pastalicious [he/him, undecided]

The new logo sucks but the fact that you can lose $100 million because the little graphic above your store looks slightly different really demonstrates how fucking dumb capitalism is

All it took was a few tweets in the Trumpian style and promises of copying the Texas gerrymandering plan. Really reveals how jealous libs are of Trump.

Isn’t that what happened to Wittgenstein?

Seconded. They have more good takes than bad, great for keeping up with current events but not a replacement for real critical analysis.

A little extra effort but NightHawkInLight has a video on making phase change materials that “freeze” at 65 degrees and stay at that temp for hours. He soaks towels in the material and then seals them in vacuum bags. Pretty common and innocuous ingredients too.

I feel like my local DSA regulars would fit in ideologically here, but perhaps mediate and tone down their message to appeal to libs which unfortunately doesn’t work because the function of liberalism is to pacify nascent leftism.

I have a nearly unlimited supply of cardboard through my job. This video is amazing and gives me so many ideas!

And for the doomers, even if he doesn’t win, we had him on TV talking about being a socialist and describing his platform to great applause, and we embarassed the Democrats effort to defeat him in the primary, showing how popular our politics are. The struggle is, itself, valuable.

My lib parents are all about “optics” and remaining peaceful. They also loved some news article of a protester in Kansas with a John Brown sign that just says abolish ice. Libs have zero analysis. They have zero critical understanding of history. How are you going to celebrate the invoking of John Brown, a guy who famously beheaded slavers in Kansas and whose last boldest violent campaign probably led to the civil war and the emancipation of the slaves… and also claim that’s no place for violence?

The one near me had a really huge turnout and was blocking traffic all over the lib’est area during peak brunch hours, so that’s kind of funny. Saw tables for food not bombs, some worker thing associated with Kshama Sawant, and a bunch of people wearing local DSA chapter shirts. Lots of Palestinian flags too. Some people I talked to had earlier in the day been protesting a potential future ICE facility in a nearby town with immigrant rights groups and prison abolitionists. These protests aren’t going to change anything and we have to stop centering nonviolence as the highest virtue. But it seems like a good thing that people are meeting and talking to each other in physical reality… anything that defies the gravitational pull of social media.

But absolutely don’t let libs use this little afternoon field trip as a chance to pat themselves on the back. More people go to sports bars to watch the football game every week.

I’ll never forget seeing Avatar Way Of Water with my in-laws and they are absolutely moved by the emotions of the movie. Then the next day I’m explaining why California may have opposed water desalination plants to because it kills a lot of fish and they instantly reply “fuck the fish”. I’m sorry but good slop is still slop and it doesn’t reach the average burgerlander in a meaningful way.

I thought she already did this last year. She’s becoming the Bolsonaro of voting for bad faith antisemitism definitions.

LA refers to Louisiana here. Climate change likely one of the major factors.

My employer contributes a set amount whether or not I contribute. Not a match. I do choose between a handful of different index funds or bond or money market index funds… I don’t fully understand this. Is one of these smarter to be in right now? And should I keep my personal contribution going if it isn’t necessary for matching? Thank you fellow communists for your financial advice.

I mic’d up a Supreme Court justice once, one of the bad ones but I was dumb and didn’t know that until I googled the name later. I could’ve saved the country if I knew wonk nerd shit a little better.

Is it time to cash out bonds?

I feel like music is as good as it has ever been right now. Of course the good shit isn’t making money outside of the merch table so it’s a rough time for musicians. There’s amazing shit being written and filmed but they maybe get a couple million viewers/readers at best if it isn’t more Amazon or Netflix slop.

It isn’t that creativity is dying, we all have ideas and sometimes they’re realized quite well. It’s just that capitalism no longer rewards creativity and the energy we have to make our ideas real is depleted by 80 hour work weeks doing the most mindless shit.

This is a real doomer place to be as well… just wanted to put in a few good words for the resiliency of pure creativity. It’s buried alive by capitalism but it is alive down there.

Reminds me of that old last week tonight about China building ghost cities nobody lives in. Fast forward a year and they’re bustling cities full of people.

Also a great metaphor for how US foreign policy works.

Walter White sneaking around inside Jesse’s apartment while he sleeps. “I’m watching Jane choke on her vomit.”