/siberia/ - Off-topic

>>527710
This is actually entertaining

If we imagine any non-living body cut up into smaller and smaller portions, at first no qualitative change occurs. But this has a limit: if we succeed, as by evaporation, in obtaining the separate molecules in the free state, then it is true that we can usually divide these still further, yet only with a complete change of quality. The molecule is decomposed into its separate atoms, which have quite different properties from those of the molecule. In the case of molecules composed of various chemical elements, atoms or molecules of these elements themselves make their appearance in the place of the compound molecule; in the case of molecules of elements, the free atoms appear, which exert quite distinct qualitative effects: the free atoms of nascent oxygen are easily able to effect what the atoms of atmospheric oxygen, bound together in the molecule, can never achieve.

But the molecule is also qualitatively different from the mass of the body to which it belongs. It can carry out movements independently of this mass and while the latter remains apparently at rest, e.g. heat oscillations; by means of a change of position and of connection with neighbouring molecules it can change the body into an allotrope or a different state of aggregation.

Thus we see that the purely quantitative operation of division has a limit at which it becomes transformed into a qualitative difference: the mass consists solely of molecules, but it is something essentially different from the molecule, just as the latter is different from the atom. It is this difference that is the basis for the separation of mechanics, as the science of heavenly and terrestrial masses, from physics, as the mechanics of the molecule, and from chemistry, as the physics of the atom.

In mechanics, no qualities occur; at most, states such as equilibrium, motion, potential energy, which all depend on measurable transference of motion and are themselves capable of quantitative expression. Hence, in so far as qualitative change takes place here, it is determined by a corresponding quantitative change.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch02.htm

Motion in the most general sense, conceived as the mode of existence, the inherent attribute of matter, comprehends all changes and processes occurring in the universe, from mere change of place right up Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>521184
A fundamental property perhaps?
Not saying it is, just saying that we have no fucking clue either way and calling it an emergent process without describing said process just doesn't hold up in court

>>519778
i hate this meme format. the original joke ("stop doing math") hinged on the fact that idiots could actually understand the alternatives proposed ("NO use for counting higher than your fingers. want to try for a laugh anyway? we have a tool for that: GUESSING"). everyone, even literal children who haven't mastered counting with their fingers, is familiar with "guessing", it's a good joke. every single subject-specific spinoff meme fucks up in the same way by making the situations things that only those familiar with the subject matter will understand. "looking beyond the first order derivatives" - shut up, kids don't know what that means. most adults don't know what that means. not funny.

>>527688
It's "bait used to be believable [to me]" since I'm the only one that matters.

>>527366
god the voice acting in early Rockstar games was so terrible. Reminds me of how the black gangs in GTA 3 were obviously voiced by white guys in their 20s.

>>527587
man what you saying, those pedestrian quips are so memorable. I still remembered 'you gonna be sorry…'

>>527589
memorable =/= good

Holy gem

> heard that he believed that it was better to slow down the growth in literacy to prevent too much social progress. Is this true?

Every reactionary since the Roman empire believes this.

>>527584
eastern euro moment

>>527584
least retarded pole

>>526971
fpbp

>>527653
South American Gusanos and Vendepatrias also believe that literacy campaigns such as those in Cuba and Nicaragua are communism.

>>527614
It worked for them in South America

>>527616
south america didn't have over a hundred million people like china

>>527614
they were right though the Ming were incompetent and they got rekt by the Manchu with the last Ming emperor hanging himself because he got duped into executing their best general

>>527215
Not hbomb, thought slime.

The reason is that in the 19th century the Caucasus was thought of as the place of origin of the "white race" or at least of the original Indo-European language. It's nonsense, but somewhere, especially in Burgerland, the idea got currency and the current use of "Caucasian" as "white" or "of European descent" is a leftover of that. Curiously, for many years, every time I hear some bloody Burger film with someone being described as "Caucasian", I've been thinking "Are we sure they're talking about an Abkhazian, an Adygean, a Circassian, an Ossetian, a Chechen, a Georgian, a Dagestani, a Kabardian, an Azeri and so on?".
A somewhat similar thing is the use of the term "Latin". In Burgerland, "Latin" is short for "Latin American", i.e. someone from a Spanish-speaking country in the Americas. Even though Brazil too is "Latin" speaking - Portuguese comes from Latin as much as Spanish does - and so is Haiti or other French islands in the Caribbean, and I'm not talking about Quebecois, Acadians, Cajuns and the like. But then an Italian or a Portuguese recent immigrant or their descendants are not "Latin".

>>527267
i am become burger, destroyer of language

I'm from Western Europe and I've traveled in Armenia and Georgia recently.
Both are beautiful countries with very friendly and hospitable people, great food, great wine and cognac, and I especially enjoyed partying with Russian expats in Tbilisi.
Only problem was the roads in some parts, but that's a minor complain.
Armenian women might be the most beautiful women I have seen in the world so far, and the public fountains available everywhere are awesome, I wish we had this quality of water here.
Georgians are a bit silly with their obsession about joining the EU and NATO, but it's understandable and I can't blame them. I just hope they can eventually find a way to develop without being too dependent on either the West or the Russian government, both are vultures who only want to exploit them. I also hope Azeris and Turks will stop bullying Armenia one day.
I would have stayed more if I didn't have to go back to my job, I was living the life there. I miss it and might come back one day. გაუმარჯოს / Կենաց.

kali ma

>>527577
>>527578
>>527578
>>527579
>>527580
all posted at exactly 3:02:00
god wtf is wrong with the servers lately

>>527311
Mazinga!
Much better:
>one of the first mega robots ever
>mad scientist - Dr Hell - discovers mechanical monsters from ancient Greece
>Dr Hell kills everyone in the archaeological expedition, except Professor Kabuto from Japan
>Professor Kabuto manages to get home and builds a mega robot to fight off Dr Hell attempt to conquer the world
>Dr Hell manages to have Kabuto assassinated
>Kabuto's grandson, Koji, pilots the robot, Mazinga Z
In the last decades, we have been existentially sabotaged by mediocre and stupid entertainment. Let's bring back some quality stuff.

>the original but "scanned" via camera in low light
so the same as decades ago lol

Honestly, it'd take less effort to just walk to the local library, check it out, scan it, then bring it back.

>>527429
libgen.is

>>527592
Thanks!

>>527337
>one of those retards who thinks marx is a "philosopher"
<Marx wasn't a philospher
Do you know what a philosopher is? Or why that is relevant to Marx? No, because you can't read, chinlet. Read a book.

>>526929
unironically all of this is based except for the part about trans women. I want to live in a lesbian nun convent

>>527407
Being a fucked up weirdo because you have trauma doesn't excuse it. There's lots of people who don't cope with their trauma that way, and it's reasonable to expect somebody to at least try not to cope with their trauma in a way that harms others.

>>527491
it's fine to do that if you want to but it's not based to be prescriptivist about it. Women aren't betraying your cause if they want to get dicked down every now and then. It doesn't mean she has internalized misogyny and has been taught to love being r*ped or whatever either. Weird ideology.
>>527407
>TERFs and reactionaries get along so mysteriously well.
they get along well because they're both reactionaries. But I agree with the rest of your analysis about trauma getting projected.

>>527482
The irony being that the sentence is such a mess which would be easily solved by a basic philosophy education/reading.
It presupposes that Marx has to be a philosopher or a sociologist or "political theorist" and can't engage in all three.
Even the most basic empiricism tells you this is wrong.