Whatever social economic model which can funnel power and authority to the very top is bond to ruin us. Humans are too greedy to sit at the top of such hierarchies.
Yep, that’s why decentralization is so important, and why leftist organizational structure ie decentralization and democratization of production is going to be so critical moving forward.
Besides what another commenter noted about indistrialization being product of capitalism and then fierce competition, here’s one more thing:
Do you see all those green activists buying reusable bags? Taking their bottles, recycling everything? Well, this has already been there in the past, and most notably - in socialist countries. Pretty much till its death USSR, for example, heavily favored reusable things, there just weren’t plastic bags and plastic bottles and all that waste, and recycling, especially of glass and metal and paper, was a super normal thing and people got money/trade-in for that.
What kind of f*cked up argument is that? I don’t think the climate models were quite as advanced back then.
They had no idea that influencing the global climate was even a possibility, so you can hardly judge the morality of their decision-making by how much CO2 they produced. Or do you want to blame them for not building enough solar panels as well?
The problem with capitalism in this regard is not that it produced a lot of CO2 back in the days, but that it won’t stop even after learning about the destructive effects.
The USSR totally knew about climate change being a thing. Climate change is not a “new thing”. Oil companies have known about it for almost a century now, they built their oil rigs to withstand rising sea levels for example.
Fedorov’s article appears to be one of the earliest direct engagements with the problems associated with climate change and, more specifically, anthropogenic climate change in the Soviet Union. However, this theme received more concerted discussion and debate from the early 1960s. Two meetings of particular note took place in Leningrad in April 1961 and June 1962, both of which were organised by the Main Geophysical Observatory in tandem with the Institute of Applied Geophysics and the Institute of Geography and brought together a range of Soviet scientists, including geographers, in order to discuss the ‘problem of the transformation of the climate’ (see Gal’tsov, 1961; Gal’tsov and Cheplygina, 1962).
Capitalism provides incentives to externalize as many costs as possible (such as pollution), and incentivizes and cannot even function without growth (which leads to more resource usage and pollution). Just because the forms of government/society under Stalin and Mao were also bad for people, doesn’t mean capitalism is not also bad for people.
Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution are inseparable from one another. The failure of 20th century Socialist states to adequately address green energy goals can be attributed to rapid industrialization to attempt to keep pace with Capitalist entities.
Going forward, the reason why Green Energy isn’t the standard in the US is due to oil companies, not efficiency. The profit motive stands in direct confrontation with the good of all.
That’s just Climate Change, too. Capitalism’s failures of hierarchical and consumerist nature will exist as long as Capitalism exists.
Not every problem is because of Capitalism, but many are, and at the end of the day this is just a meme.
Right. And I tell you this, most of the time most guys have pretty clean asses (from my experience). In fact usually the armpits or even the other body parts have odors but that part of the body doesn't (in my own experience). I realize other people's mileage may vary.
Not really though. As a gay male I can assure you, nobody wants to eat "poo poo." Well maybe there are some that do, but I've seen depictions of such things in straight porn more than in gay porn. And actually most men probably have some kind of scatalogical fantasies - not all of them of course. But gay people aren't the only ones having anal sex or doing things "down there."
I'm gay, and I'm very happy to be gay, but I don't really get what the term "gay" is about. When I was younger, I was straight, but then I met a guy who was a person I happened to fall in love with, and that's when I realized what I was all about. I don't really know what "gay" means other than that I am same-sex attracted, because I'm so much more as a person than just a sexual orientation. For example, I have two degrees in music theory and a masters in English, and have spent many years as a filmmaker, and a writer. So I don't really define myself through my sexual behavior, those some males do and I have no problem with that, to each his own is what I say.
Your fake sympathy is misplaced and misguided, to no surprise. I'm not poor, and I'm not even all that interested in you or your comments. But, I have said I'm gay over and over again and I march in every Pride parade - it's hardly a secret, I'm very proud of who I am. If I seem high and mighty, it's only because I am. I am the great I am - I am the greatest person to ever exist!
