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You're right, that contrast is definitely important.

Yes, that would make sense.

The mentioning of Hachinosu got me thinking about a little thing that annoys me a bit. I think Hachinosu is funny, but also somewhat boring and uncool, because it's such a flat trope. Everyone there is just completely evil, leering drunks, ready to cut their own mother's head of and sell it for a drink. The slavers government send people they didn't like there, so shouldn't some really cool people have ended up there? Or just normal people who got in the way or committed the severe crime of being poor? Just like Australia.

Or maybe they have a three tier system: the work camp on the endless bridge where Robin ended up gets all the prisoners who are really just good honest people who got in the way of the government. Hachinosu gets all the cartoonishly evil caricatures of pirates. And Impel Down gets a carefully curated mixture of 70 % the same as Hachinosu and the rest are either ruffians with a golden heart who were led astray or secret revolutionaries, both of which end up in level 5.5 eventually.

I guess many fans like it, because they are like "finally a place with real pirates, like black beard". And by "real", they mean the caricature they mistake for historic pirates. But if you know anything about real pirate history in the Caribbean you know it's far from black and white.

Wasn't there a theory about rocks being inside teach somehow?

The insanely specific law is man made and part of culture. So it's still an example of weird culture. It's also specifically USian, because other countries have laws too, but not these insanely specialized lawyers to this extend nor their bizarre advertisements everywhere.

If it's about a paper and nothing else works, you could always just email the authors and ask. They gain absolutely nothing from the journal fees, so they lose nothing by helping you and might be happy someone is actually reading their paper.

What?

Nooo

They totally are and this probably won't even change that, just like previous airstrikes. They are just that subservient. Israel is just making sure Syria will never resist again.

The article, as well as the article from the Atlantic it quotes, both keep repeating the number of $800,000 for the price of the food. But the first paragraph of the article says $800,000,000. Of by a factor of x 1000? Either way it's crazy, of course.

I think it's already past that.

Is the point here, that "first world labor" has no or almost no constant capital(i.e. means of production)? If that was true it would actually have the highest rate of exploitation, since it would be made up almost entirely of variable capital, like a sweatshop. That's obviously the opposite of what the creator of the meme wanted to say, so it doesn't make sense.

In reality, labor in the imperial core has a higher than average organic composition of capital with lots of constant capital. Naively, one would think, that this would lead to lower profits, since value only comes from human labor. But if their business was less profitable than average, capitalists would just move their capital. And they do. They move capital out of those sectors. This lowers production and raises prices above values, until profits equalize. In a globalized market, this leads to equalization of the rate of profit on a global scale. But for profits to be (approximately) equal, that additional value for "first world" capitalists has to come from somewhere. It comes from the rest of the world, where prices for exports are lowered in turn below their value. This means, that capitalists from countries with a lower organic composition of capital (like Bangladesh) subsidize capitalists in countries with a high organic composition of capital (like Germany). Some of those profits might be passed on to a labor aristocracy, if labor is organized enough to demand it.

This is why China is shifting to high tech production and this is why the US is raging against that.

Also, when Marx considers average socially necessary labor time, he doesn't mean necessary in a hypothetical ideal communist society, but necessary for the actual, contradictory, capitalist society to reproduce itself. Lots of office labor seems pointless and soul crushing, but don't think you can get rid of it within capitalism. Idealists might think so, but we know better. You can't. It's necessary for this sick system to go on. Capitalists who invest in seemingly "pointless" labor react to pressure from contradictions they have no way of resolving within capitalism.

But physicists actually do that? They often write it like this: ∫ dx f(x) or this: ∫∫∫ dxdydz f(x,y,z)

Ultraviolet induced visible fluorescence photography

Sounds complicated, but it's just shining UV light on an object in a dark room and taking a normal photo with long exposure. If you want to be pure about only picturing visible light, you might need a UV filter, since many cameras can already see a bit of UV despite inbuilt filters.

How to DIY.

Thanks for the great overview.

Also it's very much actively going on and the current generation is totally involved.

But what happens is that the men and women separate and have their own conversations.

Maybe your girlfriend would appreciate it, if you didn't just let this separation along traditional gender lines happen as if it was an unstoppable force of nature. Keep it balanced or just keep the boring friend talking to yourself the whole evening. Should be easy, since you said it dosn't bother you. Then your gf can have intellectually stimulating conversations with your mutual interesting friend while you do that.

Okay, here you go and another one, just did a very quick search, but I'm sure you can find plenty more from every political affiliation.

NATO supporters always claim, that as a sovereign nation, Ukraine should have the right to end the war on their own terms. To get together with Russia and say:"If you do this and that, then we're happy and the fighting ends." But, oh wait, that already happened years ago in 2022 when Russia and Ukraine practically had an agreement to make peace but NATO caused them to keep fighting. German, Turkish and Israeli mediators who were present at the negotiations all say that's what happened. As does chief negotiator and leader of the ruling party in the Ukraine, David Arakhamia. They all agree, that NATO influence was what ultimately caused the deal to fall through. Is that what support looks like?

Yes, fruit is a botanical category, but vegetable is not.