ADVERTISINGS
Hits in Your Head
vol. 43
"All the jingles you wish you never heard but can't stop hearing"
redtea
joined 3 years ago
Unfortunately you never really build a tolerance. Thankfully you do build up an energy that Kim can redirect to power his necromancy.
Hah! I feel that!
The issue you might be missing is that without capitalist agriculture and fishing, all those staple foods you're talking about will become much less available. You seem to be claiming that you need animal products at every meal. That is not an anti-capitalist position.
People will still be able to have some meat, fish, milk, etc, but not nearly to the extent that they do now. There will not be enough to consume it at every meal. That was the case before industrial capitalist farming, too. Maybe meat can be grown in labs but for now that's science fiction.
Industrial farming is a huge contributor to climate change and the sheer amount of land needed to produce so much meat and dairy is unsustainable. There is no future for humans if they continue to rely on animal products to the extent they currently do.
Arguments about the necessity of regularly eating meat, fish, eggs, and milk due to humans being omnivores fall flat. There will be some availability but the end of capitalism ultimately means your diet must become substantially vegan.
If humans can't survive that because they have traditionally eaten meat, then humans can't survive. The planet will become uninhabitable because of it.
This does not mean that everyone must become vegan. It does mean that most people will have to substantially alter their relationship to animal products.
System change will mean that diet is no longer an individual choice in the way that it is today so you don't have to worry about that.
In some ways my mostly vegan (sometimes vegetarian) diet is more varied than it was before. The flavour and prominence of meat was doing a lot of the heavy lifting in most meals. When you 'lose' that, you soon find better ways to flavour the plant side of things and that opens a lot of culinary doors.
It only feels restrictive because most restaurants cater to meat eaters first and foremost. That, and because e.g. ready meals are 'for some reason' filled with unnecessary meat products (some of the other comments touch on what those reasons might be).
Gentle reminder as I'm curious as to your response.
It seems to me that the simplest aspect of it is that two opposing forces can't both occupy and control the same land at the same time. The colonists decide before they leave home that they are willing to do whatever it takes for absolute control over the colony.
That contradiction is salient because the coloniser is always an oppressor even if they also work. The mere act of going to work in a settler colony involves recreating the settler-colonial relationship. Life might not be great for every settler but any glimpse of prosperity comes at the expense of the indigenous.
Good points. I had thought that China was always ahead, though. The Western companies just launched the public app thing in a flashier way, while in China, it's been used 'behind the scenes' rather than released for general public consumption. Now there's some Chinese competition for the public apps and they seem to be btfo the western versions.
That is, I'd thought that China's was ahead in AI since the start but the western LLMs took the spotlight for a while and now are losing it already to Chinese LLMs.
Aye, it can feel a bit strange. It can help to keep the fact of settlerism on the agenda, though. It is often merely a performance unfortunately.
Convincing points.
How so?
We do the same in Australia. We even say it at the start of meetings sometimes.
On the one hand, good.
On the other hand, we know what LM does when it's stocks go down—agitate for more war to raise the price again.