Though the only result is that when the geoengineering scams get into full swing they'll be full of promises about their "AI" enabled drone swarms offering intelligent cloudseeding to optimise B2BSAAS (Shade As A Service).
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). Joyce rejects it as a causal agent of the revolution because she is, as others have noted here, actually a materialist and it is a stand-in for ideology. I have no idea if the devs meant that parallel to be drawn, but it's an interesting reading.
I think you have to give yourself some grace, and remember that being wrong isn't in and of itself "cringe." You do the best you can with the information, education, and resource that you have at any given time, and constantly look for ways to keep learning. If you get some things wrong, that's not a moral failing. Looking back on positions you had in the past and thinking about how wrong you were isn't a mark of past you having been dumb or cringe, but rather a mark of how far you've come (assuming you're headed in the right direction). If you're doing it right, you'll always be updating your beliefs and opinions as you both encounter new evidence and keep reflecting on what you know. Stagnation is cringe, and so is thinking you have all the answers.
I wonder if that robbery number counts or doesn't count the Insta model he married who vanished in a heroic puff of smoke the day after her prenup ran out?
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.
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!
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.
