Damages your enamel too…

What is the deal with Ukrainian Nazis anyway — do they see themselves as not Slavic or something?

Is this a bit

It’s often used misleadingly. For example, in an election in a de facto two-party system, it’s often said that you should vote for ‘the lesser evil’, but this presumes that your vote will decide the result of the election, which it clearly won’t. Thinking e.g. “the Dems winning would be the lesser evil compared to the Republicans winning, and I’m voting third party (or spoiling or even abstaining)” is therefore entirely coherent imho.

I would like to see it used more to describe political situations outside of the West tbh. When we talk about x regime, it should always be ‘compared to what’. But of course, no-one cares about ‘lesser evils’ in this context, which I think says a lot.

If the Reichstag hadn’t burned, the Holocaust wouldn’t have happened, historians agree

Op isn’t saying that anarchist organizing principles are deliberately inefficient at scale

Hmmm if you’re running that many different services I would recommend going x86 and installing proxmox. N100 systems are very power efficient, though it might work out a little more expensive than a raspberry pi

I do have kind of third worldist sympathies, but wow what a stupid tweet. Aside from anything else, how are you going to do a revolutionary defeatism without organizing first

It’s actually kind of an open secret at this point that he got an actor to do his radio addresses lol. Also interesting to note that the only data we have wrt his popularity at the time is the 1945 election in which he absolutely shat the bed. He’s been subsequently sainted as part of the ‘tiny island, standing alone’ myth making of the post-war era though

I feel like you lose a lot of credibility when your geopolitical analysis hinges on boners. I think very few would disagree with you if you said that Putin were cynically pursuing his and the Russian state’s interests in the region, with complete disregard for civilian life.

The point is not that there are ‘a tiny number of Nazis’ in Ukraine The point is that there are a large number of Nazi paramilitary forces who were committing mass murder in Donbas well before the Russian invasion, and the Ukrainian government was complicit in these crimes, in addition to crimes of their own, such as shelling civilian targets. By all means, let’s talk about ending the conflict, because the suffering of the people of Ukraine has gone on long enough, but a necessary first step is acknowledging that the conflict had already begun long before Russia invaded.

I thought this was a good reply: https://hexbear.net/comment/6454811

Hmm if you plan on using streaming services it’s a massive hassle tbh. You can get away with using web apps with some sort of launcher, but even then you can’t watch things in 4K because the DRM has a hardware component these days.

There is a long history of the Catalan bourgeoisie whipping up nationalist sentiment whenever they feel threatened, which in turn allows ‘Spanish’ nationalism to get whipped up in response. It’s very much a symbiotic relationship, and this was made very clear the last time it all blew up: the indignados movement was huge at the time, and it was beginning to look something like a revolutionary moment across the whole of Spain. The repression of this movement was fiercest in Barcelona, and popular sentiment was very much against the government. President Artur Más had to flee by helicopter at one point because the Generalitat was surrounded by an angry mob. But, a little bit of nationalist posturing, a few starry-eyed promises of independence, and suddenly all that anger was redirected in support of the exact same mfs who’d been screwing the Catalonian population for decades. Not only that, but the left across Spain was torn apart by the ensuing reactionary back and forth, leaving us on the verge of a national Vox government at the current moment. Sorry for the long post, but I don’t think I’ll ever stop being angry about this lol.

We’d have to define ‘sentient’ before we start worrying

Using your children to farm engagement online

deleted by creator

Zsh is nice, particularly with a couple of plugins

Zellij layouts save me so much time

Remind me, what were the demographics of the Confederacy

Lots of good points in the replies here, but I want to make the perhaps secondary point that the automation of thought is generally just bad for you. Dgmw AI (even LLMs) has its uses, but we’re already seeing the atrophying effects on some people, and in my experience as a teacher I have seen a number of people for whom chat bot dependency has become a serious problem on a par with drug addiction. I dread to think what’s going to happen to these people when we enter the ‘jack up the prices’ phase of the grift, let alone the ‘have you considered product/voting X may solve your problems’ phase, which is currently only being held back by engineering difficulties.