Spell this out. If you're comparing misery to misery - parroting word-for-word a certain shitstain in chief - what is the threshold of deaths at which...
https://youtu.be/OLfHpvJKNg0 If you don't watch this and you still think you can discuss CV, you disqualify yourself from discussing CV. Basically on ...
This won't happen. Not because China doesn't have 'nationalist' currents, but because putting China first means precisely expanding China's reach over...
What? Who sold you this rubbish and why do you think this is true? H1N1 ('swine flu') was North and Central American. Zika was Brazillian. Ebola was N...
Anyone seen Joe Biden around? "For almost a whole week, as the crisis has exponentially worsened by day, Biden seemed to have vanished off the face of...
Banks, governments, corporations, investors, individuals - part of the problem is that everyone owes each other and uses debt to pay for debt and beca...
COVID and the looming debt crisis: "According to the Institute of International Finance, total debt reached $253 trillion in late 2019, or the equival...
As long as capitalism exists, this will never happen. It's been a race to the bottom to secure the cheapest labour and manufacturing costs, and the wo...
Right now I think one of the things that can be done is to consistently hammer home some of the obvious points that the pandemic have brought about; o...
I haven't spoken to so many strangers as I have in recent days, spontaneously, while going about things. Although that will probably change as we've j...
I am pretty pessimistic about it all. The worst possible thing will probably happen: things will go back to being just as they were before, after some...
If you felt safe and at peace the first time, there's good reason to think you will feel the same if you commit yourself again. Do such institutions d...
I fully look forward to indulging, with full measure of schadenfreude, liberals and democrats asking with incredulity 'But how could this have happene...
People around me express a keen interest in philosophy all the time, and in my experience the hunger for it is not matched by appropriate resources th...
Why Mars? Nah, just cancel all debt, cancel all mortgages, communalize the means of production, appropriate the rich, destroy capitalism, and we're al...
Sorry, I should have realized I needed to translate my quote into dumb. Thing move, I move, must make it so that one thing move in certain way in rela...
Nothing. Share buybacks are a thing. That all said, depending on one's area of jurisdiction, there can be and are certain rules regarding the transpar...
No, but it doesn't particularly matter. This isn't some grand conspiracy. Economic conditions are shit right now, which means alot of people will be l...
There are buyers. The price of a stock indicates the last price at which a stock was traded at (the last time a buyer and seller 'agreed' on a price)....
From Andy Clark's Being There: "Consider the act of running to catch a ball. This is a skill which cricketers and baseball players routinely exhibit. ...
What matters is the price that they are being bought and sold at. People are still buying, but they are buying at lower and lower prices. Reciprocally...
The more that news that comes out about shutdowns in the wake of CV, the more I keep thinking back to this passage penned by the anarchist outfit le C...
A good philosophy acts as a force multiplier to thought; it forges connections between the disparate, as elaboration on world and word. A good philoso...
Man I was hoping the toilet paper thing sparked a bidet renaissance; ever since I went to Japan I've been hoping that bidets become a standard thing e...
I think part of the confusion here stems from working with an inadequate vocabulary ('change' is possibly even worse than 'flux' insofar as change imp...
Huh? That systems are maintained by energetic difference is not some kind of stipulative rule: systems not maintained because they require difference ...
https://climateandcapitalism.com/2020/03/11/capitalist-agriculture-and-covid-19-a-deadly-combination/ An excellent read placing the COVID outbreak wit...
It's a question here of how to interpret the standing of such laws. There are two ways to do this: one, by understanding the law as a pure prohibition...
No, no. It's not about the 'individual molecules'. Individual molecules are not 'change' (what would that even mean?) It's about the relations between...
I didn't say this: I said they were indifferent to global structure, which they are. Swat a soap bubble and you get a cascading wave of local bond-bre...
Don't think this is necessary. One of my favourite examples is the soap bubble: why does it have the form it does? Because the sphere is the shape tha...
Yes! Even im the mundane sense of say, seeing an illusion in the desert (mirages), those illusions are always real: other people can see them, they're...
Team flux here. Constancy is just ordered flux, the invariant in variation. I'll only add: both are perfectly real, only that the one furnishes the su...
Which reminds me - NYC schools are reluctant to close over COVID concerns because they double as shelter fro 100k+ homeless children. https://www.comm...
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