Nuo postaukset työttömyyden kaupallistamisesta oli kyllä avartavaa lukemista siltä rulianssilta toistaiseksi säästyneelle. Kiitos tästä! En tosin voi väittää, että olisin järin yllättynyt…

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That’s a very narrow definition of capitalism. If free markets hinder the main function of the capitalist system (accumulating capital at the top), it will be eroded and abolished. Monopolies for example are much more profitable than competetive situations. Getting rid of or circumventing open market competition is always good business.

Currently I get my salary indirectly from the International Practical Chemtrail Cabal (IPCC), with the social media PR side more as a side hustle.

Nah, those don’t look like sunflowers.

I think existence is preferable to nonexistence. Sure life sucks a lot, but then there’s also the beauty hidden all around us, which when revealed, reminds me that it’s good that I didn’t kms. Similarly, it makes me glad to have been born in the first place.

Maintaining a satellite means expenses. If the funding is cut, the organisation and the people maintaining the satellites and the associated ground infrastructure won’t get paid for it. Most of us aren’t financially secure enough to do voluntary work as a day job.

Selling them to a different agency would mean that the buyer would also have to allocate resources to maintaining them. Not something that happens at any relevant timescales and it would be away from something else. And transferring the knowledge and skills would be a training operation in its own right.

Pull some out of your mouth and glue them to your forehead.

Gotta work on improving yourself! Even if it doesn’t work, you’ll still feel better in the end.

You and me pretending to be individuals

The universe

Living at an orbital Amazon fulfillment centre breathing Amazon air and drinking Amazon water and eating Amazon protein paste sure sounds like a nice carrot. A corporate space station is a corporate town where you pay for the air.

That’s a direct result of the unfettered accumulation of capital bumping into obstacles and starting to stall, which in turn is because of a system built on a premise of infinite growth colliding with reality. So very much a part of the same polycrisis. The existing and near future use of AI as an oppressive tool is also a result of this, but Skynet isn’t real.

Tuntuu semmoselta tilanteelta et vastustuksen on voitettava aina, kannattajien vaan kerran. Masentaa kuin muuten niin mukavan kuuloinen idea (EU) saadaan niin kätevästi valjastettua tämmösen paskan ajamiseen.

Well said.

I think you may have meant to say “confidently incorrect dismissal” in your definition of mansplaining.

10 feet (3 meters) per hop?

Looked up that Rana dalmatina (known for its long and high jumps) can do jumps up to two meters in length.

We keep letting it happen, despite knowing exactly what could be done to stop it. The meme is about excuses made in order to not change things at the wider level, not the murderous intent or lack thereof of whoever ends up doing this all too frequent ritual.

The other patches of light are cities. Lightning isn’t as grainy looking. The exposure time of the shot is short so the image doesn’t blur as the station moves, so the chances are stacked against getting two flashes in the one image.

I agree that it’s an interesting choice of word, but I think it fits the bill.

Antisocial driving is what people complained about, which got the cops to look more closely at the cars in question. This is stated in the first two paragraphs of the article.

Nobody is comparing two different vaccines here. The original statement is about vaccinations as a whole, in which case the only relevant baseline is the one without vaccines.

That’s up to what one considers normal in a given situation. I think I was quite clear about how I was using the word “normal” in my comment there. If I down a sixpack of beer, then I think most would agree that my blood alcohol content would be above normal, no matter how much that is to be expected. Yes, it would be normal for a person who just drank six beers, but not normal for humans as a whole. Oh and the amount of microplastics in both our brains might as well be considered “normal”, given that the world is as fucked as it is.

Now, the argument can obviously made that being vaccinated is a lot more normalized than being drunk is, but since she’s talking about the concept of vaccination as a whole, I think the current standards of normalcy are not what she’s using. By the standards she might be argued to be using, it’s a lot more normal to die of polio. In the history of our species, it’s quite abnormal to be able to talk to people on the other side of the planet or to live past 60 or to get vaccinated.

I fully agree that the tweet is misinformation at best. I’ve just seen way too many of these fuckers weasel their way out on technicalities when confronted about it.