no idea, that’s just the alias that the auction website is showing for the two top bidders.

fair point, I hadn’t considered this

Here’s the link. JS and MN are in a bidding war over it, I certainly hope neither of them are us because I’m pretty sure 99% of the people here would rather that money go to mutual aid.

anyone can slap a battery and electric motors onto a chassis

damn man tell me you don’t know anything about EVs without telling me

In the past decade, EV makers have had to invent new chemistry and they still haven’t fully cracked the nut of putting enough power into a lightweight enough battery to compete with a tank of gas. I’m fully on board with EVs as they exist now (but of course mass transit would be even better), but for the average consumer in America they’re still just not good enough, which was why the extremely low price on some Chinese cars was such an exciting development.

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I decided to read the Wikipedia talk page for the Gulf of Mexico and it seems they’re not going to change it at least for now, but it is still very funny to read the pro-change arguments being presented.

since the development of agriculture

In the period between agriculture and industrialization, we were still polyphasic to a degree. Medieval writers note that workers in the fields used to take a midday nap, a tradition that lasted until factory owners stamped it out in the name of productivity.

“Saint Friday” was also a weekend day back then, or like a half day at least. It got taken too, until the weekend as a concept was retaken by modern workers’ movements.

Remember a couple of years ago when Congress almost accidentally banned that shit? Imagine them doing something incredibly popular but only because nobody was paying attention and the bill accidentally got passed.

Of course when they realized they were about to do something good they cancelled it.

Actually, the current sleep cycle was created by factory owners around the start of the industrial revolution. Prior to that the most common (in Europe at least idk about the whole world) was to sleep was in two chunks, most of it at night and the rest as a nap during the hottest part of the day. Early capitalists created the idea of waking the whole town up at the same time with church bells and eliminating the midday nap.

I don’t know if it was us or genzedong but the “The Maoist uuprising against the landlords” paragraph became a copypasta from our general milieu

X-2

Idol group attempts to save the world with the power of music, but that doesn’t work so they switch to the power of violence

With the way the game is now, it’s more like:

Time traveling fangirl gets fated hero to speedrun saving the world ten times simultaneously.

So you’re saying that if I change my name to “Diversity Trans Inclusion” then I can disappear from every government list and database?

A whole ass-stadium of people yelling “a minor” lmao

Trump remembers that a lot of the people who support him are drop shippers.

It’s called the national security act. You’re not allowed to say anything pro-communist, and of course they’ve used that as a premise to crack down on less radical worker organizing too. The main character in Squid Game explicitly has a PTSD flashback to one such crack down, which is implied to be directly why his life sucks because he and others involved in that unionization movement all got blacklisted by South Korea’s ruling corporations.

gotta say, I did not have “techbros destroy the united states federal government by pushing untested updates to the treasury’s payment system” on my 2025 bingo card

I believe, if we don’t kill ourselves, we will be able to simulate the dead and bring everyone back.

Hell yeah I love this premise. I’ve always imagined it in a sci fi far future context, like humanity solves the economy and spreads out to the solar system and somebody gets the idea to do this as the ultimate utopian project, running back the entire history of the Earth as a simulation in order to pluck out people’s consciousnesses right before their death and resurrect them to live in the immortal space future.

Long story short: an offshoot of the rationalists (the ones who are scared of a hypothetical future AI god torturing their metaverse avatar) got really extreme, insular, and cultlike. This has resulted in numerous deaths, including multiple of their own members, an ICE officer, and the landlord who owned the RV lot that they lived on. A few of the members are in jail, but I think the leader tried to fake their own death and is still on the lam. The story has Manson Family vibes, with a charismatic leader gathering a group of troubled people to their side and pushing them to do violent shit, and in this case that leader is a trans nonbinary vegan.