Zombie-Mantis

Maybe in some scientific settings, but nowhere else. Why would it be logical to use a temperature system in every-day life who’s base is set to a temperature that doesn’t exist on Earth? Celsius and Fahrenheit are human-scale measurements, useful in daily applications. Celsius is a bit more logic-y, and Fahrenheit is intuitive.

As in, an improvement on the original (fewer famines) model? Or an upgraded, more effective (bigger famines) model?

Maybe this time they won’t dismantle the worker’s councils after the revolution, that’d be nice.

I think I’ve got an even better idea, then. Make the carving the main attraction. Cut the shoots down after everyone’s done, let it grow until it’s tall again, and repeat the process.

You could make it play into some historical traditions of impermanence and cycles of death & rebirth

Call me crazy, but who cares? It’s bamboo. Those names will disappear in about a week. Reinstate the entry fee, have a guy water-bottle-spray teens carving up the grass too much, and call it a day. It’s not that complicated, nor a huge deal, it’s bamboo.

M’Perry

It’s the difference between the culinary use of the word and the biological use of the word. I thought we already figured that out?

Well, that kid didn’t ask to be there, so that’s pretty tragic.

That letter looks like a written speech impediment. Like you can’t quite pronounce “th” so you say something stuck between “p” & “b.”

I know what it is, I just don’t especially like the look of thorn.

Well, Trump has had some harsh words against Putin recently. The issue for him is that he’s too fucking impatient. He wants to be the man who solved the war in a day, but neither side is willing to give up like that. First he supported Russia, but the Ukrainians wouldn’t give in, then he supported the Ukrainians, but the Russians wouldn’t give-in. Then he pivoted to the middle East, hence the “12-day war” that he “ended.”

This business with Venezuela is no different, in my eyes. He wants a big win under his belt, and an external threat to bring a rally-aroud-the-flag. It’s like Mussolini desperately invading Ethiopia, in hopes of strengthen his position at home, only to isolate Italy from the world. It’s all just very, very stupid and evil and shortsighted.

Reopening Venezuela to the global markets is certainly a part of it, but “stealing their oil” isn’t. It’s more about the fact that they’re a thorn in America’s side, by not being part of the established political order, and calling themselves Socialist. It’s just all politics, and balancing coalition interests with public image.

Though, they wouldn’t really be “reinstating capitalism” either, just reopening them to markets and (hopefully, from their perspective) privatizing parts of the economy. Or, more specifically, bringing them into the global investment capital system. Venezuela only ever really nationalized a few key industries, there aren’t giant worker-enterprizes to disassemble, like in the Russian Civil War. It’s a much easier transition, and still, in pursuit of domestic political capital, not resource rights.

We’re not trying to steal their oil. The reasons are much stupider than that: fascists need an external enemy to justify their militarism. They’re desperate for a rally around the flag. Same as with Iraq.

Buddy, they never liked foreigners to begin with. That’s like… Their whole thing.

VPN set to California?

This shit’s so embarrassing

Yes.

Same reason we don’t prosecute any of the other war crimes.

A bit of philosophy/media would help as well, it doesn’t help to teach someone science, if they don’t understand what science is.

Oh thank God, finally.

“Year of the Linux Phone” has a nice ring to it.