theyve likely been getting assistance on the dl from russia/china/iran for years now, missile manufacturing doesnt just happen in sixth months or ukraine wouldnt be in as deep shit as it is
to quote netizens, "the last unlock on yemens agricultural tech tree lets you grow guns in the desert“
the forums, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide 
hes the american khrushchev, all the lib fifth columnists and compradors everywhere are gonna be tearing their hair out trying to mental gymnastics their way to where america somehow isnt exactly what trump represents.
there will be no dedollarization before a physical conflict that completely exhausts the hegemon materially and politically, destroying the extant system and thus creating the need for a new one.
money can be part of the base in times of peace, but when it comes to dethroning the hegemon, it is always superstructure. this is because antihegemonism necessarily entails physical violence, conditions under which currency returns to its idealist origins while real resources and their effective application to ends destructive or otherwise becomes ascendant.
the fastest way out is the abolishment of this intolerable peace enforced by MAD through rapidly escalating nuclear brinksmanship. hard to believe that mao had it right all this time.
is it possible to have a not quite meme electoral system that selects for the guy with the least amount of downvotes?
china doesn't have any direct trump cards other than maybe physically retaking reddit island, but a provocation large enough to incite direct confrontation (and thus one that is also large enough to directly threaten hegemonic legitimacy) is probably enough to do in the empire. the geopolitical edging we are currently experiencing is a side effect of no one wanting to be the bad guy and flip the table, but it's not like things are getting any less tense.
Braudel suggests that the withdrawal of the Dutch from commerce around 1740 to become 'the bankers of Europe' was typical of a recurrent world systemic tendency. The same process was in evidence in Italy in the fifteenth century, and again around 1560, when the leading groups of the Genoese business diaspora gradually relinquished commerce to exercise for about seventy years... After the Dutch, the British replicated the tendency during and after the Great Depression of 1873-96, when 'the fantastic venture of the industrial revolution' created an overabundance of money capital. After the equally 'fantastic venture' of Fordism-Keynesianism, we may add, US capital since the 1970s has followed a similar trajectory.
reading between the lines (80 years war, anglo-dutch wars, ww1&2), it's pretty clear we're being herded by historical forces towards some conflict of eschatological proportion in the near future. it's not even in real doubt whether or not the us will lose the conflict, the real question seems to be one of how many of us will be left alive after the us system has been turned to ashes.
on a lighter note, i actually think the current plan of 'making israel die very very slowly' is actually pretty good. if there is a direct intervention, the us is toast. if they don't intervene, you get all kinds of domestic unrest in the ruling class to add to the working class dissatisfaction. basically a lose-lose proposition that is faster than supply chain restructuring and is only solved if the euros decide to fall on their swords and actually do something about russia, and even then is only a temp fix.
im at the point where i feel like we should be looking for characteristic equations of 'human nature' or capital itself (assumption being that it is higher order and highly coupled to extant systems). developing appropriate constraints for a given historical or future context seems to be the biggest issue though, will take an immense amount of work to go through and quantify initial and boundary conditions for a particular scenario and then youd probably have to solve some fucking weird diamat super/substructural closure problem to account for historical turbulence as well...
til american procurement really is ass and a single iranian salvo will take out an entire years worth of sm6s lol
edit: this might actually be the wrong link but the point is that theyve been making just 125 of their workhorse antiair missiles per year since 2023...
my guy on douyin has been predicting dprk's entry into the european theater for over a year now and he is doubling down on the end of the russo-ukrainian proxy war and escalation of russia-nato actual war with belarus as focal point
though he has hedged that trump will try (and fail) to make middle east the primary conflict zone if he gets elected
bruh they got kathleen tyson on the show just to mercilessly body her over and over radhika plz stahp we want repeat guests not heads on pikes
if its existence were at stake, what would stop israel from nuking the us after washington tugs the leash one too many times lol?
if iran russia mutual defense treaty gets through, will be interesting to see s400 peformance
don't understand why seoul has been so vocal about this whole thing, it had everything to lose and nothing to gain from announcing this.
