“Once you’ve found the pleasant sensation, you fully shift your attention to it. If you can do that, the sensation will begin to grow in intensity; it will become stronger. This will not happen in a linear way. At first, nothing happens. Then it’ll grow a little bit and then hang out and grow a little bit more. And then...
“At first glance, however, the available literature on brainwave entrainment effects due to binaural beat stimulation appears to be inconclusive at best. The aim of the present systematic review is, thus, to synthesize existing empirical research. A sample of fourteen published studies met our criteria for inclusion. The...
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors.
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.” www.marxists.org/subject/economy/…/mtccs3.htm
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.
This is the article that coined the phrase “male gaze”, originally a strict academic definition, now a muddied culture war thing? I don’t know. The article is good.
“reformism, even when quite sincere, in practice becomes a weapon by means of which the bourgeoisie corrupt and weaken the workers. The experience of all countries shows that the workers who put their trust in the reformists are always fooled....
"The occasion for this piece is a seemingly straightforward question: why did Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime so quickly declare war on the United States just four days after Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor? There is nothing self-evident about this. Moscow had not fallen to the Wehrmacht during Operation Typhoon,...
Reforms are great, but ultimately a doomed bandaid over real problems. Quoth Lenin:
“Reformism is bourgeois deception of the workers, who, despite individual improvements, will always remain wage-slaves, as long as there is the domination of capital.
The liberal bourgeoisie grant reforms with one hand, and with the other always take them back, reduce them to nought, use them to enslave the workers, to divide them into separate groups and perpetuate wage-slavery. For that reason reformism, even when quite sincere, in practice becomes a weapon by means of which the bourgeoisie corrupt and weaken the workers. The experience of all countries shows that the workers who put their trust in the reformists are always fooled.
And conversely, workers who have assimilated Marx’s theory, i.e., realised the inevitability of wage-slavery so long as capitalist rule remains, will not be fooled by any bourgeois reforms. Understanding that where capitalism continued to exist reforms cannot be either enduring or far-reaching, the workers fight for better conditions and use them to intensify the fight against wage-slavery. The reformists try to divide and deceive the workers, to divert them from the class struggle by petty concessions. But the workers, having seen through the falsity of reformism, utilise reforms to develop and broaden their class struggle.”
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. mushroom-appreciation.com/berkeleys-polypore.html
I think you aren’t reading into it enough, like look at your analysis here: “this wasn’t even a successful feminist movie as they didn’t change anything in the “Real world”. It was just a feel good celebration of women and solidarity which didn’t actually do anything of consequence. That was the point?”
But consider that in the final scenes of the movie, an old lady shows Barbie a dream sequence of how good life could be if she entirely rejects the current system. Barbie then eagerly does so. The old lady represents Luxemburg, Barbie entering the real world represents revolution, Barbie becoming human represents the reunification with the human species being that is only possible under communism. This is a revolutionary communist movie.
The fact that the Kens win nothing but aesthetic changes by the end of the movie is a representation of the reality of third wave feminism and other types of reformism.
Entering the Jhanas (www.lionsroar.com)
“Once you’ve found the pleasant sensation, you fully shift your attention to it. If you can do that, the sensation will begin to grow in intensity; it will become stronger. This will not happen in a linear way. At first, nothing happens. Then it’ll grow a little bit and then hang out and grow a little bit more. And then...
Why is lemmy.world defederating from hexbear.net? (lemmy.world)
What is lemmy.world doing defederating before hexbear even federates? lemmy.world/instances...
On the correlation between solar activity and large earthquakes worldwide (www.nature.com)
Beaver dams: How structure, flow state, and landscape setting regulatewater storage and release (sci-hub.st)
Binaural beats to entrain the brain? A systematic review of the effects of binaural beat stimulation on brain oscillatory activity, and the implications for psychological research and intervention (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
“At first glance, however, the available literature on brainwave entrainment effects due to binaural beat stimulation appears to be inconclusive at best. The aim of the present systematic review is, thus, to synthesize existing empirical research. A sample of fourteen published studies met our criteria for inclusion. The...
Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials (apnews.com)
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors.
Modernity and the Holocaust (libgen.rs)
Reading this book convinced me the modern day United States is about to commit a second holocaust at the Mexican border within the next, like, decade.
Stack Overflow's CEO doesn't understand Stack Overflow (jlericson.com)
Still relevant to this day (lemmy.ml)
Go Woke, Go Broke? Barbie’s Opening Weekend Sales Smash Expectations (newrepublic.com)
The far right is constantly warning that if you go woke, you’ll go broke. But when it comes to the new Barbie movie, they couldn’t be more wrong....
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (www.amherst.edu)
This is the article that coined the phrase “male gaze”, originally a strict academic definition, now a muddied culture war thing? I don’t know. The article is good.
Marxism and Reformism, Lenin, Pravda Truda No. 2, September 12, 1913 (www.marxists.org)
“reformism, even when quite sincere, in practice becomes a weapon by means of which the bourgeoisie corrupt and weaken the workers. The experience of all countries shows that the workers who put their trust in the reformists are always fooled....
Adolf Hitler and the Origins of the Berlin-Tokyo Axis (www.nationalww2museum.org)
"The occasion for this piece is a seemingly straightforward question: why did Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime so quickly declare war on the United States just four days after Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor? There is nothing self-evident about this. Moscow had not fallen to the Wehrmacht during Operation Typhoon,...
I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course)
I can’t really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by “both” sides of the spectrum. It’s just something I find interesting.
What is this? Taken today in Pennsylvania (lemmy.world)
[DISCUSSION] Barbie (Spoilers)
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