KoL_Enjoyer [comrade/them, comrade/them]

That’s the thing, most people don’t want to die

If you ever feel like moving to 3D, there’s a game called From the Depths that scratches a very similar itch. Fair warning though, it is not simple and after spending a long time in the designer, I gave up, because I was simply overwhelmed by all the different systems and mechanics (armor layering, gun/laser/missile/engine/autopilot construction, the actual physics etc. etc.). It’s amazing to see what some players can create and the game gives you tools to build essentially anything you want.

I am definitely interested!

I don’t think it’s precisely what I was looking for, which was more akin to a blogpost in its writing style - more opinionated and less formal. But this seems like a nice source on the subject, thanks for the find!

E: I searched for quite a while, eventually resorted to using Deepseek. It inmediately hallucinated an article in the NYT and then insisted it found a real article in the guardian which I still can’t find, lol - neither of those two sites is the original host of the article, I distinctly remember it being a .pdf somewhere random. But hey, at least it gave me another name - Naomi Oreskes, googling her shows quite a number of articles highlighting how fossil companies have distorted and hampered climate action. So at least that’s cool!

Hey, I know it’s a slim chance, but I remember reading an article/essay like a year ago, about how government investment in fighting climate change, supporting its citizens, etc. etc. is constrained in large part by one single variable in a mathematical model predicting the ‘value’ of a human life in the future. Edit: I at least found the name of the “variable” - it’s called discounting rate, if that helps - it’s the concept of valuing future lives less than our current ones, and I believe the paper was highlighting how that rate was completely arbitrary.

Does anyone here recognize it from this description and could they perhaps even point me in the right direction to find this article again? I believe I found it via hexbear, but forgot to save it (or the post got deleted, dunno)

So I was also intrigued what Volumes 1 and 2 were, and I believe it’s How Paris Made the Revolution and the Revolution Made Paris and The Long Transition(mentioned in one of the replies)

Got it from this page, which also lists the forthcoming books in the series.

Well, I can’t speak to the first part (I’m on the other side of the spectrum), but colds are helped by the lack of a jacket. There is a temperature range in which certain bacteria replicate more actively, and it’s around 30°C. If you wear a jacket, it’s easier for the body to maintain a higher temperature in your mouth/nose and thus slow down the process.

Is the normal Danish beer a no-foam glass?

Well, the natural question is - did anyone archive the video?

HK I can see, Syria as well, Pakistan I mentioned. Georgia I have a vague notion of. Cuba is a timeless classic, Serbia sure, although I think that one was pretty honest.

Russia with Navalny or something? Belarus, Honduras, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Thailand I don’t have any idea of. With regards to Nepal, are you talking about the unrest happening right now? Because I think even hexbear itself isn’t really convinced it’s a colour revolution.

In any case, thanks for the list, I’ll try and inform myself.

Doesn’t seem that bad to me, I would be very surprised if wikipedia listed Ukraine in “US regime change” and other than that, the list isn’t missing anything egregious (maybe Iran, Pakistan?). I don’t have that much knowledge about current events though, what do you have in mind?

Why? Is the current government too sympathetic to Russia, too mask off fascist, or just mishandling the country economically?

Agents are another name for preprogrammed? LLM instances, as far as I know. So the automated AI helpdesk/chatbot that many websites have begun using, for example.

As far as the general gist of their comment, I agree with your parent comment.

I see your point on trying to look into the longer term and see the crisis inherent in the system. I usually end up trying to criticize capitalism as a whole, but since I’m not that well read, it does end up going in circles quite often, you’re right on the money there. In general, I think my views are still quite simplistic and fuzzy, which is why I’m looking to read more history, theory and devote more time to forming a coherent opinion. Thanks for the short writeup, it helps with that.

Thanks for the hakim recommendation, I am not that big into video essays, but I see he even has dedicated “reading list” videos. Cool!

To the second part, you’re right, I mixed up my words. What I meant was the countries of the Warsaw Pact, it’s just that it’s so often portrayed as a group of USSR vassal states. Regarding the statistics, I can see a definite trend within the USSR states and most Warsaw pact countries (thank you for pointing this out), but specifically Czechoslovakia seems to have stabilized in the 80s already and the market reforms seem to have had a smaller effect. Any idea why that is?

Heyo,

I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask (first comment in this negathread, I think, I’m mostly a newshead), but I’ve been getting into more debates about economic systems recently and I often get hit with the argument that “Czechia, Slovakia, Poland are all much better off than during socialism and even if income inequality rose in that time, general wealth levels rose by so much that practically everyone is better off”.

Would anyone have pointers to some books/articles, explaining the processes and events surrounding the fall of communism, with a particular focus on these western parts of the USSR? I’ve read Blackshirts and Reds(referring to the Market Paradise chapters here), unfortunately that book isn’t sourced well and it expects you to already be aligned with its way of thinking. The people I end up arguing with usually hold very opposing opinions.

Well, I’m not aware of the cultural differences in meaning, but the first word is literally “euphoria” transliterated into the Hebrew script. I’m a complete beginner in Hebrew, but the machine translation sounds pretty much on point to me. “The euphoria lived for a short time” or simply “The euphoria was short” is the most literal version possible.