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True. I didn’t become a commie until I was almost thirty, young me was so idealistic.
True. I didn’t become a commie until I was almost thirty, young me was so idealistic.
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The kulaks and the monarchists and the nazi collaboraters deserved it. Communists have been vindicated by history every single time.
Religion is primarily a social phenomenon, so as long as people want to belong to a larger group then there will always be people willing to believe whatever non-falsifiable truths they need to in order to belong to one.
If even one person is dumb and rich enough to buy it, then it’s worth it to make the website to try to sell it to them. And we live in a world with many such people.
I had an idea for a fantasy setting where a multiracial society played a lacrosse-like sport, and in order for halflings and dragonkin to be able to play against each other fairly they had a rule about the size and length of your stick being inversely proportional to your height. I’ve always felt like we could get something similar going for a lot of other sports to put top-level athletes off different sexes and body types on the same level and have it purely come down to skill - and non-contact sports honestly have no excuse not to experiment with their rules in this way.
School computers back then were a wild west. I remember having Starcraft on the school shared drive and playing it in homeroom.
Yeah I haven’t had harmful application on my computer in over a decade. I feel like you really have to go out of your way to get one these days (not including spyware that you download intentionally, like Windows 11).
IIRC Valve issues shares to its employees, but the details aren’t public. There are a bunch of different corporate ownership schemes out there that it could potentially be.
As we all know, getting more militantly progressive because you see the repeated failures of the liberal worldview is exactly the same as getting more conservative because you own more property 🤡