Fuck yeah, dude. That sounds awesome. Happy for you.

Amazing.

One of the many reasons I loved RRR is precisely because it did not do this.

This is great. Thanks.

I think most of us are indeed hoping for US imperial power to diminish, as it is historically, by far, the greatest impediment to any sort of left movement anywhere. And it’s not just leftism. It’s an impediment even to basic economic sovereignty. Russia is a good example. Not open enough to domination by US capital, therefore a US enemy, despite being otherwise fairly similar to the US politically. This can’t continue if any progress to be made.

It’s unfortunate that some of the countries successfully (at least partly) asserting their sovereignty against the US are doing so on strictly nationalist rather than leftist grounds, but that’s what we’ve got at the moment, and it offers at least a modicum of hope that US imperialism might also be resisted by more left wing states in the future.

Not going to get into anything about China because I suspect we have vastly different ideas about what is and is not true about China, and that’s another discussion entirely.

Good point.

Jesus. What a perfect encapsulation of the entropy inherent in a system so allergic to central planning. It’d almost be funny if it wasn’t such nasty business.

I’ve seen a lot of takes lately about ISIS being essentially a US asset at this point. Tracks with what I know of US methods historically, but wondering if anybody has anything substantive or specific on this.

Ganglion cyst? Had a recurring one of those on my wrist for awhile, though it was never particularly painful. Was definitely fucking weird, but totally harmless as it turns out. Apparently people used to just smash them with a heavy book.

Soviets did some experiments with fox domestication in the 50s. Don’t really remember exactly what ended up happening but I’m pretty sure they bred some tame-ish little guys. Foxes are cool as hell either way, and I would also like one please.

Optimistic take. I like it.

This is where it’s at. I had a stubborn ear infection years ago that I kept trying weird shit on, and it wouldn’t help. Finally tried pseudoephedrine Hcl and it cured it in like a day or two. Something about just drying your out shit out for awhile I guess helps. Makes sense.