Imnecomrade - pronounced “I am any comrade”
Techie, hippie, commie nerd
PeerTube even has nice features such as being able to share a clip with a start and end time and send it as a url. This is super handy when one wants to share a specific segment of a video without people feeling overwhelmed if the video is long. Open source once again actually making features and not anti-features.
I hope to run a personal PeerTube instance someday in the near future.
Lol, even the stock market sucks. We are in a bust cycle and the stock market has been relatively stagnant unless you are in the elite club profitting off of insider trading and shorting. Stocks have been going down recently due to reduced rate hikes. Most people lose money on the stock market. Biden, his fellow ghouls, and the media are smoking some heavy load of baloney. This is just hella cope.
“Stock market goes up” they win, “housing prices skyrocket” we (the working class) lose
It’s all the same to Biden. Genocide means nothing to his bloodthirsty eyes. Protecting America’s interest in the Middle East at all costs is all he and the rest of the ruling class care about.
And yet liberals are shocked when people are repulsed and don’t want to vote for this demonic warlord.
Ugh, I want an affordable tiny electric smart car. US is always a buzzkill.
I need some comically large quotes for our “democracy”, too.
“functioning” (I need some comically large quotes.)
A single gpu passthrough is also possible now
If you have the hardware for it and/or can deal with some sacrifice, you could use a Windows virtual machine in linux, and do a GPU passthrough for gaming.
Linux will not meet 100% of your needs until the software developers decide to support Linux. It takes a lot of time to learn Linux. This is true. Even as a Gentoo and Arch user, I still have a lot of difficulty and frustration with certain projects to make my system work as needed. However, one thing I have learned in my journey with Linux is that there’s a lot of beauty in using simple and plaintext tools, as well as learning the base Linux system and extending it with its well established protocols and tools. Linux can serve as your IDE, your music production environment, etc., but this does require becoming a more advanced computer user and may even require some programming experience. However, I like getting into the nuts and bolts of my machines, and I recognize that not everyone has the passion/time/energy to do same.
I started off in my later childhood not understanding what a DVD drive was and why it mattered when installing the Sims game I wanted to play. It took a long time for me to understand computers as I do now. I made the full switch to Linux when I had to bring a desktop computer to the library to use their wifi and lost my progress on my resume and job applications because Windows forced its updates on me. At this point, Windows was too much of an impediment to getting my life in a better place that I had to switch. Linux gives me full control of my system, and honestly it’s much more convenient to get work done than to deal with the ancient and broken OS that Windows is. I value open source tools, and have been able to find better replacements than the old proprietary tools I used in Windows. I want to be able to be free from all proprietary shackles one day and be self/collectively-sufficient as possible in order to survive this capitalist system until we have a socialist revolution.
I know in your situation, some tools like FL Studio and Sony Vegas do not have 100% FOSS equivalents in Linux yet, but perhaps, if financially viable, you could get an inexpensive laptop or a small mini pc that you could install those tools on, and then use Linux for your main work. I would suggest Linux Mint to experiment with, though I wish they still supported KDE as I believe that desktop environment is much better for people who were Windows users. It’s still probably one of the best beginner Linux distros, but I wish there was a better option for people to migrate from Windows, and I don’t believe there’s one perfect Linux distro for absolute beginners.
For anyone who wants to understand Markdown: https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/
Pink starburst instead of orange starburst, all the same, pick your flavor of fascism. Do you want sprinkles added?
At least from my interpretation, it’s a comparison solely from the end-user perspective, sarcastically dismissing the work of backporting security fixes, which I believe is still funny in its own right. But yes, the joke falls apart beyond this scope.
This is one of the dankest linux memes I have seen in a while.
In the “Great Recession” that began in 2007, tens of millions in the United States lost their jobs, homes, healthcare, and pensions. The crisis was so deep and the government response was so inadequate that, when the COVID-19 pandemic struck this year, many hadn’t yet recovered from it.
The social costs accompanying mass unemployment, evictions, and foreclosures are hard to quantify, but they’re immense: families torn apart, soaring drug and alcohol abuse, rising suicide rates, and more.
As these words are written, we are still in the very early stages of the medical, economic, and societal crisis of 2020.
