I've been theoryposting on .world and it's getting upvotes https://lemmy.world/post/2012172, we love to see it

I would rather have serious papers about unusual topics, not joke papers.

This phrase is a fascist dog whistle, it's not general purpose.

https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/paul_cockshott_cyber_communism.md

Well at the very end of the movie, Barbie chose to leave the system in it's entirety. The movie has a revolutionary communist message, it's saying true empowerment is impossible within the bounds of the system. It's mocking the "more👏female👏executives" sentiment, just doing so in a way subtle enough the Hollywood financiers didn't realize it.

Exactly, there's a moral duty to hinder large corporations whenever possible. Same reason pirating is ethically necessary.

As a tank fetishist, I appreciate the representation.

Guess we'll just have to try again in the west

Nah, the boom bust cycle happens due to the contradictions inherent to capitalism. They are speeding up because the contradictions get sharper as capitalism progresses. Marx developed this understanding 200 years ago, check it out:

"When the expansion of production outruns its profitability, when existing conditions of exploitation preclude a further profitable capital-expansion or what amounts to the same thing, an increase of accumulation does not increase the mass of surplus-value or profits, an absolute over-accumulation has occurred and the accumulation process comes to a halt. This interruption of the accumulation or its stagnation constitutes the capitalist crisis. It represents an overproduction of capital with respect to the degree of exploitation. From the point of view of profitability at this stage, existing capital is at the same time too small and too large. It is too large in relation to the existing surplus-value and it is not large enough to overcome the lack of surplus-value. Capital has only been over-produced in relation to profitability. This is not a material overproduction for the world in this respect is undercapitalised [73]. This stresses once again the central contradiction between the commodity as a use-value and as an exchange-value, between production for use and that for profit." https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/yaffed/1972/mtccs/mtccs3.htm

Turkey tail is 10x smaller and different colors and doesn't grow from the base of live trees like this.

I thought this was interesting because it's just some amateur on Reddit developing a comprehensive theory for the mechanism behind post SSRI sexual dysfunction. There's a really elegant link to Gulf War Syndrome. He posted this 5 months ago and it looks like there have been some successful remissions using his protocol.

Metaheuristics are an interesting field, based around the idea of trading rigor for speed in order to tackle otherwise intractable problems like the traveling salesman. However, this lack of rigor has attracted the attention of unscrupulous paper mills, leading to the hilarious results Dr Rao complains about in this paper.

How are y'all planning on dismantling a centralized authoritarian dictarship without establishing a dictatorship of our own? Asking about your "also fuck tankies" header text.

I think you understand the mechanism fine, I mean it's literally in the name of the attack: embrace, extend, entinguish. You said it yourself: "Google killed XMPP but 99% of XMPP users were Google Talk users anyway"

That's what we are afraid of - a future where the vast majority of fediverses users are owned by Facebook, and the federation will slowly start to "accidentally" break until normal users are forced to join meta to interact with the new communities that develop there. Federation would allow Meta to use your content, for free, to attract naive users into this trap.

I've been trying to find accounts of historical use of sinicuichi, but it seems very little information was recorded and the traditions have died out.

Sinicuichi is an interesting hallucinogen, causing yellowed vision and audio distortion. Unfortunately, its use is likely to result in terrible, painful, full body cramping the next day. Erowid has some accounts of contemporary usage: https://erowid.org/plants/sinicuichi/sinicuichi.shtml

There seems to be a theory that fermentation of the plant (leaving a paste of the leaves in a container in the sun for a day, like people do for Kanna) is necessary to remove whatever the toxic component is, but some of the erowid accounts report cramping after fermentation anyway.

I would love to know how this plant was used ritually - did they just accept the cramping? Is there a consistent way to prepare the plant? Are there different strains? Too bad we genocided everybody that could tell us.

some very interesting claims collected in this... check this one out:

Coryphantha compacta

C. compacta is believed to be the Tarahumara híkuri known as "bakánawa." Bakánawa, like most híkuri, is both respected and feared as a god, and considered to have a soul and human emotions. It has been recorded as both more powerful, and as only second in power, to L. williamsii. To some populations of Tarahumara, particularly those of Guadalupe, it is (was) their primary híkuri, being valued instead of L. williamsii.

It is held that if one keeps bakánawa in their possession exceeding three years it will convert from a good medicine to an evil one that causes insanity, therefore one must sell it or hide it after the third year. Of interest are speculations by Thord-Gray that this belief may have originated through a shaman so "that he might sell more of the plant." It is also believed that by either losing or burning this cactus one can become insane, sick, or even die. In some cases it is considered so "strong" that it can only be touched by the shaman.

C. compacta is a powerful medicinal panacea and is masticated and applied to the body to cure all imaginable ills. It is boiled for use as an internal medicine and the juice is applied externally for lung troubles. A chewed ointment of C. compacta is rubbed on the legs of foot-runners for three days prior to the traditional races and is kept in waiting by the shaman should the runner tire. The plant may also be carried in the runners' belts to make them swift and fearless and to frustrate the evil spells cast by their opponents. It is believed that the runner who offends bakánawa will slow in speed and eventually die.

Many Coryphantha species bear an array of alkaloids, and even though only this one species is substantiated as híkuri, it can be suspected that others also have had sacramental and medicinal value. Anderson regards C. compacta and C. palmeri as synonymous.

You picked the fruit but the infection is still eating the heartwood of the tree:

Common Questions About Berkeley’s Polypore How do I get rid of Bondarzewia berkeleyi?

Nothing works to get rid of the fungus pathogen in the tree. Fungicides don’t work. You can remove the fruiting body of the mushroom, but that does nothing to prevent the mycelium from sprouting new growth in following years. Keeping the tree healthy can prolong its life but eventually it will probably succumb. https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/berkeleys-polypore.html

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A metapopulation model for whale-fall specialists: The largest whales are essential to prevent species extinctions

This seems like a good match, this higher angle photo shows the rosette style growth they are apparently known for: