Roach

Was that secret? I thought that was widely known

If we're still allowed to travel

Duh

So what is Newsom gonna do? He has to know that LAPD/LASD have been hostile to the concept of democracy for decades and were never going to follow that law. He doesn't have the stones to purge them, so what's he gonna do?

Just like Seattle

I think it's very noble of him to not rob the pharmacy.

We can't all go, but if you can, you should. We need comrades who can be safe abroad if things continue to worsen, who can provide support to those who could not leave.

We're doin' the Brain Drain thing rn in the US.

Europe is literally paying you to go over there and enjoy healthcare, civil rights, and social safety nets.

If you have IT certifications, Germany is begging you to come.

So they finally decided to do some monitoring?

I do doubt that LAPD is doing anything of the sort

Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation' Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.

The technology doesn't work. It *feels* like it works, so they keep doing science to see whether it does or it doesn't. But when you look at it with science instead of vibes, it just doesn't. https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chatbots-study-impact-earnings-hours-worked-any-occupation/

Not alone they can't

Turn from the ruin. Turn and go *forward*.

They'll still struggle in the US where charging infrastructure is under attack by lunatics and public infrastructure is almost completely unsupported

Something I think about a lot is that liberal society defers solutions to problems until there's literally no other choice.

Nobody wants to find out their friend got drugged at a party, but nobody wants to be the guy who suddenly escalated the violence in the room to throw him out beforehand.

No they aren't. I'm kind of thinking they probably made another one, or at least discarded this one, after COVID though

That's the bulk of American allies, numerically by country. Where they didn't exist, we created them.

Probably should've tried to make more friends instead of providing for genocide

Are the Saudis not dependable allies? Are they our landlords?

Maybe we should've thought about making dependable allies instead of supporting the genocidal ethnostate to the hilt.

It should be noted that this is from 2009 and contains assumptions from even older bodies of work.

I would think the advancement of neoliberalism would result in an even more hands off response

In both cases, we should do something effective to end the abuse

They already do this in a lot of places

I love to have this in common with a favorite artist

No it's just just capitalism working how it always has. Centralization of power is like the main thing this system does.

That is not how that works. Maybe look into things like inelastic demand and market capture.

Ours and every other time

This was always true and it's the height of ignorance to pretend it wasn't

Okay I take it back, which previous org did this fall out of?

Putting the name of the group in the healing would be helpful

I think it's the harness