Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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So I was walking through the city this evening when a guy started talking to me. Thinking he was some sort of street sales person fot whatever internet company or something, I politely told him to leave me alone. But then he said he was collecting money for Palestine and I felt bad. He was raising money to send water filters to Gaza. I donated of course but I still felt shit lol.
hey, don’t know if it’s Jerboa (my client), but the matrix homeserver and space link doesn’t work for me.
cheers from Brazil, have a great day!
Brazil mentioned
apparently I forgot to update it, thanks 👌
thanks to /u/[email protected] for this week’s picture
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I hope you all have a nice week :D
you three
You four
Also what the heck your comment did not appear in my inbox
You two :D
Omg how did you get a video of me
Stalker
My application to be a member of the party has been accepted! This Sunday, I’ll be attending my first ever meeting! Such a joyous occasion.
Éljen a munkáspárt! 🚩🇭🇺
I pandered buying a commie pin for my backpack, but I’m trying not to get hatecrimed and I already have a high risk being a femboy.
If you get a red star you can just say “what no it’s just a cool star”
You can say it’s the Macy’s logo. Just a big fan of the store
Tell them it gives you VIP access and a 10% discount on all items and watch how many people get their own red star pin.
Where do you even get a hold of communist pins? I’ve debated getting some myself (subtle as I don’t want to be attacked) but I don’t know where would be good to get them.
You can find some on websites like Temu, but they won’t be named “communism”. I found one here. I’ve noticed they frequently get resold with a big margin on western sites. This way you will directly pay the producer.
I wish finding games to play was easier. I yearn for affordable entertainment. Nothing sparks joy. No, I do not accept the depression diagnosis. A good game would cure me, but all new releases are buggy messes or/and have barely any content with most of stuff locked behind paid for DLCs. And for some reason a lot of games also heavily go into either a blue or a sepia tint all over which makes me sick.
you’re unable to torrent?
Your Internet Provider will report you to the police if you do and then you’ll have to pay a fine. I’m also not comfortable with it personally.
Which countries do this?
Germany. I thankfully learned before moving here, but I’ve seen other immigrants end up with fines.
Oh wow. That’s fucked up.
IP can’t report you if you’re using a VPN. For the price of a low tier streaming service, you can pirate everything lol
What console do you play on? If you’re on PC you can check out itch.io and download the free stuff. There are tons of indie devs making cool stuff on there, it’s like the flash game websites of old
I am PC, Linux. Is there a way to filter out horrors and visual novels? I’ve never seen the website before, sorry. >/////<
I don’t think you can make exclusion filters, actually… You can pick as many tags as you want though and that sort of does the same thing. Like, you can pick the Dungeon Crawler tag to see all the dungeon crawler games
What kind of game are you looking for?
I’ve been having a lot of fun with My Time at Sandrock and a modded Stardew Valley (Stardew Valley Expanded) lately.
Non sandbox non movie games. I’m tired of peasant simulators and I’m not into games with linear story with preset characters.
How’s Sandrock? I remember it had tons of bad reviews not long ago.
How’s Sandrock? I remember it had tons of bad reviews not long ago.
Pretty good, if it had bad reviews I didn’t notice (but actually). I’m not sure if it falls under the categories of peasant simulator (probably) and it’s a linear story, though.
If a linear story doesn’t matter too much (because the story isn’t the point for most people at all in said games) and it seems up your alley, I suppose Monster Hunter World+Iceborne is still on sale for about a week on Fanatical, recently I got playing it again since some of my siblings are getting into it (been a fan since the wii era myself).
CW: deteriorating mental health, depressive tendencies
My mental health has deteriorated horribly since uni started back in September. I hate university so much and I don’t think it will ever be a good experience for me, since I’m not a very sociable person and I find myself very irritable lately…
I want to find an alternative (my main interests are the gym and programming) that at least gives me enough money to live, because I’ve accepted I will never be happy. However, my parents seem to hate that idea and have tried their hardest to keep me from dropping out. It’s been hard.
With that being said, hope you all have had a good week!
I have one more midterm this week and I’m pretty sure I flunked the three last week. Oh well.
I failed first year math once and physics twice. I now have a physics degree with a math minor and engineering minor, and will be submitting my master’s thesis in physics this month.
So it sucks.
But it’s not the end of the world.
Edit: I forgot to say that this comment is quite inspiring really. Knowing that you’ve accomplished so much even with a few slip ups, it does make me feel less alone and at ease. So thank you for that.
This is sort of the mindset I’m trying to have. I only really need a C- to get the credits (I’d rather get higher so my GPA doesn’t suffer) but I know failing these first exams isn’t the end of the world, I have other exams/quizzes/assignments to make up for it. Thankfully after this term I will be done with psychology and I can focus on History and PoliSci.
This is one of those comments where an ‘acknowledgement upvote’ could be misconstrued – I’m sure you’ve done fine!
