My parents have “the new minivan” and “the old minivan,” I guess that’s what happens when you adopt four kids and two dogs.

(this is a facetious post, making fun of economists who sometimes push damaging and anti social theories based on sketchy market-based logic)

That used to be a thing, lmao.

glaziers fallacy

TIL a new fallacy. I was joking just for the record, I called it “capitalist realist” specifically to try and indicate that it’s the kind of thing you might believe only if you were extremely economics brained.

But there’s only a certain amount of labor a fixed number of employees can absorb. Imagine a scenario where everyone everywhere agrees to stop returning shopping carts - grocery store employees would be forced to spend their entire shift just corralling them, and then they wouldn’t be able to man the cash registers or stock the shelves or whatever else, thus forcing the store to hire another employee on each shift to be the dedicated shopping cart return person.

Logically, every store everywhere tries to run with the minimum number of people possible to keep costs down. The idea is to create a situation where that minimum number of people is increased.

I’m a fan of the Capitalist Realist Shopping Cart Theory, myself.

Putting shopping carts away is bad for society and you should stop doing it.

The reason is that putting a shopping cart away requires labor, labor requires a person to do it, and the person who has to do it is employed by the grocery store.

Thus, if enough people refuse to put their shopping carts back, enough excess labor will be generated at grocery stores around the country that they will be forced to hire more people to do it, creating jobs.

QED

I wish I could go back to not knowing what a mukbang is.

It’s easy enough to spin up a fake school, Trump did it.

You gotta tell them you want it for science, then you gotta submit some forms.

Power to do what, exactly? It’s not like China is going to get non-citizens extradited from their home country to punish them for saying bad things about the CPC. Believing in vague generalities doesn’t help anyone, you’ve got to be specific.

Why exactly do you believe the Chinese government wants the messages of non-Chinese citizens? Because Discord is blocked in China proper.

the democracy index

a fake statistic that elevates bourgeois democracies and denigrates any country where the people have power.

They defeated the Nazis by throwing conscripts into a meat grinder regardless of whether they even had a weapon, and by threatening to shoot them if they tried to retreat.

Enemy at the Gates is not a documentary, it’s a propaganda film. In true fact while the Soviets did have a large number of conscripts and did suffer supply issues early in the war, at no point were they sending under-equipped battalions into the front line to die for no reason, and the thing about shooting those who retreated only applied to officers who ordered a retreat without proper cause (you’ll find that every other army in World War 2 had a similar protocol).

Gulag in Siberia

Except during the years of World War 2, the Gulags had a better quality of life and lower risk of mortality than contemporary prisons in many much wealthier and more developed countries. Despite the enduring cultural legacy of the fiction novel Gulag Archipelago, the truth of the matter is that after the revolution the Communists reformed the Tsarist work camps into what were at the time the most progressive rehabilitation regimes in the world.

China is the most democratic country on Earth, it has done nearly all of the poverty elimination that has occurred on this planet in the last fifty years, it has proven its ability time and time again to solve problems that vex capitalist regimes in humane and effective ways, it has proven to be resilient if not totally immune to the cyclical market shocks that every capitalist regime on the planet is regularly victim to, it has closed the technological gap and is now pulling ahead of the capitalist world in nearly every sector, its citizens are happier than the citizens of any other country and have the highest faith in their government institutions out of any other country…

I could go on. But please tell me about TiAnAnMeN sQuArE and the UyGhUr GeNoCiDe like I haven’t heard those weak ass-arguments a million times.

It’s such an apt metaphor. A horrifying tentacled mass called “capitalism” is puppeteering every society on the planet. Read a bit of leftist thought and you’ll start seeing it everywhere - read a bit more and you’ll perceive precisely how its tentacles are manipulating you. Try not to go mad as your perception broadens with every theory you imbibe.

A few societies are aware of the being. They know its tentacles are upon them, and they’ve declared their intentions to throw off the beast and finally slay it. But whether their plots and schemes for defeating the monster will bear fruit or not, for the time being they can only overcome its influence in fits and starts.

wavy building to do concerts

nobody is doing concerts in that are you nuts

Frank Gehry, you madman! You made the Walt Disney Concert Hall far too wavy!

no politics

This anon has never attended a HOA meeting and argued with their fascist neighbors about building a playground.

Spells generally have very precise descriptions of what they do, precisely because of shitty players like David. Heal Wounds only restores hit points, it can’t cure a disability whether that disability is from birth or an injury or another magical spell.

Overall I think that sentencing needs to come way, way down. Like if the crime you committed was non-violent, I don’t even think prison should be on the table. Locking someone up should be considered the nuclear option that is only employed when the rest of the community is at risk, such as for a sexual predator.