the_dunk_tank the_dunk_tank Are they trying to be mockingly racist or fear mongering racist here? Weak messaging! (CW Racism)
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    me irl

    insert the two liberal parties being NATO stooges and pretending we have "democracy" while saying the succdems are the lesser evil lol

    local hitler promising small government is even funnier here

    do you have any local commie chat groups? im from hitler's backyard too here

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    GenZedong chay 3 months ago 100%
    UwU conservatism
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    genzedong GenZedong General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 19
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  • chay chay 4 months ago 100%

    Yep it is active, it's the nicest place I'm in, I highly recommend the matrix server^^

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  • palestine Palestine It would seem that Zionism has infiltrated Mastodon.social's modteam
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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%

    What do you mean by 'generalized experience'? There's federation and you can subscribe to whatever

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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%

    alright can't wait to have you there^^

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  • palestine Palestine It would seem that Zionism has infiltrated Mastodon.social's modteam
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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%

    Check out the GZD matrix instance it's cozy and nice: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1294067

    and the mastodon/akkoma/pleroma instance also run by our fellow comrades: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3850925

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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%

    On what Mastodon instance are you registered?

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  • traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns Replacing my closet, looking for where to get clothes
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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%

    You could also try Temu, pretty cheap stuff, although look carefully at reviews and make sure they have photos.

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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%

    https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RBLX/holders/

    Doesn't seem like Tencent has that much ownership of it unless I'm missing something

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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%

    He knows languages

    Again I highly recommend you join the Matrix it's a nice and cozy place^^

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  • news news Introducing: HexAtlas
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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%

    Someone would still have to own the hardware and have full control over it though, unless you actually have a cooperative and the hardware itself is commonly owned

    There was tilde.red (you can find it on archive.org) which aimed to be a cooperative tilde but it sadly died down

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse I am a Palestinian from The West Bank and I am a Communist
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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%

    No he isn't

    You should come on Matrix on the GZD chatroom, we're all ML there, it's a great place. You can go to https://app.element.io or download it Element, for server select "genzedong.xyz" and make an account. More info here: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1294067

    You can message me at @chay:altesq.net if you need more help^^

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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%

    It's a hosting provider https://www.netlify.com/

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    A pubnix like the tildes will be ideal here, but the governance is still an issue cause you have a 'benevolent' dictator

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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%

    Ah, if it will be hosted under the hexbear domain that would be nice

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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%

    You can subscribe to a lemmygrad community like so: https://hexbear.net/c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml you just need to add @lemmygrad.ml to the end of the URL and then click subscribe

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    Hexbear is anti sectarian and pro left unity, Lemmygrad is exclusively for Marxist-Leninists. You can easily subscribe to the instances over here by federation (I'm registered on Lemmygrad myself and I'm talking to you on Hexbear). You can check it out on https://lemmygrad.ml

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    This is great! If you want to move off netlify, I could host it

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse I am a Palestinian from The West Bank and I am a Communist
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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%

    Nice to meet you!! ^^

    You can check out communities on lemmygrad if you want, too.

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  • comradeship Comradeship // Freechat What are you currently reading?
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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%

    Reading "Sexed Up" by Julia Serano. I'm halfway through it and it's a great read about sexualization and trans struggles.

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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%
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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%

    Great, thanks!

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    Hey comrade, I struggle with this. I found the first book, but I cannot find the second one you mentioned, by what author is it?

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Can someone upload Boy Boy's Patreon videos?
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  • chay chay 6 months ago 100%

    Great, thanks!!

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Can someone upload Boy Boy's Patreon videos?
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    Hey comrade, I can only decrypt two of them.

    Thanks for sharing!

