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Just about any Latex Pillow on Amazon is going to be good.

They've given us all Stands, it's up to you to awaken them. I've already at 3 bowls of cereal with my brain spoon after the news dropped.

(Also misleading headline)

This is a joke headline for a joke country.

In a decade this will go 1 of two ways, either these people will be hanged upside down in the street, or they'll be defended by Democrats as experienced bureaucrats and experts in the field of government efficiency.

They're not flagging research, they're flagging grant applications they typically don't have bias sections.

I've had some experience with the NIH process, and grant writing is actually 100% the same thing as resume padding. You'll have random people on the review boards complain that your grant doesn't touch on their favorite hobby horse.

In the grand scheme of things if this looks like all this is is swapping out terms, it's literally always been this way. It just wasn't made into official documents.

Sure this is idiotic, but this has been going on just unofficially for arbitrary things for years based on independent reviewers.

I appreciate you. I'm not easily bullied away from my principles and reason.

What I feel now is disappointment. I remember when we first were banned from reddit. The users themselves would moderate the foolish. It wasn't the first time I found such a culture. They all scale and fail. But, I thought chapo would sustain because they implemented solid communist ideology.

Accelerationism as a philosophy is generally pretty bad. Accelerationism is a tool, you must have the ability to seize the moment of acceleration to make change, most accelerationists on the left do not have a real answer for this, they merely believe that once everything is broken they can say "Told you so" and people will listen to them. It's childish.

Right wing accelerationists on the other hand have Peter Theil.

I think IRL for me there's a lot less smug chuds then there are smug libs. A large percentage of people just have ambient chud beliefs, and the libs are always smug.

New album seems to be back in the same musical / aesthetic place. I haven't heard disease yet, mainly because I gave up on Gaga a long time ago.... but I'm willing to actually give MAYHEM a try.

There is none? Lmao.

It's calipers. In the current culture it's calipers for her. I hate the commercialization of estorica. You should have to join some sort of order and take a blood oath to abstain from marketing and social media to do it. Esoterica used to be a contest for who can be the weirdest guy and come up with the hottest take. But in the modern era a lot of it is complaining about other races, complaining about boyfriends or cheat codes for women. The gnostics were so good at it they all got murdered.

DeepSeek is probably going to be the straw that breaks the camels back in terms of full mask off fascism vs keeping status quo of polite business fascism that America loves. Let me explain, keep in mind, a pro-move would have been if TikTok did this.

So for those who don't know DeepSeek is covered by the GPL. The current bill to ban DeepSeek and "imports of Chinese tech" basically has a problem.

• Source code is free speech
• GPL'd source code exists before the ban
• The way copyright works if that if I make a change in DeepSeek no matter how minor it becomes a derivative work that I can then release.
• Therefore PiggySeek is my freeze-peach not China's

Essentially the US has to destroy the last 100 years of jurisprudence in multiple arenas (free speech, copyright, etc) to effectively create this ban. The reason the TIkTok ban was ruled legal is because by the US law, your speech is your speech, the platform is the platform, so there is a technicality there that can be used without talking about chilling effects. GPL and OSS enables "their" speech to be "your" speech in terms of software.

With the tech industry dollars and demand time table behind this.... well let's just say it's the time of the cool zone folks.

This process was already killed and ignored once with encryption where the government made the issue go away by loosening requirements and not prosecuting, despite a ruling against them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

Only in the way that if you don't specify a cause they die of a heart attack in Death Note.

You should be able to bring back Henry Kissenger in to a world of pain.

I mean he's an idiot, but he has a modicum of correctness here vis-a-vis pain because this is JDPON Don content. The core issue of communism is that humans need to understand the fairest way to decide who gets the negative effects of production. America has been offloading those effects on "everyone else", to the point that the system is so hollowed out in America for Americans. In practicality no matter who owns things the people or the bourgeoisie, they are always answering the question of "Who experiences the negative effects of production?". In practice because of how heightened the contradictions in our economy are, there's no practical answer to this regardless of ideology in a way where Americans don't feel pain. This is why Treatlerism is such a powerful ideology.

