Imo it’s probably not a good idea for another single entity to hold a copy of IA’s corpus. IA already operates on a shoestring but it still is expensive and labor intensive to operate, which requires an endowment or constant source of funding, both of which come with political entanglements. I just don’t think one org can be indefinite custodians of something so valuable.

A distributed technical solution may eventually be developed which enabled regular people to participate in storing and maintaining the corpus. I think IPFS was supposed to be this kind of solution but seems like the tech isn’t capable or mature enough (Anna’s archive abandoned IPFS for technical reasons and that’s a far smaller corpus). BTW IA has engagement with the dweb community and are interested in finding distributed solutions for storage of IA’s corpus.

This is good advice. I had an implant post hole screwed into my jaw a few months ago. During the initial consultation I honestly explained I get anxious and asked about what kind of drugs I could get. The dentist was literally like “oh we usually prescribe what I like to call ‘happy pills’” which turned out to be some kind of benzos. I also asked for nitrous. It was a total non-event, I don’t remember it at all, and experienced no pain (that I can remember). Also the initial local anesthetic shot you get in the gums is about 50x worse mentally than physically. It hurts way less than when e.g., you bite down hard on a sideways tortilla chip fragment and it gets jammed up into your gums.

So just be honest, ask for meds, and be proud that you’re taking care of your health and your anxiety.

Pepe reposted an article to his tgram channel with some comments:

That article’s analysis is that the British elite hate Russia because the Putin government displaced Rothchild-aligned Jewish oligarchs who took control of post-soviet Russia, and that “the Rothchilds are as British as 5 o’clock tea”. Laughable tripe if you ask me. So in addition to being sensational, he seems to also some combination of an uncritical dupe, an actual moron, or a reactionary.

Edit: link: https://www.unz.com/ishamir/why-do-brits-hate-russians/

Also I don’t mean to say pepe should be dismissed out of hand. He travels a lot and seems to talk to lots of ppl and so surfaces interesting stuff from time to time.

Woooord

Bald eagles are cool but have you ever heard what they sound like? Shame that they’re claimed by burger land as official bird tho.

I’m not sure if this answer provides a root explanation for the question, but in a competitive (but not prestigious) undergrad business program the answer provides is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money

Interest paid is offered as compensation for the opportunity cost the lender experiences by lending rather than immediately spending. I still don’t see why this implies compound interest, except that vaguely the opportunity cost increases faster than the passage of time.

The Will to Change by bell hooks. I’m bringing it to a book club.

I think a key attribute of this article that makes it notable is that its author is Jeff Sachs. On paper he has the maximum degree of normie credibility–his only disqualification these days is mounting arguments that counter the bourgeois narratives, which is only a disqualifier to the naive. As I read this I realized there are no reasons that have been articulated as to why covid couldn’t have originated in and/or escaped from a lab funded by the U.S.

• The U.S. gives no shits about treaties banning research of this type
• It’s absolutely not beyond the U.S. to invest in R&D into biological weapons
• It’s absolutely not beyond the U.S. to lie about something like this
• There’s no reason to believe the MSM wouldn’t play ball with a coverup given the coverage of other aspects of covid

I wonder if the CPC is sitting on any info regarding this topic…

Not OP, but I think the BRICS+ are seeing continued development of productive forces (e.g. BRI; financing via the BRICS new development bank for industrial development [and not predatory credit issued for the purposes of lowering prices of export commodities thus stifling development]), while the G7 is unable to break free from neoliberal post-industrial services which have very limited real economic benefit, and in the case of Germany and presumably other west European countries, actively deinduatrializing.

I can’t point to exact sources but this is Michael Hudson’s bread and butter.

Is this actually true of the typical imperial core person? I legitimately do not know. I was recently wondering how much your average unproletarianized person understands how much the tides have turned against the west in the last two years, and how it’s going to materially affect their lives. If they haven’t yet seen this then the MSM may not seem like constant gaslighting, as I assume we commies perceive it to be.

I’m a millennial and don’t have a good read on the mindset of younger folks.

Shitty clone job bc Blinken is far stupider than Kissinger was. Kissinger was a realist who negotiated with u.s. adversaries when it ultimately suited long term political goals, whereas Tony blinken is an idealogue and an idealist and therefore does not see and cannot effectively respond to the massive geopolitical changes the last 30 years have seen. You better believe that Genocide Joe claiming that burgerland is the “indispensable nation” has at least something to do with this dullard. Honestly, critical support to our boy Tony for being such a failure, resulting in a significant dimuntion of u.s. imperial capabilities.

Obviously rest in pissinger, just saying he wasn’t an idiot like blinken.

Good to know, I’ve thought about asking for a year of premium for my bday!

Hello Chinese is a freemium app I’ve used extensively. I’m supposedly up to hsk1 and I’ve enjoyed it a lot and have learned a lot. It will still take me a long time, but I feel like it’s given me a foothold in pronunciation, vocab, hanzi, and that Im way more curious and excited to learn more. Would recommend.

Also pleco for an extensive dictionary/hanzi reference.

crosspost this to upliftingnews

Couldn’t have said it better. GZ and Norton serve different purposes to me.

Hell, the Duran ppl, who iirc are paleocons, have extremely useful analysis in certain areas. I think they’re very mistaken in other areas.

At some point recently I freed myself from ideological bloc discipline as it relates to media sources and just started sampling broadly and making up my own mind according to my values. It’s liberating.

probably the original article: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-admits-x-twitter-may-fail-predictions-2023-8?op=1

archive link is producing a captcha loop for me

A+ meme, and also I’m in fact looking for sincere ideas/resources for how to be a parent trying to raise little comrades. Anybody got anything that comes to mind?

dang that’s a lot of living for 48 hours

This is cool. I also read China is coming up with interesting designs for winter greenhouses which maintain above freezing temps using only solar radiation and in some pretty far northern latitudes https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/chinese-greenhouses-for-winter-gardening-zm0z17amzmul/

I have friends who work in Fintech, at least one of whom considers themselves socialist. It’s been hard for me to reserve judgement of them considering a choice to work in a sector which I view to be on par with CIA etc in terms of producing bad social outcomes, with the presumption that they also understand the role of finance in capitalism.

Comrade, I come only with curiosity, no judgement, and honestly, I ask the following question only to better understand some people I know IRL; Would you be willing to describe your ideological relationship to your industry and your job? How do you reconcile the contradiction of directly developing the economic base of capitalism while presumably being a communist?

Thank you, and I understand if you choose not to respond.