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What is the recent history there with Battletech? I just remember the g@mer freakout over woke characters in the 2018 RTS game but someone catch me up?
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Toothbrush steward, because we have to share just one because no personal property
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Personally I think the takeaway from that text in the imperial core context is probably that of class and party collaboration. Your personal relationships with libs are yours to sort out but under no circumstances work to further their bourgeoisie party project.
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Honest question: How do people reconcile their approaches to these situations with what Combat Liberalism instructs? Because Mao says fuck your discomfort and yell at people.
AITA for kicking my son in his pee pee during a family game night? So, a bit of context: we have a family tradition of game nights every Friday. Everyone loves it, and we usually play board games or video games together. Last night, we decided to play a competitive party game, and things got a bit too intense. My 12-year-old son Jake has recently taken up the mantle of the "family champion" and has been rubbing it in everyone’s faces. He has a knack for winning and has been a bit too smug about it lately. I’m all for healthy competition, but he was getting obnoxious, shouting things like, “You’ll never beat me, losers!” and “Skibidi Ohio!” It was starting to ruin the fun for everyone. After a particularly heated round where he crushed all of us yet again, he stood up and did a victory dance, saying something along the lines of, “Bow down to your king!” in a way that felt like he was mocking us. Frustrated and in the heat of the moment, I jokingly said, “Maybe you need a little dose of humility!” and delivered a swift kick right in the meat rocket. I thought it would be a funny, playful move, like how you might gently jab someone in the ribs when they’re being annoying. But he collapsed onto the floor, crying and yelling, “Why would you do that?” and my husband freaked out, saying it was an overreaction. Now, my friends are divided. Some say I was just trying to teach him a lesson about being a sore winner, while others think I went too far and should have handled it differently. So, AITA for kicking my son's dingle dangle during family game night?
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Try to get an assistantship. You'll get a stipend for teaching or other campus work and they cover your tuition.
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Fuck I'm sorry
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What's the source
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Remember Aaron Bushnell
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How bout you expunge marijuana convictions for the hundreds of thousands of black men still in prison while white folks get to enjoy gentrification gummies
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Go to the office of your congress demon and force them or their staffers to hear the cries of the innocent
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Stalin and Mao owned lol
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That all makes sense. Best of luck comrade 
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Sounds like you need to
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But seriously, find a better balance by putting the fear into some kind of regular praxis. Doing something—anything—can alleviate the constant worry while also making you less likely to seek out the content that pushes us all into that state of dread.
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Found the Appendix which appears to be a summary of a lot of the work, perhaps a paper written prior to the book https://roland-theodore-boer.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2024-how-western-marxism-was-born-and-how-it-died-losurdo-western-marxism.pdf
   
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Wait this wasn't already a thing
How was this not already a thing
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I have no cash to spare at the moment but hopefully some helpful words. Some cities have emergency protections with power companies to avoid shutoffs in winter months for those who can't afford it, so if it becomes an issue come next month that might be an option, depending on where they are.
There's also a federal program called LIHEAP that provides payment assistance for power bills. You don't have to own the home to get assistance. They could look to that for longer term help, too.
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Decades of social conditioning has altered (read: harmed) my grey matter to a near permanent degree
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Gronty is frizzing the striffleblunk while Clife gets a new spiltchqump
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Boy abducted from California in 1951 at age 6 found alive on East Coast more than 70 years later
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Luis Armando Albino was 6 years old in 1951 when he was abducted while playing at an Oakland, California park. Now, more than seven decades later, Albino has been found thanks to help from an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings.
In an interview with the news group, she (his niece) said her uncle “hugged me and said, ‘Thank you for finding me’ and gave me a kiss on the cheek.”
