There are like two MEGACORPS that run educational textbook industry. I know many students who used Z-Library to get their textbooks. It’s crazy that IP law is ALWAYS about money, nothing else. IP law does nothing but get in the way of education and knowledge creation. Z-Lib was the plug.

It’s so silly that real adult people treat this man seriously.

That’s what the face always says. Any runner worth their credits has had plenty of “minimally complicated” jobs. Haha!

We’re watching the equivalent of 40% of a generation taking up smoking a pack a day.

Fuck man.

Christ that sounds right out of weird fiction novel.

It’s wholly Christian to be unkind to billionaires as they are by definition not your neighbor . They aren’t “your people” nor “your kin”, shit they aren’t even human by their own admission.

Exactly dude! It’s horrible and really just reduces a person to math and that’s the most dehumanizing thing ever. I hate the word “just”. “‘Just’ go on a diet”, “‘Just’ get a better”, “‘Just’ do X”, “‘Just’ stop doing Y”. I hate it so much. It’s so reductive and erases all the friction that comes along with being an existing person. I hate that shit bro.

What peripherals should I buy?

Mouse, Keyboard, and maybe a microphone headset for voice if you want talk to people on calls or whatever. Anything else is gamer decadence

Should I buy a headset right off the bat?

Sure if you like headsets. Headsets with a microphone are nice, most of them are pretty good and lets you listen and speak comfortably.

I always think about how obesity creates a negative chain reaction in health outcomes, and then I think about how America’s healthcare system is nothing but a network of negative chain reactions. It doesn’t take much political theory to understand it’s unsustainable.

The thing I find must upsetting about obesity in America is that it’s a considered a failure on the Indvidual (like everything is) and because of that they don’t deserve help. The popular response and institutional response to obesity is literally just “Go on a diet Fat-ass!”. That’s it. It’s an iron-clad thought-terminating cliche . They’re fat, they’re fat because they ate too much, it’s their problem, go the gym loser. I don’t need to empathize with them at all because they did it to themselves. Boom! Done!

You don’t have to do any more investigation or thought on why a nation-wide issue exists. It’s their fault because they are bad people. Of course, the same applies to just about every major public social issue in America. Especially Poverty and Addiction. It’s the same logic chain for people. It’s a “you” problem, and it won’t happen to them because “I’m special, I’m built different, I’m uniquely blessed to overcome the hardships of my fellow man” (NOTE: You are in fact not built different.)

It’s so stupid that Amerikkka cannot even parse the idea of public health. It’s truly one of the most vile morally bankrupt nations in history.

Dudes have such cool names.

• Oswald
• Zephyr
• Kai
• Otis
• Bodhi
• Lucian
• Kwame
• Ichiro
• Thaddeus
• Brick
• Timur
• Miroslav

Dudes have cool names if they have the courage. Trans men have such a unique opportunity to be rad as hell. Not to be sexist, but I think the fellas have some sick names across cultures.

They could charge a lot more, but they had to actually invest in development so that clients would be willing to pay for an upgrade.

That one thing I hate about technology as it is. It’s not modern tech is inherently bad, it’s that technology is engineered around becoming more profitable rather than better. They aren’t making better products anymore, they just finding new ways to charge you for them. UGH.

The social and cultural ascension of particular type of talented tenth black liberalism is going to send me into Arkham asylum. It’s so frustrating that these types of black liberal are smart of enough to understand what’s going on, but lack the fortitude to step beyond the wards of the liberalism that helped create them. The Obama-era never ended in so many ways.

I don’t think Coates is dumb nor do I think he is untalented. I read his Black Panther and Captain America runs, there was okay to fine. Dude can write, but the walls of liberalism enclose his imagination like so many people. When I see Coates, I see the black thought crashes into the wall of Neoliberalism. That black thought is either subsumed by Neoliberalism or it overcomes it, there is not synthesis as Neoliberalism can only consume not create.

My issue with Coates and those like him he buys into the sort of liberalism end of history myth. He sorts of sees everything as fine in general just bad actors or some bad outcomes, but never really looks at bad systems that create bad actors or bad outcomes. The machine itself is working to people like Coates, we need to flip some switches and twist some knobs and this machine will be even better. Move the evil slider from “MAXIMUM EVIL” to “MINIMUM EVIL” and such. As Dr Cornel West so rightly said, “Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle”. Which I don’t even take as a dig at Coates, more a dig at the worldview of Coates and people like him.

The existing neoliberal order will never free Palestine , as the existing order has no solutions to offer. Neoliberalism can’t solve the problems it created. Hell Neo-liberalism didn’t solve Jim Crow, it just exported it from the market to the police industrial complex and changed the name.

Coates and other liberal thinkers who aren’t utterly heartless vampires are the saddest liberals to me. They understand the world sucks ass in some way (sometimes it’s for the LGBT++ folks, sometimes it’s a racial group, sometimes it’s some other undeserved group) by their very ideology gives them nothing to solve their issues. They can say people need to be less -ist or -phobic but their thinking doesn’t allow to really question the relationships or dynamics of power in the world they live in. They think we live in the best possible world with some flaws that can be solved without changing the nature of the world in anyway way.

At least leftists of any stripe some have solutions. Even if they aren’t perfect, they are at least better than doing nothing and feeling bad about it.

it would feel more right for big stars to have to pay everyone else’s wages for wasting everyone’s time being a diva.

I dig the sentiment for sure. Like you said it’s friendly to capital, but the larger idea of “the diva is burning away everyone’s time, the rest of cast and crew ought to be compensated and the diva ought to have their behavior corrected” makes sense to me.

Maybe more reasonably, productions should be less penny pinching in the first place and maybe The Rock Does Christmas doesn’t need to exist.

In wholehearted agreement there.

I have always thought that productions can’t support “divas”. I have no real experience with movie making, but I would imagine there is a ton of “waiting for X so Y can do Z”. Not in a rude way, but I would imagine lots of people are expecting other people to be on point so they can do their job. In a certain sense I think that’s kind of rad because it implies everyone is sort of working toward the common goal of making some movie magic. Being a “diva” may work in wrestling or certain types of live performances, but something like film production is far more structure and doesn’t really want spontaneous change or dynamic alterations to the schedule.

On a purely personal level how can you be a “manly man™©®” be so fragrantly disrespectful of other people’s time and talents. So many of these macho masculine self-help/guru types talk about being respectful and being a man and shit, and these is just actively un-manly. It’s boyish. A boy would have this sort of mindset and behavior, not a man. It lacks honor, it diligence, it lacks consistency, it lacks all of the virtues people like Johnson espouse in their videos and “brand”. You can’t call yourself a man and be so self-centered.

It’s crazy to me that Adobe has managed to to make any money. Their software products at their core are pretty solid, however all of their products are covered in barbed wire and throned vines. The idea that basic features require a subscription is beyond bonkers to me. I don’t know how they managed to survive the 90s at all.

I hate Adobe, all my homies hate Adobe, and it’s deeply frustrating there has not been a meaningful alterative yet.

The image at the top of and the substance of the Vanity Fair article has done 2d12+3 psychic damage to me.

SMH my damn head. Hate to see yet another leftie duped by Bofa. The Ligma Party has a platform every America can get behind.

As a comic dork, i really hate when writers just ignore the characters powers (I would imagine they should probably consider it a creative “rule set”) for the sake of a cool panel or explosion. To make a very soy joke turns directly to the camera it’s just lazy writing.

However, I like drama in my stories and so I can’t be too mad at 'em.

Much appreciated for the link!