Fosho, when I get a minute I’ll read up on mediawiki formatting and try again. It’s been a few years since I edited a wiki.

Ah okay my bad, I’ll try again later today when I get a chance. It’d def be great to have it on the wiki so it’s fully readable online

I just threw the epub version into an html converter real quick, does this work? That way the hyperlinks are preserved.

If not I can try the OCR method or something else

PDF download so that the notations/citations are clickable, since they offer a lot of good reading material too. Often you can directly copy/paste into a search engine and they’ll bring up a full copy from marxists.org or another similar site.

Read Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Roland Boer and stop listening to trots

I mean training a model is incredibly expensive both in electricity and labor, but none of us are doing that. Is using already-trained models locally that expensive?

I don’t have a GPU so I haven’t delved into this, @yogthos@lemmygrad.ml what’s your take?

Lmao imagine the Chinese equivalent to Epstein is getting photos of people with Winnie the Pooh contraband and using that to keep them in line

I’m gonna keep plugging the recent Reitter translation of capital 1 lol, it’s much more clear than earlier translations.

Great comment!

It makes things difficult in IRL leftist circles where everyone has different exposure to theory and different abilities to engage with theory. Not understanding something is seen as a weakness so everyone has to pretend they understand it, and thus conversation ends up being really shallow and unproductive. The worst a person can do is say something “incorrect” and prove they’re not a “real” leftist.

Like, to convince people of things you have to appear confident. But to learn things you have to be humble/vulnerable. And our culture makes it difficult to code switch.

Power dynamics

I’d be happy paying taxes if they went to social works and infrastructure and whatnot, but yeah.

Now let’s talk about spending 60-80% of my remaining income on rent

My favorite thing is that the Russian Empire had some tenuous claim to the title of the Roman Empire (Third Rome), and was defeated when the Czars fell.

So to claim, then, that communism caused the fall of the Roman Empire wouldn’t be entirely bullshit

FOUCAULT GET AWAY FROM THAT CHILD

God I wish I had a brain to be drained

Money doesn’t work for governments the same way it does for people and households. Money is the “blood” of the economy. It needs to get introduced to the economy and it needs a way to be taken out of the economy (taxes, which also function as the “incentive” for even using the currency in the first place).

Governmental debt can’t all be lumped into one mass. Do you owe the debt in your own currency or another country’s currency? In the case of the former, it’s not really debt.

Forcing countries to trade in a currency it can print more/less of at a whim is a key part of how the US maintains global supremacy.

Corporations are people, sweaty

70:30

There is now a clear link between proton and the state department through freedom house

fuck

still better than google at least

recommendation from one of my professors

holy based

Just a stupid joke on the tendency people have to try to reconstruct etymology from the top down rather than bottom up, often using tenuous logical connections lol

Boomers are called that because they were born after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Zoomers are the generation of high speed rail and fast cars

Gen alpha are all chads due to the hormones used in agriculture