Posts by z@freespeechextremist.com
(DIR) Post #2272285 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2018-12-25T10:25:36.102418Z
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@p I think Varouvakis has the best critique of Marx. He was brilliant in identifying what's wrong with capitalism and horrific at providing solutions. To me that's not a bad spot place for a thinker. I mean I think that effectively described Alan Kay.I don't see historical materialism as that absurd. The technologies around us dictate the shape of the economy and the society is shaped by the needs and effects of that economy. Without that causality, it makes no sense for YC kid to think he can change the world with a tech startup.Che spends a good chunk of time hating America which is a fun thing for edgy teens to do. The power of Marx is he sees how the gears of captialism turn. There are countless essays these days about why X bad thing happened with the economy when we told X' would happen. Marx over a hundred years ago lays out exactly why it happens. There is a real goldmine in thought there.
(DIR) Post #2272345 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2018-12-25T10:29:42.521050Z
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@p "The Republic" is almost certainly a pitch from Plato that he or someone like him be a tyrant over some city-state.
(DIR) Post #2445518 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2018-12-30T21:23:15.474246Z
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I wish people wouldn't @ me that didn't have something funny or interesting to say.
(DIR) Post #2565950 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-01-03T02:11:31.410205Z
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@p @folk considering Kissinger's record in Latin America, I wouldn't consider him clever.The key thing that he loves taking credit for is Detente with China which there are significant records to use was actually Nixon's idea that Kissinger merely executed. He is and always was a yes with an ego problem.
(DIR) Post #2565965 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-01-03T02:12:42.993823Z
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@p @folk This is a man who prided himself on looking tough while doing essentially nothing to promote American interests abroad.
(DIR) Post #2566604 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-01-03T02:41:51.975926Z
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@folk @p I don't know how much I would say his policies hurt America as much as didn't really move the needle.In naked terms, you can measure the extent of American influence based on where we are allowed to establish a McDonalds and where we can establish military bases. The animosity Kissinger created in Latin America basically lost us South America.
(DIR) Post #2566932 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-01-03T02:56:20.900680Z
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@folk @p considering the friendly relationships we had with communist Romania and communist China, I wouldn't be so quick to call it isolation. Cuba was always about prematurely aborted imperialist ambitions.
(DIR) Post #2578893 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-01-03T10:42:34.063978Z
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@p @karolat @igeljaeger I mean if it isn't tits, dicks, blood, or guts does it _really_ need a CW?
(DIR) Post #2579129 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-01-03T10:57:00.249925Z
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@p @karolat @igeljaeger I mean I guess at the end of the day they misuse the features to their heart's content
(DIR) Post #2728596 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-01-07T07:46:27.906418Z
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@cant_into @p I'm always a gigantic fan of The Rentals references
(DIR) Post #2730354 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-01-07T09:18:42.486219Z
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@cant_into @p I am always game for musical references. I have now a minor goal to sneak song lyrics into as many of my publications as possible.
(DIR) Post #2730983 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-01-07T09:50:14.831218Z
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@cant_into just print out https://i3wm.org/docs/4.0/refcard.pdf and put it on your desk
(DIR) Post #2731022 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-01-07T09:51:55.838458Z
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@cant_into get a friend to do it for you
(DIR) Post #2731140 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-01-07T09:58:25.502328Z
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@cant_into you'll get it. It's not so bad.
(DIR) Post #2731297 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-01-07T10:05:39.521358Z
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@cant_into Also truthfully, I use my own keybinding where I use arrow keys instead of vim-style hjkl
(DIR) Post #2732476 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-01-07T10:58:23.413858Z
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@p @s what the lady from Fargo doesn't count? No Dirty Harry? No Axel Foley?
(DIR) Post #2736181 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-01-07T13:52:40.589748Z
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@p @s I love that Axel Foley is bad since he's on the wrong side of the war on drugs.Hmm what about Kate Monday of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathnetAs for real cops, I'm still fascinated by the man who made the Crime Machine https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/127-the-crime-machine-part-i#episode-playerDpSFRbGVAAA6_EO.jpg
(DIR) Post #2739514 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-01-07T16:29:20.258238Z
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@p @SRSB @PussySlayer the gradient is bad. The old one is better. Almost everything else about the upgrade makes it a better service.
(DIR) Post #2771571 by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-01-08T15:23:41.556421Z
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@cant_into I think something can be awesome and toxic. See also smoking.
(DIR) Post #9nq8jQzAAOifYkW2Gu by z@freespeechextremist.com
2019-10-12T05:48:17.833252Z
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@p @wizard @djsumdog @tuxcrafting No worries. I also stepped away from FSE since I just didn't want to deal with casual antisemitism and racism at some point. I feel like Schelling points were put in the right places but ultimately it just wasn't the hangout spot for me