sarker
ketman hetman
Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes
Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time
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sarker
ketman hetman
17hr ago
Far be it from me to get in the way of a good "everyone stronger than me is on gear" post, but consider that people naturally at the tail of the work capacity distribution get amplified on social media.
Just as building an imitation of an antique with modern methods is viewed as tacky and tasteless,
On the contrary, there's a long history of that with many beloved buildings being imitations of antiques.
Hell, the Arc de Triomphe itself is an imitation of the Roman triumphal arches, of which the Arch of Constantine is the most closely imitated by just about every triumphal arch you've ever seen.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
Sure, the communists liked people who agreed with them, and people who didn't like the western system around the turn of the 20th century generally liked to tear it down. This much we agree on.
There's more to the question though. Would the poputchiks consider themselves poputchiks? Tolstoy certainly didn't consider himself a Marxist or a socialist, though you're right that Hobson basically did.
Did the rest of these really come about from late 19th century counterculture? I don't know about that. Crime not being due to individual choice probably goes back at least to André-Michel Guerry in 1833 talking about crime and suicide rates being subject to rigid laws rather than individual choice. Cultural relativism was described by Herodotus. Etc.
As for this:
Poor criminals are entitled to what they take. Submitting to criminal predation is more virtuous than resisting it.
I don't even know that Marxists believe this. Marx hated the lumpenproles. At best you can say that the Marxists believed that the poors are driven to theft by capitalism, but I don't know about entitlement or the virtue of submitting. Certainly none of them viewed theft as permissible in a socialist society like the USSR.
It just seems like you've collected a bunch of boo lights and credited Marxists and people kind of like Marxists with maybe originating or maybe just believing them. Doesn't seem to have a lot of explanatory power.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
The soviets were certainly partial to the first, but even Tolstoy was suggesting that lynching negros negates America's prosperity:
In a 1905 interview with The Century magazine, Leo Tolstoy criticised American culture, where despite "virtually no hindrances to individual development", yet "you lynch negroes, form trusts, and adopt imperialism."[20]
So I'm not convinced that this one was thought up by a Soviet think tank.
Similarly, the second critique goes back at least to Hobson:
When productive capacity grew faster than consumer demand, there was very soon an excess of this capacity (relative to consumer demand), and, hence, there were few profitable domestic investment outlets. Foreign investment was the only answer. But, insofar as the same problem existed in every industrialized capitalist country, such foreign investment was possible only if non-capitalist countries could be "civilized", "Christianized", and "uplifted"—that is, if their traditional institutions could be forcefully destroyed, and the people coercively brought under the domain of the "invisible hand" of market capitalism. So, imperialism was the only answer.[2]
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
That shows state and local government being under 60% women, and factoring in the two million federal employees makes it an even smaller share. But I do concede that state and local government is highly female.
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
I don't know that "gangbanger" is mostly innocent in the US. I'd say it's something like "Johnson" in that the obscene simply coexists with the non-obscene.
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
These ideas were drummed up in a Soviet think-tank or by communist fellow-travelers in a philosophy department in Vienna circa 1880
Were they? I mean, maybe, but I don't know if I can take ESR's word for it.
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
I don't have any Australian context, but today I learned there is apparently an "Aboriginal tent embassy" across the street from the Australian Parliament house. Now, it seems to me that a country cannot have an embassy of itself within itself, so this is a little awkward when combined with the idea of the land never having been ceded; however, that appears to be the point.
Williams suggested calling the tiny protest, at that point just a camp with a few placards, an embassy.[9] The term "embassy" was deliberately chosen to draw attention to the fact Aboriginal people had never ceded sovereignty, and that there had never been any kind of treaty process with the Crown; they were the only cultural group in Australia who did not have an embassy to represent them.[10] Dr Gary Foley later wrote in his 2014 book about the embassy that the term "tent embassy" was intended to serve as a reminder that Aboriginal people were living in substandard conditions, and treated "like aliens in their own land".[11]
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
- PI HARD - trailer length, but amusing
- The Patchwright - short film, not clear how much is AI generated though.
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
Maybe if you limit your definition of "the elite" to just the czar. Not every boyar could afford a setup like that, but not sequestering your woman is low status, so solve for the equilibrium.
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
In no culture do elite level men keep the mothers of their kids in basements.
Well, it wasn't a basement, it was an attic, but the Russians basically did.
sarker
ketman hetman
3d ago
The way Aquinas dealt with this was by the exposition that “sin” and “evil” are products of disorderly desire within the creatively will and so it’s a privation. Will’s are properly oriented toward God. When our will is directed towards ‘other’ goods that take us away from our purpose, that directs us towards the paths of evil.
This might work for man's inhumanity to man, but it's a hard sell for e.g. children getting leukemia.
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ketman hetman
5d ago
Why did women get into F1 racing all of a sudden in the past ten years? Feels like a psyop but if you asked me if you could psyop women into give a shit about dudes driving around in circles for an hour and a half I'd say no. I could at least understand if they got women driving the cars, but they don't.
sarker
ketman hetman
5d ago
To be honest I didn't find it scary. It was suspenseful, sure, but I was pretty certain that he was
sarker
ketman hetman
5d ago
The cable periscope kills me.
How much did this whole thing set you back (minus the cost of the land)?
sarker
ketman hetman
5d ago
Boomers aren't working - check prime age lfpr: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060
Nearly at an all time high, and higher than pre covid.
sarker
ketman hetman
5d ago
Of course it makes grammatical sense. You've got a verb acting on an object and a preposition. There's plenty of verbs that work this way ("to butter Israelis up"). The question of whether you can use "reign" in this way is one of semantics, not grammar.
sarker
ketman hetman
5d ago
How is transforming the 3D surface of the sphere that Google Earth internally manipulates into a 2D image that can be rendered on a planar phone screen not a map projection?
- The Vanishing (ridiculously titled Spoorloos in their absurd meme language): gripping Dutch crime movie. Ending may or may not be somewhat frustrating, but it's grown on me.
- Force Majeure: a fascinating study of women getting the ick.
- No Other Choice: hilarious Korean movie about getting ahead in the lucrative field of paper manufacturing.
- Caché: Kind of a mixed recommendation. Emotionally impactful, but overall slow paced and takes for granted that you agree with the woke premise.
- A Separation: Iranian divorce movie. "Things can always get worse."
sarker
ketman hetman
5d ago
Certainly there are cities near nature areas, and NY is quite bad in this sense. But multiple parks comparable to central park within walking distance beggars belief.
It's not a workaround. Big and lean are relative terms. Anybody could be bigger and leaner on gear than they can be natty. Nevertheless, it's a mistake to think that everyone has the same natty bigness and leanness ceiling.
Some people are just better.
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