Whenever I read an article like this or about the probability of extraterrestrial civilization, I think there is the enormously hubristic assumption that “technological civilization” is, from an evolutionary perspective, a long-term success strategy.

Like, behaviorally modern humans are maybe 100,000 years old, the epoch in humans actually do enough stuff in the world to be force relevant to climate and biodiversity is maybe 5-10,000 years.

Maybe the answer to the Fermi paradox is obvious and maybe being a shark who swims and eat fish is an evolutionarily superior pattern, technologically civilized societies are evidentially doomed by the observation made in the Fermi paradox.

They’re also starving to death so I guess we won’t see them. Too bad they didn’t make it but I guess we can rest assured they certainly did turn up.

North Korean Troops in russia Are Starving in Kursk Region

The deployment of North Korean personnel in russia continues, with forces from the 92nd and 94th Special Forces Brigades operating under the command of russian units. These contingents are reportedly integrated with russian forces such as the 22nd Motorized Rifle Regiment, 810th Separate Marine Brigade, and 11th Separate Air Assault Brigade, taking part in combat operations in the region.

So they’ve already been taken as POWs but haven’t been deployed yet and they are in Ukraine but only in Russia and they are too poorly trained to fight yet but are taking part in combat operations without food and then one North Korean looked at me because he thought I was porn.

Feel old yet, millennials?

Bibi should fly to Germany. Make them take a stand.

You mean his tenure ended before it was legal?

I think it’s useful. It forces them to show their hand. That’s not nothing.

It can’t force them to stop. The only thing that can force them to stop is the threat of nuclear annihilation, and even then they’re willing to roll the dice if the odds look good.

At least the UN is able to force the USA to reveal its hand, that it is in fact opposed to a cease-fire. What more can you expect without a nuclear arsenal?

Remember to fill your water bottle before going to bed

This is the most important vote in history democracy itself is on the line this is the final chance to stop fascism oh he won yeah sure I work for him now

Now that you’ve won why don’t you just surrender to make it easier for us to acknowledge that you’ve won

The Bizarre State of Western Democracy

Picking out the key thesis argued by Prabhat Patnaik.

Democracy is supposed to mean the pursuit of policies that are in conformity with the wishes of the electorate. True, it is not that the governments first ascertain popular wishes, and then decide on policy; the conformity between the two is typically ensured under bourgeois rule by the government deciding on policies in accordance with ruling class interests, and then having a propaganda machinery that persuades the people about the wisdom of these policies The conformity between public opinion and what the ruling class wants is thus achieved in a complex manner whose essence lies in the manipulation of public opinion.

What is currently happening however is altogether different: public opinion, notwithstanding all the propaganda directed at it, wants policies that are altogether different from those being systematically pursued by the ruling class. The policies favoured by the ruling class in other words are being pursued despite public opinion being palpably and systematically opposed to them.

Such riding roughshod over public opinion is typically sought to be achieved by keeping these burning issues of peace and war off political discussion altogether. In the coming US presidential elections, for instance, since both the contenders, Donald Trump and Kamla Harris, are agreed on supplying arms to Israel, this issue itself will not figure in any presidential debate or in the presidential campaign.

In the metropolis there has thus been a transition from “manipulation of dissent” through propaganda, to the total ignoring of dissent, even dissent by a majority, that has proved to be immune to propaganda. This represents a new stage in the attenuation of democracy, a stage characterised by an unprecedented moral bankruptcy of the political establishment.

What Africa needs is more debt repayments

Jamming might be making it hard to steer