Divorces solve problems. That’s what they are for. What they cause is a glitch in the mirage, you think? Probably, but it might be something more idiotic even.

She’s one of the treasures of English literature.

Her children’s books are as good as her science fiction themes calling out the fundamental problems we have to face as a civilization.

• Tell me about some of your favourite people when you were a child.

• Do you remember any interesting sounds from your youth?

• What was it like learning english? How did you start?

• What were your first impressions when arriving in the USA?

These are all just conversation starters of course. You have to be ready to jump on the thread of a story she really wants to tell and pull on it to get more details and viewpoints.

Using sensory anchors like sounds or smells will really get your questions closer to memory triggers. “What did your favourite bakery smell like?” And then stuff will come up, like shortages or foreign treats, and that’s maybe a good story to follow.

Basically whenever possible, encourage her to “tell me about” life back then, and follow up with short questions asking for clarification or details.

I would like to believe people are poisoned and that excuses their idiocy, but approximately 15% of humans seem to be hardcore authoritarians by genetic lottery. They will believe that wealth and power are evidence of merit, no matter what. We just have to learn to work around that.

Thus our efforts to make social justice a core condition for profits: fuck people over and get a boycott or protests or a label in media as toxic, and lose customers.

It’s not going well, as a strategy. It requires an educated populace.

Kosh is very judgy, the hypocrite.

I am pretty sure that a lot of Tesla drivers just traded in their BMW.

If you plan some violence and include jury nullification as some viable part of the plan, and publish that shit online, not only is it kind of useless and lousy opsec, but it will attract heat that is unwanted and unnecessary. It’s literally a conspiracy to undermine nullification at that point, like a false flag. So no, don’t do that, and I back the mods on this.

Or ground crew sabotage.

Cops have long had the Punisher.

Now big Insurance has The Adjuster.

I have to use an AppleTV for various reasons, so I settled on a simple SMB share on an old mac mini server and the (subscription) Infuse app, it’s been rock solid as a player on all devices and very low effort.

OK to be specific the USA is not pure capitalist as it has a huge number of public assets and social services, and the soviets were nowhere near pure communist, a long ways away from a stateless society run by a proletariat, more like state monopoly capitalism. Anyone who has studied the topic might be inclined to downvote such claims.

Anyway I was defending you not attacking, being pissy won’t help.

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History is rhyming again.

Never seen the internet in your life. 25 year old male. What’s the first thing you look for?

Well, fraud is a kind of speech that crosses the line from offence to injury. That line is the one that needs defining for an ethical scenario.

So, in Canada, hate speech is not about offence but injury, based on historical circumstances and recognition that genocide only occurs with a lot of hate speech floating around. Many right wingers point to this as an outrage, as they don’t see speech as an action unless directed at themselves.

Currently these protections are being abused by zionists and those afraid of antisemitism accusations, so it’s complicated.

Most people in BC would wind up in Washington or Lincoln, looks like those go up to around Kelowna latitude.

Anyway, who do I start punching for this?

I liked the Canadian government giving Trump a framed photo of a former family business established in the Yukon: a bordello!

You’re being downvoted probably because your take is unscholarly, but it is not wrong.

Marx predicts the withering of the state by developing democratic socialism further and further until capital and its hoarders are fully enclosed. Northern Europe is a good example of this trend on the long term, and this is as predicted.

I think a lot of ideologues have an element of religiosity to their adoption of marxist analysis and that leads to religious timelines: The End Is At Hand.

But it’s not. Our lifespans are short compared with history. Late industrial capitalism will wither, and information capitalism will be further developed, before capital is enclosed by democratic development. Just waiting for how crazy genetics tech will make things… but I think we have to get through the fundamental questions that ownership of biology poses before we see the capacity for economic phase shift. History is accelerating, so…?

The Paris Commune is a great example of the class war being brutally engaged by the bourgeois.