came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]

ChatGPT? more like ChatBankruptcy.

blammo, gottem.

it’s instructive to me that these people are unlikely to think critically about how much of a paper trail exists of their crimes against humanity.

paystubs, residences, socials, etc.

in many of the pogroms and organized state terror campaigns that happened in the last 50 years, the kidnappings, disappearances, and killings lacked documentation and/or were carries out by irregular forces and contractors hidden behind corporate secrecy veils.

but federal government payrolls are pretty resiliently archived and will be at “risk” for declassifying by any administration or reconstituted government for the foreseeable future.

its a special kind of pride that never even considers the possibility that their actions today, obscured by mask and badge, could one day be exposed for all to know.

danish intelligence agency reports submaries operating “underwater”.

at least 20% have no idea what the question is referring to and thought the survey was going to be about the sleeve of oreos they just ate.

literacy is the original woke mind virus.

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one would have assumed that it had some insulation from the right wing cranks, being that it has always been housed in the Commerce department as a nod to the obvious fact that some ability to forecast catastrophe protects business interests and commercial activity as well.

but now that every aspect of reality must be viewed through a lens that determines if it is “woke/rainbow” or “trad/skull” for the Everyone is 13 heuristic… it seems anything can and will happen.

if you want to try and dig up stats, you’re probably going to have to dig into UNFAO publications and research materials. or even more like their digests. i think there was a “small farms” based one from the UNCTAD/UN Council on Trade and Develooment maybe in 2010ish? the phrase “small farms are the future” comes to mind, but its not that phrasing exactly.

im not at computer now, but the G20 academic field of agriculture is filled with colonialist take-enjoyers that will normalize everything the atlantacist capital formations do at home and abroad for profits. the UNFAO has some standardization of definitions at least and makes distinctions about technology transfer, land tenure/ownership, farm size, familial/communal land management, export vs community subsistence, etc.

frankly, the UN is demographically dominated by victims of neocolonialism and its little ignored committees of research scientists will frequently put out scathing reports of how full of shit the highly developed colonizers are at lying to their citizens and their victims.

something that the west glosses over is that community-oriented farms which feed their own communities of workers and families do not show up as GDP or as economic activity, generally. so they’re invisible on uncritical reports.

colonialism, capitalism and even states looking for revenues see this type of land use as unproductive, generally, hence the history of the enclosure system and accumulation through disposession. kick the people off the land they work and send them to the factory or make them raise corn/sheep/whatever for export as wage workers. now its productive! look at all this currency! now this land has “value”.

the true efficiency in terms of input/energy consumption and production of consumable nutrition per unit area of small diversified farms remains, as ever, the critical embarassment of industrial agriculture and its export plantation systems. if you can find weight per area production charts for vegetables, you might see the trend of smaller farm scale producing more per unit area than larger ones, because you can compare average farm size between two developed countries with census info like the US vs. Japan, but that’s really only comparing system sizes and not the entire suite of inputs. and its a pain in the ass to find though, or was when i was doing a report on it for a class. its one of those areas where the US is a joke, so finding shit in english can be tough.

so the propaganda focuses on how many bushels of whatever inedible raw material they can grow and how few people it requires to do so in these faraway, imagined places and hope nobody questions the working conditions, suicide rates, or what’s going on with their streams, rivers and lakes. or what that land and community there looked like 100 years ago and what ecosystem services it provided back then besides provisioning soybeans or beef for export markets.

another reason to never, ever download the fucking app for a retailer.

Dollar General argued that when customers create accounts – for example, by downloading the company’s mobile app – they agree to use arbitration to resolve disputes and forfeit the right to file class-action suits.

my own state just had a settlement with one of these places. one of those old school state agencies from the early days that goes around and does inspections with price checks on any place that sells food to the public, which you know was started because from the earliest days of the US, we were getting fucked over by shop keepers putting thumbs on scales and doing shady shit to poor customers with limited literacy.

the dollar stores, cvs and walgreens had all been caught doing this shit at rates far exceeding the state standard.

i appreciate the logic that the compliance regulators don’t want to be the one to drive the last retailer out of some of these communities with maximum fines, but that’s basically them blackmailing us. so maybe we just summarily execute some of the executives in public, seize all the inventory/property in the states’ jurisdictions and turn it into another food bank?

