General Discussion Thread- 🇨🇺Liberation Day🇨🇺 - Juche 113 Week 53 / Juche 114 Week 01
General Discussion Thread- 🇨🇺Liberation Day🇨🇺 - Juche 113 Week 53 / Juche 114 Week 01
Hello and welcome to our Annual Día de la Liberación Celebration post, and our weekly tradition of the Discussion Thread.
Bring your celebratory July 26th movement flags, and be prepared to tremble with indigation at every Injustice, and enjoy Día de la Liberación ... and the new year I guess
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I'm not the biggest fan of Hexbear lately, and it's no one person or anyone specific, but I feel bad because I find that it's difficult to get sources or find sources of information to post here that isn't already shared or has a niche role filled by someone else that's already here. Even though I've had a rough experience or two on here, I've found that the company here is much preferable in comparison to the non-stop never-ending drama on Hexbear as of recent. It really feels like Leftbook in there recently.
Regardless, I'll probably keep posting my occasional meme and browsing the news thread where I'll have to hear some slam out blazing takes of how China is failing global socialism from their D.I.Y raccoon sanctuary that is actual true leftism.
I've recently been writing something myself on a perspective of the Catholic Church in America while also doing some writing and map-making for a fallout tabletop I'm doing for a big group. Resources I may not know of that some of you may have tucked in your back pocket would be neat.
Other than that, I hope you are all doing well and a happy new years eve for all of you!
The issues on hexbear from a month and a half ago were never resolved and the issues have metastasized. There have been waves of bans and many longtime users have given up fighting. (I'm one of them) There are one or more admins who are actively hostile to the userbase and are attempting to reshape the user base by banning people and silencing certain discussions. They decided to Luigi is a fascist and even trying to discuss otherwise gets you banned. (yes he liked and shared many really reactionary posts but he was not a fascist, just an ignoramus)
Honestly I feel like the feds got an admin account and put an expert wrecker on the operation. The way admin accounts are anonymized its impossible to know who is making the decisions over there and it seems quite obvious that some of them are trying (and succeeding) to destroy the site.
I've had the same exact thoughts. Classic wrecker shit.
Glad you're here! If it's not bad for infosec (associated with your name/place/specific experiences) I'd be interested in reading your perspective whenever it's ready.
I do wanna share it here! I'm bad with keeping a strict schedule and a lot of it I've been keeping an ear up to hear of any more details or testimonies of people abused. Generally it just takes me time, but I've gotten a bit written down!
Mostly, it's just more of a "collection" of different experiences people had growing up with the church around here and asking them personal questions about their faith and how it was affected after they are abused while asking their reflections on society. I've only gotten a few people that are willing to talk about it, understandably.
hexbear always kinda felt that way. that said, lemmygrad is totally fine and everyone is very friendly
I wouldn't say that, I've had a few people say some weird shit and hide behind the disengage rule I've met but ironically two out of three of them were from Hexbear. Weirdly enough, when I first joined it didn't feel like there was a struggle session every week. It feels like the last row of struggles about the admins really jaded me about the site I guess.
Lemmygrad is great though, I do enjoy the people here.
Himalayas (taken by me).
great. where is this
My phone was in airplane mode so I don't have GPS exif data, but it's somewhere between Uttar Pradesh, India and Eastern Pakistan.
It's amazing to think about how much work that one little river has done.
I finally have a working computer. Now I can return to making high-quality articles on modern history.
Happy new year everyone!
Yay!!!!
I can't stop thinking about how one of the most desintegrating aspects of capitalist hegemony is how non-commodified alternatives to social practices/services (for example, internet forums) are always going to be decentralised, to the point where decentralisation itself is taken to be a good thing and communities build their collective identity around those alternatives. I believe that if those alternatives were possible in a centralised manner they'd be much better, specially for the non-"power users".
