Maybe someone who knows music at a technical level can provide insight. Is it that I associate it with summer, or are the beats made in a certain key resulting in it sounding summery?
I am reading Karl Marx by Lenin, and in Das Kapital volume 1, we see Karl Marx say that the particular function of money it performs represents very different stages in the process of social production. With contactless, we seem to have lost the meaning of money even more. You simply tap your card, it’s not tangible, it’s not physical, you don’t really understand what you’ve spent. This could be a gross misunderstanding, and I am yet to read capital, but once countries start phasing out the production of physical money, does this represent a new stage?
Of course there is importance in studying the Marxist theorists, but it feels like 99% of any arguments online are just “Marx said this he”, “actually Lenin said this here”, “but what he really meant was..”. It’s a bit tiring. At what point do we stop, and analyse the world ourselves and form opinions based on deductive reasoning? I suppose this is a hard question, because you reason based off Marx and Lenin, which is really helpful. But is there a line that needs to be made?
I am not going to sit here and act like I didn't make some use of AI. I did, but the principle is pretty sound. We take the polls from Bicen maths and from studentroom, and then analyse the data and calculate a weighted sentiment for each year. The biggest drawback is the sheer lack of data, and of variable data. I also introduced a heuristic to account for the fact that earlier years were new to the specification, however this heuristic is purely guess work. I pulled it out my ass so to speak. If we have the spec maturity from a scale of 0-1, then I put down 0.5 - 2022, 0.8 - 2023, 1 - 2024 and 1 - 2025. Also, bare in mind that obviously these studentroom and bicen maths polls may not be reflective of how a cohort actually found an exam. 2025 was found to be fairly tricky compared to 2024 which was the easiest.
The final score is the average of all 4 models. As you can see the model struggles to predict a small range for 2026 and thus the range of estimated boundaries is quite large. This is basically the best we can possibly get given the data we have I think.
Anyway this is a bit of fun, we will see what happens on results day
Imagine for a second that ADL never leaked, and that none of the old 2093 or lyfestyle songs in February leaked either. This sub would an absolute state.
It has been some time since we had the whole debacle involving this years edexcel maths papers. At the time the reaction seemed very strong, perhaps rightfully so. Even as an A* student I struggled, and I’m not even sure if I will get an A* in maths ☹️
Regardless however, now we have had time to reflect and look back, what do we think of this years maths papers? Do we still think they were THAT hard. And do we think paper 2 “balanced” it out, or that FM students will make the A* grade boundary stay high?
I got somewhere of like 244-252 so we have to pray 🙏
This is a big debated topic at the moment online. We have certain, not all, Marxist leninists arguing that Lenin himself said that state capitalism is a lower, primitive form of socialism, that China are building up productive forces to achieve socialism, and that they are socialist, that somehow the billionaire class doesn’t extract surplus value???? What did they wake up and find a diamond deposit in their pillow lmao. On the other hand, we have people who say that the workers do not own the means of production. But then, people claim that those who criticise China are armchair left coms who criticise everything, and that Marxist leninists actually get things done. Now, I want to get things done, but I see far too many Marxists get stuck in this trip of just blindly defending countries to win arguments. I’m not going to defend China simply because they say they are socialist, North Korea say they are democratic. But I also don’t want to be that armchair guy who criticises everything, maybe China is in fact in a lower phase of socialism and I should support them. But Xi Xingping seems to only really care about the century of humiliation. I appreciate he was part of the youth in the mountains thing or whatever it was called, but nothing I see from him points toward socialist ideals. Also, if the revolution requires defending the capitalist mode of production then what is the point?
Not saying the album needs to be thematically chill, rather that he is in a spot in his career where there isn’t a lot of pressure on him. Sure, the fans want, but the fans always want. I believe he is in a position now where he can slow down and take his time a bit with this next album. He needs to think it through and try to be semi coherent with some half interesting lyrics and he will be fine. Not trying to say he needs to keep up with this spending a long time in each song, but 2093 proves that he can do something really good if he simply takes his time.
I swear I remember this guy saying that the more places he travels or the more things he does, the more he has to rap about. How tf did he find more to rap about when he sat in a Japanese toilet closed his eyes and went 50 years in the future. Maybe he should try that again.
Seen a couple young bucks asking how likely it is they gets an A* in A-Level Maths, asking how hard maths is.
Heh… if only these FOOLS knew. 😈
It is honestly nauseating to witness this level of ignorance toward the realities of adult life from the youth. They think it’s like getting a sticker from the dentist. Well the dentist gave you a sticker even if your teeth were falling out lil pup 🤣✌️. Edexcel is like EVIL DENTIST. You go to get your teeth cleaned, and they disembowel you.
Maths ain’t casual. It’s life and death, and only battle-hardened soldiers (like myself) can undertake such a tremendous task. To watch the youth look at ts shi and ask such SILLY questions is just VILE.
Good luck buckaroos. You have absolutely no idea what's coming. 😂🙏
I will try to phrase this in non theoretical and vague terms. This question shouldn’t be interpreted as “what will the next air assault look like”, but more so, was what happened at Hostomel just how air assaults are going to go nowadays, or was the result specific to Russian conditions? Because Hostomel was a tactical success, the VDV took the airport and held it. Ukrainian claims of retaking the airport for a short time before losing it again are, from my understanding, dubious at best. But operationally Russia failed to achieve their goals. Is this because Air Assaults are no longer feasible in the modern day? Or, is it more that there are lessons to be learnt, and Air Assaults remain to be an important and feasible asset to conducting war?
