The family has a tendency to not have a lot of brains

One remembers the “refrigerator mothers” idea

“Graham says the post was intended humanize [sic] the badge.”

By dehumanizing those that the badge fucks over, huh?

Bizarrely, the urge to make money off scared trans people overpowered the urge to be fascist.

My old family home got burgled back in high school. Some things of value were stolen, though luckily nothing sentimental.

What was worth more than the stolen money was that I no longer felt safe in my own home. I couldn’t sleep well for a long time after that. I felt like I was sleeping out in the open. Sometimes I would hear a noise and jolt up and spend a whole hour trying to see if I could spot something weird on the camera feed (we installed CCTV).

“The prolongation of the working-day beyond the limits of the natural day, into the night, only acts as a palliative. It quenches only in a slight degree the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour.”

~ Marx, Karl. Capital, Vol. 1, Ch. 10, sec. 4.

“Who is the real criminal, Ladies and Gentlemen? Is it the starveling who occasionally steals a loaf of bread or burglarizes my house or is it he who is the eternal vampire on the body of labor, forever feeding on the bone and marrow of the worker, exploiting and oppressing him, always keeping him on the verge of starvation that he may exercise his benevolent charity upon him, and ultimately degrading him to the lowest depths.”

Berkman, Alexander. Confession of a Convict.

Good on the media for using the active voice for once

Freud getting praised by everyone but actual psychologists always baffled me. Imagine if politicos started backing up their points with references to luminiferous ether.

Protectionism only really makes sense if you’re a country without native industrial capacities and trying to industrialise. Even that is debatable.

Russia used to be a major world power with highly developed heavy industry and okay-ish light industry. A lot of that has been poorly maintained since the fall of the USSR but the factories are still there. Protectionism makes little sense here.

Ireland too :(

Article says the rebels going in are Islamists. Sadly, I don’t think life will get much better in Syria and will definitely worsen in Kurdistan.

They’re calling Musk a tourist

?

Damn, TIL. Thank you.

And for the first time in my life, thank you Erdogan.

NATO has not changed its position, that’s the thing.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_218165.htm

https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-backs-israel-and-warns-iran-to-stay-away-gaza-hamas-netanyah/

There is a very good reason the Irish care about Neutrality. The Montrealites are not so different.

Edit: Thank you Chairman Meow for telling me about this: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-blocks-nato-israel-cooperation-over-gaza-war-sources-say-2024-08-01/

We said the same of Kissinger and Thatcher.

Fair. Thank you!

If the girl repeats it, there will be consequences for her and her family. Children have no filter.

There are proxies and VPNs. My student is a little girl who innocently asked if YouTube is not working in my country either. It is this that is depressing.