Periodic crises, as this pamphlet points out, are a built-in feature of capitalism. They have been since capitalism became the dominant world system more than two centuries ago. Most often, economic recessions and depressions have been caused by capitalist overproduction, or the production of too many commodities that can be sold at an adequate profit, a glut on the market that leads to cutbacks and layoffs.
Inevitably in the boom (late) phase of the capitalist economic cycle, wild speculation breaks out, egged on by the system’s propagandists proclaiming, “this time it’s different.” But the boom always ends in a bust, and the only thing that is actually “different” is the event or events that trigger the crash.
In the 2008 crash, it was capitalist overproduction, particularly of houses, combined with the most extraordinary forms of fraudulent wheeling-and-dealing that brought the entire financial system to near-collapse.
As “The Myth of Democracy” documents, despite the most egregious criminal activities, including massive drug money laundering, serial preying on the elderly, massive and pervasive fraud in the mortgage business and more, not one of the top bankers spent a day in jail. Instead, they were declared “too big to fail” and were bailed out to the tune of $800 billion, with trillions of dollars more made available to them if needed. The paltry fines for their crimes were invariably paid by the institutions, not the criminals in three-piece suits.
In 2020, it was the capitalist world’s unpreparedness for a pandemic that brought much of the global economy to a screeching halt. The COVID-19 epidemic struck at a time when the economic system was again extremely over-leveraged, as the gamblers in the big Wall Street casino were playing with immense piles of borrowed money.
The rapid shutdown of much of the economy, necessary to limit the spread of the deadly virus, caused the layoff of tens of millions of workers virtually overnight. In just three weeks following the crash, 17 million workers filed first time unemployment claims.
Never in the country’s history have so many workers lost their jobs so quickly. In addition, millions of small businesses and shops were shuttered.
Once again, as in 2008-09, the Federal Reserve Bank, Treasury Department, Congress, and the White House have come riding to the rescue of the banks, hedge funds, and other investors. While out of fear of mass anger, the initial bailout package provides limited support for “qualified” fired workers and small businesses, it offers a mind-boggling $4.5 trillion–$4.500,000,000,000–in support to the capitalist bankers and investors, with more to come if needed.
What the crises of 2008-09 and 2020 have conclusively proven is that the capitalist class is a parasitic class. While capitalist ideology glorifies the “bold entrepreneur,” the reality is that capitalism cannot live without massive state support.
In the midst of the current crisis, millions of health, food production, delivery, sanitation, utility, and other vital workers are literally risking their lives to keep society going. Meanwhile, the capitalist class lives hidden away in luxury, contributing nothing of value to society.
It’s time for this to end.
This covers at least the first two items you mentioned, at least regarding affording an apartment.
I absolutely agree. Though, I believe my suggestion would serve a different purpose. This would include people new to ML and happen to come across Prolewiki online. Having simple english articles available would also be useful for comrades to share to people with learning disabilities and poorly educated people online. People who have their first spark of radicalization then may start looking for a party, organization, or social group that would have reading group events. My own first steps to radicalization began after reading wiki articles about alternative governments and economic models after net neutrality was repealed. I am now a PSL applicant who has attended marches, rallies, Zoom meetings, and reading group events, and they have been a wonderful experience that a wiki article obviously cannot replace.
Fair, though I still believe using “new” (Basic English was invented around 1925) concepts like Simple English today can help radicalize people, but other methods like reading groups are still important. I care about accessibility, including in tech, education, transportation, etc., and I believe supporting specialized languages designed to assist people is a net benefit to society.
Having a revolution in Amerikkka, the imperialist core where the unofficial religion is anti-communism, is going to be a unique challenge compared to previously colonized AES countries. I believe we will need to apply many methods–adapting to new technology, wielding it to our cause–to radicalize as many working class Americans as possible. Any contributions people are enabled to make are essential. If I have time someday, I would consider creating or editing Simple English articles, but I need to read more theory first.
One thing I like about Wikipedia is that they have a Simple English version: simple.wikipedia.org
Has a Simple English Prolewiki been suggested or considered? As people’s access to education worsens, we may need to find ways to describe communist theory and current/historical events through a ML lens to people with lower reading levels.
Come and take my RISC-V computer
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…and then says the students were breaking the law, talks about antisemitism and spreads lies about the poor Israelis as usual, and doesn’t back up his previous short affirmation.
What a joke