If it’s in a pot outside, you can wrap some felt mats around the pot, but it will only help a little.

In the Red autumn,

leafs fall. Just like the

shareholder value.

The fascist death cult won’t stop on it’s own until they destroy themselves or are stopped from the outside.

To maintain a consistent public image internally. They sold this treaty to the public when they signed it. People had to move from their home planets. If they suddenly went against their own word and against the reasons they gave at the time, it might get harder to maintain hegemony.

Also there are internal power struggles between the military and the intelligence agencies. If one of those broke the treaty unilaterally, that would give the other side an opportunity to prosecute them for treason and consolidate their own power.

I have a friend who’s a cook. For a long time, he hid his depression and didn’t know he had adhd and self medicated with weed. But it stopped working at some point. Luckily, he got into therapy, before something worse happened, but it got close. Now he’s got a family and is doing great. Not saying this is comparable and of course, in an ideal world, they just wouldn’t do those stupid tests. But maybe you can find something else for your sleep and your thoughts? Medication/therapy/exercises/meditation/journaling or anything? Wish you luck.

All those murderers in a room shouting and insulting each other - I don’t care about the drama. Bottom line is, that’s good news for peace or at least reason to hope.

Arsène Lupine is based on a real French anarchist gentleman master thief and folk hero, who left cards at the scene of the crime and gave the stolen money to the anarchist cause: Marius Jacob. He was very successful with over 150 burglaries and had a whole gang.

The Duolingo French podcast has a whole season about his live.

The right to live isn’t begged for, it’s taken.

I preferred to rob rather than be robbed!

Quotes from this text of him.

From a strategic perspective, the US has no choice but to do what they’re doing.

Yes, exactly, but I don’t think “the US” has agency enough to make that decision. Rather, the system is blindly moving towards the abyss because of uncaring forces driven by contradictions and the need to delay the crisis they inevitably cause. Or push them on other people, like Europe.

Yes, that’s a third contradiction, that could lead to crisis. The demand for natural resources rises exponentially on a finite planet and interacts with all the other simultaneous crisis you mentioned. If the system were to move to mitigate this third crisis tendency, there might still be room to increase energy production, by accelerating the destruction of nature even further. Or, just hypothetically, by increasing pressure on cartels to move monopoly prices (gas, oil) closer towards lower, competitive prices. But this is unlikely, because it would actually destabilize and increase splits in the capitalist class, even short term.

All in all, this decisive move with AI, towards something that destabilizes the system midterm can only happen, because it stabilizes short term. E.g. via destroying value.

Yeah, I feel like we can’t even imagine how great it could still become in a future global communist society. We might not live to see it, but hopefully a future generation.

I knew it was crazy, but these numbers still blew my mind. Thanks for the write up. I want to identify the contradictions at play.

So this could get very destructive. Destroying the real work and resources that go into stuff like building data centers and powering them. That’s because they aren’t needed to this extent to reproduce society. They also can’t deliver the promised profits. As an aside, the new data centers might still have utility, even after the bubble bursts. But not enough to be sufficiently profitable. And the consumed energy will definitely be lost.

The expected value can not be realized in exchange, because it doesn’t have enough use value. So it’s destroyed. This drains huge amounts of capital right out of circulation. Until it blows over, this will actually help stabilize capitalism immensely in the short term:

The need to destroy huge amounts of value in capitalism follows from the contradiction of the rising mass of capital. Every year, profit is generated and added to the mass of capital that needs profitable investment. It’s exponential and therefore impossible to sustain. That’s why this AI scam, just like the wars, is actually already helping to stabilize the system by destroying imense amounts of surplus value and taking it out of the cycle. This doesn’t prevent the crisis, but only delays it.

There is a second relevant contradiction, which could lead to a different kind of crisis: part of this is also about surplus capital being financialized and generating debt. This debt is a claim on future labor. A claim, that can not be fulfilled without increasing exploitation, because AI will not increase productivity as much as promised. The need to increase exploitation will accelerate the drive towards fascism and incentivize imperialism.

The Internet is so far away from what it could be under communism.

The artist has even been on revolutionary left radio. I also like falseknees, a webcomic about birds.

When I was a kid I had dozens of bookmarks organized by update day

Same. I think it’s also because new artists are more likely to publish their work only on big social media sites. And those all enshitify over time and do everything to enclose content in their gated “echo systems”. So you need to have accounts on many platforms to even find the comics. Plus, artists face increasing economic pressure and are forced to monetize or drop out of the game.

Is anyone reading “kill six billion demons”? It’s about reaching heaven through violence and it has awesome wimmelbilder.

He even admitted that they realized only after being almost finished with the book, that colonizing Mars is a bad idea actually.

Saved! I’ll show this to people, if it ever comes up.

The Biden administration announced a new initiative to help deported veterans in 2021, with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stating at the time that officials were “committed to bringing back military service members, veterans, and their immediate family members who were unjustly removed and ensuring they receive the benefits to which they may be entitled.”

Since then, the Department of Homeland Security says it’s helped more than 65 veterans return.

Wow! An initiative to right injustice but only for some people. People who helped kill whoever the empire declares it’s enemies. They must have a whole database of people who were illegally deported, despite having the legal right to stay and they choose to only go after the cases who also were in the military. Turns out, Orwell was right after all: some pigs are more equal than others (just in the US, not the Soviet Union).

I’ve never even been to the US and agree with what you say. But travel dosn’t necessarily make you have good takes. Tourism is often very destructive and ignorant.

Also, among people from outside the imperial core, who travel a lot, there is a different bias: they are more likely to be comprador capitalists, because you need money to travel. For example in Egypt, I’ve only met people critical of the military. Outside Egypt, I’ve only met Egyptians who support it and whose families have high status because of positions in the military. Or take Cuban or Venezuelan exiles, who hate their home countries socialist politics. I’m also not sure, if the trend to move to Dubai to work a high profile job for one or two years in a totally artificial setting broadens anyone’s cultural horizon.

In Germany, libs don’t support Palestine.