Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
“As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.”
– Angela Davis
Angela Davis, activist, educator, and scholar, was born on January 26, 1944, in the “Dynamite Hill” area of Birmingham, Alabama. The area received that name because so many African American homes in this middle class neighborhood had been bombed over the years by the Ku Klux Klan.
Her father, Frank Davis, was a service station owner and her mother, Sallye Davis, was an elementary school teacher. Davis’s mother was also active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), when it was dangerous to be openly associated with the organization because of its civil rights activities.
As a teenager Davis moved to New York City with her mother, who was pursuing a master’s degree at New York University.
In 1961 Davis enrolled in Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. While at Brandeis, Davis also studied abroad for a year in France and returned to the U.S. to complete her studies, joining Phi Beta Kappa and earning her B.A. (magna cum laude) in 1965. Even before her graduation, Davis, so moved by the deaths of the four girls killed in the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in her hometown in 1963, that she decided to join the civil rights movement.
By 1967, however, Davis was influenced by Black Power advocates and joined the SNCC and then the Black Panther Party. She also continued her education, earning an M.A. from the University of California at San Diego in 1968. Davis moved further to the left in the same year when she became a member of the Communist Party USA.
In 1969, Angela Davis was hired by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) as an assistant professor of philosophy, but her involvement in the Communist Party led to her dismissal. During the early 1970s, she also became active in the movement to improve prison conditions for inmates. That work led to her campaign to release the “Soledad (Prison) Brothers.” The Soledad Brothers were two African American prisoners and Black Panther Party members, George Jackson and W. L. Nolen, who were incarcerated in the late 1960s.
On August 7, 1970, Jonathan Jackson, the younger brother of George Jackson, attempted to free prisoners who were on trial in the Marin County Courthouse. During this failed attempt, Superior Court Judge Harold Haley and three others, including Jonathan Jackson, were killed. Although Davis did not participate in the actual break-out attempt, she became a suspect when it was discovered that the guns used by Jackson were registered in her name. Davis fled to avoid arrest and was placed on the FBI’s most wanted list. Law enforcement captured her several months later in New York. During her high profile trial in 1972, Davis was acquitted on all charges.
Angela Davis has been an activist and writer promoting women's rights and racial justice while pursuing her career as a philosopher and teacher at the University of Santa Cruz and San Francisco University. She achieved tenure at the University of California at Santa Cruz despite the fact that former Governor Ronald Reagan swore she would never teach again in the University of California system.
In the political arena, Davis ran unsuccessfully in 1980 and 1984 on the Communist Party ticket for vice president of the United States. Despite her 2018 retirement, Davis continues to be an activist and lecturer as Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
An author of eight books, a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination.
“I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.”
– Angela Davis
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fuck it let’s create a throwaway Reddit account, I only lurk and post dumb questions there anyway (plus frequenting niche communities)
Brand new device, instantly shadowbanned
my fault for not verifying an email I guess?
The U.S and pretty much all? of the world is in a cultural regression
Seeing the new video of Pretti and subsequent reactions to a broken tail light he caused makes my chest hurt
Like what do you fucking mean this is why you can now excuse as state execution because “he had it coming” or whatever bulllshit
Pretty sure chuds have used that justification before when Philando Castile was murdered during a traffic stop for driving with a broken tail light. Par for the course. Shit... I just remembered Philando was also in Minnesota jfc.
I am so sick of this cold and hate that the snow we got last weekend is probably not going to melt for a month. My senior dog has decided that actually it's cool and good to pee in the house when it's this cold out with snow on the ground, I'm going to try laying a cardboard path down outside and see if that helps, otherwise I'm going to have to do something I was always adamantly against and purchase wee wee pads.
it is sometimes possible to toilet train dogs
Out of soy milk so just added a scoop of beans into my oatmeal. Good choice with some salt and a chili made something that's definitely gonna see a repeat tomorrow
Its so funny that Americans just walk around in public. I heard an American yesterday talking in her American accent and it was so funny. She thought it was just normal to be American
I watched Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man. Its not as good as the second one, which was not as good as the first one. After the first one had the twist then Benoit Blanc is actually an extremely competent detective, the sequels don't have the same kind of tension. If the sequels were like 45 minutes shorter I think I'd like them more. Rian Johnson needs to accept that he can't recapture the magic of Knives Out with any sequel, and any story centering around Benoit Blanc would be better as a schlocky, pulpy detective movie which is first and foremost entertaining, rather than a brilliant mystery.
I don't think it's a bad movie, but it's not good enough to justify it's runtime.
talk to my ex
"i think i'm autistic" "i said that when i met you"
talk to the friend I've known the longest
"when you were studying education did you learn to recognize or work with kids with AUdhd?" "a little, not really" "did you ever think I might be autistic or adhd?" "no, but my psychologist just told me I'm probably autistic or add"
me: 
that's probably nothing
My last electric bill was absurdly high so I stopped using heating altogether. Woke up to 48 degrees in my room this morning 
cool zone
Brandon sanderson is a mormon????
Not just a Mormon, but a very productive Mormon who gives the church a shitload of money.
did tenacious d ever get back together or did that bridge burn the fuck down?
edit: seems both gas and black have said it will return but nothing concrete yet
"I was just following orders." Yeah? Well so was HITLER!
