Oh, i got you. That would fall under a technical suggestion and can be proposed in c/feedback. Someone would have to program it.

The draft I handed in said that CWs should be inside spoilers.

(CW: Spoilers) Example

Or do you mean like this:

The only thing is that there isn’t an example of the markdown. The difference is that the first one has a regular sentence followed by a spoiler with the label “click to expand”. The second uses the label of the spoiler to hold the CW.

I think we do have that. I think rather than real estate, it’s virtual space. The pressure valve is claiming online spaces and winning a virtual culture war. The new yeoman dream is that you become a content creator. All this AI slop is the “free” labor on which to build your dream. You can just generate slop for a multi-level marketing scam that recruits followers. You move up to become an influencer, with thousands below you. Each of them pay you tribute just to learn and be part of your success in the ops that it will rub off on them.

I just logged on to twitter for the first time in, i don’t know how long, and holy shit. It’s everywhere. Everyone is generating their own incoherent memes. All this AI shit is going nowhere and can bet that most of this are agents. Also every comment section is just /pol/. Even liberals are are switching between posting weepy eulogies for Cheney, movie clips from VICE, and saying that 9/11 is going to happen again. You would think NY just got nuked by Russia. What a horrible site.

I think the anti-electoralism hexbears were right, even though I pushed back on it. But they were too early. They were trying to strategize around a theoretical moment, based on history, rather than waiting for a current, practical moment like this. Here is the time to take all those happy people with renewed hope and build a party. It doesn’t have to be a national party immediately. It can start with a neighborhood or town in NY. Get all these people into a party that is not the Democrats. This party should always be to the left of Mamdani on every issue but willing to offer critical support. They should work to replace him with someone who will push things further. By the next election you have a party and a candidate. You have a way to exert pressure on Mamdani if he turns heel.

The wrong move would be to treat this like the destination rather than part of the journey. Taking all this earned good will and just handing it over to Democrats or Mamdani himself will end badly. We need the Democrats to be weak and giving them all these hopeful voters would make them stronger. They were fine as a means to get to this point, but now is the moment you break. Now we can start doing real Lenin political calculus and talk about building a worker’s party (or adapting one that already exists). Zohran being in office is no longer theoretical.

Before we were arguing over how the things he said would affect the election while also trying to say he should run for this or that party. All that’s over now. We can just focus on getting a worker’s party going on the momentum. There is no pressing election to worry about appealing to suburban racists or unwoke union workers. If you lose moderates right now it’s not as dire and you can replace them with true believers by the next election.

Every pirogi dealer who sees Dersh tomorrow:

Someone please put him on SI watch. Watch to make sure he goes through with it.

Oh I’m sorry I thought this was a free country.

The Sixth Sense came out 40 years ago. This is for contemporary movies, not silent era films /j

Yeah thank god he strengthened the powers of the presidency. That’s really useful right now.

Zordon Madonna

I forgot he had a kid. I guess Brandon is the actual heir to the Cronenberg kingdom.

#dickanda forever

His heart problem is no longer complicating.

To me most of these are okay. I feel like Alex Garland made Men to do social commentary like Peele. I feel like Aster made the aptly named Midsommar to do folk horror like Eggers. I think The VVitch is the best of Eggers’ portfolio. The Lighthouse was too indulgent and Nosferatu felt too commercial. I enjoyed the novelty of Weapons but it felt very much like an Aster movie. It Follows predates a lot of movies on this list and I like UtSL just for the conspiracy stuff. I enjoy Perkins “Gretel and Hansel” way more than longlegs and I think he works better as a director than a writer.

I have not seen Raw or Titane, but I hear Doucournou is good with body horror. Beyond the Black Rainbow is another movie that’s older than the rest and I liked it. Stranger Things ripped it off so hard I’m shocked there was never a lawsuit. It’s much more experimental and stylistic than Stranger Things. Mandy was a dud imo. But we have to keep Nic Cage employed so I understand.

Is he a member? I thought our resident NYC-DSA user said he wasn’t a member and didn’t specifically enlist the chapter to be part of his campaign?

Something about using foxes on a family crest as a pickup line.

There is no protection against fed-owned nodes nor fed-owned exit nodes. Whoever owns enough nodes on the network can deduce the routing. Plus Tor is slow and tor services are fairly mundane, inactive, and useless compared to the clearweb. If you’re a dissident in a country and the idea of Americans possibly tracing your traffic is preferable to your own government, and you enjoy 1MB speeds or less, go ahead.

So the food desert problem was way worse than it seemed. Not only did places have few grocery stores for miles, but the stores that did exist were centered around people who couldn’t afford it without SNAP. When that goes away, the stores go away.

I don’t want to recenter this on electoralism but it’s funny that state-run groceries were an issue on Mamdani’s campaign before SNAP funding was frozen. Now that funding is frozen, here is a good test case for that idea. Kind of like how Bernie was talking about healthcare and then he ran during 2020 when COVID was popping off. It’s so frustrating because even though they’re reformists, they latch on to the right current. But after 2020 people just kind of gave up on healthcare and let it decline further. Now communities are losing their only hospital. Mamdani seems to have the lead and may likely win, but I’m assuming his grocery project will go the same way.

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