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i remember the lecture i decided to ignore and instead see if i could figure out the golden ratio just knowing a golden rectangle could be subdivided into another golden rectangle + a perfect square. it took me basically the whole class and that was just simple algebra and substitution, the shit you're talking about may as well be heiroglyphs to me

reporting back: after visiting four different local bookstores and not being able to find it anywhere, i caved and just ordered it through the last store i visited. sadly i'm too tired from working doubles all week to even look at it right now.

but i was able to find murray bookchins post-scarcity anarchism for $2, so that was pretty neat.

new Alien sequel looks HAWT

crazy that this technology could be used to free humanity from wage slavery, but naturally, instead we've been put in a zero sum contest with the tech to drive down the cost of labor.

its too bad the rest of his manifesto beyond the first line is borderline incomprehensible, ideologically.

that first line though. shit goes hard.

edit: just realized the first line of a manifesto is probably the only one people will remember. "a specter is haunting Europe..." and "the industrial revolution and its consequences..." are probably too of the most memorable lines of any political text i can remember.

Kor

China is stealing tech patents and its not fair, also their tech is 10 years behind, also they live in a dystopian tech-ruled surveillance state, also their economy is about to collapse, also they are single-handedly destabilizing US hegemony

for comparison: over-emphasizing every other word kills the natural flow of reading something yourself (and makes it seem like the writer is talking down to the reader). italics can be helpful for understanding what exactly an author is trying to say by emphasizing a certain word, but when you start forcing emphasis on every other word, and you're doing it every sentence, reading the entire essay/book becomes unnecessarily arduous. I literally cannot read much of Lenin's work, because it reads like a condescending reddit post. when I can find his writing with all the heavy-handed emphasis removed, it reads a lot more naturally.

over-emphasizing every other word kills the natural flow of reading something yourself (and makes it seem like the writer is talking down to the reader). italics can be helpful for understanding what exactly an author is trying to say by emphasizing a certain word, but when you start forcing emphasis on every other word, and you're doing it every sentence, reading the entire essay/book becomes unnecessarily arduous. I literally cannot read much of Lenin's work because it reads like a condescending reddit post. when I can find his writing with all the heavy-handed emphasis removed, it reads a lot more naturally.

e: sorry i responded so late to this comment, its a good question

also my oversimplified understanding of why the cold war even happened was that stalin beat the shit out of the nazis for the allies but the west didnt want to give him too much credit or put the soviets on equal footing as economic post war partners, so the US basically engineered a long era of continued weapons manufacturing using the domestic and liberated/defeated nations industries to subsidize and expand our military while also protecting western capital interests from having to compete in a multipolar global economy where international prols would have increased bargaining power and autonomy, am i doodoo brained or is this kinda sorta accurate

no. its so much worse