I felt for the first time that the system I had long considered sacred was in fact unbearably absurd.

My experience with the study outline taught me that the ideas the party sanctimoniously promoted were in fact self-serving tools used to deceive the Chinese people. I soon learned that they were also a way of making money.

Like here, the founding myths can't be questioned even when they are only paid lip service to. This is the case everywhere. Interesting perspective that Xi is essentially a moron princeling.

Obvious to Misesians, as we already know the mainstream conception of utility is hokum. Value is subjective, and utility incoherent.

The son of heaven and his bureaucracy have always had chauvinism as a weakness.

Voltaire comes to mind

He has a point -- why not just get a video game if you aren't gonna see it with other people.

God shaped hole. Nevertheless this is yet another escalation in the war between the sexes; feminist women who do not understand the automation substitutes they are competing against are gonna get run over. Their only choices are getting on a high value man's harem or going cat lady, because they will never be willing to be feminine even to the rudimentary extent that a shitpile of automated scripts can.

Life does indeed appear to be a conjunction of a few killer features. The effort to make the minimum viable organism continues; we can then finally understand how DNA works.

Very spicy essay, and an interesting exploration of US Imperial tropes. I regard his crystal ball as needing work towards the end. Nevertheless, mythmaking is necessary in this walk into the future, and this is one such attempt. The broad strokes about the current clerisy situation are correct, but the way things will turn out will be so messy no one could possibly have predicted it.

Battle lines now formally drawn between the DNC/State/CIA/Media/Uni complex and the MIC/RNC

lol, as usual these cretins are all about covering shit up, not investigating anything.

Doing little more than grifting for signups and enriching it's principals

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Charts that need explaining, but will only receive hand waving in response

It'll be fun to commemorate a quarter century of playing in the sandbox

With a veto-proof majority. Nothing can get in the way of the gravy train -- they'll keep raising pentagon budgets and invasions going by hook or by crook. No matter the cost.

Reminds me of some of the great stuff cog used to post on ZH back in 07-08.

I read a lot about marketing today, and the most incredible thing is just how pictures hack the mind. Seeing every news story published against lockdown nevertheless showing masked faces tells me why the lockdown crowd won. They showed everyone the world that was coming and lapped it up. Shoop hannibal lecter masks on all incidences of pro-lockdowners' masked faces if you want this to stop.

Note that all the pictures of the lockdown pols are still smiling non-masked faces. It's all PR dammit!

DO YOU HAFF YOUR PAPERS ON YOUR FACE

Layoffs at Uni now following those at the Papers. Excellent news.

WHAT

97% compliance, infections still totally independent.

bruh, get on RTS gamers' level

The YTP at the beginning is worth it alone, omg

My thoughts exactly. Who cares? The ship already ran aground.

Why I expect the Big 5 to win in the end. Their cars already have quality problems, and now they are going cost reduction?