Walter Ostanek
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8 hours ago, Nebraska said:
His neuralink shit is a rip off of stuff in Iain Banks' sci fi - an author Musk adores though if Banks were still alive he'd certainly think him an immense wanker. There's more than enough Muskian characters in both his sci-fi and "normal" novels. Amazing to think that Musk read those books and saw the villains as role models
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Almost all causes of death can be considered as variations on the theme of cerebral hypoxia
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A lot of fleshblob makes me cry (with laughter)
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Used to have actual meditation sessions to Black One at uni with a few particularly pretentious mates. Got wrecked but enforced strict silence
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5 hours ago, Summon Dot E X E said:
I wonder how many people cheerleading for Ukraine in this totally unnecessary proxy war of attrition realize that it was orchestrated by the same neocons that did Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
I missed the bit where Igor Girkin snuck into Iraq and Afghanistan with his band of merry russian fascists and started shooting up Romanis?
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Never played it but I used to have the soundtrack on CD. I miss those glory days of the TDR aesthetic
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The most important thing about music is that you recognise that it is a bread-and-circus distraction concocted by the bourgeoisie to steer the workers away from developing class consciousness. Thus you should not pay any attention to any music, ever
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12 hours ago, chenGOD said:
That is a wild article. The kind of consumer habits described in there are so fucking foreign to me.
Can't agree more with the always buy the dumbest item you can find. I'm deathly allergic to any white good that has anything more than a handful of clunky analog dials on the front. If I can't fix it myself, the fella down the street definitely can. Fuck planned obsolescence and the obscene waste it entails
The only exception seems to be printers, which have always been massive cunts
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15 hours ago, prdctvsm said:Spoiler
I genuinely expect to live to see a time when serious swaths of Australia are literally uninhabitable. Also probably good chunks of the US southwest
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19 hours ago, zlemflolia said:
you think china manufactures just about everything for the rest of the world out of the goodness of their heart? no it's a strategy they were forced into to avoid being destroyed by the US like the USSR was.
Fucking lol, and there I was thinking that they did it because it was highly profitable!
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On 8/21/2023 at 5:53 PM, prdctvsm said:
lol
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did we ever find out what SIGN was an anagram of? can't be bothered to read all 168 pages lol
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10 hours ago, zlemflolia said:
no quotes how surprising
ur really attacking chinas renewable development and energy usage when they primarily export? they were forced into this kind of position by capitalist nations
...capitalist countries, of which they are one? And forced precisely how? Everything they need for an effective energy transition can be found within their own borders
What matters is that CO2 emissions decrease. It doesn't matter to the atmosphere if the energy thereby generated goes towards manufacturing stuff to be exported or not - though it does wipe the greenwash right off of Europe's green credentials!
It doesn't matter how many wind turbines a country builds if their CO2 emissions are still increasing. I'm not out to demonise China (inb4 sarcastic quotemine of that one sentence), just point out that there is no basis to put them on a pedestal - and if anything, on account of their theoretically more favourable economic setup and their exceptional endowment of the metals required for low-carbon tech, I see their behaviour thus far as a tragic missed opportunity
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2 hours ago, gnarlybog said:
You call this "weird"? "Weird' is kissing your father on the lips. This is quirky at best.
No more or less weird than the late 80s Jarre and early 90s FSOL that Dan plunders for his ideas
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I mean, I agree that capitalism is almost designed to fail miserably at solving problems like this, or any other where there's little prospect of the solutions being near-term profitable. Theoretically a Chinese type system should be able to weather the storm (lol?) far better given that they have the ability to steer their economy. Though judging them by their own actions they're not really bothering - their oft-touted, supposedly miraculous rollout of renewables is dwarfed into meaninglessness by their continued expansion of coal
As for the above fine fella, it's classic campism, claiming to be socialist while copypasting vapid propaganda from overtly fascist regimes, just check out anything he's ever said about Ukraine
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Good luck to all the Florida Men and women.
I worry this could be a rerun of Katrina, who better than de Santis to turn this into an opportunity for disaster capitalism?
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On 8/24/2023 at 7:42 AM, Hugh Mughnus said:
Not Again!
Oneohtrix Point - Never Again
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So I live about an hour from the border so should I be arming myself to the teeth (legally, with PAL in hand ofc) in preparation for spillover from the coming civil war next door?
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Will they put out a press release if I send them a unique disc of my shit?
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Been on a Le Carre roll the last few months, started with the Smiley classics and branching out most recently to the Night Manager. One of those authors who I really wish I'd paid more attention to while they were still alive
edit: The ending to Our Kind of Traitor is very apt this week
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How does the World view America these days?
in General Banter
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lol I remember in the mid 2000s reading the Conservapedia article on Blair, twisting itself into knots trying to square Blair's background in a historically socialist party with his role as Bush's lapdog in his righteous (and very Christian) neoliberal crusade