SallyStrange

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So, I've been reading "Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World" by Mike Davis. And as he recounts famine after famine, each of which claimed millions of lives, I in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

@[email protected] It's grim as fuck! But important, as you say. Also, I appreciate how Davis recounts the mass death FIRST, then proceeds to explain the history and mechanisms of ENSO, which, without that backdrop, would be dry and boring. @[email protected] @[email protected]

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So, I've been reading "Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World" by Mike Davis. And as he recounts famine after famine, each of which claimed millions of lives, I (eldritch.cafe)
 

So, I've been reading "Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World" by Mike Davis. And as he recounts famine after famine, each of which claimed millions of lives, I started thinking to myself: even granting the ludicrous assumptions of the anti-communists with the "Victims of Communism" webpage (and proposed memorial or something?), the victims of capitalism easily outnumber them. And I wasn't alone. Here, the author recounts how British colonial policy was responsible for 100 million excess premature deaths in India alone, over the course of a half century.

#Capitalism #Colonialism #Communism #VictimsOfCommunism #VictimsOfCapitalism

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians

#history

In this post, I wrote about the sad experience of having a friend use AI to wish me a happy birthday. https://robertkingett.com/posts/6627/ #AI #Blog #Blogging #Blogs @fuck_ai in c/[email protected]
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(Some) ignorant leftbros: "Class first! No idpol!" (eldritch.cafe)
 

(Some) ignorant leftbros: "Class first! No idpol!"

Scholars of right wing politics/economics: "All these right-wing thinkers are much more comfortable thinking about the blurred lines between sexual and economic politics than many thinkers on the left. And they understand that Keynesianism rests on a certain kind of sexual contract. Any challenge to this order—whether it be an escalation of wage or benefit claims, or the flight from sexual normativity, or unmarried women claiming welfare benefits—disrupts the fiscal and monetary calculus on which Keynesianism rests."

Above remark from "The Extravagances of Neoliberalism", an interview of Melinda Cooper (author of "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance") by Benjamin Kunkel, in The Baffler.

Archived, no paywall link: https://archive.is/pLYsA#selection-929.1-929.479

Original link: https://thebaffler.com/latest/extravagances-of-neoliberalism-kunkel

#Economics #Neoliberal #neoliberalism #books @bookstodon

Columbia University Qualifies That Students Only Allowed to Stage Protest if It’s Quiet and Ineffective in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

@Henry You sound like you're jealous of Hamas' alleged ability to "behead homosexuals". @Midnitte

[\#TIL](https://eldritch.cafe/tags/TIL): Young children (up until the age of about 7 - 11) can regenerate their fingertips. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@Cyrus @bookstodon Which, that kids regrow fingertips? I can't verify it myself, but the book does provide a wealth of information showing how recent discoveries (and older, forgotten ones) make this a plausible thing for our bodies to do. The history of bioelectricity is fraught with con artists and fakers, but in this book I've found reason to think it's an idea whose time has come.

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#TIL : Young children (up until the age of about 7 - 11) can regenerate their fingertips. (eldritch.cafe)
 

#TIL: Young children (up until the age of about 7 - 11) can regenerate their fingertips.

This is from "We Are Electric" by Sally Adee, which is all about the body's bioelectric code. Apparently electrical fields and electrical charges are the software to the hardware that is our DNA.

The fingertip regeneration was discovered by researchers investigating how salamanders regenerate limbs. Of course it's not something you can easily test, but there are enough people who grew up without easy access to medical care that this is a known fact.

@bookstodon #science #nonfiction #medicine #bioelectricity