If we're getting USSR style academic censorship we should at least get a USSR social economy

The problem is that it's not "real". Under capitalism your grief doesn't count for anything it might as well not exist, it's reasons might as well not exist. In as such a character who is experiencing grief without knowing why and only exists within the context of work is the most abstract presentation of humanistic grief under a capitalist system. Our relations are so alienated this feeling itself might as well be alien itself.

They're trying to make a point. It's a show to make the viewer feel smart for "getting it". They could have made a much better one if they took the concept seriously and weren't so small minded. Mark S is going thru it in the show. That's an obvious emotional element, but it's squandered.

You're basically asking for solidarity movies: They Live is a classic one. Sorry to Bother You. Hackers. Planet of the Apes Trilogy (the 2010's version). O Brother Where Art Thou. Ip Man 1. Stalker.

I think just to clarify. Capitalist realism doesn't necessarily doom these shows to being bad. The thing that dooms these shows is the combination of capitalist realism and the need to appeal to the broadest possible audiences in a simplistic way. You can have a show trapped in capitalist realism and still have a good show. Squid Game Season 1 (I'm avoiding Season 2 it's irrelevant, there's nothing more they can say) was perfect in that sense. It was a great critique of capitalism where victory is hollow. Your characters in the story can get crushed by the system! It's a real thing that happens, it has emotional weight and it's a human understanding of the problem. Writers rooms avoid this shit because Americans love treats not art, they simply want their treats to pretend to treat them like adults who can handle art. So you get these "high concept" things that run into a brick wall fairly quickly.

For example: The Good Place could have explored Kiirkegaardian ethics where Kiirkegaard says that humans in aggregate are responsible for the systems under which they live, and they can be punished by God for it in aggregate. The Good Place character arcs could have explored that within how to live with being in a position where you're constantly being unethical in a way you have no real choice in, and how the characters deal with it.

Severance never faces the fact that the flaw in its own conceit is much more salacious than anything the show does. The main flaw in Severance's concept is that we're biomechanical machines and not electronic robots. So the side effects of grieving a wife will still severely affect the performance, mood, and mental health of your "innie" because their chemical and structural precursors are all there. Which is literally more horrifying of a personal story than the "omg we're doing slavery as an evil cult but we won't say wink" that Apple TV writers do in this shit.

Imagine that your only existence is 9-5 and for whatever reason you're always ill, you never feel good, you wake up like this and you go to sleep like this. You have no way to improve this situation because you cannot leave your prison, you have no way to even figure out what's going on. Instead it's a big old "who dun it" with all the ChatGPT style hallmarks of hack modern writing. The real horror is that not only can this go horribly wrong, someone might attempt it because they're stupid enough to think it will go right.

The concept of Severance is literally a torment nexus in and of itself, not because it's done by an evil cult. That's why you'll see a bunch of libs on BlueSky and Twitter praying for Severance IRL like people prayed for Squid Games. This is the exact hack lib writing problem that the US Office, the Good Place and Lovecraft Country had -- that it's capitalist realism.

The Office and The Good Place are obvious. The Office becomes flanderized cuteness about how work is quirky and not an unstable arbitrary constructed system made by morons, unlike the UK version. The Good Place discovers capitalism and then pretends that there's no reason that humans should be responsible for it's creation and existence in the view of cosmic justice.

Lovecraft Country is actually one of the worst fucking ones. What's the central conceit? "Lovecraft was racist." It doesn't go any deeper than that. Yes Lovecraft was racist. Yes cosmic horror as a genre has it's roots in fear of the unknown other. We know that applying that to races is bullshit. That's a baby brained thing. But guess what, the fear of a group of people whose intentions are unknown, unknowable, capricious, and they wield great power to affect your life -- yet you have seemingly no way to fight them. You know who that is? I'll give you a hint:

But no we have to remind everyone how good and liberal and virtue signalling we are as a writers room of an HBO TV show. Channel Zero Butcher's Block for all its faults at least presented a clear interesting story and didn't shy away from, "oh yeah these people are interdimensional beings who are extracting value from this community and are literally eating its members because they owned a factory once but it stopped being profitable."

By the way Lovecraft Country was literally written by a white guy. He even looks like Bradley Whitford's character in Get Out: