Wheaties [she/her]

i’ve been interpreting the puffer fish as a persons ability to offload mental tasks into the spaces and tools around them - is that a decent read or am i doing surrealism wrong?

AI - minds of raw data, but without any ability to reflect or ground that information in reality

you know you’re actually serious about it when you try to find a niche message board dedicated to thing

monsters are just thinly disguised references to the ruling class

Dragons covet gold, killing sheep and cattle while people starve? Gaawssshhh what could that have been a reference too? Just quirky medieval fairy-tales I guess

ever seen a dollar bin box on the floor of a shop? great way to find weird films

Gotta work through feudalism to get to capitalism

gotta evolve through markets and keep careful practice to grow a healthy, long-lasting biosphere

finally, a lemmy art com that isn’t progamme generated pictures

Do I hear 150000 cents for a pre-drained battery still in original packaging, unopened?

i’m all for using tariffs to expand your local productive capacity, but describing market forces as “invasion” is just silly. You want invasion? France is still running an old-school colonial empire – for fuck’s sake, they’re charging reparations for “”““freeing””“” the countries they violently took over in the first place!

Treating things as things -> me, cool, historical

Treating people as things -> you, “logical”

importing the yankee’s hardon for punishment, i see

They put more history in it. That’s practically a service to the museum, a value add. Ought to be commemorated for it, really.

this is a victimless crime that is also crimeless because it shouldn’t be illegal

bloodborne

Personally, I see that as a sign the strategy is working. Using market forces to your advantage, as a nominally socialist organization, is inevitably going to draw a lot of criticism from your left. You get two groups: purists who see any sort of market action as an immediate and disqualifying sin; and more principled materialists who understand the rational, but also recognize the risk of being overwhelmed by market forces. It’s nice to say you will strip out private capital in the future, but when will that actually be? When the conditions are right, will it actually happen? Worse, will your organization even be able to recognize those conditions? These are important questions, but we’re not gonna see the answer any time soon.

In the mean time, western leftist doing the fire-&-brimstone preacher act is useful. Capitalists (the smarter, self-aware capitalist…) hear leftist discord over China and interpret that as meaning their oversees investments are safe.

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it’s funny seeing the ocean depicted in games and movies as a vibrant & lively, and then compare it to my one experience of snorkeling, which was the shallow-water equivalent of this. But with more cola cans.

Apple Inc.(AAPL) is a very funny company to be producing adaptations of classic cyberpunk novels