Rail Gauge Map

could be

they just want to test how much public outcry there would be

actual inflation should be based on food prices. i think

I like saying that society is a hot gas.

It is a mass of small particles that barely interact with one another, heated up by the heat of anger and hate, floating in a large space aimlessly.

My type of society would be a liquid, where particles are free to move but close to other particles.

“In the face of the disruption of order and acts of systematic violence, the state will enforce its constitutional mandate to guarantee peace,” said Juan Carlos Orillac, minister of the presidency.

It is telling that the only direct quote in the article comes from the side of the state, not from the side of the workers.

Journalists, do a better job. Report on people’s view, not company’s point of view of things.

There’s a nice story i heard a while ago about why russian street infrastructure sucks so much.

Russia was worried about getting invaded by the US. Invasions (permanent ones especially) happen over the land, more than over the air. So they have to move a lot of land troops (soldiers, vehicles, tanks) over a significant distance. By keeping the russian infrastructure weak, any invader would face significant logistical difficulties, where they couldn’t move troops through the country quickly.

By the winter, the troops would get stuck, food re-supplies would be difficult, and they would starve.

Or so i was told. Maybe it’s a myth, but i like the idea: Invaders (especially if they have more soldiers, more weapons, more power) are best fought by disabling their biggest advantage: their flexibility and speed. Disable the street infrastructure. Make it difficult for cars to pass in and out of the area.

A nice analogy for today might be to not take on ICE agents directly (i.e. one-on-one fist fight or sth), but instead disable their mobility. Slash their car’s tires. Put obstacles in their paths. Park other cars in front of theirs while they are operating. They might be surprise-predators, but their biggest advantage is that they appear out of nowhere, abduct someone, and leave. If you can slow them down, make them stuck for an hour, bystanders / community has a chance to organize and fight back.

Here’s what i meant by “russian street infrastructure”, in case anybody finds it interesting :) (i do)

I was in school when i realized that doing homework faster doesn’t mean you get to go home earlier. You just get assigned more homework.

For the past two months, Iran had been in diplomatic negotiations with the Trump administration, and both sides appeared to be getting closer to a deal that would drastically curtail Tehran’s enrichment of uranium and prevent any path to the bomb.

Then Israel attacked. It acted less to pre-empt an Iranian bomb than to preempt American diplomacy.

We are indeed going to face massive, catastrophic changes […]

And they say “nothing ever changes” smh

i ate the onion for way too long, even googling her name to find a video of the clip 😂 i’m so sorry

Most people aren’t made for the internet.

Most people can’t handle the type of information. Most people fall for rage-bait, hate-inducing, right-wing propaganda.

We need to find a way to make the internet a thing where there’s only people on it who actually want to use the internet in a healthy way.

One way to do this is to say no to commercialized parts of the internet. Say no to all commercial platforms selling ads or selling your data. These are full of rage-bait and only attract the worst in humans.

There’s a difference between actively choosing to kill an animal, and having an animal die as a consequence of another action.

It’s semi-related but this meme comes to my mind:

and also this one:

sorry for the poor quality of the second one, i couldn’t find a version with more pixels.

the thing is, when you build rockets, and they actually work, and put people on mars, you can reasonably demand that people who demand exponential growth actually go to mars, because earth is already full. this way, you can get rid of the billionaires.

this but unironically. send all the billionaires to mars!

something that i’m also very worried about is humans making permanent genetic changes to people, that are hereditary, but have some sort of unexpected, poorly understood, downside. like, a modification might cure deafness, but cause a different, seemingly unrelated, defect in the process.

I have autism and i love it. it’s a significant part of me and i wouldn’t be the same person without. it has caused me some difficulties in life, but has also enabled me a lot of things that would otherwise be impossible.

i have very much the fear that my mother would have gotten me genetically engineered while in utero too, and i hate the thought of that!

1. renewable energy is still cheaper
2. nuclear also comes with other risks, such as geopolitical dependency for many countries, and the exploitation of resources in other countries (consider the recent France - Niger conflict as an example)
3. the reason why so many regulations for nuclear are in place is because they make sense. they’re not going to disappear anytime soon, so your argument is irrelevant

This seems good initially.

I just really really hope they won’t try to “cure autism” with this next.

Autism is an important and fundamental part of me. The fact that it’s often classified as a disease is understandable, but nevertheless sickens me.

it’s interesting to hear this!

i have very poor understanding of how many people in society actually want to work, and i’m currently trying to figure this out.

MAGA still lives in the times between 1680 to 1880, mentally.

A time when people had 6 children on average, the mindset that we call “conservative” today worked out, men did blue-collar jobs while women stayed at home and cared for their children.

That was a prosperous, interesting time from the point of view of white settlers. MAGA still things back at that time, and thinks, if they can just behave the same way that people back then did, they’ll have the same, prosperous way of life.

Fact is, that way of life stopped working because the circumstances changed. All of US is settled, there’s no more space, people can’t have 6 children anymore, it doesn’t make sense for women to stay at home anymore.

MAGA has yet to realize that.