And no, I am not sitting down to pee.

I live in a post communist country and I guess that communism could be described as a spectre in my life. Because I wasn’t around to experience it (I was born a decade after it fell), but especially when I was growing up you could still feel its legacy all around you. A lot of commie era infrastructure was still in an untouched state; same for people’s houses which all had the same commie furnature. And you could still feel the regime radiating from some people’s mindsets/personalities. And until the internet came and diluted it, a large part of the country’s body of monoculture originated from commie times. I’d say that only in the past ~12 years have I been able to go about life without encountering subtle reminders that my country hasn’t always been the way I grew up with it.

I’ve watched a ton of commie era films so I have an idea of how society worked, and I think if you teleported me there now, I’d be able to make my life work and to integrate. But I hated commie era films as a <teen because they made me imagine being teleported back into that time and the prospect made me feel very powerless and claustraphobic. Because of how remote society & culture were from what they are today (due to the isolation and constrained possibilities), in a way that western cultures weren’t.

Life hack: forbid yourself from checking the time on the way there. That way you won’t be able to keep checking to make sure you’ll be there on time (and hurrying as a consequence), and it’ll force you to set off long enough in advance.

Yes, the Czechs (us), but our stooges can be dealt with. They’re all bark no bite when it comes to being anti-EU (just like Slovakia’s guy).

Fehlen dir da nicht die Handstütze?

Well, at least he tried

I take solace in the fact that if my job got automated, a significant portion of the population would be in the same boat as me, so it wouldn’t be purely up to me to work something out.

Also, all governments still continue posting here for some reason. Strange combination

And even if we beat MAGA, if the left doesn’t articulate its own vision of the good life

This is why when you have people like Mamdani coming out of nowhere and being blisteringly successful

Woah! I didn’t realize it had its own wiki page!

And fried!?

So would Gordon Ramsay

When they taught apes sign language, it got stuck on the fact that they couldn’t form structured sentences (they just mimed jumbled strings of words). Perhaps whales will be different?

I bet this is just a souvenir of each one he’s seen

That’s just because you don’t have wings

Hat hier noch keiner diese Fahrt gemacht? Der Zug trennt sich vorm Bahnhof und jeder Waggon hat seinen eigenen Bahnsteig

Ich hoffe das beinhaltet wenigstens eie Dose Schwarzmeerwassers

Why did this styoe of illustration die out after tge 60s?

Meanwhile in Czechia:

Beaver replaces the state

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