I'm conflicted bc I'm vegan too but I also love rats enjoying themselves (I take care of a mischief) and could see myself build cars for them lol
but yeah the experiment probably ended with the poor souls being killed off bc science still hasn't found a way of keeping them alive I guess. I'm friends with a rescue group and it's literally illegal for labs to give away animals after experiments, no matter if it's non-invasive behavioural shit, they need to be killed. The group does some backroom deals to get the rodents out
death to SScientists I guess
also the rats in the thread pic look like one of ours, Jelly (and two previous, Soy and Peanut)
I once had a random dude in the elevator quote him to me. I didn't know him, he just went ahead with some weird quote, I look at him weird and he's like "that's Solzhenitsyn"
"uh... okay."
I hope he cringes about being a weirdo to this day, bc I found it extremely silly in a bad way
I am bit tired so I had to reread the explanation on wikipedia twice, but do I get it correctly:
They acquired the absolute majority of onions in the state, acquired futures, then flooded the market with their onions (plus some other minor fakeouts), so the price plummeted and they could get a massive payout on the futures?
Why are onions so special for this, doesn't this apply to pretty much any commodity?
Or we could get a Triangle of Sadness scenario where the crew takes over by being the only ones with survival skills, and bullies the rich libs into submission
Sadly it wasn't on there, but thanks for the link, I found the origin of a different sample in a completely different song by a different artist that I've also been wondering about, so that was cool.
I am a newly appointed mod to a few comms (I sent the application after Carcosa posted this thread) and I half-heartedly agree with this. While I have enjoyed the old dunking, I do partially agree it fosters irony poisoning which is a hell of a drug, and the higher bar that c/counterpropaganda requires you to clear can help with more constructive/less misanthropic takes. I mean I will absolutely miss some of the wilder dunks, but I think it might lead to a somewhat healthier atmosphere in here
I live out in the countryside and sadly a lot of people here ride horses, and keep other animals for food. There are plenty of hunters here too. It makes me sad seeing them every time.
On a semi-serious note, can the US even fuck Palestine more than it has? Libs have constantly gone about how Trump will be even worse but like
weapons have been shipped under dems
Gaza is as good as completely obliterated
settlers are pushing into the West Bank
official number of the death toll hasn't changed in months because there is nobody to update it, which is already a sign in of itself, but we're probably at a few hundred thousand now
what can Trump even do to top it? It's like stabbing a corpse, you can't fuck the situation up more than the murderer already did
I might be talking out my ass actually, can't find any actual numbers, just saw some statistics before that I can't find anymore. I mean, not exactly a serious post either way lol
I knew a guy who spent 10 years in academia, then realized the pay is awful and became a software engineer. Now he's a Musk fanboy with major brainworms, and his main hobby is "investment"
I'm an engineer and I can count non-chud engineers I've met on just one hand. The field is overwhelmingly filled with rightwingers who see themselves as better than the unwashed masses on a fundamental level
Oh, I've seen it too. Many shows back then had eco activism as a good thing, or at least oil execs as villains. I think even that weird "Motormice from Mars" show had an oil baron as the main antagonist.
And I don't think it couldn't happen now. Media, even when revolutionary on the surface, is barely driving real world engagement and can be easily defanged. We live in the revival era of anti-capitalist messaging in media (film and even video games), and yet it's been fully consumed by capital. I hate Zizek and his clique, but Mark Fisher was spot on in Capitalist Realism.
Avatar, one of the biggest box office successes in the world, has a blatant anti-colonial message yet most people don't apply it to the obvious parallells in the rral world. We just consume, feel good for a moment for agreeing with the obvious morally correct choice, then do fuck all about it. And execs know it.
Ours did too!