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  • news news Bulletins and News Discussion from March 4th to March 10th, 2024 - The Coalition of Losers - COTW: Pakistan
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  • chay chay 7 months ago 100%

    FYI they prefer to be called Pridnistrovie, the name Transnistria was basically assigned by the fascists afaik

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  • genzedong GenZedong General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 10
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  • chay chay 7 months ago 100%

    Check my above comment

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    GenZedong chay 7 months ago 98%
    The Zero Euro souvenirs by the EU

    ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/26bcb16b-cd6c-4e1a-b028-15003a590400.png) ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/12d1a549-ec3b-41a8-b652-ab63768acdd3.png) > The Zero Euro is a souvenir banknote with authorized printing by the European Central Bank (ECB) and is on queue to be a popular in 2017 banknote collector markets. It’s origins stem from France in 2015 after Richard Faille, creator of popular French currency souvenirs, decided to create euros that promote tourism. The banknotes are printed at a private fiduciary facility and they share many of the same characteristics of a real Euro except that they are marked as “0”, hence the name, and are tested to ensure they cannot enter circulation as legitimate financial currency. The front of all zero euros is the same and it includes a white zero followed by the Euro sign to denominate no financial value. Then (from left to right) Brandenburg Gate, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, Sagrada Familia, Manneken Pis and the Mona Lisa. ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/e9f9f208-6f9b-48c1-af1d-b5d98616674e.png)

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    news news Bulletins and News Discussion for February 19th to February 25th, 2023 - The Shadow of Suharto - COTW: Indonesia
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  • chay chay 7 months ago 100%

    — 🇵🇱/🇧🇾/🇷🇺 NEW: 'Polish and U.S. intelligence are preparing a large-scale provocation against the Polish civilian population, which they will blame on Russia and Belarus' – Aleksandr Lukashenko

    Sources: https://www.sb.by/en/lukashenko-warned-about-provocations-being-prepared-by-western-intelligence-services-in-poland.html

    https://eng.belta.by/president/view/lukashenko-western-special-services-are-preparing-provocation-in-poland-156158-2024/

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  • chay chay 7 months ago 100%

    Tucker has officially announced that he interviewed Putin. Interview will be up on 18:00 EST (23:00 GMT) on Thursday on his website.

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  • chay chay 8 months ago 100%

    Currently going through Unjust Depths, at around ch 12. Reading Losurdo's book on Liberalism, quite slow though

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  • genzedong GenZedong This is why US wants to separate Xinjiang from China, and CIA planned it long ago. | Li Jingjing 李菁菁
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  • worldnews World News Quite literally, China builds while America bombs, and this study proves it
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  • chay chay 8 months ago 100%

    MAS is the best way to activate Windows without installing shady things. I activate my VMs with them and used it in the past om bare metal, they're the safest as you can get in terms of activating Windows.

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  • swoletariat Physical Education Rate my workout v2
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  • chay chay 8 months ago 100%

    Okay, thank you for your detailed writeup, much appreciated, I'm making notes from all the comments lol

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  • chay chay 8 months ago 100%

    I did overall good progress though, I have way more visible muscle and bulked around 13kg. I'm not following any social media persons, I started working out using Critical's prolewiki guide. I'm not yet doing squats and deadlifts because I want to go through some checkups first and I have flat feet. I know and apply the rest of the tips you've mentioned.

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  • history history Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic - New General Megathread for the 28th to 29th of January 2024
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  • chay chay 8 months ago 100%

    Rare Duolingo W

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  • chay chay 8 months ago 100%

    Yep I figured, thanks. At the moment I'm just increasing weight on my current exercises, seem to be doing okay

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  • chay chay 8 months ago 100%

    I have to research reps in reserve and dropsets myoreps etc I haven't heard of them.

    I meant the amount of reps in a set (english terminology is really confusing) like 3x8 or something like that which I saw you didn't mention

    Thanks again

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  • chay chay 8 months ago 100%

    Ya the cognitive dissonance with Violet is interesting to say the least. Right now I'm when Aatto got captured by the Brigand.

    When I got started I didn't expect this amount of trans people in the cast, really fun lol

    Didn't expect Elena to progress like this, nor Shalikova, Zachikova is also interesting, and Arabella is fun to say the least. I like the dynamic between Aaliyah and the Captain, even if they had a rough start to say the least

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  • chay chay 8 months ago 100%

    The Kreuzung section felt a bit slow to me, but perhaps I read it too slow lol

    What do you think of Violet Lehner?

