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The majority of people killed by the wehrmacht in WW2 are attributed to Stalin in this graph, I guaran-fuckin-tee it

Nothing will beat Tim Heidecker's Office Hours episode with Fred Armisen where he does the whole thing brutally parodying Club Random.

He's always been like this

If you like deck building, Dominion is one of my favorite board games. You build your deck along the course of the game and every game you choose 10 different card types to have available to players so each game is a little different depending on which cards are in play. There are a few expansions that add some cards that have really interesting mechanics.

Second the recommendation of Love Letter as a fantastic quick/casual game. Another one in a somewhat similar vein is Skulls which I think is up to 5 or 6 player and is a dead simple but really fun bluffing card game

A myth in the sense you can't actually boil a frog alive by slowly upping the water temp? I never thought it was meant to be taken literally like that lol

I've always heard this concept referred to as "boiling the frog"

Any pop culture artifact is compelling to the extent that it taps into our real desire for change, justice, virtue, freedom, resolution, etc. But it can never go all the way down this road, it can’t consummate this desire, because that would be too threatening to the reigning social order.

The example of this that hit me the hardest was the "Planetina" episode of Rick and Morty. This is a show where Morty remains loyal and complicit in hundreds of capers Rick orchestrates where people are constantly getting killed, entire planets destroyed, lives ruined, all of the benefit of this old egomaniac's ego. Morty complains but never abandons Rick.

But Planetina starts doing the same shit in the service of actually improving the world and he suddenly has a crisis of mortality and tearfully abandons her.

people who think vaccines are a money making plot needs to get get their heads screwed back on. so many vaccines held back because of being insufficiently profitable.

Doesn't that necessarily mean that the ones that aren't held back are profitable?

It still seems like a very non-materialist distinction.

If you're working legal hours for legal wages

Why do you need to make this caveat? If people are being put in a position where they have to accept extralegal conditions of employment in order to survive, they're being exploited. Hand waving that away because it's not "legal" seems naive at best and intentionally misleading at worst.

Legal/semi-legal? What kind of distinction is that and why should it matter? Exploitation is exploitation, laws are just made up bullshit, especially when written by the bourgeoisie