There’d be some very funny looking animals during the middle of that night.

Meh, they’re mostly echoing whatever views have been pumped into their heads by conservative talk radio, fox news, AI meme facebook, et all. A few years of some Joe Rogan esque jock telling them how cool it is to eat seitan and they’ll all be vegans.

It’d be nice if they all became luminaries of proletarian thought or whatever (and a handful probably will), but that’s not actually necessary. Don’t let anyone rebuild the capitalist propaganda machine, and the threat is neutered. Invest in better education for future generations.

Pretend you think they’re asking about turnips, and give your honest opinion on those delicious root vegetables.

I’ve been pretty skeptical of Latest Thing since like… the Bush years. But even for my old jaded feathery butt, there’s something different about the streaming era of prestige-chasing short run shows that manages to somehow capture even less of my interest. Things that exist in the public consciousness because a streaming platform has bought space from itself to advertise its own stuff to everyone on the same schedule to fake there being an interest in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5OKluygRbU

Have you seen giraffes fighting?

By the way, Chinese GDP growth has shrunk by 1% over the last five years, so surely they’re about to collapse.

Yeah? You and what army is gonna make that happen?

When no one was looking, China

built forty nuclear power units.

They built 40 nuclear power units.

That’s as many as four tens.

And that’s awesome.

Keep a consistent schedule, always engage with chat, keep talking even when chat is dead. Can you keep up a stream of interesting observations and stories for an hour, just talking to an empty room? (Record yourself trying, ding yourself if you go 30 seconds without being engaging.)

Honestly, the people who manage to build up a successful variety stream from the ground up by doing that kind of freak me out. The alternative is to win a championship at something or get world record on a speedrun, so those people show up to see you do your thing, then start the consistent and engaging grind, and slowly pivot to variety content. (Maybe it says something about me personally that “simply become the world champion at something” sounds easier than talking to an empty room for hours a day.)

https://investors.affirm.com/shareholder-services/investor-faqs

2. What is Affirm’s revenue model and how does it make money?

4. We sell a portion of the assets originated in our platform to third-party investors and recognize a gain or loss on the sale of these loans.

5. How does Affirm fund the loans it underwrites?

We have forward-flow agreements that facilitate the sale of whole loans to counterparties.

Can anybody figure out who is buying these from Affirm? I bet that’s the next Lehman Brothers.

nazi germany was before you were born

still feel cool about liking old things now?

If you’re able to do the work, go home, and just completely forget about it and do something else, that’s a very cushy job. The people who get completely invested in CS projects get chewed up and discarded by the industry.

Bold of them to assume Trump knows what the word “unilateral” means.

Well that sucks.

But it’s also like the least scary thing NASA could announce we’re on the brink of. So when you phrase it that way, it comes as a relief.

It’s the 90s and you’re a business ghoul trying to claw your way up to entrench yourself further and claw your way up above your peers. You shop around for fringe ideologues whose ideas would end up advancing your position, and invest some money to get them into into think tanks, advertising firms, talk shows, and the like. The reach of broadcast media explodes, the industry expands and everyone who got in early rises to the top, including your useful idiots. The propaganda industry gets better at its job, and you’re still listening to the TV. You bought these messages because they were convenient to you, but they’re so good at their job now that they’ve convinced you too. You’re now a true believer in whatever nonsense was tactically convenient to you 30 years ago.

(As fun as this narrative is, I’d like to point out that adding more details makes a story less likely to be true while making it sound more likely to be true.)

short term problem, in the long run shit and dead things make great compost and they’re just gonna smell like worms and dirt

The sectarian BS is symptomatic of a deeper problem - no modern western left wing movement has a viable theory of victory. If some group puts together a set of tactics that advance a strategy that repeatably provides material victories, then everyone will fall in line because that movement keeps winning. Until then, we’ll all argue over which idealistic horseshit is a more palatable excuse for why we’re not winning but some day we will be.

don’t look that up on e621