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    Physical Education chay 8 months ago 100%
    Rate my workout v2

    Hi comrades, a few months passed and I improved my workout, while in the past 2 weeks I wasn't as consistent as I would've liked I think I'm still doing good. I have yet to implement squats and the other ones cause I strained my knees too much, one of the reasons I removed the leg press; I heard its because of having flat feet? leg curl 55kg / leg extension 3x8 ~~leg press 3x8 30kg~~ lat pulldown 3x8 40kg shoulderpress 3x8 30kg chestpress 3x8 25kg / inclinepress 3x8 25kg dumbell row curl 3x8 10kg dumbell row triceps exercise (no idea how its named) 3x8 15kg biceps curl barbell 20kg 3x8 / skull crushers 3x8 10kg ~~middle chest 5x8 12.5kg ~~smith machine mid row 3x8 35kg The new gym I'm going at has different machines so I had to remove/replace some of the exercises. The lat pulldown one is especially harder now cause the machine is made for giants; and the shoulder press works at a different angle. It's cheaper and closer to me here, though

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    emoji chay 9 months ago 100%
    :real-kim:
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    Physical Education chay 11 months ago 94%
    How's my gym routine?

    Hi comrades, what do you think of my routine? shoulder press 3x10 25kg chest press 3x10 25kg incline press 3x10 20-25kg seated dip 3x10 30kg biceps curl each arm 10kg 3x10 total arnold pose 3x10 7.5kg biceps curl with iron rod 20kg 3x10 middle chest 5x8 10kg leg press 3x10 20kg mid row 3x10 35kg lat pulldown 3x10 35kg I go three times to the gym per week. I'm getting noticeable improvements lately, wondering if I can do any improvements. No splits at the moment.

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    GenZedong chay 12 months ago 100%
    Is federation with Hexbear broken?

    I am subscribed to various communities from Hexbear, yet I see zero posts from there since recently. Even if I manually go to a community from Hexbear it's empty Edit: Fixed, accidentally made the post in Afrikaans, for some reason my language settings were broken lol

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    chapotraphouse chay 1 year ago 100%
    FYI GenZedong has a Matrix Space you can join!

    cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1294067 > ## What is Matrix? > > `Matrix ≈ Discord - tracking + end-to-end encryption (by default)` > > Matrix is a protocol for real-time communication (text, audio, and video) implemented by various applications ("clients") -- the official one is [Element](https://element.io/download) for Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, and iOS), but there are many others, e.g. those listed [here](https://matrix.org/clients). It's also federated, like Lemmy. To use a Matrix client, you need to make a Matrix account at one of the Matrix *homeservers* (similar to how you can make an account on lemmygrad.ml or lemmy.ml but still access both of them). We have our own Matrix homeserver at `genzedong.xyz`, and you don't need an email address to register an account there. > > ## How do I join the space? > > (If you already have a Matrix account, skip to step 3) > > 1. Download a Matrix client (e.g. [Element](https://element.io/download)) on your device. > 2. Create an account in the client. You can select `genzedong.xyz` as your homeserver here; if you choose the default `matrix.org`, you'll need to enter an email address. If it doesn't work on your client, try using [Element Web](https://app.element.io) for registration. > 3. Log in. > 4. If you have a Lemmygrad account *with a solid posting history* (moderator discretion applies), post your username in `#vetting-answers-encrypted:genzedong.xyz` or `#vetting-answers:genzedong.xyz` (make sure that your Lemmygrad account has your Matrix account listed in your profile), or request an invite on Lemmygrad by commenting or PMing your Matrix account name; otherwise, read the vetting questions in `#vetting-questions:genzedong.xyz` and answer them in either of the two aforementioned rooms. (These instructions are also available in `#welcome:genzedong.xyz`) Of course comrades from Hexbear can join too, you can make an account on any homeserver you wish and join! Basically a group chat with communists. There's also a channel for Technology, Linux, learning Spanish, etc.

