I remember when Bongino ran in Maryland’s sixth and we almost elected that idiot. Maryland’s sixth also previously elected Roscoe Bartlett so there’s something in the water up here.

Ooh, that looks good.

Fuselage.

That’s lathe and plaster baby. Get good at finishing work if you ever want it to look right.

Pretty breathless reporting on a price war that’s been running for over a year. I mean the dude notes that the companies are actively consolidating and the government is thus letting some fail. Portraying China as supporting too big to fail automakers who can’t seem to capture markets as a singular example seems pretty funny to me. Doing so while pointing to tariff policies while also extolling the virtues of the free market is even more strange. Any day now I’m sure those neoliberal drives will magic up a viable EV market in the US.

So Democrats too right? Considering they’re generally laser focused on the urban professional class and maintaining existing market dynamics with a big push on things like student loan forgiveness that would give zero assistance to workers while largely hanging them out to dry whenever labor disputes pop up. There’s not a party that represents these folks interests so they default to identity politics. Byzantine chariot race politics at least had patronage that meant supporters were getting some sort of gain.

Sgt chowdown doesn’t appreciate this post.

That just increases the margin for smugglers. Even there the level of debt bondage and lack of payment for mules is terrible. Not much in the way of unions in criminal enterprises.

They vastly overestimate what low level gang members make off of drug slinging. They’re arguing that it’s economical to lead a gang and hold territory. Well yeah.

dismantling the very conditions

Materialism is so rare nowadays in the anglosphere. Bernie does it constantly and paradoxically people use that as a moral virtue, completely sidestepping the damn point. Material conditions transcend the moral.

Yeah using immigrant labor to maintain economic growth isn’t globalism. The US did that with you swedes after all well before globalism was a thing. Globalism is about keeping people where they are and exploiting them through neocolonial financial instruments while suppressing local industries and wage earners in higher income countries by turning their entire economic structure to be asset based and rent seeking.

Thickeners too. Modified corn starch. Less objectional ingredient really since starch as a sauce thickener instead of reduction is pre industrial and modified starch is frankly a good innovation. I don’t want to sit there and stir. People who make pudding from scratch with regular corn starch are insane.

What happened to Jasmine Rice?

Primarily what I was saying is we should avoid thinking material conditions that create rational bad actors are pathologies or moral failings.

Only if it makes you unable to develop stable relationships. DSM doesn’t pathologize being an asshole. That’s normal human functioning.

When it comes to the DSM-V, that’s how it works. You must have a functional impairment.

A disorder must either somehow negatively impact your activities of daily living like your job or staying out of prison, or causes significant distress. If you’re explicitly making tons of legal money off your delusions, it’s not a disorder.

I hope you have some dried beans and hard maize to fill out your squash harvest.

That’s a photo op I’d be careful of with an opportunistic omnivore.