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  • It's like how people blame the glorification comps of Walter White and Tony Soprano on 'media illiteracy'. Sure, they are media illiterate, but who would have thought that a culture that values selfish power and sadism over effective teamwork and leadership would naturally glorify selfish power-hungry sadists, regardless of the shown consequences of their actions?

  • I always had people be like "Look how generous these tech companies are giving away free computers to elementary schools." And I was, even as a child like, 'Yeah its real generous to get someone to become familiar with your product when they are young, so when they buy things or ask their parents to buy things, they naturally gravitate to your product."

    Generous my ass.

  • I have genuinely had a conversation with one of my friends who simultaneously believes that the U.S. is run by pedophilic sadists, but also that Ukraine is UwU smol bean who is just protecting themselves against Russian aggression.

    Literally unable to put two and two together. Many such cases.

  • Why would Trump throw A.G. Sulzberger in prison? It's not like he is actually supporting doing any kind of reporting that doesn't just lead back to the Democrats, who will do nothing to hold him accountable. That's why this administration is the way it is, they realized that no one is actually going to hold them accountable.

    In China, people actually, on occasion, are held accountable for their actions. What a concept.

  • 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.

  • 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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.