I especially like his “Lucky Ducky” comics in which he explains that welfare benefits replace the benefits of work, but, since the richest of capitalists will always have better stuff than people on welfare, it means that rich people still have privilege and more redistribution is necessary.
Left out, of course, is the working man, who Tom the Dancing Bug, as a Marxist, believes to be of the same class as the guy on welfare. Tom the Dancing Bug’s policies don’t redistribute from the richest of capitalists to the welfare recipients, but from the working man. Who then works for no more benefit than he would get if he was on welfare.
In this one, the capitalist pig-dog tells Lucky Ducky that increasing the price of labor will reduce consumption. Lucky Ducky replies “…but if a monopsonistic firm faces an upward-facing supply curve”, as if all the marginal workers are employed by Wal-Mart and McDonalds. This was written years ago; it reflects the left’s electoral strategy of accusing McDonalds every time it wants to increase the minimum wage. If the left actually cared about increasing the price of labor in this country, they would place a moratorium on immigration. Their hope is that
(1) an increased minimum wage will hold the price of labor up while the new immigrants go on welfare and vote progressive in return;
(2) marginal workers will vote progressive to thank the left for the minimum wage laws that protect their jobs from the immigrants the proggies let in;
(3) the artifical inflation in the cost of labor will cause inflation, which has the effect of taking money out of people’s savings and putting it in the economy, thereby stimulating the economy.
I think the most amazing thing about today’s progressives is that they have ideas about electoral strategy but believe that actual governing is best left protected from politics. Whoever comes up with the public policy ideas, it doesn’t matter, Tom the Dancing Bug’s function is to do outreach by making cartoons about how great they are.
The only step they need to take to be neoreactionaries is to renounce electoral politics completely, arguing that lying is always bad no matter what the cause, and request that the government be accountable.
Astonishing the garbage that people can believe. I mean, I’m a long way from being an uncritical admirer of unfettered capitalism, but that stuff is like something from the 1930′s.
Bob Sykes: That’s 1.8 g hydrogen per gram catalyst per hour. The economics of this process are silly.
McChuck: How long before Congress mandates corn methanol production?
T. Beholder: Jim says: No offense, but literally what the fuck are you talking about? Well, what was so special about Homo Sapiens Foo that they should become The Next Big Thing on the planet? At first, they are just another bunch of naked primates, with inherent disadvantages of big brain (needs more food, and not only glucose) in big head (leads to more fatalities by birth). So there seem to be 3 big thresholds to clear: 1. Manifest enough of advantages over the next bunch of monkeys to consistently...
T. Beholder: And back to UAV… The other side of screwdriver shacks is easy technical deniability, that falls short of plausible if anyone not happy with it is paying attention. See “The myth of ‘Ukrainian’ drones: What’s really behind the production chain” on RT https://www.rt.com/news/ 638518-myth-of-ukrainian -drones/ (via Simplicius https://simplicius76.sub stack.com/p/serious-esca lation-russian-mod-impli es )
Jim: T. Beholder: “Once it hit tool building stage, evolutionary pressures simply had very little effect.” No offense, but literally what the fuck are you talking about?
T. Beholder: Wanweilin says: …and yet we remain human after millions of years. Biological advantage of sentience can be expressed simply as “upgrade from adaptation only via slow hardware evolution to much faster software evolution”. Evolution of memeplexes via mutation and branching off (ethnogenesis) is a replacement for evolution of subspecies via mutation and branching off. Once it hit tool building stage, evolutionary pressures simply had very little effect. Which is why humans remain mostly good...
Jim: That is a technical way of saying it works just as well as the most expensive, high-tech catalysts. That is a specific expression of a general phenomenon.
T. Beholder: Jim says: LLMs now provide (a) and (c) It also provides (b) to some of the Pointy Haired Bosses, if as a mixed blessing. In that the big downside is having much fewer subordinates involved in BS production, but the upside is perfect excuse for a purge and then having much fewer potential backstabbers.
Isegoria: Well, we certainly haven’t ascended to become beings of pure energy.
Wanweilin: …and yet we remain human after millions of years.
Jim: For the avoidance of doubt, that is a jab at “people” vibing the progress of their codebases by lines accreted.