I haven't dressed up in years and wanna do something cool
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James Inhofe, former Republican senator who called climate change a ‘hoax’, dies aged 89    > Inhofe resigned as senator for Oklahoma in January 2023, suffering long-term effects of Covid-19. > His widely ridiculed snowball stunt came in 2015, during a rambling speech in which he claimed climate conditions on Earth were the work of a supreme being, and attempted to discredit a Nasa report that found that 2014 was the hottest year recorded globally to date. > “My point is, God’s still up there,” Inhofe said during a 2012 interview during promotion for his book focusing on global warming as “a conspiracy”. > “The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is, to me, outrageous.” > Following the scandal over US service members photographed abusing prisoners at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison in 2004, Inhofe said he “was more outraged at the outrage” than the torture of the inmates.   
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> Last month, the City of Alameda blocked scientists from continuing basic research into an experimental approach that may, one day, slow global warming. > The research was being done by atmospheric scientists from the University of Washington, and a nonprofit called SilverLining. SilverLining is funded by a consortium of philanthropic foundations and individual donors. Despite the researchers' credentials, the city council remained skeptical and voted unanimously to halt the work. > "We need to know more about this before you come to our city and start these experiments," concluded Alameda Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft. Marine cloud brightening is a scalable potentially majorly helpful mitigation strategy to keep us from going completely off the tipping points rails and this dip shit city council said you can't do research because you haven't done enough research
Transcribed from ep 847 > "He's doing okay... he and I hang out pretty frequently. He's got some mobility issues and unfortunately some aphasia." > "...But I'm over at his place every week doing readings about the Seven Years War and having fairly high level conversations with him about like the spread of global capitalism in the 18th century. Just not really in a way that is mic ready right now. We'll see... I mean we're working on it. We're making a little progress every week. I see a path, I just have no idea what the timetable for any of this could be, and I don't think he does either, so hopefully updates when we have it..." He also said they're putting out a book based on the Spanish Civil War episode scripts edited into a nice looking book. Limited run, with proceeds going to support Matt, his recovery, and his family. Preorder available sometime next month.      
We used to have binary sex, but now we have identity flex We used to have traditional norms, now we have diversity storms  
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This is hilarious. The U.S. Corps of Engineers has dangled a $42 million carrot to replenish sand on beaches in front of expensive houses but the homeowners don't want it at the expense of having to create public access easements (because federal dollars can only go towards improving public, not private, beaches). This town is going to get annihilated by the next big storm because these little tyrants want to keep their beaches private.
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> I joined Turchin and a few others who were establishing a new field—a new way to investigate history. It was called cliodynamics after Clio, the ancient Greek muse of history, and dynamics, the study of how complex systems change over time. Cliodynamics marshals scientific and statistical tools to better understand the past. > The aim is to treat history as a "natural" science, using statistical methods, computational simulations and other tools adapted from evolutionary theory, physics and complexity science to understand why things happened the way that they did.  > One of the most common patterns that has jumped out is how extreme inequality shows up in nearly every case of major crisis. When big gaps exist between the haves and have-nots, not just in material wealth but also access to positions of power, this breeds frustration, dissent and turmoil. > "Ages of discord", as Turchin dubbed periods of great social unrest and violence, produce some of history's most devastating events. This includes the US civil war of the 1860s, the early 20th-century Russian Revolution, and the Taiping rebellion against the Chinese Qing dynasty, often said to be the deadliest civil war in history. > All of these cases saw people become frustrated at extreme wealth inequality, along with lack of inclusion in the political process. Frustration bred anger, and eventually erupted into fighting that killed millions and affected many more.  > Perhaps one of the most surprising things is that inequality seems to be just as corrosive for the elites themselves. This is because the accumulation of so much wealth and power leads to intense infighting between them, which ripples throughout society. > In the case of Rome, it was the wealthy and powerful senators and military leaders like Julius Caesar who seized on the anger of a disaffected populace and led the violence. > This pattern also appears at other moments, such as the hatred between southern landowners and northern industrialists in the run up to the US civil war and the struggles between the Tsarist rulers and Russia's landed nobility during the late 1800s. > Meanwhile, the 1864 Taiping rebellion was instigated by well educated young men, frustrated at being unable to find prestigious positions in government after years of toiling away at their studies and passing the civil service exams. > What we see time and again is that wealthy and powerful people try to grab bigger shares of the pie to maintain their positions. Rich families become desperate to secure prestigious posts for their children, while those aspiring to join the ranks of the elite scratch and claw their way up. And typically, wealth is related to power, as elites try to secure top positions in political office.  > These patterns probably sound familiar. Consider the college admissions scandal in the US in 2019.  > Donald Trump is only one recent and fairly extreme version of this motif that pops up time and again during ages of discord  > If the past teaches us anything, it is that trying to hold on to systems and policies that refuse to appropriately adapt and respond to changing circumstances—like climate change or growing unrest among a population—usually end in disaster. Those with the means and opportunity to enact change must do so, or at least to not stand in the way when reform is needed. 
