I agree. It’s not about absolution. It’s about breaking down a culturally constructed instrument of oppression by refusing to participate in it. I can’t tell the world to stop treating me better because they think I’m white, which I believe is part of your point. But we do what we can, when we can, with knowledge of what we can and can’t.

Oh you’re right. You didn’t miss another one, I lost another brain cell.

The rotisserie chicken is in fact often a loss leader for grocery stores.

I don’t know of any plasma torches that can come along in a backpack but you can get a lot of good work done fast with a battery powered angle grinder. Occasionally I take mine out in my neighborhood when some asshole has padlocked their sandwich-board ad to a lamppost.

This kind of thing goes way back. I mean you’ll get a lot of content deleted on most web forums, but the one universally verboten thing, above all, priority zero, until the end of time, is: no. fucking. recruitment. to. competing. forums!

If you ask a lot of web forum owners how their site got started, more than half of them will tell you “well there was this other forum but their server went down for 3 days and people needed a place to go.”

Communities are portable. Reddit knows this. Every site manager knows this.

It would have happened after Experian if it was ever possible for it to happen.

Just wanted to point out one oddly written passage:

Numerous media outlets sounded the alarm. The online privacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) condemned Ring’s program …

Many private citizens who previously used Ring also reacted negatively. “Viral videos online show people removing or destroying their cameras over privacy concerns,” reported USA Today

I was hoping to see that this story had gone national and wasn’t just a buzz in privacy centric circles, so my ears pricked up when they said “numerous media outlets.” But then the example they gave was a quote from was EFF, which I would not exactly call a “media outlet.”

Below they go on to say that “private citizens” also cried out, and then they use a quote from a USA Today article. USA Today - now that’s a media outlet. 🤷‍♂️

Next they say that even scum sucker fish are against all this, using a quote from JD Vance to back it up, and that part was all right.

The Red God is not mocked.

Keeping sibs together is doing gods work

She played the role of a prostitute in a movie and instead of the article being like “whoa this movie is pretty heavy - trigger warning” it’s all “damn she’s hot.”

If I told you the population was 29% raving morons, you wouldn’t be surprised, would you?

Nobody’s perfect.

It’s true he is the antidote in every way.

I’ll just let my comment above stand as an example of how I think it should be engaged with. You can recognize that it’s a fantasy people have without participating in the fantasy.

Being able to look at this kind of question and realize oh shit the unfairness and hypocrisy of it all… that’s what it means to be “woke.” To wake the fuck up from centuries old mass shared delusions. Shame what has been done to the word.

He’s a grumpy-ass dick, straight up. I mean let him be himself and all that, I am not requiring him to be lovable for my sake, but I will definitely change the channel if an interview with him is on.

Part of being “white” is getting to decide who is “white.” This is only possible because “white” is a completely made up category. We shouldn’t even engage with the term.

I mean should there be any white laborers in a tableau of a colonial era sugar cane plantation? These MF gonna complain next that all the protagonists in Roots are black and this does a genocide on them.

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You mistake me completely. I’m not advertising the virtues of this system at all. I’m just pointing out that there is nothing Korean or American about declining birth rates. This is a universal phenomenon of a society’s transition from agrarianism where more hands = more wealth to an educated, skilled labor force where each child requires a significant investment.

The US and, for example, Germany use immigration to offset this and keep their population growing. That’s simply a fact you can look up. Japan for example doesn’t want to do this and they’re dealing with the consequences of population decline. This is all over the news for years now.

I’m not saying this is good or bad or anything. This is just the way things are.

Your bit about Ancient Rome is a good laugh because it was hardly a developed society by today’s standards and it did indeed run on imported labor, except they called them slaves. So you are at once off base and also wrong.