Also it’s not like a landlord hard zero risks

Then they should sell instead of renting.

Who supports it? Fascists. It’s about controlling access to information and robbing the populace of privacy at the same time. An oppressive, authoritarian police state needs tools to maintain control. These are the tools.

Flipping red to blue won’t accomplish much as long as the Democratic party remains a right-wing oligarchic cesspool. The US has two right wing parties and the ratchet effect is very, very real. Look at slightly-left-of-center candidates like Mamdani and Bernie. There is nowhere more left for them to go than the DNC, but the DNC will pull out all the stops to prevent even one slightly leftist candidate from making progress because the party is firmly and militantly right wing.

Short of breaking up the two-party system, which both parties are fighting through the suppression of basic reforms like RCV, we need to find and run strong, leftist candidates that can replace rightists across the board, especially those that make up the majority of the US Democratic party.

3.5 more years until we have a chance of restoring sanity. Assuming there is still an America at that point.

Edit: Since it seems I wasn’t clear, my point was the rest of world can’t and shouldn’t trust America. There are more countries in the world than the US and hoping the US does anything, especially in time to save Palestinian lives, is as pointless as “thoughts and prayers.” Just as global boycotts are finding ways to cut America out of their societies, the same should be happening for international politics.

That is actually a parable, just as fictitious as the one that comes immediately before it. It utilizes Hellenist terms and imagery for the benefit of an audience familiar with those concepts. The parable is set in Hades, the literal greek underworld. The point of the parable is to drive home the hopelessness for hoarders of wealth, as the more someone has, the more is expected of them.

What I wouldn’t give for Tarantino’s single-film supercut. 😞

Romulus is better than it has any right to be. The Alien 3 “Assembly Cut” is also decent. Not good, but not awful.

It sounds like it uses similar ideas to Amazon Kiro. Many of the advancements in “vibe coding” tools are focused on ways to put consistent, coherent bumpers on AI output.

I’ve lived in the US for too long. How many bananas is that?

How dare you suggest that having a publicly accessible, unencrypted database is not a best practice. The nerve.

/s in case the link didn’t make it obvious.

Eggy flavor comes from the yolk. If you don’t want that, you can use eggs whites as your emulsifier. So long as your measurements by weight or volume are the same, whites work just as well as whole eggs.

I feel personally attacked.

I make it from scratch because it’s easy, cheap, delicious, versatile, and the store-bought stuff has no flavor. If you’ve never had a great homemade mayo, I can understand why you’d think you hate it.

Do not respond. Listen.

Not great, not terrible.

Meme photo of two astronauts in space, one holding a gun to back of the other’s head. It is overlayed with the text “Always has been.”

To correct one thing, the left-right political spectrum is based on authority. It goes back to the French Revolution, in which the nobility - favoring top-down power hierarchies - literally occupied the right side of the assembly hall while the revolutionaries - favoring true equality and egality - sat on the left.

This cannot be separated into distinct domains since power is wealth and wealth is power. The political compass fallacy is, and always was, nothing more than rightist propaganda to muddy language and ideology in an effort to hold on to their wealth and power.

Rich conservatives are all too happy to pay the troll toll.

There is not. Not in an afterlife, at least. You may be thinking of the last judgement, which is part of the “resurrection of the dead” that I previously mentioned. That’s the part with the “weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

There isn’t. Every single word that gets translated to “hell” in English has a different and specific meaning in the source documents… usually “grave” but sometimes “Gehenna” which was an actual place with bad connotations, and “Hades” in the context of a parable, being literally the Greek/Hellenist underworld.

Jews, including Jesus, did not believe in an afterlife, per se. Instead, there were two schools of thought. First was that you get one life die, that’s it. This was espoused by the ruling, priestly class. Second, and what Jesus literally espoused, was that at the end of time, everyone would be resurrected and judged. Those judged righteous would then be granted a new life in a newly created place and everyone else disposed of, permanently dead.

Reminder that this is #12 on Umberto Eco’s list of Ur-fascism warnings. When you let authorities curb expression of things that bother you, you have given them permission to curb any expression they want.

Since both permanent war and heroism are difficult games to play, the Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters. This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality).