I love Haro Aso so much, dude. Alice in Borderlands is just such a beautiful metaphor, I'll never get over it. This has been on my list for a while, I think Im gonna have to read it now.

I get where you're coming from but wanting an option other than corporate politicians is very different from willingly electing your last president as a childish incompetent dictator.

..but capitalism is so good, things only get better!!! The market is too regulated, is the problem

True! Getting rid of these AirBnBs probably doesn't hurt things though. Now they might actually get a long-term resident.

Unbearably frustrating. We really need to abandon cars as a concept.

Omg, I hadn't thought of that. Social security is taxed from income, American wages have been stagnant since the 70s.

I think there's a video of incel Nick Fuentes saying that because plenty of gay men have had sex with women and he's still a virgin, having sex with a woman is gay. That's pretty damn close to this.

https://www.rawstory.com/nick-fuentes-gay/

Yeah. It's the usual nonsense habits of people that they will defend to their dying breath

This started when we lost swappable batteries and it never stopped. Will never get over it either.

Could it just be that AI web crawlers are anonymously generating a ton of Linux user-agents and throwing off the numbers?

Ugh, living in a forest like that sounds idyllic

And that statement is stupid as fucking shit.

That's the irony.

But Density means communism to them so they're suddenly fine with regulations and taxes that prop up an unsustainable suburban ponzi scheme because that's the lie sold about the American Dream.

When they see how unaffordable housing has become they say, "good, my house is more expensive."

kiWi2K

Well I think it was successful for the same reason so many unicorn startups are. They were bankrolled by promising angel investors marketshare so they were able to run artificially brutally low prices to dry out the rest of the market for years. But now investors are asking for those profits back and we're here dealing with horrible Airbnb prices AND it made the housing crisis worse. Double whammy, bb!!

I don't even think the meme is about communism as much as it is just venting about how corps turned free-software into the panopticon it is today.

But Idc if Torvalds is a Marxist bc I'm not either, but marx wrote about how the proletariat should own stocks, so that isn't even disqualifying tho.

And tbh I think most "marxists" just adopt that term because our political discourse is so corrupted that anyone who thinks that we shouldn't curb-stomp an Amazon employee for wanting a bathroom break is treated like they're Mao anyway.

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury is a book of short stories that are great. I really like the rain and he has a story called The Long Rain which I read a lot. He has a few in there that are actually really spooky though.

The Marionette's Inc was just taken and adapted into a loosely based episode in the last season of Black Mirror (Beyond The Sea)! They're very very different, but it's the same concept applied differently and the book itself shows up in the episode.

So many in these comments deserve to go the way of that chip.

Omg I love this comeback, will be using that 😂

Is that quantum or is there another rewrite I don't know about?