That was a funny response because shortly before the debate there was a Hexbear post about a report that compared China’s rate of technological progress to the US’s and found that the US was behind China in all technologies but two. Guess which ones? Someone on Kamala’s team must have also seen it.

I tried to find the post but I’m not sure where it went.

Just a good ol’ bad cop/psycho cop routine.

To be fair, being an A student in the US is way more about complying with power structures than it is about knowing things.

Source: “BodyBySisyphus consistently fails to follow directions” x 1,000,000

Well put!

So what you do is you take a nuke. Drop it in a hole. Then drop another one in. Then another one. Hope you brought a lot of nukes. Eventually the gas law (Pv=nrt baby) dictates that you end up with an atmosphere dense enough to be breathable plus you’re definitely low enough down that you’re shielded from radiation. Bring some looooong cables to connect to solar panels up on the surface, crank up the heater, hang up a grow lamp for your potatoes, and live large in the miles-deep, yards-wide prison you dug for yourself.

The funny thing is She of the Real Time Fact Checkers lied her ass off the entire time. She lied about the Chinese Covid response, she repeated the Hamas sexual assault allegations that the NYT chose not to print, she either lied about her love of fracking (less likely) or her belief that climate change is an existential threat (more likely)*.

The thing is those lies are all within the Pale of Discourse so they go unchallenged. Trump is such a gift to the democrats because they get to go as far to the right as they want while still keeping their cherished veneer of intelligence and maturity.

*I suppose she could think both and either be a bona-fide threat to humanity or a complete idiot who doesn’t know what’s causing climate change

It was one of multiple moments where I experienced mental “Wait, I thought the dems thought this was beyond the pale, too” whiplash.

Seriously, every sentence is a banger.

Analysts say allowing autocracy to once again flourish in North America and in the ethnostates of sub-Scandinavian Europe could lead to yet another all-out Caucasian tribal conflict that would draw in the rest of the international community – a third world war.

She also essentially ran the lab leak conspiracy theory on covid.

It’s extremely disconcerting how little people seem to remember and/or care about what happened during the Bush years. January 6th really seemed to rattle them more than the all of the erosion in civil liberties and general skullduggery that has been ongoing since 2000, and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars aren’t even on their radar. I want to say the domestic policy myopia is new compared to how it was back in like the '08 election season but maybe all they really cared about in the those wars were the domestic impacts.

Apparently Ukraine is doing some saber rattling over the news that Iran is delivering drones and SRBMs to Russia, and the libs thirst for vengeance.

Yeah, considering tradeoffs is important. And this would be a problem even if climate change wasn’t part of the picture; aquifer depletion is happening because capitalism is demanding production cycles faster than the capacity of natural resources (soil and water) to regenerate. We could easily stay within those cycles if we (say it with me, class) reduce wastage, overproduction, and animal agriculture, but that would mean lower profits

This is one of my major concerns with the global stability of agriculture. The projections of yield losses due to climate change are significant and economically impactful, but they’re not something we’re incapable of planning around. But if we deplete all the aquifers there’s the possibility of a swift and catastrophic collapse. In India, cities are sinking due to rapid groundwater extraction. Things have the potential to get very ugly very quickly if management doesn’t improve.

I dipped a toe in the lib blogosphere recently just to see how the election coverage was looking from their perspective, and it’s amazing how orthogonal their news is to ours. Daily Kos has regular feature called “Russian Stuff Blowing Up” and tons of Ukraine war coverage but is essentially silent on Palestine. There’s a single recent, highly detailed diary that goes into Israel’s role in the October 7th casualties and is highly critical of America and Israel, and it has less than a tenth of the engagement as “Russian Stuff Blowing Up,” where they’re busy cheering on the possibility of a Ukrainian strike on Iran. The rest of the front page diaries are about Trump or the election (front page right now: Trump, DeSantis, Trump, Trump, political cartoon about Trump).

I’ve spent about 8 years at this point drifting more and more leftwards after watching the fallout from the election and results (or lack thereof) of the marches and protests that happened immediately afterward, and it’s a little disorienting to see people I would’ve mostly agreed with inhabiting an alien world and speaking a totally different language. The comments sections suggest that there’s several people there who might be reachable but it seems like the majority is pretty much what you’d expect from an r/politics thread.

I’ve been thinking about this comment a lot over the last couple of days. I do my research in agriculture and food systems so I’ve had a lot of exposure to the “future is rural” philosophy, but it’s mainly in the context of climate change. It seems like anyone talking sense about the trajectory our society is on is quietly buying small plots of land for smallholder agriculture or posting about how farms are probably going to stop supplying food systems and start focusing on meeting their own needs as conditions get less hospitable. It’s interesting to consider that there’s a convergent response emerging as a result of automation.

Meanwhile I’m sitting here on my small expensive urban plot that couldn’t sustain more than some summer vegetables because I thought I’d get bored doing actual agriculture

He’s truly a lich of the people.

And we know empirically that Dick Cheney’s heart is incapable of growing because it resides in the Sepulchre of the Veiled Ones impaled on seven thorns of the Ebonroot Tree, quietly weeping ichor into an onyx basin so that tells you which direction which party is headed.

What do your preparations look like?