Or possibly neutral evil.

Lemmy is already like, 80% anti-capitalist.

I would say they’re preaching to the choir here, but this is far more obnoxious than preaching.

Damn it, it’s now GNL and we have to rewrite all the textbooks!

Duly noted. I’ve subscribed to the writing prompts community.

Are there any confiftent rulef for which placef an “f” can replace an “s” ?

Descent 1 & 2

There’s a Descent 2?! And 3!?

(Also, I didn’t know Interplay was a well known company. I had a whole set of Interplay CDs I used to play as a kid. Fond memories. Descent, Conquest of the New World, Whiplash…)

I don’t get it.

How is Amazon’s fate tied to the fate of office rental spaces, the transportation industry, or commuter stores?

How does the potential death of Taco Bell hurt an online marketplace?

Considering it was “a party-line decision,” I think Biden and the Democrats might deserve some credit just for not being Republicans.

Oh yeah. They will be doing little evangelical exorcisms on themselves for weeks trying to get your Marxist demons off of themselves.

No, I think the unicorn idea might be good, combined with a gentle reminder that not everyone yearns for a god.

“YOU yearn for a god. I yearn for wings.”

This could work for wings, unicorns, the possession of magic powers, the end of earthquakes, the desire to see an old pet, or even Marxism:

“You yearn for a god, Karl Marx yearned for an abundant, post-scarcity utopia.”

In a party-line decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC, the Board ruled that when a majority of a company’s employees file union affiliation cards, the employer can either voluntarily recognize their union or, if not, ask the Board to run a union recognition election. If, in the run-up to or during that election, the employer commits an unfair labor practice, such as illegally firing pro-union workers (which has become routine in nearly every such election over the past 40 years, as the penalties have been negligible), the Board will order the employer to recognize the union and enter forthwith into bargaining.

Woah. That’s exciting. Union busting can automatically create a union. That’s… ironic. And beautiful.

I don’t think they were hue bulbs. I think they were just regular LED light fixture bulbs.

Oh. Huh. Gotta say, I wasn’t expecting to encounter anyone who had good experience with those bulbs.

That… blows a hole in my theory.

I still don’t regret the cheap, foreign light bulbs I got off of eBay (best LEDs I’ve bought thus far)… but maybe my family and I have just been unlucky with name brand LEDs.

You gotta be careful though!

The metaphysical / new age religions have a version of “a desire to be totally rational” that is honestly just as bad.

I grew up in one. No glass and steel, but quite the desire to be made out of cosmic sunbeams and spiritual joyfulness.

Humans feel more than that. Pain, grief, loneliness, stress, rage, and pride aren’t toxic energy: they are existence. You can’t aspire to something that cuts out half of your existence, or you’re always going to feel inadequate.

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Got cheap, no-name, unbranded LED bulbs off of eBay. Years later, not one of them had broken.

But Philips LED bulbs? Those things don’t last a year. In fact, none of the high-rated, “high quality,” top-ten-list, LED light bulbs have ever outlasted an incandescent in my experience.

If you want your LEDs to last, buy the no-name bulbs, guys. The Phoebus Cartel is still out there.

Ah… So that’s what you’re saying.

Well I can believe it. The CIA once tried to murder Fidel Castro with, like, shaving cream or something one time. Our agencies can go back and forth from “we are a daunting, all-knowing panopticon” into “hi, we’re the Keystone Cops” a dozen times in a weekend.

If that’s the case, and they’re targeting someone who didn’t even get in that deep, then: ouch. My condolences. I hope you if you really aren’t a threat that they figure out they aren’t needed anymore.

Yeah, the FBI has caught bombers by monitoring them before the bombers were able to break the law.

Secretely surveiled them right up until they dropped the duffel bag on the sidewalk.

My memory isn’t great right now, but I think I recall reading somewhere that they catch over a hundred would-be bombers a year.

I get the impression that “rules don’t apply to the higher levels of hierarchy” is a central element to hierarchy.

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