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Cake day: September 14th, 2023

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  • This is some really idealistic brain worms with no analysis of the current system…

    “AI”, as much as I personally dislike the term, is already here. You can’t go back after you already have it. The only thing you can change right now is what to use it for. And if you make an argument akin to “if only all people collectively decided not to use this power-hungry tech and save the planet” - that’s not how our society works.

    Sure, we’d like to not roast the entire planet with this techbro, stolen data Silicon Valley bullshit, but that’s well beyond our control.






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    5 months ago

    A couple more things about “bad” Soviet apartments:

    • Small patch of land to grow flowers (or potatoes, whichever your babushka prefers)
    • Probably close to a school, a grocery store or some sort of public transport
    • Walls made of real cement and not flammable cardboard
    • Were built to last 50 years, some still going strong after 70 years (at least in my city)

    Yes, there were queues, and you could be waiting for years to get an apartment, I would still prefer the Soviet approach 100 times over.




  • But a nation is loved not for its political system

    Should Germans have loved Nazi Germany because it was “their nation”, in spite of its political system? How about the Italians or the Japanese? Or any European nation participating in WW1? Is loving the US (or any other imperialist nation) not reactionary? Patriotism cannot and should not be detached from class reality and from material analysis. Otherwise it becomes nothing but a tool to lead the masses towards their slaughter in the name of Capital, instead of a tool for liberation.

    PS IMHO anyone unironically referencing Solzhenitsyn as “credible source” should be immediately dismissed.