Collatz_problem [comrade/them]

Free time.

Consistency of an axiomatic system that contains arithmetic can be proven in this system if and only if it is inconsistent.

Americans are not flirting with Nazism. They dated it, married it and had many children with it.

Pelevin was satirizing 90s’ Russia and its emerging capitalist culture and his critiques still stand, because Putin’s Russia is just less fucked up version of 90s’ Russia. Trying to reduce his works to “satires of authoritarianism” is extreme cherry-picking.

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.

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

https://www.lmfdb.org/ for people deep into analytic number theory rabbit hole.

For first several months the war was extremely unpopular, but sanctions and discrimination against Russians did orders of magnitude more to make people think of the West as the enemy than the dumb state propaganda.

Unhinged bullshit like this did more to make people support Putin than any propaganda he could spit.

Crassus would be proud.

“We care about your privacy. We absolutely hate it, but it counts as caring, doesn’t it?”

I was born.

Lmao, is this ДМБ reference?

Okay, now I’m wondering, can we actually check if servers run on this published code or modified version?

Wasn’t Signal revealed to have NSA backdoor or I am confusing it with something else?

Graeber in Debt has made an interesting point that honor historically meant an ability to reduce freedom of other people.

AI chatbots should be near I Ching divination.

The fake is of far greater value. In its deliberate attempt to be real, it’s more real than the real thing.

What would you think of our civilization based on the Internet?

Cats and porn.

Please explain how is North Korea a right-wing fascist state.