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  • Felt cocky, so i tried reading Hegel

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  • I had to read half of 'Phenomenology of the Spirit' for my Metaphysics II class. And I read the other half on a combo of Adderall and Acid.

    And other people interprete that section differently, I am only going off of what the class consensus was about what the fuck he was talking about.

    It's basically a retread of the old Ship of Thesius problem. If your mind can change, and ideas can change, are you still really you? And by what mechanism can these ideas of self change, when you are dealing with a paradigm of Platonic ideals? After all, previously Kant proved that even if they do exist, we can only have limited access to them through logic, but if we assume they do exist in a platonic form, then how do they appear to change?

    Marx just turns the whole thing upside down and says, this is silly, ideas clearly change over time and do not exist in some platonic vacuum somewhere, and they change because they are directly influenced by the material conditions that we, as the makers and keepers of ideas, experience. It is extremely refreshing to read Marx after Hegel, because he is extremely clear-cut in comparison.

  • Felt cocky, so i tried reading Hegel

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  • It also doesn't help that because he was writing in German, there are these kind of compound phrase-words that are extremely hard to translate into English (because he is essentially making up new words in German). The closest English equivalent is kind of how I do it which is to just put dashs between things (such as phrase-word) but even that isn't an exact representation, at least according to my friend who is fluent in German and has read Hegel.

    He also deliberately engages in using these phrase-words for a long time in a purely metaphorical sense, before going 'actually I meant all of this literally, now go back and read the last 100 pages with that in mind, despite me giving you no indication that that was the case prior in the text.' And then in the next section he will use something extremely literally before going, 'lol jk it was a metaphor the whole time.'

    And it is extremely easy to miss that change if your eyes have glazed over from reading Hegel too long. Which is why you can kind of argue about it forever.

    Truely infuriating writing style

  • Felt cocky, so i tried reading Hegel

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  • It would be even funnier if we just turned the whole thing upside down for a laugh.

  • Felt cocky, so i tried reading Hegel

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  • Aside from the idea that every moment destroys our consciousness and then it reforms slightly changed only to instantly be destroyed again (and that is how we are able to consciously perceive time passing and change), I think that part is my favorite, because there is so much build up to it, only for it to fall flat on it's ass.

  • Felt cocky, so i tried reading Hegel

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  • That Idea of course being a united German Protestant Monarchy.

  • Yes

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  • To me, it is shocking that they keep going onto the show, as pretty much all of them just show their whole bare asses on it. It is astounding how empty and vapid his rw guests are, and how easily they show it, especially the ones that actually have real political power. It really goes to show how you kind of just have to be a vessel for capital to work through to have any amount of 'power' in this system.

  • I wonder who is to blame.

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  • They can, and are, working both angles simultaneously. You get the fearful people into the market with one spiel and the optimistic people into the market with another.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 16th to February 22nd, 2026 - The Neoliberal Fait Accompli of Muhammad Yunus - COTW: Bangladesh

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  • Don't be obtuse here. Automating it is likely far safer than having a human handle it.

    However, good automation is extremely difficult and requires lots of diverse and specific knowledge. Often things go wrong and you don't know why. This requires a large engineering team (think a minimum of 6 engineers and 12 engineering techs), just for the automation process alone, not even counting facilities, process, IT etc. especially for the first three years of a plants life.

    If I were to hazard a guess, they are probably working with like 2-3 engineers and 5 technicians. Maybe even less. Hell I've seen plants try to automate their process with just 1 engineer and 3 techs.

    The problem is that, as studies have shown, robotics, when pursued well, are rarely a labor-time saving device, but they do lead to higher levels of quality (consistency and repeatability). In order to reach high levels of quality for most products, your process has to be automated, so you can isolate your process issues and deal with them. Companies that treat robotics as a labor time saving device will inevitably run into the maintenance wall, where robots are breaking down or screwing up faster than people can fix them. Mostly what you are doing is trading low skill labor for high skill labor (which is a mostly arbitrary distinction). There are of course exceptions to this, such as Amazon, but by and large this is usually the case. Now, this is a pretty bad thing in a world where access to the education and certification nesscery to become considered 'high-skilled labor' is behind a paywall, but it isn't, in-of-itself a bad thing.

  • Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place

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  • Man I am glad I got a bunch of them when they were cheap. Can never have enough slow drive storage imo.

  • known fed sepia thinks hexbear is spreading olympics propraganda

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  • Ah, yes, hexbear, famously fond of the Swedes.

  • ICE Car Chase Kills Savannah Teacher

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  • Why? There is no philosophy, and we know the modus operandi. Why must we analyze the enemies propaganda further?

  • Gork is this true?

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  • Reactionaries aren't really bitching specifically about 'feminists' as much these days. They just say 'woke' now.

  • “Magic: The Gathering” Gathers for Trans Lives, Raises $450,000 in Less Than Two Days

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  • I mean, the trans community is one of their most dedicated customer bases, every Magic shop around here has at least one trans employee. This self-serving for them, but it is nice to see them actually defend their customer bases rather than cower to a vocal chud minority who doesn't spend nearly as much.

  • A Coup is Coming. Only the Socialist Left Can Stop It.

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  • They want 'organic leaders' (meaningless term) because actually confronting the task of building parallel institutions by the working class, for the working class, is an incredibly daunting task.

    Also 'from all sectors of society' just means they want the richest ghouls of the 'organic leaders' to default be in charge of the movement, because they are the ones who will have the most time and money to influence the overall structure.

  • We didn't slaughter our rich...

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  • I actually like that. If they are so keen on algorithms, make an algorithm to determine what kind of expropriation they face.

  • Liberals scratched! I repeat, liberals scratched!

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  • Ah yes, we are the "Beverly Hills Marxists", and not the literal US government funded, Hollywood liberal ideology, that they are espousing. Certainly, we are the ones occupying the Beverly Hills, condescending to the masses on high, and not the actual liberals who literally control what major media projects get funding and stories get told to the masses.

  • Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST

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  • I mean the fact that AAA developers are still scared to release anything under a new franchise despite the overwhelming success of indie franchises is basically saying "Look we know our games suck and we keep trying to make things too complicated instead of using tried and true mechanics and updating our art style and depth of story, but like you hated Starfield (because it was essentially unplayable on release and had an extremely shallow storyline), so we are justified to be scared of new things. Nostalgia is all we have."

  • Liberals try to understand economics without any Marxist analysis: Difficulty Level: IMPOSSIBLE

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  • Well, I can't make sense of where profit comes from without admitting it comes primarily from the exploitation of workers, so it must be horribly complex, because otherwise that would be too simple and someone else would have figured it out a long time ago.

  • This is my message to the fellow comrades. When the revolution finally comes, please don't have any mercy on the social democrats. Throw them into the cuck pit as well.

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  • I mean, I do and I then explain why, as a s Social Democrat politician, she will only performatively criticize the establishment, much like a progressive politician, which people in purple states absolutely understand.

    Maybe this person should hang out with 'normies' sometime. It's pretty easy to get them to hate on any kind of politician, left right or 'center'.