Taking advantage of a legal loophole to privatize and mobilize your own private occupying army utilizing a department that was already out of control financially and legally while the world watches and commentates like they did with Palestine.

It's a good year plus to most people realizing what's going on in the midterms, siezed media may even prolong that. That's a long time for a militarized police to further militarize and normalize their presence and to test out all the neat counter insurgency technology that anyone can sell them the world's largest pocketbook.

It's a good little while to decapitate any potential organizations and sprinkle around some felonies to keep folks from voting and whatnot.

You do have to admire the game and wonder about planning and happenstance.

Watching the monopoly on violence shift is unsettling. The devil you know and all that.

Honestly, watching the waves of revolution sweep across Arab and then Asian countries must have just scared the be Jesus out of some folk.

Is it the death throws or birth pangs of a new world order, or fools tilting at windmills?

1w ago

Death of Fredrick Brennan, creator of 8chan forum where QAnon emerged

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BeMoreCareful @lemmy.world 1w ago

I watched a documentary or something with him in it talking about his experience with the chan boards and qanon.

I was honestly curious about his take on all that has transpired just the other day.

I feel like I remember him having some horrifying brittle bone disease or something.

1w ago

US aims to bring in 4,500 white South Africans per month as refugees, document says

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BeMoreCareful @lemmy.world 1w ago

Yeah, they get all bent out of shape about it.

1w ago

No you don't sit on it. In the olden days people used this to make orange juice

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BeMoreCareful @lemmy.world 1w ago

It's such a good show. I hope it is what future civilizations will use to try to piece together what happened.

It'll be porn though. They'll think we porked ourselves to death on such an unimaginable scale that we eventually ran out of bodies and created a doomsday device to create more porn to outstrip humanity's insatiable thirsts for genitalia.

There's so many little fun moments of unbridled creativity, fundamental human experience, and absolute absurdity.

1w ago

It's my dream

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BeMoreCareful @lemmy.world 1w ago

"OK, here's what we're looking at"

1w ago

method acting

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BeMoreCareful @lemmy.world 1w ago

I admire his commitment to the craft.

1w ago

DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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BeMoreCareful @lemmy.world 1w ago

*480

2w ago

It makes me shudder

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BeMoreCareful @lemmy.world 2w ago

I think the little dangling threads really put this over the top for me.

I feel delightfully squirmy, but not in the fun way.

2w ago

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

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BeMoreCareful @lemmy.world 2w ago

Yeah, the systemic tearing down of public education definitely had an effect as well.

1mo ago

lightbulbs

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BeMoreCareful @lemmy.world 1mo ago

I just want to be able to slaughter a pig if I need to. Gotta do that under cool whites my guy.

1mo ago

America is drinking more coffee but less of it from Starbucks

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BeMoreCareful @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Starbucks started out importing $40,000 (in ninties money) la marzocco machines, specially imported because nobody had done that before.

Those old, cost as much as a luxury car and supply a cafe all day long, la marzoccos required someone who cared to perform a skill. They had to train a new trade, basically coffee cooks, which hadn't been a thing. Coffee generally came with breakfast.

If it weren't for Starbucks Americans wouldn't know what espresso was. Now, they did get out of hand with the milk at some point. Americans like buying and selling milk and I'm sure they focus grouped it or idk, but I'm sure that's fate as much as fault. Anyway, my pet theory is that the charred tastes goes further in the milk.