I think it’s good to mention this otherwise we fall into the anti-authority argument that anarchists love to bring up.

But that’s exactly what I meant. Cops are bad for the working class not because they are cops, or because they enforce state rule. They are bad for the population because their function, as part of the superstructure, is to maintain the base of society (production, distribution and classes) working as they are intended.

So cops in a colonial society are going to enforce colonial social relations. Cops in a slaver society will enforce slavery social relations. Cops in a capitalist society, which existed in a historical process of past colonial and slavery relations, will be racist and target those minorities, since they are now part of the lowest sections of the proletariat and subproletariat.

I love when mainstream false news are easily debunked with a minimum amount of facts, logic and critical thinking.

Yes, but this is not the point. We should not rely only on moral arguments against bourgeois institutions, because the same thing can be said against socialism. The thing is, the police is an instrument of the capitalists because the laws in capitalist country favors the capitalists. It’s basically the superstructure as a product and in a dialectical relationship with the base structure.

In other words, ignoring the context and interactions of a category is the same as removing the dialectics from materialist analysis. Then we limit ourselves to analysing the reality with metaphysics.

For people in Latin America who were part of the left leaning Catholics, such as myself, the pope, even with all his limitations, were good news. He also delayed the advance of some very reactionary elements in the Catholic church, which is still majoritary in Latin American countries such as Brazil. So even knowing his problems (including his participation in Argentinian dictatorship), I still think his term as the pope was positive.

Badempanada is a content creator and like many, he likes to dive into internet drama. A little Internet drama is good to pump up numbers and engage his audience.

First of all, if the majority of the earnings of your family come from their labor (wages, self employment, small businesses), doesn’t matter if the earnings are small or high, your family is working class.

Secondly, doesn’t matter even if you were born in a bourgeois family, socialists aren’t like Nazis that strive for racial purity. As long as you share our values, meaning you understand that we need to end class exploitation and advance for a class-less society, you are our ally. In fact, we had some bourgeois class traitors to join our ranks, like Zhou Enlai and Friedrich Engels.

Comrade, I disagree with your points and agree with the comrade who answered before you. What he is saying is that a LLM, as technology, is not bad per se. The problem is that in the context of capitalism, it does steal from other artists to create another commodity that is exchanged without any contribution to the authors whose art have been used to feed the LLM models.

That said, any new commodity in capitalism will be a product of exploitation, and this does not exclude any forms of art. Remember that big companies like Marvel and DC used steal its employees’ intellectual property, long before even digital art existed. Many important artists lived in squalor while their works became high priced commodities after their death. Fast forward today, LLMs are another commodity built for the sake of exploiting people’s labor, in a different way, but still following the same logic of capitalism.

I think that any electromechanical system that does not allow a mechanical override or at least a redundancy are doomed to fail. I don’t know why these IOT entrepreneurs don’t take in account that software and electronics are faulty systems, ignoring decades of experience in the subject.

Yes, 0.99 performance being consumed by the interpreter.

For the little I’ve learned about LaVeyanism it seemed to me that their ideology/religion was very individualistic and egotistic. Although it serves the purpose to ridicule the typical US Christian hypocrisy, I think their credo is pretty much aligned with far right wing views of society, including capitalism. So, it makes total sense they are anti-communists.

Pois é, o rapaz fala como se o que ele fez na pandemia não tivesse a mínima importância. Isso sem falar na quantidade de gente morta por estar fanaticamente seguindo o discurso do “mito”. Carla Zambelli nada fez além de dar uma “mitada”.

What a coincidence. In Brazil, Bolsonaro also suffered an homicide attempt in the eve of the elections. This is the second something like this happens, following the same recipe.

I hope it’s history repeating itself as a tragedy… Rather than the alternative.