I can only hope it was with a side of fava beans and a nice Chianti.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

Because you clearly do not know what that term means.

Gaia is such a slut.

… willful idiots we had this time …

Oh, there were plenty of those in 1918, too.

Carroll’s case is federal, this one is New York State.

I am right now sitting on a Steelcase Series 1, and while it doesn’t have great lumbar support, it is far better than any shitty $150 “gaming” chair, and is right in your price range brand new.

Tangent story, I was in Manitowoc, WI, on a motorcycle trip. In WWII, they built submarines there, and they have a US submarine at a museum on the lake.

You might remember Manitowoc as being the area where Making A Murderer happened. Turns out that series only gives a light impression of the local accent there. The tour guide for that submarine sounded like he was speaking a completely different language from English.

Why have I never seen this before?

Finally! You fuckers want to eat “steak,” well you’re going to have it with a delicate murder sauce.

The scourge in my grade school was Rubik’s Cubes.

This presumes that there is demand for Wendy’s.

Ellen Pao.

That’s so reddit.

I’m gonna go a different direction here.

Silencing propaganda is how it expands more.

You cannot stop propaganda. Some of it will always get in. Banning the position being propagandized demands that observers choose sides. Some portion of those people are going to actively seek out the propaganda message to “make an educated decision” (bOtH sIdEs) Some portion of those people are going to buy into the propaganda.

On the other hand, if propaganda is not silenced, the response will be one of showing it to be bunk. This would serve to make the propaganda less effective. Yes, some people will still buy into it, but fewer people than if it had been silenced.

Think about it like scam emails. You can see by the awful grammar and spelling and nonsense email address that it’s bullshit. The people who respond don’t. They are more likely to fall for it. Silencing propaganda in one place doesn’t silence it everywhere, but it does focus its message to people who are more likely to fall for it. They can then strengthen each other’s belief by association, and begin expanding on their own.

It’s why the big picture is that it’s one giant propaganda machine, but when you look closer, it’s a bunch of loosely or unrelated local “cells,” operating independently. Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Patriot Front, plenty of others nobody had heard of, and the (as yet) less violent collections like Tea Party, Freedom Caucus.

It is far better to answer propaganda than to silence it, but we do all have to agree, as individuals, that that’s what we do. The far-right has already decentralized, and reasonable people need to do the same thing. You don’t have to be a registered Democrat, you don’t have to approve of Biden; you can still contribute to having decisions in government made on the basis of objective reality. You may still not like the decisions made, but your differences will be political ones, and not ones of fact (for the most part).

Luckily, all it takes is standing up for your principles.

Hey, isn’t that the horse from Horsin’ Around?

ACAB … including Sting.

This is especially true if a simulated universe is indistinguishable from base reality - so perfect in all its aspects that it is identical.

You can also get into the fact that we do not and can not objectively experience reality, simulated or not. Our experience and perception is based on the senses we have, which are inaccurate, and the brain that interprets the inputs, which makes shit up and is wrong all the time. Yes, we can use tools and measurements to enhance our perception and make it more accurate as far as understanding is concerned, but we actually each live in a universe manufactured by our own mind.

https://fark.com

https://myspace.com/

https://friendster.com/

I don’t think it will die, it will probably just fade into irrelevancy.

I was unaware of that, good to know.

Not saying the original commenter is wrong, or that these media outlets are necessarily wrong in this case, of course.