Riverside
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- Comment on France is next 5 days ago:
Henry Morgenthau be like
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 5 days ago:
I’m aware, I personally use no shoes at home ever
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 5 days ago:
Well, if you want energy access, don’t live in an off-grid house in a region of the planet without sunlight for 3 months a year
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 5 days ago:
Spaniard here. “Shoes-on” is mostly for when you have guests over. You’ll wake up in the morning and use slippers, only put on shoes to go to outside, and when you come back home you’ll remove the shoes typically in your bedroom (unless wet or dirty). But when you have guests over, everyone wears shoes typically, even hosts.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 5 days ago:
My family is off-grid and there have been extended periods the last two winters when it has simply been too dark for too long to depend on the solar without installing 50x more panels
laughs in ultrahigh-voltage power lines connecting deserts to populated areas
Seriously, China is already implementing this technology, we just need a few socialist revolutions and we can go full solarpunk
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 5 days ago:
The mirrors on Earth don’t transfer the energy using the air between the mirror and the collector, they just bounce the spicy photons which can travel even better in a vacuum.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 5 days ago:
This is mainly integrated AFAIK in industrial processes with high amounts of low entropy heat available (i.e. big volumes of not-that-hot liquids), and it allows for electric production from said heat with unprecedented efficiency. Cool shit
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 1 week ago:
Rolling averages are used to smooth-out graphs with high-frequency noise. Since measuring the stabbings per month only gives you some 50 stabbings on average, maybe one month you’d get 30 and the next month 70 due to stochastic reasons, and so to make the graph smoother and more readable and long-term trends more visible, you can do a rolling average.
As for the “starting in 600”, that’s common practice and it’s good as long as the axes are properly labelled, which they are.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 1 week ago:
Isn’t the outcome the important thing? Like, clearly fewer people are dying/being hospitalized by knife attacks, isn’t that ultimately the relevant metric?
- Comment on Why I gave up electronics club 1 week ago:
Currents aren’t drawn incorrectly. Electrons do move backwards, but since their electric charge is negative, the current goes the correct way.
- Comment on Do people eat this? 2 weeks ago:
Plenty of delicious struggle meals if you get creative, half of “popular” cuisine stems from them. Spanish cocido and tortilla de patata are a few examples of well-loved affordable struggle meals.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 2 weeks ago:
I comment your appreciation of the field as a science, but you should also acknowledge that 80% of what’s currently taught in the academia about economics is just wrong. Supply and demand (unfalsifiable and shitty predictive capabilities compared to the falsifiable and empirically proven labour theory of value) is just one example in the long list of econ-101 bullshit.
Regardless, as an appreciator of economics, have you checked out econophysics? The study of economics as a thermodynamical system. It’s wonderful, with predictive capabilities on for example salary distributions in capitalist economies, Paul Cockshott has a book and a few introductory videos on his YouTube channel
- Comment on It's barely a science. 2 weeks ago:
Economics as a field in theory is great. The problem is that it’s been hijacked by capitalism, and 90% of the stuff taught in faculties is antiscientific. The founding grounds of neoliberal economics lay in the Austrian school, which prides itself in being non-falsifiable by evidence. Anything stemming from there is a pile of dogshit. Marxian economics and Modern Monetary Theory, on the other hand, have wonderful predictive capabilities and are proper science
- Comment on It's barely a science. 2 weeks ago:
He was the economist
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s not real because there’s no evidence for it other than “some anticommunist made up some numbers based on hearsay”. With employment being guaranteed and housing costing 3% of monthly income, there is essentially no way people could be homeless.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
Here’s something to think about: Are most people incapable of living in capitalism and would fare better in socialism, or would most people feel like their growth has stagnated in socialism
Judging by the surveys In Eastern Europe, people prefer socialism having lived through both. You can make up all imaginary dilemmas you want, but reality has given you the answer.
I say I choose something a majority would choose too
The majority can’t choose that in capitalism, the biggest predictor for success in studying is family income, and capitalism is hugely unequal. You believe you’re superior to the rest because you “made the choice to study hard”, most people don’t have that choice in the first place.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
There we go, you’re just a stemlord with a superiority complex. “Go study robotics” as if a society with 100% robotics students was sustainable. For your information I have a fucking PhD in Physics and a privileged as fuck life, but I choose not to be a cunt to the people less fortunate around me.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 2 weeks ago:
British food is actually top tier
Stopped reading. Actually, gonna block you right after writing this message. I don’t want to know anything from you ever again lmfao.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
but people born in socialism want (balanced, not late stage) capitalism
False. A majority of people who lived in the Eastern Block (except for a few countries like Baltics or Poland) say that life was better during socialism, every poll that comes out confirms this. The people who are so afraid of socialism are the 90s kids who have been indoctrinated in the “horrors of gommunism” while completely ignoring the very real horrors of capitalism.
