starkillerfish [she/her]

yeah i kind of oversimplified the story. the finance sector used its leverage at the time to force governments to pay out their debts. of course a more pro-worker government could choose not to do that, but in a bourgeois dictatorship the state and banks work in tandem more or less.

yeah its basically that. in brief: government intervenes in the economy to do welfare and to take an economy out of a crisis (which Keynes considers to be both periods of high unemployment but also when GDP growth is too high). it was the dominant form of economic theory in the west until stagflation (which is when unemployment and recession are so bad that even the government cant fix it with keynesian mechanisms) and oil crises hit in the 1970s-80s, so governments had to sell national monopolies and defund all their social programs to stay afloat, which is where neoliberalism comes from.

yes

Reminder to back up tg surgery info

thinking that people are stupid and uninteresting is a very dumb teenager take, so consider how much perspective you have actually gained

sure, but i wouldnt call that a long history

long history of animosity? seriously?

Yes

I think its also liberals, but scratched.

too bad citations needed is not on it

rare earth mining

Idk about sustainability. It still requires massive computing infrastructure, which for now requires unsustainable ways of sourcing metals

yeah i guess because its subtropic its kind of shifted, tho in a weirder way than i thought. thank you for the on the ground account

LA is in the subtropics latitude, which means that the 4 seasons don’t exist. Instead there is the wet season (spring, summer) and the dry season (autumn, winter). So because we are coming to the mid-ending of the dry season, that’s when most of the wildfires hit, as the soil is at its driest.

for single random events that is true, but you cant consistently get patterns of random events. you cant infinitely flip a coin and get a tail every time.

i feel like whats missing in this discussion is the effect of quantum mechanics on consciousness. there is some research that shows that randomness introduced by quantum particles can affect synapses, and theoretically consciousness. and I think that even on infinite scales you can’t really get the same exact quantum patterns, they will never repeat, or else it wouldn’t really be random.