what in the bay of farces is this

stock markets seem to be going insane everywhere. even the tepid ones in low tech countries seem to be up 40, 50, 70 percent. is money just fleeing from bitcoin and diversifying all across the planet?

'no cocoa included in this chocolate' warning

you gotta assume some people are diarrhea living everyday and some people only shit once a new moon. balance is found somewhere

4000 crew, 1.5 flushes of the toilet per crewmember a day, 400k per flush - i don't think the FED can afford that

Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the only licensed MSE manufacturer.

I'm sorry, what? There is only one licensed manufacturer of this thing?

And that's not dealing with the elephant in the room: you have all the institutional conditions necessary to create a 'standardized' course so you can do less prepping for the next year. But the students' needs are never standardized. It is indeed a myth that teachers have limited obligations during the off seasons - you have administrative duties, meetings, gradings and prep time to do. But teacher's obligations are doubled from expected during on seasons simply because they are expected to implement a standardized course according to public (laws, curriculums and such) and private (whoever owns the school and textbook systems you're meant to apply) requirements, while also personalizing stuff for classes and students that are all massively different from each other. If you teach 60 kids in two different schools, they won't be the same and they won't be the same as the next 60 kids the following year either.

To unclog the toilets, the Navy has been forced to spend $400,000 per flush of a unique acidic chemical designed to flush out and unburden the strained pipes.

it costs the taxpayer 5 million dollars every time cecil teleports

the president will have to manage the jobs markets in space genocide sim for 12 hours straight just to keep their sanity

we participate in games in a way that's unusual and impossible for other kinds of media. A hymn is art, singing it in the congregation of a white church doesn't feel like participating in art.

Music is art but singing as part of a larger communal experience isn't? At some point you're just idealizing art as something detached from the everyday human experience. What is it, really, that made you detract here? The lack of mystique in an everyday social environment or the baggage that made you feel the need to clarify that 'white' churches don't feel artistic?

Give it a hundred years or two and you'll have experts on the reconstruction of the tackiest most commercialized megachurches known to humanity - and it won't be just because of the historical importance involved. It will be a part of a larger attempt to understand the culture of a people, the americans of the 21st century, which will include aesthetics, musicology and so on.

While it's important to note that drugs have always won the War on Drugs, by a similar token there's just no way out of a failed state that doesn't involve military action. What is wrongheaded with the 'kill the bad guys, solve crime' paradigm is that it hollows out society from within, creating parallel economies within the purview of criminal syndicates. These quasi state orgs are firmly within the control of capitalist oligarchies in places like LatAm as well as their international, often US aligned, contacts - creating incentives that cut through the entire political system. It just doesn't take that many people to run a crime ring, killing the current soldiers of crime does nothing about the real leaders in the political and financial sectors and Mexico is in a particularly advanced state when it comes to this sort of crisis.

The question isn't wether the state 'kills the bad guy', but with what purpose. Because if some kingpin is in charge of terrozing tens if not hundreds of thousands and extracting rent from them via the drug trade as well as real estate and monopolizing violence then, yeah, they have to be killed. Problem is, why are they being killed. Are they and their subordinates being killed to satiate the public's need for revenge under the confines of a liberal democracy that has been captured by comprador and criminal interests? Or is it more than just an offering, a part of a larger programme by which the state re-estabilishes territorial control and guarantees public services? Do you just kill drug dealers because you actually think you can solve the issue of drugs, or do you move in to deal with a crime syndicate that got into the habit of closing health clinics, internet services and schools because it wants to make money by taking those sectors over?