They never say: “If you don’t like how the resistance operates, why don’t you join it and try to change it from the inside?”

Moths, they’re cool and cute.

Thanks for sharing. It’s not bad, except for the lack of class analysis. Assuming the Democrats are principled and will always be opposed to fascism, is sadly wrong. They are exactly like those conservatives who always prefer fascism to socialism.

Bombs are insanely powerful too and yet useless as an energy source. What matters is cost in cent per kWh. Fusion showes every sign of becoming very very expensive, even in the best case scenarios.

Laser based fusion for example literally uses gold coated diamond pellets, hundreds of which have to be shot into the reaction chamber per second to even break even energyweise in theory. At that point, no energy is produced at all and costs per kWh are still infinit. And the lenses get destroyed so fast you constantly have to exchange them.

Meanwhile both renewables and energy storage technologies continue to get cheaper and cheaper. Fusion faces barriers in engineering, fundamental physics and even in mathematics (modeling plasma is critical). Some of which might be insurmountable in principle. But in the end the one barrier that matters is the economic one. And no one even has a plan on how to tackle it expect for shoveling an insane amount of tax money into the fire indefinitely.

In Germany, funding for research is being cut alot. The solar cut happened a long time ago and fifty thousand jobs where lost at the time. Last year, they basically cancelled almost all battery research (needed for electric cars and stuff). Now, many more important stuff is being defunded. Except for fusion. Fusion is receiving a big boost in funding. Everyone and their dog are doing fusion research now

I think, that’s not despite the famous “fusion constant” (fusion being always “only” thirty years away), but because of it. Unlike solar or batteries or anything else that actually works, fusion does not threaten to disrupt the oligopolies of the power companies, or the car companies or anyone else’s. It enables a wealth transfer (accumulation through dispossession) to companies involved in the research, without contributing to the crisis of overaccumulation, because no use value exists, so no value ever needs to be realized. It’s like building a pyramid in the desert.

I think it’s more about fighting imperialism were you actually can fight it, you know, in your own country. Everything else is performative at best and often just support for the empire to protect ones own privilege.

I found this on wikipedia:

Irène “was accidentally exposed to polonium when a sealed capsule of the element exploded on her laboratory bench in 1946”. That was from her own work. She lived another ten years, then died from leukemia.

Ève lived to be 102 years old and died in her sleep in 2007.

Both actively supported peace and were anti fascists. Irène was a socialist, visited Moscow, befriended Soviet scientists and supported the Republic in the Spanish civil war.

Yes. The contradictions of capitalism are only getting worse. Workers, care givers, nature, social institutions, racialized people and countries, all can only be exploited and expropriated so much. But capitalism demands more and more. So it will continue getting worse until successful revolutions. But you don’t have to feel detached about it. You can try to understand it, tell others about it, look around for awesome people struggling against it, maybe even find ways to help them. I started reading Nancy Fraser’s new book “Cannibal Capitalism” it’s short, tries to be accessible and it explains how all those areas of struggle I mentioned above are connected.

Everything is political.

This is probably a stupid question, but if your browser accepts cookies, wouldn’t they simply track you through those regardless of account or VPN? Same with app data.

In the Red autumn,

brittle leafs fall. Just like the

shareholder value.

Hate it when I accidentally drive over a lagrange point on my bicycle and the resulting tire wear leads me straight into a wormhole.

What are signs of ‘species domestication’?

Saved! I’ll show this to people, if it ever comes up.

Or imagine it the other way around: The heat death has long started and we live in it. Who knows what kind of civilizations existed in the first quark gluon plasma 10^-12 to 10^-5 seconds after the big bang? They would have been tiny, fast and highly energetic. There are many orders of magnitude in size more between us and the plank length then between us and the observable universe. There’s lots of room down there. To them, we would seem like sluggish giants living off of tiny sparks within the faded light their long dead world set free when the universe became transparent 18,000 years after the big bang.

Life could also just slow down a lot, use less energy. It would feel the same. Billions of years go by in a flash on the far end of the bell curve. But no problem, there always more time.

I’ve never even been to the US and agree with what you say. But travel dosn’t necessarily make you have good takes. Tourism is often very destructive and ignorant.

Also, among people from outside the imperial core, who travel a lot, there is a different bias: they are more likely to be comprador capitalists, because you need money to travel. For example in Egypt, I’ve only met people critical of the military. Outside Egypt, I’ve only met Egyptians who support it and whose families have high status because of positions in the military. Or take Cuban or Venezuelan exiles, who hate their home countries socialist politics. I’m also not sure, if the trend to move to Dubai to work a high profile job for one or two years in a totally artificial setting broadens anyone’s cultural horizon.

In Germany, libs don’t support Palestine.

Classes are defined by their relations to the means of production and by contradictions in how society reproduces itself which lead to periodic crisis. Class societies require very complex structures to uphold hegemony of the ruling classes and manage all the crisis and move them in time and space towards other societies or to future generations. Which leads to constant war, environmental destruction, etc and is unsustainable in the long term. Like capitalism needs to expand all the time, which is just impossible on a finite planet and structurally needs to produce devisive ideologies like racism and patriarchy to survive.

A classless society, once achieved, doesn’t need all this. Getting there requires a lot of struggle because the ruling class has set up all those structures to protect their privilege. But once we’re there, society will actually be way more stable than before. No classes means that structures to uphold hegemony aren’t necessary any more. That includes the state, which is really just a weapon in class warfare. Racism and patriarchy aren’t human nature. They are constantly fabricated and upheld with huge efforts by the ruling class. Those efforts would be free to build other structures instead. Once that actual connect people instead of driving them against each other. No inherent periodic crisis means those don’t have to be managed anymore and society can actually continue to develop sustainably without exploiting to exhaustion natural resources, human minds and bodies, communities and societal bonds and care structures like families.

It’s hard for us to imagine, because we’re so used to thinking inside class societies. It even forms our anthropology, how we think of other people and our ability to emphasize with them. But future people who live it will have a hard time imagining how it could ever have been different.

Pavlov sits at the bar with some friends enjoying drinks as someone walks in and the door bell rings. He suddenly gets up. “What’s up? Are you leaving?” One of his friends asks. “I got to go,” he replies, “I need to feed my dogs.”