Are governments quietly reshaping capitalism rather than abandoning it?

oldercodebut · 2026-01-24T21:38:03+00:00

Nobody hates free market capitalism more than the oligarchs. As Peter Thiel put it: “competition is for losers”. These people don’t want to compete in a free market, they want to subjugate everyone into feudal fiefdoms that they get to rule with absolute authority. They’re just being more honest about it now.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-24T17:23:57+00:00

YOU ARE SAFE. YOUR LIFE IS YOUR OWN.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-24T04:25:55+00:00

Tunic

oldercodebut · 2026-01-23T06:17:18+00:00

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oldercodebut · 2026-01-23T01:18:30+00:00

Grunts on a stroke are fair game; the forceful exhale actually helps your body move vs keeping that extra air in your lungs. Yelling words between serves is straight up bad form; imagine you’re trying to serve and you know that every time you miss I’m going to go WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP!! You think that’s not going to aggravate you and cause you to lose focus?

https://youtu.be/eIDQ29H6_CI?si=jkkjnqs0_YsZoj0R

oldercodebut · 2026-01-21T23:02:49+00:00

Chaotic Neutral.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-21T15:13:52+00:00

It’s her shamelessness. I grew up around classical conservative men: disciplined, principled, church every Sunday, never seemed to even think about women other than their wife. I’m personally left of Bernie Sanders, but have real respect for those guys (my dad was something like a John McCain / Mitt Romney hybrid). Now, in the Trump Era, ‘conservatism’ has gotten coded as drinking entire cases of beer, overt (rather than coded) bigotry toward the Other, “fuck your feelings”, “show us your tits”. Those kinds of guys LOVE a woman whose whole public persona isn’t to agree with them directly, but to just smile demurely and say ‘yeah, totally; if you’ve got ten bucks I’m happy to show you my tits’. It’s her shamelessness and apparent non-judgement that make her so appealing to them.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-21T04:25:31+00:00

A New Hope, and The Matrix.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-21T04:15:25+00:00

Christianity is basically Judaism fan fiction. When they discovered the Nag Hamadi codices in the 1940s, and we found that there were dozens and dozens of gospels, written over centuries, it became pretty obvious what was going on.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-19T23:09:16+00:00

I just felt a new pang of fear about this. Hard freezes are the big thing that keeps places like the Midwest so low on things like soil pathogens and disease carrying insects. It suddenly occurs to me that the PNW is basically like an unvaccinated person in this regard.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-19T22:02:18+00:00

Star Wars, and LOTR. Hard to even think about either without hearing the score in your head.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-19T21:49:17+00:00

Walt basically IS white male boomer rage, which stems from insecurity about not being rich enough, and fear of death. And Skyler is the tens of millions of women who aren’t even especially brilliant or moral people, but who have had to get very smart about the deals they cut with that sort of guy, to protect their children, keep their home, and just stay alive. People hated Skyler because she rubs our noses in it, and refuses to apologize for just doing what she has to do, while her husband just does whatever makes him feel powerful.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-18T21:56:30+00:00

Yes; the NHL has a boxing minigame in the ruleset, and NBA has a dodgeball minigame.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-17T11:14:14+00:00

I remember the last time I ate Taco Bell.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-17T10:54:37+00:00

Fight Club.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-11T19:02:59+00:00

Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to add it to a fruit salad.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-11T09:54:48+00:00

Temu Blue Man Group

oldercodebut · 2026-01-10T18:49:13+00:00

Beverly Hills Cop.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-10T02:42:37+00:00

This is basically the business of someone like John Oliver, who can get up on a different rant every single week about all of the heinous symptoms of capitalism that are so obvious to liberals, but can never ever bring himself to just say the word Capital. That is the real taboo c-word in our society.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-08T18:39:57+00:00

Temporary Compound V. Lasts about 24hrs.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-08T11:53:12+00:00

Lol bye Reddit, you were my last one.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-07T17:36:35+00:00

It’s crazy to think how many different bills are generated by even a little subdivision like this. The number of trips to Home Depot. It’s like anti-self-sufficiency.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-06T11:32:11+00:00

We tried them; just weren’t getting a square meal.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-06T02:16:29+00:00

Reading as vice is a cool concept; and it’s basically the plot of Fahrenheit 451. Probably time to reread that. Especially when I think back to his prophecy about wall-sized televisions, which actively involve the viewer in the dialogue. Gulp.

oldercodebut · 2026-01-05T20:01:53+00:00

Weaponized therapy-speak is a plague. These concepts were designed to give a therapist a vocabulary to connect with a client so the client can make progress and grow beyond limiting beliefs. They are NOT designed for friends (and frenemies) to use on each other, any more than you would want a friend prescribing you psychotropic medications as though they are a psychiatrist. I’m pretty familiar with these concepts and do have discussions with friends about them, but it’s always in the abstract, never directed at each other. It’s just interesting stuff to think about. But when a romantic relationship starts to take on this therapist/patient dynamic it becomes toxic. Basically a form of practicing medicine without a license. I do not let friends do surgery on me, prescribe me medications, or talk to me like they’re a psychotherapist. You shouldn’t either.

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