What do you mean, Ethereum is pos.

I guess I wasn’t up to date. That’s cool actually!

There are so many more, especially “boring” ones

Interesting! I will do more research then.

I thought the same as you about the exciting technological fundamentals before realising that it was unfortunately also very overblown.

Basically Blockchain technology is a solution in search of a problem. It was invented by someone who was convinced that decentralised currency would realise the ancap utopia. In order make it mainstream, people have been trying very hard to find better use cases and it turns out that you always end up concluding that the centralised approach is always better.

Proof of stake could make the thing not too environmentally damaging but it’s been years that major blockchains are saying they will implement it the next year. And again, the use cases would remain weak in the end

There are other cryptographic mechanisms at play, which are amazingly interesting but it is not going to revolutionise the internet since it’s already being used everywhere (for example asymmetrical keys).

It does, a lot!

Cool advantage of being ML : if you want to hate on somebody you can always find a way to accuse them of being reactionary

Real communists don’t need to improve material conditions to get mass support they just boil babies until the support reaches –2147483648 so it overflows and goes back to 2147483648 (Carl Marx was a epic gamer)

I never cook myself dinner
I never talk to poor people 
I never debated anyone left of me
I never handed out leaflets

All my focus is on Pamphlets

Fuck I don’t want to use IOS noooo 😭

Imo the most probable scenario is :

• Neocolonialism is rejected by a critical mass of countries
• The west can’t adapt, so they try to reindustrialize by reverting to industrial revolution conditions (which takes an openly neo fascist movement)
• It goes to war with itself or the outside, either inter European, or West vs new anti-colonial block, or US vs Europe
• After that it undergoes a pink wave like South America, not radical enough to break out of misery but still a bit progressive

Can’t speculate further than that

One good testimony that I found on the subject is this video. What’s really cool is that it’s from a channel about learning the language and therefore no attempt to paint a specific reality.

On of my biggest takeaway is that there are established LGBT communities in citites that don’t appear to be subjected to any external pressure so that’s pretty cool

That’s what black metal bands have been trying to tell us

I think the question will be entirely open under socialism, because if a lot of better school structures are not viable under capitalism, it doesn’t mean that capitalist-compatible education models will instantly be abolished.

I think that making schools as stress free and interesting as possible would take care of most casual bullying. Then more educated staff to deal with extreme cases implying specific conditions might take care of the rest.

That’s just my guess though, don’t quote me on that

I don’t know anything about wrestling but I know who’s my favourite wrestler

Tactical moonwalk

Yes but actually it’s because gravity doesn’t hit as hard when you change scale or something

A resounding argument, I now understand your position better

The power of propaganda under liberalism is how it absorbs critics rather than rejecting them

People start saying that the media is lying and unreliable? They created the notion of media bubble? Ok that could be bad except if you spread it hard enough through the same media that lies and distorts everything.

Then most people hear about media criticism and get a completely wrong approach that serves the media. They are taught that being critical is asking if the article from a reputable source, and then define reputable source by “the biggest media conglomerate that isn’t explicitly conservative”. Boom. Now people are even more trustful of mass media because even the “criticizing” part is in fact about trusting them

I understand the struggle to find low tier animals bc they all cool but it’s weird to put ants in B tier

They’re our only rival in terms of biomass and are one of the most studied species in the scientific world

It’s a lil tank

Wtf I’m a Christian now

My take on the “individualism vs collectivism” debate is that there’s no such a thing as an individualistic mode of production and there is no such a thing as a collective mind

Our bodies are unable to survive alone, our species has evolved to focus entirely on language and dexterity. We can’t hunt and sustain ourselves while defending ourselves while taking care of our stupidly weak offspring. We’re materialistically extremely dependent on one another, there’s no such a thing as an individualistic system of production. Capitalism is and extremely large collective structure, thousands of people worked to make everything that you have around you

On the other hand no one can read the thoughts of someone else. Everyone has a unique experience of life therefore everyone has different thoughts. Liberals would say that collective structures make us lose our individuality, but look at the effects of loneliness (extreme case being solitary confinement) and compare to how much “mob mentality” is making us different from just our regular life. Looks like it’s isolation that destroys individuality. Looks like even mob craze is pretty harmless compared to its opposite

So basically, the economy is already a super collective, it’s just designed by the people who arrived first at the nicest spot. And the mind is already unique so everyone will always remain an individual even within a super collective structure.