I'm imaging guilty ICE agents and managers and prison guards and industrial techs building bombs for Israel looking to chatbots for validation so they don't have to grapple with the contradictions of their own job.
Every bit of friction on their psyche smoothed away by a sycophant in their pocket that tells them they shouldn't blame themselves.
That's clearly a siren or some kind of merfolk on the left, I think the sign is telling you this is their territory.
Fuck off with this racist revanchism.
These are people who are ripe for radicalization against the regime, and we need everyone we can get.
Alligator Auschwitz
Every neoliberal subject getting their own personal validation/contradiction amelioration machine is going to turbocharge ideological disintegration even more than social media already has.
I'm just imagining the fresh horrors that will be unleashed when every single person is told "you're doing a great job, keep it up!" no matter what they're actually doing, without any connection to humanity or society.
Broth or tea or coffee, hot liquid in general really, is good for tricking your brain into thinking you're eating a lot of food. A hot quart of broth is my go-to breakfast these days, even if it's just flavored water with maybe some veggies, salt, spices and seasoning.
Another source from PIIE in January of this year has the private sector declining from 55 percent in mid-2021 to 33 percent in late-2024, with a small uptick back to 34% at the end of the year. Public sector ownership over that same time period went from 31 percent to 51 percent.
Central planning with private ownership of capital. The economy is dominated by private enterprise that employs workers for a wage and collect profits from the surplus value created by workers, but politics are in command instead of the anarchy of markets.
Ultimately it's a strategic step towards achieving socialism; a developmental stage that allows the centrally planned economy to attract foreign investment and implement rapid development until it's not needed. China, for example, is replacing more and more of its private sector with fully/majority publicly owned companies. I believe a majority of China's economy is now public, not private. If the trend continues, most private ownership will whither away.
Was it necessary? I don't think so - this is just how history happened to unfold.
I'm picturing a xenomorph bursting out of a watermelon or red cabbage or bean dip or something "gory".
Big (1988)
That's the secret to becoming a real billionaire - never pay anyone for anything.
should have got some saffron smdh
Another reddit.world community got mad at me for saying "death to US" and now I'm banned. That's fine! But why can't I block them now? I am forced to see their posts every time I go to /all and can't comment or vote, so am effectively forced to view content without any ability to interact.
I don't want to see their posts and should be able to block them from my /all feed
Here look! When I'm not banned there's a clear option to block the community:
But after being banned I now can't block the community, I'm forced to keep seeing it in my feed!
SOLVED: From the user settings page there is a tab for Blocks next to the tab for Settings, and you can manually search for the community you wish to block in a search bar. That worked, even if the UI on the community page was messed up by the block message.
I'm experimenting a lot with fried rice at the moment and I think I'm getting pretty good at it?
Unfortunately didn't have any carrot, but still turned out really good!
Beans and rice cooked in diluted pineapple juice, with peppers, corn, and pineapple tidbits. Then your usual taco fixins (lettuce, onion, tomato, hot sauce) on a store-bought tortilla.
It's got onion and tomato and lettuce and cucumbers and jalapenos and bell peppers and smokey tvp and some spicy sauce 🤤
The potatoes are mixed with fried tvp, peas, and carrots. The cauliflower are breaded and airfried, coated with a spicy buffalo barbecue sauce.
Miiiight have cooked a little too much tho 😅
Also here's an action shot
Carmelized onions and garlic, cubed potatoes, bell peppers, and egg substitute; topped with hot-sauce, with a cup of white chai on the side.
Just a simple chili made with four tomatoes, one onion, half a bell pepper, a three chipotles in abado sauce, a clove of garlic, a couple tbsp of chili powder, a tbsp of oil, and then topped with nooch and air fried kidney beans.
I think I'll spring for mango or pineapple next time.
And here they are ready for action
The way liberals always jump to blaming foreigners for political problems in the US is both absurd and, honestly, kind of fascist.