boboblaw

Good for what?

We're a non-sectarian leftist shitposting instance, steeped in seven layers of irony.

Meaning we're Xi's paid propagandists for the CPC and the inner circle of Putin's cult of personality.

Around these parts, when you see the word "materialism", it's being used in the philosophical sense, rather than the common usage.

Materialism is a set of related theories which hold that all entities and processes are composed of – or are reducible to – matter, material forces or physical processes. All events and facts are explainable, actually or in principle, in terms of body, material objects or dynamic material changes or movements. In general, the metaphysical theory of materialism entails the denial of the reality of spiritual beings, consciousness and mental or psychic states or processes, as ontologically distinct from, or independent of, material changes or processes.

Taken from the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/materialism/v-1

Had to look it up too. Looks like it's some LessWrong nonsense, and he calls himself an "effective accelerationist".

Jesus, I know what you mean. I've been on this site from the beginning, off and on, but sometimes it's hard to tell what's sarcasm, or if it's a bit. For example:

Definitely a bit: /u/NeeraTanden

Still can't tell if it's a bit: /u/LiberalSocialist

smh at the products of the American school system

you're replying to someone who said landlords are unnecessary middlemen in the construction of housing. your mocking analogy is "people buying things with credit cards". do you not see how funny a self-own that is?

the landlords are the credit cards in your analogy. people bought things before credit cards existed. people built housing before landlords existed. landlords are as necessary to the building of housing as credit cards are to the buying of toilet paper.

tho I wouldn't be surprised if you thought Buttcoin was necessary for cleaning your shitty ass.

I'm curious if they had the same response at the height of COVID, when governments made local libraries distribution sites for test kits.

"It shouldn't fall to librarians to shoulder the risk of interacting with people who are likely infectious with a potentially deadly disease, and anyway they're not trained for that. We should instead have one nurse at the City Hall distributing the test kits."

If that wasn't their take, then it might appear to be a double standard. Almost as if they're concerned for the lives of some people, but not others.

This is racist and incorrect; Montenegrins have proven adept at filling in coal mines at least.

I meant the coal to use as fuel. I'd read that the industrial revolution happened where and when it did because of easy access to coal, and that coal wasn't heavily used in Europe for like a millennium after the fall of the Roman Empire.

I meant more access to large quantities of coal. I guess that would be easiest in the Roman Empire, but then you'd be giving the Roman Empire trains and that might just prolong it's collapse.

Edit: New idea! Teach Carthage how to build trains instead!

Dang, good answer. I'd never heard that about sauerkraut.

provided access to necessary materials

That's going to really limit the kind of places you could do it.