this is a minor complaint but i feel like 50% of the time someone trying to impersonate elvis's voice is just doing johnny bravo instead
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Alexandra Kollontai, born on this day in 1872, was a Marxist feminist revolutionary who served as People's Commissar for Social Welfare in the Soviet Union and, later in life, as a diplomat for the USSR abroad.
Alexandra was born into a wealthy family of Ukrainian, Russian, and Finnish background, acquiring a fluency in both Russian and Finnish early on. This experience would later assist her in her career as a Soviet diplomat.
In 1895, Kollontai read August Bebel's "Woman and Socialism", which was a major influence on her thinking. In 1896, she helped fundraise in support of a mass textile strike in St. Petersburg, retaining connections with the women textile workers of St. Petersburg for the rest of her career.
In the years leading up to 1917, Kollontai was active as a Marxist theoretician, educator, and anti-war activist (opposing World War I, specifically). During this time, she established contact with Vladimir Lenin and gave a lengthy speaking tour in the U.S., sharing a stage with Eugene V. Debs and giving 123 speeches in 4 languages.
Following the 1917 February Revolution, Kollontai returned to Russia. Later that year, she voted in favor of the decision to launch an armed uprising against the government, also participating in the revolt. At the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets, she was elected Commissar of Social Welfare in the new Soviet government.
The Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography describes her efforts within the Soviet government: "The changes that Kollontai tried to bring about were enormous, involving the complete destruction of the old system and the creation of a new one...Kollontai authorized decrees that committed the Soviet State to full funding of maternity care from conception through the first year of a child's life - an unheard of measure for the beginning of the 20th century. She attempted to establish full legal, political, and sexual equality for women and to redress the entire marriage code."
In 1920, Kollontai joined the left "Workers' Opposition", an opposition tendency in the Bolshevik Party opposed to what they saw as the increasing bureaucratization of the Soviet state. In March 1921, the Workers' Opposition was banned along with all other factions at the 10th party congress in March 1921, but its members continued to be active as leaders of both the Bolshevik Party and the Soviets.
In 1922, Kollontai was one of the signers of the "Letter of the 22" to the Communist International, protesting the banning of factions in Russia.
Following this incident, Kollontai began to serve as a Soviet diplomat, becoming one of the first women to work in international diplomacy. As ambassador to Norway and Sweden, as a trade delegate to Mexico, as a delegate to the League of Nations, and as negotiator of the Finno-Soviet peace treaty of 1940, she served the USSR with what was generally regarded as great finesse. From 1946 until her death in 1952, she was an advisor to the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Class instinct...always shows itself to be more powerful than the noble enthusiasms of 'above-class' politics. So long as the bourgeois women and their [proletarian] 'younger sisters' are equal in their inequality, the former can, with complete sincerity, make great efforts to defend the general interests of women.
But once the barrier is down and the bourgeois women have received access to political activity, the recent defenders of the 'rights of all women' become enthusiastic defenders of the privileges of their class, content to leave the younger sisters with no rights at all. Thus, when the feminists talk to working women about the need for a common struggle to realise some 'general women's' principle, women of the working class are naturally distrustful."
- Alexandra Kollontai
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I just started watching survivor. I think if you get blindsided you should be allowed to set one other camper on fire on the way out.
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A Harris's hawk that has been repeatedly attacking villagers has been captured by a resident with the same name.
Steve Harris, 40, told the BBC he had managed to humanely catch the hawk in his garden in Flamstead, Hertfordshire.
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I wanna apologize for doing bad posting sometimes and starting stupid arguments. I like you people, this is the only website I can go to where people aren't just stupid libs and where I feel it is possible to be sincere and open about things. Thank you all for being there 
Read a different book. Watch a different movie. Play a different game.
