#and improvements on scope

[thewisestdino]

Improvement meme I did for fun, to commemorate the new year. Year it in the upper left hand corner, and my age is in the lower right hand corner.

[txttletale]

what does it mean when people say stuff like individual morality or action is incompatible with class analysis or class struggle?

alright so like one of the key ideas about class analysis is the idea that classes (as a whole) have economic interests that affect all their members but don't extrapolate out to an individual analysis.

for example, let's say that you can't find a job, and somebody offers to pay you below the table for below minimum wage. it's in your individual interest to do this--it beats having no job! but as a member of the working class, once this practice becomes normalized, suddenly the standards of pay for everyone are lower because people know that they can just pay less than minimum wage under the table. competition between workers for jobs drives wages down for everyone, leaving them all in a worse situation overall even if each individual choice to scab, to accept lower pay, to resist unionization, etc, leaves the person who makes it better off. cf. karl marx on what happens when wages and working conditions deteriorate:

The labourer seeks to maintain the total of his wages for a given time by performing more labour, either by working a great number of hours, or by accomplishing more in the same number of hours. Thus, urged on by want, he himself multiplies the disastrous effects of division of labour. The result is: the more he works, the less wages he receives. And for this simple reason: the more he works, the more he competes against his fellow workmen, the more he compels them to compete against him, and to offer themselves on the same wretched conditions as he does; so that, in the last analysis, he competes against himself as a member of the working class.

— Karl Marx, Wage Labour & Capital

similarly, any individual member of the working class is completely dispensable and replaceable by capital. if one person refuses to work unless they're paid a higher wage, they'll be fired and replaced with somebody who doesn't. the individual worker has no economic leverage whatsoever. but the working class has incredible economic leverage! and so does the intermediate stage between the working class and the individual--organized segments of the working class (e.g. trade unions) have economic leverage. if one person strikes, the capitalist can fire them. if 40,000 people strike, your industry is going to shut down.

so the reason why class analysis is compatible with individual action is that your incentives measurably change when you start organizing--it's in the interests of the individual to compete, but in the interests of the class to cooperate. and obviously you cannot just expect everyone to spontaneously coordinate! you, the individual, are disposable to capital! if you, personally, refuse to take the under-the-table offer, either on moral grounds or because you recognize your class interest, your neighbour's going to take it--unless you and her get together and agree that neither of you will take it. that's the only way that the guy making the offer is going to have to give in and offer the job for a living wage.

and this is what organization is--trade unions (although they have severe limitations!), communist parties, and other worker's organizations allow the working class to pursue their collective interest--which can only be pursued by collective action, because engaging in the strategies of collective action as an individual, without the cooperation of your peers, is high risk for no reward.

[kingkenzieofmold]

Hello! Been sick for the past 3 days and did what any artist does at one point in their lives, draw art about it. So enjoy a drawing of me in stick form suffering while bubbles talk about the past 3 days I’ve been sick.

Content Warning: Discussion of nose bleeds, sickness and mental health.

Side Note: wanted to add a bit about me going through a crisis but didn’t know where to add it. So here is some lore about me. Every time I get sick I go through a mental crisis over what ever is happening in my life. Crisis this time was me getting sick after years of not getting sick. Last time was about my relationship status I believe. Now enjoy the art, all of it is exaggerated so fear not, I have done a mental health and physical health check in. I am safe and alright!

[Text: *Internally Screaming*

(Rebooted up 2DS to play Pokémon Moon Rowlet Beloved)

(They are ready to Fight God or Become God they’ll decide once they finish walking their dogs)

(Been sick for 3 days is completely over it)

(Pokémon Go addiction returned)

(Gets chronic nosebleeds. Whenever the nose is dryed out of to soft. The nose will bleed. They have bleed enough blood need for a sacrifice to a high power)

(And this was my prayer “Save me from this terrible Nightmare” the tornado - owl city)

(tiktok edits getting them through the day new crush acquired what is this madness)

(Unable to sleep for more than 8 hours they tried send help) ]

[immortalsins]

drama is happening with the current housecest couple Help

[clancyycat]

just wasted so much time going through that article thats like “1000 books you may have actually read” that gets passed around on here every once in a while and um. the list kinda sucks

[mars-ipan]

woke up to use the bathroom (well. bedside commode. trying to reduce/prevent foot pain) and folks i am so comfy. i love the pressure from the compression boots they have me in and OH MY BIRTH CONTROL I NEED TO TAKE THAT

[dextervexter]

ohhhh my god oh my god i need to reread it i need to reread strange the dreamer it was so good

[officialboredom]

Ok, one thing that really kills me with Persona 3 Reload is how they handle what you can do at each time of day. Like, someone saying they actually can't hang right after starting the hang out, or worse, a prayer at the shrine taking all afternoon??? Huh??

