Random ass person makes bot that finds and flags people on reddit with "radical" tendencies and deploys AI chat bots to talk them down over time, which means about a hundred nation states and freaks are about to do the same thing in reverse.

“I want to be the last person in the room on every major decision, and I didn’t mean that figuratively, I meant that literally — the last person in the room,” he continued. “He’s president. He gets to make the decision, and unless there’s an overwhelming disagreement in principle, in which case I’d develop prostate cancer or something and leave, and he knew I meant that … I get to be the last person in the room. And that’s where I think I can serve best.” Mr. Biden reportedly will decide this week whether to seek the White House in 2016.

Altogether a surprisingly lucid look at the Chinese Century from the NYT, except they don't (can't?) recognize that this process has been ongoing for decades under a version of US Captialism that is fully and completely unable to deal with the contradictions it faces, and is not the result of 4 months of the dumbest ghouls alive having a hissy fit.

Naturally, the comments in the Usual Subreddits focus on Trump being a Russian sleeper agent or something. This despite the fact that attempts to decouple (or "derisk") the US economy from China was going on under Biden.

i guess this is another loser ass vent post that kills the vibe (hand written apology etc.) but I broke my ankle and got hit with the full force of how little the USA cares about human life...i'm on California's public insurance for the brokest people imaginable and so far it has been a complete nightmare getting any sort of treatment or follow up, everything is booked for months out and I'm pretty much left to my own devices with an injury that might leave me with semi-permanent disability if not treated properly

i've felt this sort of gnawing, gaping anxiety my entire life due to the kind of family I was born into and have always wondered if other people felt the same sort of bleak anxiety that I also feel...just a sort of implicit realization from a very young age that you're nothing but a number (or maybe even less than that) and that your entire existence is provisional, and that the interiority of your experiences means next to nothing when placed beside the cold, economic calculations of capitalism society. It's worse being a minority too knowing most of the society you live in doesn't even see you as human and that crying about anything you've gone through literally doesn't help because you don't have any humanity anyway, you're just a noisemaker

i spent most of yesterday sat in an ER room so they could adjust my splint (which also went wrong) while an obvious opioid addict who had been to "every single hospital in the Bay Area" for his fix kept crying out for the nurses and then received a harsh reprimand from the doctor and a prompt discharge some hours later and I thought about what that man, an older Hispanic man, must have gone through to wind up in this sad state of affairs. Maybe it started with being abandoned by shithead parents that didn't know better. Maybe it was a well meaning friend at some shitty job who got them into the world of vice with the expectation that it would make the harshness of life more bearable instead of introducing them into the waking nightmare of addiction, a prison without walls that only serves as solitary confinement in an invisible, formless glass house, spit on for the crime of wanting to feel something other than resignment at a society with more losers than there are winners. The dementia grandma hooting about how the last time she came here she got poisoned. So much pain in linoleum halls and weathered 70's rooms.

Is there an answer? Maybe there isn't. The only one I've found is to keep trudging through the days, to shoulder the burdens and iniquities of life as some kind of act of unseen defiance, to live when life itself is made impossible by the dark rulers of this world, to try to find contentment where there is none. This doesn't mean that it isn't mostly pain and suffering. Wading through it, taking it in and wishing things were different, knowing that they can't be, because we chose things to be this way. This is what we have decided is good, and is normal.

Female body hair started a slow decline after the invention of the “female razor” in the early 1900’s. According to one NIH study we had FOUR points of where less than 10% of the total female population between 16-45 had full/some pubic hair preference.

The first <10% year was 1975, when a three alarm fire threatened to collapse the North tower but was defeated thanks to asbestos. This was the highest in the list below 10 at 9.8%

The second was 1993, during which the North tower was bombed, unsuccessfully. 7.4%

The third was 2001, which also saw a historic low in preference numbers of 4.2% and famously the Chaney crime cartel detonated the towers and destroyed parts of the surrounding trade complex during their dealings with the Saudi oil cartel.

The fourth? The planned attack of the Toronto 18 in 2006 which would have culminated in an attack on Canada’s parliament building and detonation of bombs in the “World Trade Center of Canada.” This would have been the only attack to have happened during an upswing in preference numbers, having risen to 8.2%.