Fediverse is just a recent example of this, but informatics in specific (due to the global reach of the internet and neglible replication cost for software) is rife with the most extreme examples of this. Dozens of Linux distributions against Windows, self-hosted search engines against Google, the text editor wars itself that sadly resolved into VSCode dominance some decades later.
And when something becomes the "hegemon" of the alternatives, like Ubuntu or Firefox, the economic logic of society dictates that they either get swallowed (redhat) or have to commodify themselves, and the cycle repeats itself.
In capitalism the only passive consolidating force is capital, and so everything else must be diffuse and divided.
I could try to turn this into a proper thesis but even in that I'd run against the current issue that search engines don't work anymore and it's much harder to intentionally browse the critical sections of the internet and I don't have the time and energy for that. I'm just tired of having to wade through a dozen possibly zombie projects every time I'm looking for an alternative to shit like Trello as if the concept of "online shared Kanban board" needs that much variety.
So I guess I'll just leave this here as a pseudotweet. The current state of the internet is depressing, but at least I'm glad I found lemmygrad.
After the revolution there will be only 1 social media and it will be beautiful because the hate posters will be sent to gulags for reeducation.
Hasta la victoria siempre!
Happy New Week, may your decades be short and your histories neverending.
There's Been a lot of Salafist Shit On my 𝕏 FYP Since Assad Was Ousted, So annoying Man Seeing these People here celebrating Assad's Downfall, while Israel and Turkey is Gobbling Syria Up RN
Israel literally sent spec ops commandos into Syria to blow up all the missile/military production facilities located deep inside the mountains, that Israeli fighter aircraft could not bomb while the Assad government fell and HTS took over. And Israel did a whole propaganda mini documentary on it, while HTS completely ignored the Israeli incursions! What a disaster for the state security of Syria, those were Syrian military facilities, they belonged to the people of Syria, not just Assad. Now it's all gone, the new HTS government did nothing to defend them and just let Israel destroy it all. I think annoying is an understatement. And yeah the propaganda push is everywhere.
These people are fucking stupid...
Happy new year.
Celebrated in Belgium for a change. In The Netherlands it's always a war zone with fireworks the entire day. Remember a year in which guys in my street blew up a playground and shattered every window in a hundred meters radius. Yesterday a kid even died.
In Antwerp it was 1 show at Midnight. That was it. Maybe a single explosion somewhere far away once an hour. The difference for a group of Dutch people was wild lol.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
You too, Oppo!
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And a nice 'un to ye too!
As always this is going to be the best week of the year
New user here (I think some might recognise the name), hope you all enjoy new years eve and the new year, if you celebrate it.
Happy New Year ya dirty tankies
men r/locallama the one which is good for checking ai progress. is overrun by shitlibs
all because chinese model which is free is the one of the best free model right now
happy new year everyone
What’s the Chinese model called?
It’s deepseek v3. you can go to chat.deepseek.com
Today is the time for The Netherlands' annual blow yourself up party
Happy New Year to my favourite federated instance! We are aware of the Hexbear outage and will notify here when we are back up. If the recent FOIA request on hexbear and the bags of flour in Gaza with hexbear on them caused an alphabet agency or mossad to take down hexbear it was an honour posting with youHexbear is back
Please help me. I am having posting withdrawals
Oh God I'm sorry fuck how do I un-tell the FBI
Hope y'all come back soon 💛
i’m seeing unbelievable amounts of racism and offensive stuff towards indians.
The nerve of talking about valuing human life and moral ground in the same speech where you call other humans as cow dung parasites.
The racists/Nazis/chuds of MAGA/Elon are out in force now that the xenophobic and racist "immigrants are stealing our jobs" scapegoat is being threatened by bourgeoisie H1-B rhetoric that forgot how the propaganda is supposed to work. Ramaswamy could exclusively employ H1-B indentured servants and so long as he said, "immigrants are bad and dangerous" they'd clap for him.
Venezuela!
