Juice
@Juice@midwest.social
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 1 day ago:
It is way too common to confuse the abstractions we use to understand reality with reality itself. Like the scientists who work with this stuff are really consistent in keeping the two separated, but the moment a theory gets in the hands of a journalist or god forbid a politician, it starts wreaking havok
- Comment on 'EVANGELION' New Anime Series written by Yoko Taro Officially Announced at the end of 'EVANGELION 30+'! 3 days ago:
How to make NG:E even more insane? Put Yoko Taro in charge of the story
- Comment on Nier Automata future developments teased as it passes 10m worldwide sales 6 days ago:
Thats crazy. I still have to do my third play through but I def enjoy it so far
- Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds 1 week ago:
Is it still as racist as it was originally?
Is capitalism still creating wealth inequality based on racial discrimination? Our prisons, which are disproportionately BIPOC would say so, as well as just about any other metric. While there is more diversity among the middle class than there once was, in the USA at least, structural racism is still quite urgent and prescient.
Also historically IQ has been as much a test of cultural whiteness as intelligence, so it isn’t just that people who are poor have less access to quality education, but racial poverty is concentrated and cultural as well as economic. So a naturally intelligent person with a non-white cultural upbringing, would also test lower on an IQ test.
Has IQ changed qualitatively over the last say 50 years? How much has the testing been adapted to suit cultural differences? I’m open to being wrong but I doubt it.
- Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds 1 week ago:
This study is weird.
First the definitions of liberal and socialism are suspect. “Equivalence of outcome”? What socialist believes that everyone should be the exact same? Thats the opposite of socialism that’s what dumb conservatives say it is, but thats not what it is.
Liberalism is the belief in acceptance and human rights come from private property. I know thats not how a lot of liberals consider themselves, more and more liberals are witnessing the eradication of human rights so that the capitalist class can own everything, and want to keep the human rights without the oppression and hate that comes with capitalist exploitation. But essentially the ideal liberal society is like a super-social democracy, and looking at a lot of European social democracies, the citizens dont really know or care how they get it.
Centrism is considered the most nuanced view. This is ridiculous. Being apolitical is not nuance, it is ignorance. I get a lot of people dont want to engage with politics all the time, I get it. I engage with politics all the time and I dont really want to either. Another personal preference would be that I dont want to use calendars. But not using calendars doesn’t give me a more nuanced concept of time management. I have to engage with it if I wanna get things done. If anything, people who have a deep practical knowledge of politics have a more nuanced views, even conservatives. As a leftist I have read history books written by some conservatives, and while I usually disagree with their conclusions, they can provide great and unique insights into what actually happened, from which I can make my own conclusions. On the other end, I find leftists who are politically active are extremely concerned with facts and nuance, and actively resist steering a narrative toward this or that predetermined conclusion.
Deeper understanding of actual conditions leads to better ability to affect change. Spinning every event or phenomena into polemical basis to support my own position isnt nuance, however it may be a sign of intelligence itself since rhetoric is like its own skill, even talent. But regardless, this is sectarianism and sectarianism is not a viable political strategy for engaging with the masses. Most leftists will argue with you of you call them sectarian, even if they plainly are.
- Comment on I liek tudles 4 weeks ago:
After Darwin owned the tortoise, it had to be sent away to animal prison. She was too much of a hard case
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 4 weeks ago:
If later you realize that you did have time, you will have already read and understood it
- Comment on Russell Brand faces new rape and sexual assault charges 2 months ago:
It’s not like his daughter isn’t the VP , and the president is BongBong Marcos, the son of the previous dictator.
- Comment on Russell Brand faces new rape and sexual assault charges 2 months ago:
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” --Samuel Johnson
- Comment on xkcd #3172: Fifteen Years 2 months ago:
I’m not crying you’re crying
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 3 months ago:
Read Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Read Wretched of the Earth. Read The Revolution Betrayed. Read Kronstadt 1921.
Enjoy your Blanqism and Bonapartism, I hear there is no cake
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 3 months ago:
Well history shows, that guillotining your ruling class, such as happened in France, leads to centuries of uninterrupted and rational peace and prosperity. The French successfully ended all wars, and liberalism ushered in an instant and uninterrupted 250 year peace. Since they designed their guillotines not to cut the heads of any undeserving peasants who were caught in the political maelstrom, and enlightened the peasants so that every citizen was not just a productive and conscientious member of society, every French person and all of their descendants has become a productive civic philosopher. No despot ever managed to come to power in France ever again, and certainly not within 10-15 years.
Having successfully merged society with the Hegelian world spirit of human freedom, the rest of Europe gave up all colonies, freed the people, and helped them achieve a level of national and self actualization in line with the French wave of historic human transformation. No despot ever managed to come to power in Europe again.
