Privatizing the US national helium reserve. Gonna laugh when in a few years the government of another nation ends up owning it. Helium is dwindling finite resource that key technological infrastructure relies upon.
Just tearing the copper wires out of the walls without a shred of irony at this point.
someone once said that fascism is when the colonial methods of oppression are brought home to the imperial core
Everything has been commodified and continues to be commodified, but that’s just another reason the world isn’t fair (or so I’ve been told)
I don't know who said it first, but I heard it from a podcast episode with Matt Christman and Sean KB in an episode about fascism
You mean Russia has been fascist since Peter the Great till now, with brief interruptions in 1905-1914 and 1991-1993 ?
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
—John Rogers
Literally what happened to a friend of mine. He was in a bookshop and only had enough money to buy Fellowship or Atlas Shrugged and chose Fellowship because he'd be able to buy a soda with the change.
Atlas Shrugged and the Capital are mutually interchangeable in that quote.
I don't like the quote also because it implies that the reader would consider LOTR childish, thus accusing the reader of being a complete imbecile.
Das is german for "The", Kapital is german for "Capital"
Hey lib, who are the mutual unbelievable heroes in THE Capital? You know since you clearly read it and aren't just talking out your ass
In the broad strokes absolutely, in the detail hell no. I had to learn linguistic theories and botany to get to the bottom of everything going on in the books
The Hobbit is a kids' book, but I'm not sure I'd say Lord of the Rings is childish. There are childish things about it, for sure. The black-and-white Christian morality and "good monarch" stuff, for example. But it's a serious work of literature at the same time.
you are genuinely one of the stupidest people we've had on here
This chain is like when people used to come from /r/all and get absolutely dog walked
Despotism is not a useful political term at all and feudalism is a very specific form of a much broader economic system that was used in the middle ages. You have nonides what you're talking about.
According to my knowledge it is just as useful a term as feudalism, describing a specific system.
You have nonides what you’re talking about.
Buddy, you are a communist , a flatearther from economics, an etherium proponent from economics, a homeopathic doctor from economics.
And what you wrote is illiterate bullshit. Listen for once what people who are not from your sect say on things.
i'd love to hear your cunning mind explain what despotism and feudalism are, and what the difference is
Despotism is an absolute monarchy where technically there's only one free man, the monarch, and all the subjects, including nobles or whatever, are his property. There's no contracts or something to this. The monarch's power is delegated as they wish to the state apparatus of whatever kind they choose. That'd be Russia since Peter or, say, Safavid Persia, and frankly a few German states in the new age despite sporting feudal symbolic.
Feudalism is a system of vassal-suzerain and allied relationships, contractual and not even that centralized, as a feudal entity can even be vassal to multiple other entities (games like CK get this wrong, which makes, say, Denmark there less fun than it was) and have its own various contractual ties. With feudalism every person's status is complex, there are individual privileges and obligations to every entity.
Feudalism is much more sophisticated than a despotic monarchy. IMHO it's the main reason Europeans dominate this planet.
EDIT: By the way, Decembrists paid a lot of attention to that difference, if we get back to Russian history.
Tbh I'd feel pretty owned if someone implied I was any kind of esoteric political Catholic. Integralist, distributivist, clerical fascist, mexican synarchist, etc. Each one would feel like an own
I'm not Catholic (my ancestors on my dad's side were, though), but this specific ideology doesn't have such a limitation.
I'm dying to hear you define any of these terms you're using. Please, open the window up to world of politics so incoherent it's like staring at an eldritch horror from beyond the veil of reality.
I know what they mean, you don't, and I'm not going to waste my time explaining, and I don't have to do that for anything really.
You are dumber than a zip lock bag of radishes. You don't know what the words you're using mean. We do.
I'm pretty stupid, but for what you claim my intelligence would have to be negative. It'd have to be some kind of "antimatter intelligence", and your political alignment is the closest to inventing that.
Russia's imperial core is in Central Russia. I thought this was a truism.
See, this is why I love federation. None of us could have ever written a bit this good
Mods, plz make this exchange a tagline. This really tops things for most hilariously dumb fuck absolute village oaf posting.
i like the implication that a wane from fascism is an "brief interruption" this is very funny. I will definitely be stealing this one.
I mostly meant that Russia's history since Peter is often described as self-colonization.
Can't wait for all that finite, medically important helium to be wasted on sellng party balloons.
Capitalism is so rational
The free market has spoken and found party balloons to maximize utility
Gonna laugh when in a few years the government of another nation ends up owning it.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1114964240/new-battery-technology-china-vanadium
A bunch of scrappy engineers made a next generation battery and sold the technology to the US government
The government never bothered to manufacture anything. Instead they sold everything to China and now they’re already releasing public versions of the batteries. Now the US doesn’t have any knowledge on the batteries or even the factories to build them
the US doesn’t have any knowledge on the batteries or even the factories to build them
hilariously based
The story is a trip
Every dumb and evil thing in amerikkka can ultimately be traced back to capitalist greed
Every dumb and evil thing in
amerikkkathe whole world can ultimately be traced back to capitalist greed
Helium is technically finite, but it's really a byproduct of natural gas extraction. Most natural gas operations don't bother to even harvest the helium.
That’s crazy to me. It’s obviously useful, how is it not worth it to extract it if it’s already there during the process? That’s like hearing people back in the day burning gasoline since it was a byproduct of extracting crude oil.
Holy shit, why would you do this. Neoliberals are the stupidest people on the planet. "Oh well we have to sell it off because it's not profitable enough!" sure am glad this won't cause the price of helium to surge resulting in a hike in MRI costs.
This has similar vibes to being an addict and selling your playstation or couch to buy drugs, but at least drugs are fun where is this is just being done to accumulate more capital for a dozen crusty old fucks
Get ready for helium in everything for like three years and then it’s all gone. No more floaty balloons ever again.
We can always use hydrogen for the floaty balloons. Double as fireworks!
MAN THEY GAVE ME WHAT THEY SAID, WHAT WAS CALLED, BY XI DENGPING, THE CHINESE SPY BALLOON
capitalists are the stupidest fucking people on earth
This shit is a crime against the people and in a civilized country, these fuckers would be sent to a gulag for 20 years, then the people would seize the helium back.
private property is a very high priority for bourgeois dictatorships
The article says it will probably owned by a German company, Messer Group. Germany and helium... 🤔
During the Nazi era, the Messer-led company benefited considerably from the regime's arms production, employed forced laborers and was a supplier for the V2 production and the Wehrmacht.[1] In the denazification process, Messer, who had been a member of the since 1933, was classified as a follower in 1948
oh, right.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Messer
Also, can't wait for this to make people's medical treatment even more expensive! Exciting times! Thanks Joe Biden!
Hast du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von neunundneunzig Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Denkst du vielleicht grad an mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von neunundneunzig Luftballons
Und, dass so was von so was kommt
Can't wait to listen to all my analytical chemistry friends complain about how helium is too expensive and how they have to design new procedures.
I've helped people make procedures with nitrogen and hydrogen based on studies that use helium because helium is too expensive. Not being able to do an MRI because you need helium is nightmare inducing.
Looks like we're already out, bought a "helium-filled" HDD and it doesn't even float.
When I looked into this a couple years ago, my understanding was that yes, the supply is finite, but the amount we have in storage is a lot and we slowing mining operations because we have enough on reserve for a while.
/lemmitor Hall of Fame
