General Discussion Thread - Juche 114, Week 18
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Gotta say I don't love the Lemmygrad language filters because I couldn't post my comment calling a transphobic user a fucking loser, but to give y'all credit between the time I reported the post and edited my comment to pass the filter the post had already been deleted and the user banned, so gd credit to some fucking kickass mods
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So it turns out DPRK troops were fighting with Russians in Kursk this whole time.
The real DPRK troops were the friends Russians made along the way.
*Soviet peoples (they were more than just Russians)
Yeah its kinda funny that the Ukrainians lied so much prior and did such a bad job of actually proving it that everyone thought it was fake this whole time lol.
Kursk is not in Ukraine though, just Russia getting help to defend their territory.
Yes
The socdems walked in the May Day parade over here and held speeches. Against the 'inhumane new government that targets the working people'.
But they are in the government lmao. Never heard such a bullshit speech ever.
Hey now dont you know its all good if we are doing it so long as we also say that we should not and act like we have no way to fix it
I feel like if the blackout that happened in iberia wouldve happened in the US, there would be at least 10 mass shootings from psychos thinking there is a zombie apocalypse.
I'm saving this comment for when the coal supplies run low.
I can't help but notice how many MCU movies have CIA agents that are causing all the problems who then just kinda walk off like nothing happened.
Sometimes I find myself reading theory and thinking to myself 'man am I too stupid to understand this or what?'. I'm not but I think reading theory just doesn't help to bring across the point that is made in the books. I feel like I need some other form of learning theory.
Takes a time to process sometimes.
This is where a book club or theory discussion group would be very helpful. Just getting a different perspective on the same text can facilitate understanding, and I find it also helps to connect the theory to examples of historical or current events.
I like to listen to theory a few times as an audiobook while I do chores, cook, exercise, or play less cerebral videogames. It builds a familiarity with the simple ideas and the flow of the text, how the parts relate to each other in general. It lets my brain work on the ideas without my conscious mind getting in the way because it is busy doing other things. Then after listening to it 2 or 3 times read along with it and really get down to attaching all the parts together in the order they are presented and turning them into one solid thing.
That's exactly how I approach theory as well!
I'll look up for an audio book, podcast, video or something that I can listen to while doing something else so that I can at least get acquainted with the terminology used and write down something I might need to search for it (eg. Let's say the topic is about a specific event that happened in the USSR that I'm not familiar with. Before listening to that audio again, I'd like to have looked more into that event and the factors that led to it).
And of course, repetition is key. If possible, I'll try my best to read even just a quick paragraph during the day and ask myself what I learned from the previous paragraph.
Also, since we mentioned audio books, I can't recommend or thank Dessalines enough for his amazing YouTube channel which has an insane amount of audios recorded by him
I had a very interesting and even emotional party meeting today and I must say combined with the recent increases in strikes and protests it really re-ignited some fire inside of me and I feel ready to continue fighting
This system will go down
Well, holiday is over. Back to striking tomorrow, and 1st of May on Thursday!
The trend of countries deporting migrants protesting has me worried, as a migrant myself who is politically active. It's not happening here but still. It might.
Israhell's on fire right now lololol
Meanwhile the pro-wrestling and the entire country music scene are some the campiest aspects of American (I assume this family member is American) culture.
You should should lean into it.
Tell him you listened to what he was saying about pepa pig and that its worse than he seems to know. Its Nazis that are doing the brainwashing and they are hiding in the CIA. Then dump the skinny on MKUltra/Galidio/Congress for Cultural Freedom and all the shifty stuff the CIA got up to under Richard Helms the nazi lover who was a lead negotiator on project paperclip.
From Venezuela.
Today's strike was fun (for a lack of a better word). There were 7000 people present at the march in my city which was honestly more than we excepted, so that's good. Several thousands of people in other cities around the country as well. I assume many more people striking but not going to a protest.
I spoke to many different people, also from different communist parties. Mostly Trots though but still interesting to see what they are up to. Being anti-China was one of those things which I thought was funny coming from a party in the margin (duh).
I did however like their wish to become a bit more radical with the protests because holding up some quirky signs every month will probably not save our rights and our own party is not doing much different (insert Lenin's What To Do quote).
The sun was absolutely blasting though so I feel a bit woozy from walking in the sun all day.
