Frivolous_Beatnik

joined 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

It is an exact anagram of metronome though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Initial knee-jerk reaction to the post was that you were being an ass but I generally agree with you, though I think it could be fairer to some people here.

That said, I feel like you're taking an individualist tack here - we should work to improve our strengths and shore up our weaknesses, true, but not everyone has the same capabilities in the same applications.

Isn't that a large part of organization? The main goal of this post was to get people to join organizations and take advantage of the moment to pull the disgruntled people, the queer, baby leftists, etc., away from the limited liberal mindset - to bolster orgs.

Isn't the organization, and the nature of communist movements, designed to compensate for the weaknesses of the individual with the accumulated strength of many?

I do agree that there's a lot of nihilism among users here and that we, myself definitely included, should organize and not sink into apathetic defeatism, but I don't think, in a revolutionary organization, every member needs to be prepared to stand in front of the crowd and sway impressionable people to our cause. We certainly, as internet communists in broad strokes, need more who are ready to hecome organizers, but there other ways for individuals to help that are extremely valuable IMO.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Children of Hurin trilogy

That'd be a depressing watch... get to work on it already!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Military parades can be cool and good IMO. The organization is very satisfying

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (19 children)

Compare and contrast ~(~~unironically~ ~love~ ~the~ ~seemingly~ ~value-neutral~ ~Hell~ ~March~ ~industrial~ ~complex~ ~on~ ~youtube~ ~that~ ~makes~ ~these~ ~montages~ ~of~ ~literally~ ~any~ ~army~ ~parade~~)~

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Feels like they forgot to write an actual protagonist in Cyberpunk - they got Keanu onboard and blew up his role 10x, which ate away at the main character's...character

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

The EPR flag/symbol kinda goes hard, even with the latin text

It's not the most aesthetic design but it's pretty good. I do tend to favor the arabic script flags though, quality calligraphy can make a flag chefs-kiss

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No I don't want a cauliflower beet quinoa burrito, just give me the same shit you make for all the carnists but with beans or seitan or smth instead of the animal products c'mon. There are 50 billion substitutes that would actually taste good and aren't randomly selected vegetables

Guess it's one of the hazards inherent in eating at "white people taco" places. I'm actually jealous that they charge you less wherever you are, vegan or general veg options are often the same price or more expensive here...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

"Option when force applied to a white target fails to overcome resistance or does not correspond with threat level"

"[...]or when lower levels of force are ineffective"

Love the wording that gives the okay to use lethal force whenever they feel like it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There isn't meaningful connection between predictive text algos and genuine general AI though

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