swampman posted:

c_man posted:

the last time i hung out with marxists one of them started telling me that the math you learn in school is "bourgeois math" and wouldn't explain anything beyond that

algebra and calculus are maths for capitalism, humans naturally think logarithmically, in terms of orders of magnitude, and this is replaced with counting, integers, idk what else, in schools. this castrates our ability to understand scale, and our ability to respond appropriately to the evils of global imperialism. im making this up but im probably right

tbh i dont think its that hard to come up with an actual good (dialectical?) argument that supports that conclusion. they just didnt do it. idk, something liek memorizing how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide being analogous to primitive accumulation and then learning algebraic manipulations and trig identities and carrying them out mindlessly without being taught to understand it because you need to know how to do that to file your taxes properly being loosely analogous to capitalism. then once you know how to do all of that you can seize the means of math production and start to prove things and understand why things work like they do and you have math socialism or whatever. a japanese marxist actually developed a similar (much better) dialectical progression for the sciences which was involved in the discovery of a new type of elementary particle.

getfiscal posted:

littlegreenpills posted:

there were about 250 trans people murdered in 2013, which puts their yearly murder rate at between 1 in 2800 and 1 in 4000 which is high enough assuming they didnt all deserve it, which they did. el oh el

NOT ALL TRANS

@jcenters I love the irony of people in San Francisco attacking someone on the streets because of outward appearances and thinking that's ok
— Kyle Russell (@kylebrussell) April 12, 2014

MadMedico posted:

Jones, an activist for sex-worker rights,

Remember kids, carceral feminism is a myth created by the sex work lobby.

woa, i didnt know the cop was a radical feminist, you creep jackass ? ? HellO? MccFLY? Anybody in there ??? Just a horny ape iDIOT?

Hitler posted:

c_man posted:
swampman posted:
c_man posted:
the last time i hung out with marxists one of them started telling me that the math you learn in school is "bourgeois math" and wouldn't explain anything beyond that
algebra and calculus are maths for capitalism, humans naturally think logarithmically, in terms of orders of magnitude, and this is replaced with counting, integers, idk what else, in schools. this castrates our ability to understand scale, and our ability to respond appropriately to the evils of global imperialism. im making this up but im probably right

tbh i dont think its that hard to come up with an actual good (dialectical?) argument that supports that conclusion. they just didnt do it. idk, something liek memorizing how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide being analogous to primitive accumulation and then learning algebraic manipulations and trig identities and carrying them out mindlessly without being taught to understand it because you need to know how to do that to file your taxes properly being loosely analogous to capitalism. then once you know how to do all of that you can seize the means of math production and start to prove things and understand why things work like they do and you have math socialism or whatever. a japanese marxist actually developed a similar (much better) dialectical progression for the sciences which was involved in the discovery of a new type of elementary particle.


stephen cauldwell (brit marxist) also wrote a thing called The Crisis in Physics sounds like is somewhat similar to that, altho he was relating the specific battle between quantum mechanics and relativity to the battle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. its kinda cool but idk how useful it is, maybe my brain is too rigidly conformed to the bourgeois scientific method

id be interested to read the japanese guy's thing on it

Anyone who thinks they know quantum mechanics, don't understand quantum mechanics. It's used a lot in the new-age hippy movements and pseudoscience aswell as subjects completely unrelated to quantum mechanics. This is one of them.

Michio Kaku is a hack who just vomits out buzzwords. He will be in anything and everything, he's even in that new "documentary" (its not a documentary, its a brainfart) about the earth being centre of the universe.

MadMedico posted:

Crow posted:

MadMedico posted:

Jones, an activist for sex-worker rights,

Remember kids, carceral feminism is a myth created by the sex work lobby.



woa, i didnt know the cop was a radical feminist, you creep jackass ? ? HellO? MccFLY? Anybody in there ??? Just a horny ape iDIOT?

Actually the head of Project Rose teaches at ASU and knew Jones, so she was likely targeted for her activism.

WOa a job like any other eh//?? http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/projects/welcome-to-paradise/

Merzbow posted:

Hitler posted:
c_man posted:
swampman posted:
c_man posted:
the last time i hung out with marxists one of them started telling me that the math you learn in school is "bourgeois math" and wouldn't explain anything beyond that
algebra and calculus are maths for capitalism, humans naturally think logarithmically, in terms of orders of magnitude, and this is replaced with counting, integers, idk what else, in schools. this castrates our ability to understand scale, and our ability to respond appropriately to the evils of global imperialism. im making this up but im probably right

tbh i dont think its that hard to come up with an actual good (dialectical?) argument that supports that conclusion. they just didnt do it. idk, something liek memorizing how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide being analogous to primitive accumulation and then learning algebraic manipulations and trig identities and carrying them out mindlessly without being taught to understand it because you need to know how to do that to file your taxes properly being loosely analogous to capitalism. then once you know how to do all of that you can seize the means of math production and start to prove things and understand why things work like they do and you have math socialism or whatever. a japanese marxist actually developed a similar (much better) dialectical progression for the sciences which was involved in the discovery of a new type of elementary particle.


stephen cauldwell (brit marxist) also wrote a thing called The Crisis in Physics sounds like is somewhat similar to that, altho he was relating the specific battle between quantum mechanics and relativity to the battle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. its kinda cool but idk how useful it is, maybe my brain is too rigidly conformed to the bourgeois scientific method

id be interested to read the japanese guy's thing on it


Anyone who thinks they know quantum mechanics, don't understand quantum mechanics. It's used a lot in the new-age hippy movements and pseudoscience aswell as subjects completely unrelated to quantum mechanics. This is one of them.

Michio Kaku is a hack who just vomits out buzzwords. He will be in anything and everything, he's even in that new "documentary" (its not a documentary, its a brainfart) about the earth being centre of the universe.

thats disappointing. caudwell's stuff was pretty alright, or at least not too much pseudoscience hackery, or at least the parts i read; he seemed to have an ok understanding of it despite the few sections that seemed to be a bit of a stretch. (o sry it was christopher caudwell not stephen)

tpaine posted:

i'm doctor michio kaku

gesundheit

deadken posted:

finally! a thread about trains

how could a train accept a ride from a human? this whole story is unraveling

dank_xiaopeng posted:

coulda dragon could fuck the smokestack on a locomotive, a car tailpipe is one thing but this is a new frontier

rest easy, i got this
http://rangarig.net/gall/2007/A/RNG_CatchTheTrainAE_preview.swf

getfiscal posted:

we talk about israel as if it's a real problem even though it's a few million jews, why can't we talk about 700 million people?

is it the size of the problem, or is it the lessons that are taught by it?

the israeli occupation seems to intersect with american imperialism and other problematic pseudo-marxian concepts, while the concept of being transgendered doesn't seem to conflict with liberal, capitalist values, does it?

conec posted:

aye did u kno a lot of autistic kids are into trains nd are fans of thomas the tank engine