rhubarb [he/him]

Going to hyper jail because I was unable to resist doing a bit

You yanks might not know it but if you have a foreskin you have to do this weekly

I’m a little ashamed to admit how much Northernilon’s real-life yassification after he got into exercise biking has motivated me to get back into shape

In this current crisis, what society really needs is another novel political identity, which is why I am proud to announce that you can now read all about Transhumanist Firetruck Socialism on my substack

The first one has a negligible 1.9 % more alcohol (assuming I typo’d nothing)

In Marxist dialectics, it is important to tolerate a sort of fuzzy middle ground between opposites (in this case the proletariat and the middle class). Here, the extreme ends of stock/home ownership land people solidly in either class, it would be ridiculous to claim that owning any stock at all makes you middle class, or that someone making most of their money from stocks is proletarian, but the middle is more unclear.

For most purposes an exact line does not need to be drawn because the object of study is not an individual, and doing that would introduce a seed of idealism. Around what part of the spectrum our vague idea of a line is located depends on our reason for doing the analysis.

For example, if we look at the evolution of American ideology, it would be fair to claim that owning significant assets makes people more receptive to middle-class and bourgeois ideas, and owning more probably makes you more receptive. Here it would likely be useful to call people owning significant assets middle class. On the other hand, if a party has a quota of a proportion of members who must be proletarian, it does not make sense to reject people based on the value of their home, so the same people who might have earlier been middle class are now, for this different purpose, considered proletarian.

First of all, historically the middle classes referred to the bourgeoisie who were in the middle compared to the landed aristocracy. Nowadays it means the petite bourgeoisie, e.g. small business owners, learned professionals, middle managers, who are in the middle compared to the bourgeoisie.

The idea that “the middle class doesn’t exist” is, as far as I know, a misunderstanding of Marxist class analysis. Marxist class analysis isn’t really about defining a label for each individual, and classes are often reabstracted, re-split from society, differently depending on the specific goal of the analysis. It is correct to say that “modern society consists of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat (no middle class)” when it is appropriate for understanding some phenomenon, but incorrect to claim someone’s analysis is wrong because they used the concept of the middle class, or any class for that matter.

I work at a Sun Company help desk, and every day some genius calls in to complain that they have paid their Sun bill but aren’t getting any sunshine, and I have to troubleshoot their problem with my little script even though they all have the exact same problem, there are clouds in the way. Motherfucker what do you expect me to do about it, call the fucking Cloud Company.

The first Chinese restaurants opened during the California gold rush, 90 years before that quote was written

Pretty much all popular writing about AI power usage is dogshit. Half of it confuses Watts and Watt-hours, meaning no qualified person actually critically examined the claims. Water usage is compared to “swimming pools”(no mention of what size) and electricity use is compared to old corded phones, which could mean extreme incompetence, but more likely they are being intentionally misleading.

I bet Biden really regrets not getting around to curing cancer like he promised

Most scientists agree that tornadoes are air spinning real fast

It’s a lot funnier that they tried to make the AI spread disinformation about white genocide but fucked it up, I don’t get how people are missing that

The foam stuff kind of works, the sprays do absolutely nothing

You could probably get away with a painted bagel

smh at the rebels for not working with the faction in the senate that is rhetorically 20 % less for the genocide of the Space French while still materially supporting it

Coincidentally, they are the exact same as Pokemon types

I’m going with 50 % chance the guy wrote it himself, 10 % chance he found another dork in the wild, 40 % chance there is a little bit of spit/piss in that cup

All liberation movements should simply focus group test their actions to maximize the thing that matters most in the end, American public opinion