So context I got predicted all A* for a levels, had an offer for contexual ucl and kinda bombed maths. Ive estimated basically 245-253 with less than 250 more likely. I had bad mental health issues until basically March but still even through exam season, just to a lesser degree. I get really panicked in exam and just make so many mistakes. So that’s the thing, I know all of the content really well. Further maths, maths etc I was getting consistently high 80% in mocks and tests leading up to a levels. I could have, should have, gotten 3A* this exam season but stuff happens, it’s how the game goes. Anyway if I resit all my exams what would I even do all year? Because it’s not as if I have content to learn I didn’t.
Please stop asking. Genuinely yes your 260 is an A*, yes the amount of marks you’ve got which is higher than the boundary for any A* in your subject ever is an A*. Please stop asking people man it’s done 😭
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His cracks were definitely showing at Eylau and thereafter, but up to the start of his decline, what were his weaknesses? Despite how brilliant austerlitz, the ulm and whatever else were, he can’t have been that good that he simply had 0 flaws. People always talk about him as a god and maybe even rightfully so, but if you had to really nitpick what could be said? I’m talking about as a general and not a person.
It’s really hit me recently that on Thursday or Friday whenever you have your last exam, that it’s just done. 6th form for the most part has been shit to me, and throughout it I’ve been wishing I could just leave. But now, it’s really hit me that it’s 2 years of pain for literally a few hours of exams. And then that’s just it. All these relationships with teachers and other people, and one day you just never see them again. Like damn it’s so much time for a few weeks of exams. Kind of sobering
Do excuse me for this, I don’t mean to be that guy who watches slop tiktoks and asks stupid questions, but this isn’t the first time I have heard this argument. Currently, the way I see things is that you have capitalism, socialism, communism. Socialism is when the workers own the means of production, communism is after a socialist phase, a stateless classless moneyless society. But now, I see some people argue that in fact socialism isn’t a thing? I understand where this guy is coming from, but I’m sort of unsure what to think. It makes sense that in fact socialism still requires labor to be imposed as a condition of survival. Thing is, I’m not yet knowledgable enough to fully understand or form an opinion on this. Really I need to read state and revolution, planning to do so soon. But I was hoping for any thoughts please! Thanks
From the TikTok:
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What Capitalism Actually Is
Capitalism is not just wage labor or markets. It is a total social relation of reproduction mediated by capital.
That means:
Human activity is subordinated to value production.
Life depends on access to wage mediated survival.
Social production is organized through accumulation.
Individuals confront their own activity as an alien power (capital).
Capital is not a thing. It is the self-expanding relation that organizes social life through value. If that relation exists, capitalism exists.
What Actually Defines a Mode of Production
A mode of production is not a neutral description of "how things are organized." It is defined by one core thing: the dominant social relation that reproduces society.
So the question is always:
What compels people to work?
How do people survive?
How is surplus extracted or is it?
What mediates production (value, planning, direct allocation, etc.)?
If these relations don't change, the mode of production doesn't change. Everything else—ownership forms, policy, administration—is secondary to that.
State Ownership is Not Abolition
State ownership does not abolish capital because capital is not private ownership. Capital is a social relation of mediation.
When the state takes over production:
Labor is still imposed as a condition of survival.
Surplus is still extracted from labor and socially allocated.
Production is still organized through abstract coordination mechanisms.
What disappears is private capitalist ownership. What remains is capitalist social mediation reorganized at a total level.
The State as Capitalist Mediation
The state does not stand outside
capitalist relations. When it organizes production, it functions as:
The allocator of social labor
The enforcer of labor discipline
The coordinator of surplus distribution
The reproducer of total social production
This is not "neutral management." It is the reproduction of capitalist social mediation in centralized form.
Why "Socialism" Does Not Break That Relation
"Socialism" does not abolish capitalist relations because it does not abolish the mediation of social life through value.
Even when ownership is socialized or transferred to the state:
Access to goods still depends on labor participation or allocation systems.
Production is still organized through measurement, quotas, or planning abstractions.
Social activity is still separated into "production" and "distribution".
Life still depends on systems that stand over and regulate activity.
So the issue is not "who controls production." The issue is that production still exists as a separate social sphere mediated by abstract systems rather than being directly communized. As long as social mediation still takes the form of labor, value, or allocation mechanisms, capitalist relations persist in altered form.
The USSR as Example
The USSR did not abolish capitalist relations. It reorganized them:
Wage labor remained the condition of survival.
Labor-time discipline remained socially enforced.
Production was mediated through planning abstractions and output targets.
Surplus was centrally extracted and redistributed.
The private capitalist disappeared. But capitalist mediation of social life remained intact.
Why "Socialism" is Not a Useful Category
"Socialism" describes arrangements where capitalist relations are reorganized, not abolished. It obscures the real question: not ownership or policy, but whether social life is still mediated through value, wage labor, and abstract compulsion.
If those forms persist, capitalism persists. The label does not change the structure.
The Illusion of a Third System
"Socialism" is often treated as a separate system between capitalism and communism. But materially, that distinction doesn't hold. There is no third stable mode of production called socialism. There is capitalism, and there is the movement that abolishes it.
Contradiction of Socialism
There are not three systems. There is:
Capitalism as self-reproducing social mediation.
Communism as the abolition of the present state of things.
Everything called "socialism" is located inside that contradiction: either reproduction of capital in altered form, or transition toward its dissolution. No stable middle form exists outside it.
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Unlike in video games, such as the popular realistic tank simulator game on steam called war thunder, tank commanders and gunners do not have a 3d camera. So, genuine question, but where should they be looking when not in combat? In games you look behind you, which in real life probably would mean you’re doing something wrong. But, does the commander keep scanning constantly, or do the commander and gunner designate certain areas for each other to look at? Does the loader get any action?
