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No I meant programming.dev but now that you mention it, why not? Isn't .ml a Marxist Leninist instance? And very sectarian? If blahaj hates tankies so much, why still federated with a commie instance? Either I'm missing something, or something stinks

Lemmy drama remains inscrutable and hexbear remains the only place with users who actually care enough about to be articulate and educated. Big ups as always to our 100% genuine trans comrades.

So I make sure i'm following, Hexbear users confronted a programming.dev admin on Lemmy.ml about Hogwarts game, and Blahaj decided to defed even though they hate HB and (some of their users) think trans HB users are faking being trans?

Media training

"You're either the people or you're the pig. The pig is never with the people, and the people is never with the pig." -- Fred Hampton (hopefully correct, it's from memory)

I just bought a Thinkpad, also use mostly for programming, installed Fedora, very happy

I switched to a graphene phone a few years ago and having a phone that doesn't send push notifications or have YouTube or any google services installed immediately changed my relationship to my phone. I don't really use socmed anymore except HB and discord for a book club. Its a little bit of a struggle since so many apps are dependent on google play services, and becoming more so, but I couldn't go back to a standard android

Joe Biden: I don't want to be president anymore

Overpaid JPMC sicko: Joe Biden doesn't want to be president anymore

Business Insider:

These people all have or want jobs, trying to tweet their way into positions of power. Their cynicism and depravity are their qualifications

1. There's no such thing as pure class. Marx is explicit that his analysis is abstraction to aid understanding.

2. Does the artisan or "small business owner" have student or business loans to a bank? Do they pay rent or a mortgage? They are exploited by capital.

3. Artisans class consciousness is affected by the fact that access to capital and self determination is kind of pay walled. Artisans are often the children of bourg and petty bourg, or aspirational intellectual proletariat. Noone else can afford to go to art school or conservatory for 6 years and support themselves unless their patents are rich or at least well-off.

Thanks for your input! I'll see what I can find on Haldane, that seems like a good place to continue for me

You shouldn't reject parts of evolution because Malthus used them to justify his political theory

This is not what I said. I said that, according to David Harvey, Darwin based his theory of evolution on the writings of Malthus. I'm saying that I believe that this has flawed the theory, as it is based partially on a flawed premise. It doesn't make the theory completely unusable, a good, incomplete, flawed theory can still make correct predictions. but in certain circumstances the inherent logic, the way it handles certain questions, it will produce flawed conclusions. This is true for every system of formal logic, it is an inherent contradiction of all logical systems (epistemic crisis and incompleteness.) But to varying degrees, and to what extent, and how it produces these flawed conclusions is important to consider.

The best example I can think of while sitting in my car about to go unload groceries is gynecology. Does it effectively diagnose or treat disease and abnormalities? Yes. Do we have a good enough mastery of human reproduction to alter the likelihood of pregnancy? Also yes. The science is sound. But the practice of gynecology is often needlessly, senselessly painful, almost cruel, even when practiced by conscientious caring doctors. Why? It's because the founder of gynecology made his discoveries by torturing and experimenting on living slave women, without anesthetics, and many parts of that tradition persist. Because they haven't been readdressed or reconsidered. And maybe because it serves some other social purpose as well.

Science often fails as a form of critique and self discovery. So I'm just out here asking questions to improve my own understanding. I'm a little skeptical of your use of the term "scientifically sound." Especially coming from a fellow hexbear who should know about bourgeois scientism.