Matrix desperately needs to literally just relaunch itself with even a modicum of thought for user experience and API quality. Right now it's so amateurish in both aspects that it's damn near impossible to get anyone I know to use it.
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You bought the media plant story about "chuds" complaining about part 1. That was just an advertising campaign.
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·3 years agoIt doesn't help that Bernie and AOC and the likes tend to do it. To use a debate bro term, they use a motte-and-bailey tactic in which they put forth some vision of socialism but when engaged critically, they retreat to a simpler position ("we just want socialism like Sweden has", etc.)
How apt that the first NFTs I know of were the Rare Pepe NFTs.
Oops, deleted this when I cleared out of this thread because the vibes are definitely bad
My lowest price to performance so far is Mellow Corn. Used to be like $8/bottle but now it’s like $16 because everything is expensive but it’s still very good.
Japanese bourbon drinkers are geniuses by normalizing whiskey+soda highballs as a great alternative to beer that doesn’t make you feel too full imo, they also bailed out the US’s bourbon industry when we were too busy overpaying for vodka drinks and fortified wine for decades.
I don't know that there are sufficient control mechanisms in place if the inflation got out of hand though. It's a very drastic measure to adopt MMT, and I'd definitely want to make sure that we take inventory of the risks and prep for them before any attempt at it.
There's also the problem that it assumes the state is working in the interests of the people. With our government all I can imagine happening is an out of control party in which every politician sprays as much money as they can at every company who will smile at them and at their own personal business ventures. But then nothing for regular people because it's not like the political barriers to displeasing capitalists would dissolve. We'd have 100 the budget for the military and exactly the same budget for healthcare.
Yeah there's any annoying tendency for some people to just info dump the handful of things from Kant/Hegel/Deleuze/etc. they've read into only barely related discussions. Serious thinkers can actually synthesize new thought that doesn't require the reader have an undergraduate level education to know the context of.
Glad all that seems to have gone straight down the memory hole
Yeah turning into a turboracist tends to do that. Even ones I see reference him, typically talking about "hyperstition" which is a legit cool concept, omit his name if at all possible.
Continental philosophy is the best but some peoples brains just get melted by it and they either turn into this shit, or one of the Nick Land / Bataille type of bloggers.
I was specifically talking about more recent theory, specifically among the post-work or anti-work crowd. This book is fairly influential in that space and talks about this directly starting around page 92 of that pdf.
Yep. Businesses do poorly when there is not enough slack in the labor market. They want a certain level of unemployment to keep the workers' condition precarious.
Not sure if neolibs call it this, but I've heard it referred to as "surplus labor". It's a combination of people looking for jobs, people who can't currently work, people doing unpaid labor (disproportionately women), retired people, etc.
They can be called in to work if needed and then dumped back into the labor pool. See: women during WW2
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