COVID-19 mortality rate five times higher among labor, retail and service workers, study reveals: 68% of COVID-19 deaths during the first year of the pandemic were adults in low socioeconomic position https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220603100133.htm

me at work

A Message from Professor Noam Chomsky https://original.antiwar.com/noam_chomsky/2022/10/04/a-message-from-professor-noam-chomsky/

Reject modernity, embrace tradition!

European leaders have been quick to condemn Germany’s bumper energy package, claiming that Berlin’s decision to go it alone puts households and companies in the rest of the bloc at risk of paying higher energy prices. https://archive.ph/IyMn6#selection-1623.0-1623.218

Vijay Prashad tells it like it is

Syrian troops clash, expel US forces from village in oil-rich Hasakah https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/10/06/690483/Syrian-army-troops,-US-occupation-forces-engage-in-confrontation-near-Qamishli

the British government is getting outflanked economically to the left by the CEO of Shell https://news.sky.com/story/cost-of-living-shell-boss-calls-on-government-to-tax-oil-and-gas-companies-to-protect-poorest-12712013

Having been freed from the tyranny of cheap Russian gas, Germany begins to court energy partners with shared values.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-government-approves-arms-exports-to-saudi-arabia-reports/a-63288334

Evolution?

Soviet anti nuclear poster from the 1980s

A worker in Canada is no different from a medieval serf. Capitalists own the means of production, and employ the workers at substance wages that are just enough for workers not to starve.

Any surplus value the worker produces is pocketed by the capital owning class.

https://ca.style.yahoo.com/nearly-half-of-canadians-on-the-brink-of-insolvency-mnp-survey-182844647.html

running my photos through stable diffusion is fun

The new American Dream is buying a house with friends: 'It's a co-parenting model, it's a co-economy model, and it's a really great friendship and support model'. USSR managed to eliminate living in communal apartments back in the 1950s. https://www.businessinsider.com/more-adults-live-with-roommates-dream-buying-property-with-friends-2022-9

German government approves arms exports to Saudi Arabia, facilitating genocide in Yemen. https://www.dw.com/en/german-government-approves-arms-exports-to-saudi-arabia-reports/a-63288334

The End Of Western Civilization https://michael-hudson.com/2022/07/the-end-of-western-civilization/

Reloading things like guns in FPS games