will fain

'Difference and Repetition'
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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

news of this study has been wildly overshadowed by war for control of an oil-rich area of the planet which has set a ton of that oil on fire

if so, are we still attributing these post-2019 trends wholly or in large part either to "covid brain" or pandemic trauma or "lockdown psychosis", or somesuch?

are we also guessing that people with, ahem, diminished capacities for judgment (etc) are all in on "AI"?

from brain fog to slop rot?

are people still experiencing an increased level of public interpersonal rudeness from strangers and witnessing mystifying and sometimes egregiously dangerous/illegal driving behavior out on the streets?

an albino flying fox serenading Nagel with its cover of an Everlast hit

I am still of the opinion that neoliberalism's death is greatly exaggerated, but I'm not infinitely obstinate.

in my mind there are two Rubicons: the president or congress formally changing the composition of the Supreme Court, and the military using nuclear weapons.

the death of Westphalian sovereignty, killed by men unconsciously in love with their lurid nightmares of the "death of the West"

I *really* don't want to be a downer but to me the precursor to Doing is Saying, and not nearly enough of this Party is saying what needs to be said. About punishing the villains, about abolishing billionaires, about ending elite impunity. Too many want to leave the rot but change the branding

a doctored photo of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. smiling in the sky, looking on as a black guy whips three white slaves with a belt

Iam so proud of you bro! Lol

Everybody deserves to have democracy at work, just as we deserve to have it in the political system.

It might not solve every problem, but we deserve to be able to openly discuss management's plans and vote on our bosses' random ideas.

So you hate crab cakes?

the classic insult "nice shoes, do they come in your size?" is real life now

watching and enjoying 'Dark', resisting the impulse to draw a family tree and timeline. going to try "turning my brain off" and letting the mellifluous Hochdeutsch wash over me like an indolent tributary of the Danube

It's all there. All of the bullshit claims about emergencies and national security threats. The goal all along was to give Trump the power to deploy the military domestically to suppress dissent and crush MAGA's enemies.

These are dangerous people. They're now in the highest levels of government.

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

a man on a golf course says hey everybody we 're all gonna get laid ! ALT: a man on a golf course says hey everybody we 're all gonna get laid !

Hey everybody

the cruelties of the world & Yahweh/Jesus and the immorality of his flock didn't play a role. the brief time I spent in the antechamber of agnosticism was merely my failing to cope with what I suspected was true: there is no protection from suffering, there is no moral justice, there is no afterlife

the real answer is a boring one: the more I learned about what science could explain, the more glaring it seemed to me that we've no evidence for gods, the supernatural, etc. thus, I never moved from "Christian" to "other" or "spiritual" but directly to atheism.

my (joke) answer affords me the opportunity to share my submission for the best website name of all time:

Why Won't God Heal Amputees dot com

sadly, the site is no longer with us, so I'll share the archived version from 2k6:
web.archive.org/web/20060613...
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Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

Really good read on digital preservation, archives, culture, race, and music. 📚📜

democracy as in voting, ya sure. democracy as the concept of people substantively governing themselves? under capitalism, of course not

The US is at war and repression at home is going to get worse.

I'm old enough to remember during the Iraq war the FBI infiltrating quaker meetings and vegan potlucks and cracking down on anti-war groups and outspoken Muslim leaders.

The US surveillance state has grown exponentially since then.

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One, they wanted the content.
Two, they wanted to get rid of women and Black people.
Three, they wanted to install loyalists.

anxiety's man's end

time sand from inside an hour glass must feel so good slipping through your fingers

escape quantified assessment through transgression. you can take your time when you're already late. in for a penny, out of Dodge. we're no angels, so who's counting?

I've a hunch that March madness* is going to be an all-timer this year. hold on to your butts
*not basketball

L.A. Noire Title Screen & Main Theme [1080p] YouTube video by bradacus

L.A. Noire
to the perks and punks who claim this game doesn't have the GOAT title screen theme…
🆇 Doubt
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