Rioting will just cause lockdowns and curfews and people getting beaten and arrested by cops.

Striking has a better chance to help but it needs to be soon before AI is actually good enough to replace us all (maybe 2 years away?)

After that point we have no more leverage and will be fucked.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

-Peter Ustinov

I think it’s very true. Countries use violence to get what they want all the time. It isn’t always justified as we can see. It isn’t always to make the world a better place. Often it’s just for their own benefit with some half baked justification added as an afterthought.

So other than having a uniform on what makes a military different to say the IRA?

Both use violence to achieve their goals and both would claim to be right.

If a foreign power occupied your country and there were no peaceful ways to force them out, would you accept subjugation or would you resist too?

Well that is perfectly normal. But using it for work is madness.

Same. It’s like we are our own worst enemies!

What about for 1 million?

Fuck that guy

Those bastards!

But didn’t the kid kill someone in a bar fight before he even meets the gang?

There are no “good” characters in the novel that I recall. The kid is really bad even though he is still just a kid. No one tries to guide him to the correct path. No one seems to care. Good doesn’t have a chance to exist in this novel because if it did it would immediately be destroyed by all the badness.

I think McCarthys view is men left to their own devices are bad. Law and order and civilisation are needed for good to exist. There is no real law and I dont remember God being mentioned much either except by the preacher at the start that the Judge has killed just because he can.

I prefer Blood Meridian but it must be said: it is not for everyone. BM is heavy on mood, imagery, description but has little in the way of plot. It’s a bit like reading someone’s dreams - undefined and bizarre but with the sense there is some important meaning or insight at its heart. I think the insight is men are bad by nature. He could be right.

The Trial - Franz Kafka The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Fight Club - Chuck Palahnuik Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

Sarcasm or?

“it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”

Thanks so much!

Asking for a friend!

Its because of crackdowns after the opioid epidemic years ago. Doctors were handing out oxycontin because the manufacturers marketed it as being non addictive. Apparently medical professionals actually believed this.

If you want something dont mention illicit drug use. But it probably won’t make any difference

Is it the same for other operating systems then?

Its 1 hour long!

Penis or pussy probably.

Now THIS is a shitpost.