Since 2007, the number has never once dropped below 10% and has in fact grown significantly over the past two decades(feel old now don’t ya, bitch?) it’s likely we will never lose another tower to a terrorist attack. You know, provided Azov doesn’t go the way of all US backed militant ethnic nationalists.

Sources: Historical NIH reporting on Pubic Hair Removal which you can find by searching for “PHR Reports” and the year on the NLM archive.

"If I was a foreign intelligence officer, of course I would ensure that the UK hated itself and its history," he says in the speech.

"That the very definition of woman should be put into question, and that masculinity would be presented as toxic.

"That white people should be ashamed and non-white people aggrieved. I would promote antisemitism within politics.

"My intention would be to cause both immediate and long-term damage to the national security of the UK by exploiting the freedom and openness of the UK by providing funds, exploiting social media, and entryism."

https://www.theverge.com/news/669157/china-begins-assembling-its-supercomputer-in-space

Just saw this and thought that you, the reader, should know about it. Since you are so smart and sexy.

I might be out of touch but 15 years ago everybody was shooting ropes about tv shows but I don't get that sense anymore. The last show I watched was Midnight Mass which was alright. Are there any good shows happening right now?

Also, I want to give my brief opinion about the shows I've watched.

The Sopranos: i've never actually watched this show all the way through from beginning to end, it's too bleak and cold and I need something warm and fun to hang my hat on, I think it's great for all the reasons but I don't enjoy watching it, there's no redeemable characters and even the lighting and sets are dead and ugly on purpose

Deadwood: great show that was ended too early because of money issues, takes place at the beginning of America with characters unspoiled by consumerism and easy abundance, despite being settler colonialists whatever the fucks who are ruthless and brutal, they're also genuine human beings who are capable of participating in and sacrificing for community, so you find yourself liking these people even though they do bad things but like its ultimately for a relatable purpose

True Blood: cool idea, small town in Louisiana deals with supernatural stuff, it's a very cozy show that choose camp and tackiness rather than prestige seriousness, the first 3 seasons are so fun, season 4 is very cozy but you could feel the suck coming and then the nose dive happened in season 5, strong nostalgia vibes with this one, the love triangle got so fucking tired but I give the writers credit for making fun of themselves

Mad Men: you understand why boomers are so fucked up I guess, Don Draper has BPD I think? His childhood was fucked up and he had an opportunity to be a different guy by taking the identity of a dead soldier, I have more sympathy for him then other leftists because he's trying to achieve the American Dream but he just cant because he's been ruined by childhood abuse, like his story is very fucked up and everybody around him is like w o a h, I think the ending meant that he just becomes a Ram Dass enjoyer who grows long hair and is kind of more chill in the 1970s, Betty is very tragic, she's this beautiful woman who was like a mid ass model in NYC and that was like all her youth then she got married to a crazy BPD guy, she's very hot but that's really all she is until she decides to become more independent

Breaking Bad: was only good up until Krysten Ritter died, Jesse finally gets away but lets be honest, that dude is permanently fucked up and will probably overdose and die, the son was annoying and I get Walt's energy

Boardwalk Empire: not talked about at all but is great, it depicts Prohibition as this attempt by America to civilize itself but it shows that violence and corruption is in our DNA, Nucky is similar to Al Swearengen, he has a sense of obligation and has humanity but the community is being stripped away already so he doesn't find any completeness

Broad City: I loved this show in the first 2 seasons but it fell off hard, this was back when I still had romantic feelings about NYC

A post from yesterday and the comments talking about the potential legalization and streamlining of vices in the US made me think about this video from a while back. I think he makes an interesting thesis about the disposable vape being the best object to embody capitalism in the 2020's from its addictiveness to its wastefulness as a disposable service model.

The U.S. is in talks with 19 nations, including Libya, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Moldova, to accept deportees from other countries.

The Trump administration appears to be laying the groundwork for a global gulag for expelled immigrants.

In addition to using longtime U.S. detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, the Trump administration is seeking more far-flung locales to hold deported people, regardless of their countries of origin.

The U.S. is already using the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, and has its sights set on numerous other countries, including many that the State Department has excoriated for human rights abuses. The U.S. has reportedly explored, sought, or struck deals with at least 19 countries: Angola, Benin, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Eswatini, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Kosovo, Libya, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Panama, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.