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Nah that’s just Go Hands.

People treat deleting like some dirty word, but all good collections need to be organized and pruned.

Why don’t the US and Iran, the two countries that nominally want peace, simply bomb Israel into submission?

Frank Herbert knew what was up. Butlerian Jihad now.

No, my academic background is political science, not history, but they overlap. ‘The exception that proves the rule’ is generally trite, but I think if holds true in the case. Part of why revolutions are studied is that they’re rare. Most modern human history is a story of unequal distribution of wealth and the exploitation and coercion required to uphold that, and the moments in history where that bubbles into revolution are rare. It’s easy to say the French revolted in 1789, but that ignores centuries of the ancien régime remaining in power.

Conditions won’t just deteriorate until an eventual revolution. A revolution itself generally can’t be planned, but successful ones take a lot of groundwork.

I want this to be true, but history seems to me to show that most people just tolerate increasingly worse conditions indefinitely. Exploited/oppressed people rising up seems the exception.

Thank you, now I know what I’m going to be reading about for the next several hours.

There can’t be many examples in history of an empire being cucked by it’s own client state, but here we are.

Hot take, but this whole AI thing kinda sucks.

Steam, too. It was originally unpopular DRM for Half-Life 2. It had a broken offline mode that could only be selected when already online. It had no meaningful customer service and people permanently lost their accounts with no avenue for appeal (and probably no human even involved).

Prisoners: “We’re being sexually abused.”

IOF: “Of course we sexually abuse prisoners, want to see the videos?”

Israelis: “We’ll shut down the country to protest our rights to sexually abuse prisoners.”

Pretty much the only people on the planet that pretend to not know this are the ones writing the blank checks to arms manufacturers.

Realistically, I don’t think there’s much online browsing you can do with 2GB of RAM. The websites themselves will be as much of a bottleneck as the browser.

By allowing oligarchs to continue owning the means of production (and wealth, control of the state, etc.), whereas workers will have lost labor to withhold.

The oligarchs will give us just enough UBI to not riot. It’s going to be used as a bribe to keep them in power. That’s my issue with calls for UBI; they permanently entrench class dynamics. Our only (peaceful) leverage as workers to improve our conditions is to withhold our labor. If AI actually succeeds in mass unemployment, we lose that and we’ll be forever at their mercy.