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    ProleWiki chay 1 year ago 100%
    Deprecation warning

    When confirming an email, the following warning can be seen on the confirmation screen: `Deprecated: Use of User::getGroupsWithPermission was deprecated in MediaWiki 1.34. [Called from ConfirmAccount::getAdminsToNotify in /var/www/prole/extensions/ConfirmAccount/includes/backend/ConfirmAccount.class.php at line 329] in /var/www/prole/includes/debug/MWDebug.php on line 382`

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    technology chay 1 year ago 100%
    PSA: You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowing

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/4273025 Someone made a tool to remove CSAM content automatically: https://github.com/db0/lemmy-safety > You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowing that the image is there if the admins are not regularly checking their pictrs database. > > To do this, you create a post on any Lemmy instance, upload an image, and never click the "Create" button. The post is never created but the image is uploaded. Because the post isn't created, nobody knows that the image is uploaded. > > You can also go to any post, upload a picture in the comment, copy the URL and never post the comment. You can also upload an image as your avatar or banner and just close the tab. The image will still reside in the server. > > You can (possibly) do the same with community icons and banners. > > **Why does this matter?** > > Because anyone can upload illegal images without the admin knowing and the admin will be liable for it. With everything that has been going on lately, I wanted to remind all of you about this. Don't think that disabling cache is enough. Bad actors can secretly stash illegal images on your Lemmy instance if you aren't checking! > > These bad actors can then share these links around and you would never know! They can report it to the FBI and if you haven't taken it down (because you did not know) for a certain period, say goodbye to your instance and see you in court. > > Only your backend admins who have access to the database (or object storage or whatever) can check this, meaning non-backend admins and moderators WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MONITOR THESE, and regular users WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REPORT THESE. > > **Aren't these images deleted if they aren't used for the post/comment/banner/avatar/icon?** > > NOPE! The image actually stays uploaded! Lemmy doesn't check if the images are used! Try it out yourself. Just make sure to copy the link by copying the link text or copying it by clicking the image then "copy image link". > > **How come this hasn't been addressed before?** > > I don't know. I am fairly certain that this has been brought up before. Nobody paid attention but I'm bringing it up again after all the shit that happened in the past week. I can't even find it on the GitHub issue tracker. > > **I'm an instance administrator, what the fuck do I do?** > > Check your pictrs images (good luck) or nuke it. Disable pictrs, restrict sign ups, or watch your database like a hawk. You can also delete your instance. > > Good luck.

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    GenZedong chay 1 year ago 100%
    PSA: You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowing

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/4273025 Someone made a tool to remove CSAM content automatically: https://github.com/db0/lemmy-safety > You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowing that the image is there if the admins are not regularly checking their pictrs database. > > To do this, you create a post on any Lemmy instance, upload an image, and never click the "Create" button. The post is never created but the image is uploaded. Because the post isn't created, nobody knows that the image is uploaded. > > You can also go to any post, upload a picture in the comment, copy the URL and never post the comment. You can also upload an image as your avatar or banner and just close the tab. The image will still reside in the server. > > You can (possibly) do the same with community icons and banners. > > **Why does this matter?** > > Because anyone can upload illegal images without the admin knowing and the admin will be liable for it. With everything that has been going on lately, I wanted to remind all of you about this. Don't think that disabling cache is enough. Bad actors can secretly stash illegal images on your Lemmy instance if you aren't checking! > > These bad actors can then share these links around and you would never know! They can report it to the FBI and if you haven't taken it down (because you did not know) for a certain period, say goodbye to your instance and see you in court. > > Only your backend admins who have access to the database (or object storage or whatever) can check this, meaning non-backend admins and moderators WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MONITOR THESE, and regular users WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REPORT THESE. > > **Aren't these images deleted if they aren't used for the post/comment/banner/avatar/icon?** > > NOPE! The image actually stays uploaded! Lemmy doesn't check if the images are used! Try it out yourself. Just make sure to copy the link by copying the link text or copying it by clicking the image then "copy image link". > > **How come this hasn't been addressed before?** > > I don't know. I am fairly certain that this has been brought up before. Nobody paid attention but I'm bringing it up again after all the shit that happened in the past week. I can't even find it on the GitHub issue tracker. > > **I'm an instance administrator, what the fuck do I do?** > > Check your pictrs images (good luck) or nuke it. Disable pictrs, restrict sign ups, or watch your database like a hawk. You can also delete your instance. > > Good luck.

