War always happens in a political context and the political context must be two faced otherwise how could something be allowed to happen that makes every single individual it touches put their life into doing what they perceive will make it stop?

Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. — Wernher Von Braun

There are a lot of reasons Pynchon put this quote at the beginning of Gravity’s Rainbow (the vast majority of them secular) and one of them that is easily missed is to function as a darkly humorous and existentialist critique of the idea there can truly be a righteous side in war or that the enemy generals ever really “lose”.

Wholeheartedly agree about the trades, toxic shitty men make them living hell to work in, the more successful small business owners in the trades are the less empathy they have for everyone including themselves work work work work work die.

Las Vegas can’t die fast enough in my book…

Same, that future is dark as fuck.

No, this is not a popular move in the US.

Putin is nothing more than a thug and we know it, we have one of our own to remind us they must be stopped.

“UK must not be beholden to foreign AI”

Play Luanti or Vintage Story

Fuck Microslop

In Alberta, Salabarria urged conference attendees: “Please don’t buy [into] the stereotype that these alternative forms of governance are only for rich people fighting or trying to look for tax havens”.

“Please don’t buy into the stereotype that these Leopards are only for eating faces.”

Another sign that there is not much difference between the far-right and the far-left. Maybe the Horseshoe Theory applies? I am not a political scientist, maybe there is one around and can elaborate more.

Than stop acting so confident about shit that you fundamentally do not understand.

That website is literally, ENTIRELY devoted to fear mongering about China, find a less biased source.

The “Far left” is? Where?

@tardigrade@scribe.disroot.org your low quality, spammy attempts to divert every conversation to a baby like China = BAD reflex are lame and annoying as hell.

China is an empire, let us be wary and skeptical of them as you should be doing for all empires… but this simplistic shallow narrative you keep pushing leads nowhere but a sports like obsession with “our team” winning and whatever the hell “our team” actually means or whether it actually includes us become questions that fall conveniently to the wayside in favor of some “righteous cause”.