everyone likes to point at 1984 and the dystopian future but I disagree. I’m of the opinion that the message of that story is more directed to the people who conformed and end up at the bottom of the food chain, locked in a hell of their own choices.

The real inspiration for 1984 is Jack London’s The Iron Heel

it’s so absolutely on point about our lives right now under capitalism and these ultra rich assholes.

Published in 1908 and never more accurate about the world today than anything I have ever read.

thanks for this revelation. I’m going to look down the rabbit hole for myself. what a story if his account is true.

use the rss feed in your favorite podcast app, it should have a feature to subscribe with a rss address. on android I use Beyond-Pod and it works great with an rss feed. populates pictures and everything

I’m defending my argument that the first comment was indeed whataboutism. Are you confused?

Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in “what about …?”) is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of a defense against the original accusation.

it’s whataboutism

have you seen the 2013 movie Her?

mmmm Phở

Even more reason for staying as far away from anything meta/fakebook

for sure, but Russia was quick to take the refineries.

IDK enough specifics but it “feels” like Stoli got a state sponsored attack from Russia so they could easily take those distillery assets and make it look like Stoli was poorly run to ruin their reputation as a Russian Export.

Or they just had a shitty IT dept that didn’t protect their assets properly and a stupid employee fucked them

A bunch of .ru email holders have been removed from the linux kernel group because of sanctions

Maybe it would change but Russian culture is still Russian culture.