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Cake day: March 25th, 2025

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  • To call something communism requires advanced “productive forces” (industry/energy/automation) that will enable advanced “production relations” (property/capital/opportunity) where everyone will do what they can and will use as much as they need. The USSR and all so-called communist states were underdeveloped countries where “productive forces” were at a very low level and it was not possible for them to have “communist production relations”. They were autocratic kleptomaniac states, nothing more. The closest example of a communist society is Star Trek. That’s how far humanity is from communism. Today it seems like a utopia, but I suppose that to people who lived in the year 750, the possibility of free movement, choice of representatives, choice of work, opportunity for education seemed like a utopia




  • Quote: “This morning, I asked my Alexa-enabled Bosch coffee machine to make me a coffee. Instead of running my routine, it told me it couldn’t do that. Ever since I upgraded to Alexa Plus, Amazon’s generative-AI-powered voice assistant, it has failed to reliably run my coffee routine, coming up with a different excuse almost every time I ask.”

    Why? Seriosly! The author spent XXX kWh energy running AI because is lazy to switch ON damn coffie machine?