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@blueplanetslittlehelper @laufi @felippo

This is exactly how rare earth metals are mined for manufacturing of wind turbines and photovoltaic panels. This is Mountain Pass rare earth metals mine in the US that has been leaking radioactive waste for decades.

@vfrmedia

My teenager sources said the story was a former girlfriend of the victim asked her friends to "teach him a lesson" for whatever but the lesson has gone wrong as she only (!) asked to stab him in his hand rather than slaughter him to death.

@g

100% agreed, we see these protests with non-economic trigger all the time. We saw that in Ukraine, USA, Russia, Poland, Middle East, Hong Kong etc.

@kingu_platypus_gidora

https://forum.cxem.net/index.php?/profile/129188-metalcrash/&do=content&type=forums_topic_post&change_section=1

@blueplanetslittlehelper @laufi

@felippo

Regarding the "100 good reasons" sorry but this is anti-scientific propaganda of the worst kind, not different from what anti-vaxxers, anti-5G and anti-GMO invent.

Some arguments (mining, evictions, dependency) apply even more to wind and solar.

Some are simply false (no radiation protection for workers, no protection from plane crash, increased cancer risk).

Some are complete nonsense ("fracking-type uranium mining")

@blueplanetslittlehelper @laufi @felippo

Regarding #nuclear power costs on the example of Hinkley Point C

https://medium.com/generation-atomic/the-hinkley-point-c-case-is-nuclear-energy-expensive-f89b1aa05c27

I've been using GEForce Now for a few weeks now and quite impressed - the idea is simple: just run GPU-intensive games on remote servers with RDP-like control protocol and it works.

@dump_stack

Nice, been using LKRG on all my servers for a year or so!

@amici

By "these tools" I meant diamat and histmat which Marx introduced basically because he wanted to obtain specific conclusions that "bourgeois science" wasn't able to deliver.

The statement about inability to objectively describe reality referred to 20th century postmodernists, I similarity in motives and mpde of operation of both Marx and postmodernists.

Now we got climate deniers, anti-GMO and anti-vaxxers who resort to the same techniques for the same reasons.

@amici

If you read my initial comment, you will see that I did not say "Marx claimed reality can't be objectively described". I wrote Marx forged the tools that later opened the doors to the hell of postmodernist denial of science.

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@kmic Teraz powinienem dostać szczepionkę poza kolejnością! 😂

🇵🇱 Autorzy podkastu Rozmowa Kontrolowana w ostatni weekend postanowili przesłuchać mnie na okoliczność FidoNet, IPSec.pl i innych projektów, o których już prawie zapomniałem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7yD0GhIWVI

@dump_stack

As an nomadic type without formal education I'm quite cautious about being enthusiastic about various formal immigration systems 😉

@amici

Another in-depth analysis of scientific character of Marxist economy can be found in "The logic of the planned economy" by Pawel H. Dembinski (1991) which I'm unfortunately unable to find anywhere in electronic version and I have a paper copy.

@amici

For detailed discussion of the scientific character of Marxism I recommend Kołakowski volume III chapter IV, which can be found in an old edition here https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzacebo552r2kndqxzvf2byvpag4dz2z3eb2dylr5ziqj2hnbptqciwhu?filename=Leszek%20Ko%C5%82akowski%20-%20Main%20Currents%20of%20Marxism_%20Its%20Origin%2C%20Growth%2C%20and%20Dissolution_%20Volume%203%2C%20The%20Breakdown.%203%20%281978%29.pdf

@amici At the same time Marx's "laws of dialectical materialism" were mostly banal or vague or, as pointed out by Kołakowski, simply nonsense. Laws such as "everything in the world changes and is connected" are so vague that they cannot be either proven or disproven, yet for half century they were referred with quasi-religious care in serious policy and philosophical treaties. This annoyed Popper so much that the came up with the initial ideas on what we can actually call science.

@amici Marxist materialism didn't make it immune to bias. Quite the opposite. Marx believed very strongly (as most narcissist people do) that he discovered unique and absolute laws of history and economy. When observation didn't match the "laws", instead of modifying them he adapted his "analytical apparatus" to bend the reality around the laws, and then argued the "bourgeois science" is wrong, thus undermining the very basic assumptions behind scientific approach.