If you're interested or involved in the cybersecurity industry, Risky Business (risky.biz) is really good. The hosts are by no means socialists, but are really smart people. It's mostly just a review of the news, but they'll add in a longer interview when something interesting happens.

Speaking of that, anyone know a good way to get a lobsters invite? I want to upgrade from HN.

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You just squat for an hour? Respect, but that sounds terrible.

I try to keep my running up all winter. Gotta have hat, gloves, and leggings (most socially acceptable time for guys to wear leggings where I'm from). Running keeps me very warn, so I find I don't need a coat until it's under 15. If there's ice, you can buy treads that attach to your shoes.

Doesn't that make it less parasocial? I mean nobody ranks people they know irl, right...

This is absolutely correct, I'm glad we agree. Tho if Virgil actually showed up on the pod sometimes he might be higher.

The CCP is building an interest in politics by intentionally allowing its own people to be mistreated and exploited? That is certainly an interesting theory you have.

Watch the real Big Three:

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Serial Experiments Lain

More serious suggestion: if you're into the Shonnen stuff try Demon Slayer, very popular and very good.

Good point about the mothers. Under capitalism, women are expected to do a certain amount of uncompensated labor because of their gender. Under this version of "socialism" they would also be. A good hint that u/weshallovercum's system is just capitalism with extra steps.

I think the fact that Leftists don't have a" specific program" for socialism is a good thing. The conditions under which socialism could be achieved are not known ahead of time. In what scenario are you able to make your ideas a reality? I don't think any of this could be implemented without a small group, who has taken control in the wake of a revolution (a vanguard party). However, this group would lack the stability, resources, and support, to make such an involved system overnight.

Also your socialist country includes unemployment insurance? Wat? Try again.

Why do you like the phrase "clear and distinct idea" so much? Are you trying to refer to obsolete 17th century epistemology?

they are immediately destroyed upon exchange with goods or service

What about when they are taken by the government for income taxe instead?

The war is over now, everyone signed a cease-fire on November 10. It started in late September, so was a pretty short war. It still killed at least 5000 people though. The Nagorno-Karabakh (aka Artsakh) region, which is where fighting took place, has been pretty violent since the 90s. It's hard to say if that has now ended.

To start with, Armenia and Azerbaijan are both states that split off of the Soviet Union in 1991. Azerbaijan has about 3x as many people as Armenia (10m vs. 3m), and also has some useful resources like oil. In the 90s, both countries fought a pretty long war over the Nagorna-Karabakh region. Its a small area in Western Azerbaijan, home to lots of different ethnic groups, but only about 100k people in total. The groups had been fighting about whether to join with Armenia, or become independent, at the USSR collapsed. Eventually, Armenia demanded that they unify, which turned the conflict into a full scale war. Even though Armenia is much smaller, and a bit poorer, than Azerbaijan, they won the 90s war pretty handily. My understanding is that the organization of the Azeri armies was really bad, and moral was low. After winning, Armenia partially annexed Nagorno-Karabakh. This was considered a major national embarrassment for Azerbaijan, and anti-Armenian sentiment has been strong since. Nagorno-Karabakh was never quite fully part of Armenia though, and low grade conflict has continued. A few soldiers, and sometimes civilians, will get shot be each side every year. It was a similar situation to the Korean DMZ. The other thing to know about the region is that it is mostly separated by mountains from the rest of Armenia, but there is a pass called the "Lachin corridor", with a big highway through it, to connect things up.

Today, Armenia's main ally is Russia. There is a giant Russian military base in central Armenia, and a treaty that commits Russia to defending core Armenian lands should they be invaded. Crucially, this treaty technically does not include the Nagorno-Karabakh region as part of "core Armenia", so Russia did not help Armenia in the war. However, letting its ally get beaten up has made Russia look kind of powerless. Armenia is also pretty friendly with Iran. On the other side, Azerbaijan is close to Turkey, I think because they are both pretty Islamic countries. Turkey said they were prepared to send troops to help, but I don't think they ever actually did. Also, Azerbaijan has recently been buying a lot of weapons from Israel. This is all kind of ironic, because Armenia is the "liberal democracy", whereas Azerbaijan is the "dictatorship".

