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Cake day: February 11th, 2025

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  • Well that’s twice as much as you’ve suggested. All organizing starts by bringing people together. Meeting like minded individuals and building out a core network. It takes time to build communication and supply lines for more aggressive action. So far the only thing you’ve got to offer is excuses and cute nicknames like idiot orange. That milling around carrying signs is where you take stock of assets you can leverage and people willing to act. When you’re done wallowing in self pity, you can come step up and find the people that have been building the infrastructure we’re going to need to do something meaningful. Or just sit it out and let someone else do it for you, while pretending doing nothing gives you the moral high ground.


  • Wow that’s a spectacular leap of logic. Protesting the Epstein class is the same thing as making friends with them? You should change your handle to Pizza Wheel, all edge, no point. The world is ending so do nothing, sit down, and cry about it on TikTok. Because that’s somehow going to change things. What a brilliant strategy. You’re a real hero for doing SFA and complaining when people try. Movements run on logistics, logistics takes organized infrastructure, but you hate people so bad even suggesting it sets you off.

    Go on then, show us how it’s done. Run out half-cocked, pretending your John f-ing Wick, and be the lone wolf to save the world. Let’s see how that works out for you. This isn’t CoD lobby, this is the real world. One person is powerless, useless, and means nothing by themselves. Our power is in numbers. ORGANIZED numbers, not wild senseless riots. Are they going to try to poison the well with agent provocateurs? Absolutely. We adapt, and we come back because surrender is not an option. Unlike you, who apparently thinks surrender is the only option. What’s wrong with my soul? What’s wrong with yours.




  • Some are trying, but it’s a slow process going from toothless protests to a serious movement. It took decades for the civil rights movement to reach a point where people took it seriously. It took generations for union labour to gain legitimacy. We let the tools of community organizing and collective action rust away in complacency. It’s going to take time to reforge them.





  • So, human packs tended to be unusually large for predatory omnivores, with night/morning watches. Most predators would not attack a full pack of H. sapiens unless they had numbers on their side, which few animals would besides a handful of very large packs of Hyena (Both African and Eurasian). A small pack of humans that had fallen on hard times would definitely be at higher risk but snoring in a large human pack wouldn’t really be much of a risk at all. Most things that hunted us, would wait until we spread out foraging or were exploring in small enough numbers that they could overpower our numbers.

    Neanderthals moved in small bands. Part of our advantage was that we tended to have bigger packs and relied on safety in numbers.



  • The most important thing to remember is color is a property of light, not a property of objects. The firetruck isn’t red, it reflects red light. Objects don’t have color in absence of light.

    Pigments don’t produce light, they take it away. They absorb different color bands based on their chemical structure. When you mix different pigments, you’re trying to find a blend that takes away the colors you don’t want so that only the ones you do get reflected (Absorption spectra).

    When you’re mixing different bands of light, you’re adding different bands together to create an average (emission spectra).



  • I have a theory about why Trump himself is authorizing this. Trump is president, but he knows he can’t hang on to it. Bibi has offered to make him and his heirs kings in perpetuity of Gaza though. He’s aiming to build a new Dubai in Israel, a resort city for the rich and famous under his exclusive control in perpetuity and shield him from prosecution. Trump City. That’s a legacy. That’s the most massive tribute anyone has offered him yet. He’ll do anything Bibi asks because in exchange, he gets to be a petty king of his own little Morocco, his Singapore, his little Mediterranean paradise. It’s exactly that transactional. The proceeds from his “Bored of Peace” brigade will go to building his little kingdom, and he’ll be given a blank check to do whatever he feels like as long as he uses the full force of the US military machine to serve the Israeli cause.





  • “what do you mean it’s neither? Marx cited him!”

    something like whether Obama can do a public prank April Fool’s Day is a “political” issue

    Henry Thomas Buckle once noted that “[people] were divided into three classes mentally. The first and lowest class talk of persons; the second talk about [things and events]; the third and highest about ideas.” As you noted, Marx wrote on many fields of thought, not all of them related to communism, socialism, and socio-economics, but few if any have engaged with his ideas beyond knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that “Marx Bad.”

    Does that truly make everything he said political? I suppose that depends on how you define politics. Is politics truly a dialogue of ideas, or is it as cheap as “My team vs not my team”, and if it’s the latter, how does one draw team lines? Define it loosely enough and I can make a ham sandwich political. “Ham isn’t kosher, ergo anti-semitic, leftists hate Israel, your ham sandwich is COMMUNIST!” As absurd as that chain of thought is, it’s no more absurd than defining an April Fools joke as political.

    On the other hand, can we truly call ideas political? The vast majority of people agree on far more ideas than they disagree on and yet choose to define each other as “other” based more on semantics than real ideological differences. I would argue then that, in spite of Plato’s high minded ideals in “the republic” “politics” is less about the honest evaluation and synthesis of ideas but actually little more than a rhetorical expression of frustration in the least rational and deliberative of ways.

    Ergo indeed, Socrates is political, and the ham sandwich is clearly a terrorist.