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  • Everyone deserves a joyful life

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  • In the US, at age 18 you become a debtor.

    Somewhere in your 20s or 30s you become a real estate speculator.

    Eventually people start owing you money, and then the cycle repeats itself with the next generation.

    This system is anti-joy, and I will never accept it into my heart. I will fight it with every ounce of my strength until the day that I die. This is my joy.

  • People warn about culture shock, but nothing prepared ne for this solid toilet paper roll in Vietnam

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  • Legitimately curious about the stockings. I get all the other jokes in this thread but that one went over my head.

  • Child medicine

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  • You throw it in their mouths and rub under the lower mandible until it goes down. It's not too hard, assuming your cat isn't an asshole.

  • Venom vs. Magneto

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  • I'm wondering whether Magneto ever did something analagous to a hajj like Malcolm X did. It radically altered his views. I would imagine if Magneto did this there would be some deus ex machina to set him back to genocide.

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  • I haven't been over there in a while but I noticed the AIs are starting to show up here. How was it over there? Rough percentage of how many?

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  • And Aaron Swartz is dead.

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  • It's called digital enclosure. Enclosure was a movement that began in Britain in the 1700s (but really it's always been going on...) to close off the commons that pastoralists had been using to publicly graze their sheep. It happens to all new media because it's the only way capitalists can imagine their operations.

  • Political mindset evolution

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  • Sure, no arguments there. I guess it's the "green" label I take issue with. Carbon-free capitalism is definitely possible as long as there are enough critical elements to produce all of the necessary solar panels and wind turbines (and I guess fusion reactors if we're really ambitious about printing money 🤑). I do wonder about rent collection long-term though, especially with such decentralized energy sources. Overproduction will also come sooner than everyone thinks. But I guess these are much better problems to have than imminent eco-catastrophe.

  • Political mindset evolution

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  • Yeah that's my point. The average democrat would consider him to be a dangerous radical leftist.

  • Political mindset evolution

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  • I was considerably happier before I knew this. Hopefully coal prices will continue to increase, and they won't end up burning more coal even though their capacity has increased. From what I've read, it's mainly provincial governments trying to boost their economic statistics that are responsible for this building spree.

  • Political mindset evolution

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  • Capitalism can't do green. If you were to make an accounting of all of the environmental damage that capitalist industry has done to the ecosystem, the cost to clean it all up would dwarf the revenue. Capitalist economists are incapable of calculating such "negative externalities" because they don't understand basic thermodynamics. I used to work in environmental remediation and am happy to talk more about this if there is interest.

  • Political mindset evolution

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  • The best way to counter this is to point out the laziness at the top. Corporate welfare is way more damaging to society than the few million lazy people at the bottom. It would cost a lot less to write them off than to pay CEOs 2000 times as much as the average worker.

  • Political mindset evolution

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  • And, since we've shifted so far to the right, the "Marxist" texts can be written by John Maynard Keynes.

  • Political mindset evolution

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  • "Massive coal" was twenty years ago. India is "massive coal" now.

    They have an electric car that costs $10,000.

    They are quickly switching from Li batteries to Na, which will not require Ni or Co either.

    They have a mixture of capitalism and central planning, so it's not entirely fair to call them "non-capitalist".

  • Academic Indoctrination

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  • Right, I understand the libertarian/anarchist position. I just don't understand how we get to this ideal state. History has not panned out this way. Decreasing government spending on social welfare will get us more privatization and corporate oligarchy. You don't get to just pick the parts of government that you want to get rid of and go from there. I would love to get rid of the US military but it is an entrenched power base. It's just an untenable position in my opinion. What is step 1 of this process?

  • Academic Indoctrination

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  • And who is supposed to fill the power vacuum in this scenario? We already have a government that is essentially a pawn of the corporate oligopoly. The only real power they weild is the ability to arbitrarily bomb anyone on the planet.

  • Academic Indoctrination

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  • It has in the past and could again in the future. What is the alternative you are proposing? Less government intervention? More corporate autonomy?

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  • I never said the current government protects us from corporations. We have a corporate oligarchy in the US. The point is that it could, and without it, things would be much worse.

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  • And? I forgot what we're talking about. Neoliberal capitalism favors monopoly.