On the way home I got stopped by this girl working for a charity who asked me to donate. She was very passionate about the case which I thought was cool. Upon getting home however I saw that I subscribed to a monthly thing and I don't want that given how many things I already am active for or are paying for, so I called the org to stop it so that I can make a one time payment. The lady on the phone said 'okay, I will send a mail to the girl you spoke to to cancel it' and I found that quite sad lol. I at least asked the lady to tell her in the mail that I still donated though so that she would not feel too bad.
I did however like their wish to become a bit more radical with the protests because holding up some quirky signs every month will probably not save our rights and our own party is not doing much different (insert Lenin’s What To Do quote).
but isnt it more than just a protest, because its also a strike? the way to make it more radical would be to hold an indefinite strike, but that is something for the unions to decide
Well I guess so, it was a strike. But the Trotskyist members were there on their own account instead of striking it seemed so their vision of it might be a bit skewed.
Personally I am all for (a version of) an indefinite strike but I doubt ABVV and ACV want to do that given their ties to Vooruit and CD&V so as to not jeopardize their positions on the negotiations. I also don't feel like there is a party ready to back the unions, able to provide the neccessary context to the working class people apart from PVDA-PTB but even then I´m not too confident in how they will handle that with no allies apart from the unions. Vooruit will never back PVDA and neither will Groen I´m sure.
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Sometimes when I'm in the mood to chastise myself I log on to LinkedIn and read whatever radioactive garbage gets posted there. Like, you cannot convince me these people are real.
Shoutout empathy
Don't say that in front of Elon Musk!
Anyone know of a good place for being able to share, like, a single audio file that I could delete later for privacy if I wanted to? I was gonna try soundcloud but it's being a pain to get into a previous account I had and plus it seems like a lot for one file.
Reason I ask is I wrote a little song, liberation themed. I don't sing much, but I did a rough rendition of it so if anyone likes the lyrics, they have a general sense of what tune I'm going for and could use it for a better rendition. But I'm getting a bit snagged on the logistics of actually sharing the audio here, where simplicity and privacy is concerned.
Edit: I posted here: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7757470
I think https://vocaroo.com/ is the one you want.
Oh I was thinking that one is just for recording and then sharing what's recorded. I see there is an upload option too. Thanks, I'll consider it.
Climate changes is causing pollen to be around earlier, heavier and longer. Usually it is two weeks of suffering for me and then it is okay but I have been going for over a month now. It is drier and hotter than usual with virtually no rain for weeks so it just keeps hanging in the air. Cars are covered in a thick layer of pollen everywhere. Windows too.
It's miserable. I can't open my window even when it's 30 degrees and full sun outside because my house will be full of it in no time. It's been going on for so long now that my throat is getting infected from being irritated all the time. People see the ice melting and think it's far away but stuff like this is also going to happen, making life increasingly miserable.
Every spring since I started gardening the right time to plant veggies changes drastically. I have to do a vibe check and even then it's a crap shoot on whether I got it in too early or too late. If my potatoes don't get flooded my late crop of beets gets blasted by a heatwave just as they sprout. Every year I either get more water storage for the garden or I plant less to make the water go farther but its never enough.
My hometown in The Netherlands, a real working class city, was hit with a PFAS scandal in which a company polluted the area for millions worth of damage, spreading cancerous waste in the air and water.
A marxist youtuber visited the town to talk to people and one of them went off like: 'they are fucking cancer sufferers, fucking typhoid rats, dirty antisocial cancerous scum' and I feel like that language pretty much describes how I was raised lol
I was just thinking about how great hitlers mustache is. Not that it makes him look cool or anything but that it really made him stand out. That stupid little patch of hair saved 1 in 50 white european of men from having to live their lives looking like hitler.
1 in 50 seems awfly generous I was thinking 1 in 30
Never been to europe is it really 65% uglier than I imagine?
Heya everyone, my first $495 ko-fi funds are complete. I'm waiting for 21 day delay to be finished by 15 of May
I've been listening to lots of King Crimson lately, especially '21st Century Schizoid Man' and 'The Court of the Crimson King'. I've tried some of their later stuff and it's not really my thing though. Maybe I'll give it another go.
Have you listened to the album Killer by Alice Cooper? King Crimson was one of his inspirations for the album especially the song Halo of Flies.
Haven't yet since I only got into King Crimson through jojo, but I'll definitely give it a try!
