[T]he power of each [Roman water mill’s] wheel did not exceed that of a 250 cc motorcycle. This mordant observation highlights how technologically uncivilized we ourselves are, in destroying the environment by wasting on a few motorcycles enough energy to produce food for a whole town. But after all is said and done, our current system, based on the exploitation of nonrenewable energy sources, will last but a moment on a historical scale.
-Lucio Russo, The Forgotten Revolution
duty to disobey unlawful orders
How often does this happen?
I know that effectively this is just the machine cobbling together a pastiche of real people’s interpretations; nonetheless, to my Christian upbringing, this feels satanic.
Butlerian Jihad intensifies
My last Xiaomi phone cost me 200USD and lasted over five years. Screen started intermittently not working and bought a new one.
headed by the guy who ran Twitter into the ground
God willing, he does the same for America 
That’s an interesting observation. I wonder why theory and practice tend to go together for Marxist revolutionaries but not for liberal ones.
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I think Friedman is in the moribund period of liberalism, after liberalism has exhausted it’s revolutionary potential and become largely a force of status quo reaction
True and bleak. Most countries formerly governed by ML parties are now led by capitalists. Let’s hope their resurgence doesn’t have the same longevity as the British monarchy.
liberal revolutionary=/=good; it just means they represent the new upcoming class against the old ruling class
My thought was Cromwell established, though not long term, a government breaking with the feudal order.
Fair enough. In the same vein maybe Napoleon over Toussaint.
Locke argues for the right to revolt against unjust sovereigns (I sometimes joke that Mao was paraphrasing Lock when he said “it is right to rebel”).
I wouldn’t consider them revolutionaries, but if you extend into the moribund period of liberalism then for sure
Feelings don’t care about facts. We’ll still be blamed
iirc, he was already walking with a cane before the strike
Gonna have to dilly dally even harder if I’m gonna be late for my engagements 
The clocks are going back an hour, not forward. If anything you’re gonna be early.
Tbh, a movement merely fighting for the actual completion of the bourgeois revolutions would still be radical
I don’t know enough Chinese to comment, but the difference between a sling and slingshot isn’t about size or use. The difference between sling and slingshot is what propels the projectile.
A sling extends the length of the user’s throwing arm, giving the projectile more power.
A slingshot uses elastic to propel the projectile. Therefore, as elastic didn’t exist for most of history, is a modern invention.
Maybe SCMP’s error is rooted in Chinese language but I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t since this is a common error of all English speakers. I’d guess people commonly confuse them in English because of similar names and because both tools have a pouch which holds the projectile.
Socialism or barbarism, baby!