I'm going camping tomor
Nice. Do you enjoy like cold weather camping or do you live further south / in the southern hemisphere?
"I think it's not chill when the secret police summarily executes people because they're bored"
"Listen here liberal... [ad hominem the victim]"
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Many such cases; thank you for your attention on this matter
Today, when I really needed a loopback cable, I looked down and found four of them sitting on the floor of the server room I was working in, and didn't have to make my own.
I think mashed potatoes have a lot of potential as the omnifood of the future. Like how a lot of cyberpunk settings have "nutrient paste" or whatever. Instead of making it into depressing slop, you've got to figure out how to market it to people as exciting slop, and then you've got your golden ticket.
My idea is this: a coke freestyle machine for mashed spuds. Goop out potatos onto your plate in any amount, shape, consistency, etc. Want soup? Turn up the water. Add flavor shots directly into the slop as you squirt it, heat it to order with a hot nozzle, put it on a maneuvering arm and 3D print your meal into any arbitrary shape. Combine this with cutting edge developments in laser cooking and artificial intelligence and you'll be able to emulate any texture for any foodstuff visually, olfactorily, and gustatorily.
With some research I believe we can make potatoes take on any arbitrary taste and smell, and print and process them into any texture. Potatoes can already be used as a sole source of calories when combined with certain vitamins as seen in the documentary The Martian, meaning our potential future market is every meal eaten by every human being every day on planet Earth and Beyond. Seeking investment in my new startup 3DPOTATO $1billion or more serious offers only.
you could prototype this in less than 18 months and ship a product in 5 years
I'm in as long as the nozzle integrates the Flavor Shotz as a narrow strip of playfully colored ribbons throughout the potato substrate, like it's Aquafresh toothpaste
This sold me on the idea
“Yeah but you’ve been calling conservatives fascists for decades” well I’ve never been wrong about that.
The most insane thing I do is notice my new coworker always takes a phone call shortly after schools end for the day and go”oh she must have kids” instead of just talk to my coworker.
I gotta stop treating everything and everyone like a little puzzle and just like ask them about their lives.
Went to the library today and picked up a random military sci-fi book
Literally one of the first characters introduced is a civilian politician who is bad because he wants to cut the military budget, is blatantly rude to everyone around him, and claims to be a "man of the people" but has a private vineyard
The "threat" that we are meant to see as the reason the military budget shouldn't be cut is an alien race that has been trading peacefully with humanity for over a century
I did not end up checking out that book
The Food Store™
Produce, Price, Peoople
love to show up to a work order, spend less than five minutes doing something, and then spend two hours on the phone with support waiting for the device to update on the back end.
Not sarcastic! I really love it! But I'm gonna start bringing my jailbroken Switch in my toolbag.
edit: okay now I gotta poop but how do I do that while staying on the line without them figuring me out?
people who grew up in the great depression loved to have the nickname “buzz”
Do you think after all the stuff with people thinking the moon landing was fake, he was annoyed to be remembered for the character who thinks he's a real astronaut but is actually a phony?
I've found out through reading the fine print that you don't actually have to do anything to enter sweepstakes not buying shit just signing up. Anyway my plasma place has a prize for 8 donations in a row, automatically entered if I do the 8 which I'm gonna do anyway because I'm strapped for cash but in future probably just gonna sign up for them when I can't make it.
Finally reading Capital and have a silly question 
The intro to the translation im reading says the value of labor power depends on the value of the consumer goods the worker buys with their wages, does this mean that in a society where a significant amount of people have credit card debt they have more labor power because theyre buying more, despite not being able to afford it?
Or no because debt doesnt count to labor power like share cropping doesnt result in the worker really gaining anything
Im currently reading it and participating in the annual reading club (join us!). So disclaimer I'm not an expert.
I would say it artificially lowers the value of labor power (it does not actually lower its value but masks its real value) as capitalists can get away with paying less than what's necessary for the social reproduction of labor power thus pocketing more of the plus-value while preventing an underconsumption crisis. And they also make money by lending you what you're borrowing through interests.
My understanding of this part is that in a given society at a given historical time the value of labor power is equal to the typical basket of goods a worker consumes to reproduce their labor power.
For example in 1850 in Europe it might have been food,cigarettes, rent. And in 2025 in Europe it would include among other things taking a 2day vacation semewhere.
I'd say no.
I just spent 5 hours handing in a form to a place 
the interaction lasted literally 5 seconds
self-critting about this post because I should have realized they'd just diffuse the public outrage by giving a "conclusion" for the cameras 
god damn America
I’ve been trying to seem smarter by saying stuff I’ve read in the New York Times, such as the date and the weather.
I love how the tagline for MELANIA is "A New Film". It doesn't get much lower-effort than that
from an article about it
The rights for Melania cost Amazon MGM Studios $US40 million ($57 million), an extraordinarily high sum for a documentary, and the company has spent an equally striking $US35 million ($50 million) on marketing for the movie.
This is basically a bribe, right? We can all agree that this is a bribe?
Me when all my beliefs are indistinguishable from that of a Nazi in 1939
All these fucking [redacted] are calling me a fucking Nazi! They're so cringe!!!
it is january 28 and stalin saved the world from fascism