All dissent from the political correct opinion spectrum needs to be squashed. Only way to defeat veganism once and for all!

Well yeah moving channels would be kinda impossible. I imagine while designing the house you’d plan for the electrical wires and 3D print clean channels you can slide wires or flexible piping through. You could also have extra channels near the floor and in the middle and vertical channels.

This would really only be good for lightweight structures that don’t need much load bearing, like tiny houses or RVs or huts or bungalows. Maybe structures on house boats / catamarans.

Instead of renovating, just melt it all down to recycle it and 3D print a new house haha.

Haha, I still not sure what to call them.

1. USAns?
2. USArians?
3. USians?

I think Usans would be the most correct, but they are a people with no name.

No? Sorry rather clueless about the practical aspects of that. But for electrical why is it not viable to just have channels you can push cables through? Do you mean because of corners?

Generally I was only thinking of simpler structures though like tiny houses or 1-2 room bungalows so it shouldn’t be too complex wiring or plumbing.

Just 3D print the channels in.

As a tool to help find patters and collate police reports and notes this could be very useful. We’ve recently seen how the police dropped the investigation of Russel Brand, while a TV documentary found the truth. I’m betting there are tons of cases like this. Software tools (including LLMs) can scan large amounts of text. And there might be lots of cases that will be obvious once you look at all the pieces.

Personally I’m more interested in foam printing, which allows large scale plastic printing of insulated structures. For single story bungalows that should be just fine and transport of the building materials easy. Something like (recycled) PET foam printing should be possible. The printer would be more lightweight than concrete printing too. You could 3D print a clean circumference with PET filament first and then fill in with PET foam. Or you could have tool changing and mill down the irregular foam. And you can recycle the whole 3D print later too.

The nyt article has a good one

Any spices or sauces?

The USA was a rogue terrorist state already for decades in it’s meaning for foreign policy and illegal wars. They did a worse thing than Russia did with Ukraine when they invaded Iraq and Afghanistan with flimsy excuses, except it was not a country on their doorstep but on the other side of the world.

Nobody is “aware” of this. People continue talking about US doing this or helping that as if they were not a rogue state.

So far Trump hasn’t done anything irreversible “rogue state” in regards to international relations. He constantly sprays shit everywhere to get people to loose their minds. Yeah he’s threatening to invade any nation where they could plunder, but he’s only saying the quite part out loud. The US has been doing that for decades.

I also don’t believe (hope) that Trump actually will start a war. It’s not his stage. It’s a long complicated affair where he isn’t in the spotlight and doesn’t get to shine and control the narrative with chaos and then hop onto the next thing the next week. He might bomb this or that as long as it’s quick to do, but he only wants to appear as the big man. Obviously this is just speculation.

If you mean “failed state” or no longer a democracy, I don’t think people think that already. They assume they can vote again for another obama / biden type in 4 years.

There is also a recent academic book (by an Ukrainian academic) about the maidan massacre: The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: The Mass Killing that Changed the World | SpringerLink

Evidence shows beyond a reasonable doubt the far right / oligarchs were behind the mass killing of over 100 people and blame it on the government in a false flag operation. But people in the west will never hear of this. And if they hear they will dismiss it as conspiracy theory or propaganda. So it’s really no wonder people like linus react like this.

I guess any used android smartphone should have plenty of apps. Then you can even have video com

What is “media freeze”?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

The way I would classify it is if you could somehow extract the “creative writing center” from a human brain, you’d have something comparable to to a LLM. But they lack all the other bits, and reason and learning and memory, or badly imitate them.

If you were to combine multiple AI algorithms similar in power to LLM but designed to do math, logic and reason, and then add some kind of memory, you probably get much further towards AGI. I do not believe we’re as far from this as people want to believe, and think that sentience is on a scale.

But it would still not be anchored to reality without some control over a camera and the ability to see and experience reality for itself. Even then it wouldn’t understand empathy as anything but an abstract concept.

