Nonviolent resistance movements are more likely to facilitate transitions from autocracy to democracy, improve democratic qualities like civil liberties, transform security forces and judicial systems in rights-respecting directions, and enhance well-being measures such as life expectancy.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2452292924000365

The commonly held belief that most revolutions that have happened in dictatorial regimes were bloody or violent uprisings is not borne out by historical analysis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_revolution

Empirical evidence strongly favors strategic, organized nonviolent resistance as the most effective path to sustainable political change.

Political assassinations are a tool of desperation. They’re effective at creating instability and further violence; counterproductive for achieving lasting political goals. They fail to eliminate the ideas, movements, and structures that person represented.

There’s a Wikipedia page on nonviolent revolutions, so is violence itself necessary or is the threat of violence sufficient? History may not actually be in complete agreement in favor of violent resistance.

“Nonviolent campaigns have a 53% success rate and only about a 20% rate of complete failure. Things are reversed for violent campaigns, which were only successful 23% of the time, and complete failures about 60% of the time. Violent campaigns succeeded partially in about 10% of cases, again comparing unfavorably to nonviolent campaigns, which resulted in partial successes over 20% of the time.”

https://www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw

You’re right, the problem is more than the cutoff, its that medical insurance is tied to employment. Say someone loses their job due to no fault of their own; company is downsizing, work is automated, the CEO buys into the AI hype to replace workers, or theres unforseen funding cuts to the organization. Then you’re out of a job and don’t have health insurance. Maybe your entire industry isn’t hiring anymore, and the local coffee shop that’s hiring doesn’t offer any benefits. Of course, they won’t hire you anyways because why would they want someone with an advanced degree when they expect you’ll just leave as soon as you find something better. Or you need 3 years prior experience as a barista before being considered.

Can’t forget the elephants down there propping everything up

Usually its not so obvious if his tweets are real or not. Happy to see he’s finally come out of the closet.

Maybe because its supposed to just be the jelly"fin" and not the whole fish. Might have complicated things for you.

These are are simply unitary fucks. Matrix fucks with eigenvalue absolute value of 1. Surprisingly useful for quantum computing applications.

Ahh the navier stokes fuck. Believed to actually be computable.

Must be a reference to the space of topological fucks. I believe this one is equivalent to the torus.

So it was an inside job!

Sometimes it helps solve an equation by adding zero.

I understand its probably more user friendly, but yet I still somehow find myself dissapointed the answers weren’t indexed from zero. Was this LLM written in MATLAB?

They do a naked run every semester at Berkeley the week before finals. Its called dead week, where there’s no classes, and its a time for students to cram for their exams, or, you know, run naked around campus.

After giving the medium a chance, not sure I wouldn’t call myself a fan anymore, but I certainly take issues with the typically associated tropes. So here’s my list of more recent shows with either very little or none of these.

Solo leveling Hells paradise Chainsaw man Jujutsu kaisen Demon slayer

Vinland saga Attack on titan

Dan DA dan

Bluelock

Hunter x hunter Spy family Bocchi the rock Apothecary diaries

Literally tried looking for a jinx text editor for a minute

Briefly looked into it, and found an old stack post that said we know at least one is irrational. It would be pretty interesting if the other were rational.

I advocate for a cooperative economy. The best example of it working at scale in the modern world is the mondragon corporation in spain.

I think people are more than that. The point being that nothing is inherently wrong with making individualistic self serving choices except when there is disregard for others. But people can also be compassionate, alturistic, giving, and cooperative, so how about a system that rewards the better parts of human nature?

Capitalist markets are built off of the idea that people are inherently self serving and the ensuing competition will benefit people with lower prices, better products, etc to meet their own selfish needs. Capitalism uses capital to gain more capital, and is exploitative by design. When a company acts in a way to maximize profits, and appease shareholders, they’re doing it selfishly, with total disregard for others or the environment, in a system that rewards their actions. This is quite like psychotic, or sociopathic, behavior.

I just think trying to control this is a losing battle, and what we really need are foundational changes to values, motives, and what gets rewarded and how.

I disagree. I think that may actually be the only way out of this mess. “Cooperation [being nice, forgiving, but not a pushover, and clear] pays even among rivals” (Veritasium - Prisoners Dilemma).