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FYI in 1917 Lenin stormed the ice palace and took it from the snow queen
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Let's fucking goooooo 
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> The measure, called Question 3, prompted heated debate in the months leading up to the election. Central Maine Power and Versant Power, the state’s dominant utilities, poured more than $40 million into a campaign opposing the referendum, outspending Pine Tree Power advocates 34 to 1. Political groups funded by the utilities and their parent companies mailed flyers and aired ads on TV, radio, and social media, urging Mainers to reject the measure, which would have effectively put the two companies out of business.
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Researchers at Stanford University and UC Berkeley, led by Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco Investigators, found that gene signatures associated with head development were found in juvenile sea stars, but expression of genes that code for an animal's torso and tail sections were largely missing. The researchers used high-tech molecular and genomic techniques to understand where different genes were expressed during the development and growth of sea stars. They also found that molecular signatures typically associated with the front-most portion of the head were localized to the middle of each of the sea star's arms, with these signatures becoming progressively more posterior moving out towards the arms' edges. The research suggests that over evolutionary time, sea stars lost their bodies to become only heads. Starfish are basically heads crawling around using their lips. Uhhhhhh
If you've been on the fence about buying a firearm, especially if it's because you're financially constrained, please consider this a heads up: I have seen in multiple newsletters and as banners on a few gun websites that price increases are coming. Usually this is to be expected going into an election year, as panic buying from chuds drives shortages and price increases. But I haven't seen it broadcast so explicitly before. Prices are definitely lower than they've been in two or three years, and I'm sure this is as low as guns and ammo will go. That said, I can't help but wonder if this is an attempt to further clear out old inventory, or otherwise drive sales. They may end up just making the panic buying worse. All of that said, now is as good a time as any to stack deep on ammo and magazines, or to buy that first firearm.
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Remember those headlines about "90% of snow crabs mysteriously vanish" from a while back? :desolate: tl;dr water was too warm which requires more energy (food) for them to sustain themselves, plus too many of them from a previous population boom
Why don't you come over here and shit in my pants? That's what I thought.
I'm listening to a presentation on a gigantic housing grant my city is applying for. (PRO Grant from HUD, if you're familiar). They're proposing spending millions on regulatory reform to promote missing middle housing, which, ok fine, that's a big task in a major city, but that should already have been done in 2023. Other money would go towards vague stuff like an accelerator program for bipoc affordable developers. After all of that, they're proposing only 120 "deeply affordable" (under 30% ami) units with the grant. We have a shortfall of tens of thousands of those units in our city, and this multimillion dollar federal grant would fund just 120. JUST FUCKING BUILD PUBLIC HOUSING CO-OPS  I swear the neoliberal public-private partnership brainworms these people have is beyond terminal. "We have to strategically leverage this potential pot of funding" no you fucking don't
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Who is this dumb fckn pigeon Sample comment > It is fascism though, plain and simple, and there's literally nothing at all wrong with that. 