I’d recommend the book Engineers of Jihad. It’s precisely the people who wish to change the world and then are denied by external forces (largely the U.S. in this case) that are primed for radicalization.
Also iirc, Bashar al-Assad’s father was the one who actually developed the tactic/justification but I’m having trouble finding a source, it’s early.
God forbid … It’s not like they’re advocating for NATO invading China. Having criticism/doubts of AES does not undermine them, they’re not that fragile.
Or when they finally split the gender atom. Radioactive gender everywhere.
Well take a gander at his twitter but lets say he’s a fellow traveler of LaRouche. More importantly for this though, degrowth is a bit of a bugbear for him. He complains about it constantly so I wouldn’t believe he’s being honest about his criticism of Saito.
Leftists and bad slogans, name a better duo. The non primitivist degrowth people are generally pretty alright but those who take it literally are … scary. Obviously capitalist growth will have to cease, but society needs to be fundamentally reorganized which is going to take a lot of ‘growth’ in the productive forces. Because people conflate capitalist growth with technological development the arguments for degrowth sound asinine and they dismiss them out of hand.
However I just realized the article is cowritten by Leigh Phillips. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Jacobin would still publish something of his now but its disappointing nonetheless.
Oh yeah that’s the fun of dealing with a hypercomplex system. It should help with rewilding efforts but those won’t show results for awhile, assuming they’re followed through on.
To temper the bleakness a bit, it also means that with the right interventions it would be possible to have similarly drastic positive results.
The eccentricity of Earth’s orbit is pretty inconsequential. It’s something like a 3% difference between the furthest and closest points, the changes in tilt relative to the sun or the kind of surface exposed to the sun make basically all of the difference.
The sun only heats the top layers of the ocean, like a couple hundred feet iirc, and unevenly at that. It would take a very very long time for all the water in the ocean to reach a true equilibrium (if the sun turned off tomorrow) but it doesn’t get to because of the day/night cycle, the seasons, wind and the Earth’s actual rotation etc. So that produces recurring ocean currents, which are chaotic in nature, thus leading to the ocean temperature to vary (drastically at times).
This newest warming though I think is largely an unintended consequence of the new bunker fuel regulations in 2020 that drastically reduced the amount of Sulfur in it. The sulfur dioxide produced from all those container ships actually has a cooling effect so really the planet was ‘already’ this warm, we were just countering it somewhat. It also is what is mainly responsible for acid rain so we can’t just pump a bunch of it into the atmosphere.
Having read the article now, its just a run of the mill fearmongering piece for more funding. I don’t think we should take them as true believers, obviously some are dumb enough to be but this article in particular doesn’t seem to be doing that.
Why are they (or we) pretending that nukes don’t exist? There is no direct traditional conflict that will happen, it’ll either be proxy wars or nukes.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them thought it was less gay to top a dude than get toped by a woman, cis or trans. They really are returning to (Roman) tradition lol
Oh sorry, to clarify: The 5m one in the article is almost certainly Long March 10. They seem to have decided to make the first stage reusable, contrary to previous statements. It’s not clear if that means just the boosters or the boosters and the core but I would guess all three like falcon heavy does. It’s also, at least for now, the rocket they plan on sending people to the moon with before 2030 with an Apollo-style lander.
The smaller 4 meter one seems to be for a commercial rocket.
Long March 9 last I saw was still not planned to be reusable until the 2040’s but if this recent space push actually turns into a race I’m sure they’ll accelerate that.
I really love this trend of incels/redditors making anything to do with women gay. Like literal is it gay to fuck your wife kind of moments, it’s just so funny.
Also the guy saying to him that being the victim is female coded is the funniest shit I’ve read in awhile.
Long March 10 (the 5m one in the article) isn’t a Starship/Super Heavy competitor, it’s a Falcon Heavy competitor. I.e. it’s only barely considered a super-heavy and depending on the reuse penalties, it might only be one if it’s launched as expendable. I’m guessing most of the specs on Wikipedia are very out of date so it’s hard to tell exactly.
They’ll probably go through the same process of getting the core and boosters reusable but not bothering with the second stage and just push Long March 9 development instead. Obviously they have to walk before they can run but at this rate they’re still about ~8-10 years behind.
But it was clear by then that it wasn’t going to overtake the US economically like was feared earlier. If it was clearly seen that the USSR was beating the US economically it would give lie to the whole system.
This isn’t going to happen with China, unless their economy fundamentally changes.
The biggest problem with all the various techno-neofeudalism theses is they treat the internet like its a free gift of nature and not as the extremely expensive and energy intensive infrastructure that it is. Aside from the historical illiteracy of course.
Also I haven’t seen a version that deals with food production. You can’t eat data. And can we please stop paying attention to these (literal) losers, Varoufakis, Corbin, Sanders, etc. they’re only useful to know what not to do.
Edit: After skimming the article … he clearly does not keep up with tech at all. The ‘cloud’ is dying and has been for awhile. Companies are increasingly self-hosting instead of using cloud platforms because surprise surprise, the ‘cloud’ is owned by capitalists who have to keep extracting more and more profit and since their market share isn’t going up anymore they have to squeeze it out in other ways, increased ads, slower speeds or just raising rates, etc.
Not just nationalism but also our naivete to how states act, regardless of whether they are ‘socialist’ or not. So many of the USSR’s decisions prioritized the immediate interests/survival of the state at the expense of revolutions abroad and eventually those betrayals left it without the external support to survive the West’s onslaught.
It became obvious that the ‘recovery’ wasn’t gonna happen. Also it was the start of the 2016 election drama.
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Again, none of this disagrees with what I wrote. You aren’t going to see any breakthroughs soon, either from NASA or SpaceX.
I mean … you’re disagreeing with what you wrote so I don’t know what to tell you.
To begrudgingly defend SpaceX here, if Starship actually works as advertised it actually is a game changer. Their intended launch cadence makes things like Skyhooks a realistic consideration which in turn would make Sci-Fi levels of interplanetary activity possible. Even the semi-reusable Falcon 9 has made a big difference in the launch market, for better or worse, Starlink and the other satellite constellations would not have been anywhere near the realm of profitability without it.
Solid rockets cannot be throttled, and if it explodes, there’s no way to abort the crew safely.
For the Shuttle yeah but Orion has launch abort capability. I agree they shouldn’t be used on principle but SLS is a jobs program that happens to build rockets, not the other way around.
I know you’re just making a comparison but if you actually paid off the national debt you would destroy the dollar.
Which you actually don’t want to do unless there’s a viable alternative, which there isn’t atm.
Really their wealth should be appropriated to build sustainable infrastructure across the globe so we can survive the catastrophe they’ve created without mass death (or minimize it as much as possible). But if you have the political will to do that then you might as well just push the communism button.