Collatz_problem

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[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

The truth is though that ultimately, politicians are gonna be malleable to those who are going to vote

No, they are not. A single donation from a billionaire would buy more press to get more voters from name recognition than a million working class supporters. And if the politician betrays his base, the most he can fear is losing reelection, and even this is not assured. If a politician goes against billionaires, he is going to be smeared, harassed and have his opposition funded. This ensures that the only politicians in any significant elections are already guaranteed to serve billionaires.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Thinking of politics in terms of good guys and bad guys is kindergarten-level.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is literally Budenny.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Competition is won by those who extract profit now. Those who refrain from profiting even if they want to preserve the ability to profit in the future for whatever reason lose competition and are removed from making decisions. So only the most shortsighted capitalists remain.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Being able to extract profit is more important to individual capitalist than maintaining the system in the long run. See: climate change.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago

Democrats won't abandon norms and traditions, because they play a good cop to Republicans' bad cop. They are all in one big club and you aren't in it.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

asa-explain Sea anemones are relatives of the jellyfish. They have these tiny hairs growing on them that they use to feed by stunning fish, shrimp, zooplankton, and so on.

But they can survive for years without food. They're like jellyfish in that way. There are even sea anemones that have lived longer than 70 years with the proper care.

They're found all throughout the world's oceans, and they can slowly move too. There are also fish that live inside them called anemonefish. The sea anemones protect them from predators and share their food scraps.

In tropical waters, sea anemones latch on to coral reefs or rocks.

Starfish are echinoderms and relatives of the sea urchin. There are as many as 2,000 starfish species around the world. Not all of them are star-shaped either. There's even a species with 30 arms.

When they get attacked by a predator, they'll rip off their own arm to get away while the predator eats it. Their arms can regenerate, so I guess they regrow later.

Starfish can eat almost anything in the ocean. They feed by pushing their stomach out of their mouth and directly digesting their prey. Fun fact, there's an area in Kumamoto Prefecture where they eat starfish. As you'd expect from a relative of the sea urchin, you strip the skin to eat the insides, like with sea urchins.

Even in other languages, starfish mostly have star-related names. For instance, in France they're called...

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's the most general form of Stokes' theorem that the integral of a differential form over the boundary of an volume and the integral of an exterior derivative of this form over that volume are the same. It covers a lot of classic formulas from the fundamental theorem of calculus to Green's theorem, Gauss' theorem and classic Stokes' theorem.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

To be honest, people who didn't go to school were less propagandized against Marxism.

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