Oh that’s some good stuff thanks for sharing (and writing it)! Only had a chance to skim it just now but bookmarked for later.

… don’t tell people you don’t know that they are eggs? Let them figure that out for themselves?

Is that the one?

A better Cat in a Hat than Mike Myers.

AMA

So, are you a masochist in other aspects of your life, too?

The video worked excellently, just so you know.

You did better than me, I firmly gave up on it by the end of season one.

Omelette du fromage?

That sounds like a scream.

…I’ll show myself out.

Bun-blebee?

My god man, can you just fuck off already?

(this statement is directed at Bobby Kotick, not OP who posted this article)

I’d been meaning to watch Severance since season one came out, and I guess the viral marketing finally got to me so I binged it.

Season one is awesome. Season two is ehhhhhh. We’ll see if season two can pull it together in the last episode.

I will say, much like Bob Odenkirk in Better Call Saul, I appreciate that Adam Scott and Zach Cherry were given a chances in more serious roles, because they both kill it. Although I found Irving and Dylan to be much more interesting characters, as their stories just appealed to me more for whatever reason.

And even with alternatives, corporations own all the infrastructure. There is no publicly owned and operated infrastructure anymore.

My data still has to pass through their pipes, and if at some point they decide they don’t like my data, they can just block it from going through their pipes entirely. Coupled with deep consolidation of ISPs, it means effectively being blocked from communications on the internet.

I’m so startled right now.

1996 telecommunications act in the US for one.

Because we dropped community communications in favor of corporate communications for two.

Bring back barb wire phone networks.

I always upvote short kings and tall queens.

I like them apples, all right.

Interesting, he told me it was for milk.

You never know what’s happening in folks’ real life.

Real life happens, often so seriously and so fast that you don’t have time or effort to post online for significant stretches.

Hell, he might even be in the hospital, he had a history of difficult medical issues.

We can always hope for the best of the folks we lose track of online, but it’s not unlike that meme about your old gaming friends.

Here’s hoping everything is going okay not just for @[email protected] but for everyone who disappears from our community.

No problem, you still raised important points either way.

I didn’t mean to imply I support violence as a first strategy.

I actually wholeheartedly agree with your assessment. Partially because the violence against us is coming anyway. It is clearly planned. They are telegraphing what they intend to do, which is criminalize half the country so they can put us to death under the guise of “why couldn’t they just follow the law.”

That being said, just because the violence is coming doesn’t mean inviting it right away is the best solution. The best solutions are the kind you suggest but also using Mutual Aid to develop Parallel Systems.

Parallel systems are simply systems outside of the capitalist mode of production and integration. Providing water, food, medical care, housing, support, and so on. The efforts of the Black Panthers were an exercise in developing parallel systems. The Black Panthers also knew violence was coming which is why a contingent of them were armed. Having such systems in place makes it easier for individuals to survive a long-term General Strike.

The testimony and cross examination of undercover officers by Afeni Shakur stands the test of time when she showed that the people pushing violence in the Panthers were undercover police officers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afeni_Shakur#The_Panther_21

Shakur got White to admit under oath that he and two other agents had organized most of the unlawful activities. “She asked him if he’d ever seen her carry a gun or kill anyone or bomb anything and he answered no, no, no. Then she asked if he’d seen her doing Panther organizing in a school and a hospital and on the streets and he answered, yes, yes, yes.”

We must be prepared to resist the violence that is coming, but to do so without organizing and planning is a fools errand.