Valbrandur 1 day ago • 100%
Valbrandur 1 week ago • 100%
Can someone put me up to date, as a person who hasn't paid attention to Leftypol since 2016?
Valbrandur 1 week ago • 100%
And then Bethesda turns around to develop another totally non-political Wolfenstein sequel.
As always, 'too close to real-world politics' is just an euphemism for 'outside western liberalism's Overton window'.
Valbrandur 1 week ago • 100%
Valbrandur 2 weeks ago • 100%
many such cases
Valbrandur 2 weeks ago • 100%
Nazi-maoism
Lord have mercy.
Valbrandur 3 weeks ago • 100%
It is not because it looks different. It is because it is le funi.
Valbrandur 4 weeks ago • 100%
RednBlackSalamandeez nuts
Valbrandur 2 months ago • 100%
Valbrandur 2 months ago • 100%
A day to mourn for every chunghwa enthusiast
Valbrandur 2 months ago • 100%
Whoever lives a life in which their greatest worry is video games is someone who has a life that is a bit too comfortable.
Valbrandur 2 months ago • 100%
Once again, his ear's helix becomes discontinued in the two portions where the bullet impacted (of course, the two wounds from where he's bleeding).
Search for illustrations of parts of the external ear on your search engine of choice and you will see that the helix is a fold that has continuity from the helical crus all the way to the lobule.
Valbrandur 2 months ago • 100%
You mean this bullet wound? Part of his helix is gone. You can see very well where did the bullet hit.
Valbrandur 2 months ago • 100%
Adrenaline is one helluva drug.
Valbrandur 2 months ago • 100%
I think Yogthos is not using "your guy" to talk about the perpetrator but about Trump. There is no way someone would try to stage a false flag by making someone shoot at a person's ear with a sniper rifle at a distance of 150 m. As Yogthos implies, you have a bigger chance of killing your guy than actually succeeding.
Edit: Without an optic on his rifle, on top of all.
Valbrandur 2 months ago • 100%
Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life. I think China is a socialist country, and Vietnam is a socialist nation as well. And they insist that they have introduced all the necessary reforms in order to motivate national development and to continue seeking the objectives of socialism.
- Fidel Castro
If someone is interested in what the Cubans’ opinion is on certain questions, he should ask the [North] Koreans. And if someone asks what [North] Korea’s standpoint may be in certain cases, he can safely ask the Cubans about that. Our views are completely identical in everything.
- Raul Castro
I believe Stalin made big mistakes but also showed great wisdom.
- Fidel Castro (again)
Valbrandur 3 months ago • 100%
Hiboutatillus SAS, [...] 75006 Paris
Leave it to the French to joke about murdering political rivals in Asia.
Valbrandur 3 months ago • 96%
That Dongfeng missile cannot come soon enough.
Valbrandur 3 months ago • 100%
4chan and the Vaush subreddit are cesspits with no age requirement
I don't know about the voosh subreddit but 4chan has a +18 age requirement and outing yourself as a minor will get you banned. This post's inspiration was partly on realizing that this site doesn't have a measure that a place as godforsaken as 4chan does get right.
I would argue that the elimination of third spaces, and the inability to go anywhere unless you have a car is the entire reason behind why GenZ focused on the internet so much, there’s quite literally little else to do.
This is almost if not exclusively an American problem. It could serve as an excuse for the US, but my org is constantly promoting healthy forms of leisure for the youth because we have plenty of activities to do around yet we still have kids on their PCs who don't leave their rooms unless necessary. There has to be more than that to it.
Valbrandur 3 months ago • 100%
Actually I don't think I have ever met or heard about you before. Hi!
Valbrandur 3 months ago • 100%
The problem is not if a 14yo can or not behave, I bet most can. The problem is what they risk being exposed to here, which between the frequent trolls who come here simply because we are MLs and the fact that most of us are adults (or close to being one) and behave as such with each other, this may not be the best place for them to be around.
Valbrandur 3 months ago • 100%
Fair point. Read the edit for another one.
Valbrandur 3 months ago • 80%
It is as unenforceable here as it is anywhere else, yet almost all websites still do it for a reason. Leaving aside the efficiency of the measure in itself, as it has been said before, it can help us prevent getting ourselves in any potential legal trouble (which is probably why other sites do it in the first place).
Valbrandur 3 months ago • 100%
Because I definitely haven’t seen any of the last one, any ultras who tried would get clowned on fast. Can’t recall having seen much of the first and I think we had one episode around the psychiatry thing a while but I think that was resolved reasonably eventually.
Themes of anti-psychiatry have resurfaced once or twice after Amicese's ban. I have had some maoist revive a dead thread of mine to tell me about how the Shining Path was cool actually and never boiled any babies. The first one doesn't exist afaik, which is a source of shame for us as a left wing space with meme communities. Overall this post contains some things written humorously so don't take it all literally, but the main point still stands.
