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- Comment on The System does not work. 22 hours ago:
Did you gloss over where I said “I can play that game too.”? The point was to hold up a mirror for you.
You could’ve tried substantiating your claims.
You could’ve tried defining a metric of comparison.
Instead you accuse me of not being “open-minded” to your mindless mantras that you hold close and refuse to evaluate.
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 day ago:
You still have not provided a metric that can be used for any basis of comparison. I can play that game too!
Internet
You mean the computing project that is built on fundamentally anarchist ideas that is currently being appropriated and destroyed by capitalist interests?
gmo food
You mean the field of science pioneered by Nikolay Vladimirovich Timofeev-Ressovsky in fascist Germany and expanded on his return to the USSR?^1^
medicines you take
I live in a capitalist country. I can not afford medicine.
the media you consume.
I can tell that’s the media that you seem to exclusively consume, but that is far from the universal experience you think it is.
Chinese companies
This is not the contradiction you think it is, look into it more.
Capitalism works to encourage innovation.
It is deflecting and this is the thought terminating cliche I called before you used it.
China is communist when it’s convenient for your position and capitalist when it’s inconvenient? Define your terms and stop with the goalpost moving. I defined metrics for 2 of your arguments which you susequently immediately dropped and deflected to some other cliche. Your turn.
By what metric do you compare?
^1 I am intentionally misrepresenting some things here, but surprise me and demonstrate some research skills.^
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 day ago:
you can’t actually face any facts that explore other possibilities.
Would you like to provide any?
Proof of innovation is all the innovation that the western capitalist countries have achieved.
You used the word twice in your definition which is unmeasurable and vague. What is your metric for comparison?
China has specifically copied the US capitalist model to create technological innovation.
And there’s the deflection.
you’ll just insult me for pointing such things out.
You are insulting yourself by confusing vapid bullshit with evidence of anything. You insult those around you with your simple minded repeating of the party line. You have demonstrated no research, a lack of basic mathmatical literacy, applied no critical thinking all while being grossly overconfident in your pre-existing conclusions based on nothing but hot air.
You are still welcome to prove me wrong but you’re going to need something tangible, not just repeated Ayn Rand mantras.
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 day ago:
What is your metric for “innovation”? How much you wanna bet that as soon as you define it and do a real comparison your thesis falls apart again?
Your belief on “quality of life” is vapid bullshit.
Your belief on “oppressive and authoritarian” is vapid bullshit.
Do you have some other thought terminating cliche else that you’re going to try and deflect with?
- Comment on The System does not work. 2 days ago:
authoritarian and oppressive policies
What is your metric for “authoritarian and oppressive”? I lean towards incarceration rate and judicial+extrajudicial deaths per capita. Now do the China(authoritarian communist) vs USA(freedomian capitalist) comparison.
The USSR collapsed financially, so it doesn’t make a good example of anything.
That’s what we call cherry-picking. Post-USSR Russia has a significantly higher quality of life than pre-USSR even after the “financial collapse”. I strongly encourage your to read into Mikhail Gorbachev and how his move toward democratic socialism led to the “financial collapse” and the kleptocracy that began with Boris Yeltsin.
This always fails because humans are assholes regardless of the governmental system.
So why do you insist on rewarding the absolute WORST of ‘human nature’?!
- Comment on The System does not work. 2 days ago:
nose diving quality of life for the majority
Uh, you really should look at the history of quality of life during the communist transitions of both China and the USSR. The incredibly deadly, massive famines that are often pointed to as ‘failures’ are closer to a reversion back to the norm.
The massive poverty reduction often cited as “see capitalism works!” Is >75% China’s communist conversion. Even the world bank admits this! How the hell does a nation of peasant farmers transitioning into the most industrialized and modernized nation on earth, and largely eliminating global poverty, constitute a “nose diving quality of life for the majority”!?
As they say: capitalism is the worst system, except for all the others.
They being idiots with a complete lack of media, historical, political and/or mathematical literacy!
- Comment on The System does not work. 3 days ago:
It turns out reality is a bit different than the 5th grade textbook you keep regurgitating.
That is an incredibly naïve and reductionist perspective.
- Comment on The System does not work. 3 days ago:
rewards innovation tied with risk taking.
