this “common knowledge” “weight loss” stuff typically neglects how dieting will affect ur caloric rate. if u just starve urself, ur muscles will grow smaller and u will need fewer calories to maintain ur normal functioning body, meaning u need to eat even less again to not put on fat. but if u train ur muscles directly, they will beg for more calories so they can grow, and the calories needed to maintain them will also increase.

for anyone interested, i suggest reading a physical education by casey johnston.

my guess would be that those loyal customers are the least likely to leave, so u can squeeze as much as u like out of them.

new customers u wanna attract more of, so treat them better and they will come to u.

those who leave and come back for the discount are probably not a meaningful enough size for a company to even think about.

Or even worst, the elderly?

id say this is definitely an effect of this behaviour, but i doubt its intentional. a company doesnt care abt anything but profits, so they dont care abt the impact of their actions beyond that

nice lifehack

shorthand for people. im lazy

clippy is now a right-to-repair icon. the idea is that if lots of ppl change their YT profile pic to clippy, people in power will feel threatened and cave in. or maybe corporations will see theres a market there and make repairable devices.

wet and in my mouth?

interesting u should say that. theres actually this political system that someone used complex systems analysis to create in an adaptable, yet stable way. very much like the evolutionary process.

if ur interested, its this series, particularly part 2:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvwoHdNGq9wVweGZ5bj5ZxFYulL_Xll_z

im sorry to hear that after all of this u continue to claim the state is an extension of its people, and continue to mix representation and delegation. or for that matter, the myth of the state abolishing itself, which has no basis in reality.

ill give up on explaining this to u now. just one small thing: its spelled Bismarck, not Bismark.

yes, well, if u had watched it, u wouldve noticed its not about the anarchist critique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc2q-82G6dg

this is a good guide on how to use the browser safely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3wmLvny5tg

its been quite fast for a while now. i often get around 3-4 MB/s (24-32Mbps) downloading files.

ok this gotta be my last response bc i got better shit to do today.

so first off, i simply dont care what the marxist definition or critique of something is, so yes, please understand it as just the general anarchist critique.

Unless your point is that the delegate can only do what 100% of those who elected them want,

well yes, if they want to stay a delegate they have to comply with the mandate they were given. i also understand that there may be practical considerations that lead ppl to choose weak (e.g. 95%) consensus decisions, and u can call that hierarchical if u like, but that doesnt mean we shouldnt strive to abolish all hierarchies.

the way u have described the PRC does not sound like they have delegates, rather representatives. ive already explained the difference.

as for considering the PRC state capitalist, this is my conception (altho i know a few marxists who agree), and so far ive only argued about the ownership situation and not touched upon wealth accumulation or markets at all, but i think ive still made a fair argument.

Communism is generally held to be about class and state abolition

which are hierarchies, and the criticism of these are based on the same root issue that all hierarchies have. i admit that this statement was somewhat inflammatory, altho i firmly believe that anarchism is the natural conclusion of the communist idea.

Delegates in your model still have hierarchy,

no. the power is always among the people who choose the delegate, formulate their mandate, and can recall them at any time. the delegate has no power over the people, nor is the delegate coerced into their role.

and u can call the PRC socialist all u like, but that still dont make it true.

as a communist, i believe there is such a thing as a non-hierarchical system.

further, i dont really see how the PRC will ever achieve communism or socialism and further still, i think you are redefining socialism to include china, which is a semantical argument and not a logical one.

make sure to get some bridge adresses too! without bridges, ur ISP can still see that ur using Tor

yes! theres a “new identity” button that effectively does this

Politicians have to work their way up the rungs in order to increase their scope of decisionmaking,

i think u misunderstand the delegate model i described.

what youre describing is a hierarchical system where the higher up the “rungs” u go, the larger the scope of decisions u can make.

whereas in the delegate model, the maximum scope of decisions is always directly with the people (who could make any decision independently of delegates, if they want to), and every delegate has decision-making power smaller than that scope, meaning the scope of possible actions decreases rather than increases.

i did ask who makes the big decisions and decides “the course of the country”. i agree that if the entire populace were to decide every minor detail, it would become inoperably slow.

i make a distinction between ceding all power and decisions to a representative every voting cycle (5 years for the NPC?) vs. choosing a delegate who enacts decisions made by the populace, and has decision-making power of their own in the confines of the mandate they were given by the people, and who is directly recallable at any time by a simple majority.

this attemps to give decision-making power to everyone affected by a decision, without giving it to those unaffected and slowing the process down.

whereas the state reduces the power of the individual to a decision of “1, 2, or 3” every 5 years or so, followed by all other decisions being made by their new ruler.

my argument is that the representative model does not give meaningful enough control to the people to consider this “state” an extension of the people.

i would define socialism as public ownership of the means of production. where “public” means “of the people” and ownership means “having meaningful control of”.

so in my view, until the people meaningfully control the state or the means of production, it is not socialism.

ok let me try and phrase it another way:

regardless of who supposedly owns the firms, who makes the big decisions of how they are to be run? is it the people of china? or is it whoever is in government at the moment?

who makes decisions about the course of the country? is it the people who live there, or do they simply elect someone to make all of those decisions?