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.

Consistency of an axiomatic system that contains arithmetic can be proven in this system if and only if it is inconsistent.

Americans are not flirting with Nazism. They dated it, married it and had many children with it.

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.

For first several months the war was extremely unpopular, but sanctions and discrimination against Russians did orders of magnitude more to make people think of the West as the enemy than the dumb state propaganda.

Unhinged bullshit like this did more to make people support Putin than any propaganda he could spit.

Crassus would be proud.

“We care about your privacy. We absolutely hate it, but it counts as caring, doesn’t it?”

I was born.

Okay, now I’m wondering, can we actually check if servers run on this published code or modified version?

Wasn’t Signal revealed to have NSA backdoor or I am confusing it with something else?

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’.

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself sad. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov fucked him over personally with his socio-economic theory. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

I had to stare at the window for an hour afterwards.