Biden brain: “If someone else lost more than me, I am reclassifying myself as a winner. This is what peak bullshit looks like.”

A call with Tesla confirmed that the truck had needed a complete reboot which took over five hours of sitting to complete.

I consider this as a second deal-breaker problem with the truck. How does 5 hour reboot time make sense? That seems as quick as the punch card computers great-granddad reminisced about.

“condensation can fry the electronics inside the vehicle”

Electronics defeated by rain. They’ve basically described it as an expensive piece of shit.

Nostalgia is partly an indicator that current environment is so shit that it can’t just be reformed or tweaked to get to a better place. Instead the best solution that people want is to time travel back to before it all took a nosedive and restart from there.

Realist would be WEIGHING the negatives vs the positives. What positives outweigh funding genocide in Gaza?

For Australia, it will be a long slog. The land rights acts getting through parliament that previously were making progress started to dry up about 15 years ago. IMO it was a sign Australian politics was going down the toilet.

Previous acts granted ownership of particular areas to various indigenous land councils. The councils would manage the land and it’s effectively a perpetual lease owned by the indigenous community. So post-revolution, those land rights concepts would have to come back and get expanded further to make decolonization work.

Another aspect is that cheaper solar panels means cheaper energy: something that Europe is having trouble with right now.

Cheaper energy means lower costs to produce stuff - Making their economy more competitive not less. E.g. Certain foods need refrigeration. Factory equipment. Server farms. Offices have lighting and aircon etc.

If Europe allows their own solar panel industry to gouge themselves, the initial investment in solar will be more of a cost and they are going to have less future growth.

The stone stopped bleeding. You can’t squeeze indefinitely.

Work on your health. I suggest Yoga. Follow-along routines of whatever length you like can be found on YouTube.

Aside from what everyone else has said, the book advice itself is really bad also.

There are still many anti-capitalist expressions from gamers and the like, but there are not enough leftist voices to frame them as such inside those communities.

I think another aspect that has occurred recently is capital corporations have cloned the socially progressive talking points of the left.

These concessions to progressive politics to court younger consumers are no challenge to the power of capitalism. Throwing corporate sponsorship at BLM, LGBTQ or environmental organisations still keeps real power in corporate hands. Allowing an amount of dissent and protest in non disruptive forms poses no threat to them (Don’t block a motorway and they’ll let you protest as much as you like).

However it does allow the far right to radicalize the geeks. They can be convinced that the SJWs are their enemy rather than the bosses who adopted some SJW points in the name of progress so business can run as usual. Both “sides” are still just an internal contradiction within capitalism.

I think the main issue is that the theorists aren’t ever the ones actually executing the organizational work needed to manage an incredibly complex economic system. Without that experience, they don’t know how to analyze China’s performance. They have theories that they never had to put into practice. It’s very academic.

Fuck your ignorance and wikipedia. You wouldn’t know shit about Tibet or give a fuck.

Bullshit white supremacists dog whistle their asshole attitudes towards colored people by characterizing the “bad” countries as dangerous uncivilized inhumane societies. They always claim it’s only the government being criticized. Doesn’t take much for a racist to slip up and shit on the entire population: the slightest 30 sec tiktok vid will set them off.

Whatever. Enjoy your racist tropes.

What is this lib shit? If they write unironically about organ harvesting, FLG and Tibet in the second paragraph of the intro, they’re a bunch of racist white edgelords.

But I am afraid of the future. I am afraid that if I start dating her now I end up regretting it later in life.

I suggest enjoy the relationship as it is now rather than imagining how it will be in the future. It’s not like you have proposed so it’s way too early to think about your combined incomes and stuff.

Interesting that you picked up the micro tonal aspects of Non-Western music. Another aspect that’s very complex in Indian music is the rhythmic system.

On Chinese music I think you have oversimplified it somewhat. While it often uses the pentatonic scale, you do see 6 and seven note scales. Plus it actually has 5 different pentatonic scales. Similarly to Indian music there’s ornaments in Chinese musical notation to describe microtones and other effects. And another feature is Chinese traditional music is very elastic in the tempo speeding up or slowing to add emotions. A quick overview :https://youtu.be/sJdUugXLfWs?si=-GfHi0F1bn8b6SyC.

Concerning commodifiable modernization of traditional culture:

I don’t think the West has anything quite like the tv show Pili which is based on Chinese hand puppets but with a crap tonne of camerawork and special effects to added. The show has been around for decades. Only thing close is the Thunderbirds which never looked as crazy as this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGLKJ_S-iDU

I get what you’re saying but I don’t see how American mass media being dominant is a good thing.

A lot of it is just pumped out like widgets, created by a few big corporations, because of a modern appetite for shoving stuff in our eyeballs.

It places people into the role of just being passive consumers but they only have a few big fast food chains to pick from. Then it’s like just looking at the menu, seeing if they introduced a twist on their regular offering or a different sauce you can add to the same shit. An illusion of variety. They’ve gotten good at polishing the glass and wiping down the plastic furniture.

Then your life gets divided into portions that suit the mass media: movie duration, hourish long tv show, half hour show, 3 min pop song. These are formats they have worked out for you.

It’s all formulaic. I would hope that other cultures go BACK to before the formulas were so standardized and start developing from there. Change the formats so people aren’t so passive.

China is just copying the formula because the “demand for bland” is so pervasive.

I really hope they look to other countries for better inspiration. India for example has incredible music and movies.

After you buy a train ticket, you push the train the whole way to your destination.

Get on the bicycle and explore.

You can also volunteer at neighborhood community services: e.g. a lot of older people need help with taking care of gardening or other strenuous chores.

I think the youth will take that, grumble about it, dislike it but still be too propagandized and not uncomfortable enough to actually revolt or do anything that threatens the western system or governments.

While I agree with this, the revolt is actually already taking place at the periphery of the US empire. It’s other countries that previously had no choice but to tow the line with US policy. Now they have alternatives. We see the rise of BRICS+ and their influence both politically and economically.

There won’t be a revolution inside the US because there is no political alternatives. The economic side could go to shit and there would still be no actual political change : Maybe the names of the politicians change but the policies are still controlled by corporations and capitalists.

Even if there was a US revolt, there’s no alternative organisation to take control.