its october 22nd in asia, kazan summit nothing ever happens gang where we at
lmao i'd be coping this hard too if i also owned t1 property, worked at some private sector ngo mouthpiece and got a nice haircut from the a shares last week
chinese military weebs have noted that the middle east is currently on the anime arc where old mentor characters get killed off and from this the shonen protag is powered up enough to kill off the big bad and avenge the mentors
in reality its just a narrative mediated memetic virus but im convinced tbh lol
apparently just a stray mortar round
crazy he was on the front line at all, what a guy
best place for us to escalate is europe. logistics are easiest, most number of stooges to send to get killed, most politically captured, decent amount of capital to redirect.
second by a wide margin is israel, logistics are bad, iran's too far away and has already been sanctioned to death, israel is tiny and the opponents that are actually targetable are a bunch of non state actors engaging in protracted people's war with islamic characteristics.
third is asia. bunch of opportunistic islands all well within range of chinese strategic deterrence. us lost the korean war when it was at its most dominant, unlikely that it and its proxies will win round two.
this is a message intended to deter the dprk from intervening as much as it might in eastern europe when the nato/russia conflict eventually kicks off and the russia/dprk mutual defense treaty is invoked.
fucked up again this year and didn't support my tomatoes fully because i figured the stems were thick enough
rainy season hits and two of my biggest plants snapped in half because they were too top heavy lol, lost like half my first batch. is there any coming back from this or are things joever for me this season?
i'm trying to improve the soil quality in my yard, it's hard and clay-like and roots have a hard time going down below like 4 cm. i have cow patties, rice hulls, rinsed coco coir and some cardboard.
currently the plan has been to mix up the patties and rice hulls and bury that below ground (completed already), then mulch with the coir + hulls + patties, then finally cover with cardboard. the yard is small so not much cardboard involved. i'm growing cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and beans this year, they should have been in the ground already but i wanted to grow from seed and my cats got to the sprouts. so i gotta get new ones !agony-acid
please tell me what i am missing or what i could do better.
recently there has been this problem that has been getting more frequent, my computer just randomly freezes up/blackscreens and then fails to post when i do a hard restart. this doesn't resolve itself until after i open it up and play musical chairs with the ram for a bit.
shit that i have tried:
- swapped the ram around to different slots. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't
- cleaned out the case
- wd40'd the ram pins (helped with the posting but seems to have increased crash frequency, not enough data to tell for sure)
no idea where to begin with this one, can't tell if it's a motherboard or a ram issue or something else entirely. the sticks are of differing sizes and manufacture so that may also be an issue. would give specs but the thing just died on me in the middle of posting this and i can't boot in just yet. motherboard is a supermicro x9 something server board.
this was my garden a few weeks back. i'm basically totally new at this despite having done this for a few years now and this is gonna be a sort of lessons learned kinda deal.
the story so far is that i decided i was too busy to fuck too much with replanting seedlings this year and figured that i would just go straight from seed, hoping that the unusually cold weather we were having in spring would kill most of them so i would have less work to do down the line. that was a completely unfounded and stupid assumption on my part and i had to replant/uproot a bunch of plants (see above) because i ended up just haphazardly scattering seeds everywhere and the distribution of plants was totally fucked.
a lot of them started flowering last week-ish so i decided to fertilize this week. this was initially impossible because i hadn't really done any maintenance on my little guys since i replanted them and so the place was basically a jungle. after two afternoons worth of effort the garden now looks like this (didn't really do much to the guys in the planter, there's a drainage layer but the big drainage pipe is above the drainage layer for reasons outside my control and i really need to get on that...):
all this to say that for anyone starting out, just bite the bullet and start your seeds off somewhere where you can keep track of them and replant them (IN AN ORGANIZED FASHION) later on. you'll save yourself a lot of trouble and won't end up spilling fermented soybeans all over yourself because you tripped over a potato while trying to maneuver yourself around your poor man's tomato cage.
is this a bad idea? plan on mixing some topsoil in, but dont have very much on hand
they literally sit on top of the rest of the body, account for 25% of resting body glucose consumption by themselves, and don't actually do anything except order other parts of the body around and infecting themselves with idealist constructs like 'language' and 'consciousness' just so that they can better convince themselves and the rest of the body that they're the most important organs around.