Sigh a different sigh
wtf my tortillas have mold on them?? I have never seen tortillas go moldy, I've always eaten them quick enough for that not to happen. These were bought less than 2 weeks ago, this sucks
Welcome to trump’s America
I have comically bad naming sense (see: my username). Every time I try to think of a username or domain name or whatever I come up with something that seems clever in the moment and then within days I'm like "WTF was I thinking this is so convoluted/embarrassing" but then it's too late and I just have to live with it and cringe every time someone else has to use it 
my cope is that it's my brain fully rejecting SEO and marketing because I hate them so much
oh, speaking of which, I was listening to an interview with Reggie Fils-Aimé (former COO and President of Nintendo of America) where he was complimenting Shigeru Miyamoto when talking about his dynamism which he says has "served [Miyamoto] well in not only creating all of this wonderful IP but pitching all of these fantastic game ideas" and he also talks about playing "NES content" and I had a visceral reaction of disgust to both. It is genuinely repulsive how these creative endeavors--which their creators pour so much of themselves into and that people receive so much meaning and enjoyment from--are taken by capitalism and melted down into amorphous blobs of "content" which are valuable only for the ability to exploit their copyright and extrude them into other kinds of merchantable widgets.
Regirock, Registeel, Regifilsaime
AernaLingus by any other name would smell as sweet
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How good are Yemeni sandals? Their armed forces wear them. They must be incredible.
Will there be a new mega soon? Or will they extend this one? We await the answer with anticipation.
We have mega watchers with eyes fixed upon the horizon for the sighting of a new mega
* at Yosemite national park, tearing up * if it weren’t for all the regulatory burden this could all be condos
Imagine if someone's activation phrase was Neutral Milk Hotel. That would be funny
unironically using the word tankie is such an incredible self-own. like thanks you should lead with that next time so i dont have to read the rest of your screed
People who know economics: Did the 2008 recession ever actually "end" meaningfully? When Covid hit I started hearing about a "new" recession but it never "felt" like the 2008 one let up. Now I hear talk of a "new recession" caused by Trump's tariffs, but when did the Covid recession let up?
i can only speak for where i live in western europe but here and in the UK it's essentially just been constant stagnation since 08 of things that actually matter to workers. number go up or whatever but stuff like real wages has been more or less flat for years, while rent and goods prices skyrocket. we never really recovered in any meaningful way.
Nope, they kicked the can down the road by giving banks free money and doing zero interest rates and operation twist. (This deflated the USD btw, which is currency manipulation) They also changed mark to market accounting rules so banks wouldn't have to take losses on their toxic mortgage backed securities.
Global capitalism has this issue, now, because:
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The old Lenin and Luxembourg release valves of waves of imperialism have run into a world that is more or less fully enmeshed in capitalist relations. There is no Scramble for Africa or post war Asia for capitalism to have its imperialist periphery to extract imperialist super profits out of.
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War, which can free up capital by eliminating dead or zombie capital and which allows for a nation-state scale level of coordination and central planning, would now mean mutual annihilation between biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.
So this is another intractable position for capitalism to be, along side things like Climate Change, which - to me - suggest a Grossman-esque final conflict is likely to lay in this century.
According to Michael Roberts (Marxist economist), no it never ended! And the last few times it was this bad was the 1930s and 1873! You can read his many, many thoughts on https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/
Or read his book on more or less that topic The Long Depression
It sucks that like half the cast are pieces of shit because Silicon Valley is very funny.
I just put gin in my hibiscus tea. It's fire ngl.
Limerence kinda fascinates me. Like what the hell is it first off and where’d it come from (a book I think). I have heard it discussed in the context of an incomprehensible yearning for someone (felt that before), but sometimes it’s just really really annoying and feels like a fly buzzing around in your head
It fucked me up bad for a couple months
Still not fully over it
I AIN'T GONNA LET IT GET TO ME, I'M JUST GON' CREEP
DOWN IN PUMPKIN HILL, I GOTS' TO FIND MY LOST PIECE
I KNOW THAT IT'S HERE, I CAN SENSE IT IN MY FEET
THE GREAT EMERALD'S POWER ALLOWS ME TO FEEL
Who's that pokemon?
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It's a gyarados opening its mouth very wide!
it is april 3 and stalin saved the world from fascism
How do DragonBalls work? If someone like Frieda or vegeta wished for immortality ans then someone else gathered em and wished they weren't immortal would that work?
