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NotMushroomForDebate

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    (MEGATHREAD) In a joint attack, the US and Israel attacked Iran! Updates in comments!

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  • joy emoji + rofl emoji + lmao

  • I didn't join the revolution to read

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  • They're not even pretending to be genuine at this point.

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    [Weekly Discussion Thread] The China Episode - Episode 222

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  • I am not sure if you have listened to the episode, but that is a very unfair takeaway imo. A large portion of the runtime is spent on debunking ultra-left criticisms.

    I'm not sure what the other evidence is that you're referring to in general. I haven't really noticed much aside from them not pushing back enough against a couple sus guests, one of them I vaguely remember saying they regretted how it went.

    While I don't really listen to it as much anymore, I think the podcast gets treated too harshly here on the 'Grad. It is an ML podcast that is easy to get into, and the hosts repeatedly make themselves very clear to the listeners that they should be moving on to more advanced material and to get organised (while avoiding common pitfalls especially in the west). They speak often about how their listeners should outgrow them and that their strategy is to "move people further down the funnel".

    I'm not going to get too much into it. I actually wanted to make a discussion post about the topic of podcasts, videos, tiktoks, and other "content" at some point because I've seen quite a few comments on Lemmygrad over the past year that I believe have a wrong read on this topic.

  • How would you redesign dating apps?

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  • There are already Open Source dating apps. You might be interested in checking out their implementations and how they address the questions you're asking.

    The most-used one appears to be, of all things, the 4chan dating app Duolicious. Here's a link to a "KnowYourMeme" article describing what it is. It had a lot of discussion around it and seemingly a lot of active users.

    The other is Alovoa which has been around for a long time, and is the one that usually comes up when you search for Open Source dating apps. I'm not sure if it actually has an active user-base though.

    I think this actually highlights an important point, which is that attempts at creating generic alternatives are a lot less likely to succeed compared to targeted ones. Even the big companies realise this. You see more and more dating apps popping up in different countries targetted at muslims, lesbians, vegans, black people, and so on.

    People tired of Tinder & Co. are more likely to find and try your app if it's the one that comes up when they search "flat-earther dating app" (if that's what appeals to them) as opposed to randomly choosing one of the dozens of generic dating apps.

    4chan's conditions are especially unique in that it has a specific site culture, a very large user-base, and it's a forum/imageboard which means that the app already had a place to market itself to all 4chan users. This is probably why it became successful.

    Ultimately, I think that's more important than the specific discovery mechanics of the apps. They become less relevant anyway as you're already filtering a lot of people by using a more niche app.

    In a lot of countries and cities you might find only a handful of people in your region to begin with, and it's more likely that you'd meet them and talk since you already have a common ground, as opposed to endlessly swiping through hundreds of profile.

  • Suggestion for a weekly essay discussion thread.

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  • I also have some writings here https://criticalresist.substack.com/archive that I eventually wanted to port over to the prolewiki essays space, if there’s anything you find there that you like I can import it so it can become part of the weekly discussion.

    I have only skimmed them so far, but I do like the articles you have on design thinking such as the redesigning ProleWiki article and "How to positively operate within constraints". I also find the "What I've learned from working with ProleWiki" and "How Vietnam decolonized and what we can learn from their struggle" quite interesting.

    I'm not sure if they would benefit from discussion, as I see them as more educational in the sense of taking away lessons from them to apply, rather than different currents and points of views to discuss, but I may be wrong.

    PS: on desktop tap the 0 key on the keyboard to enter distraction-free reading mode, and try out the gear icon as well for sepia theme and bigger font :)

    I already use the sepia theme, but I also recently learned that the neobrutalist theme you demoed a while ago is actually on the website! I thought it was just a mockup screenshot. It's a lot more polished than I expected as well. I actually turn it on from time to time for fun just to see how different the pages look, lol. Though I don't actually use it when reading.

  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 9

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  • Does anyone have a good read on the current situation with Pakistan and Afghanistan?

  • Suggestion for a weekly essay discussion thread.

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  • Do you have a suggestion for the pilot thread? I think it should be a topic that someone already wants to talk about so it can kick-start the discussion. I'd appreciate it if you could ask other ProleWiki members/authors for suggestions!

    I don't want to pick something at random, because there's no guarantee that others would be interested. For future threads, people can suggest essays for the next weeks (if the pilot is successful).

  • Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #50 Contract Work

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  • She reminds me of a certain Argonian maid.

    Anyway, there's a book I need to get back to reading...

  • The hammer and sickle symbolized the biggest groups of proletarians, manual laborers and farmers. What would today's symbol be?

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  • It should just be a combine harvester. The machine itself is an impressive product of ingenuity, engineering, and labour, as well as symbolising agriculture. It is also a symbol of progress and prosperity.

  • ProleWiki @lemmygrad.ml
    NotMushroomForDebate @lemmygrad.ml

    Suggestion for a weekly essay discussion thread.

