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961.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Very important to raise awareness of LC! Covid isn't over!
962.
by tehjoker 2y ago
if you make the majority of your earnings from passive income or you do not need to work to live you are more part of the leisure class
963.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Software engineers and grocery store workers are in different income brackets, but in the same class (labor/prolaterian). It is managers, executives, and investors that are in the capitalist class. Class is determined by your relations
964.
by tehjoker 2y ago
capitalist countries literally starved other countries outside the imperial core. gaza is in famine today to satisfy the lust for control of world markets. churchill starved india. the list goes on. the only genocide i can think of by a nom
965.
by tehjoker 2y ago
why are you blaming IA for the aggressive and tight fisted behavior of publishers?
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by tehjoker 2y ago
This is basically spelled out in the writings of Marx and Lenin. Same stuff over and over again. Corporate monopolies accrue incredible undemocratic power. They must be owned by the people and their workers.
967.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Capitalism*
968.
by tehjoker 2y ago
More people in the world than a uint32_t... never thought about it like that.
969.
by tehjoker 2y ago
If a bird gets overweight and/or doesn't have enough different surfaces to grip, it will develop pressure sores on its feet just to add some nuance.
970.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Man, this wide scale deployment of LLMs is gonna wreck the environment. Why do we even need this?
971.
by tehjoker 2y ago
The idea behind nationalization is that it takes Google out of the market economy and the profit motive. It's then possible to rationally design supports for new ideas, and removes one of the biggest reasons for fighting new ideas.
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by tehjoker 2y ago
The ideological blindness that causes people to speak past each other is this. Innovation requires reliable funding, such as monopoly profits or government funding. Monopoly leads to undemocratic concentrations of power and various private
973.
by tehjoker 2y ago
At a certain point, you exceed the ability of the earth to reject heat and the planet becomes venus, though that would take a few more centuries of exponential growth. It isn't crazy to think that there are physical limits to things. M
974.
by tehjoker 2y ago
We'll hit the limit in a few decades or at most a couple centuries due to ecological limits on growth though (unless a robust space economy develops).
975.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Airline tickets are already cost sensitive, it doesn't follow that people can pay more individually just because the societal benefit is very high.
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by tehjoker 2y ago
Yes, but also airlines will completely fail without government support. The only aspect of aviation that is private is the buying a ticket and purchasing and operating planes, creating a thin fiction of a free market. Everything else is sup
977.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Your identity can be reconstructed from relative's samples. If you submit your sequence its out of your hands forever. The only way to do this privately is to do the sequencing in your own lab.
978.
by tehjoker 2y ago
"DSA Says Let Cuba Live: Ending the US Blockade Today" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXoXOo7_oLM
979.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Cuba's economy is not doing well because of the illegitimate and illegal US embargo. End the blockade. Take Cuba off the completely farcical State Sponsors of Terror list. Let Cuba live! Cuba developed its own COVID vaccine but couldn&
980.
by tehjoker 2y ago
The government is designed for rich people from its foundation, it's a cozy revolving door for the elites and functions to repress popular movements. Officials identify with business and owners and can pick up do-nothing or interesting
981.
by tehjoker 2y ago
If you learn to turn a lathe then work in standard corporation (a dictatorship, military-like organization that produces profits by extracting surplus value from labor) that's not a democratically controlled workplace, hence the worker
982.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Are you kidding me? The way the private sector "picks winners" more consistently is by tweaking existing molecules or creating two-in-one pills for patent protection purposes. In other words, by avoiding real work.
983.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Congrats to Mr. Assange! He paid a high price for showing us what our governments are doing in our name (i.e. war crimes).
984.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Not really, it's an expensive and risky undertaking so only very wealthy investors or the state can afford this. That doesn't mean that the investors are a value add other than providing money. Furthermore, many publicly useful in
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by tehjoker 2y ago
We could just have nationalized pharma and direct research and production rationally at lower prices. The scientists and research directions are managed for the most part by the state and organic energy already, pharma just does marketing a
986.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Regardless of what code is shared, the reality is that TikTok US is less censored than other platforms.
987.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Police unions at least don't count, they need to be smashed. They represent the interests of the traitors to the working class.
988.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Sounds like a corporate attack on the most unionized sector remaining in the country. Unions are little democracies in a country that is thoroughly undemocratic. The oligarchs would love nothing more than for the entire country to be under
989.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Inequality is a social poison all on its own. For example, democracy is meaningless when men of means can buy elections.
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by tehjoker 2y ago
Yea, US propaganda is the same way. It's not subtle, it's just so many people are onboard with it they don't really care.

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