#informative reblogs

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This is really good, please watch it.

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Owners and Finance have inserted themselves between users and service-providers in almost every industry, and use this middle position to impose rents(use-costs; not a payment for service or a maintenance fee: just a cost they impose because they're allowed and can enforce it) on every single transaction.

Everything is expensive, everything sucks in quality, yet no one has money because the capitalist-class has leveraged their capital to restructure pretty much every industry so that most of every dollar in every transaction goes to them. This is ALLOT Like medieval economies, where the ~Nobility~ would charge rents, of labor goods or valuables, for basically every use, activity on, or passage across the land they controlled. And that's by design: Conservatism is an anti-democratic, anti-market, monopolistic, anti-egalitarian, hierarchical movement obsessed with re-establishing the medieval social order. Always has been, since it was founded in reaction to the French Revolution.

When you vote for Conservatives anywhere in the world, for any reason, you are voting for precisely this sort of Rent-Economy, and precisely this sort of inherited hierarchy.

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Just saw this on Twitter:

Be careful, Dear Readers: there's misinformation out there EVERYWHERE right now, even from sources you might normally trust.

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This is a really good video-essay by FD Signifier going to the vote-data to construct a theory of what happened in the 2024 election. Spoiler Alert: White Racists are Racist, and Misogynists Hate Women -___-

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Unrelated to anything at all but here's an article from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Online about Long Covid in Children from 15 June 2024

And Here's An Article by Emily Oster in the Atlantic from 9 October 2020 about how it's totally safe to send kids back to school

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Not just that: the insurance companies OWN THE HOSPITALS

They're the ones who SET THE PRICES FOR THE PROCEDURES

IT'S THE INSURANCE COMPANIES THAT MAKE THE SURGERY SO EXPENSIVE IN THE FIRST PLACE, AND THEN IT'S THE INSURANCE COMPANIES WHO REFUSE TO PAY FOR IT BECAUSE IT'S SO EXPENSIVE

Like: this whole system is designed to mask and hide their responsibility, while simultaneously making sure no one else(espcl doctors) is allowed any responsibility at all, but carries the liability(espcl patients).

Abolish for-profit health care insurance.

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Came across This Reuters Article from 2022 yesterday and, while not surprising, it sure is infuriating: it's about how cops in Southern California(like cops throughout the US) spend most of their time just stopping and harassing random black people rather than responding to, you know, Crimes.

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Question Copyright - All Creative Work is Derivative

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Holy Shit!!!

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#also you dont have to waste resources “proving” who's poor(via @arrows-for-pens)

Yeah. ~Means Testing~ is almost always a stealth way to kill these programs, which is why Conservatives --who HATE social support programs, openly campaign on getting rid of them, and fight to make them worse and inaccessible when they DO exist-- are so often the ppl who SUGGEST means testing.

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OK, So:

I'm watching this video essay from acollierastro(which is great, and you should watch it), and as you can see it's mainly about space elevators, but in the course of explaining the challenges with THAT she brings up a a point that I LOVE that NO SPACE TRAVEL FIC EVER Mentions, which is Interstellar(she calls it Galactic, which is Also a good name uwu) Navigation.

Like: stars move, and they don't move at the same rate, and they don't move in straight lines because gravity curves space. We tend to think of space travel as a straight path from point A to point B but NO! That's not what you have to do(coincidentally this is also one of the many, Many reasons why the dark forest hypothesis is bullshit)!! What you have to do is send a Leetle ship from One chaoticly moving object(the solar system), through an unknown and chaotically dynamic medium(Spess), to ANOTHER, Specific, chaoticly moving object(your destination), and you have to do that accurately, over numerous light-years, understanding that EVERY slowdown or course-change which occurs due to malfunction or for the safety of the leetle ship will DRASTICALLY change your needed course and resource requirements, oh and ALSO: the only idea you have for where the destination-star could be is where it was many MANY years(possibly centuries or millennia) in the past. Like: even if you choose a star you have a long history of observation for, and thus numerous datapoints for calculating its velocity and vector, it may not be where you expect it to be because some Event you haven't witnessed altered its trajectory, or simply because it moved through a star-dense area and all that gravity altered its course.

Interstellar navigation is SUCH a huge problem, such a COMPLEX problem Filled with unknowns and (due to the scale of the distances and speeds involved and the limitations of detection)unknowables, and so many people just ignore it! And I mean: that's fine for Star Trek and the like, it's a conceit that allows for cool stories, but when someone's trying to present themselves as talking about this IRL, or their SciFi as "Hard" and "Grounded", and they IGNORE the MASSIVE PROBLEM of navigation, I just find it really difficult to take them seriously.

And so I liked that she brought it up ^v^ ^v^ ^v^

Anyway: enough of my ranting :p :p

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a Kewl Video explaining antimatter, and also providing concrete examples of how math is an abstraction which doesn't always produce an accurate map of reality, regardless of how many times the math-mystics say we live in a computer-program uwu

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Hey! So I Wrote This RB back in 2013 about how the name Yeshua shifted to Jesus, and lately I've been watching videos from this biblical scholar named Dan McClellan and realized I was wrong about allot of it!

Here's A Good Video of his responding to someone with similar misunderstandings to mine, which I think explains the actl linguistic principles at play really well. Of particular interest to me is his discussion of how the aleph was pronounced(It's a glottal-stop not an 'ah' sound :D), and how the Galilean accent most likely operated. Tl;dr: it was probably pronounced something more like yea-shoo! Neat!!

Anyway, for me he shall Eternally Remain "Oily Josh" uwu uwu uwu

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Currently watching This Video Essay From acollierastro

and Did You Know that we designed an array of radio telescopes called The Event Horizon Telescope which 1)can take pictures of blackholes and 2)is the size of THE EARTH?!?!

cuz that's pretty fuckin sweet owo

Science is So Cool :3 :3

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This is Supremely Grim

Plz watch it u_u u_u

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The Ballad of John and Yoko | 10-minute Teaser for Nebula

Like the caption says this is only the first 10mins of a larger work you need to have a Nebula account to see, but THAT video essays is an excellent and horrifying examination of Fame and how destructive it can be(spcl to women) through the lens of “who broke up The Beatles?” and the decades of vile, baseless hatred thrown Yoko Ono’s way on that subject.

It’s also just a really good corrective to allot of “common knowledge” misinformation about the individuals discussed. For instance, I’ve heard about The Beatles’s ~Crazy~ trip to India for most of my life but it wasn’t until watching THIS that I learned it was basically a trauma-response to their closeted gay manager, Brian Epstein, dying of an accidental overdose.