I knew he had said problematic shit, but this is disturbing.

I’m really glad that you’re enjoying Linux, and I’m doubly glad that your hospital found a solution to keep their system running smoothly!

“Imaginary numbers”? Sounds like that DC fuzzy math . . .

The motives and politics are absolutely petty. The results are an ongoing nightmare.

Everything is going according to plan.

It’s not a recent thing but there was a pretty serious resurgence of it around waitforit the turn of the millennia back in 1999/2000, with a followup in 2012 when we all thought the Mayan calendar was going to run out for some reason. My observation is that these events had a deeper impact on world thinking than I realized at the time.

As someone who’s been recycling since the early 1980s, the whole thing is heartbreaking.

As with our dentention centers on the US/Mexico border, we’ll only see select portions of this after they’ve “addressed the issues” innate to putting people in holding facilities.

I have long held a theory that so much of the superficial orthopraxy demanded by various activist movements is intentional and designed to disrupt or retard actual action.

How can we best get involved and support the cause?

With over a century of vocabulary and terminology around these kind of social issues, it does get confusing in a hurry. That’s why I try to stick to plain language and popular terms whenever possible.

Exactly. Everyone’s on the list, eventually.

Also called Millenarianism, it refers to the belief that a major change/end of an age/apocalypse is inbound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennialism

A lot of folks felt this way when the year 1999 rolled around and the “new millennium” began. For some it only got worse after September 11th 2001.

That may in part be an intended consequence. A permanent underclass benefits all mainstream politics in the US.

American politics have become a death cult. Millennialism had a much deeper impact on this country than I recognized at the time.

If you insist.

The issue is that once the government has the infrastructure and networks to round folks up en masse, they can round groups of folk up en masse. That net will never be precise, so plenty of folks will get pulled in who shouldn’t. That net can also be directed where-ever the powers that be decide, which is a real threat to liberty and justice for all.

And that’s before we get to the part the ethics and issues behind our immigration policy in the US.

The original poll, for those curious: https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/cbsnews_20240609_1.pdf

Truth