I’m still skeptical that Epstein died at all! More likely they killed some guy who looked like him and let Mossad spirit the real Epstein away to Tel Aviv, where he’s living under a new identity on the beach with all the children he can r*pe.

As for Trump, no. Come on. The only way ANY of the corruption ends is with a general strike and the overthrow of the state - plus, with any luck, capitalism itself.

#GeneralStrike

It’s not just the rotating eight. It’s not just Schumer.

It’s the ENTIRE Democratic Party. This was a cold, calculated act that sent a message to the electorate: vote all you want, but the billionaires are in the driver’s seat and they’re not giving you an inch.

Not one goddamned inch. You’re down in the shit, and that’s where you peasants belong.

It’s a shell game. It’s rigged to the hilt. Both parties belong to the same billionaires, body and soul. The point is to keep the proles cheering for whichever cop is promising to save them from the other one, while both beat the shit out of you.

Funny how Americans forgot the lesson from 250 years ago. The one about the only solution for the Owner class. But then, they’ve been in control of the classrooms and the media for a long, long time.

#GeneralStrike #Revolution

Those eight are just the rotating villains of the week. This capitulation was planned and carried out by the entire DNC leadership, particularly Chuck Schumer. Schumer was in close touch with the eight throughout negotiations, and arranged the timing with them.

The Democratic Party is not on our side. No politician is going to ride in on a white horse and save us. If we want our species to survive, we’re going to have to save ourselves.

In other words, we need a general strike.

#Politics #GeneralStrike

• The Prisoner
• The Young Ones
• Blackadder
• Star Trek (TOS)
• Dr Katz, Professional Therapist
• Monty Python
• Firefly
• Fawlty Towers
• Barney Miller
• The Bob Newhart Show
• Twilight Zone (original)
• Rockford Files

Makes sense. They have plans to incarcerate upwards of one million Americans every year as slave labor, so they’re going to need a lot more plantations!

Flying Witch is a very sweet SOL show! I just wish they’d make more seasons.

Am I the only person who immediately thought that Musk will end up suing Wikipedia for infringing on “his” content?

That’ll be quite a turnaround. We will go from seeing reality in Gaza to pure fantasy from Israel. Smiling Palestinian children (played by Israeli child actors) hugging their IDF “friends”.

I’ll be deleting my account, thank you.

I’m starting to suspect that their goal is not to rule, but to exterminate the working class.

Dreamwidth.

If it really happens? People will go hungry. Probably more so in red states than blue ones. I don’t suppose we are likely to see starving people on TV; the media oligarchs wouldn’t like that.

But after a few weeks of hunger we might start to see people in the streets.

My guess is they’re going to be using all those detainees as slave labor. America is getting openly back into slavery on a grand scale. Long-term, I predict that the majority of the population will be slaves.

I’m really surprised that he’s not selling the rubble! He could make millions on that, easily. Have your very own piece of American history, rubble from the White House that Donald J. Trump lived in and demolished!

You left out the last step.

• profit

I don’t care as long as they don’t take away NotePad. NotePad has useful features I’d hate to lose - such as stripping out all formatting, and being able to search/replace wildcard characters as themselves, rather than as wildcards.

There’s always Diablo 1.

But my favorite is Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, which was made by some of the people who created Fallout and has a LOT in common with it. It’s an open world, a combination of classic fantasy with elves, dwarves, and halflings with a rising steampunk technology that competes with magic. There are many schools of magic and technology, as well as social, stealth, and combat skills. The graphics are very crude by today’s standards, but the gameplay is outstanding.

It was well before I turned one; I was still in a crib. It was dark, nighttime, and incredibly hot. Some sort of animal with glowing eyes stared at me from the floor.

I thought it was a dream, but decades later my parents confirmed that when I was a baby the thermostat had broken and we had a night where the temperature was 100°. As for the animal with glowing eyes, that was our cat.

So what? We’ll create one!

Years ago the owners of GoodReads announced that Amazon had taken away their access to the Amazon book database. It was an existential threat, they said, and asked the GoodReads community to volunteer to create a new book database to replace Amazon’s. Hundreds or thousands of us worked for free, donating thousands or tens of thousands of hours to the project.

And then GoodReads announced that they’d sold out to Amazon. Apparently they’d been in negotiations with those bastards the whole time they were lying to us about losing access to the database. Maybe proving that they could sucker their loyal users into donating free labor helped raise the selling price of GoodReads a little.

As for the database we created, I guess it’s Amazon’s now. Of course, if we create a movie database of our own, NOBODY will be able to buy it! And we can make it available for free use, if we want.

I think Lemmy desperately needs to integrate two things:

• The ability to search for communities across instances inside of Lemmy (I’m aware of the search option outside of Lemmy, but that’s less than ideal)
• The ability to easily search within posts A) in all local communities, B) in all subscribed communities, and C) across all communities in the whole Fediverse. Yes, I’m aware that C) is a huge ask. But I think it’s vital to the success of Lemmy.

It’s not bad, but there are a couple of issues that concern me. One is that communities are fractured - that is, that communities about the same topics exist on different instances and don’t connect with each other.

So I’m subscribed to a Books community on one instance, but that doesn’t mean I’ll see any of the posts on the same topic on other instances unless I subscribe to each of them. The total community of users on Lemmy who are interested in books are split up into small groups on different instances.

That’s very limiting.

Of course there’s also the issue of the relatively small user base overall. For some purposes a small community may be preferable, but for many others you really need a large user base. Looking for gamers for a face to face tabletop RPG, for example. Without a large user base, the odds of finding people within a reasonable real world distance of you is virtually nil.