Because being able to ignore politics is helpful to the liberal west who is trying to cling to status quo. It’s not helpful to marxist leninists who don’t like the status quo. This doesn’t make .ml more political, it’s just equally political reactions from different sides of an issue.

Assisting and seeking to ignore or cover up clear abuses only serves to shield the abuser. Whistle-blowing might seem like a more political response to abuse, but covering up abuse is also political.

The fact that you’re so avoidant of the inherent politics of the everyday world is a reaction desirable to the status quo, which is itself political. Congratulations, your kind of politics is status-quo-enjoyer which kills countless people every year for you to remain comfortable and blind to politics.

Boss makes a dollar,

I make a dime,

Ignore the hunger,

Highlight the crime

Quote from the appeals court ruling from Massachusetts v. Mellon, 262 U.S. 447 (1923)

It is quite obvious that the national motto and the slogan on coinage and currency ‘In God We Trust’ has nothing whatsoever to do with the establishment of religion. Its use is of patriotic or ceremonial character and bears no true resemblance to a governmental sponsorship of a religious exercise. …It is not easy to discern any religious significance attendant the payment of a bill with coin or currency on which has been imprinted ‘In God We Trust’ or the study of a government publication or document bearing that slogan. In fact, such secular uses of the motto was viewed as sacrilegious and irreverent by President Theodore Roosevelt. Yet Congress has directed such uses. While ‘ceremonial’ and ‘patriotic’ may not be particularly apt words to describe the category of the national motto, it is excluded from First Amendment significance because the motto has no theological or ritualistic impact. As stated by the Congressional report, it has ‘spiritual and psychological value’ and 'inspirational quality.”

Try to sue them if you’d like, but there’s already precedent for this argument. Like I said previously, there’s far better ways to erode public trust (though the US is doing a pretty good job of that currently with funding multiple wars while people go hungry and their medical care is stripped)

[Leviticus 19:33-34]

“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

“Ummm Christians? You’ve either got to abandon your anti-immigrant stance or change the Bible. Checkmate.“

This kind of argument accomplishes nothing. Anti-immigrant Christians will ignore or double down. Changing the Bible, like changing the design of money, has been done before and will be done again.

Why would lawyers have to bypass the law to protect capital if protection of capital is the law? IP lawyers aren’t doing back-alley deals to uphold the IP law they specialized in. But even if something did slip through, it doesn’t guarantee a loss for capitalists since they can buy the outcome they want or choose the judge that they’re friends with.

Could you please form your own arguments without using an LLM? Like what is your goal here? Is it just to make people see the lies of empire? There are better examples of that (not that giving people historical examples of the empires lies actually changes their minds about things if they’re comfortable with the status quo) Lies are an everyday occurrence in our government. Spending legal fees, time, and energy just for a pointed finger and a “Ha! Gotcha! Now you have to change your money!” doesn’t seem preferable to just changing the system itself without the help of the bourgeois legal system.

Yes, I know how the fictitious movie ends and the logic it uses to get there. But maybe actual lawyers know the law better than movie script writers or the hallucinating LLM you’re using.

The entire foundation of capitalism is based on property ownership. You think capitalists would slap their foreheads and simultaneously say “oh jeez we made an oopsie putting that line on our money and now we have to get rid of the foundational aspect to all our wealth and power. Guess there’s nothing we can do about it- bribing judges for outcomes that benefit us is something we’d never think of doing with our untold riches.”?

They’d abandon religion before they abandon property ownership. We’d be forced to swap all our dollars to UsCoin or whatever cryptocurrency if a court case ever were to threaten capital (which it wouldn’t because the basis itself is dubious).

I haven’t seen the 1947 miracle on 34th street, but I have seen the remake, which changed the ending a bit.

Instead of a letter from the post office, a dollar bill is handed to the judge. The highlighted phrase “in god we trust” on that dollar keeps Santa from going to jail with the argument “if the us government can believe in god, it could also believe in Santa Claus”

Someone got their law degree from the movie Miracle on 34th Street

I had to explain to someone the other day what “dead internet theory” was and I wondered if I’m the one that’s too online.

I fear the iceberg is far larger than I imagined.

My liberal arts classes always emphasized that it was neoliberalism that was bad because “Walmart”, but liberalism was great because “freedom”.

The defensiveness is such a difficult thing to break through IRL. Trying to convince liberals it isn’t just Trump and isn’t just republicans probably isn’t the best strategy for getting liberals to see the issues with America as a system (or at least the way I’m doing it). Though strangers tend to be a bit less willing to push back as much as family and friends of family it seems.

I burned a Blu-ray like 2 weeks ago. I also routinely burn CDs because my relatively new car still has a player built in (though I think in the last 3 years, Subaru got rid of it on newer models)

This is probably not exactly what you’re looking for, but I rode across the USA (4200 miles across 12 weeks) about a decade ago and this is what I did:

I used an ancient kindle to display my pdf route/cue sheet from a clear pouch on a handlebar bag that I could easily read and “flip through” while riding. (You can also just use paper) The battery life lasted long enough to get through every week of campsites where power isn’t promised. We’d stop at a hotel about once a week just to have a nice shower and charge our things. Of course I also had a full set of maps as well, but they are more difficult to read while you’re riding- thus route/cue sheet.

I had my phone and would use GPS if I feel like I got lost. I didn’t have great service in large patches of the route, but the gps works regardless, so as long as you have the GPX files, it should point you in the right direction.

I also have a SON hub dynamo that lead to a Sinewave Cycles Revolution USB charger (there’s probably more modern USB chargers you can buy nowadays). But with that I charged a usb power bank and was able to charge my phone every night.

I’d also be interested if there exists a singular device like that that is able to last a long time on a tour. Good luck and have fun on the road!!

Back in the day, Avid (the company that makes professional software like media composer and pro tools) sold a NAS system called ISIS (Infinitely Scalable Intelligent Storage). The studio I worked at had a different system, but the head of post production still called it “the ISIS” because he got used to calling the network storage that.

HonDashi. I add it to nearly all my soup stocks (unless I’m trying to make a dish vegetarian).

One month old joke not being extreme enough.

We might get 30cm of snow the next few days 😅

And now for the final question of our game which always pertains to real life skills. Buzz in if you can find the incorrect part of this statement: “Developing an accurate view of the world is difficult if you don’t have a method to verify information. One surefire way to know what’s going on thousands of miles away is to trust anonymous sources and NGOs at their word when they tell you through western mass media and without any proof that our adversaries are doing evil things.”