Honestly? After the revolution I’ll happily do some spreadsheets and logistics. Sign me the fuck up for that

And all commands are either obscure tofu or drifting references.

May the Polisario front fuck their shit up, God willing.

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I keep seeing old olivetti typewriters in 2nd hand markets around where I live, and they’re such beautiful objects! Plus, typewriting makes me nostalgic for the one or two times I used one to write a report for school because we didn’t have a printer.

Any recs or things to look out for? One of the things that scare me the most is to buy a model you can’t find ribbon or other things easily for.

That’s true, that’s true. I actually didn’t know there was a native European beaver, I thought they had been introduced for fur and escaped like nutria had.

I don’t think the majority of Chinese agricultural development is different from the overall agronomic consensus: intensification, more yields, less biodiversity, more inputs. Discoveries like this should be celebrated, but I do think they’re rooted in a farming paradigm that’s fundamentally unsustainable.

This is one of the areas I’m most critical of Chinese institutions, also because it’s my area of expertise and the thing I’m the most passionate about.

Bober kurwa

Also not pictured: nutria, who are like beaver’s crust punk cousin, and can live further south.

So it’s “lalalalala we don’t want to know what’s going on in the world, let us have our shipping and financial monopoly and our police state with a South East Asian underclass in peace lalalala” in so many words.

I wonder if they ban people who advocate for investment in Israel or the US tech sector, you know, for bringing foreign politics into Singapore.

I’m so glad it took one listen to that shitty track from the resistance to make me stop paying attention to Muse entirely.

Still love absolution and BH&R, but I didn’t even know they had made more music.

old Russian crank wrote about Marxist thermodynamics

I remember this guy, he was trying to reach the same conclusions of thermodynamics through dialectics. Kind of weird crank stuff, didn’t add anything new to either Marxism or thermodynamics AFAIK.

The Saito text that mentions thermodynamics and Marx’s thoughts on classical thermodynamics and the political economy of energy and planetary metabolism was “Karl Marx’s ecosocialism”, which deals with late Marx’s reflections and the unpublished 3rd volume of Capital.

Regarding Posadas writing weird stuff about the SU it’s likely that some kind of distorted version of scientific news from the SU got repeated so much that he actually read “Soviets discover rays faster than light”, when it was some theoretical or particle physics report that didn’t do anything like that. The article was written during the peak of soviet secrecy and paranoia so unfounded rumors must’ve been all over the place

Nah they chewed gum on the walk back from the concert

in the Soviet Union, they have discovered a ray infinitely faster than light

Posadas just straight up making shit up lmao.

He does have a point that from a thermodynamic point of view: the kinds of compounds that give place to life are more energy efficient than inorganic ones, given the activation energy necessary and the right conditions are provided. Life is more stable than non-life, if life happens to exist in the first place.

Marxism and classic thermodynamics do have a lot of concepts in common, with Marx being very interested in advances in Thermodynamics in the 1800s and adapting some of its ideas to Marxist understanding (I learned this from reading Kohei Saito)

In an infinitely large and complex universe, life existing in multiple places is all but a certainty. Our universe isn’t infinite (as far as we know), but it might as well be. That being said, it makes no epistemological sense to claim “life exists outside of earth”, as it is an unfalsifiable statement unless we have mapped the whole universe out

The only people who care about keeping Ceuta and Melilla in Spain are crypto or not so crypto francoists and fash. Why reveal this now? To discredit the Spanish “left” antizionist position by showing that some of them are being paid by Israel?

Baffling move.

I watched it and it’s a good watch, far less boring or brooding than I expected honestly. It’s just got bad writing, especially considering it’s adapting one of the most influential and studied texts in western literature.

Oh yeah 100% agree. It’s fun shlock to watch, and it’s also true that the writing sucks in both directors’ movies.

The writing in any Nolan film is always the weakest part, and if he wasn’t so good at doing gimmicky shit that looks good, nobody would think his movies are good. He’s good at making good looking scenes, but he sucks at telling a story with them, that’s why he’s a mid director at best

He’s like a slightly higher-brow and more broody Michael Bay

ETA: doesn’t mean I don’t like his movies, you just have to know what to expect from a Nolan movie.

The Vonnegut estate should sue Anthropic’s ass for blatantly ripping off his doodles from Breakfast of Champions.

Tusk already came out saber rattling

I’ve known loads, and I love many of them… But they take themselves and everything so seriously it wraps back around to being un serious.