They laughed at my tinfoil hat. We’ll see who has the last laugh!

Well, with Ukraine being supplied with sufficient, high quality munitions and equipment (and certainly not ancient, mothballed rustbucket tanks), they’ll push the RuZZian orcs out any minute now. That’s right, any minute now, Steiner will advance and push them back to Moscow!

Quantity has a quality all of its own

Can’t believe all of these tankies are ignoring anti-Russian propaganda. Real thinkers inject Ukrainian Government press releases disguised as journalism straight into their veins.

Implants slowly erode the jaw bone underneath over time, whereas a new tooth would keep the jaw bone healthy.

Estonians acting like their rump state, whose population would barely make them the 10th most populous American city (barely cracking the top 50 metro areas), would be anything more than a speed bump for a Russian invasion.

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Awww the poor widdle spies! They were just innocently torturing innocent people at bwack sites, then destroying all evidence of torture! How dare they sacrifice these benevolent angels to save some RuZZian orc!

Reiterating the suggestion to take up social hobbies, but also just take up hobbies in general. It gives you interesting things to talk about with other people. For example, I started painting, and talked to other people about it, and now some of them have taken it up and its given us more to talk about and brought us closer together. I find that people like hearing about experiences with hobbies, as its kind of a neutral ground, especially if you’re not an expert in it. It also helps if it’s a visual hobby like painting where I can show people a couple of pictures on my phone as explanation.

If your local is anything like mine, they won’t respond to the Google forms application anyway and you’ll just get the newsletter for six months.

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In the 10s, that number dramatically increased to 918 days.

This is what I was told by a coworker who had been in the semiconductor industry for decades (can’t ask him for sources now because he’s dead):
During the Obama administration, they set up a tax cut to incentivize companies to build more factories, where you would get a tax break if you filed plans within a certain time frame, but you only needed to build one building to take advantage of it on the planned future construction. As an example, Intel slowly built a new fab in Arizona, and, once it was completed, they left it empty for years, only starting to install equipment in 2019. This facility was also built with the move to 450mm wafers in mind, so it was much larger than previous fabs. The move to 450mm wafers never happened, and probably never will.

A big part of the speed is the extremely poor mid to long term planning. Constant rework because of constantly changing demands, slashing workforces during slow periods and then struggling to fill positions long after they should have been filled, and more bullshit as you can imagine.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

Unless you’re wealthy, it doesn’t matter who you vote for. Your interests are not represented, and will not be represented. This isn’t accidental, this is the system working as intended (See: Federalist 10). The US constitution was created by wealthy white men to enshrine the minority power of wealthy white men as the law of the land.

The good news is that political activity is not just limited to voting! Voting in federal elections is mostly a waste of time, as the differences between candidates and major parties is largely just rhetorical. If you must vote, concentrate on local elections, where you might be able to fend off the interests of the powerful landlord and corporate lobbies. But, there’s much more you can do! It just requires you to put in effort personally. Political organizing largely can’t be done at a keyboard. You need to talk to and form relationships with your coworkers and neighbors. Organize a union at work, a tenants’ union among your neighbors, undertake the task of actually educating yourself politically, feed the unhoused and treat them like human beings. Engage in direct action against the power elite who are killing us and our planet.

Regardless of what task you set yourself to, it requires you to , , and engage with other human beings.

I’m much more concerned about the very real and confirmed ties (see:) Zoom, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, my ISP, my cell phone service provider, etc have to the security apparatus of the country I actually live in who have actual power and authority over me and a long history of murdering left wing activists.

I like to go all the way back to Pints of Guinness Make You Strong sometimes. The line

• If I would have known
• Just how things would have ended up
• I just would have let myself die

Always gets me

Might as well just ask what my Recap is:

• All We Ever Wanted Was Everything - Bauhaus
• New Dawn Fades - Joy Division
• The Last Thing - Lebanon Hanover
• Autonomy - Boy Harsher
• Ghosts Again - Depeche Mode
• Anhedonia - Chelsea Wolfe & Emma Ruth Rundle
• Various Methods of Escape - Nine Inch Nails
• Turn Those Clapping Hands into Angry Fists - Against Me!
• Lost in the Supermarket - The Clash
• 6:45 - Firewater
• The Man on the Burning Tightrope - Firewater (the whole album, not just the song)