You’re a hypocrite

How do liberals use this word so much and never bother to learn what it means?

Americans threw Eugene Debbs in jail for protesting WW1. Americans unleashed the national guard on college campuses at Columbia and Kent State and on anti-homeless activists in Chicago and police reformer in Baltimore and Ferguson and now LA and New Orleans, in an endless war on anyone that even smelled slightly of whatever we’re defining as Marxist of late. These are people who spend God only knows how much money and manpower to put a surveillance dragnet around The Quackers, while screaming from the pulpit about how there’s no such thing as religious freedom anymore.

Even if we completely rebranded socialism you’d make it your mission to add the Soviet imagery back in and remind everyone of it.

They brand Donald Trump as a Soviet Socialist. It’s utterly divorced from reality.

Those are the nets I think of when i think of their production.

It’s weird how liberals will insist “one county, two systems” is a fiction, then point to a glaring example of Hong Kong labor policy and blame Beijing.

Nevermind the fact that you’re describing Foxcon, a Taiwanese company focused on manufacturing for American and Japanese electronics distributed into Western markets.

That’s the evil Chinese Communism you’re complaining about. No word on when Americans plan to sanction Foxcon for these abhorrent labor practices.

President Xi, Liberate My People

#SOSTEXAS

drop all the soviet imagery

if people want communism

Tell you what, we’ll stop venerating Actual Existing Socialists when you guys quit dry humping plantation owners and genocidal war mongers.

Get Jefferson of the $20 and I promise never to quote Stalin again.

Yeah, Ukraine should never have given up their nukes

Ukraine was under a Russian friendly government when it return weapons on loan from Russia to the Russians. This was an agreement lobbied for by the US as part of a condition for Ukraine joining Western economic trade.

This was never a choice in any material sense. No more than the Cubans giving back the missiles they had staged during the Kennedy crisis (or Turkiye giving back their Jupiter missiles in turn).

they do a single Google search, fail to understand the answer because typically they have the intelligence of a lump of cheese, and form a totally incoherent theory as a result

I mean, it’s more complicated than that on two levels.

Firstly, sports drinks like Gatorade were formulated for a very specific kind of short term high intensity activity (specifically, playing football in Florida during the summer). But for lower intensity and longer term exercising (anything over two hours - long distance running / biking / swimming, most notably) its generally worse for you than water. So expressing a degree of skepticism is warranted. That’s doubly so in the face of endless marketing and native advertisement in sports media.

Secondly, when you get into the dietary sciences and start running into contradictions between the more well-established benefits of drinking water relative to the dubious claims of marketing agencies, it can easily become difficult to determine what is and is not bullshit. Because Google itself has been marketed as a valuable tool for research and analysis, and because so much of our academic infrastructure has been privatized (Google being a prime example), even the most intellectually curious and level headed can become overwhelmed with the task of “Doing Your Own Research”.

Flat earthers primary reason for believing the earth is flat is that otherwise water wouldn’t form puddles and lakes it would always be flowing downhill.

The primary reason for believing the Earth is flat is that the ground is flat in much of the country. People don’t natively intuit that the earth is round, they have to be told or to engage in some fairly non-intuitive experimentation. To grapple with the idea of a round earth, you have to start taking second and third hand accounts at face value or get reasonably good at geometry and have a certain bedrock faith in the accuracy of your calculations.

I’d argue that flat earthers are more curious and often more intelligent than their “I believe the earth is round cause that’s what they told me” set. And its often this curiosity - combined with some error in logic or bad initial data - that leads them to try and prove the unproveable so doggedly.

But so many people fall into the trap of believing intelligence leads to correctness. You can be very smart and still end up with a very wrong answer. What’s more, if you’re surrounded by people you don’t trust (because you believe you are smarter than them), it can be difficult to convince you of your own failings precisely because you don’t have enough of an intellectual peer base to understand your reasoning, spot the mistake, and demonstrate a counter-example.

Sounds like a skills issue.

Can’t wait to see how Congressional apportionment plays out in the next five years.

If I can just find a way to pay off my credit card with my Klarna and my Klarna with my credit card, I believe I’ll be qualified as a Silicon Valley Bank.

Without the emissions growth in China, India, and Indonesia, global energy sector emissions would have already peaked and begun to decline before 2020. Coal consumption increased 15% in China, 42% in India, and 150% in Indonesia from 2015 to 2024, while consumption in the rest of the world fell 23%.

I wouldn’t lose too much sleep. We still have a lot of Pacific Rim nations who are hungry for the spicy rocks. The trimming of the sails is a good sign, globally. And even individually, these countries have curbed their appetite. But there’s still a robust global market for coal exports for a generation or more, unless coal planets are decommissioned faster.

Enshittification comes for us all.

But we’ll always have the OG. Great thing about a good game is that it doesn’t go away because of a bad sequel.

the supportive comments and upvotes suggest that people like it, and that is baffling to me

There’s a naked skepticism towards any kind of moderation. And after a string of sites full of ugly administrators and sadistic moderators, who can blame them?

The community isn’t configured to screen it out, pretty much by design.

There’s not a great technical solution for screening out this kind of malicious conduct

proof that it is high time that an instance needs the ability to straight up perma ban a username

This wouldn’t solve the problem. They’d just roll in with cm0003. You need an IP ban or some similar source specific censorship. Even then, it’s a moving target when the end user is determined enough.

Montrose, down in Houston, is wall to wall Gay Boomers. Not a coincidence that Houston has been one of the friendliest cities for gay men to live straight back to the 1970s

Why do you still work there if you feel this way?

Because the salary and benefits are good and I’m experienced in the work.

Working for oil and gas is only supporting the existing order, and most people in O&G have very transferable skillsets.

I spent seven years in Healthcare IT taking shit pay to help doctors process insurance claims faster. I spent two years working at a retail advertiser mass marketing annoying online micro target ads. I’ve worked on a couple political campaigns (for free) doing data analytics for candidates who didn’t actually read them.

I guess I could be working for… Microsoft? Walmart? Lockhead Martin?

Who is the Virtuous Employer?

At least in this role I can point to a number on a ledger and proudly say “I was involved in capping the release of this much methane gas into the atmosphere”.

I work in O&G and my own CEO - who has long and loud been a climate skeptic - decided he was finally turning a corner on the EPA in our last All Hands Meeting. The guy very loudly and proudly announced that the Federal Government (which is suddenly extremely trustworthy and reputable!) has released an abundance of New Data (no, we can’t see it) that categorically proves what we’ve been doing is good for the planet.

Like, at this point, I’m pot-committed to sucking at the teet of the Permian Basin. And I honestly can’t complain too loudly, because someone in middle management realized a few years back that if you plug all the leaks in your gas mains, you not only help the environment but save a fuckton of money. Identifying and plugging leaks via drone surveillance (and proving out the cost savings) has been my job for the last three years.

But holy fuck do I ever get tired of hearing this asshole yap about how good petrochemicals are for the economy, the country, and the planet. I’m already sucking your dick, you don’t need to lie to me about how it tastes.

Every time you save a file in Microsoft, your credit card is charged $.50

There are examples of non states working

:-/