No, it encourages a very specific kind of risk assessment. One where those who are ahead are obsessively defensive, risk averse and obsessed with controlling and mitigating any possible risk because they understand that taking the smallest risk could result in an insurmountable setback. Meanwhile those behind aren’t taking reasonable or rational risks, they’re gambling out of desperation. It’s an ecosystem that stifles innovation without external influence.
catering to the desires of the population
Profit, by definition, is the differential between the product/service offered and the payment received. Not even in the most Any Rand reading of capitalism does the producer ‘cater’ to the consumer. The producer manipulates the consumer to their own benefit.
Most other systems do not naturally promote innovation.
Which systems and can you explain why not? Even I can admit capitalism does ‘promote innovation’ via desperate, near suicidal gambles that occasionally work out. That’s such an absurd statement! Even the most conservatist theocratic state naturally promotes innovation in many ways. It’s a matter of degrees, and capitalism is about as close to top of that list as the US is to any metric outside prisons and military.
- Comment on The System does not work. 5 days ago:
The entire philosophy behind capitalism is to reward those that are the most ruthlessly greedy.
That is not true of communism, socialism, anarchism, syndicalism, etc.
To use a sports metaphor; sure a ‘win at any cost’ approach results in fiercer competition and yes a little bit of sportsmanship would make it so less people die. But sportsmanship is diametrically opposed to a win at any cost mentality.
- Comment on The System does not work. 5 days ago:
I think this is just a larger cycle of history
Yes.
that has nothing specifically to do with capitalism.
No. Capitalism is because we have learned some lessons from that long history of power struggles but we are currently stuck in a rut and have a good 50-100 years of knowing better but refusing to do anything about it, which itself is another larger cycle of history that we know better but refuse to do anything about.
- Comment on The System does not work. 5 days ago:
I understand the idea, I’m saying the idea is inherently contradictory and stupid.
The government doesn’t need to treat corporations or billionaires with contempt, it just needs to ignore their wants
A corporation only exists as a legal fiction. A corporation can not exist if a state “ignores their wants” because the state is the one granting the desire for the corporation to exist in the first place! Billionaires function similarly via the concept of private property but that one is a bit more roundabout.
They exist because the state intrinsically cares deeply because “billionaires” have every incentive to ensure the state does so. The state “ignoring their wants” does not come close to matching the incentives of the “billionaires” and as such the Nash equilibrium will ALWAYS favor the “billionaires” without equal, or greater, incentives for the state.
You set up a system based inherently on ‘winner takes all’ style conflict and are surprised when the most ruthless and least moral people end up winning?
- Comment on The System does not work. 5 days ago:
The entire fundamental goal of capitalism is to commodify any potential source of profit. That means something like a “well regulated government” which is a guaranteed negative profit engine will always be amongst the first things to be commodified.
The only way that “works” is if the government treats corporations and billionaires with a equal or greater level of contempt than they treat the government. At which point it is, by any reasonable definition, no longer capitalism.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 1 week ago:
You do understand that many of the claims made about what AI can do ate extremely overstated at best?
Yes, and that is arguably the bigger problem. They’re very careful to not mention any hard numbers on the actual reliability, but if we give it a very generous 80% accuracy in detecting “customer shrinkage” and assume that the error is split evenly into false positives and false negatives that’s a 10% of every time you go into a store to buy things getting put into the shoplifter database(assuming the facial recognition is 100% accurate, which again: fucking lol). At which point the retailer’s internal reports show an increase in the amount of customer shrinkage.
This creates a vicious feedback loop of increased shoplifting reports, increased demand for shoplifting solutions, increased false data, increased shoplifting reports, etc… This resulted in a lot of store closures back in 21-22 and is a crucial part of that “circular investment scheme” you mention.
Of course the error rate isn’t evenly distributed. It’s heavily concentrated on people that “look like criminals” ie, poor, black, young, hispanic, disabled, etc.
The entire “western” economy is ~90% ponzi scheme. The “AI bubble” is a bit lazier of one than usual but it’s not to play out any different than the “dot com” bubble.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
The grocery stores are capitAls too.
Grocery stores are also a parasite who’s entire existence is in order to ration food/supplies/materials at the barrel of a gun to see how much extraction people will put up with.
However, I agree. Killing the canary doesn’t close down the coal mine. Ideally the canary wouldn’t be harmed but you’re going to need to dramatically change your relationship with the canary first, starting with setting it free.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
Focus: Abolish capitalism
Communication: Done
Leadership: Fuck that, leaders are assassinated and co-opted. You need to develop your own agency and spread the protagonist virus.
