fluids_guru
@fluidsguru.bsky.social
Following the new energy revolution. Navigating the Climate Change apocalypse. Helping to forecast future weather events. Probably an anarchist. Still dealing with long COVID.
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My wife has just started it, she ordered it last week. I’m next in line.
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
My wife has just started it, she ordered it last week. I’m next in line.
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Does he mean these guys?
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Does he mean these guys?
Keynes said it more succinctly
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Keynes said it more succinctly
Note he later claimed to have read Das Kapital when he was 14 and cross-checked the English translation against the original German.
Musk says lots of things.
Musk says lots of things.
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Note he later claimed to have read Das Kapital when he was 14 and cross-checked the English translation against the original German.
Musk says lots of things.
Musk says lots of things.
November 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I tweeted this back in 2021. "If the LNP understood capitalism, they would have known the implementation cost of new technology always falls over time. It’s a fundamental feature of the capitalist production system. Marx wrote about it 1885."
![Finally, as is the case throughout large scale industry, moral de. terioration also plays its part. After ten years have elapsed, it is generally possible to buy the same quantity of carriages and locomotives for £30,000 as previously cost €40,000. A depreciation of 25 per cent on the market price must thus be reckoned with on this material, even if there is no depreciation in the use-value (Lardner, Railway Economy [p. 120]).
"Tube bridges will not be replaced in their present form.' (Because there are now better forms for such bridges.) 'Ordinary repairs, taking away gradually, and replacing, are not practicable' (W. B. Adams, Roads and Rails, London, 1862 [p. 1361).
The means of labour are for the most part constantly revolutionized by the progress of industry. Hence they are not replaced in their original form, but in the revolutionized form. On the one hand, the volume of fixed capital that is invested in a particular natural form, and has to last out for a definite average lifespan within this, is a reason why new machines, etc. are introduced only gradually, and hence forms an obstacle to the rapid general introduction of improved means of labour.
On the other hand, competition forces the replacement of old means of labour by new ones before their natural demise, particularly when decisive revolutions have taken place. Catastrophes, crises, etc. are the principal causes that compel such premature renewals of equipment on a broad social scale.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d5gfbvydlm32r4zmk4wwkxxd/bafkreia7rzpeaqljbm6fk6vc525nhe64ptzejqbmg542ij27higv33snry@jpeg)
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I tweeted this back in 2021. "If the LNP understood capitalism, they would have known the implementation cost of new technology always falls over time. It’s a fundamental feature of the capitalist production system. Marx wrote about it 1885."
David Pope gets it. From earlier this year.
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
David Pope gets it. From earlier this year.
From that article:
November 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
From that article:
A little bit of fascism?
October 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A little bit of fascism?
The relevant section
October 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The relevant section
Does populism mean the same thing for 'right' and 'left'?
October 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Does populism mean the same thing for 'right' and 'left'?
They went to such an effort to animate the F-15s correctly, the least they could do was get the missiles right.
Those are Sparrows that are launched from the lower fuselage. Sidewinders are mounted on launchers below the wing.
Those are Sparrows that are launched from the lower fuselage. Sidewinders are mounted on launchers below the wing.
October 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
They went to such an effort to animate the F-15s correctly, the least they could do was get the missiles right.
Those are Sparrows that are launched from the lower fuselage. Sidewinders are mounted on launchers below the wing.
Those are Sparrows that are launched from the lower fuselage. Sidewinders are mounted on launchers below the wing.
To which I’ll add this.
October 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
To which I’ll add this.
I have read Gaston Leval’s important account of a brief time in recent history when an industrial society functioned without a self-appointed leadership exploitative leadership class.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
October 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I have read Gaston Leval’s important account of a brief time in recent history when an industrial society functioned without a self-appointed leadership exploitative leadership class.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
Re: can we afford the NHS?
October 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Re: can we afford the NHS?
Is it called ‘sovereign risk’ when you own government allows itself to be captured by interests that will damage the lives and livelihoods of millions of current and future Australians?
Or is that just doing business?
Or is that just doing business?
October 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Is it called ‘sovereign risk’ when you own government allows itself to be captured by interests that will damage the lives and livelihoods of millions of current and future Australians?
Or is that just doing business?
Or is that just doing business?
I enjoyed his earlier book
October 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I enjoyed his earlier book
