Those people are providing a living for themselves, all I’m saying is that working with someone on a project where they’re very involved and you’re all passionate about it and you don’t have to balance that with another full time job is nice.

Until the workers come out and say that they feel that JT is exploiting them or using them this whole relationship seems to be fine compared to the alternative of working for a company that directly seeks to exploit you to the maximum extent.

I’m sure cooperative ownership isn’t out of the question for this project, but there isn’t really much money in communist propaganda so it’s amazing that they’re able to support 4 salaries doing it.

If he’s managing to provide a living for 4 people and those people are in a situation where they don’t feel exploited, I don’t really see how what he’s doing is why different than say Pravda pre-revolution, or any number of other communist newspapers/periodicals over the years that until the revolution had to support their workers through wages and sales of a product.

I mean, Marx was only able to write Capital because Engles had money from profiting off the labor of others. How is this any worse than that?

Im not kidding when I say day 1 they give me something lethal id be fragging the highest up in the chain of command that I can reach lmao

That’s actually why so many revolutions came out of conscripted forces. It’s terrible, but giving a bunch of people who don’t want to fight weapons and training makes it hard for you to control that when they come back home.

Conscripting forces (under capitalist or imperial systems especially) will almost always lead to some form of domestic revolution or civil war either after or during the imperial war the conscripts are fighting in.

Exceptions seem to exist in predominantly settler colonial states or states with massive existing racial/ethnic underclasses. Since the way to quell the revolutionary intents of conscripts is concession at the social underclass’ expense.

See the GI bill and redlining in America, Palestinian relations in Israel, North Koreans in South Korea, etc.

So a conscript force in NATO states would likely result in a fascist/socialist dialectic reforming as the old liberal states slide into reaction.

Without conscription, there can’t really be a large scale violent revolution, but it’s also less likely to literally consume the world in hellfire overnight as the old guard clutches to power in the most violent ways possible.

Also former conscripts made up the majority of revolutionary leftist parties, fascist paramilitaries, and organized criminals. So there isn’t really a positive to conscription beyond just heightening contradictions and forcing more people from passive political life into active political life.

Your name is Occam’s Razor, but you don’t seem very good at using Occam’s Razor

China is evil because they didn’t get a septugenarian from Kansas to say that it’s legal for them to give money aid to African countries without demanding blood sacrifice.

It’s funny because what they say the US isn’t doing is exactly what the US is doing.

Telling someone to do their job is authoritarian

https://www.techspot.com/news/100073-rockstar-sold-pirated-copies-games-steam-triggering-anti.html

The modding and cracking scene is an incredibly important part of gaming history. To the point that companies are selling cracked copies of their own games on Steam because they can’t get the drm out of the original binaries.

It’s funny because they’re trying to come up with a term that’s equal to woke but isn’t woke.

“noticer” or “vigilant” or some other synonym for woke that isn’t “asleep”

Kinda wild how so much of engineering is still just using lookup tables that were hand calculated like 150 years ago

I built all the tracking stuff at my job. It’s got a really shiny interface and looks super legit for when the owner walks by, but I bullshit all the numbers on the backend so no one looks bad

(He was gonna implement tracking no matter what, but when I stepped up to build the system it saved him like $1000/month and let us make up our own metrics)

Yeah, but they sometimes say it better than you can

The OG Dishonored is still a high bar for open ended solutions to quests in my book. Probably helps that it was much more contained and engineered.

Replay missions or when you get to the chapter boss you’ll want to die. Baltus will eat you alive unless you grind a bit for some gear that eats shields

Love ya too comrade

The video is just dumb. She mentions Marx, and fails to even understand that the whole academic concept of Capitalism actually derives from his work and instead acts like Capitalism is just a basic term for an economic system that uses an exchange medium.

She’s good with physics, but holy shit does this make her look bad. She needs to actually read something about this topic before opening her mouth.

The whole video is just capitalism == money and buying a banana with money is easier than buying it with the products of your labor. Which again just comes off as incredibly uninformed because that whole argument is addressed and picked apart in the first chapter of Capital.

Agreed, shows that you can’t just rely on a single field of understanding to get everything

She’s approaching economics at face value. The dance thing that techbros do.

Like looking at currency as an exchange medium and not a historical construct.

She’s a physicist that does YouTube videos