The fact that our planet’s resources are finite is a matter of physics. Capitalism may come up with some innovation or another that adds more lifespan to it, the way that digital spaces and the financial industry have done, or it may have another global war that creates room for a new period of traditional growth at the cost of countless lives, but it will inevitably hit an insurmountable wall.

What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.

It’ll go the same way it went for abortion. Red states will get worse while blue states stay more or less the same, which will prevent libs in the blue areas from mobilizing effectively to protect minorities in the red ones.

when she stepped behind it that microwave turned out to be way bigger than I thought it was.

cost effective

I’m not so sure. A used Thinkpad comes with everything you need, whereas a PS3 or PS4 also needs a screen and a controller at bare minimum. The Thinkpad also has access to a game library of (checks notes) almost every single game ever made excluding mainly AAA titles from the 2010s onward. The PS3/4 is only the better value proposition if you specifically want to play those kinds of games, or if you highly value plug-and-play ease of use.

you can buy a piece of crap laptop for $250 but it won’t be able to play ANYTHING

a thinkpad t490 can’t play anything new but it can play quite a bit. I play emulators on mine.

Hopefully, if the information gets out and enough people walk away, it would severely limit the ability of those who remain to do awful things.

ICE is America’s brownshirts and ICE agents are worse than regular cops (who are, obviously, bastards).

tfw I’ve never been warned about nudes in my text messages :(

This pretty much. The IRS already knows how much you’ve paid them and can easily calculate how much you probably owe - they could easily switch to a system where they just send you a check/bill at the end of the year depending on the balance and that you only would have to file if you have a special tax situation, but they won’t as long as tax filing is an industry.

Used free file myself and it works great, if you haven’t filed your taxes yet this year better do it fast before the site gets taken down!

There’s no way that they should be allowed to advertise “no ads” when there are in fact ads. This is consumer protection so basic and obvious that it should be a slam dunk even with the current government… right?

When it comes to presidential assassinations, there’s really no replacing the efficacy of Marine Corps marksmanship training.

He starts a lot of shit, but dammit if he isn’t right most of the time.

True but only for terminally online liberals. I still haven’t heard anyone in real life ever use that word.

I think this post is more about the “key aviation safety advisory committee” being gutted right before the worst air disaster in over a decade.