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.

Fuck, Teddy, at this point you’re just strutting around on the board cooing and knocking over pieces.

KS Robinson has the anonymous resistance send drones into plane engines shortly after takeoff, 6 private jets in one day. Things change in the novel quickly after that.

• 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.

Professional and Technical ‘classes’ and other specializations may have more privilege and income, but end the work-derived income and their assets will not sustain them.

They are subsets of the working class because they must work.

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?

Proving my point, eh

That’s such an American thing to say lol.

No we are very culturally distinct in subtle but important ways. Expats stick out here more than they think, it isn’t just about accent or removing your shoes.