Now, the world’s children know no fear or hunger, only freedom and reason; and its all thanks to the fact that the French did such a good job chopping the heads off of exactly the right people.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 3 months ago:
inevitable only in hindsight
I’m not so sure. I’m still friends with a guy who told me emphatically “you dont understand what we did, we destroyed the global economy” and then explained the whole subprime mortgage scam to me, back in like 2007. Lots of downstream businesses, new home builders, paint and drywall companies, building materials stores, started folding several months before the official crash as well. I wasn’t nearly as aware of things then, I was a grown adult but not yet 30 and with little formal education, but there were definitely huge flashing signs. Only the media, based 100% on the words of the banks and insurance companies, thought that a crash was undetectable.
I’m not sure quite what it would look like yet, but I’m willing to bet if you look where these data centers are being built, when the cash runs out to keep the whole scam afloat, these big companies will stop paying their bills. The smaller companies providing services and supplies will run out of money before the huge mega corpos start showing signs, so that is one of the metrics I’m watching closely. I just happen to live in the shadow of these data centers so I’ll be pretty close to it, that is if I’m right.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 months ago:
No time for learning, only tests
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 3 months ago:
So how would you calculate this?
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 3 months ago:
Y’all mind if I just uncancel myself like our lord and savior Jesus Christmas?
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 3 months ago:
I love how this whole premise never gets questioned. By anyone. None of the super smartest people on the in the movie were like, “no that won’t work.” The premise just gets accepted as true, but it would be bad.
“I’m going to eliminate half of all life in the universe” hey thanos did you know that scarcity in modern society isn’t driven by population at all, and is in fact an artificial condition imposed on the lower classes by the ruling class that hoards those resources?
No its just like, “well killing people is wrong but it would probably work, people might be sad though.” No Disney, fuck you. Don’t let people believe this shit. Thanks for your endless support for cultural fascism, ya fucks
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 4 months ago:
No but what if I did it?
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 4 months ago:
Okay fair. But what is meant is that leases, debt, market forces are justifications for class domination.
Remember that all financial activity begins and ends with the banking system. New money is created by banks, it circulates throughout the economic system, and then returns to the banks in greater amounts via interest and exploitation. This all supports a system that ensures a wealthy few have domination over the precarious existence of poor and middle class workers.
Small capitalists are especially vulnerable to these pressures. When you own a business to take a lease on a building then the price they pay is determined by the market. But market prices are driven by political and private interests. The commercial real estate market has been described as a “zombie” for over a decade. Supply is tightly controlled so that owners can return a profit on their profit year over year. This has created unsustainable circumstances, a bubble that could pop if a movement came along to seize it.
Power over the workers is the only thing that the system offers small capitalists, who are as beholden to large capitalists as the rest of us. But for us we get mad at our boss or manager, who is more like an overseer of wage slaves than a plantation owner. Coming back to work means people have to go buy new business attire, we spend more on gas, we put more wear on our vehicles, we get less free time to improve our lives or sustain a work/life balance. And for what? People are more productive when we work from home, we make more money for our companies, we are happier and more effective. What does keeping us poor and stressed and tired do to sustain a rational system of labor, even exploited labor?
But the system isn’t rational. And if it isn’t just about profit and productivity than what is it about?
As leftists have been saying for at least two centuries, it is about the power of one class of owning capitalists over all others.
Its like saying that an automobile drives with its wheels. In a very minor way it is true, but it is a complex machine operated by many essential systems. When we look at the car its important to inspect where the rubber meets the road, and understand the component systems, but to understand it we need to look at how all the seemingly disparate systems operate together, as well as who is driving it and where they intend to go with it.
Return to work is a mandate that one billionth of the world’s population demands of .0075% of the worlds population, in order to control the remaining 99.9925%.
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 4 months ago:
Relevant screen name
- Comment on Manic Stew 4 months ago:
Shaky leg Ratatouille
- Comment on Time is of the essence! 4 months ago:
Mfw it took me 20 seconds to read the whole meme
- Comment on "AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix 4 months ago:
The powers that are driving this are actually planning 20, 30 years ahead. Market solutions is a cover for class war. Trump is cashing checks written by Bush, Obama, etc.,
The “line go up” meme is prevalent because the attitude is a flimsy cover for deeper relations and actual class conspiracy
- Comment on "AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix 4 months ago:
“Machines were the weapon used to quell the revolt of specialized labor” – Karl Marx
- Comment on "AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix 4 months ago:
Its literally 8 people that own half the worlds wealth
- Comment on "AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix 4 months ago:
If you eliminate enough jobs, wages go down across the board
- Comment on America could have avoided all of this with a functional justice system 4 months ago:
It is functioning as it was intended to function. A thing is what it does
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 4 months ago:
Maga should totally mess around with social media censorship, worked out great in Indonesia
- Comment on Brickshelf 5 months ago:
Occipital
- Comment on Brickshelf 5 months ago:
I lobe it when that happens
