porous_grey_matter
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- Comment on Texas Republican Primary having a normal one 16 hours ago:
Oh, phew. I was worried for a minute there.
- Comment on Texas Republican Primary having a normal one 16 hours ago:
Free? Free?!! In a hospital, in the U S of A?!!! Ok now I’m really shocked.
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 1 day ago:
It’s not that it’s fully “wrong” but it’s misleading, since society has changed so much since the definition was coined. The Wikipedia article is rather better than the dictionary definition since it provides all this context.
- Comment on thank you Boris 3 days ago:
Boris? Why always Boris…
- Comment on Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract 3 days ago:
Sorry, you don’t get any points for this prediction, because it already exists.
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 3 days ago:
The one thing I’d dispute is
The modern day “middle class,” which another commenter rightly describes as the “petit bourgeois,”
As you correctly identify in your last paragraph, class is defined by your relationship to labour and the means of production, and not strictly to how much money you have. The petit bourgeois may generally be what we commonly think of as middle class, but it more specifically identifies small business owners. People who make money from the labour of others, but still have to do real work themselves in order to maintain it. A doctor at a hospital is not petit bourgeois, but a doctor running their own clinic and employing a nurse and a secretary is, and would be even if they had less income. Even a sports player who makes tens of millions is not really petit bourgeois or bourgeois if that’s all they do - although they often go in that direction after some time.
Where it gets complicated in our financialised world is that our savings, if we have any, are often invested in corporations, and after a lifetime of working for a decent wage, some of us are fortunate enough to be able to live out our last decades or years from investment income. It feels a bit tough to describe retirees as bourgeois even though by the strict definition that would be the case.
Despite this complication, I think it’s much clearer to think of class distinction in terms of the relationship to work, as this is what mainly incentivises attitudes to political and economic policy. If you get your income from other people working for you, you’re more likely to want to drive wages down and not pay for healthcare. If you get paid for working, you’re more likely to want wages to increase, even if your wage is already high.
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 3 days ago:
No, it means merchant class. Capitalists and industrialists, as opposed to hereditary nobody. They are the ruling class now and have been for well over a century at least, but it’s true that they were the middle class at the time the term was coined, although rapidly gaining in power.
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 weeks ago:
Did you even read my comment? I literally address that exact point only, within two short paragraphs. I don’t expect anyone’s behaviour to be perfect. A way of organising society which motivates and demands people to behave like this is what is evil and wrong.
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 weeks ago:
Look man you sound like a decent person, but it’s not really the point. The system, laws, the entire concept that enable owning property and renting it out are barbaric, even if some landlords do their best to be fair and kind. Some slave owners treated their slaves well too.
In my mind, I’d demonise you just as much if you owned businesses instead, for profiting from the labour which others did, and not you, if it’s any solace. But I don’t really believe demonising normal people is really the point either. We’ve all got to live our lives and look after our families and so on. I don’t think anyone can legitimately fault you for that, it’s normal behaviour. But we should really structure things so that it’s simply neither necessary nor allowed for people to do either of these things, and anything less is fundamentally unjust.
- Comment on smh 3 weeks ago:
If you’re used to cups and teaspoons of course you’re more likely to use binary divisions. I’m more likely to use steps of 20% for that purpose. And if you want to actually tailor your proportions to match the one egg or whatever the indivisible object in your recipe is, then you end up with 241 mL or 13.57 Tbsp anyways. Anyway, ten isn’t the magic number, it’s just the one we use for almost everything, and already did when we had imperial measurements.
- Comment on smh 3 weeks ago:
Only for data and that’s a quirk of organising binary data in bytes. Factors of whatever your base is are better. Don’t think we’re going to be moving away from base 10 for volume or distance or power.
- Comment on YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card. 4 weeks ago:
They might still just execute you in the street if they think you’re talking back to them shrug
- Comment on [troll science]: Unruh particle shower on a centrifuge 5 weeks ago:
Routine maybe, I don’t think it’s that boring
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 5 weeks ago:
Where in their comment does it say “exactly zero users”? Oh right, it doesn’t
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 1 month ago:
You clearly haven’t read it, since he lays out clearly the exact steps that would be required.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
This you?
If you’re working for a western arms manufacturer you can be pretty certain your products will end up in Israel too.
Yes, that’s me. Maybe the bit you’re missing is that if you work at a company, the company’s products are your products.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
You could’ve just said “yes, I think that’s where the ethical line is”, instead of linking logical fallacies wikipedia like a fourteen year old atheist.
We haven’t moved anywhere. We were at “working for companies profiting from genocide is wrong” and we’ve started right there.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
Why would that matter? You think it’s alright to work for a company supplying the Palestinian genocide as long as you’re not working on that specific product line? British aerospace is pretty directly involved there so I’d set my standards a little higher personally.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
If you’re working for a western arms manufacturer you can be pretty certain your products will end up in Israel too.
- Comment on Lying can be so complicated 2 months ago:
If you can’t tell, is it really the most obvious troll?
- Comment on A hypothesis 3 months ago:
they haven’t been made by ibm for years and years
- Comment on Interesting observation 3 months ago:
It’s both
- Comment on i hate myself and i want to die lol 3 months ago:
It’s good if your examiners have a few easy things to pick up, makes them feel useful and stops them from finding nonsense just to have something to criticise ;)
- Comment on i hate myself and i want to die lol 3 months ago:
In most places the defense is kind of just a formality. It’s an important part of the ritual and the process, it’s important to present your work, but nobody should be submitting unless they’re definitely going to pass the defense, or else their supervisor has really failed them
- Comment on Fictional 3 months ago:
Yes, the Planck length
- Comment on Beards are technically face pubes 3 months ago:
Nah, it’s from it developing in puberty
- Comment on Richest American to FAFO? 4 months ago:
The people doing the guillotining weren’t the state (at first anyway)
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 4 months ago:
Everybody wins!
Except the Brits, haha
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 4 months ago:
If the train killed only left handed people, you should still be left with infinite train proof right handed people.
Well, infinite left-hand-killing-train proof people, we don’t know about other trains.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 4 months ago:
Great explanation, I’d just like to add to this bit because I think it’s fun and important
And you would continue to kill infinite people every time you reached a new whole number.
Or any new number at all. Between 0 and 0.0…01 there are already infinite people. And between 0.001 and 0.002.
