They did it cause Americans told them to, I don’t think it’s any more complicated than that. There was no plan, there never is.

Nobody is expecting anything magical here. What’s being said is that they were clearly barking up the wrong tree. Having the full depths of the analysis that Marx brought to bear was obviously not a prerequisite for realizing that it’s who owns the technology that’s the actual problem rather than the technology itself.

I see we’re doing the great man theory here now on lemmygrad…

Their methods failed to effect structural change, and their whole movement was ultimately swept away.

My impression is that a lot of people realize this tech will be used against them under capitalism, and they feel threatened by it. The real problem isn’t with the tech itself, but with capitalist relations, and that’s where people should direct their energy.

the situation is fundamentally different in China https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/the-ghost-in-the-machine

The point is that even though the concerns the luddites had were correct, their methods were not. Hence why they failed. Now, people are trying to do the same things that we know don’t work.

At least China is now cutting the US off from rare earths, which will have a big impact on military production. The US also can’t produce TNT anymore, and neither can most western countries. So, there might actually be physical limits to the amount of aggression the empire is capable of inflicting on the world.

bailing out the rich of course

On top of that, turns that practically nobody produces TNT in the west, and China just cut off supplies.

weird that

apparently :)

Oh haha, I haven’t looked at the reports, that’s kind of funny. I know lemmy.world banned me personally instance wide though.

I expect most of the content is organic just because Lemmy is too small of a community for astroturfers to bother with seriously. After the original reddit exodus happened, world ended up becoming the mainstream lib instance, and hence why it looks like a circlejerk of mainstream liberal media. I imagine it’s just people just have a routine going through news at the same time every day, I kind of do that myself as well to be honest. It doesn’t necessarily men there’s anything malicious happening.

lol it’s not a growing economy

lol yeah highly doubtful

Incidentally, Russia is isolated in the same way there’s a global shortage of TNT right now :)

I like to try to write articles about current events where I interpret them through the lens of a theory I’m currently reading. For example, I was recently reading Thinking in Systems, which provides a useful framework for thinking about dynamic systems. It describes systems as stocks with inflows and outflows, and shows how you can end up with complex systems by combining these building blocks. It also discusses how you can create different sorts of reinforcement or self-balancing loops based on how the flows are adjusted.

One key element that controls flows within economic systems is the timing of information. Delays and distortions experienced by the decision-maker controlling the flows can lead to oscillations. For example, a company might order too much of a product, then overcorrect by ordering too little, leading to increasingly large swings in inventory.

So, I started writing an article discussing how China’s implementation of a digital yuan and digital tracking of commodities can be viewed through this lens. Traditionally, supply chains have been opaque. You might order goods from a manufacturer but have no visibility into their status, tying up large volumes of capital while the goods are being processed. With the real-time tracking systems China is implementing, this problem largely goes away. There’s increased transparency in the process, and payments can be tied directly to each stage of the supply chain, reducing the need for operating capital.

I find trying to apply what I’m learning to some real world context is really helpful for actually developing intuition regarding the idea you’re trying to learn.

oh yeah fixed

Muay Thai is a practical system, and will build on your existing boxing experience. That said though, I find that the quality of the instruction tends to be more important than the system itself. It’s also worth noting that training for sport and self defense will have different focus as well, so you want to find a club that’s more oriented on the practical side of things. Regular sparring is particularly important in my opinion, because that’s how you start developing intuition for timing and distance, as well as getting used to being hit.