Collatz_problem [comrade/them]

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend.

Free time.

Competition is won by those who extract profit now. Those who refrain from profiting even if they want to preserve the ability to profit in the future for whatever reason lose competition and are removed from making decisions. So only the most shortsighted capitalists remain.

Being able to extract profit is more important to individual capitalist than maintaining the system in the long run. See: climate change.

https://www.lmfdb.org/ for people deep into analytic number theory rabbit hole.

Crassus would be proud.

I was born.

Graeber in Debt has made an interesting point that honor historically meant an ability to reduce freedom of other people.

The fake is of far greater value. In its deliberate attempt to be real, it’s more real than the real thing.

What would you think of our civilization based on the Internet?

Cats and porn.

Please explain how is North Korea a right-wing fascist state.

‘Stochastic brigading’, better known as ‘replies I don’t like’.

Mine had 500 MHz AMD K6-2 processor + 256 MB RAM + Windows 98.

A civil war simulator, where you make your policies to appeal to as much of the population as you can so they would support you and fight for your side, and if you fail to secure significant militant support you get couped or defeated.

There was also a very similar meltdown at Leningrad NPP in 1975, except there the situation was recognised earlier and the reactor was shut down before everything went to shit completely.

They were introduced in 1960s, IIRC.

Raccoons now have a stable population in Pripyat Marshes, don’t know much more.

IIRC, USSR experimented with acclimating raccoons in Belarus.

Less software bloat.

Physical except when I need to quickly search for something, in that case digital.