same, it’s pretty obvious they’ve been cooking numbers even during Biden time, and it’s only got worse since

The problem isn’t with education, it’s with the conflation of identifying problems and fashioning solutions. You don’t need education to understand the problems you personally experience, you need it to actually come up with workable solutions. Not only that, but nobody can possibly be an expert in every field. You need experts in each particular domain to come up with viable ways to address the problems, and political commitment to actually seeing them through to the end.

The whole discussion of democracy is meaningless when the means of production are privately owned, because this arrangement takes away from public debate the key question of who governs our common economic life and to what ends?

Genuine democracy must include the power to shape the material conditions of our existence. The nature of labour, the distribution of its fruits, and the purpose for which we can produce are fundamental decisions we make as a society. When these are decided by a capitalist class alone with the absolute authority of private property, then political democracy becomes merely an ornamental competition on secondary issues. Citizens vote to choose politicians, but not regarding the structure of industry or finance, or the necessity for maximum profit which places all social and ecological considerations in a subordinate position. This creates an inherent contradiction where citizens are called equals politically, yet remain subordinates economically.

Any system where there is a private dictatorship over industry is not democracy but a carefully staged charade which legitimises the rule of money through the hollow ritual of elections.

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lol seriously

which exposes the whole thing as a farce

welcome to late stage capitalism where everything is financialized

I do indeed hate living under capitalism

It almost certainly is, and you can’t paper over that indefinitely.

ha

we can only hope

I mean you can believe whatever you like. I’m obviously not going to convince you of anything here. We’ll just have to wait and see who’s right.

A few more

• The US withdraws from NATO causing it to fall apart
• The US annexes Greenland
• The US invades Venezuela
• A country exits the EU
• A major financial crash in the west
• Israel and the US attack Iran
• Far right parties form governments in major European countries
• Organized resistance of the AFU collapses
• Ukraine goes bankrupt due to insufficient funding from the west
• There’s a major break up between the US and Europe

Hopefully this stuff pans out. I’d love see it happen.

This is existing high performance hardware that you can buy. I’d love for there to be something equivalent built using RISCV, but there’s not.

I haven’t actually tried that. I got it running on my M1, but only used it with the laptop screen.

My view is that all corps are slimy, some are just more blatant about it than others. I do agree that Apple stuff tends to be overpriced, and I’ve love to see somebody else offer a similar architecture using RISCV that would target Linux. I’m kind of hoping some Chinese vendors will start doing that at some point. What Apple did with their architecture is pretty clever, but it’s not magic and now that we know how and why it works, seems like it would make sense for somebody else to do something similar.

The big roadblock in the west is the fact that Windows has a huge market share, and the market for Linux users is just too small for a hardware vendor to target without having Windows support. But in China, there’s an active push to get off US tech stack, and that means Windows doesn’t have the same relevance there.

Exactly, and there is already some work happening in that regard. This project is focusing on making a high performance RISCV architecture https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan