No, onions and mustard.

Literally exactly what I said, thank you for clarifying.

I feel like if you need more than a plastic toothpick to clean your charging port, you need to reevaluate how and when you’re using your phone and maybe should invest in paper towels to wipe your hands after eating.

I don’t even have to read the article to know it’s going to be absolutely overflowing with misinformation and exaggeration and outright lies for clicks.

Nobody knows how nuclear power or fission works, people broadly cannot fathom any of it, but it sure sells a headline.

Maybe it’s a start?

I know our future is probably going to be a war and famine torn hellscape of human suffering no matter what happens, but it’s possible in the medium-term future this will be a good thing.

I mean, there’s nothing we can do to stop this wacky combination of tech oligarchs without a shred of human sanity and a government run by toddlers and podcasters, but AT LEAST this may lead to the normalization of nuclear power.

I thought growing up on PBS that people everywhere would be embracing nuclear power by now, but it turns out that I might be part of the 0.00001% of the population who have even a trace of knowledge how it works, and people are largely still terrified of nuclear power plants. Fukushima didn’t help with that.

Another way of looking at it, Sammy is gonna make absolutely sure that ChatGTP only spouts positive propaganda about nuclear power, which while he’s doing it for his personal gain, if it makes people embrace it more, it will actually help us all.

Alternatively, just dirty bombs for the next century.

We will never get the justice we want through procedure, legal argument and old-guard political players.

We only get the world we want through unified efforts to restructure politics from the ground up. Fuck Texas, let them rot and wallow in dark-ages mythology. While they’re spinning their wheels trying to make shit like phrenology and miasma theory work with modern systems, we can make our own communities shining beacons of reason if we work hard enough together.

The divide between cultures and populations becomes highly apparent on sites like this, which attract a very select group.

Don’t give Peter Thiel ideas. Whenever someone suggests finding ways to read people’s thoughts his third set of nictitating eyelids flicker in excitement as he secretes another layer of mucus from his flesh-layer. (He’s the guy who plans on running the country if Trump turns out to not live forever.)

Atheists are now terrorists

So are Native Americans I assume. Not a helluva lot patriotism in the reservations, at least the folks I’ve known. Great folks. Honest opinions on America.

Also, we can’t do a civil war even if everyone wanted it, we don’t have clear lines and we don’t have separate militaries. What Trump/Miller is gambling with is a an armed coup so he can deploy deadly force and start doing what Miller in particular has been thirsting for ever since the first time his mother tried to drown him. (I assume.)

No, this is Stephen Miller whispering wormtongue bullshit in his ear.

Judges across the nation will fight this because it’s mere existence would snarl up our judicial system to a point it would break entirely.

What Miller is doing is introducing this as an idea, a concept, he is trying to make everyone shocked at the idea now, so that when he reintroduces in four months, rebranded and made to sound far more bureaucratic and “boring” people will react less to it. This is what he’s been doing for years with us, but as Trump has fallen under the malaise of the Dark Lord and his countenance grown dim, Miller has been able to pump the gas harder on his own plans. That’s why so much batshit stuff is going on lately, it’s mostly Miller and likely a few other corpo-fascists around him just high on power and drugs, lots of drugs.

Mamdani fortunately has turned a bit of a corner, more and more establishment Dems are being forced to recognize his existence, if not outright bending the knee.

He has too big of a popular lead at this point, the administration lost their chance to deport him or hold him without trial. They know that New York, despite whatever divisions they’ve tried to sow, will unify and come together if they do ratshit gangster shit to one of their own, especially someone so popular.

I almost welcome them to try. I fear more for his life honestly, but not his capture or arrest. The administration is barely smart enough to not shoot themselves in the face, but I don’t know their feelings about other targets.

This proposition will certainly be struck down by judges across the country, but like with everything, they are trying to cross bridges by introducing these ideas now so they can revisit it again later when people are less likely to be shocked. As they’ve been doing over and over.

Much like how they dumbed-down the original story for The Matrix, they decided that a romance with Death wouldn’t sell as many action figures, lego sets and app games I suppose. Gotta keep dem stories 2-dimensional.

I am not an expert per-say on AI, but I have survived economic collapses. Kinda.

Here’s what you can expect.

It will happen a lot faster and more sudden than you expect. It will be a few days of “uncertainty” and you will see reports on the market and spending and fear through investors, and then BAM everything goes deep red for a few days and then you suddenly get sent home from work.