Wake up. Open curtains. Grey. Rain. Another day in Belgium
2024 was one of the wettest and darkest days since the start of measuring over here. And it truly felt like that. Just endless days of rain and grey clouds with no sun in sight.
Same in the Netherlands, at least it's snowing today where I live
Yeah that's wild. I have friends and family sending me pics of snow. Meanwhile I live like 80-100km away and I'm sitting here in 11 degree weather thinking it's pretty warm today.
Must be nice
Its been wetter and cooler than normal here too... but its a good thing because it is summer and last year was one of the driest on record. The garden has been going great and I have barely had to water anything.
Visiting a retirement home and a staff member and some elderly people randomly started singing the French national anthem.
Didnt get to comment on the yearly vegan struggle session but sometime ive been wondering is what is the posture on lab grown meat? Is it considered vegan?
True vegans only eat 100% renewable electricity
My understanding is that animal cells are used to cultivate it so it won't be seen as vegan. Not sure if it would be a one time thing, the taking of the cells, or if you would need animals on a regular basis. If it is the latter then maybe down the road it would be seen as vegan the same way no sane vegan will claim oil isn't vegan because it was at one point in time an animal.
I often get the question whether or not I would eat lab grown meat but I have decided that I will not. I am able to live my life without animal products just fine so I don't see the need to suddenly start eating lab grown meat.
Didnt get to comment on the yearly vegan struggle session
So it is a tradition? 👀
well no but it happens more often than it should
Tomorrow the UK Commons will debate the petition with 3 million signatures demanding a new election. No matter whether an election is actually called or not, it'll be funny.
I'm going to California on January 1st.
I'll be in Los Angeles and Ojai.
Where should I stop by?
It's basically a winter vacation.
LA has a commie bookstore that doubles as an event space. It's run by comrades. They also make and sell cool merch. So cool stuff to look at / buy and if you go there first you can probably get good recommendations on where to go for the rest of your trip.
All Power Books.
All Power Books?
I'll go there, ASAP
the only good orange site comment
one guy is not having it lmfao.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42556337
you can click context to see what the context is
Who is the cutie to the right of Fidel in the photo?! 😍
what do you good think about this video
especially 1994-2000
entertainment made by DPRK
They put on this sarcastic voice when talking about the goals of communism like we are supposed to believe that communists don't really want equality and classless society they just say they do. They just said "he gets to rewrite history... who cares what's true Kim gets to write what's true and he is going to right it with entertainment" right after repeating the western propaganda about DPRK.
And they downplay the ethnic cleansing that the south and Americans did and imply that killing landlords is bad.
This is horrible. 99% sure they are getting funding and script edits from the CIA. I give up on watching any more because its just infested with liberalism and anti-communism. The presenter would be a waste of a bunk in a reeducation gulag.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Is the matrix server down?
Got back to listening to music on the radio after 10 years and it's really jarring to remember all the promises of "more control" for internet media consumption and smartphones. Now every music "streaming" platform takes over and tells you what you're going to listen to. At least with radio I get to choose between a dozen stations with different styles and doesn't require internet connection or eats into my roaming data limits. Also basically every phone has radio capabilities now, and that's great.
But all those stations play the same shit and never what I like. With my playlists I at least know a song is being played that I like. But physical media like CDs are better than both.
I'm going to Los Angeles and Ojai, California.
Where should I stop by, in general?
(sorry if I asked this question)
Hear me out
Socialism is wrong, capitalism is right. Capitalists shall own the means of production because they are mean. Socialists shall only own the nices of production!
Maybe if you reworded it this joke could get over the line but only barely. Something like:
"Y'all fighting over the means of production and here I am searching for the kindness of production"
It will never be very funny on its own.
What?????
I get the pun but it seems you had us a little too convinced in the first half.
Socialists put the means of production in reeducation camps, so that they'll become nice. But only if the mean is an outlier. Then the median get gradually converted into mode and society is run by and for the mode class.