In July of this year, there were a bunch of incidents along the borders in Nagorno-Karabakh. This may have been a result of Azeri preparations for invasion. Then, on September 27th, shit started going down. A bunch of Azerbaijan tanks moved into northern Nagorno-Karabakh in a surprise attack, but Armenia had some pretty good anti-tank weapons that took them out. After that, there was a lot of bombardment back and forth, with missiles, artillery, and drones. In particular, Azerbaijan's drones fucked up Armenian army units pretty badly. Many of these drones were Israeli "IAI Harop" models, a new weapon Israel has been testing. They're like a cruise missile, about 8 feet long, and can fly autonomously at low altitudes for many hours, looking for a target. Then, they dive down and explode. Since they are small and fly low, radar and traditional SAM weapons systems are useless, and the drones can go wherever they want. In a few cases, these drones snuck many miles past the Armenian lines, blowing up buses full of Armenian troops before they even got to the front.

In mid October, after trading fire for a while, the Azeri army attacked the southern part of Nagorno-Karabakh along its border with Iran. Some missiles and drones went over the border, but Iran stated neutral. The Azeris were able to get within artillery range of the Lachin corridor, which allowed them to cut off pretty much all of Nagorno-Karabakh. At that point, Armenia was beaten, and Russia helped negotiate a peace deal. Military causalities were pretty similar on each side, but this is considered a major defeat for Armenia since they were the defenders. A lot of Armenian people fled the region, and some have been violently forced out by Azerbaijan's troops (possibly involving beheadings). Overall, I think the war was very popular in Azerbaijan, since they see it as revenge for the defeat in the 90s. It has helped strengthen the position of their "president", who was in some hot water for torturing journalists and stuff. In Armenia, this war has made the current government look pretty bad, and they'll probably lose the next election.

A good way to stay on top of this stuff is the Radio War Nerd podcast. The hosts cover most current conflicts, and have good politics besides.

I would think you can substitute sugary water for milk in bread. You need something to kickstart the yeast unless you're using sourdough starter (are yeast vegan?).

Also the site has a pretty high Alexa rank. Sadly, there are just far more chuds than chapos.

Honestly pretty brutal for Hillary to be tied with a random representative in her first term.

What's the difference between "radical direct democracy" and anarchism?

Why do morality and ideals play a part in your worldview?

Presumably because we're human beings capable of empathy and compassion?

IDK what weird ideas you have about Marxism, but Karl was a pretty idealistic guy.

While the mode of production might be the base of a political economy, its clearly not true that there is a strictly one way relationship between politics and economics. People's lives, and society at large, are influenced all the time by government policies, and those policies are shaped by the form of government. Even if that form was produced by the economy, it in turn influences the economy that produced it.

If there is some day a giant communist revolution in your country, people are going to have to make some initial decisions about the political structure. Who controls the army/workers militia? Is there a "vanguard party"? Who is in charge of that? How centralized is the distribution of resources? How are the revolutionaries supposed to make those decisions without any political philosophy?

I tried this recently. Took 20mg (which is probably 2x average prescribed dose) when I last had to do some writing. As far as I know, addiction is unlikely unless you get carried away. I mean kids are prescribed to take it every day,.

About half an hour after taking it, I started to feel a bit high. I was able to concentrate very intensely one thing , like crafting a sentence. On the other hand, switching between tasks felt more difficult. If I had to look at a source instead of writing, it took me a long time to find and start reading the right page for instance. Also, wicked dry mouth. I babbled to my roommate for a while about random shit and excitedly read her parts of my essay, which I was very convinced was the best scholarship ever. She didn't realize I was high though, so it couldn't have been too obnoxious. The experience was reminiscent of smoking a strong Sativa, but more productive . Fair warning, though, the next day I felt like shit. I had a headache reminiscent of a hangover, and no energy to do anything. I hate hangovers, and this feeling was enough to make me swear off subsequent Adderall experiments.

I definitely would not recommend taking it like I did for school though. You could probably get a prescription easily enough (with health insurance) and see if it helps.

Tangentially related: people found it much stranger when I went around in bare feet one summer then when I started crossdressing. I don't get it at all, does anybody actually like wearing shoes?