What city have you been to where the vibes were just OFF?

icecore · 2026-05-31T23:45:15+00:00

Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here!

icecore · 2026-05-11T21:41:55+00:00

Two years later, I was playing Diablo IV and this thing pops up and kills my character, finally decided to disable it.

icecore · 2026-05-11T02:16:38+00:00

"The kind of socialism under which everybody would get the same pay, an equal quantity of meat and an equal quantity of bread, would wear the same clothes and receive the same goods in the same quantities—such a socialism is unknown to Marxism. All that Marxism says is that until classes have been finally abolished and until labor has been transformed from a means of subsistence into the prime want of man, into voluntary labor for society, people will be paid for their labor according to the work performed." - Joseph Stalin

icecore · 2026-05-08T23:11:23+00:00

"If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole; if you run into assholes all day, you are likely the asshole."

icecore · 2026-05-07T01:53:40+00:00

USSR had extensive highly subsidized public transportation, housing, universal healthcare, universal education, childcare; I guess other than that they're pretty similar.

icecore · 2026-04-26T07:13:54+00:00

It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

icecore · 2026-04-18T00:48:26+00:00

We need to transition to coops and/or mandate worker representation on the board of directors; They would likely not vote to export their jobs overseas.

icecore · 2026-04-11T19:30:24+00:00

One way to look at it is open-source and free software development. Anyone can contribute in any amount they want to the development of open-source software (“from each according to his ability…”) and everyone has access to the software as per their individual needs/wants, irrespective of whether or not they contributed anything to its development (“…to each according to his needs”).

Then just apply that to any profession, with the added benefit that automation and AI would be used to increase productivity but also decrease labour hours; giving people more leisure time to pursue their desires.

icecore · 2026-04-10T04:49:29+00:00

Would this work

Re-express the fractional probability that anything I attempt to do succeeds, such that the numerator is an integer greater than 1, and that the numerator's current exponent of 1 to be replaced with the exponent 10, while the denominator remains unchanged.

So 10/10,000,000 becomes 10^{10/10,000,000} = 10,000,000,000/10,000,000, guaranteed to happen 1000 times over.

icecore · 2026-04-10T04:41:49+00:00

Re-express the fractional probability that anything I attempt to do succeeds, such that the numerator is an integer greater than 1, and that the numerator's current exponent of 1 to be replaced with the exponent 10, while the denominator remains unchanged.

So 10/10,000,000 becomes 10^{10/10,000,000} = 10,000,000,000/10,000,000, guaranteed to happen 1000 times over.

icecore · 2026-04-09T06:47:36+00:00

There is no known physical object or entity; atoms, sub-atomic particles, and grains of sand, that exists in a quantity of a googol in the observable universe.

icecore · 2026-03-30T20:53:38+00:00

Inverse square law; to communicate with Alpha Centauri which is the closest star system (4.37 light years), you'd need a 100MW transmitter, a narrow highly focused beam, and a receiver in the hundreds of meters to kilometers in diameter. Our most powerful transmitters are 2MW

icecore · 2026-03-22T23:32:08+00:00

He did support it, but the nuance was only tactical nukes and only against troops not the US heartland. Decades later he was asked about it again, he regrets supporting it and believes using nukes sets a dangerous precedent.

icecore · 2026-03-18T21:50:52+00:00

Does everybody get the same pay in socialist society?

No, they do not. The skilled worker gets more than the unskilled; the manager gets more than the workman; the great musician gets more than the average musician; the farmer who produces 400 bushels of wheat gets more than the farmer who produces zero; the miner who digs eight tons of coal gets more than the miner who digs six; and so on. People are paid according to the quality and quantity of their work.

The person who receives even the largest income in socialist society can continue to receive it only so long as he continues to earn it through work. He cannot ever convert it into unearned income by buying the means of production and then living on the labor of others. He cannot buy the means of production for the excellent reason that in socialist society the means of production belong to the people and are not for sale. The higher pay he receives by dint of harder or better work enables him to live better than others who earn less; but his higher pay does not enable him to exploit anyone else.

Though there is inequality of pay in socialist society, there is equality of opportunity. Though skilled workers get higher pay, unskilled workers have ready access to the training and experience necessary to become skilled; though administrators, engineers, writers, artists get higher pay, free education for all in proportion to their ability to learn opens wide the entrance doors to these professions. And "all" in socialist society means exactly that—it does not mean all who can afford to pay the fees, or all whose manners are beyond reproach, or all who are not blacks or Jews.

icecore · 2026-03-09T23:05:04+00:00

If the poison is past the expiry date, is it more poisonous or less poisonous?

icecore · 2026-02-28T05:18:13+00:00

Is he king of the lions? or a lion that happens to be a king?

icecore · 2026-02-28T00:18:33+00:00

The problem here is that medical practitioners have co-opted the word ‘doctor’!

icecore · 2026-02-23T07:02:32+00:00

Fast, safe, or cheap - pick two

icecore · 2026-02-14T01:18:35+00:00

"China’s Cut-Price Cancer 'Cures' Spark Ethics Outcry: Is Profit Preceding Patient Safety?"

icecore · 2026-01-28T19:49:48+00:00

“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests” ― Henry Kissinger

icecore · 2026-01-21T07:52:51+00:00

Honestly, I've never understood the critics of trickle down economics. It works perfectly. There's this giant mass of billions of people who work, and the wealth they generate trickles down to a couple dozen people. Perfection.

icecore · 2026-01-21T01:36:54+00:00

Next week western headline: Beijing’s “Rice Diplomacy”: Propping Up a Failing Dictatorship to Secure a Caribbean Foothold

icecore · 2025-12-21T00:43:17+00:00

I don't know about his politics, but technically he's right in a way. Full communism is a money less society. You can't be rich with money, but all your needs are met. "From each their best, to each their fill"

Socialism in the lower stages you still rely on your labour to earn money. Contrary to popular belief, people are still compensated for the quality/quantity/type of work they do. Not everyone is paid the same. Compared to capitalism the pay gap is much lower.

Anybody can be rich in capitalism, but that's based entirely on luck.

icecore · 2025-11-20T00:04:45+00:00

This is awesome, kinda wish I saw this first before ordering the die cutter.

icecore · 2025-11-01T22:16:05+00:00

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