Not to detract from your point but Y2K was a very real threat - albeit likely not to things like nuclear weapons or planes as was often reported, but to every day software that was beginning to run the world - and it was only not a problem bc thousands of engineers worked like hell to fix it ahead of time. I only like to mention it because it’s somewhat hopeful, like dealing with the ozone layer. We can in fact take collective action to fix problems.

Anyway Google “2038 problem” if you wanna get in on the ground floor of grifting for the next one

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I was thinking about how an organized opposition party would have a plan to swap in new speakers as each one rests to halt the system but he did this with no plan and no explicit backing and I’m realizing

This is liberal adventurism.

This is actually probably as good as any US copyright shit can be. Wholly generated works aren’t copyrightable, but an actual artist using an AI to do some generative fill or something on a photo isn’t screwed out of their ownership. Time will tell how it actually gets used I guess

You may enjoy this talk/blog post: https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2020/08/24/marx-on-capital-as-a-real-god/

I had a specific sandwich the morning of an infusion, 5+ years out I genuinely can’t think of that sandwich without getting nauseous and I haven’t been back to that restaurant since

Explaining successful planning to a communist: imagine a Lenin

I will not make a power dynamics joke and instead just wish you the best of luck

Fellow Breloom fan!

Starting to think this Hitler guy might be a Nazi

Isn’t this the person who made the original bombing a Walmart tweet? Untold damage to online discourse

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I think someone’s original comment was actually making a joke about the gold the Swiss laundered for the Nazis - they were saying that Switzerland is bad

I haven’t fully finished it yet but I’m also losing it over this. I knew the Sino-Soviet split was a disaster but I didn’t know how deeply China worked with the US as a result. I guess I understand now why they were able to convince the US to tie their economies so deeply together

Vietnam stays winning

Is this actually from 1993 or is it one of those forums that measures all dates as September of that year - the eternal September

If memory serves it’s actually at least partially driven by humans wanting to eat it

Genuinely might be my favorite scene in the movie. One conversation and it lays out everything so perfectly and precisely while never leaving the metaphor of the Matrix. Especially the comment about these people being the very people they are trying to save - but until they are, they can’t see through the system. It’s how I feel every time someone tells me I’m being hyperbolic about capitalism or idealistic about socialism.

I believe that’s only in the animated version, in the comic he just fails to save him. The comic gets weird as hell tho, beyond just the typical complete misunderstanding of communism, capitalism, really anything about material reality or human nature.

Don’t worry it’s not the silly letter quote - I know that would be devastating to lose