Today was “compostable” trash collection day, and BOY do the streets smell like SHIT. Like literal, human SHIT 😭

Not them, but Red Headed Stranger is probably one of my favourite concept albums ever.

Zimbabwe is not sovereign monetarily. The US is the most monetarily sovereign country in the world. They can literally print trillions and it doesn’t do anything to inflation. It has happened multiple times already!! Like why would people deny reality?

Your conclusion makes no sense. California can’t afford the policies because states don’t print their money, the federal government does. And California doesn’t get much help from the federal government. So it’s constrained by what it can tax locally.

Those policies would work perfectly and cause no budgetary issues if the federal government paid for them by printing money.

The massive printing of money from 2008 to COVID really not make people realise that? We CAN pay for everything. The government just has to print for the money, and use it for that instead of bailing out the capitalists over and over.

Damn revolution bad? I guess we should just lie down and accept how things are then. Better the death of millions of people, billions very soon, from the system that exists; than thousands from a revolution. You are very wise.

Lenin is great, and Stalin literally saved the world. The USSR was a great success. It was as authoritarian as any western “democracy”. Prove me wrong bozo.

Ah yes, the legendary capitalist freedom to go homeless and die of preventable diseases. And the awful authoritarian communism of providing full employment and eliminating poverty.

If you don’t think the USA is the most authoritarian country ever, your definition of authoritarianism is useless.

I’ll always recommend Blowback. Specially season 3. Death to America.

Lmao South China Morning Post and Radio Free Asia are literally propaganda mouthpieces for the CIA

But using a VPN is not illegal in China… why would you even have to explain why you’re using one?

If prices don’t decrease and wages don’t increase (as a median, not average), inflation “ending” makes no difference.

Who gives a fuck it inflation “is over” if I’m still paying more for the same shit and making the same amount of money?

The last chicken and first proto-chicken wouldn’t be 1 generation apart. The changes are so small that it takes thousands of generations for anything even close to beginning speciation to occur. If we literally did what you said, we would go backwards forever and when we got to something that looked completely unlike a chicken we’d be “shit, we have to go the other way around and check again, all the animals around this one look exactly like it, for thousands of generations”.

But that line can only ever be imaginary. There was never a proto-chicken that birthed a chicken. All chickens were birthed by chickens, all proto-chickens birthed proto-chickens.

We can make an imaginary line, but if went looking for it we would never find it.

The only people who say “Tin man square never happened lmao” are western liberals saying it ironically, trying to own China. China never said there were no protests or movements. They don’t ban people from talking about it.

But if you repeat CIA propaganda as truth, they will indeed prosecute you.

Blowback.

If you want to know about the history of American wars and interventions, that is the best podcast by far.

Bye Bye Bad Man by The Stone Roses.

The guitar on this song is deceptively complex and difficult. And it’s soooo good. John Squire is 100% underrated.

My favourites are Willie Nelson and Townes Van Zandt. Folksy cowboy country, contemplative and melancholic.

I think it’s pretty cool. The first time it happened I thought I was just “naturally tripping”. Or that I had a “super power”. But after the second or third time I just felt like it couldn’t be a thing only I ever experienced. So I searched online and found some people talking about it, their experiences very similar to mine, and eventually someone linked to the video I shared above and talked about the secret Thai royal martial art. All in all, I feel it’s indeed an ability all humans can have. I’m not sure on the mechanics of it, but if even blind people can “see” like this, I feel it must be something more than just “seeing” with the eyes closed, you know?

What would you say is the synesthesia part though? When it happens I can see things, like my hands, the room around me etc. not “shapes” or “colors” or anything.

Ah no no, sure. I’m not saying shrooms can’t do stuff like that. But I think it’s a natural ability humans have, that we can learn to do without shrooms. Like, the people in the video I shared above literally learned it. Some are blind y’know.