Even just taking the small amount of tax revenue spent on social benefits in the west, I wouldn’t even know where to begin to calculate the non-subsidized price of things like schools, healthcare, water, roads, etc.

Higher but progressive.

They choose to not understand.

This is delightful, thanks!

Not to go all conspiracy brain or anything, but it’s possible that the US bought some MiG-31 planes from Kazakhstan after the dissolution of the USSR.

Why we aren’t talking about it… I can only speak for myself when I say that I’m over all these alleged airspace violations, they feel like made up reasons for Baltic warhounds to froth at the mouth. And what would Russia gain from acting aggressively against a NATO member?

I’ve heard the same thing about ML courses in DDR universities. The students weren’t interested and many professors couldn’t care less as well.

Flea markets in Berlin can have some good stuff.

I’ve also found Soviet memorabilia at Swiss second hand stores.

Today is the first day of my apprenticeship. I feel too old to be doing this but I needed to start fresh in terms of work.

I haven’t worked 40 hour weeks in years, it just hasn’t been feasible for me in terms of mental health. Unfortunately there’s no other way to do the apprenticeship. I really worry that I won’t have enough time in the day between work, family, household, hobbies, and self-care.

I was like this as a kid and more so as a teenager. It’s better now but I still struggle a lot with the societally imposed 9-5 (where I live it’s more like 8-5).

I worked with someone a while ago who had this, he was in his forties and had accepted the fact that he’ll only be able to work evening jobs.

Having staggered sleeping rhythms was almost certainly very beneficial for early humans. Some stay up late to keep watch, some get up early to take advantage of the daylight.

Intel Management Engine is already a back door, and US capital doesn’t need laws to agree to give the US government access to said back doors. They’re on the same side.

Snyder has skeletons too. His book Bloodlands is a work of fiction. On Tyrrany is just a collection of platitudes.

We discussed this video last week. https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8759857

Academic Agent is his own unique flavour of cryptofascist. He’s probably just questioning the narrative about Stalin as a means to start questioning the narrative about Hitler (or German Moustache Man as he self-censors in a very strange way).

Without knowing what modem you have in mind, what the network load is, or what the ISP requires this may not be helpful, but I can offer an AVM Fritzbox 7560 for free.

What a read indeed.

He sees the Trot-Neocon pipeline and then makes the leap that this means neocons are actually leftists!

Yeah this guy is really out there, definitely a cryptofascist but with his own flair. He’s funny to read until you get to the comments and realize people take him seriously.

He says things like (to paraphrase) “anti fascism is anything that’s against the defence of tradition, home and hearth, cultural heritage, tribe or people, hierarchy” and (to quote) “what is called ‘Progress’ in most cases is entropy and a sign of moral decline.” And thinks that self-censoring his use of “Nazis” and “Hitler” somehow makes him cool or something (and hides the strong possibility that he likes them).

It’s similar in Germany, where we ostensibly have universal healthcare but you definitely get treated better if you can pay more (actually that’s an EU requirement).

It’s not uncommon for ER patients to be in the halls and the main hospital in the area I live in is well known for how bad it is.

And everything related to healthcare is privatized, even the general insurance which everyone has to pay for.

Thank you!

Great essay, thanks for sharing! Could you please link the German original?

Also just from my personal social circles, all the moms I know are wage-labouring as much as they can. Cost of living isn’t getting any cheaper and family benefits exist but only serve to paper over the gap for a short time. The only things holding working moms back from working more (out of necessity) are lack of childcare and the so-called “part time trap.”