nazi germany was before you were born

still feel cool about liking old things now?

If you’re able to do the work, go home, and just completely forget about it and do something else, that’s a very cushy job. The people who get completely invested in CS projects get chewed up and discarded by the industry.

Bold of them to assume Trump knows what the word “unilateral” means.

Well that sucks.

But it’s also like the least scary thing NASA could announce we’re on the brink of. So when you phrase it that way, it comes as a relief.

It’s the 90s and you’re a business ghoul trying to claw your way up to entrench yourself further and claw your way up above your peers. You shop around for fringe ideologues whose ideas would end up advancing your position, and invest some money to get them into into think tanks, advertising firms, talk shows, and the like. The reach of broadcast media explodes, the industry expands and everyone who got in early rises to the top, including your useful idiots. The propaganda industry gets better at its job, and you’re still listening to the TV. You bought these messages because they were convenient to you, but they’re so good at their job now that they’ve convinced you too. You’re now a true believer in whatever nonsense was tactically convenient to you 30 years ago.

(As fun as this narrative is, I’d like to point out that adding more details makes a story less likely to be true while making it sound more likely to be true.)

short term problem, in the long run shit and dead things make great compost and they’re just gonna smell like worms and dirt

The sectarian BS is symptomatic of a deeper problem - no modern western left wing movement has a viable theory of victory. If some group puts together a set of tactics that advance a strategy that repeatably provides material victories, then everyone will fall in line because that movement keeps winning. Until then, we’ll all argue over which idealistic horseshit is a more palatable excuse for why we’re not winning but some day we will be.

don’t look that up on e621

You’re probably thinking of personal property. Private property is things you own for other people to use.

A house is private property if a landlord is renting it to you, and personal property if you live in it.

Abolishing private ownership of housing would mean you still own your house, but mortgages and landlordship are illegal, so the demand crashes and they’re cheap. Cheap enough? Probably not on its own (not that housing is cheap enough for everyone to get one in our current system); there’d need to be subsidies for construction, and real estate companies would have to adapt to be cheaper as well, and heavily regulated so they don’t come up with schemes that are basically just rent and mortgages again.

That might sound like a lot of fresh new government bureaucracy, but you have to contrast it with the giant chunks of the legal system needed to enforce debt collection, rent, and evictions.

Jet fighter.

Fair enough.

I’ve built civilizations around far dumber ideas.

I think it would be neat if horses did have feathers, though.

During winter, most of the water freezes.

The way most pre-industrial societies would handle that is to not do the labor that needs water wheels during the winter.

As funny as this is, it’s also wrong. China’s top imports from the US are fossil fuels and turbines. Then agricultural products. Optical and medical equipment, airplane parts, and circuits are also high up there.

Brand new horizons for paid product placement.

And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.

Sorry, Plato is calling you out.

Both Easter and bunnies are real, making the Easter Bunny more real than most religious and mythical figures.

hoot hoot!

I think they just say bringing factories onshore would be good because the news said they should say that. 12 years of shitty education that trains them to say back what the teacher said last week, a lifetime of people on TV telling them what to think, of course that’s what they say.