The only thing I respect about the current Austrian society is that they fully eliminated royalty and nobility and made the titles illegal.

Germans, Dutch, British, et al prance around acting like they’re democracies when they’re feudal holdover states. They’re not even liberal democracies imho. South America and parts of Africa are much more advanced in that regard, without even mentioning proletarian democracies.

After giving lessons on socialism, China decided to teach IMF a class on capitalism as well.

IMF revises China’s two-year economic growth upwards, cites strong GDP

This is basically tautological.

America’s still got it. I might not be getting much bread, but the circuses are top-notch.

would still get restricted because they’re contentious. Like if you start talking about how you believe in equal rights, that’s something most people agree with (at least in principle,) and it shouldn’t be political. But it’s going to ruffle some feathers anyways (especially if you get any more specific than that,) so it’d be restricted.

If this is the best example you can come up with, it is fairly unconvincing that any mainstream political will be restricted.

GDP per capita is the only metric that matters. There’s absoutely no problem with it whatsoever.

This is the best America has ever been.

My standards are getting lower every year.

I’ll settle for regular rail and decriminalizing homelessness at this point.

I once saw a survey done in Seattle asking people whether they would prefer to eat feces raw or deep-fried. Based on the result of that survey, I have concluded that people in Seattle like deep-fried feces and are actively choosing to eat it.

In Arizona of all places. Americans are waking up more and more.

lemmygrad is not 100% ML but leans that way heavily

lemmygrad is not 100% ML

I’m devastated. I need to talk to the manager of grad right now!

*cheapest and the best

That is an interesting question. It is taken as an axiom so I never even questioned it until now.

Since money-lending is a practice with long history, I wonder if interest always was compound or if it was linear before a certain period of time.

Fast-travel

For those who don’t speak Andrew Tate, he means “apex predator”

Bong Joon-ho said it best. We live in one country called capitalism.

Nah you’re good. CPUSA members get a pass.

Actually no. I’ve had the thought to make this post for weeks but I was too lazy to actually do it until now.

Also, people are still waiting on me to bring over Chinese image macros for like 5 months but I swear I’ll do it next week.

Very good passage and it’s relevant in the modern world again. Arguably even more so than it was during Marx’s time in some respects.

Essentially the goal is this: to use a giant electromagnetic launch track to accelerate a hypersonic aircraft to Mach 1.6. The aircraft would then separate from the track, ignite its engine and enter near space at seven times the speed of sound.

Does no one read the article anymore before commenting? I’m not responding to all the comments here since it’s clearly a waste of my time, but every single one of the concerns that people mention in this thread so far has been acknowledged in the article already.

Works for me