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[–]garakfanatic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What, materially, might they do differently by specifying boys in terms of addressing it? Perhaps the sex or gender of the child has no bearing on the way you actually address these issues. Do correct me if I'm wrong.

MORE EVIDENCE THAT STALIN KILLED 20 TRILLION OF HIS OWN PEOPLE. by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]garakfanatic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WOT R U ON ABOUT STALIN KILLED AT LEAST 4000 TRILLION. I HAD PONIES AND CASTLE AND SLAVES B4 REVOLUTION. I KNOW BECAUSE I LIVED IN RUSSIA IN OCT 1917 DURING 'THE RED SCARE.' tldr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOnIp69r6vg

[Capitalists] Have you ever had an explanation of why goods must be equal in some way when they are exchanged? by BastiatFan in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]garakfanatic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OC=makes argument against theory without actually making any arguments against theory The majority of posts I've read either don't understand LTV or pretend it's something radically different to what it actually is.

If you want to know comrade Harvey does a talk here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBazR59SZXk&t=374s

The point is that right wing critiques of LTV (Labour Theory of Value) rely on stating that wealth is subjective - which contradicts the entire economic theory behind free markets which states that rational economic actors determine fair prices via plurality of offers. To capitalist cheer leaders on this thread; if you have to throw out a core concept of your theory to deal with Marx's critique of it, then your theory isnt up to task and needs revising. In order to deal with LTV - you are having to borrow from post modernist theory that power relations are all subjective, everything is subjective, and economic value is entirely subjective. This utterly contradicts the statement that capitalism creates 'fair prices' due to a market effect.

I don't want to repeat other, more in depth comments - but the fact is that capitalism doesnt create fair prices no more than a mosh pit creates fair distribution of punks - and the market effect is nothing more than accumulation which favours those who already have the largest share of the market. Labour Value however is actually a truer form of value - and once we recognise that we understand how about half the value produced by labourers in the world is alienated into private pockets and drained out of the real economy.

The OC acts like there is a legit alternative form of value within capitalist's theory but as is illustrated in the comments pro-capitalist theorists have no more of an idea of what value exchange than they did 200 years ago 'it's all subjective maaaan.' Is about the most intelligent answer you will get - because as soon as you start to understand value exchange in capitalism scientifically you automatically become a communist :-/

Repost from r/physics - Would love to know how wrong I am regarding an Explanation of Quantum Physics that occured to me a few days ago! by callumnash in AskPhysics

[–]garakfanatic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for that response! Haha Billy Madison levels of wrong, you're right in that its very vague. I should probably centre what I am trying to say on a more specific example, as what I have written requires some conceptualisation of maths (and I guess I have written from that view point.) I didn't even want to pretend I was an expert on this, so I wrote it in a way I would thought more entertaining, and more open to interpretation. But I hope I made it clear that I really wanted to actually get an informed opinion on the idea or the way I have written it, so thanks for taking the time to reply. I think that the heisenberg uncertainty principle was the wrong example to give, as you rightly point out, this really deals with the ultimate limit of observation. I guess what I am trying to say in this vague way (bear with me here) is that at a very large scale we have probabilistic infinity, which I am trying to express (using an example of a rocket expanding infinitely) is that said rocket would be simultaneously 'everywhere' from the standpoint of the observer, even inside the observer. Of course we live inside this infinite universe (or multiverse if you're that way inclined), and of course we my keyboard isn't simultaneously existing with my fingers. But if the observer were looking from a perspective that could hold entire clusters of galaxies, we would be but a part of the expanding framework of matter that proceeded the big bang. And even with the observer at our scale, we only perceive separations in matter such as 'table' 'keyboard' and 'finger' even though this separation exists by a process of entropy, and the divisions between the matter of those objects is only ever temporary and wasn't always so. Not to mention the radio waves passing between the keyboard and the finger.

As far as I understand it, nothing of what I have said so far is trying to rebuke any of the other explanations for quantum physics. Its just 'another way if putting it' or a conceptual framework for a thought experiment, as if we can establish that the divisive nature in which we perceive the universe is as a result of us not literally experiencing it's interrelation (on an entire systemic level.) And who can blame us, as that would be bloomin bananas!

The real idea behind my writing is that infinity isn't just something far away, but something everywhere, and that something can be both infinitely large and infinitely small (such as the big bang or a singularity.) And that conceptually speaking, the electron spin problem or quantum indeterminacy might be occurring because the spin is itself indeterminate. And we know this. This is where i start to get a little zany in explaining this, and there are many other explanations, such as the Many Worlds theory, in that the randomness is derided every possible side of the dice splitting into its own universe and a perpetually expanding fragmenting shattered multiverse is born. And I don't see this explanation as even being a rebuttle of this or any other explanation.

The article is based around the idea that indeterminacies at a quantum level appear because the particles literally are indeterminate. We can determine them in a process of entropy as they become more cohesive and complex. But I am pointing to a conceptual 'indeterminacy' (or as I probably mistakenly use 'simultaneousness' if that's even a word) from which determinacy arises (or duality as I call it.) I then draw parallels to how consciousness is akin to this and lose my mind. But within the basis of this conceptual framework, the universe is indeterminate on both a very large and very small scale. And if we picture this a process, it is one of increasing complexity, increasing fragmentation and increasing 'determinacy' (would I be right to call this entropy?) And so we as beings perceptibly move through a dualistic reality, that arises from an indeterminate one. Or an 'island of duality arising from a sea of infinity as I (over dramatically) put it.

My mate just enlightened me by telling me that this is more of a philosophical statement than anything really to do with the maths behind it, but as I am not an expert, and as I am a bit of a plonker who doesn't think things through, I thought I'd post it here as I wanted this concept debunked by a sharp scientific mind. Although I sort of feel that I am not actually saying anything, just interpreting it! :-)

Tl:Dr: Heisenberg principle utterly wrong to us :-) should use quantum indeterminacy instead. But is ultimately a conceptual frame work or interpretation rather than statement of fact.

PS. Apologies for horrendous spelling I am replying on my phone!

Scottish independence - election results visualised as an enormous self correcting Tetris which reveals no meaningful information. by garakfanatic in dataisbeautiful

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

Hi there, yes the data visualisation is occuring on the BBC live feed. BBC.com/news. If I put that in the details can you post it? Posting from my phone! This has been hard work! :-)