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In practice they’ll wholly generate things and lie through their teeth in court and to the copyright office – the government will take them at face value.

This one of those things that seems anachronistic but it’s not. Much like the complaint tablet of El Nasir

Yeah people tabulated data thousands of years ago, crazy. In fact you probably do less personal accounting than people 200 years ago let alone ~5000.

This is one of those America brained things where you don’t realize that there are these things called seasons that affect resource extraction and in societies where you didn’t have the global imperial might to cajole resource trade in off seasons and have the logistical technology to deliver it, you had to actually plan for winter or die.

It’s why almanacs were a thing for centuries, here’s a Roman one inscribed on a stone pillar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menologia_rustica

The example machines in the first picture are type AT-101 SM which meant they had the glass rinser which is true. The problem? No soap. So you’d often find lipstick on the glasses, not really a “wash”.

But the risk of infection is minimal and nobody really got sick from them in any noticeable way, it’s just icky. Drunks stole the glasses all the time tho.

Here’s a museum talking about the soda machine inside of the GES-2 power plant.

Imagine a Coke Freestyle Machine that only serves seltzer, but instead of plastic cups you have 2 glasses. This machine is a vending machine that’s just installed on the street. There is nowhere to wash the glasses.

This is an older design, but it shows the glasses well.

This is the “classic” design that’s Sovietana

This is a modernized replica that you’d use with paper cups

This is retaliation in every state.

Nah it’s actually a real thing, it was a real thing in the United States too. My mom’s side of the fam hated the public soda fountains because they thought sharing cups with half the city was gross.

I was reaidng one of those Cool Russia blogs at one point because i was researching something and it was on epidemiology in the USSR. The article was titled something like “The USSR conquered disease, but is that the whole story?”. It basically talks about soviet immunization campaigns, and then at the end complains that in the USSR the soda fountains only had 2 glass cups people shared.

You’re thinking of The Virgin of Guadelupe which used to be a folk tradition from the 1500’s until the Church canonized it in the 1800’s.

Mexican Catholicism

Is just a normal diocese.

They’re protestants they don’t recognize the Pope or Vatican II. Anglican Catholic is an ironic misnomer.

Old Catholics (incl Norse) and Anglican Catholics basically want to rewrite the power of the Pope but keep other Catholic shit because they’re control freaks.

edit: Actually I’m wrong Anglican Catholics got the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter under Pope Frances in 2012.

For those of you that play Rogue Trader, it’s basically a Warrant of Trade for the Church. They now are part of the Catholic order but their Personal Ordinariate allows them to mix up how they do communion and liturgy and shit.

Fucking 40k ass religion. Though I’m pretty sure the Pope would have stepped in to defrock him personally if the Anglican Church didn’t.

EDIT 2:

Okay I’m wrong again. Personal Ordinariates allow for the followers of sects of Christianity to worship as Catholics using their own liturgical process when worshiping in a Church under the supervision of the Ordinary. The ACC doesn’t recognize the Pope. Anglican Catholics in the US can simply worship as Catholics and take Catholic communion through the Ordinary Steven J. Lopes. The ACC itself has rejected the Personal Ordinariate and is not a part of the Catholic Church.

I repeat. Fucking 40k ass religion.

Do Americans even get TB vax as standard?

I know I have superior Soviet vaccination regime of TB and Smallpox. But I have never heard of an American getting a TB vaccine.

Not only do you have to cut that number in half and then by 75% for what would actually be war ready at any given moment. The F-35 is not a bomber, it’s a multi-role combat aircraft, and a stealth strike fighter, which means they’re a one and done type of air to surface attack. JDAMs, JSTOWs, Paveways, and some laser guided Cluster Munitions that can fit on the F-35 can be intercepted with easier than the plane itself which is a choice. JDAMs and JSTOWs cannot aimed while in flight, they’re pre-aimed. So if you have mobile air defense it’s pointless. The laser guided stuff is very slow. In practice F-35s would be used to maintain air superiority to protect MQ-9 Reapers from air to air interception. Reapers are extremely vulnerable to SAM missiles, the Houthis have taken them down.

The reason that America is mad about Iskander is because mid-range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles which Russia has spent more time developing are emerging as a way to breach air defenses in modern warfare as well as loitering drones. America doesn’t have enough cheap swarm tech ready to go because we get milked by the MIC so we don’t have anything to pad out missile barrages to attempt to get enemies to make unforced errors in targetting. That’s precisely how Russia is getting past the magical Patriots impervious air defense shield in Ukraine.

America would have trouble maintaining NATO bases in Europe as a springboard because Russia would throw meat at every country it was at war with. Also Putin would 100% pull the trigger on launching ICBMs with MIRVs if an overwhelming conventional force was at his doorstep.

