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I have pondered a visit to Mongolia / Ulaanbaatar. How is it?

I believe the apology is genuine. The timeout was 6 weeks ago and their limbic system has come a long way. They’ve put in the work

Che looking like Gaddhafi

The name Mission Accomplished hasn’t been taken, and it sounds like that movie with Tom Cruise

Sámi discrimination & forced assimilation is a thing though, historically. I agree with pepperoni that in 2026 the more apparent targets are the groups described.

There is a Sámi-language film called Je’vida about the Finnishization of a Sámi family. It is a somewhat mediocre watch, but worth the watch if curious about what that might have looked like

It means he is in liquid form. Which part is unclear?

It’s reminiscent of headlines about Israeli missiles “finding their way into refugee camps” and other such euphemisms

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Good article. I never saw any problem with how Marx reasoned through calculus as it was obviously an informal explanation. Uninitiated and malicious observers who have not otherwise read Marx will miss the dialectical approach he took in understanding the subject.

Qualitative analysis, critique of categories was always the larger concern for Marx. Given stable and correct categories, the quantitative answer is trivial to find (by this I mean not necessarily easy, but following directly from the question). But so shoddy was the theoretical basis in political economy that he had to theorize extensively to correct it.

Modern capitalism is heavily focused on transforming human knowledge into objective forms (source code, physical machinery, design schematics, etc). Once objectified, it can be alienated from workers and owned by the capitalists, in order to secure ever more control. At that point it is to the advantage of capital to make the workforce as uneducated as possible; the perfect worker is one who knows only how to push a button and how to consume products.

“Another consequence of the use of machinery was that it entirely changed the relations of the capital of the country. Formerly there were wealthy employers of labour, and poor labourers who worked with their own tools. They were to a certain extent free agents, who had it in their power effectually to resist their employers. For the modern factory operative, for the women and children, such freedom does not exist, they are slaves of capital.

“There was a constant cry for some invention that might render the capitalist independent of the working man; the spinning machine and power-loom has rendered him independent, it has transferred the motive power of production into his hands. By this the power of the capitalist has been immensely increased.” - speech by Marx

AI is for patriots who distrust opaque, centralized institutions with questionable interests

This title is giving “Jurisprudence fetishist gets off on technicality”

Trump $20.28

The magnitude of it is on a different level since 2020. Dialectics quantitative change producing qualitative change yada yada

There have always been people on laptops in cafes but WFH introduced a new and mainstream reason to do it on a large scale. Combined with economic challenges in the coffee industry, it’s a no brainer to rebrand as a workspace instead of a specialty coffee shop

This might be somewhat region dependent. In many cities, if you go in any coffee shop on a weekday, it will have 100% of seats occupied by people on Zoom calls

Since the pandemic started, Starbucks and other shops with cozy seating + WiFi have become essentially “work from home” quasi-third-spaces. I haven’t been everywhere but I noticed it was extreme when I passed through Texas and throughout the Midwest. I am pretty sure it’s an everywhere (in America) thing, plus the rising cost of coffee, and inflation in general

Faced with this, these cafes have two choices. One is to double down on laptop-free rules, either permanent or on weekends only. This can piss off customers and lose business. The other option is to double down on being an office space with a coffee bar. Starbucks and others have been moving this latter direction for years now. Drive-thru was always a ripoff, but now it is truly beyond the pale to order from these places if you aren’t planning to spend a few hours using the amenities.

These days Starbucks has a lot of different drinks and even regional variation, so it’s not that true anymore that they only sell this one kind of dark roast. But it’s still very overpriced

Between this and the from a while back, I’m pretty sure dolphins are communist

On the question of federation, I would guess that is already settled one way or another re: email providers

But I think comment history is totally outside of this discussion because it’s all publicly scrapable info, not private data like account details