By 2021, improved precision and the ability to work 24-7 had allowed automated rail construction to install up to 2km of track per day
I almost fell out of my chair reading that. This is one machine doing this
One of the many things Americans must learn about the world is that not all cartoons are cheap entertainment for kids
By linear extrapolation, one may conclude that China will reach its goal in 2025, while the US will only reach its goal in 2539
Mind explaining the owls? I don't know shit about Hexbear lore post r/CTH
Anyway welcome, comrades!!!
In a few years, homeless people and city planners will have mutually raised their intelligence and creativity far above average by permanently having to outwit each other, in a manner similar to biological co-evolution, such that eventually every homeless person is bound to win a Nobel Prize or a Fields Medal at some point and then use the prize money to buy an apartment. This is the United States' plan to solve homelessness.
I love how of all the things she could do to provide support for an army, she skipped over cooking and first aid and her brain went straight to being a prostitute
Polish nationalist
Tries to cede Pomerania and Silesia to Germany
Ok so first of all whatever landlords do isn't "work". But apart from that, the distribution of labour in a planned economy is still very much a concrete problem that has to be solved mathematically. In socialism, people will still need to work X hours a year, even if X is now determined by their mental or physical aptitude, the difficulty of the labour performed, the progress of technology, or external conditions; and this X has to be determined in the central planning agency in a calculation that cannot be circumvented by moral philosophy. I'm not saying we can do the same sort of computation for the minimum possible amount of "bad" in the world, morally speaking, but to quantify labour is possible and indeed necessary in order for scientific socialism to be realised.
Ok but I still struggle to see what would be the refutation of utilitarianism in the context of a socialist society. Surely deontology can't be it
The problem with Disney's "woke" art isn't that they're actually woke, it is that it's trash. Good art DOES discuss leftist talking points. Good art DOES appeal to disenfranchised minorities. Good art DOES try to inspire social improvements. But it doesn't become good art by just ticking these boxes. The baseline expectation of any moviegoer, no matter to which groups they belong, is to at least see a good story with good characters told via good directing, supported with good music and good animation or acting; and you only get those things by taking the time and spending the money for someone to sit down and put the necessary work in. We all know many renowned leftist artists who did that, such as Brecht, Eisenstein, Lucas, Roddenberry, Tarkovsky, or Miyazaki.
If you go to see good movies, you will notice all of them have one thing in common: You can feel the massive amount of time and painstaking labour that went into them. If you analyse them closer, you will see that behind every frame, every object, every line of dialogue, every musical chord lies a careful decision to put it there in order to move you and make you deliberate the film's core themes. Doing this is both an art and a science, it is a slow and methodical process, and getting it wrong is easy and costs much more at the box office than just letting a generic remake flop somewhat.
It is because of this business logic that Disney's recent productions are all pumped out within the span of months and its workers are overworked and underpaid. It is so afraid to risk its bottom line that it censors its writers and directors to take the most conservative and uncreative positions they possibly can, that everything they churn out follows the same formula, and most people simply don't want to go to the cinema to watch the same film twenty times in a row. Making "woke" stuff is just about the only thing they have going for them, and therefore they have to resort to such methods to market their horseshit. For instance, you didn't go see "The Little Mermaid (2023)", their 21st live-action remake of an 18th-century story that has already existed in animation since the Cold War, but this time it has a black person in it? Racist! Sexist! Ableist! Way to kill the career of an up-and-coming actress, you scumbag! Of course, people don't really boycott the film because they actually are any of these things; they boycott it because it's lazy, lackluster, and an obvious cash grab by a dystopian multi-billion dollar conglomerate. But of course, some people don't like to be insulted by a faceless PR machinery and go to the cinema to feel a little better about themselves, and at the end of the day these people generate tons of revenue.
You can live off-grid if you are an able-bodied single between 20 and 40 years old with robust health and you don't care for anything else in the world. You would have to endure harsh conditions and lots of physical labour, you get little in return if at all, but it is physically possible.
