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Wow, that's horrible! Market pressure have been acting on scientists, journals and so on for a while, but with these new tools, what's left of "scientific integrity" will continue to erode even faster.

That's another nice example of a contradiction. Capitalism needs science for innovation to keep increasing productivity and yet it cannibalizes the conditions for it's own existence in it's endless hunger for profit.

That's so valid!

I'm an atheist and a scientist, but I hate the arrogance and the scientism of the so called "new atheists". I have religious friends and I don't think I'm smarter then them at all. I like to learn about the history of philosophy and many interesting ideas were born in religious contexts and seriously discussed by people just as intelligent as we are today. Many of these questions are still open.

Politically, I think the institutionalized forms of religion are pretty much all reactionary. But part of the ideology/theology can be reclaimed for good as well as some spaces and resources.

The RevLeftRadio podcast has several episodes were they invite religious people who are also communists. They have episodes on Islam, Christianity and Buddhism.

Exactly, it's like eating tiny trees! Who wouldn't love that?

So every single employee is a millionaire, right?

So which other Russian source are you reading? You're not just getting one side of the story, are you?

I think it might even have been invented to push workers perspective and class struggle? But I don't really know.

But how are you gonna stop then? It's also possible to spin out of control faster and faster. Best to bring it under control immediately. ... I'm saying that, but I know all to well from experience it's not that easy, best of luck.

Also, a third figure could be 'the inherent crisis tendencies of capitalism'. Those can't be fixed gradually without revolution.

Where I live, the crows don't migrate. But they do come in the city every evening to gather and spend the night in large groups (a few hundred) in two or three places with large trees. They find more food in the fields around the city, but nights in the city are warmer and they like to socialize. Every night is party night for the crows. They flock together with jackdaws on those occasions.

I think it's more about fighting imperialism were you actually can fight it, you know, in your own country. Everything else is performative at best and often just support for the empire to protect ones own privilege.

Oh yeah, the clock sound was probably the most spooky part. I still find Deadlines scary today.