That is one fat ass.

PatSocs are usually the next biggest suckers in the room if you've run your course with the BreadTube audience, so not surprising.

If only he had realized that that was most contemporary continental philosophy outside of maybe Wittgenstein.

Unless it is these incredibly wild accusations of the Chinese killing their Uyghur minority to make wigs! Then we have satellite images of exactly where the factories are (even though they literally just look like every other generic factory and there is literally no proof provided by the photographs)! Aren't we so smart!?

This kind of stuff was always my issue with most of the genre of 'post-modern' or 'meta-fiction'. It doesn't seem to have a real respect for traditional fiction itself as a complex medium to explore the human condition, the author being so detached that they can only think to use the medium to describe the human condition within fiction. Essentially creating a novel to do the job of the critic and theorist.

While interesting, it has always struck me as not actually that inventive, as this kind of metacriticism has been part and parcel of writing forever, even Aeacylus would include characters that were essentially cheap shots and criticisms of the state of plays and city life.

That doesn't mean the portrayal of the medium of something like House of Leaves isn't interesting, just that it probably isn't as deep as it has pretense towards being.

Why would our National Public Radio broadcast propaganda?

For me the strange thing is how almost exactly the same everything has been in the U.S. barring basically 1935-1949 just with different flavors of aesthetic bullshit. You want Eastern culture obsessives? They are in every generation of Americans. Shit-posters? Every generation. All that changes is what exactly is 'normalized behavior' in certain areas.

Nothing changes and time appears to be a flat circle.

I'm being hyperbolic, but the idea that decades have truly distinct flavors of culture is an absolutely crazy opinion to have.

It's not that Cuba 'get's caught between great power struggles', they understand that their countries history is one long anti-colonial struggle, and you either figure out how to play ball, or you will soon find yourself as the bases.

Just a reminder, in this 'heroic rescue', they not only dressed up as Palestinian civilians, they also shot and killed every single person (including women and children) they encountered and bombed the surrounding blocks, also killing 3 other hostages. The death count as of this moment is as low as 100 and as high as 274, most of them children.

It's so interesting how when you just blatantly ignore context, you can paint an absolutely, wholely unnecessary, disastrous, slaughterhouse operation as 'heroic'

I think it comes down to kids often being a reflection of their parent (socially) and a lot of people not being conscious of how what their actual behavior is (or in particular the social behavior of the media figures they passively consume) is. In my experience, people whose kids misbehave in public (which oh no, they are getting a little loud and maybe breaking something accidentally or on purpose, who cares) are a lot more playfully sarcastic or misbehaving in public than they think they are.

It comes down to a level of conscious consistency that pretty much everyone I know does not follow. Those I know that do follow it seem to have very well behaved kids, even with no disciplinary measures.

They want an easy solution that doesn't actually require massive political and social upheavals that could potentially lead humanity to the brink of nuclear armageddon. People want the revolution to be painless, bur we know from experience it will not be.

It's not so much brainworms as wishful thinking.

We are already at 'post-scarcity'. What we are suffering from is a distribution and management issue. We let the 'free market' (a.k.a. trillions of dollars of fruitless, wasted, advertising spending) dictate our distribution, and ah damn, it looks like areas that don't have as much money don't spend as much money, better not increase investment there, unless it is for a product that richer people can buy.

Robots nor AI, nor any technology can solve this fundamental contradiction that exists within the capitalist political-economy, and it will stifle productive local growth, and kill equitable distribution of resources world-wide until it is solved.

I mean, if you listen to any interviews with him, he basically does bumble through life, three stooges style, thinking that every little article he writes has a massive impact on world politics. He is the idealized liberal journalist, with absolutely no material analysis at all affecting his writings, at most he will do systems analysis. He really is just on the side of 'who will give me good sources to write my articles.'

She is an activist NGO lobbyist, who seems to focus on abolition of prison for victims of abuse that kill or hurt their abusers. Mostly she seems to publish books and participate in education efforts.

I'm sure that she has been called 'performative' by newer, more radicalized, people in the prison abolition movement, who may or may not be extremely online. If this criticism of her is fair or in bad faith, idk, I don't know enough about her or her organization. There is 'performance' in writing or education, but it is more about whether this 'performance' benefits her more than the people she is trying to help.

For example, I have done volunteer work for several 'charity' organizations that spend all of their time and money polling the community about 'what do you think should be done in the community', but never actually get around to actually doing anything for the community. While it isn't on the surface 'performative', it becomes 'performative' with the lack of funds to follow-up those polls, and the fact that round after round of these polls seem to be done with no real coordination between groups with similar interests. The same could be said for this organization, but I don't know enough about them.

Whatever has happened, true or not, online or not, has clearly melted her brain.

I get what you are saying, but your confusion comes from a misinterpretation of theory. They can make 'profit' without your labor, them holding land and speculative value assets can technically generate 'profit' for them if the market is scarce in those resources and demand is high, as they go up in valuation. What they cannot get from you is socially-productive labor, a.k.a. the labor that recreates society in such a way that speculative values can be actualized. However the problem is that the market for socially-productive labor 'for the capitalist' is satisfied by the labor market, they are always trying to shear the sheep, not kill it. The issue that we run into is that eventually the most profitable thing to do is only invest in finite goods, and all else is left to the wayside to rot and fester until those nessecery goods and services become commodities as well.

Ah, the classic "Volunteerism as revolution."

Nothing wrong with it in spirit, but just as easily splintered and co-opted by the feds.

I very distinctly remember Putin's opening speech saying that if Ukraine wishes for continued de-sovietization so much, then Russia will provide it for them (as in take away the Russian speaking regions that were formed under the Ukrainian SR) , which is exactly the opposite of reforming the USSR.

Yeah, I'm trying to avoid going into the military which limits my options, but that kind of stuff is still way beyond AI modeling atm, maybe it will be possible in a decade or so (I doubt it, with the power requirements of current AI models, I don't think it will ever be profitable enough to do that) but manufacturing is still safest (kinda) for now.

This whole manufacturing production war with China is the dumbest thing we could possibly do as a country economically but I am betting on the U.S. being stupid.

I literally changed my second major to specifically go into engineering that focuses on manufacturing and robotics because while AI can make some aspects of the job simpler, the physical design and modeling of products still requires engineers to physically test the machines and make corrections, there is waaaaay too much specification. You may be able make things abit quicker, but it is incredibly unlikely that these modeling softwares will ever be data sold to general AI because their whole business model is monopolizing that data and guarding it.

It will never make me as much money as tech in it's hey-day and will never buy a house to be able to move to wherever the factories physically are, because manufacturing is still an unstable job field at the best of times (thanks capitalist mode of production).

They will try to replace us with robots, but I don't think the profitability model is there for it for a true follow-through investment in the U.S... besides, who will buy the product if we have no money for it?

Good luck, it's fucking tough out there.

Ask him how to determine the price of a bolt of linen in relation to how many coats can be made from it.