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    GenZedong chay 1 year ago 97%
    WARNING: Lemmy Self-Hosters, There Have Been CSAM Attacks taking place against !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

    cross-posted from: https://jamie.moe/post/113631 I put this post in GenZedong so it reaches more people > cross-posted from: https://jamie.moe/post/113630 > > > There have been users spamming CSAM content in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world causing it to federate to other instances. If your instance is subscribed to this community, you should take action to rectify it immediately. I recommend performing a hard delete via command line on the server. > > > > I deleted every image from the past 24 hours personally, using the following command: `sudo find /srv/lemmy/example.com/volumes/pictrs/files -type f -ctime -1 -exec shred {} \;` > > Note: Your local jurisdiction may impose a duty to report or other obligations. Check with these, but always prioritize ensuring that the content does not continue to be served.

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    copypasta chay 1 year ago 100%
    Somebody took Karl’s kool-aid

    Oof! Somebody took Karl’s kool-aid. So, first off, it’s not the capitalist system that is at fault for the miners not having a back-up plan after the coal mine dries or coal is not marketable anymore. It’s due to corrupt politicians and lack of foresight from the constituents, that’s at fault there. But that’s to be expected. Most people are unable to plan their life with more than 5 years ahead, imagine a whole town working for commodities company where they don’t have enough education to understand the complexities of the market. It’s simply nearly impossible. The only place that I know that did something like this is Norway, where they have a trust fund coming from all the oil money, so when their oil dries up, they can still live out of that money for a while. And as you can see from my previous paragraph, that’s not something that communism or socialism can change. That’s human nature. Cuba is not a shit hole because the US embargo, it is because Castro wanted its own SimCity. The same goes for Russia during the Soviet era, or China even now. Corruption is endemic of the politicians. And that’s a fact. No system survives corruption. Finally, addressing the whole “history is a class struggle”. That’s to say a lot. You could say that human history has inherent class struggle, and that’s fine. But in reality, history is not defined by class struggle, more than could be defined by change of ethos, power dynamics or even whimsical change of heart. It’s too simplistic to say that everything has been a class struggle, because it simplifies human emotions and desires to materialistic possessions.

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    GenZedong chay 1 year ago 100%
    Zhao Lijian wallpaper, 2880x1620

    I upscaled the original cover and tried to make it wider. It's a little messed up in the left corner, though.

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    Comradeship // Freechat chay 1 year ago 100%
    How do you apply DiaMat in your daily life?

    Hi comrades, how do you go about applying Dialectical Materialism in your daily life? What tasks have you successfully solved using it? I'm trying to get a deeper understanding of it right now by reading literature on it, right now I'm at Anti-Duhring (excerpts of it). I find it sometimes hard to apply what I've learned in personal cases, such as a discussion with someone, and so on.

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    copypasta chay 1 year ago 100%
    Don't talk shit about liberals

    No I think you misunderstood. I agree with your idealogy. But to talk shit about liberals, when we are liberals who actually lean left (unlike Democrats who are moderates in disguise), well that’s just plain dumb. It makes you sound like a Trumpanzee. I’m a liberal, and I’m also a proud socialist. And so are you. Edit: Y’all are missing the point. There’s no reason for all this infighting. Communist, Socialist, Liberal, or whatever; we need to stop arguing over the differences and band together to stop the rise of Fascism. Some of these replies make me worried that a lot of you will vote for 3rd parties in the next election and effectively hand the votes over to Trump. Please don’t do that.

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    World News chay 1 year ago 100%
    In Xi Jinping’s China, central planners rule https://web.archive.org/web/20230727174933/https://www.economist.com/china/2023/07/27/in-xi-jinpings-china-central-planners-rule

    The language in the article is just eugh though. Some funny bits: > Mr Xi has called food security a guozhidazhe. That is the high-flown phrase which he uses to denote “the main affairs of state” or “national priorities”. To that end, the supreme leader and his underlings emphasise the need to grow grain, rather than frivolities like fruit or flowers, on China’s limited stocks of prime arable land. When food priority is on the task list of the state, it's bad apparently > In and around Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, officials are focusing on Mr Xi’s current priority. That means growing grain. They are making their obedience visible. Mr Xi visited the fertile Chengdu plain last year, recalling how it was known in history as “heaven’s granary”. Those words, along with Xi-isms about food security and cropland, now appear on village walls and roadside propaganda posters. Xi is eating all the grain. Food security is a Xi-ism now

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    Comradeship // Freechat chay 1 year ago 100%
    How do you deal with your time spent online and the news?

