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iirc the vaccines stopped the tick from successfully transferring the bacteria. it didn't make the body able to better combat it. (and if you read the article linked it explains that its not actually the killing of the spirochete that is the problem its the remains of it and how the host body responds to those remains.)

Its sad that we needed to have a partially avoidable mass death due to COVID in order for people to start considering these chronic conditions more broadly in society. People have been having these issues for generations.

The problem with Americans is that they believe themselves to be temporarily embarrassed millionaires. In its original context we find this a funny if depressing cliche but when applied to our current context I think it explains in a very dark way why no one does anything and collective defense never forms.

This is just the outsourcing of something the US has been doing for a long time.

instead of writing this exact thing i found the first comment from the bottom which said it for me. these people are coping. articles like this read to me as a person good at writing long form whos trying to convince themselves their cowardice and inflated self image-driven decision not to curate their social circles is actually ok and not horribly damaging to our society.

sad to see this sort of research get slowly defunded / privatized

not surprised. this anecdote is some good evidence for how i felt at the time: apple took a good thing way too far and as a result now we have to suffer through the google / windows flat UIs everywhere which are just plane lazy

same. I really thought the community made a mistake entirely rejecting the concept in the past 10+ years

Absolutely incredible long read. I adore people who commit themselves to archival works like this.

these people literally can not

These sorts of people are never honest.

I can’t tell if this is an ironic comment lol

Zionist and other far right twitter accounts being bandied about as an argument for the detention of someone exercising free speech rights.

The dismantling of the American government is going as planned I see?

Came here to say this. Ive had to work on slop, and it never stops being slop unless the stars align and you can do a bunch of work which is short term unprofitable. What people really should do is work on the same project for five years. Watch the interest wax and wane and more importantly watch the requirements change. Then you'll stop looking at things in black and white like "good project bad project"

I think this is partially correct but as the center moved rapidly to the right I’d say you need to study early 20th century governments and the arc of the US government as they decline into fascism. This is characterized primarily by privatization (and ofc surveillance and militarization of police.) In practice this means that the corps become a government just one that has zero accountability so people can’t use words like “authoritarian”

That’s precisely my point. Where do you live? The west? If not, whatever. But if you do then this is typical of what happens when you try to criticize the US. People do backbends to avoid the cold facts that regardless of what we WANT to be true of neoliberalism it’s a failed project and other modes of providing for people have outpaced it.

I got this exact style of education at UMass Amherst's 4 year CS undergrad degree program 2005-2010 and it absolutely made me the engineer i am today. would recommend 10/10.

"capitalism solves this problem, just look at all the revolutions communists did that erased more poverty faster than at any time in human history"

i get what you're trying to say but ultimately it just seems like you're pointing at everything positive and saying "capitalism did that" without much effort or investigation. there's too much to cover in an HN thread but one thing thats interesting is that when this ideological sentiment is brought out no one ever seems to want to deal with the backslide in equity that happened across all measurements after the fall of the USSR. i think partially because westerners dont seem to be able to engage with the discussion without immediately whatabout-ing and claiming that doing the analysis is somehow stalin worship.

The second thing.

Also AGI is a floating signifier thats going to mean whatever is useful to marketers once they've used up the easier ones.

its funny, it seems the point of this kind of response is to imply that my analysis is naive or overly simplistic but there are hundreds of thousands of pages of math and science and philosophy on the topic. im not just making this up, im simply explaining why its happening. these smug responses never seem to actually engage with anything except simplistic propaganda substituted in for the actual argument being made.

Thats because there is no answer. Marx and all of the people who developed his theories after him have exhaustively and scientifically proved this. That's really whats happening: its not that people dont have an answer is that they're not admitting to the exploitative nature of private capital accumulation. The main internal contradiction of capitalism leads to the system creating large amounts of wealth but also equivalently large amounts of poverty.

Also, if you havent read the wikipedia article on the luddites you should. It's not as bad a moniker as revisionists would have you think! (Hint: they were protesting labor abuses, not simply opposed to advencement.)

True but its clear that these systems allow this process to happen at rates orders of magnitudes larger than without it. That changes the severity of the problem and definitely turns it into something people need to intervene in.

Im curious by what metric things are improving in the US? I get that people are very defensive of their ability to say nearly anything they want in public but how has this protected us? The overton window continues to shift to the right, we continue to fund more and more war, the security state continues to expand, our actual privacy from the state itself is non-existent.

Again, i understand the desire for "freedom of speech" as it is mythologized in the US. I was born and raised here. But we do an absolute crap job of making an argument for it by our actions. The second you take that speech outside to the street with signs and a megaphone, no matter how many forms you fill out, you'll get beaten to within an inch of your life by security forces if the message you're making is, for example, anti-cop.

I am by in no way making any claim about China or defending their speech protections. What im trying to say is that even if we accept that there is true freedom of speech in the US (which im not sure i agree with) where has it gotten us? If you think conditions for anyone in the US who isn't wealthy have improved in the past 40 years then im not really sure what to say. About all we have left is the fact that legally you cant be arrested for social media posts. In general. Most of the time.

This is precisely my point. We define a historical era with things like red lining and lynching but they never stopped. The manipulation of education and words works perfectly: there's no reason to suppress speech.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/08/modern-day-...

How do you know this isn't what happened in China? Also, the underlying causes being addressed is like saying that redlining no longer exists because its not called that or that racism is gone because we no long live in Jim Crow times. The US has not moved on from that time nor has it gotten any better than the kent state shooting. If anything these conditions have worstened and when these shootings and lynchings happen now they dont even get mainstream news coverage.

Thank you for posting this. The people who bring up Tiananmen Square do not have the best interest of the whole of the chinese people in mind so i tend to just avoid this sort of conversation. There are criticisms to be made of China, of course, but in a right wing capitalist context that has spent trillions of dollars dismantling other sovereign governments since WWII theres just no point.

its interesting to me that that is the way the discussion turned but its not what i originally meant. there were just qualities to this story that are hallmarks of great modern japanese short and long form lit. for example:

- referring to characters by single letters (c.f.: K in Kokoro)

- romantic descriptions of nature as the meat of the work that ties the actual plot together (... basically all japanese lit since ooku no hosomichi in the 9th century)

- anthropomorphism of nature like the wind talking (c.f.: the sound of the mountain)

- a pervasive sense of nostalgia, especially when telling a story by way of the places one has lived in their early adulthood ( again basically all "slice of life" lit and tv )

This is a fabulous example of Japanese storytelling and the translation is rather good, too :)

this is such a US coded essay and to anyone else i think it would be like "you really need to get outa there"