The European libs are barely even cognisant of the concepts of dollar hegemony or uni/multi polarity. For them, politics is a struggle between good and evil.

Why? What happened O_O?

The US government is putting the boot on your necks too. The empire isn’t run for your benefit, it is run at your expense.

The Chinese never found a way to make profit in spite of radically lower prices

Source? Your dreams?

Real late reply, but Kamala is a direct fascist.

An isekai with your family would actually be a somewhat interesting concept, if they could avoid the pedophilia, incest and slavery (big ask, I know 😔 )

Kissing my homes good night

My logic (I don’t live in the us but for the sake of argument, let’s pretend I do) is that if a politician can commit a livestreamed genocide, and they win the election, it signals to politicians that there is no line they can cross that will make their campaign unviable.

It would be more ideal if the Democrats could have been punished for their war mongering years ago, but you never punish your representatives for crossing even the most egregious possible line, then you truly don’t have any power over them and have fundamentally given up.

If tommorow, even 10% of the dems indicated in polls that they would not vote for kamala because of gaza, it would force the DNC to take a stronger stance on the issue because the race is too tight. If this had happened many months ago, the Democrats could have been forced in giving concessions. But the Democrat voter base has made sure that the demmocrat party has no need to give concessions. They have used themselves as meat waves to ensure that the genocide can continue smoothly.

Some academics became liberals after having flirted with Marxism. This is relevant why exactly? I mean, I can cite many great minds who remained Marxists and even advanced the theory. Ever heard of Paul Cockshott? Alan Contrell? David Zachariah? Emanuel Farjoun?

These guys (and some others) actually worked on Marxist economic theory and modernized it. They lived through the collapse of the USSR and remained steadfast in their beliefs. And I haven’t talked about countless other minds in anthropology, history, contemporary social studies and philosophy who have used dialectical materialism as a foundation to achieve great results.

And so I want to emphasize something.

every single one of them gave up and became an egalitarian.

Is blatantly and literally false.

I can perform a completely independent experiments in my house.

And I can scream into the abyss, it’s just as relevant. The absolute majority of actually useful and relevant science is performed socially for social purposes.

I make a hypothesis that my stove can boil 1L of water in 10 minutes.

You aren’t even supposed to do a scientific experiment in the way you have just described. Or rather, there is neither a universally agreed upon scientific method, nor would your described experiment hold up to any standards.

An actual scientific experiment into water boiling would involve at the minimum

1. A model predicting the speed of boiling based on relevant variables
2. A collection of many data, and preferably corroborated by independent sources
3. Statistical analysis of the data (there are many methods to choose from) to gauge confidence in the model.
4. Publishing or proofreading of the results.

However, at each of these steps, you have a choice of how to approach the problem. And this depends on what you are trying to do, and what the best standards in the industry are. The process has also changed over time.

And this reveals the problem of many people’s metaphysical approach to science. They treat it as if it were a platonic ideal, or floating constant in the human minds pace. In reality, “science” is an industry with its ever-changing standards, culture, interaction with the rest of society, and a million other complexities.

The broader field of academia and getting scientific papers published is more of a governance thing than science.

You cannot separate the 2. There is no pure science out there which can be done without “governance”.

What the fuck are you talking about?

Yeah, but a lot of the open fascists don’t even like the appearance of democracy. They will probably pull something sometime in the near future and the liberals will refuse to oppose them.

Nah, the “normal” election cycle ain’t making it to 2030. Things are going to kick into high gear in the coming years.

Or maybe the real secret to winning in America is to act like the biggest buffoon possible.

Times’s deletion was criticized by Jonathan Haidt, Nadine Strossen, and Steven Pinker

Of course that failnerd loser pinker is a racist zionist. Why am I not surprised.

Wholesome message. I will now follow my dreams and burn down the local orphanage.

Jokes aside, you are completely right about

Community isn’t formed by just sitting around hoping it into existence it’s formed by doing the things you want to do and doing it with others

And people should internalise this as much as possible. I myself have gotten stuck in the mindset many times in the past of waiting to just stumble upon a community and/or friends before I will become happy. Took a lot of growth on my part to realise that I would have to make an effort myself (especially since I hate making effort).

No, it’s mostly because STEM types (including me) have a lot to say (not necessarily insightful) but often lack the writing skills necessary to say them concisely because we focused on studying science instead of literature.

Literary writers who don’t understand science and just make up mumbo jumbo have the exact opposite problem that we do.

No idea why the numbers are so different. The numbers I found were 120 GWh (not MWh, it was a typo). But that is still significantly less than the us doe estimate.

For reference, cuba’s energy consumption is about 120 MWh GWh per year