one time I got caught having a mid-day snoozle and i passed it off as “meditating”.

it didn’t work, but it also didn’t NOT work.

god, i remember some article from like 10 years ago talking about how the russian economy was fake and bad, and i shit you not, said it was basically “just a gas station”.

and i remember thinking that metaphor really illustrates how resilient it must be. because you can go all over hollowed out anerica and see the picked clean skeletons and carcasses of ten thousand towns and businesses. evidence of places that once supported hundreds of people, living, working and sharing experiences like an echo haunting ruins of decay.

and the only building where you see people with lights and activity is the fucking gas station.

it sure as shit is not the drive up bank branch that underwrote loans and gave people in suits somewhere to gather while counting the % they were slicing off everyone who walked by.

i guess i assumed something was going on … because like what kind of sexual exploitation video can be made from a waiting room dr’s office security feed?

maybe im naive and i don’t really want to find out.

why are there IP cameras in some if these places? i can imagine one in the waiting room of a doctors office, maybe, but an exam room?

the hell is going on.

is there like a supplement one could take that would make their piss permanently stain some porous material like stone or concrete?

it’s mostly a researcher and analyst problem, but part of the administrative state is supplying data and metrics for downstream data consumers. this can be state government agencies, university research teams, advocacy-oriented non profits / community groups, and all those “private sector” for-profit groups that replicate public sector work while charging suckers for access to their digests.

i’ve been around public data consumption for a while, and people get complacent about access to basic government data like national weather service records, soil surveys, historic labor/economic data, whatever. the last years have seen hiccups where something was moved / just plain missing, or the data request system was broken for a while, but for the most part the disruptions are understood to be temporary.

but this year is when its become a hypernormalizing phenomenon that some basic shit is just gone, and it’s unknown if it was purposely removed (as is the case with this BS, likely) or just lost because key personnel got DOGE’d and/or took the early payout and orphaned some critical process.

it’s also unclear if it projects can be recovered in the forseeable future assuming the restoration of political will. you’ve got units that used to be dozens of people reduced to 2-3, sometimes those being the least senior people who were still being trained, then they went unpaid for 6 weeks all the while uncertain if or when another huge shuffle would happen.

should make him Brand Ambassador of Vienna Sausages.

you got me. it says its a private company’s marketing material, and i would assume it would land them in hot water as being to provocative or something, but shy of some.government official admitting they OK’d it, i dunno if we can really know.

lol, shit that was not subtle. i thought it would be like an obvious Diaoyu/Senkaku archipelago visual.

nope, fucking tokyo.

edit: on the world stage, the PRC has long given me these diplomatic, non-aggressive vibes. i mean compared to the US, obviously, but even compared to the atlanticist powers, with their mercenaries and their co-signing of US bullshit with troops. or even the russian federation, which is kinda the poster child for hard power anymore. no shade, i get it.

meanwhile, China’s diplomacy is consistently defensive and willing to back down, like they accept that peaceful resolution is what’s best for humans and not worth sacrificing for something so ephemeral as nationalist mythmaking.

i get the impression that whatever dumbass country leadership is the first one to really pull their chain and provoke a serious reaction is going to be made an example of, and i just hope im not in the area.

lol, i wouldn’t call ezmac/velveeta mac n cheese a culinary hit exactly lol. it’s just cheap and convenient, so its on the shelves and in the pantry.

its ancestral dish is a bechamel/mornay sauce based pasta that uses cheddar, so if executed with its traditional ingredients as a light roux mother sauce, its pretty badass.

but the industrial variant is cheaply powdered everything with added salt so it can sit on a shelf for years and ready to reconstitute in minutes.

the amount of sodium in cambells soup is absolutely bonkers. even if you follow the instructions for the condensed version to the letter, and water it down by 66%.

canned soup in general is pretty wild in the US, but the campbells flagship soups (chicken noodle, tomato, etc) are wack. which usually means the other ingredients are such utility-cull quality, they would taste like styrofoam without all that salt and fat.

imo its an apocalypse/ emergency food ration for surviving exposure.

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