Connolly’s is an awesome bookstore.

Some BIOSes have a built-in update function that can update from a BIOS file stored on a connected flash drive.

Don’t you know, history ended in 1991. Peak humanity was achieved. Liberalism won.

/s

The thing with general scientific research is that there isn’t any immediate utility, but you never know what incredible things will be discovered.

In the case of a research station on the moon, there are opportunities for investigation into how the moon and solar system formed, the history of elements present on the moon. Telescopes can be built that can be larger than space based ones and with better imaging potential than earth based ones due to the lack of atmosphere. We can learn how to live far away from earth and improve in-situ resource utilization capabilities, such as water and rocket fuel synthesis and how to grow food. More longer term, as yet untested ground to orbit concepts can be tested more easily than on earth, like space elevators, launch loops, and orbital rings.

The only thing that will fix Vancouver’s housing crisis is Soviet style housing policy.

It’s a sort of space opera type story taking place a few hundred years in the future. Tensions between humans in the solar system are high, particularly the contradiction between the inner planets (imperial powers) and the asteroid belt and outer planets (periphery and colonized).

The whole series follows the crew of a single ship and revolves around the aforementioned conflict as well as a mysterious and powerful alien substance that suddenly appears in the solar system.

Worth noting that official inflation figures are based on a variable basket of goods, meaning that the inflation value can be very easily adjusted to whatever is politically expedient in the moment.

The “traditional” or nuclear family these conservatives want to protect is itself a recent invention. Before industrialization and capitalism families and communities looked quite different.

Free trade only ever meant that non-US countries must reduce or remove tariffs and remove capital controls vis a vis the US, so that US capitalists may exploit to their heart’s content.

So that’s €4B more for social services, right?

Right?

Ahh, ok, I read that as “comment removed by anticapitalist”. Thanks for the correction.

“anticolonialist”

supports genocidal US neocolonialism

She’s a neoliberal economist (ie someone who lays down academic cover for the empire). She was the Federal Reserve chair under Obama and has been the Treasury Secretary under Biden.

Her earlier career included time at the Fed, during which she wrote a paper clearly stating the purpose of raising interest rates: to further oppress the working class.

What then, is the border policy of the EU if not “political violence.” What then, is the policy of the EU vis a vis pro-Palestinian voices if not “political violence.” What then, is the belligerent escalation of violence of the EU via a vis Russia if not “political violence”?

And what position does an unelected supranational executive official have anything to do with democracy?

The Aaron Good podcasts on the assassination are a good starting place for the story and additional sources. He pulls a lot from Peter Dale Scott, who investigated it contemporaneously.

It doesn’t matter what the executive does. Both Trump’s and Biden’s terms have been incredible for the people behind the curtains, the deep state as it were (using the academic definition, not Trump’s). So what if Trump says he doesn’t want to enact Project 2025, the executive branch staff who actually control things will.

It is truly astonishing to consider how anyone could believe that Russians would rise up over frivolous matters like this.

It is on a logical level, but it’s also so much like typical feel-good story which Germans tell themselves about the end of the DDR and reunification. The story goes that life sucked in the DDR because people didn’t have frivolous material goods, so the people rebelled and were rewarded by reunifying with the west.

Aside from the different class that’s in charge, that consensus building is the key difference I see in the Chinese system compared to the west. Chinese representative bodies can and do vote unanimously for things because so much work has happened in advance of the vote to adjust the proposal for maximum benefit and educate the people and representatives on what it means, for them and for society at large.

All of the points on your long list of objectively not red line actions are presidential, so of course they’re fine. The only issue people have with Trump is his loud mouth, and I’m even starting to doubt that given the things Genocide Joe has said.

My employer has an average employee age of 45, and it feels like the people there are old as fuck.