Not benevolence at all. Workers had significant extra pressure when the ruling elite were worried about communism spreading. Now with union membership at historic lows, and government unafraid to side with capital, western workers have very little bargaining power.

Good read if you haven’t already come across it :) https://redsails.org/concessions/

Hoping everything works out for you. It’s a really tough thing to go through no matter what. Medical science has come a long way and keeps getting better, there’s lots of reasons to be hopeful 💜

You too Oppo :)

They have similar incarceration rates to France & Spain. Less total prison population than the US.

At what cost???

Maybe angels do walk among us…

Not sure, I think that induction in general requires really close proximity. You can definitely spin the wok / toss to some extent but it is lacking in some movement.

One of those tradeoffs where it’s a lot more convenient if you’re not using a wok every day because it stows away in a drawer

We used to be a country…

I have never had the opportunity to cook with gas at home, but I have cooked a lot with induction and the difference between that and a heating element are night and day.

They do make induction wok burners!

Gas is definitely more accessible but I figured I’d mention for other wok enjoyers who do not know

I’d personally not do this considering the monthly costs of keeping a pet in stasis could be redirected to anything else and it seems to me that the technology is far enough out I probably won’t live to see it.

Additionally you have to trust that the company you’ve chosen will remain solvent long enough for the technology to reanimate them from stasis.

Not trying to be a bummer, but they’re important aspects to consider.

I think framing it as “american media is afraid of Israel’s wrath” is getting things a bit backwards.

Yes, the whole US media ecosystem runs cover for Israel. However it’s not because Israel has any real power over western media, it’s because the US government supports Israel.

Israel only has power because they’re a proxy of the US.

He’s from the game Team Fortress 2. He doesn’t represent anything in particular, he’s just a funny beloved character :)

You can search for “meet the heavy” on YouTube to see the official character concept video.

nohup redirects output from your terminal to a file. worth a shot

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/nohup.1.html

The closest analogy I can think of is Malcom X’s words on house slaves and field slaves.

There were two kinds of slaves, the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negroes-they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good because they ate his food what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near the master; and they loved the master more than the master loved himself. They would give their life to save the master’s house-quicker than the master would. If the master said, “We got a good house here,” the house Negro would say, “Yeah, we got a good house here.” Whenever the master said “we,” he said “we.” That’s how you can tell a house Negro.

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And if you came to the house Negro and said, “Let’s run away, let’s escape, let’s separate,” the house Negro would look at you and say, “Man, you crazy. What you mean, separate? Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this?” That was that house Negro.

– “Malcom X speaks” p. 10-11

I hesitate to directly equate chattel slavery to comfortable white collar westerners, but it seems relevant to the question of why wealthy proles would act against their own class interest. There is this brain-worm burrowed deep that shouts “Where is there a better house than this?”, “Where can I eat better food than this?”, “Where can I get more treats than this?”.

Looks great! How did you finish the edge?

They even do AI slop better than us 😭😭😭

Good article! When talking to libs (the misguided familial kind) I find their thoughts regarding AI are often more in line with Marxist thought.

Like Gaza it’s one of those things that is so flagrantly anti-Human it’s hard to defend.

My biggest hurdle is explaining that “going back” to a “kinder capitalism” is neither possible nor kind.

November was good, I had a couple of weeks off work and am feeling much better overall.

My goals for December are to finish a couple of small leathercraft projects for friends’ holiday gifts and finish reading more theory.

Then I want to start 2026 strong by getting involved with some local organizing :)

The pain and destruction is caused by fascism, not by his intelligence. If he was “more intelligent”, he would not cause less pain or destruction.