The bourgeoisie might have been the middle class in feudalism, but they are very much the ruling class in capitalism (as others here have pointed out).

Damn, I thought my one crank uncle who said aliens are demons was a one off.

As if the brainworms weren't enough already.

Is this from the game where you make tulpas of people you know and trap them on an island?

There's a Starfinder CRPG in development. Harebrained Schemes' Shadowrun games are also good, especially Dragonfall and Hong Kong.

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I slop on company time.

Moving "at the speed of AI" is an actual fucking phrase the suits at my workplace are using. Some devs who are already familiar with the tooling are dubbed "AI champions" by management and tasked with bringing the rest of the devs up to speed.

I'll have to attend. I've been musing a lot about this shit lately ever since my employer's been ramping up agent usage. I've gotta say, it's hard not to see capital as crystallized labor when I'm to create documentation -- in what are literally called "skills" -- so that a machine can do most of my job when operated by someone with much less training, a much lower salary, and much lower benefits.

Before the assassination, I just knew him as the tiny face chud with Turning Point USA who spewed insipid talking points to "own" the left.

If you've seen him before, it was probably in a meme like this.

Dude unironically posted "we need to shut down trans people until we figure out what the hell is going on".

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."

-- Natalie Wynn, 2025

Ask for pizza pope

Get burger pope instead

The fuck?