i'm on a watchlist for reminding my neighbors it's everyone's responsibility to de-ice their sidewalks and driveways

that's why they used to make telephones out of them

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also solves the fermi paradox. everyone that might contact us knows better than to let capitalists have faster-than-light travel.

st. brigid was originally a pagan goddess and the church retconned an abbess so they could declare victory in having converted all the brigid worshippers

good job, jon! we can all rest easy now that palantir has been destroyed

Although it had been known for centuries, occurrences in Afghanistan exploded in the 1980s with the ascendancy of the U.S.-backed Mujahideen government. It was briefly quashed under the Taliban (1996-2001), but returned again in the 21st century under the U.S.-protected Afghan government, made up of many of the same elements who were in power two decades previously.

just like opium cultivation. the u.s. occupation wasn't simply ignoring it, but was actively promoting and encouraging the practice among their local comprador allies. this was official u.s. policy for afghanistan under every president since jimmy fucking carter.

Bacha bazi was primarily practiced by high-status individuals put in power by U.S. occupation forces – police, military, teachers, and government officials. Many of these people lived with their boys on U.S. compounds. This meant that, in practice, the U.S. taxpayer was subsidizing the widespread **** of children, one of the many reasons that American personnel were so unpopular with the local population, and why the U.S.-installed government fell within days of the 2021 military pullout.

Likewise, drug production in Afghanistan directly correlates with U.S. involvement in the country. In the 1970s, heroin production was minimal, and largely for domestic consumption. But as the Western-backed regime change war dragged on, Washington looked for other ways to support the insurgency. They found their answer in opium, and soon, refineries processing locally-grown poppy seeds sprang up on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Trucks loaded with U.S. taxpayer-funded weapons entered Afghanistan from their ally, Pakistan, and returned filled to the brim with opium.

You can’t blockade the sun!

We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.

Mr. Rattner, a contributing Opinion writer, served as counselor to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration.

finance capital

if it's a drill, sure. but if it's just a test of the system, then typically not. at least in all the places i've worked over the years, i've been told plenty of times to keep working during a scheduled maintenance test, and i've never had to leave due to an actual fire.

statistically, that's almost always the correct response for the ai to give

well at least now i know how i'll die

i don't know, it just needs to be someone out of touch with internet culture for it to subvert expectations.

anyway, the reboot is sure to be awful. ai-rplane, with an ai-generated leslie nielsen making a cameo in place of the inflatable autopilot.

now i'm trying to imagine a 50th anniversary airplane reboot upcoming in 2030

It's basically like how kings would sell the right to tax areas to the highest bidder.

that's just bringing market efficiencies to government extortion

truth is on the side of the oppressed, pigs! the only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. we are blood brothers to the people of brazil, venezuela, haiti, cuba -- yes cuba too.

who else would it be? are there more twink youtube archers?

right? honestly i'm surprised the federation relies so heavily on them when they keep malfunctioning with the slightest power surge and suddenly worf can't fire torpedoes again. give him a big smashy button like in wrath of khan and he won't have that problem.

exactly, he wrote the most important parts, anyway