Troo

Interested in Economy, Society and History

[Soviet Cinema Vault @ScreenSoviet]

Inostranka (1965). Directed by Konstantin Zhuk and Aleksandr Sery.
By the mid-1960s, even Soviet films had their twist dance scenes! Here's a lively musical number from the comedy Inostranka.

And the music isn't foreign at all! This upbeat song, Song of Friends, was composed by Murad Kazhlaev and performed by Tamara Miansarova.

Just look at those young dancers go! Now that's rhythm!

[Troo @_Cosmic_Horrors]

https://t.co/sq8mqqviVV

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

You can spend ONE afternoon with:

• Gottlob Frege
• Bertrand Russel
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• W.V.O. Quine

Who are you choosing?

[Paul Raymond-Robichaud @PaulRRobichaud]

Treating the mind as computation is a hard-to-vary explanation. Positing that subjective experience demands a biological substrate adds an arbitrary, easy-to-vary ingredient for which we have zero explanatory reason.

[toxic🌶️ @ChiliTwin25685]

Morning

[Mr Fem @femiitan]

They're literally traumatizing their kids for views.
😂😂😂

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.”

#NobelPrize

[空空道人 @Kongkongda5882]

太高兴了印度老公都没要嫁妆彩礼

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

[David Bessis @davidbessis]

Fallacy of the day: "if you don't subscribe to the genius myth, then you're claiming that cognitive ability doesn't vary between individuals"

[Handre @Handre]

Every communist government in history killed its own economy before it finished killing its own people.

The Soviet collectivization of 1929 to 1933 is the cleanest case study. Stalin abolished private farms, centralized grain distribution, and produced a famine that killed between 5 and 7 million Ukrainians. No market existed to signal the shortage. No price spike triggered additional supply. Planners in Moscow simply got the numbers wrong, and Ukrainians starved for it.

Mao's Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) repeated this at even greater scale. Peasants melted down farming tools to meet steel quotas, so crops rotted in fields. Between 30 and 55 million people died. The price system, which would have routed food toward scarcity, had been abolished by decree.

Venezuela offers you a recent live demonstration. Chavez nationalized oil in 2007, price controls followed, and by 2019 the bolivar had lost 99.9 percent of its value. Grocery shelves emptied. Physicians fled.

Prices carry the information producers need to allocate resources. Strip that signal away, centralize decisions in a planning bureau, and you get organized, systematic death. Communism failed repeatedly because it physically cannot process the distributed knowledge that voluntary exchange produces every second in billions of transactions.

[Harsh Gupta Madhusudan @harshmadhusudan]

Absolutely incredible progress against extreme poverty in India. There has been no better time to be an Indian in history than today. There has been no golden age as golden as today. Relatively, yes, India may have been better than others earlier but in absolute terms this is it.

[East African Freikorps @africanfreikorp]

Rappel que les communistes haissent du plus profond de leur coeur Taïwan car c'est la preuve vivante que la Chine aurait très bien pu se développer sans des famines et des massacres de masse

[Pvt A B @col_a_buendia]

As a linguistics guy this clip has been on replay in my head for ages. The Aboriginals are capable of comprehending numbers if they learn them in childhood but this may be the most fascinating peek ever into how firmly constrained cognitive capacities are by language acquisition.

[Lau Taarnskov @laut]

Elixir is very good at handling many connections without breaking. So you don't need to give it any special attention for good performance. Here a benchmark with a lot of clients posting to the once-campfire repos. Elixir mops the floor with the Rust versions.

[Harsh shekhawat @wordofshekhawat]

Believe me or not, but many pervert directors & producers are desperate to cast Subhashree in their movies 💀👀

[toxic🌶️ @ChiliTwin25685]

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[Anti Kommunistic @antikommunistic]

Communist biology.

[William Guppy @w_guppy]

Fascinating book which recounts, among other things, how Welsh miners would read and discuss Hegelian dialectics, completely misunderstanding it due to their limited formal education, and wasting their time in shallow pseudo-intellectual discussion when they might have better spent it drinking or fighting.

[Louis vil LeGun @LouisvilleGun]

Today is the 59th anniversary of Che being turned into a Good Communist.

Press S to spit on his grave.