Some years ago, I needed to get an visa for urgent travel to China, a process that required me to fly down to SF and stand in a very long line at the Chinese consulate. When I finally handed the woman there my forms, she promptly stamped them and said "you need to take these to Window 2", pointing around the corner. So I walked around the corner...

...where *the same woman* swiveled her chair around and proceeded to check the stamp that she had just applied.

I would have been annoyed if I wasn't in so much awe at discovering the purest form of bureaucracy.

Name them all.

“More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.”

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/

The news never talks about how this is mandating that data collection agencies / shady advertisers have total access to the real you at all times. That's really suspicious.

Facebook doesn't give a shit that your 13 year old is on the internet. Facebook, who spends and unbelievable amount of money on making sure you are tracked across third-party websites to sell you things, absolutely wants your identification.

The news knows this. They don't mention it

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uk-social-media-ban-moment-9.7235995

"when did Star Trek get woke??"

In the very first episode of Star Trek: the original series, we see a white Captain reporting to his black Admiral boss, a black woman on the bridge just a couple years after Jim Crow was abolished, wearing a short skirt (a symbol of feminist liberation at the time), a Japanese helmsman on the bridge only 20 years after the internment camps, a Russian crewmate on the bridge during the Cold War [edit: actually did not appear until Season 2 but the point stands], and the foundation of the modern concept of queercoding.

In the very first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, we see male crossdressing crew members, a female officer on the bridge in charge of security, a literal ship's counselor stationed at all times on the bridge, a single mom raising her teenage son on her own while juggling a full career in medicine, a blind mechanic whose "disability" is shown to be a strength, and an angry, all-powerful godlike being who is revealed to be simply a petulant child masquerading as a deity.

In the very first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, we see a black man gain a powerful command position, respect the hell out of the customs of a religion he didn't understand, show respect and equal treatment to members of three other alien races he didn't understand, appoint a female guerilla fighter who defeated imperialist fascists to a position of authority within his administration and defer to her judgement in areas of her expertise, accept his friend's gender change, and tell his son he loves him.

Star Trek has always been woke. You just grew up to be a bad person.

RE: https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/116757697333681847

Made my morning... #Trump

In 1777, Morocco’s Sultan Sidi Muhammad ibn Abdallah opened his ports to American ships, an act often described as the first recognition of the newly independent United States by another country. Formal recognition followed in 1786 through the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Morocco and the United States.

#archaeohistories