she was not my favorite as an entrenched politician, but i am very sorry when the humans die. i wish her family well. i wish she’d had these last years for other things.

this event, and the gamesmanship that may follow, will be an uncomfortable reminder that age in politics really does carry risks.

You can earn points.

@elfin (thanks!)

@admitsWrongIfProven i’d watch that porn.

@rrwo@floss.social @myeyesaredim an oppressor in every pocket!

why do people say “good god!” when they encounter things not obviously consistent with that hypothesis?

@LouisIngenthron in media influence may suffice even where the profit is not obvious.

@admitsWrongIfProven sure. just watch the word independent. it’s often used in the bamboozling.

@admitsWrongIfProven sure. for the entangled to use the institutions for not necessarily the their benefit….

@admitsWrongIfProven which part of us? we contain multitudes, and every institution is entangled with some of us.

i’ve come to think of independent media like independent central banks, independent of whom or what, but then quietly dependent on and influenced by whom or what, because in banking and media and life there is actually no such thing as independent.

@sliminality i can take your place!

(sorry.)

@fdr (tbf nothing at denny's actually qualifies as vegetarian. the peppers in the omelettes are fabricated from sausagestuff.)

@fdr i'm not sure it still qualifies as vegetarian, though…

once you realize that ants are just protein, picnics become so much more enjoyable.

@carrideen 🙁 i’m a fan of paxlovid to minimize whatever injury the virus might do.

@admitsWrongIfProven my post was not intended as a backhand critique of you!

i guess i do think defenders of capitalism make those arguments in “good faith”, in the sense that they believe them, despite reasoning that may be motivated and contingent on their place in the hierarchies capitalism engenders. motivated reasoning can, usually is i think, nevertheless sincere. the best critics will be able to make those arguments as well as true proponents, and therefore account for them in critiques.

@admitsWrongIfProven probably there are more compelling justifications than “natural”. ardent capitalists claim that their creed creates prosperity and innovation uplifting us all, for example. a critic of capitalism’s exploitative nature ought to be able to express that case well, in order also to be able to critique it well.

people shouting about the imminent worthlessness of the US dollar are surprisingly interested in taking yours. just to buy more bitcoin, i suppose.

yet another trail of tears.