  • Seeking feedback on my new "Basic Course" for Marxism-Leninism

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  • Yeah, that's understandable of course. It becomes very difficult to find anything to trim once we get to this level. The only thing I can think of, and I would pose this as a question rather than a suggestion, is "Value, Price, and Profit" absolutely necessary for the basic course? The "Political Economy" section would certainly feel quite thin if it's excluded.

    Aside from that, I don't think much can be done in terms of cutting things out. Maybe if there are shorter alternatives to works such as "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism", or a couple essays to replace "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific", but at this point we're resorting to quite extreme measures.

    I believe the only way to go beyond this, which is completely out of scope of this project, is to create more works such as the Abriged version of "What is to be done" and use those for introduction rather than the unaltered classics.

  • Seeking feedback on my new "Basic Course" for Marxism-Leninism

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  • I don't disagree. Admittedly, it's a bit difficult to put myself in the shoes of a lib who's been exposed to this list for the first time. Different people would be curious about it for different reasons.I hope you're right that reading the works in the first section back-to-back would be enough to motivate them to read further.

    I would rather aim for 20 hours as the goal as opposed to 25. If I were in your shoes, I would add "Yellow Parenti" at the end of a section (maybe after the checkpoint) as a "strong recommendation" and just not count it to the hour count because it would technically be "optional".

  • Seeking feedback on my new "Basic Course" for Marxism-Leninism

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  • I like the list for the most part and believe that the decisions for what to cut and what to keep in each section are well-reasoned.

    My main concern is with whether too much is being asked from Nia Frome's 5-10 minute "Tankies" article.

    The way I see it is that while the first two sections do more than a good enough job of correcting misconceptions about Marxism, they do not do an adequate job (in my opinion) of addressing the 'elephant in the room' for most people, which is AES.

  • Dbzero defederated from the German instance because they were a Zionist Bar, now lemmitors are reacting to it

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  • I find it funny how dbzer0 always ends up getting called a "tankie" instance anyway despite their efforts to curry favour with the lib instances.

    I wonder if it makes them reflect at all about how their own pearl-clutching about "authoritarianism" is often just as meaningless.

  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 8

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  • Can we get some fun stats and stuff from Lemmygrad over the years? I think it would be cool to see things like change in monthly active users, when the spikes were and what drove them, which communities became more/less popular, etc.

    I think only instance admins have access to this info.

    The only public thing I could find was monthly active users using a random website, but it only showed a few months (and I'm not sure it's accurate).

  • Why are small business owners considered petit bourgeoisie?

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  • Don't feel apprehensive about asking questions. So long as they're genuine and in good faith, people here have always been more than happy to help in my experience.

    I'll link you a comment thread where I asked similar questions about artisans a few months ago and got great answers from @Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml and @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml. I also found the (very short!) excerpt that @darkernations@lemmygrad.ml linked, "Stalin's Shoemaker", quite helpful.

    Here's the comment thread: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9364892/7108472

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    Marxism-Leninism Study Guide: Basic Course

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  • That's quite a clever way of getting empirical feedback without using trackers. Haven't thought of that before. I wonder if there are other ways to gather data in a privacy-respecting way.

    Maybe now that this guide is quite short and (hopefully) a lot of people would complete it, there could be a anonymous feedback survey at the end? People could always write comments on this thread, but maybe having specific questions and rating scales, etc. on a standardised survey would produce more comparable data 🤔

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    Marxism-Leninism Study Guide: Basic Course

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  • Not pictured: Cowbee crying every time he trimmed out a book from the list to get it down to 20 hours.

    I think you did a great job, and would imagine that this list is going to be a lot more successful with getting curious people to start reading with the aim of completing it.

  • Will a Pan-Arab Communist Party ever be possible?

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  • Yeah, I'm not very well-read on the non-aligned movement as a whole, and I don't have any material lined-up on my reading list to expand on it.

    I'm hoping to find some resources to better understand the context, and potential mistakes that were made during that time and in that region specifically.

    Thanks for your input :)

  • Please @Dessalines, I bet all my savings...

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  • I know, I was trying to get in on the insider trading, but @dessalines@lemmy.ml won't help me out :(

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    NotMushroomForDebate @lemmygrad.ml

    Please @Dessalines, I bet all my savings...

  • Embassy of Hexbear on Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml
    NotMushroomForDebate @lemmygrad.ml

    What the hell is up with Hexbear moderation on this post?

    hexbear.net /post/7380197
  • ProleWiki @lemmygrad.ml
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    ProleWiki gets a shout-out on ProlesPod

  • Comradeship // Freechat @lemmygrad.ml
    NotMushroomForDebate @lemmygrad.ml

    Old English translations holding back theory?

  • Comradeship // Freechat @lemmygrad.ml
    NotMushroomForDebate @lemmygrad.ml

    Do you take notes when reading theory?

  • ProleWiki @lemmygrad.ml
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    Is there a reliable way to convert ProleWiki books to ebooks?

  • Comradeship // Freechat @lemmygrad.ml
    NotMushroomForDebate @lemmygrad.ml

    What are your favourite RSS feeds for news, general happenings, etc.?