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There are a few valid ideas in there; I just think it could have been an essay instead

I'm not actually sure if Lain was around for Capitalist Realism; I just think it's hilarious that Zero Books had one single hit with that book and they've tried to coast on it ever since

Lain was always a dogshit editor; almost every book put out by Zero under his tenure was full of typos, poorly sourced claims, and drivel. And a hot take, while I'm at it: Capitalist Realism isn't very good

One of the only subreddits I still pop in on sometimes is /r/asl since I'm still trying to develop proficiency with it, so I think it would be great to see a comm like this

It's a really long story but for a year I was at a dogshit evangelical Christian university and in one of my classes, this was the assigned text. After like three chapters I just decided I would fail the class instead of reading more of it

There are parts of this book that are incredible, but overall it's probably the most lib thing KSR has published in years. Here's the review I wrote when I first read it:

Robinson knows better than most how dire things are for human society and the Earth's environment, and this is the book where he finally lays out a possibility for how it could be dealt with. This is the endpoint of the liberal/"democratic socialist" worldview, where he, charitably, doesn't believe a revolution to overthrow capitalism is possible but a legal, legislated shift towards social democracy (though spurred on by targeted political violence that isn't really discussed at length) IS possible. In the book, this shift relies on the world's central banks underwriting a new blockchain currency based on carbon sequestration and on the capitalist/imperialist powers in the world not actively sabotaging any efforts at redistribution and equity. Which is, of course, quite an assumption. This book also continues to show Robinson's bad/unclear stance towards China that "Red Moon" was all about. He doesn't know quite what to make of them and will acknowledge their state-run enterprises and non-capitalist development strategies and then call the Belt and Road Initiative a form of imperialism and give a chapter to a completely incoherent take on Hong Kong independence that is written from and for the NPR-listening set. He ignores the things that complicate the narrative of China as "authoritarian capitalist despotism" or whatever. I will say, though, that I appreciate the book's fundamental optimism. Robinson always feels that for all our faults, humans have the ability to find a way to adapt and overcome our faults and our mistakes, even if it's difficult and comes with a high cost. The book ends with celebration even as it acknowledges the work that still has to be done. Struggle forever. That's important to strive towards.

Don't forget that blockchain is also a key element of the solution!

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Signora... thank you for your service

Here's the Trueanon one. They talk specifically about Fort Bragg but then zoom out to talk about US special forces in general.

It is so fucking frustrating how you can quote every Allied military leader saying that they didn't need to drop the bombs and it just sails right past people arguing that they did. It feels like the Patrick Spongebob wallet meme sometimes

What if the kid is sort of an asshole, or just has a general unpleasant vibe?

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Freedom of Speech depicts a scene of a 1942 Arlington town meeting in which Jim Edgerton, the lone dissenter to the town selectmen's announced plans to build a new school, as the old one had burned down, was accorded the floor as a matter of protocol.

"Who needs a new school, we can use them kids in the mines!"

Some... disinformatsiya, perhaps?

I guess climate science is her wheelhouse and not public health...

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