Or how you can either do something in the evening, OR go to Tartarus, despite the fact that you would do the latter in an extra hour in the day that few people have access to. What are you doing waiting for the Dark Hour? Sleeping? Jacking off???

[acanthemp3]

so close to being done with a drawing and i just realized that its almost identical to something i already made and posted

[a2zsportsnews]

IND-W vs IRE-W: Mandhana says there’s still scope of improvement despite ‘planned’ onslaught against Ireland

Charismatic India cricketer Smriti Mandhana said on Wednesday her record-breaking onslaught on the Irish bowlers was planned but despite her team’s clean sweep, there is still lot of scope for improvement in both fielding and running between wickets. The India skipper was at the forefront of several records being smashed as the host won by a massive 304 runs to claim its biggest-ever ODI win and…

[2evran]

Old man yelling at cloud alert: I feel like 50% of the ppl hating on veilguard i see on here are not hating correctly. Like that one post with the person who only played veilguard not knowing what the circle was and 500 people losing their minds in the notes I really do not think it's that serious

[farmerstrend]

Turning Waste into Power: How Kenyan Tea Farmers are Benefiting from Tea Clippings Gasification

A Deeside-based waste-to-energy company has unveiled its role on a project that will use waste tea clippings to make greener power for Kenyan farmers. l-r: Emily Mutindi Mutua of IITA, Paul Willacy of CSS, Niel Schulz from United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and Aarti Shah of IITA at a tea plantation in Limuru highlands, Kenya. (Photo credit: CSS) Kenya produces £1bn of tea per…

[poddar123]

How to Progress ahead with Mathematics?

[gift-of-orzhova]

It's insane to me that the company that produces zzz, a game that has some of the best animation work I have seen in an action game; also produces genshin impact, which has some of the worst animation work I've ever seen in an action game.

[guzscode]

Dislate DevLog 1: When Comparing Size Matters

Daily Blogs 277 - Aug 8th, 12.024

Something which I noticed today while programming the project-dislate's database interface, is how much the files that I write got bigger. When I was starting programming, most files didn't pass the 100 lines most of the time. I still remember doing my first "real" project, a simple To-Do list application called ToToday (which I actually used when I was starting to organize my life), which I made 2 years ago and felt really proud on how I made the code "scalable" to add more features and just use the LocalStorage API for everything. The Tasks' Component I specially felt proud about, and even showed to friends them, showing the amount of lines and how much it was scalable and organized.

However, seeing now, even though the files have around 300 lines of code, the actual logic of the code is just around 120 lines, the rest is just HTML and CSS. Not only that, but last year, as an experiment, I created another To-Do list application in just one HTML file, which ended having 350 lines of code for the entire application (this kinda also shows how much JavaScript, and its ecosystem has the tendency of over-engineering a log of things).

And today, I actually wrote just a database interface, and it ended up with 300 lines of code before I was even having time of completing it today. All these lines are code, pretty much. And I asked me "why?", and pretty much already had the answer in mind: I'm doing more complex things now.

I hardly look backwards to compare myself, which I know is a problem and I probably should do it more since it really shows me how much I improved as a programmer/Software Engineer. I even call myself now a "Software Engineer" instead of "Programmer", because that what I am, I solve problems now, I make actual software that solves problems instead of just gluing things together and calling it a day. Even though number of lines doesn't really represent quality or even improvement, the idea that nowadays this amount of code every day is normal and the bare minimum for a small part of the projects that I do, I would say that it shows that I'm improving and actually creating things. Projects and codebases aren't big when the only thing you're doing is gluing libraries and frameworks together, I would say. If you are solving problems, if you're making business logic, you will need to write it and write more code.

That's why I always recommend making and write projects that you will use, that you actually care, instead of just following tutorials and making To-Do apps. Actual software is hard and big most of the time, but writing them can be fulfilling. I acknowledge that my first To-Do app was a start and a good step in actually trying to complete something, but I fell a lot happier seeing myself now actually persuading bigger challenges. And I hope that you go pursue bigger challenges.

Today's artists & creative things Music: Road To Hide - by ZeRO

© 2024 Gustavo "Guz" L. de Mello. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

[counselorssoapbox]

Polishing the manuscript.

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