It was a snow day. A neighbor saw it live from his huge-ass satellite dish. He called to tell me it blew up, and I thought he was taking the piss.

Fiat currency is backed by taxation, which can only be paid in the very same currency that the taxer prints.
📺 Your Taxes Pay for Nothing

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

Capitalists will incorporate & commodify any^[1] trend/movement into their branding. 1971.

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Reason: Propaganda

It helps to check which mods are active, meaning which ones have recently made posts/comments. Otherwise your message may never be read.

Please don’t troll instances. Stirring inter-instance drama is corrosive to the threadiverse.

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A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink.

“I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up,” the CIA agent says.

“Thank you,” the KGB says. “We do our best but truly, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them.”

The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. “Thank you friend, but you must be confused… There’s no propaganda in America.”

How do you not understand that most of us were raised under the same indoctrination and have experienced the same propaganda as everyone else here? We’re not the ones still propagandized by that upbringing, education, and media exposure. I suggest starting here to learn how to see past it.

I would ask them why they’re happy, not us.

The same Germany that is denying the genocide it is currently supporting and is suppressing anti-Zionist voices?

Some people seem to think LLMs are oracles of truth, so if you wanted to rewrite history, this is how you might try to go about it.

You do know what average means in this context, right? You divide the sum of the empires’ years by the number of empires.

I know it was just an example to make a point, but my first assumption was that there would be a web server or something in front of the application, and so I’d rate limit the API path at that level, before the calls even reached the application.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=False_dichotomy

Just vote blue no matter who^[1].

I enjoyed A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail. They stopped producing new episodes, though.

I knew where this was going: 1 April 2013

Three red lines was introduced in Aug. 2020. The collapse started in Sept. 2021. It was a centrally planned, managed collapse, with the intent of making the capitalists take the hit instead of the working class. It was very unlike the 2008 one in the US, where no orthodox economist saw it coming, and the government was caught with its pants down, and it ratfucked working class homeowners to save the private banks, who had written bad mortgages that they knew couldn’t be paid.

Don’t forget to your “housing provider.”