Your job, no matter how skilled or stable or unrelated to finance or the stock market you may think it is- is NOT safe. In fact, service industry jobs are often the first to go, because when the market tanks and investors start pulling out money, one of the first, strongest effects we feel is that people with money immediately stop spending. If you install windows and doors, if you cut grass, if you clean or cook, expect people will suddenly start doing that themselves more and more. You may get laid off suddenly depending on how much reserve your company has.

There will be an immediate and overwhelming strain on state and city services. Unemployment offices, food banks, employment centers, and expect the media to create a LOT of hype around it to a destructive degree, there will be the same kinds of supermarket raiding like we saw with covid for no real good reason other than people feeling afraid.

What you should do now to prepare:

Have backup income plans. Even if modest, have some hustles ready to deploy. Get certified or see what you need to get certified ahead of time to do Uber and/or Lyft, people are going to be using ride sharing more because they won’t be able to afford to drive or make car payments. Think about other services people are going to need if they don’t have jobs - handyman work on the cheap, dog and pet care, unlicensed work you know you can do safely, etc. If you or your family can do art and crafts, set up an etsy market now before you’re strained, open it up to international customers.

SAVE MONEY, have cash savings as well as bank savings, have gold too if you can swing it. Expect any accounts that are tied to investments to be frozen or even wiped out, such as 401k’s and the like.

Whatever you can do to reduce debts and spending - pay down or pay off credit cards or cars if you can. Get your finances in order as much as you can, so figure out exactly what you’re spending and what your margins are.

Stockpile canned goods and basic survival supplies ahead of time like it’s the goddamn apocalypse. Seriously, have at least a month of dry goods and preserved food, you have some time (maybe) so start collecting canned food, sacks of dried beans and rice, toilet paper and soap, other supplies you buy regularly. This will give you a safety net if it gets bad, it’s one less [major] thing to worry about as you shift around your expenses and priorities.

Get information ahead of time about where your local DES/unemployment offices are, and what’s required to apply. Find out ALL the programs you can apply for, from, nutrition assistance to grants to stipends or tax credits for whatever your family situation is. You won’t get through on the website, it will be crashed with traffic, so be ready to go stand in line with your paperwork. You will get some number of months of benefits if you qualify (requirements vary by state) and most likely after some political contention, congress will pass emergency funding for extensions and stimulus checks. But it won’t last forever.

Go visit your nearest food bank now. Bring them some food and socks, get to know who runs things so that when it’s your time to stand in line, they know you already and have good associations.

We don’t really know how bad it could get. So get a gun. There may be civil unrest at some point. Our world is about two missed meals away from anarchy, or at the very least crime will increase and homes will get broken into, and police will likely be understaffed and overworked. You will be on your own.

American Evangelicals would fit directly into the Warhammer 40k universe.

They are the ones who don’t “get it” though, they are the ones who would think the Empire is the “good guys.” It’s one of the best examples of the same cognitive dissonance shared by the very same people who would get mad at you and start punching holes in the drywall when you tell them WWE is fake and their favorite wrestler is an actor.

These people didn’t get that the Colbert Report was satire.

Now imagine each one of them is constantly plugged into a 24/7 propaganda machine designed to be entertaining and foster a sense of community and emotional validation while pushing the will of corporations and authoritarian leaders.

Unhappy, simple-minded people cling to prophecy of change, children’s fairy tales of a day when everything will be better and some paternal figure will protect them and give them all the presents they ever wanted.

It’s not a coincidence that education and exposure to diverse cultures and beliefs tends to make for a less religious population and why religion is shrinking in larger cities and more connected locations around the world.

The problem is that these people are basically armed serfs, in indentured servitude to their ideological leaders, they are pure political capital if you can harness them and holy shit have we seen that plan bear fruit.

Not saying this about you necessarily, but the sad part is that there are millions of people who share this feeling, but will still buy the latest iPhone and browse Youtube with it.

If we had a better sense of community, people would be able to form actual boycott movements that have impact, but we’ve been trained to avoid other others, stay “rugged individuals” and keep our opinions to ourselves lest we face social backlash. This is all deliberate and designed.

If you think it’s “denigrating” to say a celebrity you like wasn’t ever actually a progressive or symbol of leftism, then that’s a skill issue.

If you think pointing this out is an “appeal to moral collectivism” then you need to need to go back to /r/debateme to argue with the other kids who just learned what logical fallacies are.

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