Beyond that the trick to defeating Americans is to take out their range extension which at “bombing Russia distances” is typically gigantic refueling planes. Russia or China out of all countries would be best equipped for this task.

It’s been the opposite for me, the older I get the more support I need. I was unmedicated until I was 30 and gave up the ghost.

We are so incredibly fucked, yet the average norwegian is too fucking propagandised to see it. I often hear “duuh, we’ll fight them in the mountains”

Every Nord and Finn thinks they can be Simo Hayha but the majority live in completely urbanized environments and haven’t had to deal with the harsh realities of country life. But, yeah, you’ll survive the mountains buddy.

The “international” community keeps pointing out how underdeveloped Russia is, as if having labor aristocracy soldiers is better than having ones that had to chop wood at grandma’s house to keep the temps above 40 because grandma refused to leave her village.

The “rich countries” have a really fucking warped view of war.

Thanks Regan.

“auth” is the opposite of “lib” duh. There’s a American Prestige where Daniel Bessener argues exactly this, that “authoritarianism” means nothing at worst and “not liberal” at best.

You don’t think permanent removal is at least part of the point of prisons/jails? Seems like there are quite a few people who think of prisons as a way to get rid of “undesirables” and there has been a constant push to speed up death penalty proceedings. The entire probation/parole system seems like a way to keep people coming back.

I agree that in a microcosm and at the individual level it’s a removal of undesirables, and it works that way in rich locales, but there are way more poor people than there are rich people, and way more poor prisoners than rich prisoners.

The problem is that prison industrial complex needs bodies. The other extractive bit of this is that the revolving door of US jails justify the thin blue line’s enormous extraction of local resources. The majority of the imprisoned in the US are in jails waiting arraignment. It’s a revolving door. These people end up being locked out of a real life because the system is punitive, and feeds itself. So while it does control where populations of people are, it is not a permanent removal in the same way where you empty San Francisco of all Japanese people and move them all to empty land.

Plus the entire system was built around putting black people in prison to continue slavery. How is that not permanent removal? The US has basically just been making baby steps towards prison reform for 100+ years so it isn’t quite as blatant these days, but literally millions of people have been permanently removed by it

Remember that slavery is not removal. Death is not removal. Slavery is extraction. The US is not removing black people, it is trapping them. That’s the history of slavery and anti-slave patrols that seeps into law enforcement. It’s a strategic difference that implies a difference of intent. We are not removing communities, towns, neighborhoods etc, of the black population to force them into slavery. We are trapping individuals in the legal system which in aggregate affects those communities, towns, and neighborhoods but we are not “emptying the cities”.

Notably the comparison falls apart a little because originally gulag were often seeded with mass population transfers, but towards the middle/end of the soviet union gulags had a stable enough rotating population to simply shard a larger camp into smaller camps at the periphery. By that time people were sentenced to gulags individually rather than transferred en-masse.

It’s a fuzzy distinction for sure, but the main distinction is that we’re moving bodies one by one, not street by street/neighborhood by neighborhood/town by town/etc.

“Winning a war” with Russia from the NATO perspective is a task that would require every NATO member to engage in a total war that would wipe out a large portion of Eastern Europe.

There are NATO members who would balk at this immediately such as Turkey. There are NATO members who would be blood thirsty and balk at this once the war started, and Russia became a real threat (rather than imagined) inside their borders, which is almost every Eastern European and Nordic Country.

I cannot see Norway going to war with it’s neighbor at the behest of America.

Prisons are closer to a hybrid financialized gulag system than concentration camps. The ultimate goal of concentration camps is permanent removal. The ultimate goal of gulags was economic extraction. US Prisons and Jails function in this way in the sense that many governments in the US use prison labor. However this goes further in the sense that the bodies of prisoners are typically commodities in and of themselves when you’re looking at the interplay between private for-profit prisons and the various governments they contract with.

But we’ve had actual concentration camps for immigrants along the Southern border for decades, these camps are also hybrid financialized systems because some of them are also run by for-profit companies.

America is simply the synthesis of the horrors of humanity with a financial twist!

I usually drive my wife to the train in the mornings. She usually listens to NPR morning edition for quick updates. We bitch about how lib they are in the car.

This morning she woke me up and NPR was already playing, it happens sometimes. I hear about this collision. The first thing in my head and out of my ADHD mouth at 6:40AM was “Shit, Iran finally got SpongeBob”.

My wife was a figure skater as a teen and now plays Women’s hockey. She’s still into figure skating as a sport. In the car she elaborates on how crazy the crash was because it was full of figure skaters and she was just watching figure skating Nationals. She has a ticket to Worlds this year. I felt kinda bad about “SpongeBob” but I still think it was a good bit without any context.