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  • Discussion Thread: What are all you reading in terms of fiction AND non-fiction? - #20

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  • Working through Lenin's State and Revolution. Decided that it was time to actually bother reading theory rather than just going on what everyone else says. As for nonfiction, rereading His Dark Materials. I read it once years ago, really hits different. The church-controlled word is scary... (I'm assuming one of the main divergence points there was the successful crushing of the Revolution.)

  • We're back!

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  • I was wondering... will you upgrade servers, or is there another solution?

  • If we want this to work out make content do not just lurk

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  • Even bad content is still content and gets more engagement than nothing.

  • On Space Exploration and Colonization

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  • That is very true, and there's no great solution to it.

  • Is there anything more cringe than self-hating Russians?

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  • There's some quote - I can't remember how it goes, something along the lines of "the job of an anti-imperialist is to protest their own empire, as everyone agrees that the other empire is bad."

  • Subreddits you are going to miss?

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  • r/GenshinGays and r/fanfiction are the big two.

  • On Space Exploration and Colonization

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  • Yes, it's expensive. First, it's a pride thing. Billionaires like nothing better than massive projects to feed their ego and show off how rich they are. Second, capitalists so often lack long-term vision. They'll see there's X amount of gold or platinum in an asteroid, they'll try and mine it based on it's current value. Third, building anything in space would create another resource sink, which drives up demand to meet the increase in supply. And fourth, we're currently in a resource crisis. There is not enough rare earth metals, say lithium, for the increase in demand that comes with the increase of electric cars.

  • On Space Exploration and Colonization

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  • It's a bit counterintuitive, but it's actually cheaper on energy to get to the Moon from Mars than it is from Earth.

  • On Space Exploration and Colonization

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  • The energy required to get out of Earth's orbit is exactly the problem. You can run fifty missions to the asteroid belt from Earth. Or you can send one big mission to Mars, including all the advanced hardware that's needed for them to run asteroid missions. They can then produce the rough equipment, including fuel (CO/O2 fuel can be produced on Mars quite easily, and once a source of water can be found, so can CH4/O2, and the color comes from all the iron) and then they can send fifty missions to the asteroid belt. What you're saving is the effort it would require to get all that rough material out of Earth's gravity.

  • On Space Exploration and Colonization

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  • You're probably not wrong about that. But one of the great values of Mars from a capitalist perspective is that it's really easy to get to the Asteroid Belt from there and easy to send mined materials home from there. IMO, Mars will be an outpost from which to mine asteroids before anything else.

  • What kind of work do you do?

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  • Any already-made posters you have handy that could be useful?

  • What kind of work do you do?

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  • They might. I have been rather active about talking about it, after all. But the posters are not going to be personalized (the email on them is one I created just for this purpose). And besides, this is Canada - we don't often fire people for unionizing.

    That said, I'm not too attached to this job.

  • On Space Exploration and Colonization

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  • I had paragraphs in when I was writing it. I guess I need to double-space them? One moment... there we go.

  • What kind of work do you do?

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  • Currently work retail. My exact job is meat clerk, which means I'm in charge of serving meat from the case and keeping the cooler wall full, then cleaning the backroom after the butchers are done. Strawpolling indicates a 9-1 lead in favour of unionizing after they've learned what exactly it is (which was needed in 7/10 cases). Planning to put up a bunch of posters to raise awareness, but can't find any good ones (and I'm not really a graphic designer, although I might have to pretend).

  • Check out the posts on c/ukraine over at lemmy.ml, indistinguishable from Reddit at this point

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  • GreenAndPleasant managed this by creating a breakaway sub, GreenAndExtreme - the idea being that it was a pipeline, get the libs interested in Pleasant and radicalized in Extreme. Didn't really work, then they managed a proper crackdown on libs in the main sub.