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Yeah… so the food that would have only been available to those with excessive wealth is now available to everyone, leading to problems that used to be reserved to those who could afford excessive calories being the problems of everyday people.

The markets responding by promoting extremely cheap calories from industrial sugar sources rather than cane cut by hand by (relative to a machine or petrochemical processes extremely costly) slave labour is really just a natural consequence of capitalism feeding capitalists.

It’s not the food killing people, it’s the people selling the food that are killing people.

> this problem literally did not exist until the 80s.

Henry VIII might have a word for you on that one, as would many other of history’s aristocrats. The only thing that’s really changed is the cost of food that used to be reserved for kings.

Well no, nowadays you don’t get a bathroom, you get a juice bottle on your “break” between sprints around a Bezosian Labyrinth.

Also, bit of news for you, the USSR no longer exists, while the people who still see communism everywhere carry the highest debt load ever while their wages haven’t kept with with real inflation in generations. So yeah, it’s indentured service, only instead of scrip and the company store it’s an endless buffet of perpetually-more-enshittified subscriptions services in a home you’re only renting while driving a car you’ll never own.

Interesting question: if you find something your government already knew was there, did you in fact find it?

Of course you’re now living through the capitalist dystopia where prioritizing “productivity” is making everyone’s life worse than said communist professional urbanite, but with the added benefit that burger flipping is coming back as an employment sector for recent indentured graduates / serfs.

Would also not recommend.

This would definitely be in the apres-Kojak, just before sign-off part of the evening.

Anthropologists announce that human populations tend to congregate towards urbanity. Next sports.

Wooden. Definitely wooden.

But wouldn’t Tau be twice as good as Pi?

[reading headline]

Really?

[reading article]

Oh… no.

Please, world, keep banning this thunderously ignorant dipshit.

Here, do better.

https://youtu.be/GecyqKkcFsI

Truly we are in the fuckwit timeline.

If you let something built with programming languages speak on your behalf in programming languages and you can’t read those programming languages, you’re not long going to enjoy the benefit of programming languages.

Account for the people think the war is going to bring an entirely fictional End Times, and the support drops to significantly < 5%.

Of course magically rapture the same folk from political power and Washington would be instantly devastated by the air rushing in to fill the resulting vacuum in all three branches.

Thankfully that will never happen.

Do you think they know that you can’t launch a Golden Age, or that you can only find out, after the fact, that you used to be in one?

Oh, who am I kidding? These folk are still not even half way up to Base Camp on Mount Stupid. They, quite literally, don’t know shit.

Actual statement is “fewer than 400”, there’s no indication given reflecting closer to 0 or closer to 400.

https://www.nj.gov/governor/news/2026/approved/20260721a.sht...

Here’s the article without the paywall.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/chatgpt-convinced-an-al...

> So here's my pithy prescription for how Europe can find its way back to The Good Times.

Ah, MEGA thinking… now, as we’ve now, eventually, learned (often to our collective horror) to do with the MAGA-thinking folk, can the author please specify exactly what years were “The Good Times”?

Makes you wonder if Putin had something slipped into his borscht.

… for now. Thanks RFK Jr.

I’ve had the “pleasure” to get to sit fifteen feet from the guy, right behind his version of Number Two, and listened to his monologuing. I’ve watched his round table of minions nodding. The only things that would have made it more fitting would be if he’d been stroking a hairless cat and snarling at Verne Troyer.

Once you’ve seen him in real life it’ll never leave you.

If you’d ever seen the bubble of sycophants that insulate this particular Dr. Evil wannabe from reality, you’d know it’s not that weird.

Well, if that’s true, and if after the fact even one can, then my hypothesis of a massive increase will be correct!

Well, that would end up with a massive increase in the number of MAGA evangelicals who’ve actually read any part of the book.

Full title: ”Trump administration to phase out HIV funding [for South Africa].“

Though in the long run they’ll try to do both, because kakistocracy.

Thus endeth the tenure of the oxymoron.

This is the work of a mad genus.

No, both are wrong, the war crimes are more wrong.

Stop shilling for horsewood capsules when whaledork tea is where it’s at!

Ahh, so you’re conflating what’s legal — which at times has included chattel slavery, genocide that suited the state, actual torture, and, for the moment at least, unlimited betting by members of the executive branch on the outcomes of military actions that are facially illegal under international law — with what’s moral.

Yes, under what you’ve accepted as the default it’s legally acceptable to accumulate all the money and avoid any taxation while doing so. Thank you for summarizing and explaining to yourself and others precisely the perverse systemic bug I described earlier.