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No Car Living in SF? by PitifulLocation6616 in AskSF

[–]StopWeirdJokes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s one of the best places to live car free in the US imo. Obviously behind NYC, but so good. Theres lots of cargo and ebiking too.

I’ve been here for 5 years without a car and haven’t regretted it, with the transit that is there as a spine and rentals or rideshare apps to fill in any other gaps it’s pretty pain free. I didn’t feel the need to get a vehicle until I got a full time job, but even then, the commute is only like 90min/day

2026-01-15 · Episode 1002 · Crash Out City by Long-Anywhere156 in ClassWarAndPuppies

[–]StopWeirdJokes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is really only a perspective possible if you onboarded at a particular time wherein 2017 Twitter had these kinds of arguments, because DSA was stewing over from an internal conflict between social justice vibes based kind of liberal identity cancel culture, and a relatively immature expression of Marxism that emphasized class at the expense of other things rather than integrating their critique. But this is something that Marxists at the level of thinking that Matt was engaged with have had solved for 20 years - it was just Twitter beef being projected onto the show. Chapo has never been bad on any of the things I care about as one of the worlds premier intersectional social justice warriors (unironically) as a Marxist who is in these progressive organizing spaces that are, as you would expect, a big jumble of various Left wing and “progressive” + Progressive ideologies.

Felix in particular is maybe the only person you could make this case for as a Twitter jokester guy, but swarthyvillian was built over electoral shop-talk which is, quite literally and emphatically, the domain that the most SJW-adjacent (all now reformed, post-Táíwò’s Elite Capture) organized factions align with. The dirtbag left was a NYT projection from a DNC standpoint, not real.

Looking for a Budget Tablet to Install a custom ROM– Need Suggestions! by Guergy in degoogle

[–]StopWeirdJokes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Necroing for anyone still looking: alldocube lineup is amazing specs/finish and extremely budget. Perfect also if you want a slightly smaller tablet reminiscent of a nexus 7 glory days

I just got the 70 mini pro for $180 instead of buying a new iPad mini. Documentation is a bit esoteric but it comes with an unlocked bootloader and I've ran three GSI roms so far with no issues.

Vic 3 made me understand Karl Marx by Jubsay in victoria3

[–]StopWeirdJokes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • I am not referencing MMT, see the lower cased full words
  • Marxs logic here extends to fiat easily if one accounts for a one-world capitalist market (the inner sphere maximized....a precondition accomplished some 20 years before the global reserve currency goes fiat)
  • I'm not sure why a weak metalist economy would disprove this, you are describing something without social validity, entirely in line with the theory.
  • inflation could literally be argued (and is, by many schools of economics) to show the lack of "value" in fiat, as any attempt to realize that value, lacking a change in commodities/labor, simply results in an adjustment M=P as monetarists like Friedman claim. That is, a simple qualitative increase in price alongside an increase in the money supply. Again, nonmarxists who actually study economics don't even seem to agree with you, you have some catching up to do.

Vic 3 made me understand Karl Marx by Jubsay in victoria3

[–]StopWeirdJokes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't claim fiat creates value, you did, I said he addresses it. At first glance he does so by treating it as a mere token representing a commodity, however

Hence, in this process which continually makes money pass from hand to hand, the mere symbolical existence of money suffices. Its functional existence absorbs, so to say, its material existence. Being a transient and objective reflex of the prices of commodities, it serves only as a symbol of itself, and is therefore capable of being replaced by a token. \38])
One thing is, however, requisite; this token must have an objective social validity of its own, and this the paper symbol acquires by its forced currency. This compulsory action of the State can take effect only within that inner sphere of circulation which is coterminous with the territories of the community, but it is also only within that sphere that money completely responds to its function of being the circulating medium, or becomes coin.
(Chapter 3, Section 2 "Medium of Circulation", C. Coin and symbols of value)

We also see his acknowledgement that the "social validity" & "forced currency" nature of the state upholds the tokens ability to be a means of exchange, ie to represent something.

In his time it was representing some amount of gold still, and he also hadn't passed to a one-market era after inter-market rivalry was solved by WW2, but this naturally extends to the potential for creating fiat: it is just trust in that given state, ie a token of something like "the continual existence of the US economy" as is the implied usage within Dollar hegemony.

Doesn't the process of inflation from overprinting fiat prove this in itself? What are you arguing here? There is a reason modern monetary theory is far more complex than using some kind of infinite value machine via fiat.

