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god i forgot that chapter 11 of twilight begins with two pages of bella fantasizing about fucking edward in the darkness of her science classroom as her teacher showed them a movie

i actually quite liked the third twilight book precisely because its plot is much less memorable

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i know what happens in the first twilight book and the second twilight book and the fourth twilight book but i have no idea what happens in the third

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not having a girlfriend has made me much worse at keeping up on my webcomics

i’m a bit worried that this system might be self-reinforcing in less-than ideal ways

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“republicans are good at politics but bad at bureaucracy. democrats are good at bureaucracy but bad at politics. thankfully, we have a very bureaucratic government”

why doesn't anyone in gen vi wonder trade their own fucking pokémon

« Is bookmaking (sports book) legal in Washington?

No. "Bookmaking" means accepting bets upon the outcome of future contingent events, as a business or in which the bettor is charged a fee or "vigorish" for the opportunity to place a bet. This is illegal and would be considered professional gambling. Professional gambling statutes range from first degree (class B felony) to third degree (gross misdemeanor) depending on several factors, including the amount of money and persons involved. »

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« Washington’s sports wagering law and approved tribal-state compact amendments allow for mobile sports wagering provided that the wager is placed and accepted at a tribe's gaming facility only while the customer placing the wager is physically present on the premises of that tribe's gaming facility. »

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twitter why are you showing me ads for sports betting platforms; sports betting is illegal in washington state

@coriander this is also i think not as controversial as it sounds on the level of the people actually affected; like you listen to the people who are friends of people who have bought into the alt-right turn and they're like “idk i'm tired of all this bullshit i just want my friend back”

and that i think is the immediate question; how do we get people back to a place where they are engaging with their friends and communities in a way which is like, good. and that's also the desire of those friends and those communities

historically communism has been very as you have said top-down and heavy-handed but i think there is room for a community-oriented solution (and that that is very important whenever you are dealing with like, minority communities, to ensure you are correcting the right things and not just trying to wipe out people's culture)

@coriander yes i think it's an issue of our time because historically, the problem was simpler and easier, and things like public debate and free speech and critical press and so forth were “good enough” tools for “most” people, because the channels of information were such that everybody would more or less get exposed to things regardless, and so community consensus could generally be formed through these channels

(nevermind that these channels were largely used to promote capitalism; a socialist community hypothetically could equally have achieved socialist consensus [if it weren't for those pesky kids and their CIA plant])

however now not ONLY is there an easier time for bad information to be widely consumed, but also there is much LESS guarantee that actually good information will reach people. the mechanisms of public debate and free speech yada yada can no longer make that guarantee

so the question becomes like, what can be done? other than both restricting people's access to bad information streams AND mandating their exposure to good ones, how do you give people a path towards a different (and more accurate) perspective on the world? but on a societal scale, that is censorship and state-sponsored media, and on an individual level, that is effectively a reeducation program, however you want to label it

@coriander anyway i'm very critical of american economies and how we think about work, naturally, and the question of which people and how and why we can or should “rehabilitate” as “productive workers” is complicated (this road, in nonscientific societies, can also lead to conversion therapy, and while communism should of course be based in science america historically has had a somewhat looser relationship)

BUT i also think communists need to make use of the political apparatuses at hand, and the workplace is the primary site of power in american society currently, and one where people are generally more tolerant to change and restriction compared to other aspects of american life

@coriander i'm sure there are people who lost their jobs over the jan 6 bullshit who would be happy to participate in an educational thingy if it meant a guarantee of stable work yk? that's not an option for them here; once people are marred politically in the u.s. there is no path towards correction, even in cases where the people themselves might be completely willing

@coriander the term sensitivity training implies that it is workplace-based which is probably accurate to how such a thing would need to be implemented in the united states

especially assuming Not Immediate Magical Full State Communism, building communist workplaces, requiring workers to be educated in and follow communist principles in their work lives, and requiring that people who don't abide by those principles suffer workplace penalties (with ready access to training for correcting behaviour) is probably the most expedient way to get lots of people introduced to the necessary concepts quickly

@aescling you can tell i'm a 90s/00s kid because i just really like hearing jon stewart’s voice

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