Action: Everything you listed is performative, not action. Define clear goals and steps that directly achieve them. You won’t remove a single flock camera by waving a “SHAME!” sign in front of it, you can with an angle grinder though.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
You’re spot on with identifying “bread” as the general problem. The issue with your perspective though is that people are burning things down in order to get bread. They know where the bread is in their neighborhoods, and “their” businesses. At the point they’re burning and looting why not grab a circus(new TV) on your way out?
Do you know where the bread is on a megayacht? I don’t! It’s not where the rioting is going to start. It will start at where there is know bread. If you have the understanding that that the fires need to reach the billionaire enclaves you can’t be shaming people for getting their bread however they can and then burning the evidence after. That will always be the initial spark.
- Comment on Ecosystem services 1 week ago:
And that “somewhere” is optogenetics mice, bacteria that produce egg whites, and glowing fish. Not a complete rewrite of the entire human digestive, immune and microbiotic systems!
Also rabies immunity is because they’re birds not mammals, if you want that; add nervous system and metabolic overhauls as well.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
You vastly underestimate how cheap and prevalent that sort of AI stuff already is. The upfront costs are high, and there’s usually some sort of ongoing support cost, but it’s been much cheaper than people since ~2020 and it’s only been getting more prevalent and miniaturized.
I’d encourage you to peruse everseen.com/solutions for some dystopian horrorshow. That is one of the companies that Kroger and Walmart ‘leverage their capabilities from’.
There’s also the b2b quid pro quo investment schemes already mentioned.
And also that retail insurers are one of the major ones helping to ‘drive adoption of these innovative ermergent technologies’ as both the retailers and insurance are constantly trying to
scam each other for profit‘maximize the potential earnings from their synergistic, mutually beneficial, relationship’. - Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 2 months ago:
The “right” isn’t a monolith anymore than the “left”.
While it manifests in different ways the American “left” has been just as willing and happy to sacrifice brown, trans, woman, etc. persons because they are equally dumb and brainwashed.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 months ago:
passed the ACA
By nearly all objective metrics US healthcare outcomes are significantly worse now than when the ACA was passed, even before COVID. It has made the existing problems worse.
help recover from the housing crash, passed protections to prevent another crash.
The working class has still not recovered from the housing crash. At no point since has the lost wealth returned.
The “passed protections” don’t protect anyone they simply mask and slow the current crash that we are now experiencing-- reducing chaos and making that wealth transfer smoother.
funding for green sources of energy and chip production
As well as the DHS and police state expansions that Trump is currently weaponizing. And those 2 are arguable at best considering the role which that funding source has played in the proliferation of data centers since.
amnesty for undocumented immigrants and a path to citizenship
Are you referring to the “U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021” which despite many news reports did not get enacted, “Keeping Families Together” which was quickly adjudicated as “unlawful and unenforceabe”, or the executive order re-instating DACA which was one of the key mechanisms by which Obama became “deporter in chief”?
Misinformed is not better than uninformed.
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 3 months ago:
Pay attention to how often you see “cellulose” as a listed ingredient. That’s also usually processed wood pulp.
That cheap powdery parmesan often found in pizza places? Also sawdust.
It gets extra funny when you see cellulose listed on something with artificial cinnamon flavoring.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 5 months ago:
Spam musubi is identical to your pumpkin pie example, main ingredient changed and often with different sauces/sides/etc like spicy mayo, teriyaki or gravy. Either they’re both unique or neither one is and, based on how you categorized everything else, nothing is unique.
Loco Moco is just egg curry with hamburger.
Gumbo is just bouillabaisse over rice.
Bolognese sauce on the other hand is, as I can’t find any other similar dish that was invented independently
Tomato based meat sauce? That’s just curry with some of the complexity removed.
Poutine nachos? Authentic Mexican food!
Also, think about what it means when you dismiss a food as “uniquely American” because it’s “Native American” cuisine.
Midwest and Alaskan, as well as east-coast, those three sound most promising. Can you maybe tell a bit more about them?
I’m sorry to say, but there’s nothing unique in any of those places either. Ambrosia is a standard fruit salad, Cincinnati chili is just spaghetti and hot dish is just shepherds pie. Sloppy Joes are just a
ragúcurry sandwich and corn dogs are tamales on a stick. Akutaq is just ice cream with an extra ingredient or two and birch syrup is “an ingredient, not a dish”. - Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 5 months ago:
This comment is an example of how that process continues. The original colonizers did their damnedest to try and erase those cultural lines and draw over them with their own.
