Jess Schomberg

I wonder if "promoting personal beliefs" counts for oh idk crosses?

This was the "anxious purring after screaming at me for 15 minutes to come sit in the chair so she can take a nap" stage

An orange cat on a cream blanket, with her front paws outstretched to make biscuits in the blanket, her ears at alert, and her eyes half open

For the Betty fans

The Easiest (and Smallest) Chicken Parm | Food Wishes YouTube video by Food Wishes

@nvbinder.io this made me think of some of your recent posts

youtu.be/SAUksrFU-RQ?...

Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.

Unrelated: Preposition errors in social media posts would explain some of the grammar "corrections" I've been getting from word processing tools the last year

I knew things were going to be bad but I wasn't prepared at the relief I would feel at the idea of massive money laundering and fraud

The ICE detention center purchases appear to be money laundering:

I do kind of wonder if part of the push for the idea that highly compressed AI writing is a better replacement for human writing is that a large number of people are functionally illiterate and don’t understand nuance, figurative language, or any of of the flourishes that make writing creative.

@CNN Pizza shop workers took down an armed robber -- but when police took off his mask, they discovered he was their old boss.

and he would have got away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling kids

They're going to exclude all the studies showing benefits and then call the evidence base week and then give the person who gave them the political result they wanted a peerage and then they're going to ban trans adult care.

Ohhh, I don't think it's crossed my radar before, I am intrigued!

(I think mostly I just don't like being preached at, whether I'm in the choir or not. I'd rather be puzzled and intrigued enough to put the puzzle pieces together on my own, at least for anything beyond the realm of fluff)

omg same! Purple prose should be fun not didactic

the truly wild thing is there's no way to know if you're in their little fucked machine. It's a dynamic system that suggests "experts" contextually. there's no list, there's no nothing. so if you don't know you're in it how do you know to opt out?

Same! I think it was the lack of subtlety that I struggled with

Makes me a bit crazy hearing those in the western climate movement describe the energy transition as happening because solar is now the cheapest source of energy as though it's a kind of agent-less market-driven process. It's happening almost exclusively because of Chinese industrial policy!!!

I'm only halfway through but need to go do other things, link in case you want to read it yourself

"During revolutionary times, when the institutions must not simply be administrated, but rather created, the democratic procedures fail clamorously."

(bankers don't like what's happening right now, bankers like stability is a concept I've heard almost daily for the past several months)

prediction that if Germany falls, the old guard will work with a victorious England and US to re-establish a variation on the prior regime, to preserve the balance of power in their own countries rather than allow a period of instability that might lead to progressive social restructuring

This reactionary, totalitarian civilization, after having triumphed in a series of countries, finally found, in Nazi Germany, the power that was thought to be capable of drawing the final consequences. Its victory would mean the final consolidation of totalitarianism in the world. All its characteristics would be exasperated to the greatest degree, and progressive forces would be condemned for long years to the role of simple opposition. The traditional arrogance and intolerance of the German military classes can give us an idea of what the character of their dominance would have been like, after a victorious war. Victorious Germans might even concede five years of generosity towards other European peoples, formally respecting their territories and their political institutions, in this way satisfying the false sentiment of patriotism of those who consider the colours of the boundary fence, and the nationality of the politicians in the forefront; and instead it is the ratio of power and the effective content of state organs, that warrant attention. However camouflaged, the reality is always the same: a new division of humanity into Spartans and Athenians. Even a compromise solution between the two sides in battle would be one more step ahead for totalitarianism. All those countries which had eluded Germany’s grasp would be forced to adopt its same forms of political organization, in order to be adequately prepared for the next war.

I mean sub in the US for Germany... the question that I keep wondering is, who is going to play the role of Great Britain this time around (highly doubtful it'll be the UK)

(this part makes me think of higher ed and how students are coerced into certain disciplines, either forcefully or by making them think that studying certain fields is in their best interest... whether that is true or not)

"History is falsified in its essential data, in the interests of the ruling classes. ... Men are no longer considered free citizens ... They are, instead, servants of the State, which decides their destinies, and behind the will of the State is masked the will of those who hold the power."

"Because of the economic interdependence of all parts of the world, the vital space needed by any population which wants to maintain a living standard consonant with modern civilization, must be considered the entire globe. The pseudoscience of geo-politics has been created...."

"Albeit no one knows what race is + the most elementary notions of history emphasize the absurdity of the statement, physiologists are held to believe, demonstrate + convince that one belongs to a chosen race — simply because this myth is needed by imperialism to excite the masses to hate + pride."

"... spiritual liberty [science] did not survive the crises created by the totalitarian states. New dogmas to be accepted like articles of faith, or to be accepted hypocritically, are taking over all fields of Knowledge."

"Even the privileged classes who had consented to the equality of political rights could not accept the fact that the under-privileged took advantage of this ... it was only natural that certain classes warmly approved and sustained the installation of dictatorship."

"Women are considered merely as producer of soldiers and are awarded prizes in much the same way as they are awarded to prolific cattle. From the very earliest age, children are taught to handle weapons and to hate what is foreign."

"Expressions of civil policy, therefore, such as schools, research, productivity, administrations, function with difficulty and are mainly directed towards increasing military strength."