Thomas_Lord

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by Thomas_Lord 6y ago
Leaving aside how to apply marxian analysis to household relations, non-professional sexual partners, and so forth - the case of how people conceive cam sex workers using these things is an unambiguous example of marxian fetish. Your &quo
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by Thomas_Lord 6y ago
> "Just want to make sure I understand what you're asking here;" You really don't. The main thrust (sorry) of teledildonics as commonly pursued is that subject A presses remote buttons or whatever, and subject B exper
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by Thomas_Lord 6y ago
How is this not an example of commodity fetishism?
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by Thomas_Lord 6y ago
> Literally unbalanced trade of capital as fetish. Chapter 1 in a nutshell, so to speak. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm...
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by Thomas_Lord 6y ago
I have one more line of questions. I have, um, observed that "cam" sex workers use teledildonics as a kind of "proof of life". The idea is that paying customers send signals to a sex toy in use by the performer, whose
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by Thomas_Lord 6y ago
How can tech employers use this technology to optimize workplaces for comfort and productivity? Also, can teledildonics be applied to improve online shopping experiences and social media? I am thinking that buttplug scripts could be the ne
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by Thomas_Lord 11y ago
I'm just taking you at your word. You advocate not to use GPL but to instead use licenses that permit proprietary derivatives. You describe proprietary derivatives as "a right". You therefore advocate for using the coerci
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by Thomas_Lord 11y ago
https://therealmovement.wordpress.com/2015/10/10/the-hidden-...
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by Thomas_Lord 11y ago
Profit margins are very high compared to historic trends. Why? GS notes that costs of production have been going down. Firms move jobs from parts of the world with higher wages, to parts with lower. Firms eliminate jobs through merger
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by Thomas_Lord 11y ago
Regarding "True freedom is allowing others to extend/improve the code for their own uses." Can I correctly conclude, then, that you are enthusiastically supportive of people who violate copyright by making and giving away gra
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by Thomas_Lord 11y ago
It is still valuable to ask people not to use the term "open source", and to explain why. The free software movement is a liberation movement. As we have seen in the ~30 years since the movement started, when users are not allowed
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by Thomas_Lord 11y ago
regarding: "Actually, at its core Marxism is about this motto: (take) from each according to his ability, (give) to each according to his needs." In a communist society there is no state to "take" or "give" in
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by Thomas_Lord 11y ago
mkempe has written a very false description of Marx's work. It is a poor basis for a discussion of basic income programs in relation to Marxian thought. Furthermore, mkempe has pointed to six historic nations as example of "basi
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by Thomas_Lord 11y ago
Thanks! Nifty!
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by Thomas_Lord 11y ago
Slightly off topic. The article doesn't call it out but there's a lovely assembly hack here. In: bec 1f / branch if no error jsr r5,error / error in file name <Input not found\n\0>; .even sys exi
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by Thomas_Lord 11y ago
During the Great Depression most people were smart enough to know that reducing hours, without reducing pay, was a good strategy for lowering unemployment. Of course, capitalists tend to dislike the idea of lowering hours this way. For th
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by Thomas_Lord 11y ago
A lot of this essay seems pretty fast and loose with history to me. I hope nobody passively accepts this as an accurate account of social, economic, or governmental history from the Great Depression, through WWII, the mid-20th century, th