So what if rent caps are authoritarian? Good. If “liberty” means an unlimited right to exploit people then who needs it

electoral success being historically very important to fascist military cliques

I think that’s the last policy proposal I can remember that had any concrete numbers attached to it though

just checking out the competition, China is the #1 tractor supplier to the world

and they don’t charge John Deere prices either

which actually means the empire’s ability to keep civilian planes in the air is breaking down at both ends

That picture of Wadi Rum is at sunset, everything is orange at sunset

Some of these seem less like Boeing’s fault and more like imperial airlines are skimping on maintenance

My point is that the urban soil in Gaza in 2024 has got to be brutally contaminated

jesus how toxic must that stuff be

President Biden and I firmly reject the idea that our belligerent actions should have consequences of any kind

I wager our successors aren’t going to wax romantic about us or our “achievements.” I would think that the future myths about the ancestors who fucked everything up with their hubris and left the world covered in poison and plastic garbage are going to be something to behold

eh, we won’t get either of those things. we (probably) won’t even destroy ourselves. but industrial civilization is already on the downward swing. the whole thing depends on fossil fuels and the math doesn’t check out on their replacements. over the next couple hundred years, in fits and starts, we’ll make our way back to an iron age. maybe with some solarpunk characteristics.

yeah I think it’s plausible that no naturally evolved species can stably industrialize. tech grows faster than brains, and hydrocarbon energy doesn’t come back when it’s gone.

has anyone ever seen king luan in a mirror?

be the innkeep that you want to see in the world

every year is dumber than the year before it and I was wondering how we were going to maintain that growth, like surely there’s only so much pure stupidity to go around? we have to be bumping up against the limits, right? scraping the stupid out of metaphorical tar sands and deep-water wells

oh me of little faith. innovation™ has brought us artificial stupidity and now there are no barriers, we’re going to get dumber faster than mankind has ever before dreamed possible

what Americans come up with when they’re told “build affordable housing in cities”

it sounds like he was doing beast mode burnouts at every red light. with known glitchy steer-by-wire. take this fucker’s drivers’ license away

GardaWorld

what a cringe-ass country