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  • another question, everyone

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  • are there any methods on studying socialist/communist theory that makes it easy and fun?

    If you’re able to find an IRL Marxist / socialist reading group, those are pretty great.

    For Capital specifically, I think working though companion pieces helps. I like the podcast Reading Capital with Comrades. Michael Heinrich’s companion book is good, though it only covers the first 7 chapters (the most important part).

  • RIP Comrade Victor Grossman (1928-2025)

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  • I will also take this moment to plug another book: Stasi State or Socialist Paradise by Bruni de la Motte. The author was born and raised in the GDR and speaks from firsthand experience. It’s a very comprehensive primer on East Germany and a great resource for someone who want to learn more about it.

  • Fact check: Trump repeats numerous false claims in prime-time address | CNN Politics

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  • I think this is something that’s not being considered enough. This really struck me a few months ago when Trump was talking about Portland being some lawless, smoldering ruin when everything there was just fine (except for the ICE presence ofc). Obviously Trump lies about everything but the way he talked about Portland was odd, like he really believed it. Also just a weird thing to lie about, when it’s so obviously not only not true but incredibly not true.

    I think the people around Trump were feeding him false info about Portland. Probably telling him things like “sir Portland is literally burning to the ground and crime is out of control”. I honestly think they are probably feeding him a steady diet of AI slop videos and telling him it’s what’s actually happening in the world.

  • California threatens Tesla with 30-day suspension of sales license for deceptive self-driving claims

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  • GM, hands down. Ford is also very good. I would personally feel very safe in either one. I am hoping to buy an Equinox soon.

    They both just have an entirely different philosophy from Tesla. Tesla, being from Musk, has these ideas of the car (trying) to be this cool piece of tech that does everything for you, but without putting in the real work to make that happen. Musk wants to take the human out of driving entirely and we’re just not there yet.

    For GM and Ford (and really, everyone who isn’t Tesla), they see self-driving more as a way to assist you in driving on the highways, not some replacement. If you take your eyes for the road for more than a couple seconds it starts to warn you. Then it takes increasing measures to get to you to pay attention, eventually it will just pull itself over the to shoulder.

    BYD doesn’t have that in the US at least (I don’t know about China) because you need to to have the US highways all mapped out in detail and keep it updated.

  • California threatens Tesla with 30-day suspension of sales license for deceptive self-driving claims

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  • As someone who has followed the self-driving car news for nearly a decade, I can say that Tesla’s is dogshit. Even going back to 2017/18, people who understand these systems were saying that while Tesla was first out the gate, their system had inherent, unresolvable issues and they would eventually be surpassed by the legacy manufacturers who were taking a slower but more measured and thought-out approach to self-driving, with systems that would surpass Tesla in short order.

    Fast forward to today. Ford and GM both have self-driving systems for highways that are truly remarkable. GM’s Super Cruise has 700 million miles recorded and no reported accidents, which is truly incredible. Now that we have such safe and reliable systems, Tesla has no business selling cars with Autopilot, IMO it should be banned.

  • 🧠⚡️🧠⚡️🧠

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  • Understanding this helped me understand how the Romans would tell a Germanic tribe “hey sure we’ve got some open land over in Aquitaine, just settle there and pay us taxes”. Thinking of it terms of borders as lines on a map just left me more confused.

  • Trump says he'll deliver prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday

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  • Honestly, I am hoping it really is just him whine bragging like he always does. He seems bothered that Americans don’t realize how “great” the economy is, so maybe he’s gonna try and talk about that. Anything that isn’t a declaration of war against Venezuela (or anyone else for that matter) I will be relieved by.

  • Where's my old hat

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  • I’ll add that Disney+ is on the BDS list, so I consider pirating Andor to be a moral imperative.

  • PBS is "the propaganda"?

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  • Nova

    I know plenty of people who think saying the earth is >10,000 years old is propaganda.

  • Linux is awesome at home, but aren't y'all forced to use Windows at work?

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  • It’s remarkable how 5 years ago, I would not have been able to do my job just with web apps. Just recently I used my personal Linux laptop for 3 weeks while away from home. It worked perfectly for the job with two minor exceptions:

    ‘1. There’s a proprietary web app that requires you to upload a specifically-formatted .xlsx file, couldn’t get that to work.

    ‘2. MS Teams - unless you have the web page pulled up and are looking at it, it will show you as Away instead of Available. Workaround was to just leave Teams open on my phone and have the screen always on.

  • Expert says Dems have "once-in-a-generation" chance to flip hundreds of seats across the nation - LGBTQ Nation

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  • It’s not about ticking boxes though. It’s recognizing that just sitting on your hands and doing nothing for people other than saying “well at least we aren’t the Republicans!” and not fighting tooth and nail for important things (like the PRO Act, voting reform, minimum wage increases, etc) just means people are gonna walk away and try voting for the other team next cycle because at least they’re promising something.

  • What’s you obscure low key achievement this year?

