Peaceful protests were meant to be a compromise to warn that something worse was coming. Black Panthers. Weather Underground. IRA and Sinn Fein.

Effective peaceful movements had potentially violent components. The more radical elements disappeared and peaceful protests became useless.

Unions were a compromise. Before unions, you’d drag the factory owner into his front lawn and exact justice.

Skin protection. Check out the Hong Kong protestors’ methods. They optimized against crowd control. You can neutralize teargas with heavy gloves and a sealable container with water in it IIRC.

Wear Lycra under it and keep a gas mask handy for the crowd control attacks.

I think any real user from Reddit that isn’t a bot is an asset these days. I hate Reddit as much as the next person, but giving people shit for coming from there to here feels hypocritical.

Cast Sebastian Stan for a post-ROTJ Luke movie. And get John Favreau and his people to write it.

stopping in the middle of the road without indicating, while: looking for your destination, or having a conversation, or deciding what day it is

That’s my new pet peeve. The thing is I don’t remember seeing people do this in the past and certainly not frequently, but now I see it all the time. Mind-boggling selfishness. I think Covid rotted everyone’s brains way more than we realize.

After centuries of studies and billions and billions of dollars, we’ve reached the outer limits of what science can achieve. We need a new paradigm for development as a civilization. The disruption model utilized in business is a good start.

I’m thinking that’s a combination of a lost bet and some cleverness.

Be a good dad to Ciri. It’s extremely important.

Sometimes, I think Cointellpro figured out that you don’t need to insert provocateurs to talk about terrorist shit. Just put one nerd in the chat to challenge a subgroup’s purity, and every leftist movement will collapse into infighting and dissolve.

The NYT reported on it at one point.

Verified, so that’s clearly him. Ask him why his dad was in Dallas when JFK was shot.

You pirate content to save money and protest the excesses of capitalism.

I pirate content because I enjoy singing sea shanties with the mates while seeding torrents.

We are not the same.

“But… but that’s a criminal conspiracy!”

“Yes, like I said it’s a corporation. What part are you not understanding?”

“So, you said you’re auditing the class. Why are you so interested in learning German?”

“Uhh… memes. You can tell they’re fire, but I can’t read them.”

“I noticed a really nice couch in your reception area. Is that for… everybody?”

The flavor of British food and the beauty of British women made British men the finest sailors in the world.

The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to meme on everyone else, and nobody was going to meme on them…. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.

I know it’s bad for me, but I can’t resist a nice smoke enema after a long butt chug.

Remember kids, with a little hard work and a lot of luck gambling, you too can be a successful capitalist.