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Americans cannot have public health care because because that would turn the 1 million rice koku feudal domain of Herusu Keea into a 500k koku domain, and Samurai clans like Furisuto and Paajuu and Deratore and Shikureri would be demoted from Maruchpuru Jetto status to the lower Shinguru Jetto rank.

workers in creative industries are learning brutally unfair lessons about the finance guys who can't be allowed in the door. and overwhelmingly they are not the ones who let them in the door. but it's still inevitable that, no matter how hard they work, everything will be torn down and liquidated.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

It's as if the instinct to dominate, to control, to surveil, to deceive, to exploit had by itself came to its own weird form of life through our combined actions and pushed us to furthering its takeover of our whole lives.

"Coexistence with psychopathic dictatorships is, in fact, not possible." - Christopher Hitchens ("Axis of Evil" speech, March 8th 2005)

Quick tutorial on controlling #C64 SID chip from your DAW with some fantastic products: TeensyROM or USBsid-Pico, paired with Chipsynth C64. Here’s how to do it. I'll drop product links in comments. #chiptune 👾

A scary thought that just came to me. Money is coming to represent your share of society. If you lack equity, in the end the system considers that you're just a worker that came in to help and you get nothing from the pile of stuff we built, and your citizenship becomes hollow. How depressing.

Lavos, the alien monster intent on destroying all life, emerged from his outer shell to condemn Zohran Mamdani. “Zohran needs to denounce his call for violence against the Jewish people,” said Lavos, as the doors of doom opened behind him

lavos’ second form, from the 1995 rpg chrono trigger