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I don't have factorio but I do have infinifactory, which is a zachtronics title and therefore obviously and extremely my jam.

It is wild how much car dependency alienated and diminishes us as people.

I went back to uni (adult learning whips!) and got my degree in biology and enviro science, and instead of a car I bought an ebike - it's nearly 20km each way and I'm fat and approaching middle age, I couldn't ride it for real - and it is incredible how pleasant it was to just cycle an hour each way every day, listening to my podcast and/or thinking about my assignments. Simply going places in a slower, more intentional way is wonderful and a more effective antidote to alienation than I ever would've thought.

I'm a little hopeful. With anti-communist programs in Europe, they were able to point at the "failures" of "communism" (ie shock doctrine) which was negatively impacting their audience. Meanwhile, no reasonable person believes that the decline of American society can be laid at the feet of anything but naked, late stage capitalism. Similar to DARE, the falsehoods are obvious to those with eyes to see. DARE failed because they were obviously lying about drugs. Hopefully, this will fail because they are obviously lying about capitalism and communism.

more like insert cheesy LEAD

haha gottem

Hey if it makes you feel any better ww3 won't matter because we're already too late on climate change/the environment.

well that's upsetting

Also hardly an expert but yeah to my knowledge that ring is a reference to "the story of O", so... Pretty blatant d/s imagery.

ewwwww

baby Jesus

3rd century

Ummmm

media personality that explains Marxism to the masses in a digestible way

If that's his role then, given how badly he misrepresents theory, he should pack it in. Seriously, twisting Lenin to justify voting democrat? That's pretty egregious.

This policy of cruelty does not speak for the people of the United States

Yet somehow the US keeps doing it and their people largely don't give a shit. Once again I desperately wish American citizens would notice what they are.

Holy shit the comments there are amazing

Yeah, the most likely reason she's moving on so quick despite the fact it has a chance (however small) of disrupting her grift is that he was actually really fucking awful to her, imo. Can't stand to keep looking at the dude even for the sake of keeping the cash rolling in.

It's pretty usual for humans not to be perfectly symmetrical, even outside of the actually asymmetrical stuff like heart and liver location. Apparently our feet are often different by up to half a shoe size.

Probably most people wouldn't have different enough sized hands to not be able to swap but I would be willing to bet your situation isn't particularly unusual.

Gay marriage was won FROM the democrats, not BY the democrats. Sure, they were the ones who finally relented. So what? That makes them slightly less bad than the Republicans in that one instance.

What really bought this home for me is that in Australia it was the NLP under Turnbull who passed marriage equality, our right wing conservative party, after a postal survey (they promised a referendum but they're fucking cowards and backed down on that) showed something like 70% support and made it clear their position was untenable. They didn't want to do it. They had multiple MPs walk out of the room and refuse to even be present for the vote iirc. But they were forced to. Same with the democrats. They were talking about how it's "not the time" right up until it was made abundantly clear they couldn't hold off any longer. But they didn't WANT to pass marriage equality. It was forced on them. Won from them. Not won BY them.

...Alec Steele? Never thought about it but he is, isn't he

Apparently measles is so contagious it requires a 95% vaccination rate to attain herd immunity. These people are really fucking shit up.

Yes, and it's completely fucked.

I know it's complicated but the fact it's not china stepping up in these situations is incredibly disappointing to me. That, and their tolerance of billionaires, is really fucked up.