Released on Wednesday, and based on the existing open-source Linux operating system, China’s version was built by a community of about 4,000 developers
“A bunch of Chinese people made a Linux distro”
“CHINA MADE A LINUX DISTRO!”
big difference
Look at that hat, no way that’s not a reference to Soviet or Chinese propaganda posters.
Stalin gets a few shoutouts in the show too. I bet it’s partly because they just think he’s Brutal but it makes me think someone in the production is a traveler.
While individuals can find space for weight loss regimes, it really is a society-level problem.
Consider an experiment with two populations of rats. One population gets a normal amount of food, the other gets the same food with a bunch of added sugar. Of course the population with added sugar gets fatter. But, while the average rat may have gained 10% weight or whatever, on an individual level you’ll see a wide range of results - some rats aren’t effected by the increased sugar, some gain a small amount of weight, some gain a lot.
This is basically exactly what we’ve done to ourselves in capitalist society over the past seventy-ish years, taken our previous diet and jacked it up with a ton of sugar (and other additives and a lot of increased volume). But while with the rats it’s easy to see that all you have to do to return the overweight population to normal is to stop adding sugar to their food, with humans we can’t see that because we’ve created a system that blames you for getting sick.
It’s like building a coal power plant in the middle of a neighborhood, and then blaming the residents when they start getting asthma or worse, and holding up the people who won the genetic lottery and don’t get lung disease as the example we should all strive to replicate.
According to the Japanese, you can ask God to reincarnate with super powers.
don’t go in a space shuttle
As awesome as it was in concept, that thing was a safety nightmare from the very beginning. With every other manned spacecraft if something goes wrong during launch you can blast off and land the capsule safely in the ocean, but with the shuttle there were large portions of the ascent and descent profiles where, if something went wrong, you were going too fast to turn around but too slow to make it to space so you were just hosed.
You know, even when I was a kid I thought Magneto’s plan in the first X-Men movie to turn everyone into mutants was fucking baller and they should have let him do it. Just 'cause that one guy turned into a water monster doesn’t mean that would be the default - the X gene expresses way differently in everyone who has it.
An no, I don’t think giving every human the X gene constitutes genocide, that’s fucking stupid.
Shot by a rental cop in a fucking Walgreens. You could burn every Walgreens in this country to the fucking ground and it would still be less of a loss than a single person’s life.
I’m on the list
tbh I haven’t enjoyed my time on an internet forum like I have this one in many, many years. Y’all keep being cool :soviet-heart:
I remember that argument was when I learned that my parents were NIMBYs. It was honestly a shock, they’re lib but I has assumed they would want a playground in the neighborhood considering that at that time there were six kids in the house with absolutely nothing to do inside walking distance.
100% correct, no notes.
I have a theory that part of the function of the “where is your child now?” stuff that really curtailed kids’ freedom in America in the second half of the twentieth century was a reaction to the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam movements. Both were prominently participated in by kids, the anti-war one especially, and when society goes from letting kids have a significant portion of the day to themselves in between school and supper to basically forcing them to go from one controlled location straight to another with no in-between, all of that potential youth-lead political organization falls apart because it doesn’t have anything to support it anymore.
I don’t think it was the primary driver - after all most kids weren’t joining the Students for a Democratic Society - but it is a relevant secondary reason. The primary driver was almost certainly “property values”. I remember one of my only interactions with the HOA where my parents lived concerned plans for a playground being voted down based on the logic that children playing outside would somehow lower everyone nearby’s home value (they also made the equally-bad argument that teens would hang out at the child’s playground to smoke). Multiply this interaction by a million HOAs around the country and eventually even the kids whose parents don’t demand that they come straight home still end up going home anyway because there’s nowhere else for them to go.
“ti” in Japanese is always pronounced “Tee”, if they intended it to be pronounced like the word “tide” it would have been spelled “Taidus”.
What’s really gonna blow your brain is realizing that nobody in either game ever says his name, which implies that Yuna fell in love with a man whose name she didn’t know :thinking-about-it:
The only reason they got popular was that they were playing popular Black music while being White, also let’s talk about how Get Back was originally super racist.
I always say that the mistake filmmakers make is that they don’t want to make their character truly cringe. You’ve got to have the Fight Club guy go into his room and the walls are covered with underage anime characters and he wanks himself to sleep while clutching a body pillow and dirty talking to it.
Actually, Marxists should let capitalists do all the bad things and never oppose them.
V I Lenin
pointing out bad things is anti-Marxist
I would argue that pointing out bad things is an essential first step in Marxism.
The coming climate apocalypse is bad.
You moron. You swine. You sniveling worm. Can’t you see that pointing out that something is bad when you can’t fix it is anti-materialist!?
Half your age plus seven, a nineteen year old is an adult and they can make their own decisions. As long as the 26 year old isn’t their boss or some other category with power over the 19 year old it’s fine.
and how Cyberpunk Edgerunners subverts it
That show does literally every single thing he complains about, he just gives it a pass because it’s got above-average production quality and writing.
That’s how you can tell these clowns aren’t doing any actual media analysis, it’s all just surface level reactionary gibberish.
The first X-Men movie literally starts with a scene of Magneto being separated from his parents at Dachau, which in hindsight makes his willingness to violently resist the fascist rumblings of the US government in that film completely justified and turns the X-men into the fucking Freikorps.
Professor X killed Rosa.
I remember when I was a teen a news story about malls playing a high pitched sound that old people couldn’t hear in order to annoy teens into leaving was going around. Never encountered it myself though.