I read that it’s going to cost way more than $400m to inspect, and retro-fit that aircraft to the standards of AF1. It likely won’t be finished for his current term, or even his next.

Just a reminder, like the Soviet premier in “Dr Strangelove”, the Death Star isn’t a secret to keep it safe from rebels or to use in a surprise attack. Palpatine wants to make a show of using it and doesn’t want any spoilers.

But I’m so happy that Dedra survived the show. Because she’s going to find out that the Death Star got wrecked and she was this close to stopping it. I suppose she may get released after the Battle of Endor, a thoroughly broken person.

monocausal explanations are always bullshit.

Knowing that pharmaceutical companies have undue influence on public policy and public health is useful for understanding the world. Thinking that Big Pharma controls everything makes you RFKjr.

Ever notice how the libertarians always wanna build a city in some remote place like the ocean, Mars, or Gitmo? Suspicious that these are places difficult to escape.

I mean who cleans the toilets in Gault’s gulch?

It’s called Andor, not Alabandor

I don’t find Nebula to be an adequate replacement for youtube, but if they ever figure out how to keep me from blocking ads, Ima gonna change my mind.

I appreciate this as a science meme because it reflects the recursive problem with homoculi.

The authors of this describe the situation accurately enough. Even though a Netflix show is presented as evidence of, … something.

They lost me with the “begging the question” prescription for censorship and online control. I also don’t like the aesthetics of arguing that boys are dangerous without putting into context how much young men suffer under modern material conditions.

What you won’t find in the dictionary difference between dialects or creoles is historically racialized. A good example is Louisiana. Technically, Cajun is a subset of creole. But in practice Cajuns are white and Creoles are black.

https://hnoc.org/publishing/first-draft/whats-difference-between-cajun-and-creole-or-there-one

Black dialects (In America) have historically been treated as bastardizations, pollution, or just plan ignorance of proper grammar and syntax. I witnessed the short life of “Ebonics” until it was ridiculed into oblivion. I can remember plenty of people who spoke a Southern dialect only loosely associated with English mercilessly mocking and doing impressions of AAVE.

Common parlance like “They don’t think it be that way, but it do” is a contemporary example of black dialect with syntax and rules as complex as any language being mocked as as stupidity, ignorance, and an inability to speak English.

I’m not the racist police. If you’ve laughed at these jokes or told them, I don’t think your a bad person. I’ve laughed and spread them myself. This is just an FYI.

I’ve never engaged with the story in any GTA game. I just boot it up once in a moon, massacre as many cops as possible before they overwhelm me.

Qatar’s whole society works on this. They’re one of the richest countries because almost all citizens are the aristocracy, while everything is run with migrant labor. They outlawed slavery, in 1952. They replaced that with the Kafala system, which is as you describe. Don’t worry though, they outlawed Kafala in 2016.

hereditary lawmaker

It’s pretty bad when an American looks at your government and thinks, damn that’s backward AF.

I eat toast with cream cheese and a poached egg almost every morning and there’s some synergy between the unctuous yolk, the sour cheese, and my hot sauce that is just about mana from heaven.

This was supposed to be a synthases of modern and post-modern, but it seems to me they took the worst parts of modernism and the straw-person caricature of the postmodern and mixed them in a blender.

California has a long history of being cruel to the poor. They hate migrants no matter if they’re from China, Mexico, or Oklahoma. In the 30s they set up a state “border patrol” to keep dust bowl migrants out.

“Grapes of Wrath” is essential reading for American lefties. The movie is a pretty good substitute for those short on time, and the song takes less than 10min. Steinbeck himself commented bitterly on how few verses it took Woodie Guthrie to sum it all up.

Gavin Newsom is everything that’s wrong with the Democratic party.

You cannot read Western coverage of Palestine without learning about Ermon and Chomsky’s “five filters of media”. It’s like a decoder ring.

Wild, this is like an episode of Ozark.

Don’t you understand that being constantly nagged to use their products so they can monotise you is disrespectful? Would you keep a friend who started every conversation with a pitch for their MLM? I mean you’re not obligated!

I understand that it’s just business, but to me that’s just capitalist Nirenberg defense. So please don’t respond with some version of “it is what it is”, because I view that as learned helplessness.

EDIT: what Windows users might not get is that booting into Windows occasionally means that it’s going to bombard you with an avalanche of pop ups and nag-dialogues that a person who’s logging in every day might not appreciate.

Sure you can silence most of that, until the next necessary security update.