my grandmother used to buy me premium bonds when i was little, dunno if something similar exists where you are but essentially it’s like putting some money aside in a lottery fund where you might win something, but even if not, you still have the original deposit however many years later when you withdraw it

It’s cringe how so many cities have grifted billions in aid of “let’s build some window dressing for the olympics/the world cup/the millennium, and it will totally be used afterwards so actually it’s like a public investment” only for all of it to just be pointless landlord shit that could have just been affordable housing or public parks

i have a shed, but it’s full of bikes, garden equipment and spiders

I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

burying the lede a little there - fission plants have existed for like 80 years; fusion-fission is the important part

alternatively, you could interpret there being a lot of overlap between right-wing audiences and almost none for left-wing ones - leftists famously hate each other more than anyone else

it requires fewer tons of CO2 to tell you that 757 * 128 = 3042

My roommates mum (we’re in the UK) came over for christmas eve, and she was chatting with my mum about how she has prayed every night this year for donald trump.
she believes that all the space rockets that go up visit the sun to collect ‘plasma’ and that all the vaccines are microchips, so y’know, top minds and all

Socialism was popular amongst the public in the interwar period; hyperinflation, post-WW1 destruction etc were contributing factors.
The nazi party was originally the DAP (German Workers’ Party; a socialist party), which Hitler was tasked with infiltrating when he was an officer in the army.
He was eventually discharged, but maintained his position in the party and saw it as a tool to achieve ulterior goals.
After he became party leader, he took them in a more nationalist direction but maintained the essence of socialism in the party, hence NSDAP (National-socialist German Workers’ Party), else he might risk a calamitous exodus of the party membership leaving them a fringe element.
Certain key members like Röhm, leader of the Sturmabteilung, were socialists, though more like what you might call patsocs nowadays, until they too were ousted on the Night of the Long Knives.
There are historical photographs of Nazi rallies where supporters hung banners saying “Marxism must die for Germany to rise again”

TL;DR, it was originally a socialist party; Hitler co-opted it for his own means and gradually purged the left-wing elements and consolidated power until it was a fully fascist entity.

Required reading on the topic is chapter one of Michael Parenti’s “Blackshirts and Reds”; it covers other aspects such as how capitalists flooded the nazis with resources to aid their rise to power.

my old boss once saw I had the wikipedia homepage open on my laptop which had the Karl Marx article as featured article of the day, and she proceeded to interrogate me about being a marxist and spending time reading marxism instead of working

I’m so dang pissed off
we had an internet service fault for 3 days straight right as this happened, i missed prime posting hours 😭

the dragon of budapest shall rise!

hmm today I will crush my greasy cock and balls with a rock hammer

in my area we have a separate tub for glass, and it doesn’t get collected, we just fill it then take it to the recycling centre where there’s a bottle bank or a bin for broken glass

I haven’t finished it yet but it’s most apparent on words like “our” and “cauldron”

the main character, a poc woman, annoys me

because she’s obviously british doing an american accent

just one more manager bro, i promise, one more manager and it will all be good

Probably mods. In the base game there’s more reasonable clothing/armour than there is risque, but gamers gonna game ig

I had a ps2 demo disc that had the first level of TS2 (siberian dam) which I played over and over and over. Could never find a copy of it, but I got Timesplitters 1 instead and played it to death and back.
One day some neighbourhood ‘bad kid’ randomly showed up, acted like he was my friend and asked to borrow it, and I, being the shy, timid, push-over simply said ok.
Weeks later I would ask for it back, and he would give me some bullshit about how ‘Oh yeah I’ll get it for you, don’t worry’, until finally he said that he had ‘accidentally’ snapped the disc in two.
A formative experience indeed