Jim: T. Beholder: “For one, let’s remember that more powerful computers did not help to write and optimize a better code, but rather allowed greater inefficiency. Thus lowering standards for software to the levels that would be considered absurd but a few years earlier. The Daily WTF found IIRC embedded Java machines whose only purpose was to perform simple arithmetic operations with string constants.” The objective functions of that code were and are: (a) something that looks like it works...
VXXC: Strangely enough, when one returns to our common roots of armed raiding combined with presently energy production dominance, and we covered the insurance angle via DFC Chubb, how odd the success when one has a country not a global market… and doesn’t want the blasted ground. I refer to the present matter of the Pirates of Persia and their Boomer resistance allies.
T. Beholder: He is almost certainly wrong on LLM keeping the verbal lawns shapely. For one, let’s remember that more powerful computers did not help to write and optimize a better code, but rather allowed greater inefficiency. Thus lowering standards for software to the levels that would be considered absurd but a few years earlier. The Daily WTF found IIRC embedded Java machines whose only purpose was to perform simple arithmetic operations with string constants. So instead it’s one more way so-called...
Jim: The legitimacy of the American regime is drawn from the Constitution accepted by the Founding Fathers in 1789. Did the Founding Fathers intend to arm Blacks, Mexicans, traffic cops, women, enforcers of divorce “court” orders, SWAT, Israelis, or the institutional progeny of slave patrol against normal white Americans? The Founding Fathers dueled. Do the American Bar Association, National Judicial College et al. have any right to prohibit normal white Americans from privately settling...
Gaikokumaniakku: “Vannevar Bush once said that the unity of decision under a totalitarian regime was a recipe for making colossal technological mistakes, whereas the prevalent confusion of decision-making in a democracy was more efficient. He could not have anticipated the tortuous system of procrastination that characterizes modern American defense procurement.” I used to quote William S. Lind, who used to compare American defense procurement to Soviet defense procurement. Any sufficiently corrupt...
Gaikokumaniakku: Note that obviously non-white wrongdoers are often documented as white in order to throw off official statistics.
Pretty funny. Too bad he’s such a liberal douche on everything but intervening in Syria…
I especially like his “Lucky Ducky” comics in which he explains that welfare benefits replace the benefits of work, but, since the richest of capitalists will always have better stuff than people on welfare, it means that rich people still have privilege and more redistribution is necessary.
Left out, of course, is the working man, who Tom the Dancing Bug, as a Marxist, believes to be of the same class as the guy on welfare. Tom the Dancing Bug’s policies don’t redistribute from the richest of capitalists to the welfare recipients, but from the working man. Who then works for no more benefit than he would get if he was on welfare.
In this one, the capitalist pig-dog tells Lucky Ducky that increasing the price of labor will reduce consumption. Lucky Ducky replies “…but if a monopsonistic firm faces an upward-facing supply curve”, as if all the marginal workers are employed by Wal-Mart and McDonalds. This was written years ago; it reflects the left’s electoral strategy of accusing McDonalds every time it wants to increase the minimum wage. If the left actually cared about increasing the price of labor in this country, they would place a moratorium on immigration. Their hope is that
(1) an increased minimum wage will hold the price of labor up while the new immigrants go on welfare and vote progressive in return;
(2) marginal workers will vote progressive to thank the left for the minimum wage laws that protect their jobs from the immigrants the proggies let in;
(3) the artifical inflation in the cost of labor will cause inflation, which has the effect of taking money out of people’s savings and putting it in the economy, thereby stimulating the economy.
I think the most amazing thing about today’s progressives is that they have ideas about electoral strategy but believe that actual governing is best left protected from politics. Whoever comes up with the public policy ideas, it doesn’t matter, Tom the Dancing Bug’s function is to do outreach by making cartoons about how great they are.
The only step they need to take to be neoreactionaries is to renounce electoral politics completely, arguing that lying is always bad no matter what the cause, and request that the government be accountable.
Those anti-capitalist pieces are so trite, they seem like they have to be caricatures of leftist critiques.
Astonishing the garbage that people can believe. I mean, I’m a long way from being an uncritical admirer of unfettered capitalism, but that stuff is like something from the 1930′s.