If we know Wed/Thur before noon then I’ll know around noon. If not then I have no plans this coming weekend and realistically go until next Wednesday by turning my phone off.

In this context they’re saying the philosophy of PSL is a revised form of Marxism(-Leninism, probably). With negative implications.

It’s all just having an in or “right time right place”, literally chance and luck lol, and the number of times and places are shrinking with automation and shit.

the pope is going to be doing Mr Beast style squid games videos before the decade is over

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Wow, that’s embarrassing. I guess there’s no way to keep peddling this shit in current year without showing their entire ass though.

Even accepting the titular claim, it’s still not bad. The worst possible thing that could happen is a total monopoly on imperialism which cannot be meaningfully opposed by a coherent entity like a nation or bloc of nations. If it were the US which acquired such a monopoly, we’d be absolutely fucked. Even domestically, the ruling class would have no reason not to max all of the dials it’s used in unequal exchange abroad.

A majority of people living in the West would immediately benefit from the kinds of reforms we’ve seen after the revolutions we got, in previously colonized/poorer/agrarian societies. There will be more “losers” than there were in eg Cuba, sure, but there’s more to life than consumer goods…

Charitably I’ll assume the individual being dunked on has performed their own evaluation of “things” and determined that multi-polar imperialism is still better than US-dominated imperialism, because at least there’s not an even more entrenched monopoly over the world.

It’s not like a modern neoliberal market hellhole state like Russia is going to liberalize on marginalized communities any time soon. The economic gears only grind harder from here, with the hard stops created by climate change on the horizon, so it’s unlikely at least.

We can’t ignore history though. The context of modern Russia and other states is our world’s history. The one where Western capitalists were unrelenting, reinvesting wealth stolen from revolutionary countries into their destruction. The one where “human rights concerns” were used only to justify sanctions against and invasions of countries already embattled for decades. It’s one thing to pressure a nation on these issues, but it’s a whole other thing to use people inside those societies to destabilize them and then weaponize capitalist owned press to browbeat those countries for “authoritarian” responses.

I used to be active on their piracy board years ago, ran into a lot of similar but not that bad. Anyone interested in turning people off to that shit hole could get a language model to rewrite simple statements in this manner.

been using it since chapo dot chat and I haven’t felt as nuts since using reddit years ago, as I have since federation was implemented

it isnt even like they have to visit a whole ass other site, it just shows up inline with everything else

If pressed, I’m sure they’re an incrementalist.

The only train I’ve ridden backwards is the high speed line right outside Philly which has half the seats facing one way and half facing the other, because they can only turn the cars around at 69th St Transportation Center but not on the other end of the line.

I guess Amtrak always turns them around, unless I’ve just gotten lucky every time.

Absolutely not where I thought that was going lol

Expected some variation of “time and timezones are a form of gubmit social control”

what was he supposed to do, sell the jet??

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Yeah it’s not a perfect show but there’s some episodes that are shockingly well done for what it is.

It’s not Kevin Spencer, that’s for sure.

Or if you even suggest that a few border regions in Ukraine, once a stalemate was basically reached, aren’t worth the displacement of millions of people, deaths of (ultimately) a few hundred thousand+ people, destruction of the built environment of huge swaths of Ukraine outside of those regions, and the probable failure of some UA refugees to integrate elsewhere ultimately leading to “terrorism” (probably just CIA) in mainland Europe as thin justification for future US occupation of somewhere.

There’s foreign aid in the face of an invasion, regardless of whether it was or to what degree it may have been provoked it’s still an aggressive invasion that reveals a tremendous lack of imagination and foresight amongst Russian leadership. There’s also such a thing as dumping fuel on a fire while knowing who gets to cut the loans to rebuild, and knowing who gets the friendly relations in the post-war government to secure Ukraine’s plant, mineral, and labour resources for pennies on the dollar whilst they’re under the heel of austerity…

I don’t think there’s an existential problem with communism, just practical problems because of our historical reality. In that it’s hard to establish when there’s enough wealth and momentum in the entities which brought about the current order, such that they can interfere in revolutions successfully.

If those practical challenges would be overcome though, I don’t think you’d see enough people able to get together to collude to overthrow it from within. The facts of sustainability and equity should be able to be understood well enough by enough people such that attempts to destroy it would be snuffed out before they attained enough support to change things.

I definitely believe in tests but it’s always an uphill battle to convince resistant devs. Even when the implication of failures for end users could mean death or spending years in a cage.

In businesses, I’ve only seen testing take off when it was properly budgeted for devs who already believed in it, or when the org hired test developer(s). And that was an org that had 100+ “testers” contracted, who’d literally click through the screens and note defects. So automated testing was an obvious cost savings.