Top comment is good, the thread must have been a lot worse when you posted this because it doesn't look too bad to me at this point

I'm not putting anything past the ruling class, they are increasingly desperate

Sounds incredibly convenient tbh

The Biden regime has engineered a new phase of (dying) empire which seems to consist of just escalating fucking everywhere and daring someone to punch back and start the world war we are hurtling toward. It's fucking terrifying.

I will back you on this, this started happening to me before I ever got COVID. And then the subsequent burnout that happened for me when everyone was "getting back to normal" and I simply could not readjust like neurotypical people did made it even worse. I won't deny that COVID could be playing a role here but it's also explainable based on what was going on socially/societally.

Yeah they are behaving like a wounded animal. Hoping for the least amount of death possible before they are put down

Wouldn't be surprised if Russia vs NATO develops into the first front

So the US plan is to just escalate violence all over the world until somebody punches back and we start another world war? Am I reading the situation right?

Slugdge is a proggy tech death band with amazing riffs and solid songwriting. Esoteric malocology is their most recent release and their best and they are supposedly coming out with a new album next year.

If you want to listen to death metal that sounds like a space demon lord burping out acid, Demilich is pretty fucking sick and unique and unfortunately only had one album in the 90s that sounds way ahead of its time.

Saw them recently, they put on a sick show. Now I'm going back and checking out some of the inspiration for this stuff like Timeghoul and it's also sick as hell.

As a former grad student, you both dive into enough papers to see that a lot of the supporting evidence is bullshit in some way, and then when you write your own you hope nobody does that to you lol (I would never do this for a published paper though).

Putting in a little bit of water helps with reheating a ton of leftovers, it can make anything more moist that has been dried out. I like doing it with pizza and chicken wings a lot.

Totally agree with all that. Life is really fucking hard in the states, just for reasons other than poverty (although also poverty :l) so people are able to accept a lot of bullshit to be a part of community-oriented things like churches. I don't think people really "believe" either, they believe it as a set of social customs moreso than anything else.

Satire is popular under capitalism because it reinforces the system. The idea that we need to abstract our critiques instead of making them explicit serves no one but the ruling class.

When you realize Americans are almost completely deprived of community, genuine personal relationships, and frankly just the ability to trust other people, it makes sense that so many choose to live in some sort of bubble. It simplifies a life where you feel completely alone and without answers, and if you aren't getting emotional comfort from those key interpersonal bedrocks and resources it's not surprising people seek it in all sorts of places.

Don't you know empires just spontaneously arise with no structural cause? Just a completely stochastic process that we have no way of understanding!

That is a comfortable lifetime's worth of money for thousands of people. Fucking gross

Ah so this was the point of the DPRK soldier nonsense

Wild that the same publication also had Ed Yong who has done some excellent journalism during the pandemic