If the “practical left” is just voting for the less-bad, while shitting on and shunning the people trying to do the hard work because the magical Fairy of Good hasn’t yet shown up to establish that foothold with a wave of the wand

No one is doing that.

Which is why the practical arm of the left promotes the Dems. Not because they are enough, or even good, but because of the two options they are the less overtly fascist. We don’t vote blue because it’s sufficient, we do it because it’s necessary to slow the descent enough for sufficient methods to take hold. Neo liberal democracy is a farce, but it’s a farce with a bad outcome and a catastrophic outcome.

We vote for bad to stave off catastrophe, so good can actually establish a foothold. Didn’t pay off this time unfortunately, now good has to be fantastic to even slide a toe in the door, and it’s a steep uphill battle at that. You’re right, fascism is definitely more prominent in the MAGA right, our job is harder than it had to be, but so it goes.

Silver lining, I guess we can lean into accelerationism now. Not my first choice, for the sake of those less financially stable than myself, but not really much option now. Send it, sure, might as well at this point. I would’ve preferred building a viable labor movement under the “stationary” part of the ratchet cycle, but we’re here now. If we’re playing the hand we’re dealt, sure, accelerationism.

Cavatappi, hands down

Hell, even I Robot, a movie that should have had a female lead, turned Calvin in to a supporting role to put a man in the lead.

That’s exactly the point, arbitrarily changing the characters is unsatisfying. I, Robot should have been about Calvin.

I eat kiwis with the skin, still wouldn’t eat the strawberry leaf

Cylinders are the extreme upper limit of a prism

Huh, I’d considered “prism” to be the general and “cylinder” to be specifically circular, but apparently cylinder is general. Go figure.

As opposed to a non-circular cylinder?

“just” is a bit reductive, but yeah that wouldn’t hurt

I mean there are several things I still look forward to, but the grammar implies things that have already happened. I guess Dwarf Fortress with an actual GUI, so for around about a decade.

Arguably, some degree of food supply uncertainty is most natural, and what our metabolism developed to accommodate. Security is great, morally, but I don’t think our caveman metabolism is adjusting that quickly. I don’t think that should curtail the efforts we make to secure food for all, but it’s worth consideration.

There we go, that’s more like it

The Home Depot doesn’t make sense, Shell/Exxon/BP would be more appropriate

“Four individually wrapped varieties” implies each of your grandparents was a separate, distinct nationality

Your loss, I assume you’ve never had a proper medium rare

That used to be me, until I discovered that a proper medium rare retains all that flavor and moisture while drastically improving the texture

You must be a crewman on the Sargossa

How to Combine Documents in Microsoft Word

I always suspected

Free? Someone’s never had to install the stuff.

Fitting, since this picture looks like it was taken from inside the Van from the Clown Core album