Time for another trip to Spatula City.

s/An\ excess/The\ existence/

Predestination [2014]

Some have labelled Israel as a rogue nation, but their actions are explicitly and implicitly condoned through other nation’s support and silence.

This is a nation of convicts who aspires to become wardens.

I don’t have an issue with people owning multiple properties, but doing so should be subservient to the provision of a core component of subsistence.

A broad proposal I’ve been mulling is the realisation of profit anywhere in the real estate industry (construction, (re)development, ownership, management, etc.) should only be tolerated contingent to the size of the social housing wait list.

As a broad example, if the wait list is over a year, tax any profit above 5% at 50%. The figures are arbitrary, the point is to make it the responsibility of the group to fix the problem they’ve caused.

Clearly this is from the pasta mines. They needed child labour to extract from the tight spaces where the rich veins were under Italy.

A car powered by a perpetual whiplash mechanism, like dropping a slice of toast buttered on both sides.

One could enhance it into an art installation with thermite.

I’d posit both statements are true and fundamentally complimentary.

A broadly educated population is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative ideologies.

…he enjoys it.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ it should be acceptable to subject to capital punishment.

If one is found to have behaved in a destructive or sociopathic way, its capital should be seized, socialised or auctioned off, and the proceeds primarily put toward remediation.

Corporations are more amoral than immoral, their undesirable behaviours are typically the result of the incentives they’re rewarded for exhibiting. It would also help if their involvement in the creation and policing the rules they’re expected to follow were severely diminished.

It’s a Euthanasia Coaster where the cars are 802.3 frames.

This perspective betrays a complete lack of understanding and experience of being chronically suicidal. Inflicting the responsibility of how others conduct themselves on someone, particularly one in a vulnerable state, is beyond repugnant.

The only effective mechanism for prevention of chronic suicidality is to create an environment in which one can actively, freely, and legitimately choose to participate when they’re at their most vulnerable.

I see the bible as basically schizophrenic, Bronze Age, fan fiction.

It serves a purpose, but it’s unsuitable as the foundation of one’s world view, or to defer one’s morality to.

It could be a real address, but not within a /24, nor publicly routable.

I call them compensators.

Their size is inversely proportional to the capacity of the user’s head.

Some are big enough to replace both.

Nationalist patriotism is a religion that worships dirt.

Hawk Tuah?

Economics is the control system which filled the void in society vacated by religion after the enlightenment.

An arbitrary set of rules, conjured by the ruling class, obfuscated and protected from scrutiny, and imposed on the weary masses.

Finance, an arbitrary subset of mathematics, serves as its mythology.

Banks and financial institutions serve as its churches and cathedrals.

Economists serve as its priests.

God replaced by GDP.