A lot of people in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania thought they were firmly in the blue state camp until 2016.
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every time, trump failed to capture the left coast.
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bLuE wAlL
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lol, lmao even.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ … base-texas
more kitschy and grandiose than anything dreamt up in a stalinist fever dream. bioshock-ass aesthetic.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ … base-texas
more kitschy and grandiose than anything dreamt up in a stalinist fever dream. bioshock-ass aesthetic.
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Sick of this Mars and space colonization nonsense. We have more than enough space here on Earth. And frankly if we can't solve the serious problems affecting humanity here than we don't deserve to colonize space. I have no interest in living in the Killzone franchise.
"There are asteroids floating around in space that can make the entire world wealthy."
How does money work?
'Best and brightest', etc etc
it's always the same with these tech-libertarian types. they make vague and utopian promises, socialistic even, about the abundance that waits for everyone just around the corner ... but then don't pay their factory floor engineers a fair wage.
Already said I would make the world a better place, all I need is limitless power and no questions from naysayers.
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that's supposed to be elon musk?uziq wrote:
lol, lmao even.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ … base-texas
more kitschy and grandiose than anything dreamt up in a stalinist fever dream. bioshock-ass aesthetic.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10 … is-fascismOn the face of it, the balm offered by far-right populism seems mild in comparison with interwar fascism, which promised to transcend class divisions and bring nation, state and leader together in a single body – the ‘corporate state’, as Mussolini called it. Far-right populism, by contrast, offers what Seymour calls ‘muscular national capitalism’. Although its tools are those of orthodox economic policy – privatisation and welfare cuts for Modi; protectionism via tariffs for Trump; increased state direction for Orbán – they are being put to a very different end. Muscular national capitalism treats the economy ‘as a moral space in which it is argued the wrong people have been losing’. (The problem with globalisation, J.D. Vance said recently, wasn’t that it was unfair, but that it was causing rich countries such as America to lose their place at the top of the international pecking order.) Yet, as it turns out, its real economic benefits can be relatively meagre (average incomes in Brazil fell under Bolsonaro), since the true payoff is psychological. What far-right populists really have to offer is revenge: India’s frustrated Hindu middle classes will reap the benefits of growth if life is made intolerable for their Muslim neighbours; men in the Americas will become winners again when traditional gender roles are restored; cities in the Philippines will be regenerated if a war is waged on drug addicts; economically depressed regions of Europe will be revived by the mass deportation of refugees. The rhetorical tactics of far-right populism – the denigration of critics as traitors and Lügenpresse; the lurid claims about immigrants eating dogs; the obsession with ‘woke’ forms of social etiquette – are all ‘programmatic’, as Seymour puts it. They aim to channel the multifarious resentments of a population into a ‘revolt against liberal civilisation’; in other words, into ‘barbarism’.
this review of the latest richard seymour book is quite good. very clarifying on some ideas, thought provoking on others. worth a read.
elon departs DOGE, on cue, having achieved basically nothing.
hopefully in the next generation or two all the aid agencies, national parks keepers, and science funders can recover from the damage needlessly meted out to them.
the billionaire class administering medicine to a ‘bloated state’, while themselves running from country to country to try and milk deals with various governments. lmao. musk and thiel wouldn’t even exist without government largesse.
hopefully in the next generation or two all the aid agencies, national parks keepers, and science funders can recover from the damage needlessly meted out to them.
the billionaire class administering medicine to a ‘bloated state’, while themselves running from country to country to try and milk deals with various governments. lmao. musk and thiel wouldn’t even exist without government largesse.
OK just don't cut the defence budget - I'm on a big bucks defence project next.
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got to keep the oil taps flowing and the death-machine churning -- dilbert wants to buy more RC cars!
Well I do. I should finish the last one first though.
Also we don't make weapons or offensive equipment, the opposite.
With the jews off on their latest genocide I'm glad I didn't take the job with Lockheed Martin.
Also we don't make weapons or offensive equipment, the opposite.
With the jews off on their latest genocide I'm glad I didn't take the job with Lockheed Martin.
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not entirely unrelated, but most of the 'hottest' recruiters in nerdville and silicon valley thesedays are those 'extended tolkien universe' firms like anduril.
they're putting up sleek and glossy adverts which basically appeal to STEM grads from stanford or caltech or wherever to go and work towards the AI drone assassination, biometric tracking, surveillance state future.
israel is using a lot of big data/AI to prosecute its war. a lot of bright young things from STEM building those systems.
making robots that will kill people! cooooool!
i think you may have to come to some accommodation with the idea that engineers or STEM's best and brightest aren't necessarily any more moral than any other person. the simple fact is that an awful lot of people have no problem contributing towards the grossest causes if it comes with a six-figure plus shares compensation package.
they're putting up sleek and glossy adverts which basically appeal to STEM grads from stanford or caltech or wherever to go and work towards the AI drone assassination, biometric tracking, surveillance state future.
israel is using a lot of big data/AI to prosecute its war. a lot of bright young things from STEM building those systems.
making robots that will kill people! cooooool!
i think you may have to come to some accommodation with the idea that engineers or STEM's best and brightest aren't necessarily any more moral than any other person. the simple fact is that an awful lot of people have no problem contributing towards the grossest causes if it comes with a six-figure plus shares compensation package.
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Maybe they have to pay that much to get people?
From what I've seen of defence they really aren't the best and brightest by a long shot.
F1 teams - they pay engineers a pittance because engineers want to work there.
From what I've seen of defence they really aren't the best and brightest by a long shot.
F1 teams - they pay engineers a pittance because engineers want to work there.
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that just about accords with how simplistic and jejune your view of the matter is: 'real' engineers are people who like to play with toy cars and vroom vroom engines! not the ones working in the vast military-industrial complex, pushing the cutting-edge of child mutilation.
says the person citing the expulsion of jews from phillip ii's france in the 12th century, when trying to analyse the gaza conflict.
The point is they've been expelled from every place they've ever been.
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yours is argumentation to expect from nazi-adjacent pamphlets and text. ThE jEwS aRe JuSt LiKe ThAt
the FYF bunch is really mad about the taco meme.