ErsatzCoalButter

Heyyyy you're right

Since all my local newspaper websites went pay-to-read, I walk two blocks to my local library and read the hard copies maybe once a week. There's only about one or three articles per week that aren't just USA Today internet drivel, so it's not like I'm sitting there for hours pouring through papers like a maniac, and how dare you picture me that way.

If you are a traveler, it is a good trick to pick up as many library cards as you can get your hands on. So many libraries are traveler friendly from old COVID policies and if you aren't working touristy towns, even pretty flimsy community connections can get you a card. "Oh I work for this practice in the community, can I-" and when your contract in that community ends, what, are you going to go turn in your library card? And let your community's ebook DRM go to waste? No 😜

You know I think he actually uses the music producer example in his 2nd novel (The Bezzle).

Doctorow can write a great detective novel but he lives in absolute La La land. I'm glad he's open about the fact he's just distracting himself with this post, but the idea that these webs of laws or these models of "how things should work" mean anything tho the people with power are complete nonsense.

He has some understanding of that, I think? But like, buddy, your country just went full Nazi. You've been living in a total fantasy. You're not going to rethink the concept of fixers, get a grip.

The people who tell you to be civil aren't going to help you on the line, generally. Unless its one of those fake protests like The March for Science.

Don't let people who aren't going to help you tell you how to behave.

There are some things you can do that hurt America.

1. Leave. You won't be welcome elsewhere unless you have roughly 125k saved, liquid cash. That may not matter based on where you are at on the ladder but it really wrecks my family. For example, if you're broke and unwelcome in the USA, maybe roll the dice? This is not legal advice. We're stuck by family and fake middle class assets. "Not welcome" means you cannot legally work elsewhere, you are subject to the USA. We live under feudalism internationally.
2. Stop spending money. All USD money is Nazi money. The less you spend, the less the machine goes.
3. Don't work for cops. As in outright refuse to do anything to help cops, ever.
4. Donate to causes that actually erode US sovereignty like Indigenous legal defense funds, and leave your assets to the people your land was stolen from.

edit* This is all assuming you won't fight, because I was there in 22 and there wasn't a fight. That's when we lost our rights. So don't pretend like fighting is an option please, this isn't that kind of forum anyway.

Don't let propagandists tell you that you have to survive a nazi regime

Seeing as the US is a transcontinental slave empire, it does make sense that they wouldn't emphasize literacy among their populace.

lmao, the article is about the UK

if you would like to criticize American education anyway, perhaps we could find a nice article about that subject together

*edit: here you are

**edit 2, i still don't want to talk about your teacher @[email protected] 😜

in about 201X I was having a terrible time trying to get through the thesis period of a master's program

picked up some bundle of the OG 2DS (black & blue variant) and Pokemon X and loved it

a world where I could pick my friends, people were pleasant, my next career moves were obvious, and my work was rewarded? To this day, this is my escapist fantasy.