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I think daylight time refers to the winter because it's emphasizing daylight? Always struck me as terribly named and never learned to differentiate until now

Well good luck doing that without beating capitalists to death

> billions will die

That's going to happen regardless. We can't produce sufficient fertilizer.

Capital is a monosemous term. Capitalism is polysemous. I used precisely the word I intended to.

Do you have any better ideas? Can you think of a way to sufficiently motivate capital to make rational decisions short of overthrowing the government?

I don't understand the obsession with keeping the perfectly vertical sun at noon given we all work from dark to dark under winter time. What would actually help us experience daylight would NOT be moving the clocks or moving work an hour earlier or a few hours later

Well pretending like capital isn't the root cause seems pretty confusing

> The real solution to that problem is to reduce the global consumption and demand for oil.

Blindly hoping humans choose to behave differently without removing the pressures that cause them to act such a way is fucked up. The way you reduce demand in a capitalist society is by beating board members to death until society "decides" to improve.

Or we could figure out a collectively rational way to manage the economy, the blood flow of all humanity. Just a thought. Or we could stick to hope and drive humanity off a cliff

I mean we made something far worse than the gulag with the american prison system (basically, the punitive theory of rape). It seems we just became all the evil that the soviet system was allegedly supposed to cause from the western perspective 50 years ago.

22.5% of this country voted for trump. I'm sure some of the non-voters wanted to but that is the objective number.

> But if you drive a gas vehicle yes it's your fault.

Ok well people are obviously going to keep doing it, so what is the point of caring about fault to begin with if you can't do anything about it? We at least have legal control over capital.

Anyway you can blame basically anything on the masses of people; it's just a fucking stupid train of thought with (again) zero utility. It's the nonreligious liberal version of praying to stop school shootings.

There is little utility in blaming consumers for the crimes of capital. Consumers are going to consume. Capital is the entity with directable responsibility (if only via state violence). Why not just shake your fist at the tide coming in for all the good this "blame" does?

The chances american courts would find for this is basically zero. Maybe in other markets....

All The Pretty Horses is probably the most approachable and satisfying of the trilogy. But also—McCarthy is not easy to read. It's not terribly difficult either if you proceed slowly and look up words you've never encountered, but you are correct it takes a great deal of concentration.

> Citizens of USSR were poorer than their counterparts in the west

Well that's because we're a bunch of greedy bitches who never learned how to play nice with the other kids—capitalism. It would take a hell of a lot more wealth generation for humanity to justify this kind of economic dysfunction.

That's hardly a reason to not attempt to rein them in.

Closer to 23% of our country but yea

This doesn't even make sense. Poverty is a relative term. Poverty requires wealth.

Anyway what little meager juice that these ideological labels had after the cold war is now gone with china as king of the hill. We can all agree private investment = rapid growth, and state intervention both in terms of social safety nets and actively ensuring fair competition (where that is necessary—banking, anti-trust, food/med production, etc) = stabler economies (or we agreed on this for a few decades after the great depression anyway). It's what the point of the economy is—to serve the disproportionate interests of rich or the collective (one might even say... democratic) interests of people—where there remains substantive disagreement. I hope we can leave this farce behind that how we talk about ideology has any relation to how the terms were actually defined in lieu or acknowledging material reality for a change.

What is the point against wealth tax? That the rich will flee, leaving us.... better off in every possible way?? This is like that episode of futurama where fry befriends the parasites he found at a gas stop

Presumably the side is BJP?

They should probably protest with the structural integrity pf their nearest courthouse or prison

Sadly no, it's just the same old incoherence over the point of the state

Yes the farce is transparent

You mean state, not nation.

Anyway the part that makes the us unique is pretending to be ethical, which makes a farce of the entire concept of ethics. Admitting the entire concept of america is based on justification via violence would be a massive step forward

Out of curiosity, how much work/what sorts of openbsd-specific details must be addressed to get such a port working?

Admittedly, I don't think visualizations do much for me, but I wanted to see the essential pitch without spending 40 minutes watching a video. Surely any discussion of this topic (as opposed to mathematical concepts themselves) doesn't require visualization.

As it turns out, the only bits relevant to the title are the last five minutes of the video, and his contribution comes down to basically ignoring peoples' concerns and asserting that more technology means more joy. He conflates interest in math with a career in math and doesn't seem to address why actual mathematicians go into the field or what they get from it. In fact, the channel seems aimed at people who don't ever intend on going into the field.

If he doesn't grapple with the angst of turning an entire field of discourse into watching a chatbot beam-search a proof space, why make the video?

We aren't going to see improvement until we make police unions illegal. Police carry enormous power over local governments in this country.

Congratulations!

Don't install a second harness. You only need one to begin with!

> If your primary purpose was rent-seeking

Incredibly nasty stuff to serve on the rent-seeking forum. Doubly nasty to levy at people who actually like being alive, like mathematicians. If capitalists had their way we'd all be slitting our wrists on day two of existence

Is there a transcript somewhere? Unless you're willing to pay me to throw away 40 minutes of my life listening to a stranger when it could have been an email