Started just a year ago. So much free instruction on YouTube. It’s been great

How does one find the cameras?

Or maybe we can learn what is possible with just a little ram?

ACAB

Just assumed I had to be a human, but now given the choice, I’ll take life as a robot.

Less well known but,

Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers or

The nine worlds of The Hands of the Emporer by Victoria Goddard

nice people doing the best they can, in a world that isn’t like our current dystopia

Communists and jihadis don’t traditionally get along.

Are there rules for the tarot card game somewhere?

Watashi mo Spartacus desu.

If they put Fauci in jail, I imagine a lot of science people will flee the US

I didn’t know we could get Margaritas in a jug

Oh no! He’s very rambling and hard to follow, but entertaining.

I got my dialectics from Marx - like the manuscripts of 1844 - but their might be a better or more philosophical introduction.

Less than Nothing, by Zizek. Very Hegel.

Thanks. Very helpful.

But still to.be honest, Marx always feels 100% solid to me when explaining capitalism, but on much less solid ground when predicting the future.

My 85 year old mom has a somewhat similar view, that NATO is really responsible for the war. She’s a long time USian antiwar activist - but maybe more importantly has been watching RT news.

I’m currently reading Zizek’s “Less than nothing” and he criticizes Marx for not being Hegelian enough. Resetting my thermostat now

Some of my favorite music today, is odd stuff I found on Napster. Got me into sea chanties

I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I kind of assume Carney is part of the new liberal establishment (think Clinton, Biden but also Bush) so recently overthrown by Trumpism in the US - but I’m not Canadian so it’s a little fuzzy.

Risotto