Must be nice. I can’t even tie my shoes.

The guy who literally changed the rules so he could stay in power indefinitely isn’t a dictator? Right, there is no point in continuing if you can’t agree on objective reality.

the leading interest being whatever dictator sits at the top.

This is the part that matters. This is also true for Soviet communism or really any real life communism. The instruments are different, but the song is the same.

That doesn’t change that the powers of governance and commerce were in the same hands. Changing what you call it is just semantics.

Google doesn’t cost money, but it’s not free.

Didn’t the state own all the corporations in the USSR? How would that not be state and corporate power combined?

This is where you write a companion app to load the ad in a separate instance while feeding it false camera input data and continue watching in peace.

This is what credit unions are for. If you have an account, you own a piece of it. There are no billionaire investors that don’t even use the service to ruin everything.

There is no one still alive today from the last time the republican party was trying to improve things.

It would be plastic for a very long time, but the cup wouldn’t likely survive very long. It would get ground down to plastic dust to be ingested within a few years unless it was in a particularly stable area.

It’s been essentially tried since near the beginning with AOL. Their dialup service required you to have their branded browser (customized Internet Explorer) open to stay connected. On that browser you could only connect to sites in their walled garden whitelist.

Luckily, you could just minimize their browser and open regular IE or Netscape to bypass it.

Good water pressure does a much better job than your hand.

White Jesus predates the '40s by quite a long way. European Christians have been depicting him that way for centuries. I’m pretty sure Americans had a white Jesus before then as well.

Sadly, it’s hard to find accurate depictions of Jesus in the western world.

The condensed games cut out most of the between play time. The only presnap you get is any motions by the offense. Also they generally limit replays to contested plays. Either way, it is 90% actual action as far as I can tell and it takes about 45 minutes to watch it.

NFL has a streaming service that condenses games for rewatch. It’s literally just the relevant action. It’s a lot longer than 11 minutes. It is significantly less time than the full broadcast, though.

There’s more than one reason someone might not be convicted of homicide and it’s not always because a homicide didn’t happen.

It was much better integrated into the story. The problem isn’t the message, it’s the writing.

Not all of them are without interest. In fact, the ones you’ll find the most are quite usurious.

Probably don’t do that second one. That is technically fraud. What you could do is, if you’re bank or CC company have the service, use a virtual card number to sign up for the service and delete it when you want to leave.

Communism is just a different sort of fucked up. It’s just as bad for people in its own way.