Fair, my AC has been on the fritz and I’ve been waking up sweating or freezing (it’s getting fixed tomorrow) but this is different

But I ask mostly because multiple other people who live hours away have been waking up at the same times, same time frame. Two is a coincidence three is a pattern and all that

My dreams when I do manage to go back to sleep are unusually uncomfortable, I’ll keep that in mind

My friend also has told me about some disturbing dreams in the same time frame

Yes, but I’ve got blackout shades and my apartment is on the west side

Delete their browser history

Propoganda fucking works, simple as that

Billionaires just buy good press and publicists to manage their image, it’s so effective they believe it themselves

Right now. Every time a seat comes up. That’s what the whole point of the “fight against oligarchy” tour, as well as phone campaigns and so much more

We organize a voting block, and threaten incumbents. We primary seats of collaborators, run independent if we have to. We flip as many red seats as we can, threaten to replace Democrats who don’t get with the game plan, and form a faction that can’t be ignored

And it is working, there’s obviously resistance but we have even liberals breaking from the party line. A lot of it is performative, but they’re signalling they want to make power plays

That’s the game plan…

Easier passwords are often better, since people are less likely to try to get around them

Pins are basically simple passwords that fingerprint your device to decide when it needs another auth method

It’s not a bad idea, in theory at least

During sunsets you can see it easily

Civilized countries don’t let people die because they can’t afford to live

There’s not many of those, are there?

We’re all living in a distopia, no one is safe from the sickness… It spreads across borders

Every accusation is a confession… So I assume they’re looking for children and women to assault

Liberalism in a nutshell.

We just want an insurance policy, not for anything to change. We want to protect what we’ve built, write off the horrors of the world as isolated events like a collapsing building or asteroid impact. They stop the villains from rocking the boat, even when the villains have a morally superior position because “you have to do it the right way”

But the heroes aren’t too morally superior… They can’t make us feel bad. They do something about problems in front of them, and then go back to their job. They don’t use their power to actually address root issues, they don’t try to lead, they just defend the status quo

But, then heroes started to get more complex. Batman is a billionaire who fights crime, despite having the ability to actually fix the crime problem in Gotham, he just fights. He suffered a random act of violence as a child, and so that instilled a sense of justice. He works with the police and uses his wealth… In any way except actually changing things

Spiderman learned the hard way noblesse oblige, that his power gives him the responsibility to use it well. And he does, he saves people around him while also actively working to make the world better at his day job - inside the system. He’s basically an activist

Then you have captain America, who puts his sense of justice above the system… But he mostly works inside it, but sometimes it’s infiltrated and he fights or it’s wrong and he stands against it

But when you get to more recent heroes, they start to get dark. The system is broken, so they work outside it as best they can. They don’t have day jobs anymore. They kill sometimes. They make sacrifices, they fail. They question themselves.

People scream at them “where were you when we needed you?” And they explain the answer to that question to the readers through character development, even though there’s nothing they can say to the victims

The heroes aren’t infallible, they aren’t strong or wise enough, they constantly struggle, and they fail. This isn’t a hobby for them, they don’t go back to work. But they keep trying, especially at great personal cost

And they carry every failure with them as penance for not being good enough to have saved us when we needed them

I always think back to this one quote, something like

You can tell the morals of a society by the myths they tell themselves. We tell stories of heroes who save the world then quietly go back to their day job until they’re needed again

I like the idea. I’ve even experimented with some on device algorithms by basically weaving together feeds, even something simple like makes a noticeable improvement

Ok, looking at that page I understand now. That is not what it means to us. This is the English page

In the anglosphere (UK included, from what I’ve seen on tv), deportation doesn’t have positive connotations, but it has ambiguous connotations. It’s a normal word used on the news everyday, and has been for decades. If anything, it has similar connotations to getting a prison sentence - there’s even an implication of some kind of wrongdoing on the deportee

With the context of what you linked, it seems like in the Netherlands the word has appropriate weight. But if you say the Nazis deported Jews, people in the US will interpret that to mean you’re downplaying or denying the Holocaust. It’s the terminology used by neo-Nazis

The terms we would use are forced migration or ethic cleansing, we don’t really have a specific word for it until it evolves into full blown genocide

Protests don’t do much except show dissatisfaction. Protesting in a game only works in that game

If you want to help without leaving your house, donate to a group doing good things so that more of them can give up their jobs and do it full time

I mean, the Netherlands deports people, everyone does. It certainly has negative connotations, but there’s an implication of this being a process. Maybe not a fair process, maybe there’s corruption, but you get some kind of chance to argue why you shouldn’t be deported

This isn’t that. Their taking people, many of them here legally, and rounding them up by proximity and skin color. Even citizens, though so far we have no known cases of citizens being held more than a few days.

They’re holding them in inhumane ways that, by international definition, classify as torture. Then, for an indeterminate amount of time, they’re shuffled around so no one knows where they are - no access to family, no access to lawyers

Finally, they’re shackled, both hands and feet, and strapped into military cargo planes. Hopefully heading back to their home country, or at least somewhere where they speak the language

This isn’t deportations. This is not the legal process and physical acts of removing someone from the county… This is something entirely different

It’s illegal to jam cell signal… Blocking it would be a violation of building code at worst

It’s also “sponsored flights”

You can twist words however you want. These aren’t deportations, it’s literally the first stage of ethnic cleansing

The spirit of the thing is what determines what word we use, not the definition of the word

Well… You know, practice. If your first, second, or third shot is slow, you get got

Not to say you aren’t practicing, just a friendly reminder