It’s so gratifying to hear from people on the internet who are older than I am. And this article reads like it bounced off a Listserv to a yahoo email address.

E.S. Herman and Noam Chomsky’s book Manufacturing Consent is a great place to start. You can skip most of the book honestly, (it’s out of date), but the “5 Filters” part is like a decoder ring for American Legacy Media.

I think I loved about a dozen women relatively recently tho I haven’t even kissed them

Romantic love is always both ways. Crushes are normal and healthy, but no matter how strongly you feel, it ain’t nothing like when they wanna kiss you back.

When I was young I had anxiety about getting betrayed or abandoned. Well, all that came to pass, but what I didn’t know then was that I am perfectly capable of hurting people who care about me. These days, I regret the harm I did way more than what I suffered.

Hanlon’s razor

I’ve got one of the older versions of this kit:

Just going to point out that these are not a comparison between American and European design bureaus, it’s a comparison between American and European artists.

Pork is the protein of the poor. You don’t need land to raise them and you can feed them scraps and garbage.

Consider a goat or a sheep. Not only do you need the animals, you need access to grazing lands for that. You need wealth.

The best explanation for the taboo: elite snobbery.

Alcohol. Sometimes it takes 30 or 40 years to be effective. Not very good for murder, but wildly popular for suicide.

Just use a contraband cellphone. That gives you access to powerful encryption.

That’s some of the most totalitarian bullshit I’ve ever seen come out of 'big 'tech. I’m not even sure Joseph Goebbels tried to control metaphor. This is 1000X more granular than the CCP banning Winnie the Pooh.

The best way to burn off bad faith is to ask them to affirm their standard: “so you think it’s dishonest to intuit intention when you have no proof”? and if they’re stupid enough to claim they believe that, hit them with something like:

“What do you mean video games have a woke agenda? You can’t know the intentions of game designers”. “How do you know that the media is biased against Trump”? “You can’t read their minds”.

The tariffs on metal doesn’t apply to finished products, only raw material.

So I’m a 21 year old from Germany

When, as a people, or a nation do unprecedented crimes and evil, it rings out through history, carried by the parents and given to the children. Racism is still a topic for discussion because it’s still a problem. I’m sure you understand.

This is not a serious argument. It’s just anti-renewables BS packaged as anti-Chinese BS. It can be dismissed on either count.

The quality of this meme is way too good for NCD, but it’s the only sub that gets the joke.

“kill switches” don’t make any sense. Nobody would buy weapons knowing they had one, so you could only use it once before your export market tanks.

And why on Earth would you program weapons that deactivate upon receiving a signal? Obviously this would suck if our adversaries (who are all technically sophisticated) learned how to alt-ctrl-del our allies’ equipment.

Israel must approve all construction projects in Gaza. IDF soldiers routinely dismantle private roof-top solar to prevent Palestinians from being independent of Israeli electricity.

Gaza has no airport, no docks to accept shipping, and all land borders are controlled by Israel or Egypt. And the whole point of the Egyptian crossing is to be a corridor for Palestinians to “self-cleanse” and flee the brutal conditions that Israel imposes.

Hamas has never controlled Gaza.

The oldest human writings are lost to history. But we can be assured that they bitterly complained about the young generation and predicted that the world would end soon.

Sooner or later, one of the kooks will be right by coincidence.

MRW I BECAME A HOMEOWNER: