alistoriv

So... they support anabolic processes. Shall we avoid eating and drinking too?

You're right. Reading this text without having heard it, it reads like a speech. The only thing that gives it the poetry sheen is the same tired slam poetry delivery that you can't escape now.

That is irrelevant. Pointing out that unions have effected negative changes or engaged in discrimination internally in the past is not an argument against the idea that they're necessary to force positive change.

"such as those in most of England and Wales"

Aren't Welsh dialects generally rhotic?

"The term 'glen,' a Gaelic word that means 'narrow valley,' is not specifically included in that protection."

Well, the Scottish Gaelic word is actually gleann, and glen in Manx (a Gaelic language) actually means clean. Glen is an English borrowing of a generally Celtic word (compare Welsh glyn and Cornish glynn; both Brythonic languages, not Gaelic). In fact, the only modern Celtic language where the word is spelled glen is Breton, which is spoken in France.

The Idiot is one of my favorite books of all time. Reading it in high school was definitely a formative experience. It was my first introduction to many existential concepts; particularly the parts about the painting by Hans Holbein the Younger.

Happy to see a Welsh translation, but I'm interested where the word for hovercraft came from. The hofren part comes from hofran (which is just a borrowing of hover), but what about fad?

It's a bit silly to say that people only started moving on to new chords /after/ Wagner.

Not to downplay the influence that the classical music tradition has had on popular music, I think it's incorrect to say that rock and pop are direct descendants of classical music. Rock music, for example, is very clearly directly descended from folk music traditions.

That's a shame, I thought Pyongyang Time was kinda neat. It's a callback to historical Korean timezones

Yeah, almost two decades after the famine. And were the Gang of Four not imprisoned political opposition?

Your comment reminds me of the famous Mao quote "No investigation, no right to speak."

In addition, the best healthcare system in the world, according the WHO, is in Cuba, where it certainly isn't run on a for-profit basis. Moving medicine away from the private sector allows for a stronger focus on preventative care, which is significantly less profitable.

I think that worrying about removing the profit motive entirely misses that fact that not only is the profit motive not the only motive for doing things, but oftentimes not even the determinate factor.

I'm not sure I see how that means they're selfish.

Real news takes a back seat more often than not. In the past 8 months(?) MSNBC didn't mention the war in Yemen once. The silence on the issue was only broken when Bernie Sanders brought it up in an interview that was intended to just be more of the same Trump & Russia coverage.

Given the fact that Google apparently stores the pictures you've taken with your phone (at least on Android?) and Snapchat saves all of the pictures you've sent with it for an unknown amount of time, wouldn't that reasonably mean that both companies are storing child pornography on their servers? Snapchat in particular.

This article is kind of silly. It has a short description of an attack that has been attributed to North Korea, but there are serious doubts about whether they actually had any part in it and then includes a very vague description of a possible cyber attack. The title is attention-grabbing, but their only support for it is North Korea getting angry about something that is decidedly /not/ negotiations (sanctions).

Seems like someone just took the opportunity to fear-monger, which really isn't what we need.

And if a hypothetical commune became dominant and an existential threat to the existence of a hypothetical libertarian society? The Communist Party of the Philippines operates as a parallel government in many respects, do you think that should be allowed? The Zapatistas?

It's misleading to say that it would be a-ok to start a socialist society in a libertarian society. It (like many aspects of libertarian analysis, in my opinion) ignores the reality of a political situation like the one described.

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I don't think I quite get your point, are you implying that destroying an unjust society is equivalent to the injustice of the society?

I'm not convinced you actually understood my comment. I'm not saying that processing and distribution in the context of capitalism and imperialism are qualitatively different from processing and distribution in pre-capitalist society (although I'd say they are at least quantitatively different, and it would be an interesting discussion to have); I'm saying that it's possible the author intended to say that spices were the first to be subjected to these processes in the context of capitalism and imperialism, rather than the fairly ridiculous claim that spices were the first foods to be subject to the processes of production and distribution as implied by the original wording.

What, do capitalism and imperialism not exist? I think that the issue here is one of poor wording; spices weren't the first foods to be subjected to the processes of production and distribution, they were they first to be subjected to these processes in the context of capitalism and imperialism.

What a useless article; the author makes it clear that they were never intending to properly entertain the ideas that are put forward by the referenced authors and just go for quick "look how silly these people are" jabs.

I was surprised when I got to the end, because I'd expected them to do a little bit more than poorly summarize another article and make fun of Rousseau.

This is the first I'm seeing it and I really dig the design, I just wish the paragraphs were a little more narrow.

It's worth noting that Chile under Allende was working on implementing a computer-based planning system[1], but unfortunately we don't know how it might have worked out cause of the US-backed military coup shortly after :^(

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

The issue is that unilateral US military intervention hasn't solved similar situations in the past.

My grandmother always used to make applesauce with Winesaps. There's a little orchard around here that always kept a couple trees for her and they're still there. Every season we go and get some to make applesauce out of em. Always better than store-bought, plus I can't for the life of me find a store-bought chunky applesauce that doesn't have sweeteners and all that in it.

The right to food and shelter. It really is ridiculous that we don't guarantee access to basic human needs.

On a similar note, if you're interested in the sort of things the Renaissance Humanists were preserving the Ritman Library[0] has quite a collection that it's in the process of making available online.

[0] http://www.ritmanlibrary.com/

This article, as many others have pointed out, is pretty misleading. If you want to read about a company that functions mostly as a traditional business with no CEO, look into the Mondragon Corporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

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