thirdplace posted:i'm reading an article on the web site of the the us naval institute arguing that the us should issue letters of marque against chinese shipping
this is incredible lol
thirdplace posted:sovnarkoman posted:
https://www.sproutdistro.com/2019/11/22/new-zine-always-against-the-tanks/
trotzine sounds like a patient medication but its actually this web page informing me of stalin's devastating invasion of afghanistan
vimingok posted:John Smith posted:The trillions they spent after 2007-8 bought another decade of zombie-like life for their vile system. This time they will be lucky to get 10 months, or even 10 weeks, before the explosion phase of the supernova begins.
every once in a while you get these THIS IS IT, THE BIG ONE, IT'S ALL GOING TO COLLAPSE takes, usually from doomsday people but this guy seems to know his stuff so idk. are we really looking at some super disaster within a year?
Synergy posted:vimingok posted:John Smith posted:The trillions they spent after 2007-8 bought another decade of zombie-like life for their vile system. This time they will be lucky to get 10 months, or even 10 weeks, before the explosion phase of the supernova begins.
every once in a while you get these THIS IS IT, THE BIG ONE, IT'S ALL GOING TO COLLAPSE takes, usually from doomsday people but this guy seems to know his stuff so idk. are we really looking at some super disaster within a year?
i have never trusted westerners' doomsday projections. i guess it s because they compare any situation they find themselves in to the US or some other first world shithole in the 50s-60s and find that everything decayed so much to the point of brink or collapse. as someone from the semi periphery i cant even say "welcome to our reality loser" to these people because the situation doesnt seem even that bad to warrant that
MarxUltor posted:Most critically it counts everyone on a 30 year mortgage as a homeowner from day one even though they will be in debt slavery to the banks for th rest of their lives.
okay that s fair but foreclosure rate is also very low so mortgage payments dont seem like the massive problem the internet hype makes it out to be
sovnarkoman posted:MarxUltor posted:
Most critically it counts everyone on a 30 year mortgage as a homeowner from day one even though they will be in debt slavery to the banks for th rest of their lives.
okay that s fair but foreclosure rate is also very low so mortgage payments dont seem like the massive problem the internet hype makes it out to be
good point. i've never been legally evicted so generally the institution of renting is not a big deal like internet hype would have you believe. i'm very happy with the state of housing and there are no problems with my living conditions because i manage to pay my rent every month.
sovnarkoman posted:MarxUltor posted:Most critically it counts everyone on a 30 year mortgage as a homeowner from day one even though they will be in debt slavery to the banks for th rest of their lives.
okay that s fair but foreclosure rate is also very low so mortgage payments dont seem like the massive problem the internet hype makes it out to be
the banks don't want to own houses or be in the business of selling them, they just want you to give them money for the rest of your life. banks still take mortgage debts and collect them and sell a stake in the combined debt as an investment, so they have a clear motivation to keep the actual foreclosure rate low to maintain the appearance that those are viable. so there's a lot of tricks they can use to hide the foreclosures, like refinancing or putting a gun to your head and saying sell the place in the next 2 weeks.
no one gives a fuck about renters and the landlords are mostly all financed to hell and paying mortgages too, so a rental tenant not paying is an immediate existential threat. the landlord also can't actually see your bank account balance at all times, or prioritize the timing of your payments so that they get paid first and everything else bounces.
e: also, obviously
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idk why i'm compelled to read nascent technofascist trash.. but here's yarvin encouraging 'startup dictatorship' to solve crisis of capitalism.
thirdplace posted:i'm always forgetting this
oh
thirdplace posted:Peter Thiel
uk gov just handed over confidential patient data to palantir. i guess this will be the case for all their data generally with leaving eu, but it's not being delayed until then.
blinkandwheeze posted:i can't stand the faux-folksy from first principles analogical reasoning prose style all of the austrian influenced engineering dorks use. even Nick land was somehow more coherent and readable when he was scrawling speedfreak hermetic numerology compared to his moldbug turn
toyot posted:
he's back. and shifting to weekly postings while stuck at home
man, he really hates Kautsky, lol
toyot posted:energy is a 1D scalar w/o an absolute reference, only changes thru the passage of time, okay. my crank theory is that the universe doesn't have 3 dimensions, it has 2^3, which are: the metric (whether 1meter=1meter), x, y, z (3 translations), xy, xz, yz (3 rotations), and xyz (time/energy). the 3rd row of pascal's triangle. these are the 8 known things, which can change the distance between points inside 2 solid or elastic bodies, a gravity wave (1), the kinematics (3+3), and stress/strain (1).
"1D scalar" is a contradiction. scalars have 0 spatial dimensions, and dont transform at all under changes of coordinates. also its not necessary to independently introduce rotations or what you are denoting as "xyz" independently from spatial dimensions (x,y,z). they are all constructed from the basic spatial dimensions using vector algebra and calculus, and your intuition about pascal's triangle and these combinations is made rigorous in the theory of differential forms on manifolds and that by taking "outer products", "exterior derivatives" and various integrals as defined in this theory one can transform between these types of constructions so its not necessary to define them independently. in fact the standard stokes and divergence theorems from vector calculus are intuitive and classical results that form the foundations for this field. it is commonly used in the study of classical and quantum gravity and spacetime. the quantum version involves a neat construct called "clifford algebra". i can give you some standard references if you like.
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It's set in a flooded New York after the two ecological collapses Robinson is almost certainly correct in assuming are thoroughly baked in to our future which is cool because 1: new York as Venice is a fun setting, 2: it helps it's thesis that capital will always, always profit off the disasters it itself creates.
Basically he creates a world where billions have died after two sea level rises but the underlying reality, that society exists as a mechanism of extraction from poor to wealthy, remains unchanged while going into pretty granular level detail on the contradictions leading to collapse inherent in such a system.
Why it's so apt, or useful, to this present moment is the centrality of a credit strike to the plot. In the world of the novel and ours, untold misery is kept wobblingly perpetuated by an utterly false and valueless edifice of hugely leveraged collateralised asset structures propped up by the continued inflow of the exploiteds remittances. Hes aware, and shows that the collapse of such a system is a certainty, so the only sane thing to do is strike.
The idea of a credit strike through the use of community banking, of starving capital of its means of self perpetuation, seems somewhat doable right now. He makes the argument that revolutions have historically only needed around fifteen percent of people to be committed to succeed, and that capital is so rickety it might not even need that much.
He's a pretty utopian writer and I'm sure you guys would find a lot to criticise about the book, but if, like me, you are a huge dumbass and "pretty good sci-fi" is about as clever a thing as you're able to read, this is pretty good sci-fi.
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devscoots posted:He's a pretty utopian writer and I'm sure you guys would find a lot to criticise about the book, but if, like me, you are a huge dumbass and "pretty good sci-fi" is about as clever a thing as you're able to read, this is pretty good sci-fi.
everyone can read so called 'real literature' imo, even if you are a dumbass and a failson. you just gotta have some irony and some emotion, and believe in yourself
Real literature is produced by a foreign language press in a socialist country
lo posted:everyone can read so called 'real literature' imo, even if you are a dumbass and a failson. you just gotta have some irony and some emotion, and believe in yourself
and be able to read
pogfan1996 posted:Real literature is produced by a foreign language press in a socialist country
*anti revisionist voice* thats why they don't make literature no more!