Given the 100 year time difference, I suspect these two groups you identify as communist aren't actually the same people.

And infinite money machine clearly violates the laws of thermodynamics.

But an infinite pain machine is allowed under known physical laws.

The EPA and IARC relied on different kinds of research to reach their conclusions. The EPA (U.S.) states that glyphosate is not likely to cause cancer in humans. But, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified the chemical as "probably carcinogenic to humans."

Also, not all glyphosate products are the same. And in the US at least we only list the so-called "active" ingredients, but the unlisted ingredients can potentially be toxic, carcinogenic, or teratogenic. Generally chemicals get pulled being unlisted when there is little doubt of their harm, but the default in US markets has been to essentially assume every ingredient already on the market is safe. (contrary to the rest of the sane world)
So we get formulations like Roundup which can have various dyes, foaming agents, thickeners, etc to improve the performance and application of glyphosate.
But we often don't know what those ingredients are, unless they are flammable, then those ended up on the MSDS.
For example, Roundup Pro is: 50.2% glyphosate and 13.0% Surfactant blend (proprietary).

Innocent people never deserve what happens to them, that's pretty much the definition of innocent. But many people still turn a blind eye to the things done to the innocent, often in the name of profit and in part to a warped concept of freedom.

Running a business shouldn't grant people absolute freedom and immunity from consequences. But that's precisely how a corporate board operates today.

Some of them not only have no consequences, they'll be rewarded. Llike the investors that convinced millions of 401K holders to sink their retirement into this garbage. It will be like 2008 Goldman Sachs, but with more of the guardrails torn down since then.

I don't think that's a uniquely Russian strategy, but I perhaps have experienced too much of the 20th century as an American.

It's a bit like a jar of jam. You can keep scraping it for a little more for quite a while, but eventually there isn't going to be any useful jam. Then you'll have to buy new jam. This is how depreciation works, you figure out when it's time to buy new jam and write off the "loss" of your asset over that predicted schedule.

Because of the accounting and the second hand market, sending those graphics cards to the dump is going to likely be a bigger net benefit than trying to sell used compute cards with no display output. Most of them aren't ordinary videocards even if the chips in them are basically the same.

What do you do when the deck runs out while building this house of cards?

I don't necessarily need a manager present to do this. I'm a big boy and can schedule a meeting and politely invite the small number of people it takes to coordinate.

Modern devices are killing us, both physically and mentally. The Internet of Things (IoT) is composed almost entirely things that we don't want or need.

Buying groceries with a check?! Look at this rich guy. The rest of us have to fill out a credit application and take out a mortgage when we want to buy a Christmas roast.

Yea. your friend's line of reasoning is pretty common but it is a bit of a head scratcher to me. There's less transparency in private business, so there's corruption and unethical dealings that most of us never find out about. The point of having services under government control is that it's the people's money and the organization should ideally be answerable to the people.

The anti-union shift has been a bad strategy for the Dems. Unions can get their members showing up to the polls or even for political action far better than Act BLUE can by just sending upper middle class donors a panicked email begging for donations.

  Some people don't like unions because it's an extra layer of politics. It seems inefficient to have dues and voting and people getting paid just to be reps. But taking a step back: if you want to walk into a room with your boss to negotiate something, like a job or raise or working conditions. You, as the worker, are standing alone and your boss has an entire organization (and legal team) behind him/her. Without unions every person is negotiating under a serious imbalance against some of the richest and most politically connected organizations in the world.

I bought an HDTV too early and it quickly became obsolete because it didn't support 720p only 480p and 1080i. That's what happens when you buy technology, someone doesn't bother supporting it because it's too much of a pain, there is too little money to make, and ultimately they know that people are just going to buy new hardware when their old hardware stops working.

I get it when an organization outsources something when they don't have enough work to sustain a team. Like a small town government isn't going to operate their own roof repair division just to repair government roofs (rooves?), you instead would hire a local contractor that has plenty of private work to keep their crew busy.

But some things the government does all the time and it doesn't make sense to outsource, like most office work. Of course outsourcing some temp staff can be practical if one can anticipate things like seasonable demand, but hiring local students if the job and time frame fit (summer job) is better still.

At the end of the day an organization can pay an employee, work out benefits, etc. Or it can pay a for-profit business to take a cut for management, owners, etc and try to cut corners on quality or benefits for the employees. I know how the neoliberal "third way" think, and they'd rather reduce the number of government employees, even if that amounts to giving taxpayer dollars to a private owner and gutting good paying union jobs in the community. It's no wonder the working class is struggling under skyrocketing housing prices, high tuition, and low wages. It's all symptoms of an unhealthy economic system that is the direct result of our political shift in both parties in the US. (and a general trend in much of the West with neoliberalism, especially the anglosphere)

I think I will cancel a few streaming service and Amazon prime to compensate.