I don’t think that political institutions are flexible enough to think of that. It’s more likely some individual experimenting around.

It’s not small, it’s comfy sized.

I mean it is clear what’s happening here. Some dude in his 20s is playing around with AI and using it to generate porn picture of women with big boobs.

Anyways, lots of people are gonna fall for it and that’s probably gonna increase the number of recruits i guess. Since many people will think “aww, they have hot women at the military, let’s go there”. And so the military has more meat for the grinder.

I just hope that most affected will be the MAGA territories since they’re the ones starting pointless wars.

Newspaper serve two purposes: spreading information and making sure that the population carries along with the political decisions being made.

For everything that you’re outraged about, there’s 3 things that are more important that you have no idea about, that you have never heard of, because the media doesn’t report it. They don’t need to lie, just not forward some information. There’s no way to prove it either since it’s technically not a lie. Just misrepresentation of information.

Yeah when you take a picture from space and all you see is clouds, that means that clouds actually block or redirect most of the light; doesn’t have to be all of it.

Does somebody have data on how much sunlight reaches the ground when it’s cloudy? It’s 1361 W when not cloudy, at least that much i know.

solar panels make about as much noise as trees and corn fields. just to put things into perspective

What the article completely misses to mention is that solar companies will obviously pay taxes which is a lot of money for the communities where these projects are built.

Like, every community wants to have big companies building solar parks in their area sothat they get a lot of extra money in taxes. The tax money can be a big help to rural communities. That’s what people need to talk more about.

It’s sad to see the biggest argument to convince people that solar in their vicinity is a good thing unused. Why did the writers of the article not talk about it? Why were they unwilling to take effective action by asking the right questions? Why is the “but how do you not want extra tax money for your local school project” question not asked to everybody who was interviewed?

well written analysis overall. a few comments though:

No, the capitalists can’t consume the surplus product. This has been considered and it has been proved not to work (eg by Luxemburg). The reason is, that capitalists are in competition with each other and are thus forced to invest in constant capital (machines etc) expanding circulation and making the problem worse. Capitalists who only consume the surplus are outcompeted and cease to be capitalists.

Yes, i agree with this. Capitalists typically don’t actually spend money on consumption themselves so they don’t increase consumption. Relying on capitalists’ consumption alone does not work at all.

One real way that this contradiction is (temporarily) dealt with, is to expand to markets who are not yet fully under the capitalist mode of production (colonialism/imperialism). […] There aren’t many white spots left on the globe though so this “solution” is starting to run into problems.

You are seriously underestimating how important the concept of settlements in outer space / other planets is to capitalists precisely for this reason. Capitalism is well aware that it has to continuously expand just to stay alive itself. And that is why outer space will be settled, whether it appears profitable at first glance or not. The state will literally just throw money in the form of subsidies at the problem until it happens. Much better than throwing money at the military, because it causes less public outrage, so it is politically “cheaper” because it costs you fewer votes. Consider that war is not profitable at first glance either, because it doesn’t create stuff, only destroys stuff. So it is not economically cheap but rather expensive and pointless; and yet we can already observe today that it still happens just to keep capitalism alive as a whole. You have even written this in your own comment! So it is not absurd to assume that the state will be willing to throw the same amount of money on outer space settlements just to keep capitalism running as a whole.

I believe that the “falling rate of profit” is actually a real phenomenon, but it is not only caused by workers not being able to afford stuff.

It’s also partially caused by other companies learning to produce the same products, which drives up competition, reduces monopolies and therefore reduces profits. Like consider medicine.

When you develop a new medicine, the first 20 years you have a patent right and therefore nobody else can produce the stuff. So you can set arbitrary prices and as long as people pay for it, you profit. But after your patent runs out, every company can produce it, which leads to cheap generica, and the rate of profit reduces significantly.

no

Like, if you see an article marked “sponsored” by UnitedHealthcare and then take everything they say at face value, that’s just because the reader’s dumb.

The publisher and its news outlets (with the aforementioned Bild, Fakt and Welt most prominent) is a main driver for a news coverage and reporting that is jointly responsible for the rise of the far right in Germany and Europe.

Is there any proof for that? I keep hearing the claim often but never once is any kind of proof presented.