Yeah but if America figures out how to generate ICBM NFTs in the metaverse China is cooked

Economic crisis got me like but Wall Street feeling afraid got me like

We should decouple these two things somehow

Portugal: the impossible revolution? by Phil Mailer, an Irish leftist who directly witnessed the 1974 Carnation Revolution and its aftermath

MASON JAR - A lone mason jar sits on the shelf. It is empty, for now.

:de-electrochemistry: ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Oh yeah. This is the stuff.

1. Pick up the jar.

2. I'm not doing this. [Leave]

:de-electrochemistry: ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Good. Now put that plushie in the jar.

1. Put the fumo in the jar.

2. What, now?

3. No. [Refuse task]

:de-electrochemistry: ELECTROCHEMISTRY - What's the matter? All of a sudden you're too cool for instant gratification, Mr. Licked A Rum Stain Off The Counter?

-1 MORALE

1. Put the fumo in the jar.

2. No. [Refuse task]

MASON JAR - You place the fumo in the jar. It fits perfectly.

:de-interfacing: INTERFACING [Medium: Success] - Too perfectly. Like two halves of a single deranged contraption.

:de-inland-empire: INLAND EMPIRE [Medium: Success] - The figurine does not complain, but somehow you know it doesn't like where this is going.

:lt-kitsuragi: KIM KITSURAGI - "Detective... why did you put the plushie in that jar?"

:de-half-light: HALF-LIGHT [Medium: Success] - FUCK. He's onto you! He knows what this is!

:de-conceptualization: CONCEPTUALIZATION [Formidable: Success] - Art.

:de-volition: VOLITION [Trivial: Success] - Anything but the first one, please.

1. "I'm going to lewd up this toy, Kim. Lewd it hard."
2. "It's my icon. A symbol of my superstardom."
3. "It's a protective talisman. The wolf grows hungrier."
4. "I don't know. I'm sorry."
5. "Some boring reason."

6. "It's art."

:lt-kitsuragi: KIM KITSURAGI - "Art? Hm. Ok then." He studies you for a second, then looks back to his notebook.

:de-empathy: EMPATHY [Medium: Success] - He doesn't really believe you, but he doesn't want to push it any further.

:de-volition: VOLITION [Easy: Success] - For God's sake man, let it go.

1. [Drama - Heroic 15] Convince Kim you're definitely not going to do something weird with the jar.

2. Let it go.

CHECK FAILURE

:de-drama: DRAMA - Try this, sire.

1. "Just so you know, the jar isn't for holding any of my bodily fluids."

2. Oh no, that's bad.

:de-volition: VOLITION - It is.

1. "Just so you know, the jar isn't for holding any of my bodily fluids."

:lt-kitsuragi: KIM KITSURAGI - "Detective?" The lieutenant seems caught off guard by your statement.

:de-drama: DRAMA - Strong opening, my liege. Now elaborate. Explain to him why it's so implausible.

1. "I mean, if I was going to store this toy in my own semen, I'd use a bigger jar, don't you think?"

2. "Do I really look like the kind of guy who would do weird sex stuff with a jar?"

:de-electrochemistry: ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Oh yes. The weirdest sex stuff.

:lt-kitsuragi: KIM KITSURAGI - "You look like an officer of the RCM. I would ask you to act accordingly and leave your... personal business ...for some other time."

:de-authority: AUTHORITY [Medium: Success] - Shut the fuck up about the jar.

EVRART CLAIRE - "I'm so glad you cleared that up, Harry! I can rest easy now knowing you won't be doing anything weird with that jar you inexplicably took from my shelf! And rest assured, nobody will hear anything about your freaky jar-related non-activities either! Now, is there anything else I can do for you?"

TASK COMPLETE: ACQUIRE A MASON JAR +30XP

This, but program it so that the virtual people eventually also rise up and virtually beat the shit out of them in the metaverse

Breaking all of his bones trying to suck his own dick

The Germany-Stalin war

I read this as "World War in 3 hours"

The risk argument has got to be the weakest pro-capitalist argument of all. Let's see:

1. Workers take risks too, as Wolff points out in this video.
2. There's no reason that taking a risk inherently deserves a reward. No one will reward you for eating asbestos.
3. Once you get rich enough nothing you do is risky anymore. Elon Musk has lost more money than I could make in a thousand years.
4. The risk of a failed business is you have to get a job like everyone else. That they think this is so horrible says something about capitalism.
5. The reason it's risky to start a business is that you might not have as much demand as you imagined, you might lose in the competitive market, or you might get unlucky in a recession. In other words, this argument defends capitalism by pointing out that it's also a shitty system to most would-be capitalists.
6. Capitalists can make the decision to not shoulder the risk themselves at any time, but they never do. The whole "if workers are entitled to profits, are they also responsible for losses?" thing they like to say is just empty rhetoric, since they will never take yes for an answer anyway. If it's such a burden why don't they accept being relieved of it?

Did I miss anything?

The same insufferable class of media pundits and political commentators in my country, the "everythingologists" who fill the airwaves and the opinion columns with their inane takes, who compared Ukraine to Palestine because "there's an invader and an invaded, it's not hard to pick the right side" are now comparing Israel to Ukraine with no irony.

The ones who excused neo-nazis in Ukraine ("Ukrainians can't afford to be picky about who's willing to fight for them!") are now saying there's no excuse for anyone, not even Palestinians, to side with Hamas. In both cases they attack(ed) the left for not uncritically parroting their exact line, which to them is "siding with terrorism" out of "vulgar anti-americanism". The left is eternally fading into electoral irrelevancy because the Good Normal People™ (liberals one scratch away from fascism) (who were definitely huge commies before) are "finally seeing us for what we really are". And of course our contempt for these smarmy lying snakes is just further proof we hate "diversity of opinions" and "the free and independent press".

pH is stored in the balls

Bill Wurtz