The bourgeoisified proletariat: imperial core workers that are elevated above the rest of the working class by being high up on the value added production chain and by the redistribution of imperialst superprofit through investments and properties.

Their access to other means of wealth accumulation besides labor (and their very high wages besides) allow them to acquire even more investments/properties and even have a reasonable expectation to move up the class ladder (become a business owner or landlord, etc).

They have a bourgeois culture, bourgeois lifestyles, and bourgeois politics. However this “class” is artificial, it was created to maintain labor peace and it’s collapsing because the empire is collapsing.

That’s not even how money works.

I wonder if they actually believe this shit.

Not beating the Reddit.world accusations. 😏

Surely those skilled workers would be better suited to building the productive capacity of Vietnam? All they can do in Israel is send back remittances, and since labor is the superior of capital that means Vietnam is getting the worse end of the deal.

Were they threatened? What even is this?

It gets the causal relationship between political leaders and the masses backwards.

The Overton Window presupposes that politicians are limited by the electorate in what they can discuss and pursue; there’s a range of acceptable politics which is created by public opinion.

The reality is that public opinion is created by political leaders and politics is the tool they can use to change the range of acceptable opinion.

By getting the causal relationship backwards there is a tendency to tail the masses rather than lead them. Instead of using politics to create new political realities, politicians behave as if they are trapped within the existing political reality by politics. They seem to think politics is something that happens to you, rather than a tool you use to do things.

There’s a range of acceptable opinion, sure, but it doesn’t limit politics. Instead, politics creates the range of acceptable opinion.

Robes.

The Overton Window isn’t real. Political parties can create their own political realities by leading the electorate, rather than cowardly tailing the electorate like they’re advertisers trying to sell a product.

I’m sure it’s fine.

🙂

No, actually, it’s like saying “The cost of football tickets went up.” “Have you considered reading?”

Don’t talk shit about duodecimal 😠

They never have before.

That’s not how money works.

Putting that aside this is not that far removed from “useless eaters” fascist rhetoric. It’s the same shit as Republicans accusing poor people of using up the “taxpayer money of hard working Americans” by using more in public services than they contribute in taxes.

In summary, fuck off with this shit.

I hate that a market hype bubble has been forced onto us. LLMs are being shoehorned into tasks that they fundamentally can not actually do, they’re just pattern recognition engines, they have no intelligence. Despite their lack of intelligence they are sucking up energy, municipal water, a massive amounts of compute so they can be forced onto us.

I didn’t say it would “work”, I think my pessimism is pretty obvious. What I said is they’re going to eat plants whether they like it or not.

Unless they’re hunting the Most Dangerous Game, there won’t be any meat for anyone sooner rather than later.

If they ever put ads into my audiobooks I’m going to abandon civilization to live in the mountains.

Have you considered books?

I know that we are on the brink of the end of the fucking world and every dipshit capitalist thinks they can be the last ones to squeeze the last drop of profit out of our planet before the mass dying begins. They’re hedging their bets to make sure lab grown meat never happens.

Justice will come for them.

Just eat plants. Treatlerites need to grow up.

It’s a waste of our limited time and resources. If it’s ever viable it’s just going to be a treat for rich people, it will not ever be viable as a mass meat alternative for most people.

It’s right up there with cold fusion and general AI. It’s not happening, not on the timescale needed to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Sure, but I don’t care if US students cheat.

I don’t care that college students are cheating.

Higher education is a financialized accreditation tool for stealing people’s money and gatekeeping access to the job market, it has nothing to do with learning. It’s about keeping workers in debt so they are desperate and insecure.

So, if students want to cheat, that’s exactly what this horrible system deserves. When we have no doctors left because all the old ones retired, oh well!