That’s also breaking my brain. Not a native speaker tho

Honestly the let’s plays will be epic tho. Pure chaos.

We need to define consciousness here…

To me everything you describe is related to the mind. Not consciousness.

To me consciousness is the observer of the mind, not the mind.

Like, what is “sensing” your thoughts? What is “behind” the mind’s eyes?

That’s consciousness.

And it IS universal. It’s indivisible and eternal (doesn’t change).

Your observer is always neutrally observing. All judgments and shifts happen in the mind. Which the consciousness just observes.

https://youtu.be/31e0RcImReY?si=18IbWnHxRGAfticv

From the title it might not sound super related, but she goes super in depth on how these intelligence researches usually are extremely problematic. As in literally telling women that women did better in these tests made them perform as well or better than men in typically “male intelligence areas”. We don’t really understand intelligence, and how it develops, and how to measure it.

So ascribing higher or lower intelligence in certain fields to certain groups just doesn’t work. Irregardless for how statistically sound it might be. We just don’t understand the parameters around it well enough to control for it.

After seeing the most recent münecat video I don’t believe research like this anymore.

Yeah we made a huge mistake being born wrong 😕

It looks like it has a more snake-like body, or more like a Chinese dragon.

Sorry I would rather not :/

For my city, just for a very specific example, it takes less than one afternoon and 80 bucks total (no fees and almost no capital fund requirements) to open a corporation. It takes weeks if not months to open a coop and it costs 2500 bucks PER member.

I don’t know the specifics of all cities and states everywhere in the world. But the system is built to benefit private corporations much more, as it’s a capitalist system where owning capital equals power, and workers are a commodity.

Like the literal law. In most places it’s a much more involved and expensive process to even open a coop compared to a traditional private company. It takes more paperwork, more fees, more capital funds etc. Also, getting investors in (when they can’t own the coop, as they are not workers) or even loans from private or state banks/institutions is much harder. There are several programs incentivising people to open private companies, giving them tax credits, making the application and approval process easier, giving access to funds and education etc. How many there are for coops? In most places around the world there are 0. In what ways does it appear the opposite to you…? Like this all seems very self-evident to me.

The system literally disincentives and makes coops less competitive.

Opening a coop is harder, more expensive, have less subsidies or tax benefits, less opportunities for investments/loans etc.

And all of this makes running coops more expensive, thus less competitive, thus the ones that do manage to open either can’t grow or die.

Vrising

They shat on his ideas lol

But you can’t say they ripped off his ideas, as the books are technically cannon and direct sequels. Sadly…

Your lack of political awareness is part of the problem.

The neoliberal project was a direct response to the fall of the USSR. Europe only enjoyed social welfare for so long by being right next to the USSR.

As colonies of the US empire, Europe was allowed privileges to contrast and compare against the USSR.

After the USSR fell, social welfare fell. Neoliberalism kicked in.

There was no real left in Europe after WW2 and the Marshall Plan. Only social democrats, which really are right-wing since they defend capitalism.

China is far far ahead when it comes to developing society for the people. The government there is spending trillions investing in infrastructure, health, education, housing.

They are allowing all the big housing developers go bust and buying up their assets and capital. They recently declared housing to be a human right and started decommodifying it.

You can check any major city in China nowadays and they all have much better quality of life than any comparable city. That meaning major metropolises in developing countries (so places like São Paulo, Buenos Aires, México City, Johannesburg, Jakarta etc.). Housing is much cheaper in China, salaries are higher, cost of living is lower…

China is indeed out-capitalisming the west, but they are doing so by being socialists.

The joke that China is winning the international capitalism game because at least all their ruling party has read Marx is… probably true lol.

Because of the misdirection that exists around “left and right” wing politics.

There is really only one relevant axis when it come to right and left wing. Pro-capitalism and anti-capitalism.

The center and the extreme right both seek to protect capital at all costs. One believes “decorum” and “the structures of power” are necessary to maintain capitalism, one believes an extreme restructuring of power is necessary to “save” capitalism.

They disagree with the means, but they agree with the ends.

And the center will always give way to the extreme right when things get hairy enough. They fear losing some power, but they fear most losing ALL power…

Damn that is great to hear! It’s the only reason I’m not just using mlem nowadays.

It’s not called the Egg Theory. Its called Advaita Vedanta and it’s the oldest religion/metaphysics we have written records for.

And it can indeed get pretty deep. You should read Shankara‘s commentaries on the Vedas.

I, me 😆

Like a dream, you are just me. The floor I walk is me. The air I breathe is me. Everyone I meet, everything I feel, is just me. Nothing is real except I.

It makes no sense for it to be a simulation like a computer simulation. It’s a simulation like a dream is a simulation. Everything in the universe you observe is you. Waking up from the dream is realising this, and realising nothing exists, just being.