Maybe but even if I did horrible I’m not to stressed about it, those three classes have a second midterm (my online course has four) to make up for it plus quizzes and assignments (that make up a huge chunk of the overall grade) and the final of course. Maybe I did surprisingly well but considering I had to guess a lot I’m thinking not lol (I’m not stupid I just didn’t study as well as I could’ve since they came too fast). Thanks for the vote of confidence!
Was just watching the new Coaster College video about the roller coaster accident that happened in a park in Shenzhen last October, and while the video was good, man, so many of the comments are exactly what you’d expect about anything related to China
The funniest ones were the “made in China” ones, when the coaster in question was made by a US company 😂
It’s also pretty funny for people to act like there’s fewer repercussions for Chinese companies for this kind of thing, when the video even mentions that the investigators sent by the city directly recommended criminal charges against multiple managers from the park in question, which is wild when these sorts of accidents in the US almost never result in anything resembling criminal charges, usually the people responsible don’t even face any consequences
It’s also interesting to see people mention it as being unusual that the Chinese government is so open about something (since the investigation info is available to the public), unfortunately I doubt they’ll look at this and question anything else they’ve been told about China’s government
Every time a chinese company release an LLM, there are fkn libs always asking it about tankman and posting its response. I’m fkn sick of it.
give me some disasters US wants to cover up and i’ll ask western llms?
The first thing that came to mind is the MOVE bombings
The thing is all the llms spit out something even for MOVE bombings. I need something that is clearly wrong/censored, not up to date but came out recently due to declassification
You could try asking about the details here.
What do they say about Assange? Or the stuff Texas is doing to refugees at the border?
Julian Assange, through WikiLeaks, released various documents, videos, and diplomatic cables that provided the public with information on a range of topics, including the practices of the United States military and government. Among the most notable releases were:
Collateral Murder Video (April 2010): WikiLeaks published gun camera footage of a July 2007 airstrike in Baghdad in which Iraqi journalists were killed by an Apache helicopter, along with other civilians. The video raised significant public concern about the conduct of U.S. forces in Iraq, with many people viewing the incident as a war crime.
Afghanistan War Logs (July 2010): These were a compilation of more than 76,900 documents that detailed the war in Afghanistan. The logs included reports of civilian casualties and evidence of the challenges faced by soldiers on the ground, which were not widely reported in the public domain.
Iraq War Logs (October 2010): This release contained nearly 400,000 military logs from the Iraq War, which also documented civilian deaths and instances of torture by Iraqi forces that were known to the U.S. military.
CableGate (November 2010): WikiLeaks released a trove of diplomatic cables that included candid assessments of foreign leaders and blunt descriptions of U.S. diplomacy.
Some of these disclosures did reveal information that many people, including human rights activists and journalists, argue exposed potential war crimes and abuses of power. Critics argue that the release of this information was in the public interest, as it provided transparency regarding matters that have significant moral, legal, and political implications.
However, the U.S. government has argued that the release of classified information by WikiLeaks endangered lives by exposing the identities of informants and compromising national security. This has been the basis for the legal actions taken against Assange, including his indictment on charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, rather than the act of publishing sensitive material.
The debate around Assange’s actions involves complex discussions about the balance between national security, the public’s right to know, and the protection of whistleblowers versus the legal boundaries of classified information.
Hmmm I see that the robot didn’t say anything about jurisdiction. Assange isn’t American nor was he on American territory when he published the information. Siding with the US government on this case is effectively giving American courts the power to govern the entire planet.
I’m gonna be real. I’m getting tired of seeing news articles about things that are obviously going to be happening under capitalism.
Yes they are privatizing everything. Yes they are killing everything and everyone.etc etc etc.
Is there a community, or an interest at all, where we can post something and talk about praxis?
So instead of “they are ruining healthcare!”. Could maybe have at least one community where it’s:
They are ruining healthcare (article) and my town and I have started organizing against it.
Or : there are so many homeless! (Article) we started this mutual aid group. Any advice?
I just think it can become a distraction from real action constantly reinforcing what we know, without an effort or recognition of each other’s praxis.
I get where your coming from but I’d also like to point out that for me personally these articles come in pretty handy when I’m discussing these things that we know will happen with friends that don’t. They’re a useful tool to back up my arguments when I try radicalizing people, as it’s helpful to be able to point to specific instance where these things are happening right now, in an effort to convince others that theories established long ago are correct.
You’re right of course. I suppose it’s frustrating knowing there are dozens of us and we don’t have a place to share successes and failures of praxis. Maybe I have internalized the sentiment that social media is a distraction from action.
Drone was intercepted near Dzerzjinsk last night. Yes, it is named after Felix Dzerzjinsky. No, it’s nowhere near the Ukrainian border. If fact it’s further away than Moscow.
Bad news folks, parents got covid
Good news folks, my test is negative
