults in the household have to work 40+ hours a week, plus commute, plus all the adulting...they get sad since this is fucking toxic.

Also no one has time for civics.

Also no one has time to parent, so the kids are sad too.

If we're looking at mental health problems, lets look here first.

I bet Mr. Gruff (and while I'm at it, Baphomet) has goat powers like being able to digest just about anything, and walk up slight inclined walls and cliffsides.

If you see someone who is grumpy and bitter rather than trying to witness to them (which doesn't work — we all force-fed Jesus the way we force feed geese) try bringing them cookies or inviting them to the community barbecue.

I know at least two who are in my coven / crew who play MMOs.

I don't like MMOs myself, but I'm way neurodivergent and do a lot of single-player and small-group co-op.

I think I steered away from pub games around the rise of gamergate and the alt-right. Folks got scary.