Living proof that fascists don’t work food-service. Or maybe food-service workers are immunized against fascist ideology. Either way I hope 47 gets 86’ed.

It’s so discouraging that the big controversy isn’t what’s happening, but what to call it. We can’t defeat colonialism with semantics.

The attack on Gaza needs to stop, IDFAF if they call it a pumkin pie, just stop the goddamn pie.

Media literacy issue.

He was still a one-man rebellion fighting for himself. It wasn’t until the funeral that he decided to throw his will to life into the furnace and give himself to rebellion.

He made a decision on Fraxis to either die by Luthens hand or by the Emperor’s. The loss of Maarva made him so ashamed and angry that in the desire to make up for it, he made a suicide pact. That’s not the same man who jumped into the water and swam for his life.

If you remember the first season. Andor was a merc who did the Aldani job for payment. That’s why Luthin wanted to kill him; he wasn’t a rebel, but he had a head full of rebel intel.

Maarva refused to go with him into his comfortable retirement and he basically abandoned her and the fight. He ran.

His subsequent imprisonment was a direct result of him turning his back and choosing the easy path. He didn’t fail Maarva when she died, he failed her when he gave up the fight.

EDIT: this is a big part of his development. He didn’t get radicalized in prison. He got radicalized by his guilt and grief for Maarva.

I read that it’s going to cost way more than $400m to inspect, and retro-fit that aircraft to the standards of AF1. It likely won’t be finished for his current term, or even his next.

Just a reminder, like the Soviet premier in “Dr Strangelove”, the Death Star isn’t a secret to keep it safe from rebels or to use in a surprise attack. Palpatine wants to make a show of using it and doesn’t want any spoilers.

But I’m so happy that Dedra survived the show. Because she’s going to find out that the Death Star got wrecked and she was this close to stopping it. I suppose she may get released after the Battle of Endor, a thoroughly broken person.

Ever notice how the libertarians always wanna build a city in some remote place like the ocean, Mars, or Gitmo? Suspicious that these are places difficult to escape.

I mean who cleans the toilets in Gault’s gulch?

It’s called Andor, not Alabandor

I don’t find Nebula to be an adequate replacement for youtube, but if they ever figure out how to keep me from blocking ads, Ima gonna change my mind.

I appreciate this as a science meme because it reflects the recursive problem with homoculi.

The authors of this describe the situation accurately enough. Even though a Netflix show is presented as evidence of, … something.

They lost me with the “begging the question” prescription for censorship and online control. I also don’t like the aesthetics of arguing that boys are dangerous without putting into context how much young men suffer under modern material conditions.

Qatar’s whole society works on this. They’re one of the richest countries because almost all citizens are the aristocracy, while everything is run with migrant labor. They outlawed slavery, in 1952. They replaced that with the Kafala system, which is as you describe. Don’t worry though, they outlawed Kafala in 2016.

hereditary lawmaker

It’s pretty bad when an American looks at your government and thinks, damn that’s backward AF.

This was supposed to be a synthases of modern and post-modern, but it seems to me they took the worst parts of modernism and the straw-person caricature of the postmodern and mixed them in a blender.

You cannot read Western coverage of Palestine without learning about Ermon and Chomsky’s “five filters of media”. It’s like a decoder ring.

Wild, this is like an episode of Ozark.

Don’t you understand that being constantly nagged to use their products so they can monotise you is disrespectful? Would you keep a friend who started every conversation with a pitch for their MLM? I mean you’re not obligated!

I understand that it’s just business, but to me that’s just capitalist Nirenberg defense. So please don’t respond with some version of “it is what it is”, because I view that as learned helplessness.

EDIT: what Windows users might not get is that booting into Windows occasionally means that it’s going to bombard you with an avalanche of pop ups and nag-dialogues that a person who’s logging in every day might not appreciate.

Sure you can silence most of that, until the next necessary security update.

that chart looks pretty peaceful tho