The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world.

• The character Brain from Animaniacs

“John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave.”

Utah is a desert with little water. Don’t data centers need water?

I’m probably not cultured enough. I have heard modern country that resembles pop music. Taylor Swift tried that new fangled rapping after all.

Buy This Truck by The Grammar Club: Trolling

Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore by John Prine: Oldie

Where do you draw the line?

I’m ready for the country hate. Here’s some YouTube links.

Cast Iron Pansexual by Adeem the Artist

Great Class War by Jesse Wells

When The Pills Wear Off by Willi Carlisle

Little Nutbrown Hare, who was going to bed

• Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney

I write replies and never read future comments. I guess there are sub-categories of “reply guy”. No dialogue.

I wrestle. Wrestlers are wrestlers first. Weight class is more important for safety than gender.

Sports are more fun with similar skill levels for athletes. Separating sports on gender boundaries excludes skilled women from competition against equally skilled men.

Why trust the state with violence?

Law enforcement does not prevent violence. Uvalde and other school shootings are examples of late violent responses. Armed suspects scare law enforcement. Law enforcement is incapable of doing violence to protect the unarmed.

A better alternative is to arm and train community members. We keep us safe.

The term describes a material condition. State police forces exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence

Your algorithm seems fine. Mine is similarly greedy.

1. On finding a spot; stop
2. Look for a better spot from that spot
3. If a better spot is visible; goto spot and execute from 1
4. Otherwise; take the spot

I know the proposed algorithm will likely only find local maxima. Searching for a new spot that cannot be immediately located however is an expensive operation. This makes finding the global maxima potentially prohibitively expensive.

There is not a continuum of political progress. Looking back at historical records, it is easy to create a narrative that political progress, like time, is linear and progressing toward some goal.

Systems without heirarchy continue to be an option. Prefiguring such a system without a monopoly on violence is the tricky bit.

Liberalism was an improvement over monarchy for a specific class of merchant. The system has continued success for said class.

Using 1776 seems like a “life begins at conception” argument. The currently constituted system began closer to 1787. Declaration of Independence was issued in 1776. The Articles of Confederation were ratified in 1781. The Constitution was ratified in 1787.

The supposition that the USA’s government was founded as an alpha version of democracy that failed to update seems ripe with American Exceptionalism. The claims suggest reform could have fixed a system built to serve a specific class. The system is working as intended with continued expansion of power into fewer hands.

The USA is not different in character from previous and existing systems of extraction. There is, and will continue to be, a class that benefits from said system. There are continued fomentings among the marginalized. Given the hegemony of the USA, Lemmy is a space where fomentings are happening. May such fomentings prefigure an end to extraction and heirarchy.

I stumbled upon I checked your cellphone by Otoboke Beaver. Maybe there is some resemblance to I-E-A-I-A-I-O by System of a Down. Maybe the authors in the screenshot peaked musically at 14. I stumble upon new great music all the time.