“Thoughts become evidence for police states”

Snake island.

Outside of losing a war, I’m not sure of any civilization that’s changed as hard and fast as America is at the moment. And it’s only going to get worse as the economy crashes.

Yeah but their velocity is much much lower atm.

That’s what I call it as well. Got clipped by a forklift. Just a welt and a really bad scrape, but it could have been much, much worse.

It’s designed that way so that your work goes to others. That’s the base of all of the world’s problems.

Give it 6 months and the current US will be more authoritarian.

My stance is kind of 50/50 with China.

For one, they’re going to flame out even faster than America did. As time moves forward great powers last less and less time. America only held the crown for 80 years. Chinas got its own issues, especially with the population issues.

Yes, China has a laundry list of human rights abuses. We know all of them, I shouldn’t have to list them here. China also is an aggressor country, harassing their neighbors and intimidating them for often no reason at all, and when there is a reason, it’s territorial expansion. They steal IP, they steal identities and secrets (yes I know, stealing secrets is an everybody issue, and I’ll get to that, but it’s usually done with more class) and they gave our kids toys with lead in them. You could seriously go on for days on the bad stuff about China. The belt and road? Fuck, that’s so, so bad… However

They’re also leading in science and especially the environment. They’ve spent big money on their science, and it’s paid off in spades for them and it’s commendable from an international standpoint. No country on earth is fighting climate change harder than China. From advances in solar panels bringing the cost of clean energy down, and giving the ability to electrify places of the world that have never experienced it? That’s pretty dope. Plus their electric car tech is blowing up so hard that it’s actually kind of reasonable to tariff it, because they’re so far ahead.

Now the gre(a)y, I’m an American. Half the shit that china does that’s bad, was shit that we have been doing for generations. So yeah, china sucks shit. But does it suck more shit than America right now? I say no, but not by much, and mostly because a lot of the problems people try to put on China (i.e. pollution mostly) is because we facilitated that. If not them, it’d be our polluted air and water. And now, he wants to bring that manufacturing back here while deregulating pollutants AND enforcement. He saw 1990s Beijing and said “I want that for us”. But basically, other than China’s climate and science goals, were the same country. So the nod (barely) goes to China for being a more honorable or good country.

Booze?

I was stoned out of my mind and I STILL couldn’t finish that garbage. It would have been amazing if it were a 10-15 minute short.

I work in manufacturing in America. There’s NO FUCKING WAY. You’d be fired immediately if caught. I don’t even think the union would try to back you up. It’s simply too dangerous of an environment. However, reeking of booze from the night before? Apparently totally fine.

Season 2 of the last of us.

22, peak army physical fitness. After Iraq, my mental state made it very difficult to keep it up and that started the decline. I’m now 40, with back, feet, ankle and knee problems despite not being hugely overweight.

I would put these facing out against a window. Maybe lose the AC for an hour or so.

That’s the special, bigger package, with extra package! That one REALLY shows how much you love trump!

Same problem. Why does every single individual anime need their own VERY specific instance?

I don’t have sources but as it was so recent, it’s easily searchable. But meta slashed their workforce recently and gave their execs huge bonuses for it.

This is what happens when you allow a voice to everyone. Stupid people shouldn’t have such a reach.

I picture a matter/anti-matter type of cataclysm.

Society will slowly crumble as we hold mass jerk-offs.