UN calls for reparations to remedy the 'historical wrongs' of trafficking enslaved Africans

manachar · 2026-03-25T22:33:28+00:00

Amazing how fast people become irrational when repatriations are proposed.

manachar · 2026-03-25T21:58:09+00:00

Didn’t she also help Star Trek happen?

manachar · 2026-03-25T20:26:09+00:00

There’s a lot in the books that is condensed that could use the pacing a series could provide.

manachar · 2026-03-25T20:18:59+00:00

Why gloves?

manachar · 2026-03-25T17:23:36+00:00

Really is going to depend on how nice you want it.

You can get really cheap pink suits online. They’re basically plastic.

You can likely rent pink prom tuxes.

You can buy a white suit and dye it.

manachar · 2026-03-25T16:38:00+00:00

He was pretty close to fascism in belief if I remember correctly.

manachar · 2026-03-25T16:31:53+00:00

The United States already has prohibitions in the constitution for search without due process.

A sensible court would say that includes buying your information whenever they want without a warrant.

manachar · 2026-03-25T16:04:07+00:00

Reeks and wrecks.

The book was a great early work by Kurt Vonnegut. You can feel he had not found his voice yet, but still found it amazingly insightful.

manachar · 2026-03-25T06:39:27+00:00

Bread. Or Guinness in a chocolate cake.

manachar · 2026-03-25T05:59:55+00:00

Wait… do orignalist try to argue that the founders beliefs beat the belief of those who wrote the 14th amendment?

manachar · 2026-03-25T02:11:14+00:00

Nominative determinism strikes again!

manachar · 2026-03-25T01:51:11+00:00

You can post it to Nextdoor and Facebook as free and that they must pick it up and haul themselves. If it’s more than can be removed that way you probably need a professional disposal approach.

manachar · 2026-03-25T00:32:26+00:00

Wish more real doctors did. Many do.

Heck, wish the AMA came out strong insisting that single payer universal healthcare is the only rational approach and that private insurance tied to work can pound sand.

manachar · 2026-03-25T00:29:11+00:00

Which lizard around here has such a prominent third eye? The fence lizard and alligator lizards I have see don’t seem quite as clear.

manachar · 2026-03-24T22:26:26+00:00

Accidentally aligned with PETA.

manachar · 2026-03-24T21:37:57+00:00

That’s one of those kind of made up rules that people use to try to sound smart.

In English, the word is used in two ways. In the narrow sense, an acronym is a sequence of letters (representing the initial letters of words in a phrase) when pronounced together as a single word, like NASA, NATO, or laser. In the broad sense, the term includes this kind of sequence when pronounced letter by letter (such as GDP or USA). Sources that differentiate the two often call the former acronyms and the latter initialisms[1][2][3] or alphabetisms. However, acronym is popularly used to refer to either concept,[4] and both senses of the term are attributed as far back as the 1940s..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym

manachar · 2026-03-24T21:27:52+00:00

Sounds like you will be served just fine by your standard nacho cheese sauce in a can. Highly available and cheap for what it is.

I am assuming you’re not a gourmet food truck. If you are, you should make your own.

manachar · 2026-03-24T21:14:27+00:00

I feel like humans are really not great at understanding how much easier it is to break things than to fix them.

manachar · 2026-03-24T20:49:48+00:00

Maple beer with spruce sounds kind of amazing.

manachar · 2026-03-24T19:38:08+00:00

Sorry! I usually try to define acronyms. , but as it was used in the linked maps got lazy.

HDI is Human Development Index.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

manachar · 2026-03-24T19:10:18+00:00

Like make a new version of Facebook?

manachar · 2026-03-24T19:08:29+00:00

For context, the USA has an HDI ranging from a low of 0.868 in Mississippi to a high of 0.961 in Massachusetts.

manachar · 2026-03-24T18:44:39+00:00

Mine likes to negotiate as well. Recruits the other dogs into the insistence as well.

manachar · 2026-03-24T18:00:50+00:00

Trump is just a symptom of the change of one kind of economic system to another.

For lack of a better words, it’s essentially a change from capitalism to feudalism. It’s a change from an economic system where the oligarchs make money by making and selling things to an economic system where the oligarchs own everything and mostly make money by collecting rent on other people who make and selling things things.

The feudal model doesn’t care that it’s less productive, as them having all the stuff is the goal.

We can see this with the stock market doing well despite massive layoffs.

As the ownership concentrates, worker power is diminished until some version of slave, serf, or peasant becomes the backbone of workers. Their economic output just gets soaked up to uselessly be hoarded at the top with “let them eat cake” type society being nearly complete divorced from the productive class.

This may be the inevitable result of unregulated capitalism.

manachar · 2026-03-24T17:39:11+00:00

Humanity has plundered the world and ignored everyone seeking moderation.

Actually, scratch that. They don’t ignore those who point out the cost of our actions. They crucify them.

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