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by deciplex 2y ago
> each coup "masterminded" by the USA has found more than willing accomplices in each country Really? You mean every time we've tried to overthrow a foreign government we've been able to find locals who were willing t
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by deciplex 2y ago
This coup attempt is, without any doubt, a project of the US State Department and intelligence community. You don't need a smoking gun here, or put another way the smoking gun is our posture toward Latin America for the last 100+ years
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by deciplex 2y ago
Always a pleasure when people wail in anguish about Huawei when you consider even just the public record stuff the CIA and NSA etc have gotten away with over the years. And that's not even getting into the more tinfoil-hat shit a lot o
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by deciplex 2y ago
> Your language seems to indicate a sore spot has been hit. Uh yeah? Because you're not arguing in good faith. As I've already said, "if you like it so much why don't you move there" is such a boring dogshit argu
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by deciplex 2y ago
I don't think you know what the fuck you're talking about. One power eclipsing another does not imply a mass migration, as you suggest. It can just be... one power eclipsing another. It doesn't mean everyone can or even shoul
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by deciplex 2y ago
> Because they're merely mathematical models of what we experience. Particles aren't?
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by deciplex 2y ago
> If it is so much better in China, why are you not moving there? I don't speak Chinese and I'm an American citizen. "If X is so great why don't you move to X?" is such a typical retort from reactionaries to any
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by deciplex 2y ago
> China has OFFICIALLY one party, a massive and highly intrusive surveillance and censorship apparatus second to none in the world Second to ours. > mobile execution vans literally seizing and executing people on the street by the ten
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by deciplex 2y ago
China is the workshop of the world what are you even talking about? Their infrastructure is more developed (and more advanced) than most places in the US. You seemed to be confused by the fact that China hasn't financialized their econ
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by deciplex 2y ago
> Playing false equivalence games will end very badly. Okay: Chinese report higher satisfaction with their government and the direction their country is headed in than virtually any Western nation and much more than in the US. The Chin
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by deciplex 2y ago
> It's disheartening to witness the US embracing protectionism for high-tech. Worth noting that this is a different kind of protectionism than that sometimes practiced by developing nations to build up their local infrastructure and
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by deciplex 2y ago
> For the whataboutists: Yes, everyone is aware that american three letter agencies have backdoor access to every computer, broken RSA and AES, and control the USA's puppet government. Thanks. You're deliberately overstating th
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by deciplex 2y ago
I mean I suppose you could have said something like "property rights are human rights" but then you'll just get the follow-up question "what is more important, the human rights that are property rights, or all other hu
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by deciplex 2y ago
If opening up Africa to imports of foreign capital was the path to prosperity, wouldn't Africa be incredibly prosperous by now?
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by deciplex 2y ago
> You can't prove things are safe, at best you can say harm hasn't been observed under these test conditions. Are we doing that?
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by deciplex 2y ago
The defining feature of capitalism (for a Marxist, anyway) is the private ownership, control, and accumulation of capital goods. In practice this tends to mean that productive capacity becomes centralized, and as a consequence most people e
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by deciplex 2y ago
This seems like an argument for a command economy.
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by deciplex 2y ago
No, I'm not saying that at all. People have agency and will act according to various factors including what they perceive as their material interest but also cultural factors such as morality and upbringing, etc. I do think that the in
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by deciplex 2y ago
I did that more in a "let's take this as read and focus on the other things" way i.e. I knew I was going to give Musk a sort of backhanded compliment, and didn't want a bunch of replies from people who hate him, explaini
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by deciplex 2y ago
I mean, for what it's worth I'm a Marxist and that fact definitely influenced my choice of words there and how I think about this stuff. That said, while I'm also a communist (because I can't think of anything else tha
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by deciplex 2y ago
Yeah I mean, I agree with you on this stuff - I just wanted to make a point about production for use vs production for profit and how a manic fixation on the latter can lead to adverse outcomes. And, like I hinted at, I don't think Elo
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by deciplex 2y ago
Yes this exactly. Our entire economy is enshittified and becoming more so daily, and it's precisely because we've become a 100% production for profit economy. Eventually you lose the plot when you do that.
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by deciplex 2y ago
I would say that the one redeeming quality of Elon Musk (in a sea of otherwise awful personality traits) is that for at least Tesla and SpaceX, that he was interested in running those companies primarily to produce a product. Like that wa
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by deciplex 2y ago
Yes I thought of that but my method allows us to drive down latencies significantly, while keeping costs about the same overall. If we want to get them as low as possible though, as you say we could still benefit from having two copies. Not
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by deciplex 2y ago
That's a waste of money: simply rip all the pages out of the book and lay them out separately on a flat surface somewhere. Then I can read half the book at once, flip all the pages over, and read the other half. Easy.
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by deciplex 2y ago
For what it's worth, I'm mostly in agreement with you that contemporary therapy is overrated. I did have one quibble: > Somehow, humans managed to get by for thousands of years without any of this stuff. In fact, and this is es
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by deciplex 2y ago
I mean, fwiw sometimes "obscure data structures" really do cleanly, efficiently, and performatively solve a problem that would have been a nightmare to address with simpler, more well known structures. That said, for most of us, i
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by deciplex 2y ago
Yeah that's kind of what I was getting at: the implications of all these aerosols falling to earth later, and getting into everything.
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by deciplex 2y ago
> they only stay suspended for 10 years or so And then what happens? Earnest question.
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by deciplex 2y ago
Israel is also responsible for 3/4 of all journalist deaths in the last year.

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