My guess is that eventually we’ll create a kind of “AGI compiler” with a prompt to describe what kind of mind you want to create, and the AI compiler generates it. A kind of “nursing AI”. Hopefully it’s not about profit, but a prompt about it learning to be friends with humans and genuinely enjoy their company and love us.

Thanks for the numbers, state owned share is a really good sign.

On the other hand, the primary goal of the state owned enterprise is to provide social value.

Interesting. I guess even if that wasn’t the goal, the money sort of “has to” actually trickle down. Like even if functionaries siphon off some wealth or it’s spend on stupid project, most of it lands in a pot where it can only be used for… investments or useful things. Even if their goals were nationalistic instead of socialistic. It has nowhere else to go and can’t go off to foreign investors or into some tax haven or just be used for speculative financial games. Or use it to undermine democracy by buying news and social media.

I guess the motivation for functionaries is also different. For plutocrats the “game” is to gain ever more capital and beat the competition and reach a high score. And they fear loosing everything. So even if the state capitalist’s goal was to “create profit through appropriation of the value the labor of the workers creates” they ultimately have to do something useful with it then. Of course it would be in their interest to use it to secure the power of their government.

I agree with all of what the article says about building solidarity instead of the unjustified and dangerous demonization of China. But I’m not convinced China can still be classified as socialist. I simply don’t know enough though.

Would this be possible if China were just another capitalist country? If the capitalist class – a relatively small group of people that own and deploy capital – dominated political power, would they really allow resources to be directed so consistently to solving the problems of the working people? If so, why doesn’t this happen all over the world? Why haven’t other capitalist countries achieved similar successes in improving people’s lives?

Not sure that argument proves anything, there are other explanations.

Fundamentally any society can either base their wealth on resource extraction or the work of people. China clearly chose the latter, so it makes sense for a “state capitalist” country to invest in education, healthcare, housing because people are what generate wealth, and this is paid back in the future. China is currently reaping those rewards. More wealth to distribute to those in power as well.

It might simply be that China isn’t capitalist long enough for the capitalist class achieving enough long term political power to cannibalize that wealth and undo those advances like they have done in the west.

China could be at a stage the USA was during it’s golden age in the 1960 with the new deal etc. Maybe in a few decades China will fall victim to the same processes of capitalist corrosion. Maybe it’s just a matter of time.

Right now China has more centralized power structures that can make intelligent and rational decisions - unlike neoliberalism. Nobody is in charge of the US any more it’s all just systems and rules and individuals and institutions that draw policy in short term but insane directions.

Also for example renewables is just a good new market to dominate, as well as reducing dependence on the middle east and indirectly undermining the US stranglehold on that. China can sell energy all by itself without relying on US controlled systems. You don’t have to be an environmentalist to see this as smart business strategy.

I’m certainly rooting for China and hope it becomes more open.

Anyway, very interesting article. I guess I should read the book.

Link to the book on the anarchist library annas-archive.org

Thanks. I imagine most unicode characters and emojis are just copied over from some default font?

Maybe they’ll patch it into a https://www.nerdfonts.com

Can I use a seedbox to host videos for peertube?

But does it have unicode emojis?

😀 😁 😂 😃 😄 😅 😆 😇 😈 🕧 🕯️ 🕰️ 🕳️ 🕴️ 🕵️ 🕶️ 🕷️ 🕸️ 🕹️ 🕺 🖇️ 🖊️ 🖋️ 🖌️ 🖍️ 🖐️ 🖕 🖖 🖤 🖥️ 🖨️ 🖱️ 🖲️ 🖼️ 🗂️ 🗃️ 🗄️ 🗑️ 🗒️ 🗓️ 🗜️ 🗝️ 🗞️ 🗡️ 🗣️ 🗨️ 🗯️ 🗳️ 🗺️ 🗻 🗼 🗽 🗾 🗿

Hmm it specifically seems to be missing emojis