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Report to mods? That would work, until the next time, and the time after that, and the time after that... Damn fake news is gonna get us all killed (literally, as in climate change), but at least then after everyone dies perhaps we'll learn something from the ordeal. Wait... I might have detected a small problem with this plan (to do nothing at all, and just let it happen).

Some of the saddest parts of this is how they don't even see their being racist - "just work harder", as if someone especially with a black sounding name can easily get even so much as a call-back. Meanwhile little Richard Conner the IIIrd is somehow a VP at daddy/uncle's company despite being 17 years old and doesn't know how to spell his own name.

It is the human condition to lie to ourselves, but damn that hurts so many, plus humiliates the receivers but is especially damning to the givers... and those collaborators who help force it upon everyone.:-(

Wait... holier-than-thou Kai Winn drinks beer!? TIL... and might need to rethink some life choices as a result. :-P

"Yes"

One person's trash is... yummy 😋.

"very better"? Anyway...

It won't last. Right now it's new, but ultimately it will become an actual initiation ritual to knock it down, or perhaps a harder version to steal something out from under its nose. It doesn't know who you are if you wear a mask (or stay out of its line or sight) and don't carry something broadcasting your IP.

This looks like just security theater.

Meanwhile, aren't cameras cheap? If let's say hundreds of those were sprinkled around, maybe behind an opaque substance so you could also put up 10-100x more of them but 9/10ths being fake, and you swap them around occasionally, that might not be perfect either but could work better than a robot offering a nice, easy, fun target to play with, just like in video games. (Nobody ever enjoys video games these days though, do they?)

It would be extremely juvenile of either of us to presume that only purist extremes are allowed to exist, with literally nothing else capable of doing so i.e. in the middle.

However, irl is the precise opposite: there is absolutely nothing that exists that conforms to those particular purely theoretical terms - i.e. you cannot point to any irl so-called "socialist" nation that actually conforms to the pure theoretical principles of socialism, nor btw is the USA purely capitalist, and it is especially not purely a democracy either (yes we go through the farce of voting, but then regardless of who wins we do not get what we want - e.g. school shootings continue - and instead monied interests control all, a better term would be a plutocracy, though we are not "purely" that either).

If you didn't know, then now you do. While if you were trolling, please block me and move on. I know what I said, and I know what I meant, and those words you tried to put into my mouth are neither of those.

That was not my take at all. The unwritten part of her statement was "I am not, can not even, talk to you right now, bc I am so upset, but when I cool down, I am going to have SO MANY words to say to you!"

i.e. as night follows day and death follows life (and taxes follows birth:-), these words were always fated to be coming - but not yet, later... - until later came and then the torrent was released.:-)

Think about it: obviously I don't mean in relation to actual socialist countries today, but rather "fairly socialist" = more along the scale of socialism than the USA is currently. For instance even before there were 50 United States that joined together, the postal service allowed people to send mail to one another across vast distances of thousands of miles, from east to west coast and back again.

While today... well technically it still exists, but it's slower and less reliable than ever before, and conservatives are talking about dropping a lot of "last-mile" delivery options, in states such as Idaho where population density is much lower. This is funded by taxpayer dollars, where the government completely owns and operates the means of production of this enterprise (though capitalist alternatives such as FedEx also exist beside it). Or at least used to in the past, but this is becoming increasingly less so over time, in a variety of ways.

Or we could look at public schools, which especially with No Child Left Behind and the like, is beholden to capitalist interests that provide e.g. the standardized testing services that suck off the teat of taxpayer dollars, siphoning away much-needed funds for such things as food (nobody can learn who is hungry, most especially children - not that conservatives care about that, either the "learning", or taking care of living humans once we leave the womb, very much in direct opposition to the name of the program that I just said).

Back then, more American services were owned and operated by the government, as compared to today. So yeah, in relative terms, we were "fairly socialist" by our own internal metric. Moreover, my point was that we were so socialist (how socialist were we?:-) we were so socialist, that it rose to a degree that many Americans would consider to be outright shocking. If they could read that is (or rather, they can, they just won't).

I'd take back those words that have hurt you

Every time my phone shuts off for running out of battery, it's due to Firefox for some stupid reason. Chrome is somehow worse though, just in different ways. Perhaps I should investigate other things like LibreWolf, but if it were clearly better than either, I think we all would have heard of that fact by now.

A choice to be? (If only it were that simple.)