Appreciation for Duck Soup. Groucho was brilliant.

The problem with tankies specifically is that they cheer when their authoritarians do shit, like when they cheered in 1956, and again in 1989.

Both times tanks were rolled out to literally crush left wing uprisings against the pretend leftwing governments.

They cheer for Russia invading its neighbors.

At least most of us in the west are horrified about the shit our governments are doing. Tankies just cheer.

Evidence based on immigration filings from decades ago…

It doesn’t matter what judge they found, it’s still a fishing expedition that should have never been allowed.

Don’t play team sports with people’s lives in service of fascism.

It doesn’t matter what you think conservatism is, it only matters what your masters think it is. And they follow the teachings of Edmund Burke, that money means control and that control is everything.

As long as you keep supporting monsters, they’ll keep selling you lies.

Because conservatism is the push for a new feudalism, and the serfs have no say in it beyond blindly supporting the rich.

Yes, but surgical strikes that leave the population alive are more effective.

Bomb the people into submission was a plan cooked up after the first world war, and was pretty stupid then as well.

The firebombing of Germany, Japan, the UK, etc. didn’t make the population less willing to fight, quite the opposite, but the defeat of a countries military, did in fact make the populations surrender.

Populations will put up with a lot when under constant attack, when their loved ones are dying in the street, but when they’re merely inconvenienced, and then their team loses, well, that breaks moral.

Also, decapitation works wonders, take out the leaders who are pushing for more war, and suddenly there’s no push for more war.

Strategically, glassing a city wouldn’t solve anything. That just makes the people who are left want to fight harder.

Infrastructure and decapitation strikes are more effective at getting populations to stop fighting, especially when that infrastructure includes the propaganda machine.

Technically he did the treason first, and then got hired by Fox to justify his treason.

Conservatism is and always has been an attempt to return to a form of feudalism, with the rich being the new nobility and everyone else being powerless to resist. In that regard, Russia with its oligarchs is about as conservative as it comes.

Not just refusing to remove disinformation, but also actively removing the accounts of Lula supporters and for a brief time Lula’s official campaign account.

All because Zuck specifically hired Joel Kaplan in 2009 to “engender closer ties to conservatives”. Joel Kaplan, who as a Bush Lawyer, participated in the Brooks Brothers riot of 2000, which stopped the recount in Florida, and then was rewarded with a Bush Whitehouse position.

And tanking the entire economy is the process.

Also, Larry Ellison (who can fuck right off) has leaned on his Oracle stock to fiance the buyout of all the media companies he’s gobbling up to build yet another right wing propaganda ecosystem.

No crucifixion necessary, I’d just tell you that it’s worth watching more of them. They’re all very well made, and well made art is worth experiencing from time to time.

I use to run sound mixers for events and local bands, and had a dummy slider that I’d move when a family member wanted to hear their special boy or whatnot. Everyone in the industry knows this trick. Almost everyone plays along.

they wouldn’t sign such stupid deals for no reason.

Greed. The reason was greed. They bought into the hype and thought they could print money.

And all the tech companies are doing it, Oracle was just the sick man of the bunch, and will be the first to fall, dragging the rest down with them.

All because they’re offloading trillions in debt to special purpose vehicles, the same thing that tanked Enron, the difference is that Enron, with $400 million in debt, was lying about it, and the current tech companies doing the exact same shit, are disclosing the debt legally, but still hiding it in the fine print of their disclosures.

The debt will still crash the economy, but at least it’s out in the open?

Yeah, the white granulated stuff gives off flavors.

brown sugar has molasses that adds some depth, or just add different flavorings.

Different yeasts can sometimes save white granulated, but it’s more hassle than it’s worth, just add different sugars (in addition even) and you’ll get something that will have a chance of tasting okay.

Also, yeast nutrient. Add some yeast nutrient. That can save a brew as well.

Raw honey has a lot of flavor. And beer has barley and hops for flavor.

Also the yeast contributes a lot. There are so many varieties of yeast.

But the problem with pure sugar is that it’s one dimensional. The yeast go into overdrive and starts spitting out off flavors.

Get the buzz going now to force the issue when they can, because you can’t move the overton window without speaking out about it.

Agave makes the basis for tequila, before distillation.

But if it’s just sugar water and yeast, it will be a bit gross.

Open AI just reported $20 billion less revenue than projected in their last earnings statement. The projected $70 billion was already making people nervous due to the debt load.

How’s your end times going? Mine is shit, but also the anticipation is killing me.

The 90s sucked ass for a lot of people, but the culture of the time, as presented through a bunch of media, children’s shows, movies, and random TV, was pushing the message that we could do better. That we owed it to each other to do better.

And then Fox news started ramping up, then 9/11 hit and everyone lost their god damn minds.

Nope, never angry about that. Jealous, but not angry.