Duralex makes great glassware. They have a really strong temper; but that comes with the caveat that, if they do break, they’re going to explode in a thousand pieces.

I’ve heard some reports that their ongoing turmoil was screwing up the product quality; hopefully the employees can rescue the reputation.

I like it.

The American propaganda response to that is that it’s because the Soviets were completely untrained conscripts and just threw bodies into a meat grinder instead of training or arming or protecting or industrializing or innovating or strategizing and that those deaths were meaningless. It’s just another non-falsifiable orthodoxy.

Parenti quote + Woody Guthrie time.

In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

They earned their rest. It falls upon us to correct Treatlerite behavior now.

Apparently in America you can get sued for breach of contract

Antifa HQ is just down the road from Baltimore. We meet in the freezer at the Pentagon McDonald’s.

, but only a little.

I am in a VERY similar situation. Looking at the past posts, your dad sounds A LOT like me, actually, on the “it’s not that big of a problem” front. These brain worms can be inherited.

I am not a medical professional, at all, but, does ADHD/autism run in your family? That seems to be the “nature” side of why mine are they way they are. Dad got a late-in-life diagnosis, tried meds for a couple weeks, got an immediate promotion, started doing all those “I’ll get to it” tasks, then decided the pressure was way too much and stopped taking them. Back to business as usual.

Thanks, I hate it.

Oh, huh, in this case they both make sense as public urinals.

Public urinal

Oral history but it’s just a bunch of numbers

There is definitely a tolerance build, but I have found it plateaus a bit. Given that it’s the start of the week, I’d lean more toward a proper-headspace sort of thing than a the-drugs-work-better thing.

Ukraine cannot fail, it can only be failed. /s

NVMe drives are so much faster, the capacities are the same, and the vast majority of users don’t fill their hard drives to the point that they’d need SATA add-ons.

Profit is waste.

I just think fire is neat.