I remember that meme. I was just being over-explaining as usual. I also hope most people don't want to eat poo poo for many health-related reasons. Yet I see so much "dung" shaped food these days, candies and chocolate shaped like piles of poo (looking like edible poo emojis) - what are we encouraging our kids to eat when we give them "reindeer poop" candy??
Well they say (this is gross but) they say that "ass is the new cunt." Sorry for the NSFW language. I've noticed in men's magazines that ass is a particular focus these days (yes I've seen it for myself). And I love it, personally. I think that it's high time the heiny was given it's due regard.
Well its not completely true. They played a switzerland and sold stuff to both sides. They were only in it for the profit. But today swedes do realize how horrible that was but most people still dont connect the dots that norther europe still exploits the worlds resources.
I wondered about that too. I'm a gay male in my late 60s, most of my partners enjoyed analingus - but I never got sick or had any problems, never even had any unpleasant taste or anything. I think people get too scared to try stuff, and that's too bad.
I don’t mind y’all enjoying it sexually, we all have our stuff. But this one will inevitably get you sick unless you’re using barriers which we all know you aint
Edit: y’all nasty. there’s some stuff you can’t clean and I’m not taking about STDs
My advice is the opposite - you guys need to step up (well - down) and start eating more ass. Don't let the fear mongers take the fun out of sex and foreplay. Everything people do in that realm could possibly cause illness or might be dangerous - from STDs to causing ruptures in the skin - but that shouldn't prevent people from having a good time. If people are clean and healthy and showering regularly, there's no reason to fear anal stuff at all.
Honestly, I do disagree that the question is ambiguous. The lack of parenthetical separation is itself a choice that informs order of operations. If the answer was meant to be 9, then the 6/2 would be isolated in parenthesis.
It’s covered in the blog, but this is likely due to a bias towards Strong Juxtaposition rules for parentheses rather than Weak. It’s common for those who learned math into advanced algebra/ beginning Calc and beyond, since that’s the usual method for higher math education. But it isn’t “correct”, it’s one of two standard ways of doing it. The ambiguity in the question is intentional and pervasive.
I don’t know what you want, man. The blog’s goal is to describe the problem and why it comes about and your response is “Following my logic, there is no confusion!” when there clearly is confusion in the wider world here. The blog does a good job of narrowing down why there’s confusion, you’re response doesn’t add anything or refute anything. It’s just… you bragging? I’m not certain what your point is.
None of this has a point. We’re talking over a shitpost rant about common use of math symbols. Even the conclusion boils down to it being a context dependent matter of preference. I’m just disagreeing that the original question as posed should be interpreted with weak juxtaposition.
I originally had the same reasoning but came to the opposite conclusion. Multiplication and division have the same precedence, so I read the operations from left to right unless noted otherwise with parentheses. Thus:
6/2=3
3(1+2)=9
For me to read the whole of 2(1+2) as the denominator in a fraction I would expect it to be isolated in parentheses: 6/(2(1+2)).
Reading the blog post, I understand the ambiguity now, but i’m still fascinated that we had the same criticism (no parentheses implies intent) but had opposite conclusions.
This is about the old argument around how date strings are formatted.
MMDDYYYY vs YYYYMMDD, spaces or hyphens may differ. It’s an old and passionate argument (mostly due to the American approach of starting with the month being insane)
That’s a certain kind of skill I wouldn’t want the need to have. I just copy paste those timestamps into a terminal with date -d @ (and always forget the right syntax for that :D)
ISO standards need to be purchased to be viewed, RFCs are freely available requests for comment. The RFC 3339 format is effectively the same is the ISO format, except RFC 3339 allows for a space between the date and time components whereas the ISO format uses a “T” character to separate date and time components.
If you want to get real weird, RFCs are not standards but rather a request for other participants to comment on the proposal. RFCs tend to be pointed towards as de facto standards though, even before they become a BCP or STD.
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