I found a mechanical turk that granted wishes and told it to make me older. I do not recommend having the body of a mid 30 year old and the mind of a 13 year old. Ended up in a love affair with someone my age even though I was mentally a 13 year old. Left me messed up for a long time. I eventually stopped being old and went back to my normal age. If you want my advice, age normally, don’t wish for adulthood on a mechanical turk.

This!

I need to read Lenin… Is this from Imperialism or something else?

Might be hard because the creator has control over the filter. You could control for that but I bet account age changes how the filter works to prevent spam from people creating fresh accounts. You would need a lot of accounts to do this effectively as some will undoubtedly get banned in the process. Then you have to account for actions being policed based on origin IP. Places like YouTube know if your coming from a commercial ISP vs a data center. So of you’re trying to script this, you would need something like a data center, or some public network addresses that are “disposable”.

So I think it’s unlikely someone has put this to the test.

Pretty sure he’s a Zionist. I could be wrong.

Aw you’re going to make me cry. They are so precious. I’ve told people before, having a child will be the death of you, and from your ashes you will be reborn anew. You will never be the person you were before them, you’ll be so much more.

There are days I wonder what I’ve gotten into. Then there are days where I’ve never been so full of joy. You both grow together, in a dialectical entanglement, each reflecting one another, building new and exciting days, months, and years.

Every person who cares for them leaves a little part of themselves woven into the tapestry of their personality. They are there sum of our parts and hopefully more.

❤️

Yup us too. Especially since her brother isn’t old enough to be giving up naps. This weekend she had a lot of fun gluing shapes I cut out for her onto construction paper, making little colleges. We went to the craft store today and got more paper, glue, and her own kid scissors. Kept her very occupied as I passed out in the chair trying to read a book.

We only ever buy local milk but yeah I have no idea what one could do… Im not buying a cow.

Congratulations! Welcome! That first week can be scary, I remember thinking “they just let us go home with her?” Having kids will easily be the most challenging thing you’ll do for a long time. How are you holding up?

American Capitalism is in crisis, and this crisis has been managed and minimized for decades going back to the end of WWII when the stage was set to position the USD as the worlds reserve currency. This has encouraged the development of Financialization and the reduction in real productive forces in the American economy.

Because the economy is standing on financial forces, it is wildly unstable and its value is mostly tied up in perception. It is propped up by several bubbles: Housing and Tech being the largest of the two.

Since most of the worlds liquidity is tied up in USD it’s possible to trigger a global recession if the USD drops significantly. The tariffs threaten this outcome. The threats are an attempt to reorganize the balance of trade in favor of the US. Again the US is trying to externalize the contradictions in American capitalism, making it the worlds problem.

This, however, isn’t necessarily going to have the desired outcomes. These moves will only reveal China as the most rational actor in the world economy and pull nations to them.

I did the quintessential dad thing just now; sat down in our recliner and promptly fell asleep.

Our oldest is very likely done taking naps. Ironically, since having kids, the number of naps I need is only going up.

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Its never “just a matter of” anything. The Sino/Soviet split had deep ramifications across a broad spectrum of conflicts that had a material impact on Chinas reputation with the west.

They partnered with the west in Afghanistan, backing the mujahideen. They backed Cambodia and had growing tensions with Vietnam due to their ties to the Soviets. These actions showed the west they might play ball. Nixon going to China was an effort to drive a deeper wedge between Moscow and Beijing.

After the opening up of China, they convinced Western investors to pour money into their industries. The west thought they would become a liberal democracy any day, just like they think they’re going to collapse any day.

Arguably the Sino/Soviet split was a large factor in the Soviet collapse.

Yes.

Fuck Sam Jackson.

Kobo eReader. It gets used for multiple hours a week. I never would have thought a device used for reading would be my favorite gizmo.

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Some don’t even wash their ass in the shower.

Listening to it right now and that’s my thinking too. David Guetta has kind of ruined me on these kind of call backs. I don’t even know if I’d call them samples. Its not like when Beastie Boys used Led Zeppelin to produce their earlier albums, where the samples are very chopped and screwed. Its just the backing track loosely rearranged. Its almost like nostalgia bait.

You can tell it is by the way it is.