The house is given to you wherever the government wants you to work
Again lying. Work mobility was very much a thing in the Eastern Block except during exceptional times such as WW2. Housing in the USSR was actually primarily accessed through your work union, not through the government, so it was up to you where you wanted to work and therefore live. Nowadays people don’t have that luxury, and instead of living near our workplaces, we’re segregated by income. I literally cannot afford to live in my hometown where I grew up because it got gentrified, it is actually capitalism not letting people live where they desire. I’ve also lived in a smaller village, and many people are forced out of there by the economic situation of not being able to find any job because capitalism moves all jobs to the big city. Are you purposefully lying, or just misinformed?
Like China, Half of capitalistic EU, and North Korea?
So, like a socialist country, a bunch of countries imitating socialist urban design, and another socialist country? Nothing to do with political spectrum? If you think urban sprawl is not political, I suggest you research on why it was racism and segregation by skin colour that led to dystopian sprawl in American cities. Or is that not ideological to you?
Well, just because there is a one country that managed to screw it up, does not mean it cannot be part of capitalism. See: Rest of the world
What rest of the world? How’s the quality of universal healthcare and education in India, in Phillipines, in Morocco or in Ecuador? I’m a Spaniard, and I can guarantee you that, for the entirety of my adult life, the only policy I’ve seen towards healthcare and education is austerity and defunding through neoliberalism. This is the case in the entirety of Europe, and when some party comes with intentions of changing that, either it’s internally demolished (state apparatus fabrications of corruption and funding by Venezuela and Iran in the case of Podemos, Spain), not allowed into government by the establishment (LFI, France), or directly shutdown under theat of explusion of the Euro (Syriza, Greece). What a wonderful paradise of healthcare and education.
Depends on how you look at it. I’m sure there is zero unemployment rates in concentration camps too
I have no idea what you’re talking about. Again, most people who lived in the Eastern Block socialism say that life was better then. Why are you so hurt by people having a right to retirement pensions, worker rights, extremely high unionization rates, and guaranteed employment?
Turns on US news
What’s your point? That Stalin shouldn’t have stopped at Berlin? I wish for that alternate reality too, especially one without the USA existing.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
Well, the Soviets and China never stopped building socially affordable housing. Turns out it’s a quirk of capitalist regimes leaving people to spend half their income in housing!
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
Since the Soviet Union pretended that homelessness didn’t exist
Ugh… Anticommunist propaganda. Vagrancy was considered illegal, and “homeless” people had access to free dorms. Your figures are entirely made up
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
The Soviet Union did not collapse in the 90s, it was illegally dissolved against the democratic will of the people. The country was doing absolutely golden until perestroika (look at any GDP graph if you don’t believe me), they had some economic issues due to it between 1985 and 1990 but nothing horrible. What was horrifying was the transition to capitalism. Alcohol abuse, crime, homelessness, unemployment, suicide and drugs became the norm when the entire welfare system was dismantled and the state industry was auctioned to the most corrupt bidder.
Social issues spawned in the 90s during capitalism and do not represent the life in the USSR.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
Believe it or not, guaranteed housing at an average rent of 3% of the monthly income is an extremely leftist policy.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
and cut down all the greenery
After visiting Russia some time ago and comparing old pictures, a lot of the trees were cut simply to make parking spots. Most people didn’t own a car in the USSR because public transit and walk ability were prioritized, and so these areas weren’t designed with parking in mind. When the Soviet Union was antidemocratically dissolved, public transit was gutted and cars were heavily publicized, so most families who could afford it ended up buying some old car, and they needed parking spots.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
Those tend to be areas where women have little education
By the 1960s, the USSR had more women engineers than the rest of the planet combined, and some 45% of the PhDs in chemistry in the 1970s were awarded to women. Mistakes were made in the USSR, for sure, but equal access to education between women and men was not one of them.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
because it’s ugly and depressing
Speak for yourself, this is much more beautiful and less depressing to me than cookie-mold single-family sprawling housing in the US. You’re just cherrypicking a bad picture in winter with dead trees.
the poor end up having to live there and with that comes crime and what not and you end up with ghetto style areas
This did NOT happen in the eastern block. Housing was guaranteed but so was work. Crime is mostly a consequence of lack of job prospects enforced on marginalized people, and when you give everyone an education and a fair chance, the vast majority of people gladly accept that. There were no “criminal ghettos” in the Eastern Block. You’re just applying the capitalist logic to countries that weren’t capitalist. When you don’t segregate people by wealth (rich vs poor neighborhood) you eliminate the possibility for ghettos to exist.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
So eventually only the poor and desperate moved into the neighborhood. And the neighborhood turned into a rundown ghetto
Sounds like the problem is wealth inequality and poverty, not housing itself. There were no ghettos in the eastern block, period.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
Well, those have been built in a highly industrialized and rich country, not in a developing economy. Social housing in China nowadays looks more like your pictures than the one in the post, let’s keep in mind that that kind of housing is at this point over 50 years old.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
Guaranteed housing, human-centered urban planning organized around moving on foot and in public transit, universal healthcare, free education to the highest level, the abolition of unemployment and the defeat of Nazism aren’t left wing enough for you?
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
Architecture is political. The architectural styles of the Eastern Block had their reason of being. The usage of prefab and panels in construction was an ideological idea, because the intention was to house as many people in cities as possible during the extremely rapid industrialization that took place.