I honestly think he’s like 3 cheeseburgers away from a coronary. Whether that does him in or not remains to be seen, but he’s very visibly unhealthy, and has been looking worse and worse each week. At some point all the medical technology and wealth in the world becomes meaningless. Bodies are complex systems and effects can cascade: a heart attack might be fixable but surgeries to fix it might be fatal, especially to someone as old and unhealthy as he is.

What a difference a day makes

I’m pretty comfortable with that

Ah, that’s why my back has been hurting. Sorry, I’m still relatively new to Marxist philosophies (well, less than 10 years) so it took some time for the burden to get big enough for it to hurt that much.

😂 👆

He’s so progressive!

Damn, does this mean America can’t just keep vibe-coding LLMs?

Thank you for this! It looks like the archive sites are back up and running without using Tor.

Unfortunately I’d be amazed if a Statesian company actually responded to market forces, but indeed hope does spring eternal

Maria Florinda Rios Perez

Ah, that’s why he killed her

Correct, he believes in him making money, not others

Weren’t they giving Elon a huge payment package despite him essentially costing them money at this point?

Fucked if I know 😂 I’m studying it on my own from textbooks and online resources, not in a classroom setting taught by scholars much much smarter than me. I assume the reduced complexity of simplified characters makes it more accessible though, which is why I understand the PRC makes Pinyin required on road signs as well.

I’ve been enjoying studying Mandarin. The tones are a bit weird but the grammar seems surprisingly simple, everything can be written pretty universally in pinyin, and Hanzi characters are great for condensing information.

I didn’t invent clinical depression but my god have I innovated it

That’s a debate since authoritarianism to libertarianism is a spectrum so there is no official “normal” and its generally used qualitatively on individual polices

So, essentially, it’s subjective?

Where the state has extra power that they can use to enforce their goals

Extra power in comparison to what? What is the normal amount of state power?

What makes them authoritarian?

I actually always wondered a bit about the line between fascism and monarchism. To the casual observer they might seem nearly identical, though I wonder if in historical materialist terms it’s a reactionary attempt to backslide to feudalism rather than progress capitalism to socialism.