Mikhail and Hodj's Political Thread

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MIKHAIL_sl said:
So I don't agree with Dumar (or Marx for that matter) that capitalism necessarily leads to communism. I think it does necessarily lead to an elimination of capitalism. Most of the time (all of the time unless there is some deliberate intervention to prevent it) that leads to state-capitalism (which is basically the only form of capitalism that exists today) where you have the state acting as (essentially) a giant corporation that deliberately manipulates and scaffolds the economy. I think it's entirely possible that such a system could calcify in a way that might represent some sort of endgame of human civilization in spite of all the unnecessary suffering that comes with it.
I think the closer term is plutocracy since businesses still fail, rise, and change.
 

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I am sitting in my pajama pants right now on the couch, eating polish potato chips and watching Archer. I dont have the mental energy to expend on this.
 
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I think the closer term is plutocracy since businesses still fail, rise, and change.
Plutocracy definitely captures the effect that capital institutions have on the government under such a system, but I think state-capitalism better captures the effect that the government has on capital institutions. The two go hand in hand.
 
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I am sitting in my pajama pants right now on the couch, eating polish potato chips and watching Archer. I dont have the mental energy to expend on this.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...99N0BJ20131024

German Chancellor Angela Merkel accused the United States of an unacceptable breach of trust on Thursday after allegations that the U.S. bugged her personal mobile phone, and she indicated data agreements with Washington may have to be revised.

Arriving for a two-day summit in Brussels overshadowed by the allegations of eavesdropping by the U.S. National Security Agency against Italy, France and Germany, Merkel said she had told President Barack Obama in a telephone conversation late on Wednesday that the acts were unacceptable.

"It's not just about me but about every German citizen. We need to have trust in our allies and partners, and this trust must now be established once again," she told reporters after arriving in a car with '007' in the numberplate.

"I repeat that spying among friends is not at all acceptable against anyone, and that goes for every citizen in Germany."

The stern words were her first public pronouncement after the German government said on Wednesday it had evidence the chancellor's mobile was "monitored" by the NSA. Germany's foreign minister summoned the U.S. ambassador to Berlin to discuss the issue, an event diplomats said was almost unprecedented in the past 60 years.
 

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Hehe, nearly spilled my coffee. It seems the thread is non-locked, so, yeah, there's that.
 

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Hey Mik, how much training do you have in human skeletal structure and the growth and development and repair therein?

None?

Oh well that's nice, I've had two full courses on human anatomy plus a course on osteology. All three courses included large sections on childhood development.

To put it succinctly, I'm laughing at your lack of education right now more than anything else.
lol undergrads
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lol undergrads
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Essentially that except I don't agree with the undergrads seeing postdocs making money. Postdoc positions pay jack shit.

Hodj, if you think 2 human anatomy courses and a osteology course is enough to have a decent and well rounded understanding of the skeletal system LOLZ.
 

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Eh, it gives you enough for general competence, and it should give you enough to be extremely wary of these calcium "treatments" they're trying to push on older women.

You're not going to be doing any relevant research -- but the truth is that that level of study is far far more than what most people have. Frankly for 99.8% of the population the only thing you need to know about bones is the names of the big or most obviously important ones, first aid techniques, the basic types of fracture, how to diagnose a fracture vs. a sprain, and how to set each without doing further tissue damage.
 

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Essentially that except I don't agree with the undergrads seeing postdocs making money. Postdoc positions pay jack shit.

Hodj, if you think 2 human anatomy courses and a osteology course is enough to have a decent and well rounded understanding of the skeletal system LOLZ.
That isn't what I said.

Mikhail was claiming that my children had extremely large heads, and I was saying that he doesn't understand patterns of human physical development through childhood if he thinks those heads look big, and that I have had enough education to know that his insults were inaccurate tripe.
 

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Also what do you mean well rounded?

Would you define well rounded as being able to name and recognize every bone in the human body, both adult and child, being able to side them, recognize fragments of them, know how they grow and develop, how they are broken down and repaired, how they are structured, how they react to stress.

The anatomy classes were much broader, of course, they didn't focus exclusively on bone, they focused on the whole of human anatomy, they were pre med biology courses. We covered the fundamentals of every major organ system. But the osteology class I had was pretty goddamn thorough.

I'm not a doctorate in it, but I have more training than the average person on the subject.
 
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