That said there is zero way to enforce this. Kids lie about their age online all the time.
Of course. I do not expect it to put a stop on all people who are too young to be here from being here, but nonetheless it would help at getting rid of some if not most.
As to admins determining, unless someone is really acting like a pre-teen I don’t see any way for admins to know whether someone’s just being immature
This measure is mostly aimed at those "unless" people.
Admins already have power to act to remove those from lemmygrad who are disruptive
I do not think we should let kids who are 14 be around here regardless of if they are or not disruptive, which would be a hole in your proposal.
This post comes as a result of a little talk we had on GenZedong's Matrix servers a couple of days ago and I thought it was a good idea to bring it as a proposal to discuss here. There are some strange people in Lemmygrad. I bet you can think of one or two names when I say this. Honestly, I have nothing against it, I don't think anyone should as long as they cause no harm, and quaint characters being attracted to on-line left wing spaces is as much of a natural law as that day follows the night so there's nothing one can do even if they wanted anyway. However, one can tell by some behaviours that the strangeness of some of them come from being young. Too young. And I think it would be nice to limit our list of extravagant individuals to people with a somewhat developed prefrontal cortex, since I think that currently we have none of that. As some of you may do too, I belong to the earliest sector of Gen Z. As such, it means that I was part of that experiment of giving unlimited access to the internet to someone from an early age, and after remembering well having seen that one video of a man and a glass jar after barely hitting a double digit age, I can say with some confidence that it was a bad move. While there is nothing as nearly as inappropiate as that going on here, I still consider that now that we are older and it is us the ones who are in charge of something, it would be for the best if we did what we could to prevent the youngest ones from wasting their years of brain plasticity on Hoxha-themed soyjaks, anti-psychiatry drama and debates about whether or not the Shining Path was "giga-based" or "turbo-cringe" amongst other brainrot instead of playing Poptropica on coolmathgames dot com or, even better, away from the internet. My proposal is to set the minimum age for a Lemmygrad account at 16. Of course we can't go around asking for IDs, but I think it would be sensible to put a message stating one must be 16 or older to join in the registration page, make it part of our rules and if someone's behaviour seems sussy then let the mods and admins decide according to their collective judgement. That's it. Discuss. Edit: Because some people seem to be missing the point - I know there is no way to enforce thia for all cases. But in the state things are right now, if some kid openly states that they are 12 they would not be able to be banned because there are no rules that justify it, which is no bueno.
Valbrandur 3 months ago • 100%
"HOXHA IS THE BEST DIE YOU REVISIONIST PIGS DIE DIE DIE"
- Prolewiki in 5 minutes
Valbrandur 3 months ago • 50%
Final in Pristina, the winner takes it all (literally).
Valbrandur 3 months ago • 50%
Albania 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱💪💪💪💪🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
Valbrandur 3 months ago • 100%
🤨
Valbrandur 3 months ago • 100%
On the other hand... No more Finland. Think about it.
Valbrandur 4 months ago • 100%
SKYLERRR WHERE IS THE OZONE LAYER
Valbrandur 4 months ago • 100%
This is all real neat but honestly I think the first responsibility that AI development must have in healthcare is for it to be able to use the basic data resulting from anamnesis, physical exploration and complementary tests given by the doctor to write the full clinical reports that often occupy more than half of a physician's worktime.
Valbrandur 4 months ago • 100%
I will only talk politics with someone if, at the very least, they are able to bench their own bodyweight. It filters out almost all alt-righters, millennial biden-bros, socdems, IDF agents and linux users.
Valbrandur 4 months ago • 100%
Small chest energy
Valbrandur 4 months ago • 100%
Buddy you get "ecstatic" over "compiling android apps". What even is your 1RM bench?
Valbrandur 4 months ago • 100%
For example, in my university (which pretends to be very progressive and conscious), you can get all sorts of unhealthy snacks and highly sugary/caffeinated drinks throughout the campus. It’s very convenient and much easier than getting water (for which you have to bring your own cups or bottles) and healthy food (which is expensive, only served at particular times and limited in portion so it doesn’t make you feel full).
Calorie counting, mate. Since I began doing that I have achieved the ability to cut 2 kg of weight per month at will, even when spending most of my life at a campus like the one you describe.
Valbrandur 4 months ago • 100%
OoOoOoOh, tribalism, so scary. Yes, most of you idiots from the "most active general purpose lemmy server" come here either to "dunk on le tankies" with shitty reddit-tier catchphrases or to discuss on why not voting for Biden is literally genocide. A @lemm.ee handle here is 99% of times a sign that whatever someone has to say here is absolute dogshit.
posts on tech communities
Give me your lunch money.
