Orcocracy

You generally need to go to a bookshop that stocks academic books to find proper lefty stuff.

Hexbear is deeply unserious, but that’s the point, right?

Axis of Authoritarians

Axis of Evil

Perhaps the complexity of a clear example suggests problems with the rather broad claims in the original post. I’m not sure if the typical response to a telling-off is to always shut down.

To follow your example, if your grandma tells you off for not bringing something you’re probably going to bring something next time

This is an interesting argument, but is it really true? People actively do stuff to avoid creating a situation where they feel guilty all the time. For example, if a person invites you over for dinner and says you don’t need to bring anything, but you still bring something anyway because you know you would feel guilty otherwise.

I am picturing the effort put into set-dressing and posing by this man as he took this photo. The delicate balancing of the gun, the careful perspective on the knife-wielding porno-vacuum, selecting the right room in the suburban McMansion with the faux-wood flooring as a backdrop (no effeminate carpet here!), the careful coordination of the olive drab canvas watchstrap with the olive drab plastic gun and its canvas strap, a very carefully placed weight on the edge of frame (must be careful not to dent the extremely fragile faux-wood flooring), and the overwrought placement of a gold bar peering out of the gun like it’s a phone propped up for a video call.

But most of all: the overly-exaggerated tension in the left hand furiously clutching an empty bottle of mid-range mass-market Canadian larger favoured by accountants and middle managers in the 1990s. Moosehead: the Heineken of the north, at least according to your dad. There’s so much detail, so much going on, it’s very hard to pick a favourite.

This article from a Washington DC-based publication is doing its very best to frame as bad some extremely mild examples of the EU standing up to these largely unaccountable American megacorporations. It’s not like the EU is doing to Meta & Apple what the Americans are doing to Huawei & Bytedance/TikTok — but perhaps the EU should.

You, when you’re looking at Google Maps or whatever other mapping software you use. They’ve all been compatible with Galileo, Glossnas, Beidou, and GPS for many years. But a mapping app tends to not tell the user which brand of satellite they’re using at any given time.

Reading the first four words of the headline:

Reading the rest of the headline:

Oligarchs shoving each other off balconies is a post-Soviet capitalist Russian Federation thing.

Is it? I ended up playing through the rest of the game as one once I unlocked it. Loads of fun.

Should I delete my post or something?