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  • After many years of trying and failing, I finally convinced my friends to try a TTRPG (Dungeons & Dragons). This is my first time ever playing a TTRPG as it is for most of my friends. We are having an absolute blast. The general consensus is that we should have started doing this years ago (which I always pipe in with a “yeah, that’s why I first brought it up in like 2021”)

  • US Senator moves to file Section 230 repeal

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  • The crisis was one of capitalist profitability - the rate of profit - moreso than one felt directly by workers (though they still felt its impacts). The late 70s in particular is where this was felt most acutely. The hatred most boomers feel towards Jimmy Carter is mainly due to the economic pressures they felt at the time). Of course that was still the time of boomers buying homes for relatively cheap so it looks good compared to now but not compared to the decades before it. The 1970s were known as the era of stagflation. Essentially, the capitalists were squeezed by higher prices (oil embargoes, labor unions, etc) and had to find a way to reverse this and restore profitability. Things like offshoring and financialization of the economy were the solution. And that worked for a while, but now there’s no more gains to be made there.

  • US Senator moves to file Section 230 repeal

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  • I think the user darkcalling, in commenting on this story in the current Hexbear news mega thread, had a spot on analysis of this:

    Section 230 repeal is game over.

    No more VPNs because they're liable for CSAM, terrorism, death threats, copyright abuse, etc. Even if they're off-shore and dare to thumb their noses at the US their domestic hosting partners will drop them out of liability concerns themselves. This is a terrifying unraveling of the internet as we knew it. Far more drastic than the death of blogs and forums and the rise of centralized social media. Far more drastic than even AI spam washing over everything and making real content hard to find.

    There really are no alternatives waiting in the wings. You're not going to be able to torrent blurays over L2P or Tor. You're not going to be able to watch streaming videos with friends. For a while you'll be able to use Canadian servers, maybe Mexico (don't know what their laws are like) until they pass similar laws and tier one ISPs start throttling that type of traffic into/out of the US.

    The boot is finally here, the death of the open internet will occur if that passes. Total narrative control. Social media companies seized by the throat by the US government, either cooperate in censoring what they want or they actually hold you accountable for everything your users do. Have good users? Here are some fed infiltrators and zionist intelligence companies who are going to spam you with illegal stuff and report it to us so you'll be done anyways.

    The speed at which western governments have been moving recently to erode privacy, and thus a free internet, really has been staggering to me, and I’ve been following this stuff for a while. There’s been a total blitz against 3 pillars of freedom: 1.) destroy our ability to have private conversations (chat control), 2.) know exactly who everyone is online and identify all your online activity (age verification), and 3.) effectively destroy user generated content - at least content which is a threat to power (this attack on Section 230).

    Personally, I think this recent all-out attack is due to 2 things. The first is the genocide in Gaza. The ruling classes were caught off guard there. They had previously been operating under the assumption that their control of mainstream tradition media meant they can control whatever narrative they want. Social media was for kids and they’re not politically relevant, so who cares. But having a genocide live-streamed completely destroyed decades of hard work at crafting a pro-Zionist public in the west. They’re not going to let that happen again, so bye-bye TikTok (the other platforms like Instagram were already compromised, TikTok was the only one outside of their grasp).

    The second factor though, despite all the bluster and bravado about how “great” the economy is from Trump and the media (and tbf, Biden and the dems before him), I think the ruling classes know damn well just how bad things are. More than that, they know things are gonna get a lot worse. Neoliberalism was the method by which capitalism was able to extend its life. The crises it faced in the late 60s and 70s were really just an extension of the Great Depression. The only way the capitalist world was able to pull itself out of that was through a global war that destroyed so much capital that they got an economic boom for 2-3 decades just from rebuilding the world order. But now neoliberalism has spent itself and they have no answers for what to do next. Thus, they are fully expecting the people to fight back. The internet is maybe the most powerful tool that people have for organizing themselves and fighting back, so that MUST be brought under lockdown by the capitalists before it’s too late.

    EDIT: I also wanted to ask, since I’m fairly new to federation… how would repealing Section 230 affect the fediverse specifically?

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    US Senator moves to file Section 230 repeal

    www.livemint.com /news/us-news/us-senator-moves-to-file-section-230-repeal-what-is-the-law-how-will-a-ban-affect-your-free-speech-on-the-internet/amp-11765605040550.html

  • What's the oldest video game you still find yourself playing?

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  • I have an N64 and a Sony PVM, so I play a lot of games on that. But there’s two I play much more regularly than all the others: Mario Golf and Mario Tennis. They both hold up incredibly well.

  • Liberal vs leftist

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  • I second this. I enjoyed reading Lenin’s Imperialism very much, but it also felt very dated (as it should, it’s well over 100 years old now). I can’t help but think that if Lenin were alive today, he’d agree. That doesn’t mean it’s not an incredibly important work that we can’t draw from today, but we should also understand how the world has changed since.

    I haven’t read John Smith’s Imperialism in the 21st Century yet, but I’ve heard it’s a very good update.

  • What are your opinions on name changes in general?

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  • Worth noting that usually, the public pays for the stadium in whole or in a significant part, but the sports team owners are the ones who pocket the proceeds from the naming rights.

  • Protestation

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  • When you read about this man’s life - what he did for the revolution as well as the incredible theory he developed - you really begin to understand the reverence people had for him.

    Lenin Walks Around the World.

  • How can I explain that my last workplace was in a cult without seeming unprofessional?

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  • Yes, I think my advice applies more to an interview than something you would put down on paper on a questionnaire.