Those cultural lines are faint, and per capita extremely weak, but that’s why it’s important to amplify them and highlight them when and where they exist instead of disregarding, ignoring and blurring them further.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 5 months ago:
It depends on how you define “uniquely created in the USA”.
Frybread has a rich and complex history within the USA, and I would argue it’s very much “uniquely created in the USA” but most variations have a pretty much identical recipe to hungarian lángos.
Also a lot of USA food is very regional. Hawaii has a lot of unique foods, such as loco moco, spam musubi, etc. but would be unrecognizable to most USAians.
Teriyaki dishes are technically Japanese, but the Pacific northwest has taken the concept and run with it to the point where it’s now it’s own unique creation. It also has cheese zombies, jojos, Seattle dog, huckleberry everything, etc.
Southwest USA and Mexican have a lot of overlap but are also just as distinct with “Tex-mex” being it’s own culinary thing. Puffy tacos, chili con queso, cornbread, cowboy caviar, nachos, etc.
Midwest, Alaskan, southern, east-coast, Puerto Rican, etc. all also have their own unique culinary traditions at this point with lots of micro-regional distinctions within them.
However, they aren’t marketed, advertised or popularized in the same way that things like “Chinese food” is. Despite “American-Chinese food”, like general Tsao, or orange chicken, being very much it’s own genre that is unrecognizable as either traditional/old recipe USA or Chinese foods.
To discover many of these things you can’t just “tourism” through but have to actually try to know and understand the people and places.
Conversely, it’s not like Italian food stops being Italian due to its use of “new world” food stuffs like tomatoes, or pasta is any less “Italian” despite it just being Chinese noodles with a few changed ingredients.
If you insist on playing that game you’ll find nothing is unique.
- Comment on Half of people arrested in London may have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds 8 months ago:
Dependence and addiction are different things. I find the story of mathematician Paul Erdős’s bet on stopping amphetamines illustrates it best where he had no problem stopping but said of the experience:
“You’ve showed me I’m not an addict. But I didn’t get any work done. I’d get up in the morning and stare at a blank piece of paper. I’d have no ideas, just like an ordinary person. You’ve set mathematics back a month.”
If you’re addicted to stimulants, that’s a health problem and has both poor sensitivity and selectivity for ADHD. If someone is taking stimulants and forms dependence but not addiction that is somewhat sensitive for ADHD but has terrible selectivity.
- Comment on Half of people arrested in London may have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds 8 months ago:
Takeaway option one: Society does a terrible job accommodating those individuals who are any sort of neurodivergant and many laws, especially those around drug use and possession, don’t actually improve society and instead primarily harm those who are most vulnerable. The takeaway here being that the laws/society are a problem that needs to be revised.
Takeaway option two: Neruodivergance = criminal and anyone with a diagnosis of ADHD/Autism/etc. should be placed under enhanced supervision as they are likely to do crime in the future. Those people are the problem and preemptive detention is the only possible solution to prevent them crime-ing all over the place.
Take a guess which direction the UK is going to go with this?
- Comment on He was first to try it! :) So brave. 8 months ago:
A lot of opioids are fairly related, Oxycodone and Oxymorphone can be used as precursors to make Nalaxone and vice versa. I recall Four Thieves Vinegar Collective doing a similar trick though I don’t remember what the actual precursor was.
- Comment on Insulin 8 months ago:
And it’s not just “overcrowded jails full of pretrial prisoners, the barefoot children carrying buckets for water in Appalachia” but the grad students in LA living out of their cars, or grandpa sleeping on a bus stop, or people in the Rockies surviving off roadkill and forage.
Seattle tent cities/tiny homes make some Favelas look real swanky.
- Comment on Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why? 8 months ago:
There’s multiple ways, but as an example in a similar way as nutritional yeast is made by growing a microorganism such as Saccharomyces Cerevisiae and then extracting the products. B12 is made by growing an organism like Propionibacterium Freudenreichii and extracting and seperating those products.
You then mix the B12 from the Freudenreichii with the inactivated[dead] Cerevisiae.
- Comment on Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why? 8 months ago:
Most people here are, correctly, pointing out that going fully vegan easily gets all your required nutrients except for B12. However, this is a mostly solved problem because while “naturally” humans would get it through consumption of animal products it’s synthesized via bacteria and it’s currently produced at scale via genetically modified strains, such as Propionibacterium Freudenreichii, and used to fortify things like plant based milks and nutritional yeast.
It is something to be aware of, but it’s also not the problem many on this thread are trying to paint it as.