Yes, we have decades between (direct involvement in) wars!!
We didn’t even spend actual money on war stuff the last few decades.

But we sure are gonna do it now, we need to protect our drinking water (for the coming water wars) and update our firewalls (for the coming Skynet wars).

It just wanted to remove French, ofc I said yes!!

But also, honestly, I always “-y”.
The gamble is I’ll have to use an earlier bitchtree btrfs snapshot.

And thx for the great commentary on point 13.

No, I meant the immediate people involved in the revolution, those often don’t fair well & don’t last long (eg people in a party, not necessarily main headline names). Iirc Russia changed almost everyone in charge in the 20s & 30s to a more stable structure afterwards.

In such system changes the country often goes through another (lesser) system revolution a few years after the first one (when the focus is to just keep shit running) & it’s better that people involved change at that point too.

Like what happened with Robespierre (~Jacobins), the early two or three years under Lenin, and I think Slovakia or Poland when they transitionv away from communism they forbid running for office to anyone that held any official power under the previous regime (the same people that formally facilitated the end of communism since it as that kind of revolution).

What you showed is what happened after after that, so the point of revolution. And I couldn’t agree more with that. My point was not in that. It’s that you need admins and regular politicians to run any system smoothly, and the few 1000s of people revolutioning arent usually the best at tirelessly debating a monetary policy or what road laws to use.

(Oh, the “plundering” part - yes, perhaps the wrong word to use, I meant that fairly literally, irl taking things, not doing it in an organised legal manner which is how “the 1% gets to exist” – and you can se that clearly in the Russia chart too, 90s capitalism was the framework for that, so “paper” not raiding rich houses)

Actually its prob like only one or two laser lines you can casually step over.

But the are super sensitive & triggery.

Beat or being able to flourish once the Goth Galadriel is gone?

Because historically the revolutionary forces (the one toppling the bourgeoisie) are extremely shitty governors (just continuing mass murdering & plundering which kinda makes sense if you think how & what they have been through).

In very few historical instances of regime changes all the previous actors as well as anyone involved in the revolution were prohibited in forming the new structure. This helps a lot to actually change the system.

You wouldn’t want to move from a czar to a dictator, thats long term the same bullshit, only makes things better in short term.

Same with any oligarchy, if it exists and has power than it matters little what kind of regime it technically is.

Edit: I might have chosen poor words but I didn’t mean that the ideologies behind revolutions make for poor government, just literally the force of a few 100 or 1000 people directly involved in the forceful part of the revolution. The fighty-fighty people.

Oh, the sharpening of that French tech for just such occasions.

Mmm, delicious advice duck … is telling me to eat the rich?
Welp, who am I to question it’s wisdom, must be the right thing to do.

I set my root users without a password so hackers can’t see the password!

But crossdressing does help a load

Because such was the style at the time.
But now we Lemmy!

… I am somehow completely missing two days worth of memories, completely blank.
I hope it’s not related.

You are in luck:

Yes, I basically searched for which one is least likely to defederate from random shit.

I’m prepared to traverse seas of horrors to bring home fresh memes every single day (except I sometimes skip alternating Tuesdays if I have to wait for too long to say hi to Reginald).

Rofl the Reddit eyes are perfect.

Also … the last panel sounds like lemmyon.grab …

I would - but what children?
All have already been sacrificed to “the economy and profits”, we are waiting for people to be born to immediately sacrifice them bcs we are so much indebted to the great “the economy and profits”.

All hail “the economy and profits”, may it’s economy enslave us, and it’s profits get redistributed away from us.

What I keep seeing: $ $ $ $ $

Also I’m sure the designs are absolutely as humanly possible adapted to perfectly achieve their goal. Too much money, people, and time involved for this not to be the case.

And the goal was never ease of use, that doesn’t bring in any more money when you have a monopoly. Engagement & forced ads do.
(By ‘forced ads’ in this case I do not mean directly advertising a specific product, but forcing you to pause your thoughts to specifically and consciously think about Google making the name/brand ever more part of your actual life and as such its shitty behaviour gets normalised, even trusted - thats just how our brains work even when we think otherwise … and I hope we all think of Google as a curse on humanity.)

No fucking way, I have to go to work tomorrow, my soulless cubicle needs me.

This is perfect for capitalism with Matrix bio-fuel-cells-human/battery tech!

It would have been too easy to just chill peacefully and unbothered in my cozy pod - they would feed me a hallucination of a dead-end job the whole time, complete with all the stupid office buttons I have to press.

Envisioned in the general direction.

Like holodeck tech.

- “Can artificial hallucination run Doom?”
- “What kind of stupid question is that??? Ofc it can, let me show you …”