    Hi comrades, As the title suggests, how do you manage your time spent online? I personally don't use any social media aside from Lemmygrad, but I'm still struggling with being online too much, even if it's lurking here or on other websites. I try to focus on offline things, such as books mostly that I download. My biggest problem is the refresh feature, even smaller sites such as this one just become an issue because of refreshing for new posts or discussions. As a Linux user, I can say I tried to make my desktop as offline-focused as possible. I don't use any "cloud" services etc., though I still find myself dealing with this. Perhaps it's the interface. I do like the Small Web movement, especially protocols like Gemini or Gopher. From what I see, they're filled to the brim with conservatives and anarchists, sadly. I do lurk on YouTube via Invidious, which is probably the biggest time-waste, though there's much valuable niche content on there. Sometimes at least. Speaking of this, I sometimes take breaks from politics to not get overwhelmed. To get updates, I usually use RSS and the Hexbear News Megathread. For the most part, it's enough. Though FOMO (fear of missing out) hits here too, as what if I'm not up to date with something important globally. What's your experience with this, comrades?

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    Physical Education chay 1 year ago 100%
    Fitness & Nutrition

    Hi comrades I want to start handling my nutrition and fitness better. I usually work out at home and can do pushups etc., I would say I'm quite underweight. While I'm reading the guide by CriticalResist on Prolewiki, I decided to count my calories. I barely reach 1500 calories a day which at this point I'll go malnourished. I just feel full very quickly. I do not eat processed sugars and avoid sweets, and I'm basically vegan at this point. I exercise too and can do push ups, squats etc with no problems whatsoever, though as expected I cannot build muscular mass, most likely because of my nutrition. I don't have the money to go to a gym so I want as much as possible to work out at home, I saw that calisthenics might be a good option? Though they seem unreliable for building muscle mass and strength. I want to put more weight but not fatty weight, which had happened to me in the past. I do eat healthy, but I eat way too less because I feel I just get full quickly. This might be due that in the past I was overweight and conditioned myself to not eat much, but now I'm basically starving myself. How would I go about increasing my caloric intake while putting muscle mass (preferably at home)?

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    GenZedong chay 1 year ago 80%
    Anglo-Saxons didn’t exist – Cambridge University www.rt.com

    > Cambridge University is teaching students that the Anglo-Saxons never existed as a distinct ethnic group, in an effort to “dismantle the… myths” of English nationalism, the Telegraph reported on Saturday. Liberal academics have long decried the term for its association with “whiteness.” > Cambridge’s Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC) will seek “to dismantle the basis of myths of nationalism – that there ever was a ‘British’, ‘English’, ‘Scottish’, ‘Welsh’ or ‘Irish’ people with a coherent and ancient ethnic identity – by showing students just how constructed and contingent these identities are and always have been,” the British newspaper reported, citing information from the university. > By denigrating the idea of a distinct Anglo-Saxon identity, the university said that it aims to make its teaching more “anti-racist.” > The controversy over the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’ began in 2019, when Canadian academic Dr Mary Rambaran-Olm resigned from the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists over the “inherent whiteness” of the field. Rambaran-Olm, who is not white, went on to write that “the Anglo-Saxon myth perpetuates a false idea of what it means to be ‘native’ to Britain,” and that the term is “historically inaccurate.” > ... This is such IdPol but it's funny

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    GenZedong chay 1 year ago 89%
    Expansion of Lemmygrad, future services & more

