Not to add to the scary factor, and probably not related, and completely unverified: a work colleague who was a specialist in a military branch was recalled recently and were supposed to be back by now but apparently they may not be back for an undetermined amount of time.......
I'm here and lurking - my heart is out for you
I'm convinced Grimes rented Trafic and watched it while Musk was in a Ketamine stupor and when he "woke up" he decided to make the Altra camper-car.
Everyone should watch Trafic, it's great.
What a surprise, tedious and insufferable.
Me and my wife noticed you from across the bar...
I lost all faith when they did a "takedown" of Baudrillard which was such a blatant misreading it was gross
Sometimes things are going so bad you just have to say "been better" and endure the following awkward silence.
shramp yesss
Generally just some chuckle-able background noise while getting ready in the morning. Ironically, the most recent episode was one of the worst ones in a long time, so unlucky you lol
Just off the top of my head:
-"House Flipping" culture
-Short-term rentals and AirBnb
-"Professional Landlordism"
-Corporate residential landholding
-Rabid boomer landowners who lose their minds when any rise in property tax gets mentioned, which results in artificially inflated property valuations
-No rent control
Obviously the REAL answer is Capitalism, but the above phenomena create ripple effects across the whole housing market, which is something that the r*dditors always overlook when they quote stats that say "corporate ownership of residential properties only represent a small fraction of the market." Yeah, maybe they do, but even that small fraction ripples out to housing precarity for millions of people.
Absolutely - I honestly think Dune and Dune Messiah should be sold as one book.
A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
It goes without saying that a nation, like every historical phenomenon, is subject to the law of change, has its history, its beginning and end.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm
Some good shit.
"Massacre at Central High (released as Blackboard Massacre in the UK) is a 1976 American thriller film directed by Rene Daalder and starring Derrel Maury, Kimberly Beck, Robert Carradine, and Andrew Stevens. The plot follows a series of revenge killings at a fictional American high school, after which the oppressed students take on the role of their bully oppressors. Despite its title, it is not a slasher film but an unusual blend of political allegory, social commentary, and low-budget exploitation; with the exception of the final sequence, no "adult" characters (such as teachers and parents) are seen.
It was shot on 35mm film, and has a running time of 87 minutes.
The film's director, Rene Daalder, described Massacre at Central High as "eerily predicting punk and Columbine". It has also been cited as a possible influence on the 1988 black comedy Heathers."
Credit to https://hexbear.net/post/640651 for the image.
The imprecise grammar of the hack Fart also makes the point obscured; is she referring to "Arab Children" around the world? Across all borders? Because grammatically that's how it reads.