Notices by GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai), page 2

@kyonshi @servelan

No rational woman would interpret it anything less than a direct threat to be raped.

It is being shouted by every right wing chud in existence

“ The idea is that, as capitalism advances and spreads, the relative prices of owned commodities reflect the power structure of society. When we study differential prices such as those of Amazon’s stock relative to Apple’s, we are implicitly studying the relative power of the owners of these two companies.”

Potent and heady stuff. Its companion article on CPI is equally sharp criticism.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2019/04/29/real-gdp-the-flawed-metric-at-the-heart-of-macroeconomics/#fix_2019

@blair_fix

Back in Reagan's Star Wars days, a physicist pointed out that space was the worst place to put a defense system.

All that was needed to deal with a mesh of satellites was well-placed payloads of sand in the right orbit(s).

I think it would be funny to spread the rumor that Starlink satellites are equipped surveillance and space lasers that can take out anyone in the world.

💩 #shitpost

#askfedi #macOS

I'm looking at the macOS update (most recent one) and absolutely nothing in it interests me. The update is clogging up about 10 gig storage.

I usually hold off a month or two from any OS update just to avoid the regular fire drill of bugs.

My question would be is how much of this AI bullshit can be turned off. If it can't, is there anyway to purge the update off my storage.

@rbreich

With all due respect, we won’t have to vote anymore. That was a promise from Trump, backed by the wealthiest economic strata of the US.

The GOP is an avatar of US plutocracy. Billionaires are taking up some of the most prominent positions in the next administration.

I would say that the transition to totalitarian rule by wealth is complete.

@kaffando @rbreich

I’m torn about that even that. I don’t expect they’ll be able to hold the US together as an entity and I don’t think they really care.

These are a bunch of libertarians running around screaming smash the state. The semantic content of that screaming is they want to smash up the nation and rule on its ashes.

Billionaires are a transnational ruling class. There is they have no loyalty to any nation.

And the party leadership is all too willing to find a scapegoat rather than face the consequences what has been a decades long price of abandoning the working class.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-151371013

"Trump and his cronies spun tales of overbearing bureaucrats, DEI warriors and migrant gangs to weave a narrative that the government of elites is so out of touch — or focused on identity politics — they don’t care about the affordability crisis ruining everyone’s day-to-day lives. "

The only thing they needed to hear was a validation that the Democrats do not care about their cost of living crisis/Trump was their statement.

https://www.levernews.com/handbook-for-the-politically-deceased/

#uspol

@phaedral

hate was subsidized.

@ekis

Obviously, the problem America faces is a lack of private healthcare innovation.

/S

@MisuseCase @ekis

Everyone who has challenged the second law of thermodynamics has lost. And we are about to engage in the largest scale challenge mankind is ever undertaken.

Nature may seemed about last, but nature is always met the challenge of the second law of thermodynamics.

@ekis

The super rich or generatively unable to live without the supply chain for any period of time

@ekis

They didn’t give up they’re simply preparing for the consequences of their deliberate plan.

The shelters are an absurdity because climate change isn’t an event. It’s a transformation of state. There will be nothing to a emerge from for many thousands of years

@randahl

It’s not just Trump. It is a plutocratic take over.

Project 2025 will replace US civil servants with loyalists to a small set of billionaires.

The result is a conversion to kleptocracy that will outlast any presidency. The EU is dealing with an entirely new kind of entity in the US. The US as plutocracy.

This is a permanent transformation. A permanent loss of professionalism and competence.

Punching old ladies is the new “macho” conservative thing I guess.

Nuff said. Just say no to these people.

https://www.newsweek.com/florida-trump-supporter-arrested-punching-70-year-old-woman-harris-rally-1979629

#uspol

@HistoPol @academicchatter

She’s definitely wound up, but I think if you look through the comments, there are many other individuals in the field of physics or academia it even happened here that said yeah she’s talking about reality

@academicchatter

12 min

Sabine is on a tear and yeah, I expect a lot of people in academia would agree with her points.

Do you want to say she free why all this shit is happening is the commercialization of universities.

And the primary force promoting that as a policy was mainstream economics, Milton Friedman gang.

If you don’t like what’s happened you have to start taking a good look at how academically faulty they are. And they’ve made everything look like them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQVF0Yu7X24

The Economist has endorsed Harris

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

#harris #uspol

#askfedi #music

How do parodies using popular songs deal with a rabid copyright environment?