mandlebro @mandlebro@qoto.org
Current math phd student. Also likes games and working out.
Joined Dec 2019
@Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Vallandigham lawyers are known for safely handling guns
I think I just realized what bothered me thematically about Squid Game. Early on (first two episodes), it seemed like the thesis was that the games were better than capitalism because they are more fair. They were more like the ideal that capitalism is sold as, as opposed to the hopeless reality of most of the characters' lives. But as the show went on and the games got more random and arbitrary, that really breaks down and it seems like the games are supposed to be more of a direct metaphor for capitalist society, which is just the author saying "Look! Capitalist society is cruel and unfair just like the contrived metaphor I've come up with! " It's also just a boring take that's been done over and over.
@augustus 22 is just an awkward number. Anything with prime factors over 10 stops feeling natural.
@augustus which two do you leave out?
@augustus Thats pretty close to how Huxley describes in the the doors of perception, except he also described a sense of spiritual understanding. Like he could understand many of the strange and paradoxical things spiritualist had said, since he suddenly had the correct first hand experience.
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"Maybe if we respected the domestic jobs more, made them valuable (well paid)?"
I would go more radical than this, we need a change in the way that we view what is valuable to us and to society as a whole. This is the result of valuing income and the economy above everything else. I don't think you can escape this through paying better.
I would go more radical than this, we need a change in the way that we view what is valuable to us and to society as a whole. This is the result of valuing income and the economy above everything else. I don't think you can escape this through paying better.
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Guys, it's friday
@nerdman @thatbrickster Siiiiip, Star Control 2, now that was a good game.
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prohibitionists tried to ban alcohol, resulting in the rise of organised crime bootleggers like the Bronfmanns
green activists tried to ban non-renewable power, resulting in the economic rise of gas producing nations like Russia
green activists tried to ban non-renewable power, resulting in the economic rise of gas producing nations like Russia
@freemo @math Funny enough, I don’t think this is true for hyper real infinitesimals. Certainly any finite sum of infinite reseals is infinitesimal, but I think a infinite sum of a single infinitesimal would have to jump straight to “hyper infinity,” the upper limit was n the corresponding compactification.
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Stallman on Onlyfans " *The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks.*
What gives them this power is (1) making users run nonfree software and (2) being able to set their terms and conditions arbitrarily within a very broad range.
The nonfree software enables them to collect data secretly. We need to require that all client software be free, so users can have control over what it does. In particular, so they can fix it not to spy on them, regardless of what the platform owners wish."
What gives them this power is (1) making users run nonfree software and (2) being able to set their terms and conditions arbitrarily within a very broad range.
The nonfree software enables them to collect data secretly. We need to require that all client software be free, so users can have control over what it does. In particular, so they can fix it not to spy on them, regardless of what the platform owners wish."
@btcprox The lawyers would make it illegal to protect their jobs
@augustus i only know paretonfor being one of the first people to claim that economics where determined by physical laws that enforce inequality. Doesn't seem like an idea that would be useful for anything other than passive conservative ideology.
lol it's snowing
Current math phd student. Also likes games and working out.
Joined Dec 2019
