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9 days agoIt does. All though, some things will never change. They just rearrange.
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Tsze-kung asked, saying, ‘What do you say of a man who is loved by all the people of his neighborhood?’
The Master replied, ‘We may not for that accord our approval of him.’
‘And what do you say of him who is hated by all the people of his neighborhood?’
The Master said, ‘We may not for that conclude that he is bad. It is better than either of these cases that the good in the neighborhood love him, and the bad hate him.’
believe anything in the godforsaken western world will improve in any of our lifetimes.
What keeps me optimistic is the whole “weeks and decades” quote that lives rent-free in my head.
2·11 days agoWhat do you use it for, genuinely?
I fail to see any use for these programs in my own research or for organizing data. Every time I’ve tried using these bots the information and specific context I am seeking is either regurgitated half-correct or showed in relevance to completely different topics (example being me asking GPT if “Marx ever write about “fake currency”” trying to see if it would bring up his writings on fictitious credit and it straight up told me “nah, he didn’t” and then proceeded to give me instructions on improving my credit rating.
Deepseek is better, but still has some quirks of it’s own. I just fail to see any use with them outside of coding.
Probably not too difficult from satellite. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a delay between reported weather and actual weather if it’s just satellite with no ground telemetry.
I wouldn’t be surprised if NK offered weather data publicly either. That kind of thing is important for shipping/trade.
Beyond just that, it’s just objectively a good thing exploitation would stop. Saying that “I don’t think third world countries should be strip-mined for resources” doesn’t mean accelerationism, it’s damage control and prevention. Advocating for those things to be dismantled does mean a significant chunk of “treats” getting stripped away, which I’m not gonna complain about for the reasons you mentioned.
Labor aristocracy is helluva drug.
Asking for accelerationism and asking for higher-awareness of material conditions is different. For most treatlerites, the only thing that’s ever going to give them a higher-awareness is the cut-off of third-world exploitation that all their treats come from.
Wanting the end of the exploitation of the periphery doesn’t mean accelerationism.
Why? What in your genius do you think is the better solution? Continued rampant colonialism? Exploitation of the periphery and third world? Austerity and the elimination of the disabled in countries like England?
Or just the idea of anything that threatens your cozy coding lifestyle makes you squeal at the idea of your treats getting taken away?
“We need a European style democracy.”
“The example, right? Well-funded institutions dedicated to working class well-being?”
“No, exploiting Africa and sending billions to Ukraine. How else do we get the healthcare budget to cut in the first place?”
3·19 days agomy apologies, was also tired lmfao.
understood, will delete what I said.
Huh? It sounded like you were saying they were sanctioned for a reason because of supporting the resistance. I was saying they have every reason to support and fight against America and their dogs.
Unless you mean it in a “they were sanctioned because they were based” way, then I get it.
soft pow·er
noun
a persuasive approach to international relations, typically involving the use of economic or cultural influence.
Everything I described falls under that, with their history of being the most level-headed economic player and growing more and more advanced by the day helps them out in their diplomacy. If you want an example that fits more of your definition, then I would point to the massive amount of brain-drain from the United States to China. I also mentioned productive forces. There is no misunderstanding here.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/april-13/mother-of-all-bombs-afghanistan
This is older and was before China was leading the top 20 academic journals. They aren’t so weak when they are successfully draining and using their “soft-power” to attract the brightest minds to their nation. They would lose a lot of this if they were to directly intervene or deploy in Iran against the United States.
This one is more recent.
Because it has every right to be that way?
"The number of Korean dead, injured or missing by war’s end approached three million, ten percent of the overall population. The majority of those killed were in the North, which had half of the population of the South; although the DPRK does not have official figures, possibly twelve to fifteen percent of the population was killed in the war, a figure close to or surpassing the proportion of Soviet citizens killed in World War II…
Russian accusations of indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets did not register with the Americans at all. But for the North Koreans, living in fear of B-29 attacks for nearly three years, including the possibility of atomic bombs, the American air war left a deep and lasting impression. The DPRK government never forgot the lesson of North Korea’s vulnerability to American air attack, and for half a century after the Armistice continued to strengthen anti-aircraft defenses, build underground installations, and eventually develop nuclear weapons to ensure that North Korea would not find itself in such a position again… The war against the United States, more than any other single factor, gave North Koreans a collective sense of anxiety and fear of outside threats that would continue long after the war’s end."
- Charles Armstrong, The Destruction and Reconstruction of North Korea
250,000 civilians
Contractor: “Excuse me, I don’t mean to interrupt, but what are you two talking about?”
Randal: “Ending of Return of the Jedi.”
Dante: “My friend here is trying to convince me that any independent contractor that was working on the death star were innocent victims when they was destroyed by the rebels.”
Contractor: “Well, I’m a contractor, roofer; home n’ ready improvements and speaking as a roofer I can tell you a roofer’s personal politics comes into play heavily when choosing jobs.”
Randal: “Like when?”
Contractor: “Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was.”
Dante: “Whose house was it?”
Contractor: “Dominick Bambino’s.”
Randal: ““Babyface” Bambino? The gangster?”
Contractor: “The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine.”
Dante: “Based on personal politics.”
Contractor: “Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface’s house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn’t even finished shingling.”
Randal: “No way!”
Contractor: “I’m alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn’t so lucky…You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this… (taps his heart) not his wallet.”
The massive industry base that the west has in China that has been used to build productive forces, as well as the diplomatic power that they use to align and support resistance factions. Example of this would be this: https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/wjbzhd/202407/t20240723_11458790.html#%3A~%3Atext=The+most+important+consensus+from%2Cis+the+agreement+on+establishing
They’re most likely giving them everything they can plus intelligence support. Exposing that to the public or diplomatically threatens a significant chunk of soft-power they can continue to use.
news megathread be like:
“China why wont you nuke your entire soft-power to stop the overstretch of the American regime when it’s gonna do what it does regardless?”
2·23 days agoWell said.
Happy birthday!