IceWallowCum [he/him]

One of them, yes! As an analogy, it’s as if a tree secreted a substance that breaks apart the chain of the chainsaw

We’ve had a MDR fungus in one of the ICUs I work at

Poor dude had to get half his face removed due to it, then it started growing on the other half, too. The only risk factor he had was diabetes, btw

I work/study/do research in healthcare and I’ve been recently thinking about how much of modern medicine/healthcare is based on the guarantee of antibiotics working properly. On the other hand, there are more and more resistant bacteria floating around the communities, ie. outside the ICU where they usually come from.

Antibiotic resistance and development is yet another barrier that capitalism fundamentally cannot overcome, regardless of how many reforms you make. Research for new drugs take a long time and is very expensive. Along with this, the correct way of using antibiotics is avoiding overuse or just reducing the use in general, specially of new drugs that bacteria can’t resist yet. That means that companies can’t expect to make a profit out of any new drug that they develop, since trying to use them as little as possible is the rational way.

In other words, the profit motive is unable to create new antibiotics in the manner that the world needs right now, let alone in the much worse future. If we lose antibiotics, modern medicine mostly comes to a halt. For example, say goodbye to surgeries and also to your little niece that got an ear infection that every kid gets at least once. Tooth extractions becomes a very high risk procedure, too.

India announces History 2

Possibly one of the wrongest men in history

During 2002 - 2016, Lula had been trying to consolidate a strong South American block, even financing the construction of ports and such in other South American countries. I wonder if this was a strategy laid out by BRICS as a whole, with each member leading their region.

Seems like only China came out with the results, for obvious reasons

FED MANUFACTURING INDEX

Hey, that’s what we do here!

I’ve found this contrast interesting:

the collective choice for order and truth over disorder and opinion

vs.

It is the choices of individuals that will make the new American Golden Age possible

Our technologies, and what we do with them, will be the tools with which we will make the destiny of our country manifest in this century.

Hmmm

the collective choice for order and truth over disorder and opinion

Hey look, it’s fascism!

Advances have not stopped, but something has gone wrong [this comes after a paragraph detailing how American infrastructure and research is a pile of shit now]

Cool, they’ve noticed that privatization destroyed their industry?

We seem to have lost focus and vision, to have lowered our sights and let systems and structures and bureaucracies muddle us along.

Ah! Well.

the tradition of American innovation has been one of increasing the capacities of America’s workers, of extending human ability so that more people can do more, and, more meaningful work. But unrestricted immigration, and reliance on cheap labor both domestically and offshore, has been a substitute for improving productivity with technology.

It’s fascism, isn’t it?

it is the duty of government to enable scientists to create new theories and empower engineers to put them into practice. (…) it is the duty of government to enable scientists to create new theories and empower engineers to put them into practice.

Innovation comes from the special minds of innovators doing theory then paying someone to find a way to shove that into practice 🤓

To safeguard our intellectual capital, we must restrict foreign access to sensitive data and strengthen oversight of international collaborators.

Capitalism has become an impediment to scientific development on a global scale.

with an unapologetic America-first attitude about enforcing them, are central to stopping China from continuing to build itself up at our expense.

Production / exchange / consumption are three phenomena completely independent on each other, we can simply sever our trading and consumption from the production without any consequences 🤓

It is the choices of individuals that will make the new American Golden Age possible: the choice of individuals to master the sclerosis of the state, and the choice of individuals to craft new technologies and give themselves to scientific discoveries that will bend time and space, make more with less, and drive us further into the endless frontier

America is doomed 🙏 the sad part is that it won’t go down without an ugly fight

Rogue nation

Big brain move: notice the market get too volatile and insecure, so you keep changing the economic outlook every 12 hours so that the big players don’t know wtf is happening and decide to just hold out for a while and not sell anything.

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On another note, it’s hard to appreciate the timescale of the American empire while you’re living through it. I just noticed that the possibly strongest empire in human history started to crumble after what, 70-80 years? I usually think of empires lasting for centuries, with generations and generations of a golden age.

Rapidly approaching one of those weeks

Absolutely ideology pilled. The endpoint of “the conomy” being just numbers on a screen and lines going up

reading paper in hand

Critical support to… the US? For their unshakeable commitment towards… dedollarization? What?

He is busy coming up with more tariffs to destroy America

Lathe time: Chinese capital parasitizes American labor, but since America refuses to use state power to control capital, and they’ve been dismantling their own state, there are no conditions of controlling or directing that capital towards growth, so they simply get destroyed like any other colony in the global south. America effectively becomes a Chinese colony (while boasting about it)