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  • The problem pretty consistently is they have simple solutions to complex problems and refuse to use nuance in anything.

    They’ve reduced the problem space to one they can comprehend, have come to a conclusion about it, and now refuse to ever bend or change opinion.

    If your regime is vocally on their side they’ll defend it unironically and ardently. If your regime has ever shown any pushback you’re a Western pig with shitballs.

    It’s a very comforting worldview honestly. Having come from a radical religious upbringing I know how nice it is to just take a razor and slice the world in 2. Good guys on one side, bad guys on the other and never the twain shall meet. Bad people are eternally bad and the only way for them to not be bad is for them to look, talk and act like us because we’re good.

    The problem of course is that it is exceptionally rare that you find someone who believes what they’re doing is wrong and continually fights for it because they enjoy being wrong. Everyone lands on continuous spectrums of belief and action and they’re usually doing what they think is right/good.

    To be clear: I’m not saying I understand the entire problem space. I’ve read Marx and Gramsci. I’m not uninformed: I just know that the complexity of human systems are nigh on incomprehensible when attempting to solve them in their entirety. I don’t think the problem of government and economic organization is solvable so much as it is something we can do better than we currently do. It will never be perfect, but we can aim for good enough.

    For what it’s worth I’m definitely in the big government camp rather than the anarchism camp: and yes I’m aware which community this is. Just calling out my own biases here.









  • Light is also not “stuff” - it’s electromagnetic radiation. It’s by the unprivileged intertial frame of reference that we define the speed of light. Light’s speed is the speed at which it travels unimpeded through the spacetime “field”. Additionally light does not accelerate or change speed in any way while traveling in that frame.

    Unless you’re asking if light travels through things that are not the field known as the spacetime continuum in which case yes: light travels (and changes speed) through all sorts of materials. Like glass.



  • Hell yeah

    It does seem like the harder part of the negotiation (automation) will happen in January.

    It’s a shame that the labor union is opposed to Automation but in a capitalist system any loss of a job threatens loss of life: there is strong incentive from unions to oppose automation for that reason.

    Automation should be the joy of the worker but without ownership of the means it becomes the worker’s doom.





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    Every single word in the original post clarifies more than plain English. It is more specific and has better nuance than a plain translation.

    That doesn’t make it a useful explanation because the audience of the statement is not the in-group using the jargon.

    One part of my daily job is translating “technical” into “manager”. The translation always loses fidelity to the original. Jargon exists because it’s useful, not because there’s a deliberate attempt to keep others out. Some will then use it as a shibboleth but that does not mean it’s original purpose was such.

    For what it’s worth: that’s true of all translations. I’ve done real time translation from Italian into English and it’s always missing the nuance of the original. I’ve read the divine comedy in English and Italian and the English is always missing the context and nuance.

    Language is an abstract representation of concepts and never maps faithfully.