Poetry Of Unguided Descent

this remains, to me, the single most baffling thing that happens regularly I know it’s a power thing, but how the fuck are SO MANY dudes apparently sending unsolicited dick pictures 24/7 what is wrong with men

Everybody in the replies is rightfully pointing to algebra and so on but also an Arab scientist won the Nobel Prize one year ago.

the show that stars Tracy Morgan has added Jane Krakowski, Jason Mantzoukas, and Edi Patterson to its cast embrace chaos

this site loves to talk about the professional-managerial class and thats true as the organizing force but the real *mass* of any modern left wing movement is going to be healthcare workers, teachers, sanitation workers, arborists, and secretaries, who are *not* PMC (except some healthcare workers).

As people let me know so I continually point out to others, Black theorists like Du Bois predicted this in the *1920s* People pretending it’s not about race are looking for excuses to be racist

RIP

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Good morning, Asia. This was our most read story while you were sleeping. Japan to back perovskite solar cell mass production with $640m in subsidies asia.nikkei.com/business/ener...

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The “something” in question was the workers themselves deciding by 1966 that they no longer wanted New Dealer welfare capitalism if it meant black Americans would benefit from it while anti-war protesters were free to burn the flag

The Hard Hat Riot is the single most important and consequential independently organized labor action in post-Gilded Age American history but the entire left-of-center has deliberately chosen to completely forget it because of how utterly embarrassing it is to us

Wallahi I will make this fukken website know what happened in this country between 1966 and 1972, I have tolerated “the Dems just sold out for no reason one day and all became Big Money Uniparty Reaganites because they hate the pure and noble workers” for too long

one of the really useful takeaways from fukuyama's political order books is a clear conceptual understanding of what corruption *is* in its fundamental nature. and the answer... is patronage networks organized on personal connections! corruption is *inherent* in these discretionary systems!

Dawg this is the shit people say in a Mel Brooks comedy right before a musical number that ages questionably

One big advantage the Chinese have is a robust organized crime network that works hand-in-glove with local government. This is also true for Japan and South Korea, when the mob comes around and threatens to break your kneecaps if you don't sell it keeps construction timelines on-schedule.

This is a good primer on Israel's political situation going into tomorrow's election. But I'd like to go deeper on something he only touches on, which is that part of the reason for Israel's electoral doldrums (and resulting geopolitical chaos) is its broken political system bsky.app/profile/avis...

This is the achievement of decades of "give peace a chance" activism. The argument being made is that of the end of *Lord of War*, wherein the film's stand-in for Viktor Bout argues that he shouldn't go to prison because the US government is the world's biggest arms dealer.

The head of a Russian corruption vehicle can shamelessly accuse the US of war profiteering over its assistance to an embattled democracy because the US itself (particularly but not exclusively on the left) constructed a myth that any transfer of arms is a scam to enrich American defense contractors.

The "anti-war" movement's boundless cynicism created this. Rather than engaging with the actual causes of 2000s-era they instead went straight for misplaced corruption allegations, and in so doing created a bottomless well of propaganda for US adversaries to draw upon.

I had a private conversation with another rapid responder in late January where we both confessed to having been listening to Battle Hymn of the Republic late at night a bunch

I love that you can show a dangly toy to a kitten for the first time and they instantly understand What Must Happen

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Reading James Ellroy’s The Black Dalia and annoying my girlfriend by summarizing the first five or so chapters by loudly saying “Men. Strong men. Two strong men and they are punching. They are so strong these two men. Two men punching eachother out of respect. Strong men. Two strong men.”

You know I never thought of him as real

LeCarre: I wrote my book “The Looking Glass War” as a cautionary tale DoD: At long last, we have created Operation Looking Glass from classic espionage novel Don't Create a Looking Glass War

THERE IS ONE. WAY. OUT.

Serkis at the end of that had me hitting every one of these poses

prison uprising episode: peak TV. nothing i can say that someone else hasn’t. but imagine… if there had been some alien muppets in that prison uprising

The actors who starred in Gravity (2013) did not know that their space shuttle would be destroyed by a cloud of fast-moving debris from a downed satellite. Director Alfonso Cuarón hid this from the actors before filming that day Their reactions in the movie are REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Star Wars prequels used a surprising amount of practical effects and models. The crowd during the podrace was thousands of colored Q-tips with a fan underneath.

Anyway the right is crashing out right now because they're on their way to getting killed in the midterms and they desperately want a narrative-changing chance to push a "Dem called Republicans deplorable/trash etc" story to juice turnout and save some vulnerable seats but yeesh what a bank shot

Anyone who hears Obama's actual joke will be baffled by the controversy so look for those who are pushing it to instead cover his "controversial remarks" and intentionally mischaracterize them rather than say what they were. Take note of who in the "mainstream" media does this

the sound that this alien probe makes in Star Trek IV? literally Leonard Nimoy going “wub wub wub wub” into a microphone

the revolutionary classes are the PMC and the lower-middle class semi-educated institutional professional (munincipal workers, healthcare workers, search and rescue, technicians, IR personnel, eldercare workers, teachers....) its an alliance between professionals and paraprofessionals.

Pretty dangerous to have a former US President just up and confirming that foreign dictators don’t have to follow Cheesecake Factory’s carefully established branding guidelines.