@rayk @pluralistic Also, a pretty defeatist view.

@jik the older I get, the transier I become.

@KrissyKat

@jik worm farmingthat is so GEO Group

@darwinwoodka @grassrootsforeurope None of these people came from camps. They came from vans driven and escorted by Moroccan state authorities, it's not the first time they've done it either (see: 2021). I know the fashionable orientalist view is that Mohammed VI and Moroccan elites have zero agency because colonialism, it's just that it gets reaaaallly complicated with Morocco seeing how the last time they did it was over THEIR colonialism of W Sahara.

@dcdeejay I don't know, knowingly electing a puppet of your biggest ever historical enemy...America is just obsessed with self harm like a screwed up teenager

@RonSupportsYou @renewedresistance It's both. The defining characteristic of the modern Conservative️ is an infinite tolerance for cognitive dissonance. They simply do not care that middle of their own sentence is a different contradiction to both ends of it & if you do, that's how they tell you to go f*ck yourself. It's basically about dominance.

@JugglingWithEggs You got it....

@jwcph @roytoo @rainerzufall_le Not relevant, but he’s also a terrible writer. I made it about halfway through The Martian and its protagonist’s insistence that everyone finds him funny despite no supporting evidence.He said something about some scientific term and then decided to rename it pirate ninjas (funny, see?). I thought, “jfc I’m gonna see fifty occurrences of the phrase “pirate ninjas” on the next page, aren’t I?I glanced at the next page, then shut the book forever more.

@ChrisMayLA6 @rooftopjaxx It was also pretty funny!

@ChrisMayLA6 This is what happens when grubby money - Mandelson - puts governments officials with zero knowledge of what to ask, what the software does - into the ring with professional sharks - Palantir's sales team. No one in government has a clue how any of this tech works, but are frightened of it. Look at the way they push a ban on under 16s socials, rather than tackling the tech companies and forcing them to take responsibility and clean up their act. Spineless and hopeless!