The following day, a store manager discovered the bottle next to the checkout and suspected it may have been consumed in breach of store policy. After reviewing CCTV footage,
Like yeah its ideology was poorly articulated and delivered condescendingly and cringe and often cynical or opportunistic and just as often the work of teenagers, but it was also one of the first big online communities I can recall to take a consistent and uncompromising stance against at the time near-universally normalized ...
In disco Elysium you live in a nation some time after a failed socialist revolution. Said revolution was sparked off, in part, due to an infectious Prion virus-disease-thing. I never really understood it, neither in game nor metatextually. ...
Prions can lie in wait for years (or decades) before manifesting in symptomatic cases. That's part of what makes them so dangerous--vast swathes of the population can be infected before the first person starts showing symptoms. Most of them also don't have any conclusive non-destructive diagnostic test. They're diagnoses of exclusion and symptom; the only way to know for sure whether or not any particular case is caused by a prion is to do an autopsy after death. Those characteristics together make it the perfect "stealth" plague: invisible until the first cases, and already ubiquitous by then, with no known treatment or even diagnostic instrument.
If we wanted to get really "English-teachery" about it, you might compare that kind of functionality to ideology, and think about the role that ideology plays as a behavior motivator (and historical Prime Mover) under capitalism (that is, under ultraliberalism and moralism). I have no idea if the devs meant that parallel to be drawn, but it's an interesting reading.
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The argument is supposed to be that it would be irrational to wreck or cannibalize your private property for short-term gain when doing so would eventually leave you without productive property. That kind of behavior is only stopped to happen (according to The Economists) with property held in common, as nobody has an incentive to spend resources safeguarding the future of something that isn't their sole demanse. As we know, capitalism is totally rational and not at all preoccupied with short term gains at the cost of long term destruction, so this has to be right!
It's finally happened. r/communism is formally a Gonzaloite cesspool. This happened after a few months of openly displaying the Shining Path hammer & sickle as the sub's logo.
This is exactly my attitude as well. We're light-years away from a scenario where even ML vs. anarchist might truly matter for anything beyond a choice of day-to-day tactics (and I think there's room for different orgs pursuing different tactics), much less ML vs. MLM. I'll work with anyone pursuing the destruction of global capitalism and its replacement with anything that isn't even worse. In my experience, these sectarian differences matter very little to most people doing direct action in the real world. Organizations that are super preoccupied with ideological purity and never working with people who have a different "flavor" of communism are rarely doing much that's important anyway.
Earlier this week my advisor was in an online meetings with the other RAs, I was doing other duties at the time, so I arrived late. He brought up a delay I guess I caused on a previous project (I don't recall anything that was particularly long, I think he may have been referring to me pointing out an issue with the math he ...
Yes, 1000%. So many red flags in this post. Your advisor is going to be your primary advocate after you finish, and you need to be able to trust him to help market you and your skills on the job market. That's like 75% of the job. The other 25% is helping you develop the skills you need to be an independent researcher, both by guiding you and modeling the skills. It sounds like you can't trust him to do any of that. Find someone who has your back. My advisor was one of the kindest people I've ever met, and an amazing mentor. It made the whole grad school experience so much better. Your name will be closely associated with this guy's for years at least. If that makes you uncomfortable, that's another great reason to switch.
The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography.
If the EU would grow a backbone, they could really fuck shit up for Silicon Valley in general. Cory Doctorow's proposal about removing DMCA-like anti-circumvention laws and letting the rest of the world design and distribute jailbreaks for all digital devices would be a great start. Prosecuting these ghouls for their many, many crimes would also be fantastic. I'm not holding my breath, but even this kind of legal harassment of melon-musk is excellent.
Toddlers frequently go out in public wearing Halloween costumes in March. Letting people play with and try on identities when they're small is good, actually. Is that "social transitioning?" Is it social transitioning when your three year old nephew tells you he's going to be a fire truck when he grows up? Should you sit him down and have a very serious and intense conversation about "traditional human roles?" No? Then fuck off about that same kid wanting to wear a dress or play with dolls or jump in the mud puddle or whatever dumbass thing you've convinced yourself has "gender implications."
I think the fact that it is so bad and involves people on "both sides" of the mainstream liberal consensus is an absolutely amazing agitprop opportunity. This is going to disillusion a lot of people from across the middle part of the ideological spectrum. Being able to hammer the fact that the ruling class is made up almost entirely of Draculas who are all secretly friends doing despicable shit with each other despite the public kayfabe is a great opportunity.
Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth isn't terrible, but it spends a good chunk of time emphasizing how taking climate change seriously would be good for capitalism.
Can you imagine how insufferable and dumb he has to be in order to be as rich as he is and get treated like this by Epstein? He must truly be the most annoying man in the world. Absolutely incredible.
It would be pretty funny how specter-global we remain in their heads despite having no power at all if I wasn't absolutely sure that by "Communism" they mean "Joe Biden."
