Collatz_problem [comrade/them]

Starobelsk is in Luhansk oblast, which Ukraine considers “temporarily occupied territory”, but you’ll be hard pressed to find any lib, who’ll say anything about “killing their own people”.

Everything is made from rubber and plastic now. Bread? Plastic. Meat? Rubber. Vegetables? Plastic. Milk? Rubber. Chewing gum looks like rubber, but is actually plastic.

To him, therefore, every luxury of the worker seems to be reprehensible, and everything that goes beyond the most abstract need – be it in the realm of passive enjoyment, or a manifestation of activity – seems to him a luxury. Political economy, this science of wealth, is therefore simultaneously the science of renunciation, of want, of saving and it actually reaches the point where it spares man the need of either fresh air or physical exercise. This science of marvelous industry is simultaneously the science of asceticism, and its true ideal is the ascetic but extortionate miser and the ascetic but productive slave. Its moral ideal is the worker who takes part of his wages to the savings-bank, and it has even found ready-made a servile art which embodies this pet idea: it has been presented, bathed in sentimentality, on the stage. Thus political economy – despite its worldly and voluptuous appearance – is a true moral science, the most moral of all the sciences. Self-renunciation, the renunciation of life and of all human needs, is its principal thesis. The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theater, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being. Everything which the political economist takes from you in life and in humanity, he replaces for you in money and in wealth; and all the things which you cannot do, your money can do. It can eat and, drink, go to the dance hall and the theater; it can travel, it can appropriate art, learning, the treasures of the past, political power – all this it can appropriate for you – it can buy all this: it is true endowment. Yet being all this, it wants to do nothing but create itself, buy itself; for everything else is after all its servant, and when I have the master I have the servant and do not need his servant. All passions and all activity must therefore be submerged in avarice

— Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

I know, who are those people (but I have never seen any real evidence that Timoshenko or Poroshenko are really Jewish, and I think it is an attempt to deflect real discussion of their policies into antisemitic conspiracies). My point is that all of those people should be shot not because of their ethnic background (real or imagined), but because they are self-serving exploiters. You can also look at people like Pinchuk (Ukrainian) or Akhmetov (Tatar), and they are just as shitty. You can’t fix Ukrainian problems by trying to get ethnically pure exploiter class. The exploiter class is itself a problem.

Let’s not pretend that ethnic Russians and Ukrainians in both Ukraine and Russia are somehow less corrupt.

Russia can fit inside itself multiple times if rotated incorrectly

Only if we assume the axiom of choice and the method is non-constructive.

If Mexico’s stats are much closer to the rest of Central America, then it makes much more sense to count it with them, so the outlier of North America is better seen.

Adding Mexico would skew the data, probably.

Doesn’t matter if it is incorrect if it is always incorrect in the same way.

I wouldn’t be so paranoid if they weren’t spying on me.

The only thing that makes it look light is the sun.

Whatever in creation exists without my footage exists without my consent.

I don’t think India should be here, it generally has an independent policy.

Canada encourages amateur astronomy: google starlight tours!

In WW1 pretty much everyone was bad guys.

I wish all American aircraft a lot of “Attention! Thermal signature detected!”.

EU is unable to beat the shit out of countries that insist on using other currencies.

They can turn it back on. Or they can apply some rubber-hose cryptanalysis.

Yes, as long as Windows will keep getting worse.

Do a coin toss to choose.