I sense a challenge coming on…

I upvoted you for downvoting the guy who complained about being downvoted.

So much better to do it in person.

Started improv a few years ago. Very good for my mental health.

Doctors being jerks are sometimes required to do professional coaching to improve attitude and communication. Having less hierarchical communication actually improves patient safety, because people are braver to speak up. So feedbacking to someone about the haughty doc might actually be in everyone’s best interest.

(Source doctor who actually had to do that coaching myself at one point and found it helpful)

PS would love to see some haiku

We have been turned into sheep

We are like children.

White Americans have been raised to believe the most preposterous set of lies about ourselves (land of freedom, etc) and the amount of effort to sustain that belief despite all evidence to the contrary is hard to imagine. Effort from the ruling class (eg “god save America” at the baseball game) but also internal efforts from the people themselves - because the collapse of the lie tears your self image apart. This actually started during the George Floyd Black Lives Matter moment but the reaction the other way brings us back to Trump.

People who want real change, and end to imperialism and capitalism feel isolated and hopeless. 1/3 if the country are committed to racism and misogyny. All lot of better off folks just want the illusions of the old normalcy back.

It doesn’t help that truly unedited critical voices here get shut down for somehow being responsible for Putin.

For something created by communists, for communists - it’s amazing how the loudest voice is people complaining about tankies.

Can I use it here in Burgerstan?

This was so enjoyable. I haven’t been watching the CBS late show. Was it this good?

It’s not important

Yes.

Except of course for the world falling apart, my country descending into fascism and impending climate diaster.

But for me personally, things are entirely chill.

Is there an android 5.0 nethack?

Seems like they changed to Lua for making levels?

Aramaic seems like it was a big deal for a while

Or simply that humans can keep learning about ways our activities effect the environment

This is why the Internet needed to be invented.

Oh yes 1844, got confused with the later revolutions.

They are enforced against poors. While rich rapists walk free.

I thought the 1848 manuscripts were pretty rocking when I first read them.

I always felt Marx’s finished products had a kind of dull exposition, at least for large parts. I think he felt he had to lay out a system like that. But the unfinished stuff, even the Grundrisse have a lively dialectical feel that is pretty captivating.