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This impresses the hell out of me. I don’t collect but I’ve known many collectors, and I know what a decision like this represents.

Solarium or GTFO

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If antifa is an actual political organization, militia, or whatever they’ve been described as by the far right for over a decade, how on earth do I still have no idea where to donate?

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I’m speaking to motive, not outcome, because a soldier is just a soldier in the end, one who enlists for myriad reasons but ultimately forfeits civilian rights to serve a purpose that most hope is just. You are attacking your truest ally out of fear for your own safety knowing that they already forfeited theirs. It’s dishonorable and you should stop.

Most bash fans I’ve known carve out an exception for powershell from their overall critique of windows. Personally, I think it’s not a fair comparison considering how god fucking awful everything else is in windows, but I do agree that it’s a decent shell.

E: i acknowledge that this one in particular is somewhat unfair to our ace friends, but this type of in-house ribbing is absolutely on-brand for polandball

I didn’t read it that way, but even if I had I wouldn’t give anyone shit for it, simply because it’s selfish and cowardly to goad others into taking risks for my sake, especially when they already have.

Why do you scorn your comrades for not paying a price that you yourself have not paid?

Oh shit, deadass would subscribe to queerball

Did they get that thumbdrive on aliexpress?

Denethor, fresh off a palantir binge, criticizes Faramir for being alive (2025, crayon on canvas)

There are worse ways to use the force

Founding CEOs and those working for small companies usually are at least not-far-removed from the life experiences of their employees. In many cases they draw a relatively low salary and have a meager lifestyle compared to their most skilled employees. The pop culture tropes of the callous fatcat, ruthless machiavel, nepotistic bungler, etc are informed mostly by career CEOs hired by much larger corporations.

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Weird but, probably not. This is especially true if

1. there’s an employer match to consider
2. the retirement vehicle type is exempted from civil and/or legal disputes
3. the class of debt can be discharged via bankruptcy
4. you expect inflation to continually chip away at remaining debt principal
5. you expect markets to perform on average as they have historically
6. your contributions can lower your tax burden now or later

Among other things

Haha *click*

Immediately dropped into ongoing estate crises. Your staff hasn’t been paid in months. An angry groundskeeper has set fire to the stables. A nearby parish seeks restitution for damage to its roof. You apparently have relatives with expensive vices whose debtors won’t leave you alone. The clerk insists that the novelty title company you speak of does not exist and your peerage is duly confirmed.

E: Everyone keeps reminding you that you must produce an heir. Suitors hang on the bell, each of them somehow more hideous than the last.

Not OP, but they’re right that successful collective action requires a modicum of focus and prioritization – i.e., a spam filter – and it’s especially important for negative headlines since they can easily demoralize, frighten, and even paralyze would-be activists.

It’s an insidious problem for online leftism because too many of us labor exclusively within an activist paradigm of amplification, advocacy, and awareness that excels at igniting a fire of vigilance within people without proffering action to which they might apply it, other than “spread the word.”

That leads to an emotionally exhausting, unproductive churn of frustration and negativity which slowly poisons the activist with anxiety, panic, and despair.

TLDR: Unmeasured vigilance disrupts action, and vigilance without action is worse than oblivion.