Valbrandur 4 months ago • 100%
@lemm.ee
Now that you ask...
Valbrandur 4 months ago • 100%
That sounds like a joke Graeme Barrett would make
Valbrandur 4 months ago • 100%
"Baki Stalinball is not real, he can't hurt you"
Valbrandur 4 months ago • 100%
I am referring specifically to web culture, not the actual technology of the internet.
LOL Absolutely not. I saw those years and people used to bait each other into checking out gore, scat and whatever other content you could make a shock site with.
Lemmygrad is not a large website. The statistics on the sidebar shows that it has around 10.5k users, with this number being considerably smaller in regards to its active users, with 1.11k users using the website in the last 6 months and half than that in the last month, with 591 users. That is perfectly okay: the concept of a small, tight-knit community of active users with shared interests who can recognize each other frequently by name is an appealing one. However I personally think that on a site with a membership so small one should stop to think, before creating a community centered around certain topic, about the chances that exist for such to attract enough users and grow to the point needed to maintain a certain life. I would have imagined that it should be a matter of common sense, but it seems not everyone gets it, and as a result, Lemmygrad ends up full of extremely niche communities that have either no posts nor users except its creators or recieve content solely from these ones. [We](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/canberra) [have](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/sydney) [seven](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/brisbane) [communities](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/perth) [dedicated to](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/adelaide) [Australian](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/darwin) [cities,](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/hobart) all of them created by the same user and all of them without one single post. We have [a community for clarinetists.](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/clarinet) We have [a community dedicated to The Critic.](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/thecritic) We have [whatever this thing is.](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/okbuddycapitalist) Most recently we got [a new community for Maltese communists,](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/malteseleft) which with all due respect, as a country with little more than half a million people, it has *absolutely zero chance* of catching on in the slightest and is going to become either another abandoned community or someone's own personal blog (of which we already have our fair share). The list goes on and on and all of these are just examples. I am not asking these specific ones to be removed: I am just using them to point out a problem that makes the section of Trending Communities irrelevant and unusable and the List of Communities tab completely unnavigable, amongst others, as well as to make the case that we need new policy in regards to the creation of communities and/or the elimination of those who become either abandoned or populated solely by their creator.
Gains goblins. Those things in your life that rob you of what otherwise would be your hard-earned gains on strength, muscle size, endurance or whatever other thing you want to develop by training. It can be anything: a person (like that gym bro that maybe distracts you more than it's good for you), a medical condition, a commitment, or what is usually most common (and be honest here, because for most people it is one in this category), a bad habit of yours, amongst others. Feel free to share.
Just sharing something silly that I decided to put together. Try to see how many of them you can recognize. [Optional video essay background music to go along the post.](https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=zR6fECxF44I) **Tier 1:** The big three. On top of the iceberg due to the enormous impact that they have had in the world's history and popular culture, being known by even the most politically illiterate. It is very likely you have been told more than once to move here by angry people during political discussions. **Tier 2:** Smaller socialist states that stand out more than the rest in their respective regions. Still well known and recognized, but most people have a weaker grasp on them than on the ones listed on the tier above. **Tier 3:** More unlikely to pop up in debates about communism, this likelihood increases drastically if the person you are talking with had a grandmother whose castle, servants and favourite pony were taken away by one of these states. **Tier 4:** This tier marks a barrier: an average Jane and Joe is most likely not able to recognize these. However, they do not suppose a very deep level of knowledge for a ML, who should already know about their existence and point one or two facts about them at the very least. **Tier 5:** Many people are unable to even point on a map where these countries are located, and much less to even know that they were once socialist states. If you know in depth about them, it is very likely that you put a desproportionately large focus on anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism in your theory journey. It is also equally as likely that you haven't seen the sun in years. **Tier 6:** The bottom of the iceberg. These states are almost never mentioned even by the people who are well read on the states on the tier above, despite the very unique and interesting challenges that they had to face as socialist projects. Venturing into these shows a willingness to search for knowledge further away than anything that you will ever need in practice. **Tier 7:** The dark depths of socialist history. Some are states that lasted for several years flying under the radar of even the most dedicated MLs, but most of these are ephemeral projects, having lasted as much as the elements at the bottom of the periodic table, or what is the same, about two or three times longer than the average anarchist project. If you know about these, you either live in the place where they existed or you most likely learnt about them not in the pursue of anything practical, but searching for knowledge purely for the sake of it. **Tier 8:** Have you ever had a dream that that you um you had you'd you would you could you'd do you wi you wants you you could do so you you'd do you could you you want you want him to do you so much you could do anything?
Are you someone who has left their country of birth to move and settle somewhere else, or who is thinking of doing so in the future? What led you to take that decision, or what is making you consider it? What have your experiences been until now, and what do you expect and hope for in the future?