teleoplexy
16d ago
Most people who self-identify as communists are firmly in the conflict theory camp. They don't just misunderstand how the world work, they do not just misunderstand capitalism, they also think:
- US government and more specifically CIA is behind every setback the labor movement experienced in 20th century.
- Astroturfing, infiltration, wrecking is everywhere and the movement has to be diligent to preserve the ideological purity
- Everyone who disagrees with them hasn't read Marx.
- Everyone who disagrees with Marx is an enemy, regardless of whether they are a capitalist or a proletarian.
You can't really convince someone who has built mental walls around their belief that the only salvation for our world is the revolution. This isn't a rational belief.
teleoplexy
16d ago
Putin's Russia does not have the ideological basis for expansion
Russian World. A quote from here:
"The collapse of the USSR was a tragedy" The President stated that as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the state lost what "had been built up over a thousand years."
Idk, that sounds to me like ideological basis for expansion.
teleoplexy
16d ago
But he doesn’t. He just keeps pushing, and Trump and JD, who hold ALL of the leverage in this situation, respond predictably.
He isn't wrong to ask for concrete guarantees that weren't actually in the mineral deal. Pointing out that Russia already broke the agreements in connection with this conflict isn't pushing, it's just plain and simple statement of facts - there's no reason to assume that Putin won't break the deal again. Vance and Trump refuse to even acknowledge this point, while continuing to talk to Putin behind Zelensky's back.
I'm pro-Zelensky taking an L, sucking up to Trump and stopping the war at all cost, but this can't happen without the guarantee that in some way shape or form prevents another invasion in the future.
teleoplexy
20d ago
Do you love her or just do it for your daughter?
teleoplexy
20d ago
Opened it right now and it's like clockwork
teleoplexy
20d ago
The first time I've heard of it I thought "cool", then I opened it and everything on the front page was about cryptocurrency and nothing else. Then I closed it and never came back to it again.
teleoplexy
1mo ago
Claude Sonnet also hypothesized electrolytes, FWIW. I guess real human advice of “ Just drinking vague electrolytes is not enough, you have to consciously track micronutrients and it seems like you lack potassium specifically” was more impactful.
teleoplexy
1mo ago
@Magusoflight, you asked me to shoot you an update if I figured out what's up with my sports/sleep issue I posted about a month ago if I have any progress.
I don't think I fully figured it out yet because I still have to restart my proper exercise routine, but I had a couple of promising weeks. The first lead I wanted to hone in on was potassium deficiency because it's the simplest thing to do and I realized I don't have a enough potassium in my diet (tracking micronutrients via Macrofactor). My main side was rice and sometimes I cooked some sort of pasta. I rarely cooked potatoes. I did three things:
- For half of my meals I replaced rice side with potatoes.
- Added drinking 2-3 glasses of orange juice per day.
- Replaced pineapple as my main dessert after dinner with 1 banana. Not everyday, maybe 3-4 times a week.
Early results for now:
- My sleep is deeper. Usually I need earplugs to make sure cats do not wake me up in the middle of the night and now I just don't need them. Most of the days I close my eyes and then open them in the morning.
- Much simpler for me to wake up. Seems like I don't even need coffee to feel like a human, I feel fine as soon as I open my eyes. Previously I needed like 1-2 hours to feel like a human being.
I'll keep you updated - planning to restart my workout routine this weekend and test whether increased potassium still holds up.
P.S. Thank you for everyone's suggestions on my last post!
teleoplexy
1mo ago
Ah, thank you for pointing this out. It's already paid for and thus unnecessarily cruel - this is the main point. IMO good faith interpretation, from the US government perspective the management of the drug supply chain isn't free, so they are just saving on that.
teleoplexy
1mo ago
Wouldn't it be cheaper to:
- Ban immigration from and travelling to the countries with this problem
- Treat your own citizens if this issue arises
After a while these poor countries find new sponsors who will solve their problems. Or solve it by themselves.
teleoplexy
1mo ago
People dying of TB is bad. But it's net negative only for the countries with the TB problem. Why should US subsidize this?
teleoplexy
1mo ago
Hundreds of Beavers
I don't think you can realistically compare the two countries in question because it doesn't take in consideration outside factors. There are two variables:
- How often are people getting arrested for something they say online.
- How often do people say something online that they can get arrested for.
My argument is that in Russia, due to the chilling effects of propaganda, astroturfing, arrests, assassinations, difference in treatment in prisons, general depoliticization of society, people in Russia are less likely to say something that attracts the attention of the government, especially using their real name. This isn't the free speech as you conceive of it in more liberal societies. This likely accounts for #2 being lower per capita in Russia than in UK in general - people know that you shouldn't speak out in a way that can attract unwanted attention.
Additionally, specifically due to section 127 including harassment, I'd argue that you'd need to go through each case to determine whether the government was punishing someone for exercising their right to free speech. This likely accounts for #1 being lower than reported in the original tweet for UK. I don't have modern data, I'd expect with the riots this would be higher than in 2017.
So do raw numbers really matter? My answer is: "No, they don't. The two cultures, social norms and political situations are fundamentally different".