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Sorry for still talkin' about Nintendo prices, but 99% of the internet are dumbass liberals. It's really distressing that class consciousness only really goes as far as consumer self-interest. At least there's a little discussion of wages not keeping up with inflation but that's as far as it goes. Asked a guy to explain what inflation is and what causes it and they just did the tautological 'price inflation is when prices inflate' thing. No curiosity what causes it. They're satisfied that a little line in a textbook has it defined as such and no one wants to wonder why money is presented as having a baked-in half-life. No interest in looking at like profit margins, wage costs, cost of living cost indexes (and whether they're actually useful or not), economies of scale, etc. etc.
Nope. You just get "Bart said NES games cost up to $70 in a Simpsons episode" over and over. IT'S MULTI-DIMENSIONAL, YOU FUCKS, THERE'S MORE THAN ONE FUCKING ASPECT THAT GOES INTO COMMODITY PRODUCTION. I'm more mad about people just rejecting thinking or changing their minds or expanding their comprehension of money and politics in general, but the Nintendo thing has the lowly gamer-type shitting up the discourse even more than usual.
They hear Nintendo has the Switch for like 33% off in Japan with that region-locked version and zero curiosity what the profit margin is on that or anything. Maybe Nintendo could afford to do that everywhere or at least more than just one market.
Especially annoying when these liberals will sink to saying there's no price tendencies at all so they can rhetorically defeat marxism and the labor theory of value, but then when I say "I think the price is too high, I won't pay these prices. Maybe if they lower them to what they had before" they revert to pretending they believe there actually are solid laws governing prices and Nintendo is only obeying them and I'm objectively wrong for disagreeing.
I think the pricing difference in this case may just be a long term currency hedge. The switch 2 entered production when the yen was weak, if Nintendo aren’t sure that the yen will remain weak the pricing it “fairly” to the input costs when they signed the contract would increase their losses. It’s odd they did that (the PS5 pro was expensive across the board), but a potential factor is how large the Japanese market is while having less disposable income than the NA and European markets. Basically the Japanese version was priced against the input costs when the model went into production, while international sales have to hedge against the potential the yen gets stronger. Note that the yen gaining strength between manufacturing date and sale date reduces profits, or in a sense increases the cost of the console. In a way this is how you have to price inflation against any investment you make, I.e. an investment that grows slower than inflation is a loss, but because it involves currency conversion it’s more dynamic.
This is just my speculation. There’s a number of reasons why Nintendo would favour the Japanese market, but I think departing from how it’s done pricing in the past is probably due to currency market volatility.
Edit: I am assuming that tariffs weren’t the entirety because the market prices are consistent across other borders, but it’s possible that Nintendo was accounting for potential tariffs and kept consistent pricing across other international borders so they didn’t create a weird scalping arbitrage market if trump didn’t put in his tariff plan. I do think yen volatility takes precedence over the tariffs tho
I still don't get the scalper fear. Especially from consumers. Nintendo has millions of these things made and can keep pumping them out, it's not a one-time concert. Do we have numbers of how many PS5s were actually getting scalped?
I'd think market volatility is playing a part but since they're not discounting digital games literally at all when they should be scalper and tariff-proof I think it's Nintendo riding Switch1 success high alongside the premiumization of hobby goods generally with smaller sales at higher rates of profit and less risk.
Edit: as of 2021 it was estimated that 157,000 PS5s got scalped via eBay and StockX, which was like 10% of the initial stock for the first 3-ish months. Honestly doesn't seem like it was that big of a problem outside people being impatient. I know the scalping situation with the Switch2 would be worse because of the increased profit margins since they'd be competing against the USD MSRP from a lower standpoint and can afford to drop the price lower and lower until hitting USD MSRP levels and buy more initial stock, but still.
lol how do you talk to these people they just believe in magic.
The education system is so fucked. So many people don't know shit about how plants works.
I think if communists ever actually win we need to really make up to date education a foundational principal of society. People should be going to classes at least once a year just to get updates on how fucking reality works. It's become clear that we can't have a functional society otherwise. We simply have too much power over our environment now to not understand how it works on a fundamental level.
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