However, this changes if you introduce other people to the equation. The issue isn't food, or even drinking water, it is things like heating, electricity, modern medicine, and sewage treatment. Children, pregnant women, elderly, sick, and disabled people require these things to boost their chance of survival. If you don't want an infant mortality rate of 0.85 in your homestead, you better allow young mothers visit a proper hospital. The issue is, at that point what you're doing is basically an amusement park attraction, a bubble of primitive society entirely embedded within the safety and stability of the modern world.
Worse still, building a society that largely made up of homestead communities is an AnPrim pipedream. It is the kind of shit to which you see civilisation regress in movies about a zombie apocalypse. The correct Marxist way to reach our ecological goals is to organise and develop a realistic plan to take control of society on top of its modern infrastructure.
As Victoria Nuland used to say to Jeffrey Payette shortly before the Maidan coup, fuck the EU
A frog is divided in two parts, which each fulfil one of two critical functions. It has long legs with which to jump, and it has a great mouth with which to eat. It knows no need nor want beyond the things it already does perfectly. This must be nature's happiest beast.
I am very fond of it, sadly it doesn't seem to have any applications with regard to the Cox-Zucker machine yet
Considering Thermodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, Symmetry Groups, Differential Geometry, and General Relativity, I have spent at least 6 semesters obsessing over things that are warm, small, fuzzy, round, smooth, and bouncy, respectively
We do need to worry about capitalist space prison, though. If private companies keep churning out satellites for little reason other than profits and without any plans or mechanisms for reentry, like Starlink is doing right now, then we will inevitably arrive at a point where space debris will create our own little asteroid field covering the whole orbit, and trying to leave it will mean certain death.
His name will live on as the medical classification of a novel STD which the autopsy may reveal as the cause of death
Comrades, today I had the pleasure of participating in our city's First of May demonstration, and to purchase two books from the local chapter of the MLPD (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany). One of them is pretty well-known, it is the Dialectics of Nature by Friedrich Engels; the other was an obscure philosophy tract written by one Mr Oscar Creydt where he attempts to reframe the entire history of the universe from a ML point of view, which is why I went in there with high expectations, namely that it would use recent discoveries from natural science to develop new ML philosophy.
Unfortunately for me however, whilst the book started promising and ambitious and it does demonstrate a good grasp of the historical developments of quantum mechanics, by page 60 of 220 it occurs to the author that he wants to deny Einstein's theory of general relativity, arguably the most well-tested and internally consistent theory in all of physics. But this was only the hors-d'oeuvre of the work, he goes on to try and reduce every single phenomenon in the universe to the vibration inherent to photons (which he calls "radions"), he spouts metaphysical nonsense about why the speed of light is constant, he declares the cosmic microwave background radiation to be the "primitive stage" of this vibration because Big Bang cosmology isn't real either, and he makes no attempt to explain cosmological redshift, gravitational lensing, or the perihelion precession of Mercury with his mental construction.
Now bear in mind that I don't necessarily want to accuse the author of being bad at science. The foreword of the book explicitly remarks that due to the anticommunist Stroessner regime in Paraguay, he couldn't rely on qualified people to empirically test or mathematically proofread his work, it is possible that the libraries he frequented just didn't have reliable books on the topics, and even the best scientists might publish utter drivel after having to work in isolation for decades. However, it is obvious that the mistake with this approach is that you cannot start with your own interpretation of dialectical materialism, and then change science to fit into it. This is a misconception of ML philosophy which many theoretically-minded comrades have already exposed, including on this very website. The refutation to it is that rather than relying on some rigid dogma formulated by humans, nature begets the shape of her own dialectics via her own interactions with herself; which is why we must study nature to arrive at natural philosophy and not vice versa.
The last thing I want to remark is that, if instead it had been let's say a Christian fanfic of science, one would immediately have noticed from the lack of footnotes and historical background knowledge, the presence of biblical and other nonscientific references, the use of odd figures and diagrams derived from gnosticism, or the extensive use of all-capital letter words. Here, there were no such signs. Marxist-Leninist scientific malpractice is especially worrisome because you might not even notice it until several pages into the book and even then the errors are of a much more subtle nature and require background knowledge.
Mathematics student who upon completion of his degree was ripped from the university's caring bosom and cast into the ghastly cold world of employment