Is the stateless communist society in the room with us now? Can you give an example?

Maybe these don’t explain me, but they hit hard at forming my views of my fellow apes:

American politics

How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind

Which is also explained, among a shitload of other behavior, in

What is the Monkeysphere?

So MUCH of what we see around us is explained in those two articles. I’ve had responses that neither is a complete view, not all behavior, bla, bla, bla. Yeah, I know. But if you want to understand humans, especially why so many seem bugfuck evil, there’s a lot of bang for the buck in there. (Be patient with the Monkeysphere article, old and the formatting is hosed, but I trust you’ll get it.)

Fine, you’re my wing man. I’ll take the flat-chested friend, you get the thick one.

Woman to woman is not nearly as threatening, this isn’t in the same ballpark emotionally.

Be nice while driving since I refuse to look at a screen, let alone type on it.

Last update changed the phone buttons around for no reason I can discern. Not sure that’s ever happened because I was shocked, never had to relearn the buttons.

Came to comment and you stole all of my thunder! :)

Look, the guy used to be my rep so I have more reason to hate him than most of you, but I have never understood this. At one point he got some Botox and overdid it, looked a bit uncanny but nothing too crazy. And this isn’t even a picture of that! Also, Botox injections fade fairly quickly, unlike the plastic surgery the Mar-a-Lago women had.

divisions of class between your peers becomes less obvious

Nope! Kids will always find ways around that.

“what’s the harm?”

Missed one! Gotcha Sxan!

What’s KYC?

Worked at a software dev that was so niche we basically had a monopoly by default. No one is touching that software outside the workplace. Laughing thinking about tomorrow’s meetings.

“Seriously? We have to add age verification?!”

And Taiwan is set to blow their chip factories if invaded. Not an official policy, but it’s a no-brainer.

Yeah, you won’t see the poop emoji in Linux or LibreOffice! 🤦🏻‍♂️

(Unicode block: U+1F4A9)

Are you in the right thread?

automatically rewarded without asking

I sense the root of here problem.

Can I rant for one?

I love my wife dearly, but I know her one weird issue is jealousy. Knew that when I married her, fought about it many times, many tearful apologies from her later.

Was pirating the first episode of “Derry” when she looks at my screen. (It’s a 40" TV, can’t avoid snooping.)

<imagine an angry Filipino accent here>

“Who are ‘Derry Girls’?! Ha? Ha? What is this show? HA?!”

“Fuck I know. <pointing at screen> I was downloading a new horror show we might like. You liked the movies. <points to the actual download folder>”

“DERRY GIRLS ha!” <stomps off>

Fuck me. Now I’m afraid to watch Derry Girls. If she ever finds my porn stash I’m doomed. :)

Well, someone gets it. :)

I’d only nitpick that Americans call any sort of social service “socialism”. “Communism” is a word that’s still verboten. I’d also argue that social services are a political function, nothing to do with the economic system, except that the economics pays for the political, same as it ever was.

Adam Smith rolling in his grave like a turbine on hearing people call what we have capitalism. We have an oligarchy, maybe plutocracy is a better word. And neither is the natural result of capitalism. Again, Smith loathed the idea of monopolies and cartels, said those were break points in the system.

The rich seem to have figured out the inequality thing. As long as we have food, and most of us are fat, and as long as we have toys to distract us, we will never truly revolt. Lemmy fantasies aside, there will be no guillotines, not until we can’t get literal bread.