This feels contrary to the spirit of the union. We’ve gone from including everyone and respecting minorities to being so fearful of our internal enemies that we are willing to throw our liberty and freedom away on the notion that it will solve the problems.

Hopefully. Industrial meat processing is inhumane.

Don’t play with your lardon

There are plenty of right wing academics but they are a minority. It probably varies by field too. In the core sciences that minority is probably the smallest and is greater in the humanities. My professor was a right wing scientist and we often clashed on values. I felt sorry for him at times because it would be his point of view Vs the entire research group. He is fundamentally a good person that can hold illogical and contradictory opinions that felt like they were emotionally based.

The enshitification is real and the way to fight this is by collective action and escalation. When the mods took action collectively it shook Reddit and forced them to ban the offending users. If the userbase maintained the pressure with a boycott there is no way Reddit Inc could withstand the pressure. However, the asset owning class have configured our society to prevent collective organisation and protest. Power is being concentrated in fewer and fewer white mens hands. This Epstein-class of people tend to be psychopaths and narcissists because those are useful attributes for amassing power. We see the effects of this everywhere we look in the form of censorship, punitive legal statute, lobbying, corruption, inflation and the rise of fascism. Open source projects such as Lemmy, Wikipedia, Mastodon, Linux, Signal, etc, form the basis of an antidote.

Draw a picture of Santa Clarita except in this timeline they are still prescribing thalidomide

What happened to those kids, is Santa Clarita a nuclear waste storage site?

President Donald J Trump

Is Trump-Hitler2028 still available? I will settle for hotBillionaireGulag.

Turns out Balloon Land is a gigantic plastic waste island floating in the ocean.

This was the reason I left a career in academia and went back to engineering. The university enabled feckless plagiarising students and didn’t support the lecturers that upheld values. Okay then, good luck with your diploma mill bullshit, I’m going to literally double my wages and halve my stress by leaving.

ISO datetime, let’s goooooo YYYYMMDDHHmmSS

The union jack would be appropriate but I feel that it does a disservice to the Scottish and Welsh. Imperialism was always an English pathology.

Wait, wut

According to that definition Snowden doesn’t defecate, he goes for a heroic dump. I’m just saying the word gets abused and people are lots of things, including heroic and deplorable. Osama was a hero to many people. What Snowden did was pretty heroic in my opinion but the deep state probably have other ideas.

Okay but a doctor is a profession. You could have a heroic doctor but nobody’s full time job is ‘hero’. A hero is a term that’s useful in a novel but some people wanna cosplay the role and that eventually becomes a cult.

A hero is a concept and since people are much more than concepts, the question is invalid.

The billionaire class are conspiring to concentrate all the wealth into as few hands as possible.

BMW used to be king arsehole of UK roads, back in the 1990s. This mantle was usurped by Audi in the new millennium but not everywhere it seems.

I like to rip one out that lifts the bed clothes