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Are they cops?

Personally I'm going with micro crabs

What do you think of the Borgachev?

They give me red scare "Everyone under communism wears grey and has no individuality" propaganda. "Why do you resist us? We only wish to increase your quality of life"

Although personally, they remind me of what it's like working under capitalism.

Before you tell me I know there is a PPB button but I swear to god I am not clicking it, it just happens sometimes

All the ones I can find are just in Danish.

It happens often enough that I don't think it can be a coincidence. Is it just because fascism revels in subjugating and abusing the weak, and nobody's weaker than children?

Apparently my £40 off peak return they sold me this morning is not valid and I just had to pay another £60 for a single.

It is mad, I just flew 4 hours for £30.

On Jeopardy today, the final clue.

Category: 20th Century History

Clue: After the Vietnam War, Vietnam got bogged down in a campaign against this leader whom it managed to overthrow in 1979.

None of the three contestants on Jeopardy got it right, how about the hexbears?

Do you use the twist tie on a loaf of bread or do you just twist and tuck the tail of the bag?

So is it a high probability that if a chick used to be super into me and has cooled considerably and on the site we were talking on it looks like she's up talking to somebody else.

I'm assuming she's found another dude she likes talking to more than me..

I'm not positive though

Very impressed with it, the first time I smelled it I was taken back by it. Anything similar to it?

Is the message of the episode good or bad? It gives vibes of “wealth = success” and “I can’t help it if I’m rich” which is kind of shitty.

The episode ends with an explicit question: “When are we gonna stop doing this to each other?” which seems to imply that it is the black community that is holding itself back.

Did this episode age like milk, or is it a valid perspective within the black/POC community?

Also thoughts on the show in general?

I really want an answer to this from people who are not reddit-brained libs. I have seen some good points elsewhere about this contributing to a cycle of abuse and control, causing parents to withdraw their kids from school to beg instead, etc., but if someone is desperate enough to humiliate themselves by begging on the street, shouldn't we give to them? Or should I feel bad that I did give to them?

this is literally my second time posting this this year but I picked up a XLUX Roffu after my last post and while it is definitely better than my dead HR Fury (rip king), I honestly have been smoking more joints/bowls than using it because of how mid the vapor production and mouthpieces are. I am considering the Crafty+ but honestly I am sure there is probably a better portable alternative.

I would get the Mighty but I have delicate tiny hands and would like something that doesn't look like I'm trying to inhale an ereader into my mouth whenever someone passes me on the trail by my house......

Once again this is in AskChapo because the liberal mods refuse to give us a c/drugs

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Specifically, the prompt will be "help! The commies are making me think, give me excuses to ignore the things they're saying! The commies are saying Insert your comment here!”

This is not a "gotcha! checkmate idiots!" post, I'm genuinely curious what you think about this. This is the forum for asking questions right?

I have very niche interests. I like specifically shaped plushies of a specific franchise called fumos. I like data hoarding so I like being able to buy a 16TB hard drive and just dump whatever the fuck I find on the internet on it. I like commissioning gay furry porn. I can think of many other niche things. A specific brand of cheese I like, a specific brand of shoes that don't hurt my feet, specific kinds of fashion I like to wear, etc etc etc.

I like being able to do these things despite them not really appealing to a huge majority mass of people. And I understand why I can do that in capitalism: because it's a market everyone can sell stuff in and people (theoretically) chose what to buy, instead of it being chose for them. Thus, it's viable and sometimes even optimal to find a niche to appeal to rather than to make something general and for everyone. That's why it's profitable to make fumos.

Under a planned economy, how exactly can this work, though? An overseeing body will care about an overarching goal, and therefore things that are not useful to achieve that goal will be pushed back or completely discarded. Put yourself in the lens of some top-of-the-hierarchy bureaucrat: why bother making something like fumos? It's a luxury no one truly needs. It's a waste of resources that produces no tangible benefit. Why bother with 16tb hard drives for personal computers? Most people don't need more than 1tb or 2tb. Better to just give those to state companies that need them for servers and such. Giving them to data hoarders is again, a waste of resources that produces no tangible benefit. You can just save (what you deem) important things in a central archive.

I know I am talking purely about luxuries, but these things can be severe too. Why bother finding treatments for illneses that affect only very small percentages of the population? Why bother with clothes that can fit specific body shapes that are not found in the vast majority of people without hurting them? Why make game controllers shaped for the minute proportion of people that don't have five fingers?

Actually why make games in the first place, even? Wouldn't it be counter productive? That shit can lead to addiction and workers slacking off, meaning less productivity. From the point of view of The Administration it's only a waste of time. It furthers the goal more if there's no games. Why fund them?

I understand this kind of thing sort of happened in the USSR, there being very few brands of things to pick from, all the economy being spent on the army instead of things that made people happy, etc. I'm no historian so I'm not going to dwell on it specifically too much though.

I don't want to live in a world where everything is only made if it fits The One General Purpose. I guess the reply to this would be "fine, some things can be independent", but what is allowed to be independent and what isn't? How is that decided? How can we be sure it's enough?

For the record, I don't think niche things can only exist with a profit incentive. But I do think they can't exist without an incentive at all. If the body that controls all the funding and resources has no incentive, even if people out of the kindness and passion in their hearts want to do these things, if the government says "no, that's useless", there's nothing they can do.

I also don't think the solution to this can be "well just make sure The Administrators do allow these things", systematically they have an incentive to never do it, and a system that depends on a dice roll for nice people over and over and over is not a system I'd ever trust

Anyway thanks for reading. I mean no ill harm this is an actual question. o/

[pictured: a fumo]

I’ve had two days in a row where I got to nerd out over stuff with people. Let’s get some of that going for everyone else.