80s and 90s King Crimson is also very cool, though it takes a bit to get used to. I'm ashamed to admit I never listened to anything post-Thrak. 70s King Crimson is also peak, I love John Wetton
Check out The Night Watch, Starless, Fallen Angel
Anyone who is familiar with getting into programming/coding field, especially without prior paid work experience in it? I'm US-based. Have some self taught experience, I would say I'm beyond novice albeit rusty, but proving that on a resume is another thing and I might be a better fit for entry level for that reason. Part of the problem is, a lot in my area last I looked tends to be military contractor stuff and I do not want to go work on weapons tech or whatever. I guess I could look for remote stuff?
Does anyone know of specific opportunities? (Not asking people to google search for me, just wondering on that level if anyone already knows of something.)
Anecdotal experience but a friend of mine, who was objectively bad at coding but good communication skills, got a "requires Y years of experience in X language." job after doing a 2 week bootcamp in X language by lying on the resume/interview. So unless you are looking for a job at the FAANG companies, which ive heard do a lot of vetting, fake it till you make it really can work.
I dont know much but i have heard there are like certifications you can get pretty easily. Like you take a test and get a certification you can put on your resume. Might be worth looking into for you.
Thanks, I'll see what I can find on it.
There is the Ren'py programming language to make visual novels that I am now learning.
What kind of coding are you thinking? It depends quite a bit. Remote stuff is viable. It has gotten harder to break into since the waves of layoffs in the tech industry, but is not impossible. I always say getting the first job is the hardest part.
I did this a little over 10 years ago & that was when the tech industry was in full swing with 0% interest rates at the time so it was a bit lax.
What kind of coding do you do? Language, part of the stack etc?
What kind of coding are you thinking?
Whatever I can get work in that I'm reasonably competent at doing, I guess (or can be helped to reasonable enough competency, if it's entry level).
What kind of coding do you do? Language, part of the stack etc?
Most of my self taught experience has been in C++, along with Qt for GUI, and occasionally Python (but not very much). Oh and XML to an extent, but I know that's more of a markup thing - just, there were some occasions where I got into working with it for one reason or another. The C++ was partly because I more wanted to do programming in video game design, but by this point, knowing what I do about how that industry functions, that would probably just get me a job where I burn out for less pay.
I do think I have a pretty good grasp of the problem-solving aspect of coding; the reasoning things out, searching for information online, whether in forums/stackoverflow or documentation, etc. But there are certain things that come across to me as somewhat fundamental that I don't feel I have a good grasp on, like Big O Notation and various algorithms. When I go on places like HackerRank or CodingGame, I feel like I'm hitting some kind of wall a lot of the time. I don't know if it's that the problems are too abstract, if I don't care enough, or if most of them are based around algorithmic thinking and that's something where I lack. But that makes my confidence waver a bit for dealing with paid expectations.
And I know in general, I do best with examples. Some of the abstract way that some resources talk about programming, my brain just slides off it. It's one of the reasons I glommed onto Qt. They had really good documentation, commonly having examples to explain use.
(All this said, I'm guessing I am overestimating how much base competence I need to break into it, when putting on a face of confidence is probably more important for that. But nevertheless, it's something that has given me pause before and I have a hard time "faking" confidence.)
I would not be surprised if the IDF was personally involved in the Hasan-Ethan Klein drama at this point.
That problem will solve itself because he is going to give himself an aneurysm or heart attack very soon. Dude does NOT look healthy at all.
Yeah he did not used to have that twitch.
I thought this was hyperbolic at first, but after getting into a thing about it in youtube comments, the person could be garden-variety overzealous fan, but I'm not discounting the possibility they are part of an astroturfing campaign; they were weirdly adept at twisting everything I said to be the most bad faith, bad intentions comment possible and their coherence had a tinge to it that reminds me of LLMs that are almost on track, but just a little bit off. It felt like they were doing what Ethan does, like they knew how to do the same thing, of twisting everything.
Man I hate when people do that.
im like 99% sure the H3 fellas get media training from them.
Has anyone seen "The Great Ambition" movie?
I spent the entire day trying to find a torrent for it, and I did find an Italian version, but no subtitles, no English version, nothing. At this point I either give up watching it, or watch the Italian version with a live translator.
I see one Italian Blu-ray rip for that with Italian PGS subtitles. It’s on a pt. It would be possible to ocr the Italian subs then use a translation service to get an imperfect but perhaps serviceable result. I know subtitle edit can do ocr and translate via google for free with lesser results. Otherwise you could ocr, chop into smaller files and feed them to deepl which may give better results.
Thanks for the tip, I'll try my best.
"deleted by creator"
What a brave thing to say...
My lady and I have 3 different shows to watch. Our slop trough runneth over.