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Ok yea I would watch that too

Death’s End by Liu Cixin

Chipotle isn’t calling it automation however…>

Next paragraph:

Autocado, made by food industry automation company Vebu in partnership with Chipotle>

Nice backpedalling.

I think the benefits of going high speed rail now would outweigh the negatives of upgrading at a later point.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Stopping the people trying to prevent the biosphere from collapsing, now that’s radical.

Well said and yea if you find a “unbiased source” for news, you’ve only fallen for their bias.

Be critical even of what interests you, and read things you don’t like as well.

I have a few since I’m a historian:

The revolutions of 1848 Europe, particularly Berlin or Paris. The atmosphere in that year was confusing, conflicting, and explosive. People wanted generally better lives, and put their own on the line to see it happen in numbers that shock us today.

The fall of the T’ang dynasty and the early Song dynasty. I’d love to see if the Naito Hypothesis holds up as a viewer of that time and space.

The Atlantic Revolutions between 1770s to 1800. So American, Haitian, French, etc. The birth of nationhood (in Europe), a new consciousness found its footing, and what it meant to have liberty, to be human, and to be unfree were changing.

And Japan in the 1930’s. How fascism developed in the country. It’s a question that’s big in Japanese history, and not so clear today.

Cruise ships AND cars are bad.

Just want to drop this here because of how ridiculous these entertainment cartels can be:

https://www.pcgamesn.com/eu-commission-piracy-report

Piracy aides in creating sales.

Up to 3% more for movies in theaters: https://hbr.org/2020/10/the-digital-piracy-dilemma

I found my path after university. I worked in the library bc it was a great and easy gig since I liked books, but took a year after to figure out if it was right for me. Now I’m going on to be a librarian!

Almost every comment I’ve seen sees the future as hopeless and I’m going to largely chalk that up to the postmodernism/realism consciousness in our society at this time period.

I think the future will be a utopia, and there isn’t a long term (I mean centuries or millenia long developments) reason to think otherwise. The idea of utopia has pushed civilization to confront power structures and create new ones, to rethink what was impossible, too difficult to accomplish, etc. The many rights, freedoms, and ideas that many around the world take for granted today began as people envisioning a utopia and trying to make it happen. These ideas can’t be done away with as Alexis De Tocqueville saw.

Right now there are problems for sure, and I personally think liberty and egality are only a parody of utopia at this point, but that’ll change over a long time.

Human civilization is only 6000 years old! We’re still working with the brain of primitive humans, and we aren’t even toddlers yet in the grand lifespan of Earth. I think people tend to forget that sometimes.

We’ll get to a better place, and our consciousness is always changing to confront the problems we face today (biosphere collapse, resource hoarding, infighting, etc).

Democracy took centuries to develop coherently, and even then it failed MANY times at first. But look at it now.

I heard the view is out of this world!

Anyone read Ministry For the Future?

I’m not really sure what you’re trying to say, are the democrats not friendly with ANY big businesses? Is the extreme right wing of US conservatives not motivated by money (Donald Trump is often thought of as a successful venture capitalist, the amount of money funneled out during his presidency, etc…)?

Russia is one of the most inequal countries in the world in terms of wealth distribution, and for decades now oligarchs in Russia have gone hand in hand with the state in eroding any form of democracy and exploiting what freedom those citizens do have.

So, can you really say democracy can exist with money?

Redhat: Yes, but also we are liars.

Conservatism Capitalism has always been an ideology that’s opposed to progress, democracy and freedom.

There you go, I fixed that for you.

All political entities serve the needs of capital first and foremost in a capitalist system, people are only a secondary…if that.

He’s completely right, except that tech giants include reddit itself…

Personal data is ours alone. If someone wants to sell it then so be it, but we own it not anyone else.

Well at least one of those pillars (World Bank) are directly incorporated into the United States’ policy of neoliberal economic hegemony, and the rest of the world gets exacerbated inequality because of it. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/21/biden-climate-change-world-bank-malpass-00083538

And the IMF is at least not directly attached to that policy.

Is it really a free world if these institutions just serve the interests of those on top?