Can you even call yourself a queer ally if you don’t steal from queer enemies?

SMH should have brought self-heating noods.

100 degrees out is 100% hot. 0 degrees F is 0% hot

People don’t just stop using an app until there’s very little activity.

Getting people to use a new app, especially one they have little activity on is inconvenient, especially if you’re already checking WhatsApp, wechat, signal, telegram, LINE, Zalo, and discord because you have to many different friend groups.

What kind of fast car are you getting for 1000 dollars?

I seriously doubt asking about history is a punishable offense

I don’t know they rewrite history, I’ve never met someone who’s been there and asked that. But its not like the average American’s perception of the war isn’t massively skewed to make themselves look better, if it exists at all.

Defectors go to prison if they say positive things. They get paid for interviews. This makes them unreliable.

The brief conversations weren’t useful because the people I spoke to were more interested in nature, getting pictures of themselves, and superficial vacation stuff than learning about the people’s lives, political system, history, etc. They didn’t seem to appreciate how utterly foreign NK is/seems to non-chinese.

Yes, I want to pop into a live recreation of the world around somebody (as a sparkly wolf dragon with a 3million polygon ass obviously). We have the technology, just not the hardware and software.

That’s not new, often you can look at events boomers claim to have witnessed and find actual accounts completely different, like soldiers returning home from Vietnam and getting spit on and called baby killer, feminists burning bras.

You look back further and there’s so much discrepancy between accounts of the civil war and then reconstruction, and then second rise of the kkk during these events and just 2 decades later.

All we can say of NK is we know fuckall in the west, and the brief conversations I personally have had with people who’ve been there weren’t particularly illuminating.

If you have a strong opinion on a subject you have weak data on, maybe do some introspection.

You don’t need need to explicitly collude (though many compabies do) for companies to realize if they lower prices or invest in better technology, so will other companies, and then they’ll all be worse off. We observe this in any mature industry under capitalism.

Except the arcologies part, that’s not even sci-fi, it exists across east asia.

you start looking for ways to increase your margin on each tomato you sell

That happens unconditionally under capitalism, there’s no set profit margin where the owner says “I’ve made enough money, time to lower prices and raise wages”.

Competition only exists within a very narrow context within capitalism. If you want the capitalists to do x y z, you don’t deregulate, you simply restrict them from doing anything else and prepare to use every means the government has at their disposal to punish the ones who violate the public trust.

There’s a reason China manages to operate a healthier capitalist system within a very clearly defined bird cage.

There were no replicators in TOS

AR. Being able to just pop into someone’s AR world and walk around as if I was in tge same physical location.

Bikes/Ebikes/motorcycles replacing cars for single-person transport in cities.

The Symington Amendment says the president legally cannot give weapons to states committing genocide, there’s a million other legal arguments the president can deploy, let the SCOTUS shoot a new one down each month, and when you get tired of that, let them enforce it.

He is the commander in chief, he can cut arms shipments to whoever he wants and refuse to elaborate, citing “national security”, as Bush did.

there is nothing most of us can imagine Trump would do differently to undermine NATO, USA.

You have little imagination. day 1 ban arms exports, foreign military aid, cut all ties to Israel, Indonesia, and any other rightwing dictatorships we’re propping up, order generals to release all information on past and ongoing military operations.

Appoint heads of the FBI, CIA who will release all documents and extradite the agents who committed crimes against foreign countries to those countries.

Bam, US empire over any%

Where do you live that you don’t think America is spying on you too?