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masquenox , 11 days ago to nottheonion in This inmate says rat gave birth in his pants- but no suprise

Her Majesty’s Penitentiary inmate Devon Fitzpatrick says early one morning in mid-May Her Majesty’s Penitentiary inmate Devon Fitzpatrick woke up and felt something moving in Her Majesty’s Penitentiary’s crotch of Her Majesty’s Penitentiary’s pants. When he reached in, he discovered Her Majesty’s Penitentiary’s rat had given birth there.

FTFT.

If they want to make it clear how thoroughly Her Majesty’s (or whatever mutant inbred blue-blooded critter they’ve got on the throne now) ownership of this person is, I say they shouldn’t be allowed to stop half-way.

masquenox , 13 days ago to aboringdystopia in 'There Has to Be a Fight': How Workers Can Start Winning the Class War in 2024 and Beyond

A bad union is still worse than no union - though I wouldn’t want to be quoted on that.

masquenox , 13 days ago to technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

Nor did I ever mention NASA nor make a judgment on which group was morally superior.

Oh, you didn’t have to - you just stepped in to help on of your fellow libs do a bog-standard and thinly-veiled “Jewish-Bolshevism” jig - that is all.

Aaaaaand…

It’s not terribly surprising that both NASA and the USSR space program did awful things to animals.

…the backpedalling begins.

Not very unpredictable, methinks.

masquenox , 13 days ago to technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

And rushed it so bad they didn’t have fundamental tech that was applicable to a wider economy

I hate to break it to you, Clyde - but the central technologies developed by the space race was “applicable to a wider economy” on both sides of the Cold War. The USSR had weather and communications satellites, too - unless you want to argue that those served no economic purpose to the USSR, perhaps?. Perhaps you are a bit too dazzled by all the anciliary stuff that dominates your consumerist fantasies? I’m sure you believe NASA’s handheld vacuum cleaners made capitalism better for all the people that didn’t get to live the middle-class WASP dream thanks to the New Deal… but it really didn’t.

Handing off publicly-funded research and development to be used as a means of private profiteering for the capitalist class at the expense of everyone else (including you) is simply the way the US has always done technology - pretending that the USSR not doing the same is somehow a “flaw” is peak neoliberalism.

Their space program was callous towards both human and animal life.

I guess it’s a good thing that NASA wasn’t very forthcoming with their animal experimentation, eh? I wonder if the outcry would have been the same?

Yeah… sounds like Tuesday to me.

Khrushchev also ordered Leonid Brezhnev to head an investigation commission and go to the site.[11] Among other things, the commission found that many more people were present on the launch pad than should have been—most were supposed to be safely offsite in bunkers.

When Brezhnev arrived at the firing range on 25 October 1960, he said: “Comrades! We do not intend to put anyone on trial; we are going to investigate the causes and take actions to recover from the disaster and continue operations”

Afterwards, when Nikita Khrushchev asked Yangel, “But why have you remained alive?”, Yangel answered in a trembling voice, “Walked away for a smoke. It’s all my fault”. Yangel later suffered a heart attack and was off work for months.

After all… we can’t pretend thay the “Jewish-Bolshevist horde” would actually value human life now, can we? What would Reagan say?

Nah, I like my version better.

Yeah, you do, because you’re an edgy liberal self-applying the term “socialist” without understanding what it means because you desperately want to distance yourself from your capitalist and fascist brethren while still buying into the same beliefs they hold on to.

masquenox , 13 days ago to technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

It’s well known that horrible things happened to animals during the Russian space program.

Yes… “everybody” knows that the “Jewish-Bolshevist horde” couldn’t possibly have an ounce of human compassion for animals, isn’t it?

But hold on there before you start calling for another go at “lebensraum,” Clyde - let’s first check who it is that you are actually comparing them to, shall we?

You sound like a liberal

Stop projecting, liberal - I’m not the one jerking off Cold War propaganda here. You are.

masquenox , 13 days ago to technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

but they were bad at building fundamental tech.

Yeah, they were so bad at it that they ended up in space first. Just absolutely terrible.

Their space program was callous towards both human and animal life.

Show us your proof, PragerU fan.

It wasn’t built in a way where successes could be leveraged for more successes.

So the Soviet Union launching Sputnik had absolutely nothing to do with them successfully landing Venera 7 on the surface of Venus?

Absolutely nothing at all, eh?

Strange how your right-wing friends at the RAND corporation didn’t share your Ben Shapiro-level shittakes about the Soviet space program.

capitalism was able use space technology to improve the lives of the working class capitalist parasites better than a supposedly communist system did.

FTFY.

Also, learn what the word “irony” means.

masquenox , 14 days ago to technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

As far as I’m aware, the USSR started importing grain in the 60s - primarily to feed livestock as meat became a regular thing for Soviet citizens.

masquenox , 14 days ago to technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

It’s not just that… thanks to the USSR we have technologies that wouldn’t have even existed if it was left up to the capitalists. Such as synthetic diamonds and… you know - anything and everything to do with space.

masquenox , 14 days ago to cat in This person's grandfather is WILD

Blasphemer!

masquenox , 14 days ago to technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

Sure, when you can force the workforce to do a thing,

Yeah… turns out that homelessness is a great motivator.

But they’ll probably do it slower than if they chose to do it.

Soooo… just like wage slaves, eh?

food production, basic manufacturing

After 1947 there was no great problems with food production in the USSR. Still… you’re not really wrong. The capitalist mode of production does offer a feedback system for consumer goods - even though it’s a pretty terrible one that only works as long as the capitalists have to compete for a well-paid populace’s buying power.

masquenox , 14 days ago to showerthoughts in Capitalism is essentially alive

I’d say it’s more apt to think of capitalism as a parasite that turns all the functions (as you described them) of an organism into something that induces self-destructive behavior that only serves the short-term goals of the parasite - you know, like Cordyceps fungi.

masquenox , 14 days ago to showerthoughts in The Hyperloop might be a good idea maybe a 100 years from now

Nope. In a hundred years, bog-standard trains will still be a far superior idea.

masquenox , 14 days ago to showerthoughts in Everything I know about being in my 40s is what I learned from Al Bundy

Man, I am so glad I didn’t turn into that - my extended family actually like having me around.

masquenox , 14 days ago to news in ‘This will not be 1968.’ Chicago police prepare for DNC as whole world watches once again.

See, this is why you don’t get your politics from a dictionary.

a: government by the people especially : rule of the majority

If a was true, where is your universal healthcare?

I could ask a book’s worth of, “If a was true, (insert blatantly obvious contradiction here)” questions that this worse-than-useless dictionary description doesn’t provide answers to.

And that’s just a… it just gets worse from there on in.

Let’s rather try this - why do you think labor unions have been historically necessary? After all… if it wasn’t for labor unions, you wouldn’t even have the week-end - or anything resembling safety regulations. Labour unions are a democratic force (in theory - and sometimes in practice) acting on an anti-democratic power structure (ie, a for-profit, privately owned corporation - in this instance)

If you lived in a democratic society, such a force wouldn’t be necessary, no?

masquenox , 14 days ago to news in ‘This will not be 1968.’ Chicago police prepare for DNC as whole world watches once again.

I don’t disagree with anything you’ve typed here.

But if you call any of what you described democratic, I will say that your bar for what qualifies as democratic or not is so low you’d need a bathyscape to see it.