“Buyers’ strike,” boycott, or simply unorganized collapse of demand?

Hey sorry for the late response! I’ve liked “1.666666” by Minekawa Takako, “My Star (Star Star mix)” by Sonic Coaster Pop, and “Woman -Wの悲劇より-” by pitcher56. To be honest I still have no idea what shibuya-kei is.

The book I want to read is a personal PDF reformat of a publicly available text document that can only be found on my PC… which is currently not turning on.

Lenin wrote a book about this.

Very interesting, thanks!

Yeah, if it’s all being done in-house by state industry then all else being equal it will be cheaper than a private alternative. But “bringing down costs” and technological innovation are known effects of competition between firms and is a reason why China uses markets and also a reason why Chinese aerospace is in a better long term position than the US’s. For most of NASA’s history, the way it funded the development of launch vehicles was not conducive to bringing down costs whatsoever. The current paradigm is better, although like you suggest it is not the only alternative.

True. Then afterwards some bright activists from both sides can work towards a sort of union of sisterly republics to smooth things over.

Am I the only American who learned about our concentration camps in the Philippines during high school?!

Edit: actually I can’t recall if that was in the lessons or self-taught… My Lai at least was… Damn memory

In 1894, in What the ‘Friends of the People’ Are, Lenin, who had clearly not read Hegel, but only what Marx says about Hegel in the Afterword to the second German edition of Capital, and what Engels says about Hegel in Anti-Dühring and Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, devotes a dozen pages to the difference between Marx’s materialist dialectic and Hegel’s dialectic! These twelve pages are a categorical declaration of anti-Hegelianism.

Source

This is so funny. He was even more of a poster back in the day.

Wasps are a type of bee… truth nuke

Silver lining - the department garnishing the wages might get abolished.

Hi so sorry but can you take me off of this

omg it’s xingtian

Getting into shibuya-kei recently

Too late to easily observe space from Earth, too early to cheaply observe space from orbit.

Ironically, one of the 6G proposals is a megaconstellation of very low earth orbit satellites.

There is no agreed-upon definition of 6G yet, and now we have companies advertising 10G. I’m sorry but it’s giving 5G NR.

Of course resources are a limitation. But instead of investigating a supposed limitation and seeing what can be overcome and what is truly fundamental, you have people either giving up and calling the issue intractable or not putting in the work while expecting it to be resolved. Example: liquid fuels. Inside of America there are two wolves—one correctly notes the high carbon cost of liquid hydrocarbons and the high money cost of synthesizing them and concludes there is no future for liquid fuels, while the other hears “synthetic fuels” and assumes the problem is already solved and so electrification need not be hurried. In reality, the high money cost can be overcome with sufficient buildup of renewables, as is beginning to be seen in China and will become obvious in the 2030s.

You are the one treating spaceflight like a video game here. FTL, stagnancy, and unrealistically efficient rockets are mainstays in that genre. Dialectical materialist analysis of the development of human civilization is not.

You’re speaking without any investigation in the matter. In the 21st century, advanced spaceplanes, electromagnetic rail assisted launches (there was even a post about this here, and it concerned China so everyone was a big fan), and sustainable & advanced energy infrastructure that can synthesize fuels is the future of the launch industry. Eventually, costly and complex infrastructure projects such as skyhooks and launch loops can be employed. The task of humanity is to develop the productive forces that enable such projects, not throw our hands up in the air and pretend we will be stuck with the Saturn V and fossil fuels for all eternity.