You are wrong. Those data points are out-of-context and do not reflect the realities of speaking out in Russia.
The report discussed by Newsweek – authored by Agora, a Russian human rights group – found that 411 criminal cases were brought against internet users in Russia in 2017. The article does not give a figure for arrests.
In 2017 The Times made a Freedom of Information request which found 3,395 arrests had been made by 29 UK police forces for “section 127” offences, which is used for cases of online abuse. According to the article, 1,696 people were subsequently charged. Section 127 offences cover harassment that takes place via an “electronic communications network”, and is not limited to social media posts – harassment via email or other forms of online communication can also fall under this definition.
This stat is half cherry-picked and half lied about. Comparing UK and Russia, two fundamentally different societies with different levels of censorship online is intellectually dishonest.
> Even our code is in German!
> Java Spring Boot
Must lead to some long class names...
Ex: AbstractAutomatischeKonfigurationsStrategieProxyFactoryBeanImplementierungDelegate
teleoplexy
1mo ago
It already functions in most workplaces, honestly. At least everywhere I worked at there was a clause about notifying management when you start dating another employee, with the underlying assumption that it would prevent uncomfortable situations regarding power dynamics. It's not that uncommon, you don't need to introduce new laws to do this.
teleoplexy
1mo ago
Do you by any chance have Gilbert's syndrome? My pet theory is that it could be related although there's literally zero evidence that it is
teleoplexy
1mo ago
For sure! I noticed I never got "the rush" many get after a cardio workout, I'm just more on the edge, not less
teleoplexy
1mo ago
I'll admit right away that I'm late to the party - the Motte, SSC and the subculture around all of it seems to have pretty much died down and I'm not sure where to find everyone other than Twitter, which I refuse to use. But I think I want to catch up with all of the stuff that happened and was important to you all at the time. I'm aware of multiple SSC best-of compilations, but what about the others? Don't we have some legacy other than Scott?
So, to the survivors, I have two questions:
- What do you think are the best articles/arguments/comments/posts of the past decade?
- What's the book/article/comment that attracted you to the community in the first place?
teleoplexy
2mo ago
I take 400mg Magnesium Bisglycinate 1-1.5 hours before sleep. No weird dreams, no feeling in the legs either
teleoplexy
2mo ago
When I got diagnosed with RLS, doctor did a blood test but did not find any kind of deficiency. I think it’s worth trying it again. Testing supplements myself is a good idea, I’ll try it after ruling out electrolyte imbalance. Thank you!
I would also wager that your depression is a symptom of an underlying physical problem.
I don’t think I’m currently depressed, but let’s see whether any of the advice I got here changes my mind on this!
teleoplexy
2mo ago
Literally Gatorade? Despite the advertising, the "electrolytes" in Gatorade are mostly sodium. One potato has ~8x the potassium of a 20 oz Gatorade, IIRC. Some of your symptoms are consistent with your electrolytes being completely wack. Slightly supported by the mentioned magnesium supplementation combined with high sodium, but no mention of potassium, phosphorus, or calcium.
I actually don't know anything about micronutrients and that's on me, I'll do the research. I haven't seen anyone mentioning that this can have a connection to sleep quality.
Not just Gatorade, of course. I salt my food a lot which I assume counts as more sodium, but I haven't supplemented anything else. I just checked and Macrofactor also has a micronutrient tracker, I'll start using that today.
Maybe try tracking micro-nutrients in cronometer, and seeing if you are hitting adequate intake for everything? It's hard to get enough potassium, especially at higher sodium intakes since the ratio of potassium and sodium also matters.
I think potassium is a really likely culprit. When I worked out my didn't have a lot of vegetables and the fruits I ate didn't contain a lot of it too. I was likely very short of the required ratio.
I used to live with a very high level athlete, it wasn't uncommon for him to allocate like 10+ hours for bed. You can get away with a lot less if you are not training hard, other stressors are low, or if it's a short stint but some people just naturally need more sleep time.
I find I feel great with 7:40 hours when I'm not working out and it's hard for me to reshuffle my routine during work days due to family obligations, but I'll see whether I can do it and feel good in case I can't solve it while working out.
teleoplexy
2mo ago
Thank you taking your time to respond!
Even though you say it doesn't matter when you do the workouts, it has to matter somewhat, right? For example, if you did a workout 2 days ago you would sleep better than if you did one today.
I experience severe side-effects from insomnia so on day 2 I usually just sleep easier just from the sheer lack of sleep on the previous day. But after intense workouts the symptoms usually persist for 2-3 days.
From a practical level, try to give yourself more than 7hr 40m to sleep. Obviously its better to sleep through the night, but it's okay to wake up if you get overall enough.
That's what I have been doing, more or less. If I don't get enough sleep during the night, I just wake up later, but I find it inconvenient enough from the work-life balance standpoint to actually try to resolve the underlying issue.
teleoplexy
2mo ago
Seems like it, in all honesty. I'll try just doing Zone 2 cardio for a while and increase it in 5 minute intervals weekly.
I guess you'd also have to execute a bunch of Russians as well, in this case. It's more of a mentality thing - there's little patriotism in any post-Soviet countries
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