Kyle’s definitely showing tons of regret today about shooting those protestors /s. He even cried in his trial!

It’s so fucking easy to become a conservative pundit. All you have to do is go to the nearest leftist protest and shoot some people in “self defense.” You do have to be white though.

Soon we will see some crazy Zionist shoot people at an anti-genocide protest and be celebrated for it.

IDK, can someone else answer?

@redline

This is a quote from the play The Fever by Wallace Shawn. The play depicts a person who becomes sick while struggling to find a morally consistent way to live when faced with injustice, and harshly criticizes the United States’ record in supporting the murder of communists and socialists. The play ends by saying that only blood spilled on their doorsteps will bring the complacent rich to change their selfish ways (which the NYT didn’t like for being too radical).

Wallace Shawn is a socialist, Jewish actor and playwright who has:

• supported whistleblower Chelsea Manning
• worked as a speaker for Jewish Voice for Peace in October 2023 as an anti-Zionist Jew
• narrated a political ad in April 2024 denouncing AIPAC influence

It doesn’t really matter whether we do or not. These kinds of people are utterly useless and treacherous all the same.

Full article is linked here

It seems Red Star is the only caucus in the DSA with decent revolutionary socialist politics, at least according to this overview.

Socialist Majority and Reform&Revolution are both Democrat aligned caucuses. Even worse, they are the two largest caucuses in the DSA.

This issue reflects the fundamentally treacherous nature of the USA white settler left as discussed by J Sakai in his book Settlers, which is mostly only interested in increasing its own share of the colonial spoils rather than actual international liberation.

Please replace “Treasury/ies” in the title with “US Treasury/ies”. There’s kind of a big difference between having a collapsing treasury and having a collapsing US treasury.

Soylent or Huel?

Man tries and fails to cohesively articulate class conflict (the fuck is worker vs merchant?). This is what happens when you don’t read theory.

No, the joke is that they are getting rid of bourgeois influence in exchange for this stuff.

China used its large market to play the capitalists against themselves. First to new market wins, so Western capitalists were begging to get in no matter what.

I do think that as China moves up the value chain, they should still improve and automate their low-value manufacturing. That way, they can never get cut off from needed goods. I don’t know whether this is exactly what they are planning. If someone more knowledgeable could chime in, that would be great!

I think I should withhold judgement for now. It is nigh-impossible for out-and-out-communists to get any work as journalists in media. Christian Parenti may just be biding his time with some 4D chess moves. Some Biden-Trump chaos right now is good to screw things up in the USA even more. Trump’s on-the-nose statements certainly helped shatter the US image abroad. If providing fake support to Trump accelerates the collapse of US hegemony, I think it’s a worthy trade.

This is only possible because you can run off into a national park, which is the exact opposite of capitalism.

This is technically true. China currently only has DUV machines, which don’t have enough resolution to produce 5nm chips directly. Only more advanced EUV machines are able to produce this directly or in one-two patterning steps.

However, China can still produce 5nm chips via multiple patterning. Basically, by overlaying lower resolution patterns offset from one another, you can form higher resolution structures in between the lower-res patterns. By repeating the multi-patterning process, you can “technically” get infinitely small resolutions.

The drawback is that you have to use several more steps. Each step takes more time, reducing throughout, and is a possible area for error. As a result, multi-patterned yields are lower than directly produced yields, and are more expensive as a result.

Thus, the real benefit going from DUV to EUV is reduced costs and increased throughput. Until China gets EUV, multi-patterned DUV is sufficient, since the state is willing to accept higher costs of production and provide subsidies to chipmakers in exchange for self-reliance.

The stumbling block right now is that the tech jump from DUV to EUV is large. DUV (deep ultraviolet light), which has a wavelength around 250nm, can be produced directly via lasers.

On the other hand, EUV (extreme ultraviolet light), which has a wavelength of 13.5nm and is almost an X-ray, cannot currently be produced directly right now. Current machines make it by using a giant laser to zap a molten drop of tin, turning it into a plasma which emits the desired EUV light. In the process, only ~6% of the original laser power is converted to EUV, resulting in an output of around 350 watts.

All in all, it took ~20 years to master this convoluted process. It will take China time to develop this EUV production tech, probably around 5-10 years at most.

In the process, China might be able to leapfrog some lingering issues with the tech. For example, the dogshit conversion efficiency means that a ridiculously large starting laser is needed to produce a paltry amount of EUV light, with the process output capping out around 500 watts.

Instead, China is starting work on oscillating electrons in a particle accelerator to generate EUV light directly, with much higher power output, called steady-state micro-bunching (SSMB). Using SSMB, China can use one accelerator to power dozens of EUV machines, and can scale output to be superior than current EUV machines. China is beginning work on a facility dedicated to SSMB research in Xiong’an this year.

For more info on this stuff, see:

• Asianometry on YouTube
  • Current EUV Lithography
  • EUV with free electron lasers (very similar to SSMB)
• China May Be Constructing EUV Lithography Machines on a Massive Scale by The China Academy

Fair point. However, the modern trend of Western Christian missionaries is explicitly associated with colonialism. Anyone who willingly contributes to spreading that kind of poison should be viewed with scrutiny.

Reddit normies discussing this article:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/climate/comments/1bk82lk/capitalism_cant_solve_climate_change_only_china/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/1bk7qxy/capitalism_cant_solve_climate_change/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/environment/comments/1bk41i0/capitalism_cant_solve_climate_change/

Other than the “communism no iphone” types, I think awareness of socialism really is increasing among Redditors.

Spam was wild, had to block the guy so my notifications wouldn’t die. Big thanks to him though for putting my post on the front page of Active and Hot.

That Pavel Grudinin guy sure looks a lot like reincarnated Stalin.

Good point. I’ve been dabbling with Khoj myself, which connects with Obsidian, the Markdown notemaking software I use. This lets the AI draw from my notes on the fly.

I’m waiting to build a PC with the RTX 5090 or something before diving deeper into local AI. The integrated GPU I’m using right now is just too slow.

The test tracks used for launch testing are the same ones cited as “for hyperloop testing” here (notice that the track mentioned in both is built by CASIC in Datong, Shanxi, is 2 km long, and is inside a low-vacuum tube). Space launch is a much more logical use for this kind of technology than rail transport. It’s nice to see that the same equipment can be used for research in such different fields.

This does mean that this track technically isn’t a “railgun”, as it uses magnetic levitation and not the Lorentz force for propulsion.