Gun deaths can (and should) be treated as a public health matter. This particular epidemiologist seems to have a bad take, but that's definitely a productive way to frame the discussion in general. Of course, the rising tide of fascism also impacts public health.
Lidl employee fired for drinking 17p water bottle he didn't buy because he felt 'dehydrated' ( www.walesonline.co.uk )
Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die ( www.businessinsider.com )
Meta was recently granted a patent for tech to keep your social media accounts running using AI if you take a break or die.
Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation ( www.nature.com )
Just aggressively learning nothing as hard as possible. amerikkka is a death cult.
We didn't slaughter our rich...
AI is misidentifying body parts and creating more risks after being integrated into surgeries, reports reveal ( www.the-independent.com )
I don't know if Kaczynski knew about all this, but if so perhaps we've judged him too harshly
https://www.newsweek.com/yale-david-gelernter-removed-teaching-jeffrey-epstein-emails-11508416
SJW Tumblr crawled so we could walk
Like yeah its ideology was poorly articulated and delivered condescendingly and cringe and often cynical or opportunistic and just as often the work of teenagers, but it was also one of the first big online communities I can recall to take a consistent and uncompromising stance against at the time near-universally normalized ...
The Cruel Kids' Table - The Cultural Ascendancy of the New Young Right ( nymag.com )
Archive link ...
Disco Elysium question: What was the point of the prion disease?
In disco Elysium you live in a nation some time after a failed socialist revolution. Said revolution was sparked off, in part, due to an infectious Prion virus-disease-thing. I never really understood it, neither in game nor metatextually. ...
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.world community manager thinks tankies have an agenda ( lemmy.world )
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/58d36103-8e8e-417c-ba19-98183470530e.png
Huh why might that be?
covid-cool
just launch them into the sun already.
Doesn't the tragedy of the commons also apply to the free market?
Ignore whether or not we actually agree with the tragedy of the commons for a moment. ...
r/communism rule "No non-Marxists" changed to "No non-Maoists"
It's finally happened. r/communism is formally a Gonzaloite cesspool. This happened after a few months of openly displaying the Shining Path hammer & sickle as the sub's logo.
A specter, haunting
How is the kid that tall.
PSL hurts our movement
Tweto ...
My faculty advisor for my Ph.D. insulted my work to the other research assistants (he thought) behind my back. Should I find a new advisor?
Earlier this week my advisor was in an online meetings with the other RAs, I was doing other duties at the time, so I arrived late. He brought up a delay I guess I caused on a previous project (I don't recall anything that was particularly long, I think he may have been referring to me pointing out an issue with the math he ...
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Trump on Bill and Hillary's news
Is Zohran Mamdani Jeffrey Epstein's Son? Why a Viral Photo Has Fuelled Shock Claims Online ( archive.today )
Look, his dad is problematic, but he's doing good work in nyc.
I think Trump has no intention to ever pay these guys, let alone forgive their student loans.
So... what horrors do you think they're announcing today?
https://xcancel.com/i/status/2019197348178788725
18+ [CW: Transphobia, CSA] "I can excuse sexually abusing child slaves, but i draw the line at trans people being allowed to exist"
Looking into it
We love our misogynistic oligarchs don't we folks? ...
Incredible things happening at Bari Weiss' University of Austin
hitler-detector
Strange behavior indeed 🤔
Chiropractic medicine is bullshit, right?
My mother has been experiencing back pain for a few months now, and insists her chiropractor is making it "tolerable." ...
Musk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutor ( www.bbc.com )
The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography.
Flesh simulator sucks (cw transphobia)
to create a situation with zero black and white ...
"March For Billionaires" this weekend (this does not appear to be a bit) ( marchforbillionaires.org )
Why We March ...
Hot take: people are giving themselves epstein derangement syndrome (and that is a bad thing)
Disclaimer: I don’t want this to come across as downplaying the suffering of the victims, or the horrific nature of the crimes. ...
(CW: harassment, sexism) Men are recording women secretly with meta glasses ( www.bbc.com )
Pledge to Invest $100 Billion in OpenAI Was ‘Never a Commitment,’ Says Nvidia's Huang ( finance.yahoo.com )
Trying to make a list of all the libslop documentaries I can find
Any suggestions?
elon musk only TRIED to go to epstein island. he was never invited or there. he only WANTED to abuse children there. he is completely innocent
i swear he didnt pay me to post this
[CW: Epstein stuff] Elon doesn't understand coded language
That little girl? Albert Einstein
lol, lmao ...
Let's check on how Bari Weiss' free-speech Chud-U is doing
https://archive.is/Hul08 ...
Set the countdown clock to the dems caving. ( archive.ph )
UPDATE ...
Candace Owens published leaked TPUSA audio with Erika Kirk celebrating merchandise sales of Charlie Kirk funeral
https://xcancel.com/HotSpotHotSpot/status/2016323405125963895#m ...
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