This is why Home Assistant will keep winning. I don’t even have the time or energy to engage with smart home shit but have the itch to run Home Assistant. With esp modules you can build your own smart home bullshit and add it to home assistant pretty easily. That, though, would require futurist treatlerites to have a single molecule of desire to make something instead of simply consuming. So its never going to have mass appeal.

Oh I know, but he has a whole video on the subject. It’s going to give you whiplash because of how grounded and well sourced his other videos are.

I agree. That’s why I don’t think to hard about it. But it’s subtle if your just watching his videos over speakers like I am and it felt very wired to go back to videos I had watched and realize there was this whispering prayer behind them all when I first realized it was there. I’m not being snarky. I mean it literally, don’t think to hard about this weird aspect of this dude, because the analysis is good. I do think people should be aware though.

We are all biased right? Part of being a socialist is understanding that fact and also owning it. Most socialist media online is up front about their socialist bias. This channel is open about it’s bias, it’s not hidden, but it isn’t front and center either. It would be just as strange if behind these videos he was reading Capital in a whispered voice with almost no mention of Marx anywhere else in the videos.

It did feel a bit deceptive when I became aware of this Christian element of the channel. However, over time it became clear this dude makes informative content, and he’s clearly not trying to convert anyone with his content. So that bias is harmless so long as it’s not impacting his analysis.

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Sorry to do that to you, but consider this: you’re now equipped to handle the conversation when I comes up. Imagine you send this to your lib friend who always has their earbuds in and they hear the prayer loud and clear and ask you about it and you have no idea. At least now you can be ready for it.

Yes. It’s a prayer that plays through the whole video in every video. You hear it best at the end of the videos with headphones on. It’s a little surreal when you first hear it. His analysis is still good regardless. Though he does believe that its the Chinese Christians that are driving China’s rise, and not, maybe, their proletarian dictatorship and the states deep involvement in managing the economy or their 5 year plans.

I know, listen I’ll take this pro China Christian over the Christian fascists in America.

Yeah I like his stuff too. Just don’t think to hard about the prayer stuff or his ideas about Chinese Christians. It put me off for a bit, but his analysis is just too good.

https://reddit.com/r/DiscoElysium/comments/1m0l3tt/understanding_this_game_better_as_a_nonpolitical/

a prolonged crisis in the property market … Also on Tuesday, official figures showed a drop in China’s new home prices in June, falling at the fastest monthly pace in eight months. The data suggests the country’s real estate industry is continuing to struggle despite several rounds of measures to support property prices.

New homes are cheaper? Aw fuck, we’re all going to die! Lower house prices are good for buyers and shouldn’t be an issue so long as you’re not speculating on housing.

A Snap Button Repair Kit: You repair snap buttons with it… But also, you can add snap buttons where none were before. I’ve used it to upgrade a weak ass snap button on a pair of pants to a heavy duity snap button designed for camping equipment.

If you have any electric yard tools, I highly recommend getting a compatible inverter for your batteries.

Lots of brand-lock-in with battery designs, sadly, so look for one that’s compatible with your brand. Greenworks is compatible with a handful of other house brands because they’re manufactured by the same parent companies and use 1995-era brand-lock-in technology, aka, plastic rails that only line up with your brand’s battery. I have Kobalt electric yard tools and some Green Works electric yard tools. I simply used a dremal to slice the rail out of the inside of the inverter, and now I can use either battery brand inside it without issue.

I use that inverter all the time. I use it when I hang outside to keep my phone charged. I’ve used it to power the TV during a power outage. I use it out on the deck to power speakers. The batteries last a long ass time. Just be careful with what you plug into them, they tend to get hot under load.

Off brand Jamie Lee Curtis.

What is this witchcraft?

If dragoons had good pathfinding they would be the most op unit in the game. 90% of starcrafts balance is the fact that most units path like shit.

Look up the Firefox plugin “down them all”. Then load this page: https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/index.htm#ebooksinenglish

You can use down them all to mass download all files linked in a page and use the meta data of the site to build a output path that should organize them all.

Yep, S&R is a fantastic read for how succinct it is. One thing I see people sometimes neglecting is the concept of a “stateless” society in the Marxist conception having “foremen and accountants,” but recognizing that once all property has been sublimated, there is no class distinction, and the oppressive aspects of societal formations lack that backing.

Yeah, it’s something that is difficult to conceptualize, but I understand the logic. As everyone participates in the maintenance of society, given enough time, there will be no distinction between “the state” and everything else. There does seem to be one glaring issue in this logic, however, which is that a state doesn’t exist in isolation from other states. Maybe this is dealt with in “Imperialism,” but the defense of the proletarian state seems to demand the strengthening and hardening of the state, as opposed to the withering away. Capitalist encirclement drove USSR’s heavy industry, its foreign policy, its internal policy regarding dissidents, and so on. Stalin naturally had a much clearer idea of this influence, as he ultimately experienced the most of it throughout his life. I’ll have to give his theory of “Socialism in One Country” a read at some point. It feels like this influence is glossed over by Marx and Lenin. Maybe I need more reading, but it would seem that the “withering away” can only truly be achieved through global proletarian dictatorship. Maybe that’s how Lenin and Marx felt at the time they wrote their texts, that global proletarian revolution was just around the corner.

S&R really makes me want to find some readings on what the Soviet Union’s actual political systems were like over the decades. What things were like right after the revolution, and how did those systems evolve? I’d love to read about the political organizations inside of places like Cuba, and China, and learn how those evolved as well. All the Marxist-Leninist countries must have had their own struggles that shaped their internal political structures and processes, and I’d be curious to see how much they’re the same and how much they differ.

What is to be Done? is definitely a product of its time with how it names certain groups and issues, but the core is relevant to this day. Just keep that in mind!

Yeah, this is what I hear about the book. I wonder if an edit or reorganization of the text would be more beneficial to our time. I felt the same way about all the discussion about various Social Democrats in S&R, it felt like I was missing a lot of context from the time period to really grasp what Lenin was disproving or proving. What I did gather, though, which is easy enough to parse through the text, is that the opportunists, as he called them, were simply coopting Maxian language and ideas for the preservation of capitalism.

Also, if you haven’t read Imperialism, it’s easily my favorite work of Lenin’s.

I’ve got imperialism on my list. I think I’m going to save it for last. After I read What Is to Be Done, I’m going to move to Left-Wing Communism and then to Imperialism.

Thanks! I’ll have to add Marx Madness to my podcast list.

I have big hands and a pixel 4 and it fucking sucks. I should probably switch to single hand mode. It will probably be better for me in the long run.

I felt this way today, didn’t get the chance to sit in s quite space until everyone was sleeping. It’s just nice to experience the stillness. I love the night. I think if I could, I’d stay up till 3am just to sit in that stillness for longer. It’s like by brain craves it.