Wait should’ve read further first, not everyone has that language rolled out yet into the app

I think Instagram switched the name or location of it, because I can’t find that. My app is even in English! Or I’m just incapable of searching well, one of the two

But thanks for the links, gonna share them to people

So how do I opt out? There’s a paywall so idk if wired gave instructions

Very cool! I still have no idea how are row foot is a useful way to measure sugar cane, but I’m learning lots

But how many cane fit in a foot length?

Wtf is a ‘row feet’, is that something american?

But can we harness that effectively? My bullshit idea could just be a big cylinder driver for a huge cylinder engine, which i just made up

well quickly is relative, you could probably get 100 years of energy for a city like that, plus/minus a factor of 10

Thats dialectics, too high results in the exact opposite effect when measured in energy. (Well energy is an absolute I guess, but we use a vector of energy to generate usable energy)

At some point, the shape, distance and rotation dominate the interaction, making it instead a fancy space elevator or a little satellite if it pops off by accident

Wow I bet we could make tons of energy by putting a huge weight, like an asteroid, near a stable Lagrange point and let its motion around it power a little motor.

Or we just let China make solar panels, either way really

Lol I only see red and yellow and upright people, this scarlet and blue and hunched depression fades into background

of course! Though this is mostly an extension of Losurdo (good thing), so I like the source a slight bit better myself :). But Redsails is amazing, yes, and I’ve linked this exact essay all over the internet and among friends/comrades

Well I really hate that lol

The Iron Heel is a very good book, only really running into problems when it just handwaves that a revolution ‘happens’. But the lead up and building of contradictions and revolutionary preparations are great!

Goddddamnnnnnn

As I said in my previous comment to someone else, reading any old slop will get you nowhere. But there is still a basis upon which the thinking generally arises, and that can be analyzed. Carl Schmitt, piece of absolute shit, was a very good philosopher (derogatory). And understanding him is vital, imo, to getting fascism. And Nietzsche too. I think Losurdo describes Nietzsche well enough that reading him directly might be unnecessary, but seeing how aesthetics lies at the bottom of his justification right next to goodness is really something that you only get from reading Good and Evil.

I agree to an extent. The vast majority of right wing slop is post hoc justification and not forward-thinking.

But there are some VERY useful right wingers to understand to get the basis of their philosophy. Reading g Carl Schmitt was legitimately perspective changing, and (though you absolutely don’t have to hand it to him) he had a consistent rigorous method to analyze how the world worked and should be. At least he had some interesting claims and justifications that get to the core of society how he sees it. I came away much more knowledgeable about how fascism arises and is justified.

I think reading Nietzsche is similar, though it’s a little too easy to be placate by him and think ‘eh, hes not so bad’ so I would recommend reading Losurdo’s book on Nietzsche immediately before or after any reading of Nitezsche. But Nietzsche really did just have a reactionary response to growing trends based on his aristocratic class interests and says that pretty plainly. Right wingers today are similar but with slightly changed class forms (labor aristocracy, imperial core, white supremacy, petit bourgeois, etc)

Damn, those feel like a fake animal to me that was made up for films like westerners. It feels odd to read of a very normal encounter with one. Cool as shit

Easiest most concise argument that most people can get on board with: the ownership of capital and the owners of capitalism are not managing our economy well, and they are inefficient at growing our society. I accuse them of mismanagement (stolen form Jack London).

Also that house is an AI rendering, isn’t it? The windows are either weird as fuck or this is some new hell-style grown out of settler colonialism

Fair enough, maybe communications then?

No let me be the minister of rails. I like only 1 type of train and will implement it everywhere. The others are all horrible!