I’m still skeptical that Epstein died at all! More likely they killed some guy who looked like him and let Mossad spirit the real Epstein away to Tel Aviv, where he’s living under a new identity on the beach with all the children he can r*pe.

As for Trump, no. Come on. The only way ANY of the corruption ends is with a general strike and the overthrow of the state - plus, with any luck, capitalism itself.

#GeneralStrike

It’s not just the rotating eight. It’s not just Schumer.

It’s the ENTIRE Democratic Party. This was a cold, calculated act that sent a message to the electorate: vote all you want, but the billionaires are in the driver’s seat and they’re not giving you an inch.

Not one goddamned inch. You’re down in the shit, and that’s where you peasants belong.

It’s a shell game. It’s rigged to the hilt. Both parties belong to the same billionaires, body and soul. The point is to keep the proles cheering for whichever cop is promising to save them from the other one, while both beat the shit out of you.

Funny how Americans forgot the lesson from 250 years ago. The one about the only solution for the Owner class. But then, they’ve been in control of the classrooms and the media for a long, long time.

#GeneralStrike #Revolution

• The Prisoner
• The Young Ones
• Blackadder
• Star Trek (TOS)
• Dr Katz, Professional Therapist
• Monty Python
• Firefly
• Fawlty Towers
• Barney Miller
• The Bob Newhart Show
• Twilight Zone (original)
• Rockford Files

Makes sense. They have plans to incarcerate upwards of one million Americans every year as slave labor, so they’re going to need a lot more plantations!

Flying Witch is a very sweet SOL show! I just wish they’d make more seasons.

Am I the only person who immediately thought that Musk will end up suing Wikipedia for infringing on “his” content?

That’ll be quite a turnaround. We will go from seeing reality in Gaza to pure fantasy from Israel. Smiling Palestinian children (played by Israeli child actors) hugging their IDF “friends”.

I’ll be deleting my account, thank you.

I’m starting to suspect that their goal is not to rule, but to exterminate the working class.

Dreamwidth.

If it really happens? People will go hungry. Probably more so in red states than blue ones. I don’t suppose we are likely to see starving people on TV; the media oligarchs wouldn’t like that.

But after a few weeks of hunger we might start to see people in the streets.

My guess is they’re going to be using all those detainees as slave labor. America is getting openly back into slavery on a grand scale. Long-term, I predict that the majority of the population will be slaves.

Asimov’s Mysteries, published in (1968) is a collection of science fiction mystery short stories. When Asimov set out to prove that something was possible (science fiction mysteries, in this case), he didn’t hold back!

Edward D. Hoch wrote a series of several excellent science fiction mystery novels: The Transvection Machine (1971) about a teleportation machine that’s involved in an apparent murder, The Fellowship of the Hand (1973), and The Frankenstein Factory (1975). They all feature the same detective: Carl Crader of the “computer cops”.

In addition to the Gil Hamilton mysteries, Larry Niven also wrote interesting detective and murder stories around the idea of a society in which cheap teleportation booths are available to all. Several of those stories are collected in A Hole in Space (1974). Like many older authors, Niven has re-released some of his short stories in larger collections later in his career, so those stories are almost certainly available in other collections. Almost all of his short stories are gems.

Happy reading! 🤓📖

I’m really surprised that he’s not selling the rubble! He could make millions on that, easily. Have your very own piece of American history, rubble from the White House that Donald J. Trump lived in and demolished!

You left out the last step.

• profit

I don’t care as long as they don’t take away NotePad. NotePad has useful features I’d hate to lose - such as stripping out all formatting, and being able to search/replace wildcard characters as themselves, rather than as wildcards.

There’s always Diablo 1.

But my favorite is Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, which was made by some of the people who created Fallout and has a LOT in common with it. It’s an open world, a combination of classic fantasy with elves, dwarves, and halflings with a rising steampunk technology that competes with magic. There are many schools of magic and technology, as well as social, stealth, and combat skills. The graphics are very crude by today’s standards, but the gameplay is outstanding.

It was well before I turned one; I was still in a crib. It was dark, nighttime, and incredibly hot. Some sort of animal with glowing eyes stared at me from the floor.

I thought it was a dream, but decades later my parents confirmed that when I was a baby the thermostat had broken and we had a night where the temperature was 100°. As for the animal with glowing eyes, that was our cat.

So what? We’ll create one!

Years ago the owners of GoodReads announced that Amazon had taken away their access to the Amazon book database. It was an existential threat, they said, and asked the GoodReads community to volunteer to create a new book database to replace Amazon’s. Hundreds or thousands of us worked for free, donating thousands or tens of thousands of hours to the project.

And then GoodReads announced that they’d sold out to Amazon. Apparently they’d been in negotiations with those bastards the whole time they were lying to us about losing access to the database. Maybe proving that they could sucker their loyal users into donating free labor helped raise the selling price of GoodReads a little.

As for the database we created, I guess it’s Amazon’s now. Of course, if we create a movie database of our own, NOBODY will be able to buy it! And we can make it available for free use, if we want.

You have to pay a few bucks? How many and how often?

How ironic! I had just subscribed to several communities on those instances this evening. Go figure. I guess I should reproduce my community subscriptions over on kbin. But wait, does this mean I can’t even SEE that I subscribed to those communities here?