    Hello comrades! I want to outline a few potential projects the Lemmygrad community could benefit from and expand its reach. I think they could foster real growth and be not only of help, but actively create counter-spaces to the Right in various domains. FOSS in this case means free and open source. For more information, check out [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software). ## Privacy Guide I'm personally interested in tech privacy. The biggest places around are r/privacy, and PrivacyGuides, the de facto flagship website for privacy and security advice. The sub-Reddit is known to be overtly against China and non-western FOSS communities. It's mostly a circlejerk of Westerners screaming "We don't want to be like 1984 China!" without any kind of material analysis. Besides, Reddit is Reddit and we know how that goes. Now, PrivacyGuides. It is definitely a helpful resource, but there are a few issues with it. First off, the administrators frequently promote Apple products on their forum, one of them, Jonathan, even being an Apple fanboy. Apple products are non-FOSS and shouldn't be trusted, especially since they're in PRISM and collaborate with the NSA. This leaves out all the drama they've been through since they split with privacytools.io, the latter claiming PrivacyGuides stole thousands of euros from them. What I'm saying is that I think there's a need for a more community-based approach, with a strong Marxist tendency to counter liberals and conservatives (and sometimes ancaps) in the privacy field. This has the potential to educate people, even radicalize perhaps. This is related to the second project. edit: We could also add an Internet etiquette guide for Lemmygrad members. This could include safety procedures while posting, general privacy advice and more, in order to not get targeted by the US. ## Hosted Services Lemmygrad can expand itself and offer hosted services for its members. They can include a Git forge, e-mail (although this one is debatable if it's worth it because of security practices), PeerTube, and any other service that is deemed useful by the community. I think the format outlined below could be useful. I'm tying up my idea here with the concept of public access unix systems, or short for "pubnixes". They've recently had a [revival](https://tildeverse.org/), the tradition dating back to the '80s. In a nutshell, someone provides a Linux/BSD server and gives user accounts to people who request them. It has a strong focus on using the shell, and anti-corporate service alternatives. Sadly, it's dominated by either conservatives or anarcho-capitalists, rarely seeing a ML on there. I think this can be improved a lot upon, because Marxists have missed this opportunity to radicalize people in the "Small Web" communities. We need a healthier and better overall version of the Web, and I think it can provide a useful outlet for not only radicalizing new comrades, but educating everyone on technology and how to use it safely and in a healthy manner. If you're interested in checking out the Small Web movement, check out [this manifesto](https://yesterweb.org). Gopher and Gemini, being the two most popular non-WWW protocols, are completely dominated by conservatives and such. A ML presence there could help turn the tide in the small/sustainable computing sphere. I'm also thinking of setting up a mechanism of democratically run services, trying to destroy the "benevolent dictator" mechanism the software administrators have. I'm only aware of one attempt so far at this, [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20220818013402/https://tilde.red/charter). ## Healthy Computing Speaking of healthy, this could be a potential third project, a mental wellness guide for technology. Of course, with a strong focus on FOSS projects. I think we need better structured resources for people to access, more "polished", in order to garner attention as viable alternatives to what liberals and conservatives are pushing online. There is a lot of pseudo-science regarding mental health in general, and especially regarding computing, so it could be a fully featured guide to say the least. This could tie in with other resources written from a ML standpoint for people, perhaps countering the whole "self improvement" movement with diverse explanations and such. ## Zine I think Lemmygrad could publish a Zine. ML-themed findings from the Web, personal essays, stories, and anything fitting. Then it can be easily printed. Monthly releases would be neat. Could also include the news of that month, and so on. Could make a fitting alternative for paid Leftist monthly newspapers and such. ## Contributing I want this to be up for public debate so everyone can contribute with ideas! I'm personally versed in hosting things, but additional help is very much needed. If you want to contribute with an idea, or are skilled in contributing directly to any of these projects, let's get in touch. Perhaps we could get the Revolutionary Technical Committee involved in this if they're willing to contribute to a Marxist technological "front". What do you think of what I've outlined above? Let's discuss.

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    Left Piracy chay 1 year ago 100%
    RARBG has shut down

    RARBG has shut down today. If you go to their website, you will be presented with the following message: > Hello guys, We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down our site. The past 2 years have been very difficult for us - some of the people in our team died due to covid complications, others still suffer the side effects of it - not being able to work at all. > Some are also fighting the war in Europe - ON BOTH SIDES. Also, the power price increase in data centers in Europe hit us pretty hard. Inflation makes our daily expenses impossible to bare. Therefore we can no longer run this site without massive expenses that we can no longer cover out of pocket. After an unanimous vote we've decided that we can no longer do it. > We are sorry :( > Bye

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    GenZedong chay 1 year ago 100%
    China intercepts US jet in the South China Sea www.rt.com

