jesus fucking christ, this ender’s game ass bullshit

Patrick Lancaster has been embedded with Russian and LPR/DPR forces since like 2022 2014! He’s gotten some really wild and insightful interviews with troops and like the deputy director of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant

I haven’t really honed this line of thought, but something I’ve thought about recently is how churches could be, for lack of a better word, co-opted here in the US to fight for left-wing causes. There’s a church out in San Francisco called GLIDE that was a part of the Methodist Church (I think they broke off) that essentially operates as a neighborhood resource center. Daily soup kitchen (3 meals every single day, no limits), harm-reduction kit distribution, childcare, DV resource center, and a lot more.
I guess all I’ve been thinking is just that if more churches could be politicized in this way, they could be potential allies in local struggles, because they’re already organized, meet regularly, have physical spaces that can be used, and know how to handle a budget.

Obviously of a different scale, but TBT to when Biden placed 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs and 50% on Chinese solar panels (especially egregious when China produces something like 80% of all solar panels on the earth).

The beans I usually buy in bulk from a local roaster have gone up 25% in the last couple years for me. And I purposefully bought the cheaper ones. It sucks lmao

I’ve been close to several people with treatment-resistant depression and shit like this has me about to
I just have so much rage at so many things and people and it feels like there’s such little room to channel any of it where I am. I feel insane all the time

I hate that I kinda like this one

JDPOC(ounties)

I don’t want to just assume that they’re stupid, that’s not satisfying, but I’m genuinely having a hard time parsing these moves. Assuming these people want to “counter China’s ascendance” or however you want to put it, they can’t rip the floor out from under one of the biggest (THE biggest?) funders of novel science in the US. Why tf would they target the NSF?

You can pry my YAML from my cold dead hands

FYI only 65 million people (<5%) pay income taxes in China.

I believe you, but just googling this it seems like the standard deduction is 60k yuan, and then income taxes are applied progressively after that? I’m sure I’m misunderstanding, but could you say a bit more about this? I’m really fascinated

Mom: “we have de-Ba’athification at home”
“De-Ba’athification”

Here’s one of the big books on this sort of topic. I haven’t read it, but I’ve not seen a bad review of it.

Oh god it’s just like when we sent all those 20-23 year olds to head up the hollowed out Iraqi ministries. Posting on message boards asking how to do their job

Their prime minister back in the 30s loved Hitler:

he is really one who truly loves his fellow-men, and his country, and would make any sacrifice for their good

and

[Hitler] will rank some day with Joan of Arc among the deliverers of his people

A lot of southern states rejected the funding. Also serves to de-legitimize all government-run/funded healthcare, as well as punish the poor with no (or no good) employer healthcare plans.

too many hexbears googling the name of our great newsposter

Watching the shotgun house get gentrified right in front of me, in my own city, has been crazy to watch. Ridiculous what people will pay for

Yeah, it’s definitely strange to me how everyone is just buying that this guy is legit and not some patsy

Here I am riding my 2006 SUV until it blows up with me inside, when all I want is one of those new BYD hybrids that go like over 2000km on a single tank+battery charge and only cost like $15k new. I hate it here