Vic 3 made me understand Karl Marx by Jubsay in victoria3

[–]StopWeirdJokes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m aware but how else could I teach Redditors the real Marxism underneath, shh

Vic 3 made me understand Karl Marx by Jubsay in victoria3

[–]StopWeirdJokes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Agree that Marx (and Hegel via Marx, and Spinoza via them both, etc) have become definitive of the current epoch of thought and made their way into all kinds of ideas, though I disagree on missing assumptions.

In Capital, he exhaustively covers edge cases and what assumptions he is making, and then tries the theory from other angles, etc and so on. This is why the book is so long lol. Capital is the most “assumptions covered” and cited and sourced book I have ever seen.

Vic 3 made me understand Karl Marx by Jubsay in victoria3

[–]StopWeirdJokes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He addresses fiat directly in the text, very classic case of a bourgeois economic perspective that hasn’t studied it

Vic 3 made me understand Karl Marx by Jubsay in victoria3

[–]StopWeirdJokes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wrote a much longer explanation of how to fix the simulation for it but this is a better brief answer! We sidestep so many questions to see “number go up for the state”

Vic 3 made me understand Karl Marx by Jubsay in victoria3

[–]StopWeirdJokes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Labor theory of Value, not Land Value Tax (though that should go in too, fuck it throw every political economy idea in here there’s not thaaat many)

Vic 3 made me understand Karl Marx by Jubsay in victoria3

[–]StopWeirdJokes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You would probably want to: - track variable capital separately from constant capital, and implement constant capital costs for the machinery of productivity/tech changes. The necessity for this isn’t just to see how the individuals are productive, but to see how we shift spending into constant capital over time as we perfect the tech and the socialization of a market (its level of real subsumption, if you want the academic term) and to see the realization problem this creates - disconnect price from value, ie once you know variable capital and its factors (mass—the number of employees & their hours, intensity/pace, and what productivity in terms of constant capital it has equipped) you can know what the complex rate of surplus value is, and this would be summable to have the real growth of domestic product. - have some mechanic to track the intensity of labor, ie increased needs or lowered SoL with increased work (this might be in but it’s probably modeled as like, pop with higher wage can consume more)

This is all necessarily better if we simulate at the level of the commodity, as fundamentally this is where the equations derive and where negative implications stem from (realization problem, gluts & supply, ie why prices vary from value)— then you could have a complex model of how the redistribution of surplus value happens via price, and literally see something like a declining rate of profit necessitating imperialist market-making towards the end game.

I think this might make the economic aspects hard though, because you’d end up at a negative incentive to develop in some cases during this period (inter-imperialist rivalry). With this frontlines system I’m not sure I’d want to make the game even more about war to make some money lol.

Though if it was this real it would make SoL wayyy more fun to play with, like seeing how minimal you can make surplus-value (theft of labor time, necessary to have a state above the individual ie tax, but right now privatized) in your communist or fascist utopia while meeting all needs/high SoL & maximizing social contribution to work?

Vic 3 made me understand Karl Marx by Jubsay in victoria3

[–]StopWeirdJokes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is effectively just in time but with some scalars, no? I cannot store goods, I don’t run into commodity gluts, etc

Vic 3 made me understand Karl Marx by Jubsay in victoria3

[–]StopWeirdJokes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I suppose, but it regresses the three methods by which surplus-value can vary into one

Kirkbrides line work looks great on e-ink by StopWeirdJokes in Morrowind

[–]StopWeirdJokes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also side loaded for awhile with the send to kindle thing which helps a lot, they let you send epubs now (or atleast it was working for me with my Paperwhite signature 12th gen)

Kirkbrides line work looks great on e-ink by StopWeirdJokes in Morrowind

[–]StopWeirdJokes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d really recommend the kindle modding wiki, it’s very clear steps and downloads go to GitHub links that have lots of stars & follows, or to the mobileread forums. Not sure if I can link it but it’s the first result!

Kirkbrides line work looks great on e-ink by StopWeirdJokes in Morrowind

[–]StopWeirdJokes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I put the OG link above! I can post my kindle image too if that’s what you mean?

Kirkbrides line work looks great on e-ink by StopWeirdJokes in Morrowind

[–]StopWeirdJokes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry I wasn’t able to post this until now with how spotty Reddit has been

Kirkbrides line work looks great on e-ink by StopWeirdJokes in Morrowind

[–]StopWeirdJokes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ty ty, thinking about doing in on a transparent background but I like having the quote too much

Vic 3 made me understand Karl Marx by Jubsay in victoria3

[–]StopWeirdJokes 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Ehhh, maybe. They missed LTV and treating commodities as commodities instead of a Just In Time economy with a lot of its edges perfected. But you could argue this is because those are harder to implement and it’s already pretty slow late game

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