Never work another day in your life.

“How much does it pay?”

“Pay?”

We sure haven’t heard much coming out of Iran since they shut off the Internet. US taking notes.

It must be fucking brutal. My heart goes out to the Iranian people, they deserve so much better. Such an ancient beautiful country, such wonderful people, intelligent, charming, hospitable- held back by a fanatical regime that is the result of the better part of a century of US and British colonialism and imperialism, not to mention Israeli.

A tragedy thrust upon their people.

What a florf.

Cats are ridiculous. They are so cute that it’s enough to simply see pictures of them and your heart goes mruuurr. Pictures! 2D! Mruur! That’s how cute they are.

At this point just resign.

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I ain’t enjoying shit of this, I just consider it one of the last spaces of the free exchange of ideas and information left. I heard BlueSky is already on the chopping block. Like healthy cells surrounded by metastases, one by one they get consumed.

But maybe I wax too dramatic when I’m tired and drunk, and the morning is young as the old night dies. I can go on, et cetera, alas, and so forth. Hark. Would you render yonder and caress my Sony Trinitron screen of vint most fine? My cask thumps hollow!

Because if wealth is power, then wealth will not want to pay taxes, so it would wield its wealth as a weapon so as to assure that it wouldn’t. See? Taxes are laws. Capital is above the law. Can the law be enforced? If so, then yes, it would fix this. Unfortunately, a legal and democratic system cannot withstand the force of capital- which, incidentally, is also an agreement. It’s only as long as we play the game and let us be duped by it that this goes on, that’s why the power remains with the people. If we withdraw, it all collapses.

True human unity and cooperation transcends all arbitrary systems of government, democratic or other.

Proving the point perfectly. They aren’t paid to think. They’re paid to follow orders.

When the time comes, they will not hesitate to fire upon US civilians, and those who do will be shot alongside them.

Soldiers will obey orders. That’s what they do.

My Lai, Abu Ghraib, Kent State, Bonus Army March.

Soldiers aren’t trained to be moral philosophers, they’re paid to do what they’re told

I will give you that they started out as a shit show then got their act together by means of social darwinism- isn’t that fucking ironic. I mean ICE is the Sturmabteilung by any reasonable comparison, and they fill the exact same purpose- spread terror and fear, bring chaos and disorder, until they are no longer useful to the regime, they’re street muscle.

Then they outstay their welcome, people like Bovine become too powerful or cumbersome, time for the night of the long knives, and the SS takes over. In our case likely special forces or some enclave within the army or NSA that will get promoted up the ranks based on loyalty, just like you say.

Jesus christ… Welp, I’m ready to fight, I’ve been ready for some twenty odd years, I am not as capable, I thought this would happen sooner, but I’m for sure more experienced and sly. Nobody around my neighborhood is going silently into the night, I’ll tell you that much.

A bit too inflatable-looking for me, but you do you.

MSN is owned and operated by Microsoft Corporation.

MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), is a cable news channel owned by Versant Media Group.

Versant Media Group is an independent publicly traded company, after they spun off from Comcast.

Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts and his family retain significant share holder control.

He’s a billionaire that paid tons of money to both parties (let’s pause and think about this for a moment because as obvious as it is to all of us, we tend to forget that it is not normal to live in a two party state no more than it is living in a one party state), leaning mostly republican.

So, I guess, as billionaires go, he’s not the worst offender. But, as billionaires go, he will always do what is financially expedient- that’s why any rich person pays both sides, so that regardless who comes out on top YoY, they win.

Here’s another problematic aspect of the same-

In 1913 there were 435 representatives in Congress. The population of the United States was ~97 million.

In 2026 there are still 435 representatives. The population is about ~335 million.

In 1913 each representative spoke for roughly 223,000 people.

In 2026 each representative speaks for roughly 770,000 people.

In 1789 there were 65 representatives, and about 4 million people, speaking for ~60,500 people each.

Scale matters, a lot.

Of all the things AI can be used for, I think this one is fair, I asked it to colorize the image. I hope I’m not wrong. It isn’t a gimmick.

I don’t know why this man in particular makes me so sad.

B… B… BAKA!

Exhibit A: Corpse pile, bubonic plague, Toscana, 1351

Exhibit B: Pirate beard, Queen Anne’s Revenge, 1718

Exhibit C: Blood spattered pyramid, Aztec Empire, 1501

Exhibit D: Neolithic footwear, Anatolia, ca 7200 BCE

Last night he had a couple of drinks, stood in front of a mirror, stared himself straight in the eye, puffed up his chest, and said that line to himself a couple of times.

Great. Except for the ChatGPT. Nothing in this writeup can be trusted. I fully believe the gist is the case, but seriously man.