PrimeMinisterKeyes

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[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

In tech, is there really a need, though? All of this year's new hires I've met communicate exclusively in English. No-one cares.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The housing crisis is prevalent everywhere in Europe, though. But it's not like droves of people have to sleep rough. Yes, rents keep going up, but they are still only a fraction of what you would pay in the US.
And you can actually still buy houses. Really cheap, even. Far off the highways, but some people opt in to exactly that.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 35 points 4 hours ago

It has to start somewhere
It has to start sometime
What better place than here?
What better time than now?

Lights out
Guerrilla radio
Turn that shit up

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

'Member that song "74-75" by The Connells? That was a big hit in the Nineties.
We're now at 31 years after the release of this single and 49 years after the class of 1975 graduated.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hard disagree. Else, there would never be any revolution, but history shows otherwise.
Or, as Marcuse put it, the prerequisite for radically rejecting something is not that you have to know what will come afterwards, but at first, you'll enter a process of rejection of the existing situation and during this process of rejection, you'll gradually free yourself from shackles and figure out what is to come next.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She's ferocious, and she knows just what it takes to make a pro blush.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

As you might remember, it used to be called "information superhighway." As it turns out, not only does it make information flow faster from A to B, it also divides people that lie to either side of the road, in a metaphorical sense.
Required reading See especially figure 3b. TLDR: Increased information access and increased connections lead to more echo chambers.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It does. Because now somebody can jerk YOU off, and it won't inflate your own score.

In a very traditional Afghan restaurant I used to frequent, if you ordered something really spicy, they'd bring you these small mint drops afterwards to chew on, no extra charge. Worked very well for me.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Excerpts from a short piece, called "Back to the Wall," by a famous writer; abridged:

The individual soul is under attack...
Ten years ago it may have been inconceivable that the great sweet "cassaba melon" as it was called of "American Century" prosperity was really a great psychic hoax a mirage of electronic mass-hypnosis...
The choice given - or CHOSEN? by us between an oldfashioned politician..., which is to say conservative, and an outright Authoritarian rightwinger? We never had a choice between middle and left, we were always stuck between middle and right. Finally it becomes too much to fight. But the stakes are too great to lose...
To live in a country which supposedly dominates the entire planet and to be responsible for the outrages of ones Own country! Woe to the Germans silent under Hitler woe to the Americans silent now.
Not a matter of Policy, rational discourse etc.
Things no longer merely out of proportion, things are UNREAL. Manipulating the unreal from centers of power - how can the soul endure?
Movie blather, news broadcast blather ... social blather of a totally maladjusted tribe engaged in struggle to retain power-dominance and control over an entire planet (nay an entire solar system!)

He also mentions a "synchronistic putch." The writer is called Allen Ginsberg and this piece was published 1966.
Which is to say, the Overton window has been shifting for a long time and Nazism has never been truly defeated, only forced to hibernate. And certainly not just in the US. At least that's my pessimistic conclusion at this point.

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