White Nationalism: You have two cows. They cross to the other side of the street when they see a minority coming towards them.

This is what happens when 20-year-old DOGE interns are running things.

This has got to be so demoralizing for the students in that class who actually gave a shit and tried.

Hoooooooly shit it’s the old “manually change the url path for the professor’s test answers from last semester to match the format for the current semester” but for the global pdf file conspiracy!

A quick onion dice is actually pretty straightforward

Back when I wasn’t so fucking old, I had gotten some cookbooks that were aimed at the “first apartment” or “college dorm cooking,” distinctly aimed at people dealing with cooking for themselves. Those had good, simple recipes, not a lot of prep but got the essential nutrients and calories in you. Not sure if there’s any cooking websites out there like that, although I have to imagine you could those cookbooks.

Also, will echo @[email protected] on the old Good Eats episodes, those are a gold mine.

It’s extra weird given that in her peak, Minaj was the poster child for everything white conservatives thought was wrong with hip-hop/black music generally. So having her up there at all is surreal.

I’m no bean kisser!

I’m an owl kisser

The Wire is a completely different beast than the network cop procedurals.

Also these are somehow never filing reports or doing other paperwork

The supposed advocate is suppressing stories that are damaging to her political agenda?

Not chile spicy, but more like a smoked paprika

Can’t give any good advice but sending your way

When you experience a modicum of success in life, it’s easy to fall into the mindset that this means the system is fair, your success is entirely the result of your own intelligence and hard work, and those without success just must’ve not tried hard enough.

The long-documented phenomenon of people grossly underestimating how large the income ratio is between the median earner and the 1% also plays a large role. It makes it easier to think of oneself as economically closer to the 1% than the bottom 25% even though by raw numbers and ratios they’re way closer to the latter than the former.

Oh yeah I’m getting a dedicated midi box. I don’t have the smarts to go mucking around in open-source code to make it happen, and the dedicated box has its own software for adjusting CC numbers and other relevant settings.

This video on the hyperinflation for the hyper wealthy covers the huge markups aspect to cover for the lopsided income strata, but mostly talks about existing conspicuous consumption. However, one area I’ve noticed for emerging conspicuous consumption is sporting events. Sure, there’s always been a divide between the good seats and the nosebleeds, and particular events like the Super Bowl carry higher ticket prices. The difference now is that new stadiums get built, and older stadiums retrofitted, not for maximizing the number of total seats but for most luxury suites, more high end dining options. It’s a switch towards sports games as events for the everyday man to places for the wealthy to get luxury experiences.

Mostly just soft influencing, social media campaigns, some money laundering to fund political organizations they think fit their goals. However, I don’t think they’re doing it to a level that’s more than typical for a country with their level of resources. Which is to say, there’s a lot of countries influencing American politics and many of them are doing it more successfully than Russia.

I am planning on getting a fader box to use with my DAW for parameter controls. Looking at the one you posted, given it’s running on open source software it could probably be programmed to send out MIDI CC messages instead of application volume.

There’s a paradoxical nature to this, as is typical with fascism. The “retvrn to tradition” shit is definitely a response to the erosion of social cohesion and reproduction that capitalism creates. But ultimately, fascism only ever serves to reinforce capital’s grip on society and the political economy, thus it sabotages its own goals of restoring social bonds.

I think there’s a variety of reasons this happens; some fascists are entirely cynical and are just looking to get the plebs to blame anything but the capitalist class. Some fascists crouch the social restoration in terms of purging “undesirables” and don’t understand where social bonds actually come from. Some just reflexively defend anything with “traditional” vibes and that ends up including the capitalist class.

Partially. I don’t think we’ll see a return to manorial economics, the peasants will not be getting generational rights to live on the lord’s estate. But there’s definitely been a move back towards a private law system within the modern “lords” realm (mandatory arbitration keeps creeping farther and farther), and the oligarchal nature of current capitalism is leading the capitalist class away from market competition and towards collusion and price fixing. Thus profits have ceased being signs of success at market competition and are now more akin to rents.

Andrew needs a one way ticket to

you can’t get a job unless your bilingual most of the time in the United States

Ah yes, very few employed monolingual people in America. These fuckers will hallucinate the most ridiculous fever dreams just to keep that constant “everyone who isn’t like me has it so much easier than me” victim hood whining.