    > An American spy plane flying in international airspace above the South China Sea had a close encounter with a Chinese fighter jet last week, in what US officials claim was an “unprofessional intercept.” Lol. Lmao even. > A Chinese pilot carried out an “unnecessarily aggressive” maneuver, flying his J-16 fighter just in front of the nose of a US RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft, the US Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) alleged on Tuesday. The command posted a video clip of the incident, purporting to show the J-16 passing in front of the US plane and causing the RC-135’s cockpit to shake in the turbulence of its wake. > “The RC-135 was conducting safe and routine operations over the South China Sea in international airspace, in accordance with international law,” INDOPACOM said. “The United States will continue to fly, sale and operate – safely and responsibly – wherever international law allows.” Also the US: enters Russia's airspace every other week > The statement added that US forces will continue to fly “with due regard for the safety of all vessels and aircraft under international law. We expect all countries in the Indo-Pacific region to use international airspace safely and in accordance with international law.” No one asking what the US is doing there in the first place. > ...

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    GenZedong chay 1 year ago 94%
    NATO will deploy 700 additional "peacekeepers" to Kosovo www.rt.com

    > The NATO bloc will deploy 700 additional peacekeepers to Kosovo, where 30 troops were wounded during clashes with local Serb protesters. Another battalion will be placed on high alert in the event of further escalation. > NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced the move during a Tuesday press briefing, saying the deployment was a response to recent “attacks” on the peacekeeping force, which he said were “unacceptable.” > Stoltenberg urged officials in Pristina and Belgrade to take “concrete steps” to de-escalate the situation, and said the two sides should participate in an EU-brokered dialogue. Dialogue is when we force you to recognize your breakaway province > Violent clashes between local Serbs and NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR) erupted after peacekeepers attempted to disperse demonstrators protesting the inauguration of a an Albanian mayor in a Serb-majority area. The standoff resulted in dozens of injuries on both sides. > ...

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    GenZedong chay 1 year ago 100%
    Xi Jinping's book on China's sci-tech innovation, self-reliance published news.cgtn.com

    Comrades, any idea where we can get a scanned version? It would be great for the Prolewiki library.

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    Comradeship // Freechat chay 1 year ago 100%
    Expressions of affection & emotions today

    Hi comrades! This is my first time on Lemmygrad, so I apologise for the abrupt introduction. I saw there's an introduction community, although it seems abandoned. I'll consider making a post later today perhaps in this community, if you have better ideas for where it should fit, please let me know! How do you deal personally with expressing affection towards family, lovers etc.? Capitalism has definitely commodified affection/love/relationships in every aspect (e.g. Valentine's day), so it's hard to not fall in for "consumerist love". Obviously, a type of affection and compassion I'd argue are integral for the wellbeing of any society, although invidiualism as we know hardly promotes this. The culture also creates expectations of how affection and any type of relationship should be "performed". Corporations such as Disney which have a near monopoly on all expressions of late-capitalist culture often set stereotypes through the media they present to us, a good example being the Aladdin animated movie which is very racist, or Tarzan which was not popular until Disney animated it and made a friendlier version of its story. Thus this gives birth to lots of unrealistic expectations and pressures, because we feel we have to "perform" to our friends, family and lovers like we're on a stage. This ties in and is reflected in the usage of social media, we can see unrealistic body expectations, although mostly in the cishet space as far as I know, please correct me if I'm wrong. I think it's a combination of factors, first off the culture sets everyone up regarding expectations then they're exacerbated on mainstream social media such as Instagram. Now regarding a more personal aspect, I find that I have a hard time showing affection, even to family. Some people naturally express their emotions well, while I find myself not even going for hugs, and so on. I mostly internally justify it as "oh the other person would think it's awkward," perhaps it's a lack of communication on my side. More often than not, this resulted in people thinking that I'm uninterested in them (as in friendship or a relationship), or even in an extreme case someone thought I hated them which was definitely not the case. I'm more of an introvert, although when I get to know the person better I become rather extroverted with them, so I think I'm ambiverted. I want to learn to express my emotions better through creating mostly, although I have yet to find a good creative process to suit me other than writing, which I enjoy. I think social anxiety plays a role in this, also the fact that I overthink most social encounters and exaggerate to myself how the other person understands my actions. I'd love to hear your experiences and opinions regarding the subject!

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