I have seen videos of these machines (or similar ones) being used in medical emergencies in remote areas. That’s probably a more practical use. Perhaps as cities develop into massive superstructures, air travel may be more necessary, at least in a smaller scale after trains do a greater portion of transportation.

With style

Open console (F12 and select console tab) in desktop browser and run:

document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 4;

Please don’t give up. You are incredibly valuable to this world and the movement. As a USian, I’ve had a similar experience to you, getting a 2 year degree in computer science, and having to work in IT, which was killing me internally, only to be fired from a new shitty boss and not find any employment for adequate pay. Now I am trucking to make ends meet. My goal is to save to pay for an education in electrical engineering, if that’s even possible in the next few years. Even if I achieve getting a better degree, I doubt I will be able to find employment and will have to attempt running a computer repair business. I envy you for being able to complete a Computer Science degree and being able to work on open source terminal programs.

Parties will make mistakes and will come and go, but losing you, comrade, will only make it more difficult to build a better movement and to take advantage of the weeks when decades happen.

You’re very young, and there’s many world changing events, from climate change to the collapse of the dollar, that is coming in our lifetimes. I wouldn’t be so sure we have lost when we haven’t really faced the storm yet. A lot is about to change that may radicalize many people and potentially turn the tide.

I wish you success in finding affordable living accomodations, a less shitty job, and the income to work on your hobbies.

Gaming is better when you enjoy it with others close to you in the same room.

Also Pyongyang is a quaint and lovely city, and I wish I could visit it someday.

You beat me to it, dammit.

Burger

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I’ve been listening to my Capital audiobook while driving a truck for my job. This book is hard and dense to listen to as an audiobook, especially for me as I tend to daydream. It’s essentially listening to Marx explain his economic theories as mathematical proofs. I’m going to have to read it on paper at some point.

I wonder why there are so many sects from Marx’s work, though. Lenin had the right idea. Marx was bashing on reformists, “trots”, and bougie economists across his work, and a couple hundred years later a lot of people still believe there’s any chance of doing anything short of revolution.

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Deeply satanic country

But I have since changed my mind after I saw for myself gender abolitionists who are ultimately transphobic, and they didn’t come to this conclusion by accident. Can we say that they are only using gender abolition to confirm their transphobic views?

I imagine these people are the same or close to those who say “they don’t see color”.

That’s why I don’t think it necessarily follows that gender itself is a product of oppression, which also puts into question whether it should be or will be abolished/wither away (not exactly the same thing for some abolitionists, but not all). The premise of the essay is that gender can exist without an oppressive structure. It also means it doesn’t automatically follow that abolishing gender (in any way) will also destroy the oppressive structure built around it and the answer must be found somewhere else for proper praxis.

In reference to my previous comment, by gender “withering away” in a communist state, I don’t mean gender will not exist, just as race won’t disappear. I mean the distinction between class won’t be really relevant anymore. A communist state will likely be in the distant future, a society we can only predict under science fiction. I imagine technology, social relations, cultural and social norms will evolve to a point we may not be able to perceive very well today. I imagine that we may have the ability to change our DNA, or maybe go through transhumanism and become cyborgs/machines, etc. The concept of gender may not be as relevant because people will be able to easily change to whatever they are comfortable with using future technology, and there will be cultural acceptance of everyone. There won’t be a denial of trans/gender-fluid/non-conforming people, but it may be ubiquitous that the distinction and class differences/exploitation between people won’t exist as it does today. Before then and when we are still developing in the early stages of socialism, we won’t be “abolishing” or “withering away” gender, nor will gender completely not exist.

As for now, I agree that so-called “gender abolition” is irrelevant and out of scope at this time.

Not disagreeing, but did you watch the video? It’s not what you expect.

I had a similar thought that you put into words better than I would have done. I have seen “gender abolition” in a Marxist sense as the result of achieving a classless society where class (in any form, including gender) no longer exists and class exploitation is eliminated.

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I did the same when I was a child. Checks out.

Yeah it’s logarithmic because nobody should need over $2 million. You are stealing exponentially at billions of dollars.

I need oil. I can’t stop drinking oil. I can’t stop drinking oil! I just can’t stop! I can’t stop drinking crude oil. You know the black stuff that comes in barrels? I can’t stop drinking it. I just can’t. It’s tantalizing. It’s addicting. It is a delicacy! I love it! I can’t stop drinking oil. Crude oil! I can’t stop guzzling it, gulping it down! I can’t stop drinking crude oil! giggles