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c_man posted:there needs to be a "killing hope" for capital-sponsored health and environmental disasters
Rhizzone Project
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I would tell every tech I met that Krupp was a major heavy industry player for the Nazis. I stopped telling them when I realized they all already knew that, and they really didn't like to talk about it.
I guess the money was too good to have a conscience about it. Apparently some Jewish owned buildings refuse to install Krupp elevators
toyotathon posted:comprador scientist "bee care" center
tears posted:
this looked like a picture of people jumping out of the wtc at first
Parenti posted:this looked like a picture of people jumping out of the wtc at first
the fast and the furious: 9/11 drift
stegosaurus posted:And what form of struggle could really proceed against refineries and chemical factories that actually includes workers in them?
I have a limited perspective on this (as told to me by someone else.) Some chem industry mass production depends on supply chains of small quantity rare components and equipment produced in specialist labs that only a small handful of people know how to operate let alone maintain or repair. (some of this scarcity is artificial: entire labs full of expensive equipment are often shoved into pits and bulldozed rather than moved or resold when labs close)
Organized wildcat strike action or principled mass refusal to allow the production of unethically applied components by a small number machinists and chemists in some fields could threaten disproportionately huge amounts of high investment product and they wouldn't be easily replaceable by scabs. Alternatively, some genuinely useful scarce materials (especially in medicine) could easily be made much more readily available if the artificial scarcity manipulation constraints of the capitalist production mode were removed.
Too bad lots of the real big nasty shit that one might want to organize around stopping, white phosphorus for example, is comparatively trivial to manufacture and doesn't have this specialist bottleneck problem.
luckily software megagurus are really known for their communist sympathies
jansenist_drugstore posted:Monsanto scientists frequently serve as peer-reviewers or sit on the editorial boards of such publications."
is there anything left that isn't corrupt beyond satire
can i still pet a cat without it being a capitalist scam
are you sure
drwhat posted:jansenist_drugstore posted:Monsanto scientists frequently serve as peer-reviewers or sit on the editorial boards of such publications."
is there anything left that isn't corrupt beyond satire
can i still pet a cat without it being a capitalist scam
are you sure
idgi.. do people expect chem faculties to be untainted because it's supposed to be a 'pure' science? do you think electrical engineering is swimming in military bux only because it's not 'pure' science? there is a common denominator here, which i wont spell out except to say yes you can still pet your cat in peace
Belphegor posted:How come the universities don't realize they're holding the shit end of the stick? Corrupt administrators?
here's an off the cuff example about the integrity of universities: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/campus-notes/2012/02/university-alberta-vs-nestl%C3%A9-controversy-and-honorary-degrees
"Water is, of course, the most important raw material we have today in the world. It's a question of whether we should privatize the normal water supply for the population. And there are two different opinions on the matter. The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs who bang on about declaring water a public right. That means that as a human being you should have a right to water. That's an extreme solution. And the other view says that water is a foodstuff like any other and like any other foodstuff it should have a market value."
they gave this man an honorary degree for "the preservation, distribution and management of one of humanity's most vital resources: water"
Petrol posted:idgi.. do people expect chem faculties to be untainted because it's supposed to be a 'pure' science? do you think electrical engineering is swimming in military bux only because it's not 'pure' science? there is a common denominator here, which i wont spell out except to say yes you can still pet your cat in peace
I don't actually have any expectation of that no, i was uselessly wringing my hands on an internet message board
drwhat posted:I don't actually have any expectation of that no, i was uselessly wringing my hands on an internet message board