I played an MMO in 2002. People made financial transactions for things in a digital universe. That MMO shut down and the servers wiped around the time Bored Ape shit started. Made me laugh.
But then again, Steve Bannon once made a living selling WoW gold. Shit is wild.
She recognized game. If they were making art she would’ve sent them to art school.
It’s atrocity denial now.
Having done field work for health departments I have come across more than a few sites like this, often in proximity to some pretty dark and miserable situations.
I frequently think about how those spaces might’ve been important in some way to the person who had once resided in the tent or burned out trailer nearby. Those places probably were the few spaces of peace they experienced.
Stop the Planet of the Apes Please, I’d Like to Get Off!
Then there’s me, knowing about Mary Somerville, confused, because the word was invented to include women. The term before was ‘man of science’ and it so seemed inappropriate a term for Mary. Hence: ‘scientist’.
It’s clearly what this 2026 comic is based on in its entirety.
just because a so-called ‘church’ like the catholics proclaim themselves followers of god, it doesn’t make them so.
Compare to the calvinists and presbyters insisting they’re not a part of a christian church. It’s just approaching this same conclusion from the different end.
Probably every other frat boy on Kash’s short list for hiring, if not himself.
I mean I think it was an Oxford frat that had a dead pig dick sucking hazing ritual or something. Ruling class is weird.
Well, there is also logistics.
People, like nurses and doctors, do enjoy helping and taking care of people.
But to do that you need a pretty robust logistics system just to get those people to the people in need, and the supplies needed to help.
You got to get the doctor, with the medicine, to the mountain or you got get the person off the mountain, to the doctor and the medicine.
Now you need all kinds of infrastructure, not to mention what it takes to produce the medicine, or educate the doctors and nurses so they’re not just doing bloodletting and snake bites.
why wasn’t support from powerful socialist allies enough to offset it? And why didn’t comparable interference cause capitalist states to fail at similar rates?
Support was able to offset it for a while. The USSR was also a fundamental ally to the US and its allies. That period of time legitimized and stabilized their existence so that the Cold War started on a semblance of parity and balance.
The USSR pushed the world towards industrialization, technology development and the Space Race, but it took nearly 50 years of seige to bring the USSR to dissolution.
why didn’t comparable interference cause capitalist states to fail at similar rates
The interference simply wasn’t comparable. But more importantly the USSR came out of World War 1. The Imperialist capitalist states were already failing and famously there became some fascist states hell bent on destroying all marxism and bolshevism.
I watched him live on Tom Green’s live stream from his living room during this era, right as he was hitting rock bottom.
He got out. And so can anyone else reading this.
I had years of employment yelling educated professionals and industry leaders: “No poop on ground.” in as many ways as I could to get it across.
On more than one occasion I pointed at sewage “Poop”, then at the ground, “Ground”, and then “No.” It got the job done more than data points about fecal coliform and ecoli contamination ever did.
when paired with a work ethic that associates work with self-worth
This was an important part that shouldn’t be discounted since it was still at the core of the argument.
You should see the kinds of arguments opponents of the Clean Water Act make.
Ranges from “Nature heals all so it is fine” to “Fuck those people for being there.”
It went back and forth.
This resonated strongly with the alt-right.
The boomer generation failed to develop class consciousness. GenXers failed as well, as did the Millenials after them and the Zoomers following.
The lack of sufficient class consciousness to positively impact society actually unites every generation more than it divides.