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Now, and not just with LLMs but before that, people are outsourcing their thinking.

I agree with your main point. This part, though, is misanthropy disguised as anticapitalism. People don’t just turn off their brains when a certain form of thought becomes obsolete. The simple calculator has obviated the need to perform manual arithmetic. Did people stop thinking or doing math? No, instead what used to be the product of mental labor became an object of a new mental labor at a higher level of abstraction.

The second worst car is the same model as the worst car, but they add an LGBT bumper sticker and tell you it’s more fuel efficient

Edit: I see someone else already made this joke, oh well

Most of the Fediverse is Argentina, and we are China

Jesus fuck. The fact that it took until 2026 for Yale to review this guy says a lot.

Obligatory reminder for people to watch Matewan (1987).

This is the thing that liberalism fundamentally obscures. A small proletarian victory is transmogrified into a win for bourgeois society in general. It’s taken as a feature of capitalism that it endows workers with rights, rather than such rights being only a tentative moment in the struggle between labor and capital. To the extent that the average liberal admits that labor had to fight for those scraps, it’s believed that today’s capitalists have come-to-Jesus, in the same way that those same capitalists suddenly realized that slavery is wrong only a century or two ago.

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Beanis-to-Beanis

Star(s and stripes)bucks

Vijay Prashad recently said he is a big fan of boxing. I can kinda see why now

Thumbnail looks like a sniper squirrel

I completely believe you, and agree it’s frustrating. The normalization of Covid is something to criticize.

Disappointment is something to be used to as someone trying to steer a ship against an ocean swell of propaganda. If it’s not disappointment about Covid, it will be about the latent (or blatant) chauvinism among western socialists. Or lack of intersectionality among groups that really should be able to connect their own struggle with another.

Fixating on this disappointment is counter-revolutionary and I don’t see anything useful coming from a Reddit post complaining about “leftists” writ-large, telling people that fighting is useless, telling people to stop showing up to the organizations in which they participate.

Lmao I didn’t think about that. He got Herman Cained

Vague posting about “leftists” always feels turfed or at least naive. I don’t see a difference from right-wingers complaining about woke.

This kind of doomerism doesnt help anything. In my opinion, a Marxist doesn’t take the attitude that the people fail the revolutionaries. Only the revolutionaries can fail the people. If the people are struggling to stand with our disabled comrades, then it’s an opportunity for us to step forward and address the root causes, and also to make it easy to do the right thing. E.g. fund free masks, mandate masks within leftist organizational spaces, inform without distancing oneself from the masses.

Apparently the mold is from cleaning out his late father’s attic

https://www.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/comments/1qgi9iw/comment/o0my9ij/

It is not so inevitable that the Atlanticist coalition would be weakened by an international incident around Cuba. This is the same coalition that gleefully supported the US in its invasion of Iraq and many other deeply immoral excursions. Furthermore a UN vote in support of Cuba is easy, even free PR because they know the US will veto. I wouldn’t take it as a clear indicator of material support in a crisis scenario. It is possible that such a situation would galvanize support around the “besieged” United States.