they should make an imitation human baby called “humane baby”

reddit is truly incredible they’re telling OP to vote for Genocide Joe in the comments

I just want something chewy and savory with protein that I can dunk in sauces

imitation baby, tastes just like the real thing

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they added it !!! uncritical support to peoples revolutionary site tagline mods

not a bike lane in sight. I now recognize my mistakes and condemn this Stalinist revisionist authoritarian autocratic regime

You’re right about Barbie (I haven’t seen Oppenheimer). The jokes were good but even an uncritical reading of its message fails. It needed to articulate a real theory of change through collective action, not vague “trick the men somehow”, but it couldn’t be revolutionary because it was at its core an ad for Mattel toys (and GM electric vehicles lol). I was honestly amazed to hear arguments about how it’s impossible for women to meet the contradictory feminine ideal applied in genuine defense of a DOLL. Extremely clever, pernicious co-optation. Punching left with the wokescold caricature girl to attack radical feminism seals the deal for me. Pink bloc and Hi Barbies! are important; the movie intends to bring “feminism” to everyone by having it mean nothing (and by enormous advertising spend).

However we need to put this in the site header carousel messages right away:

I probably am in the top 20% of grass touchers on this site

“people are less likely to read the original stuff, and it becomes clear that part of the original work is simply wrong”

(a) hexbear is running a Capital book club at this very moment (b) Marx was right.

Mighty Weinersmith, from a liberal perspective, deals a killing stroke to DSA’s North Star caucus and possibly Pete Buttigieg types. I’m quaking in my boots

They’re still pushed for the reasons you mentioned, but I think an experiential or specialty shop gift card - ideally something that the person would consider an indulgence and wouldn’t go to on their own - can be a fine gift. The recipient “gets” the experience of shopping without guilt/thriftiness, and they pick something they like within the bounds of the gift. E.g. you could give somebody a certificate to a small Etsy seller and they can pick jewelry that matches their outfits, or to a fancy truffle shop and they will avoid buying flavors they don’t particularly like. Coupon for glassblowing or cooking class? Cool gift. But it’s got to demonstrate thought, a Target gift card sucks and multi-store gift cards like the picture are just money with extra steps

endless and expensive wilderness therapy programs for troubled teens in Utah

oh jeez.

also please note that My Old School is actually about Bard College, where both Chambers and Steely Dan went to school. That’s a “neat, alma mater mentioned” kind of remark not a “music is secretly talking about me” kind of remark. Weiss L

honestly nobody knows or cares how public transport works. every once in a while car guys blow their minds by learning that normal city buses have turbos. doesn’t matter as long as it conveniently gets you from A to B

Lmao, no my dudes, it’s pretty well understood that you need to keep the battery warm enough to be able to charge. This is not some fucking unexplored field of science!

Anybody who owns a phone knows that charging a lipo heats it up; it’s natural - and mostly correct! - to assume that charging when cold works. What these people don’t know is that charging far below freezing damages the battery, which is why the firmware presumably is disabling charging altogether in such cold temperatures. If your EV is at 30% in the extreme cold, use some battery energy to warm it up a little (e.g. by driving) and then charge. If it’s at 0%, you’re stuck until you get it warm somehow.

instead some system that “runs the motor inefficiently to heat up the battery”. Doesn’t sound like this can work when the car is stationary

why not? isn’t an electric motor just a big resistor? Give it less than the inrush current, so there’s power spent but not enough to move. Obviously it’d be better to have the waste heat generated at the battery instead of at the motor, but discharge heating is better than nothing and battery resistance looks similar to phase resistance so it won’t be too lopsided.

Teslas are some of the worst EVs out there but my ICE is also eating shit right now without a block heater (which are usually aftermarket and require an outlet to plug into). The engineering omission was not including a battery heater with external power - perhaps they assumed that if you were able to drive to a charging station you’d have enough power to warm the battery.

Your comment denigrates veganism as an individual action, which communists rightly view as useless. People who are opposed to the goal don’t get to criticize tactics; you’re a liberal telling protesters not to block bridges.

i wish scott had stuck to writing centrist creepypastas

yeah mink was probably a bad example, they’re just emblematic of the industry in my head. Fur farming in general was banned in a bunch of countries before COVID zoonosis concerns: Austria 2004, Croatia 2007 (effective 2017), Norway 2018 (effective 2025), U.K. 2003, soft ban in Switzerland. These tend to be countries with weak fur industries before the ban. But they sometimes enact import bans as well which helps the struggle internationally. I would expect that as the movement builds steam socially it reduces demand for fur, which weakens the fur producers, so they’re less able to resist legislative demands.

I don’t mean to call you a hypocrite and expect that to change your mind. All of us live with cognitive dissonance; I adopted a cat before I went vegan, and I still feed him meat. What I want to do is establish that since you have no demonstrated interest in animal liberation (and presumably a vested interest in continuing to eat animals), you can’t criticize individual veganism on grounds of effectiveness. It’s like liberals saying “protestors should quit blocking bridges because they piss people off”. That might be true but their interest is going about their day, not whatever the protestors are protesting for; we can’t treat them as honest debaters who just want the best for the movement.

I think so, it’s only slightly less “better than nothing” than individual veganism.

As I’ve learned more about capitalism, I’ve been less enthusiastic about market effects and paying more attention to social effects. Being vegan or vegetarian is FAR more acceptable than it was a few years ago. One of my friends sought out my advice before going vegetarian and I think I provided a good example leading up to his decision. We’re building groundwork for a movement; animal welfare activists made it socially unacceptable to wear fur, leading to less demand (and less tortured minks) and a number of countries outright banning fur farms.

Not answering the question; sounds like you’re cool with factory farming. Argument works just fine for other consumption: you can’t be a communist and buy from Amazon and fail to work for worker’s liberation. You can’t oppose climate change and take lots of flights and fail to organize against climate change. If your beliefs are expressed through literally no actions, they’re not real.

absolutely correct comrade. I’m sure you’re making a great contribution to the organized fight against industrial animal torture

I’ll do my part