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Cake day: March 20th, 2024

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  • The most gilded cage in human history. More than pretty enough to fool the labour-cattle. Worse than not noticing, many have fallen in love with their chains and there’s nothing more pathetic than someone who loves their chains.

    To head off the inevitable “go live in the woods then.” Do you not see the problem with your only two options being either working 80% of the time you’re awake as an adult, for predominantly someone else’s gain, or go live in the woods as an outcast? It’s not really a choice is it? People don’t mind contributing to society, hospitals, roads, schools etc. It’s filling pockets of the already wealthy that people take issue with.







  • A better question would be “when was there ever been a true democracy?”

    For me, there hasn’t been. That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try. It means that we need to truly internalise that wealth and power will, if left unchecked, succeed in perverting it entirely. We need to be ever augmenting it, with that in mind, with a view to playing whack a mole with the interests of the 1% and keeping it working for the 99%.

    I mean that won’t work either. The rich and powerful will never allow us to simply vote away their ill beggoten wealth and power. However, at least people could say that they tried.



  • The phrase is more of an indication of a lack of hostility on their part. Even something neutral like “what country is that” could come across as a bit confrontational, in English. It would almost be like asking the question with an assumption that you can’t answer because it wasn’t correct when clearly it is and they would just like to find out more.

    Theres a fair amount of performative politeness you have to go through to take the edges off of English. It’s not just fake-ness, as it can sometimes come across to non-native speakers. As I’m sure you know already, English is the a very information efficient amalgamation of 3 different languages. For example, some people find poetry and literature far more rich and descriptive in other languages. Due to it being particularly efficient at information exchange, it can also come across very blunt too.

    Just thought you deserved a proper answer, with context, as you were kind enough to give one yourself.




  • Youre right, the police do have a monopoly on violence and will kidnap you for meeting violence with violence, as they can’t have their monopoly or their authority questioned. Although, I don’t consider that a good thing, myself.

    The role of the police has and will always be to protect the assets of the rich. Everything else they do is a side hustle to justify their authority. Please dont get me wrong, some of those side hustles are very important but that’s not what they’re for. Nearly every modern police force is built on either or a combination of the British police officer or the American. One started as a private security force to protect wealthy peoples assets from starving people during the bread riots and the other was founded by slave catchers.

    Every single police force started out that way and i just don’t think you can build from or reform-away that kind of foundation.



  • 100% and, more so, thats not just a billion in cash, of course. Thats a billion dollars worth of stuff that makes you money, that can be sold off for at least a billion, most likely far more.

    When people read these valuations, they often think to themselves “surely they can’t be worth that much” and they’re right. It will always be much, much more. Other than Trump, wealth valuations are always very, very conservative, due to the nature of how they do it, and thats before we get to the fact that they’re only estimating their wealth on the assets that are publicly disclosed.





  • Its quite the norm in parts of Europe.

    Had it been hard-core (from hell) i may have judged you but, even then, only as an xtc fiend.

    For anyone curious, try dj mad dog : reset

    Fair warning, it might be jarring on any mellow you might have going on. Eventually, when you’ve been raving long enough, you might find that, from time to time, you’ll need sounds from the bowels of hell at 200 bpm just to feel something.