That's definitely something to work towards but a general strikes requires years of planning, organising, network building, and just fucktons of money. People still need to eat and pay rent. People will be fired and need help fighting it. The regime is likely to injure and maybe kill.
There hasn't been a general strike in living memory.
A general strike takes time, it's not something we can just do. Rushing it and fucking it up would be a huge win for the fascists.
The article suggests that people are willing to pay to have all their games in one place.
A not-insignificant amount of people would rather buy a game they just got free than have to remember to open epic.
This fascist regime has clearly been planning for a while to send the military to attack american cities.
If they feel confident in using the military instead of the death squads they've been building under ice, that implies they are optimistic about their control over the military, or at least ready to test that control.
Anyone who thinks there's an electoral path away from fascism is deluding themselves. They'll shoot us dead in the street before giving up power.
Though importantly, it's a word made up by a comedian for comic effect.
The 'longest' single chinese character (most strokes required to write) is also the name of a dish. The 'biang' in "biangbiang mian" has 58 strokes, and you have to write it twice. It's also thought to have been made up specifically for it's complexity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biangbiang_noodles
We all get those things regardless. The stories we tell ourselves about how the world works don't affect how the world works.
Life, joy, friends, love, art, pleasure, dopamine, oxytocin, etc.
Anything we're doing now can still be done without the concept of free will, because we're already doing it without free will.
I just dont understand this admittantly common argument.
Free will seems like such a psychologically damaging lie. As if blaming yourself for the outcome of every sad movie you've watched is somehow motivational.
Since coming to accept that free will is farcically impossible, I feel free to just go about my actions with a sense of curious enthusiasm as to what will happen next, safe in the knowledge that que sera sera - whatever will be, will be.
Generation Kill is a very watchable look at a recon unit in the lead up to the 2nd (iirc) iraq war. It's by the guy who did The Wire. Excellent dialogue, plotting and acting.
It uses a soldier's eye perspective to examine the systemic issues in the military - casual racism, war crimes, adult diapers and the constant incompetence of officers all come up.
In employment, Verizon said it will commit to aligning its business in California with the state’s various requirements under its diversity, equity and inclusiveness (DEI) laws, though the company ended its employment-based DEI initiatives last year in order to secure approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for its purchase of Frontier.
The DEI commitments Verizon will make are not expected to conflict with its promises to the FCC, which largely involved hiring and promotional practices.
So CA allows yet more dangerous corporate power consolidation in exchange for just following CA law - but not so much as to conflict with verizon's anti-DEI promises to the regime.
What a truly progressive victory worthy of gavin newsom.
30% of US adults voted for trump.
Decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, disinfo campaigns and no small amount of outright fraud brought the current regime to power, not the will of american people.
Because trump is largely irrelevant.
His job is distraction-in-chief. He's just a dumb patsy - a role he's spent his life perfecting.
His business career was just laundrering russian mob money, and his political career is just drawing fire from the rich cabal looting the american empire before there's nothing left to loot.
Monopoly. Literally designed to be frustratingly unplayable to represent the frustratingly unplayable user experience of capitalism, but people insist on playing it anyway.
AD&D 2e. Insists it's a game about exciting fantasy adventuring, then all the rules are about painfully slow tactical minutiae. The combat mechanics are taken from a game about modern naval warfare, hence bigger Armor Class means easy to hit. It's unclear why anyone thought ships with guns was a good model for medieval sword fighting. Entire sections of rules have to be ignored - hello encumberance - and gameplay regularly has to stop to look up charts, tables or niche rules like grappling.
Screamball. Like ping pong, except the point goes to whoever screams the loudest during a volley. We made it up as teenagers. It was awful.