Well, that’s certainly one way of Chinamaxxing.

That’s apparently disputed/not as much as proponents claim, but donating blood definitely works on people with too much iron in their bodies.

100% agree. We rightfully dunk on this bullshit, but our pedagogy towards Marxist works is a lot closer to this than we would like to admit. They think they should learn calculus by reading Principia Mathematica instead of reading a modern calculus textbook which is ultimately derived from Riemann’s works because Riemann and his generation of mathematicians felt that Newton’s proof of calculus was insufficiently rigorous. And of course, Riemann’s formulation of the integral was ultimately deemed insufficient as well which lead to the formation of the Lebesgue integral that is taught in higher math courses. Riemann integral is good enough for calculating the area under polynomials, which is why it is still taught in Calc 1 while Newton’s formulation is left behind because more rigorous formulations exist.

Western philosophy the collection of philosophical works experienced a qualitative leap with the works of Marx and Engels (and Jenny). Western philosophy the discipline does everything it can to pretend that qualitative shift didn’t happen, which is where we are at today. Why do we care about Plato or Kant? The real reason is so we can better understand Marx since he stood on their shoulders. But since Western philosophy wants to pretend Marx is just some random 19th century philosopher, philosophy students study Plato and Kant because they’re part of the canon^TM. Notice how Marx himself is rarely seen as being part of the canon^TM despite the fact that his works in many ways superseded the canon^TM. Instead we waste time reading about some German geographer or some German Orientalist or some German incel or some German Nazi. Literally every single German philosopher gets a spotlight except for the most important German philosopher of them all.

It was advertised as “A Cure for the Living Dead”

Pffft, pretty sure ghouls are unaffected by radiation.

It’s a common joke among the cannon fodder conscripted serving their mandatory service that the winning move is to just surrender and join the winning team when the PLA lands.

a group of retired Taiwanese naval officers told them to stop preparing for war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kao_An-kuo

In 2021, Kao reportedly made a YouTube video in which he called the Taiwanese military to overthrow the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leadership and surrender to China.

Kao’s group also allegedly used drones to carry out surveillance exercises over military training operations and equipment, sending their results to the Chinese government.

The PSL has confronted the latest allegations and continues to be a party working to improve itself, it’s processes, and it’s position in the US.

That’s not what I’ve been seeing if we’re going by the admittedly disgruntled testimony of a former PSL member. I still stand by one of my comments there. Brian Becker’s head has to roll. Otherwise, no one’s going to believe PSL when they say that they’ve reformed themselves. “Sorry about what happened. We promise it won’t happen again. Anyway, the entire leadership minus the dude who grabbed some chick’s genitals is still around.” Nobody except for rubes is going to believe that shit. And those rubes are just going to be easy targets for the sex predators who are seeking easy prey, thus perpetuating the cycle of PSL having to put out SA fires.

Showering was invented by Big Soap after they saw how Gillette got dudes to shave.

Well, we do have a @squirrel@hexbear.net

From this random Catholic podcast I found online, Catholics apparently can’t even give a straight answer about whether angels have souls, so I’m not sure what they were expecting.

if you do not know OP to make recommendations, then the only material you can go on to make an informed guess as to their relative intent to ‘become a revolutionary’ is the post we are all responding to, right?

I’m not sure why his intent is relevant tbh. Nowhere in my comments have I criticized nor condemned nor insulted OP. I barely made it personal at all. “Are you mentally prepared about what it takes to be a revolutionary” is hardly some ego-destroying question.

PICK BETTER WEAPONS, AIM THEM AT BETTER TARGETS

This could apply to you at well lmao

The whole fallout with PSL makes me think people aren’t taking it seriously enough. In the Civil Rights movement, you couldn’t even participate in those peaceful marches without first writing your will. The idea was that forcing you to write your will was a reality check on top of your very probable death be handled as smoothly as possible. That’s how serious they took it. This wasn’t the BPP or Malcolm X. This was MLK Jr style marches that online revolutionary larpers think they’re too good for.

In general, I think it’s better to understand your limitations and do what you’re personally capable of than to do something incompetently and be a burden towards other when you inevitably fail. And there’s a massive chasm between not doing anything and committing revolutionary suicide by joining an underground org. It doesn’t make you a failure if participating in a bake sale that funnels money to socialist orgs is the extend of your praxis. You are still doing praxis even if your praxis is just, “I’ll take care of my friend’s pets while my friend is in jail for protesting against ICE.” From each according to their abilities to each according to their needs.

I do not know the circumstances of OP’s life to make recommendations on what to do. I believe someone should be given information concerning the risks and costs of every potential decision. There’s a tremendous cost to becoming a revolutionary, but there’s also costs with doing nothing vs joining a mass org vs joining a union and so on. Trying to sugarcoat what a revolutionary entails does a great disservice to OP and OP’s potential comrades who expect him to perform his assigned tasks.

The easy part is realizing that some people need to be liquidated for the sake of the revolution. The hard part is realizing “some people” includes other comrades. That’s the real “harden your heart” moment.

If you read accounts of past revolutionary action, once it reaches past a certain point of intensity, the assumption is that any captured revolutionary has cracked under torture and squealed, making them a traitor to the movement and since the sentence for treachery is death, all captured revolutionary subsequently released will face liquidation regardless of whether they actually cracked under torture or not.

Reddit used to be techno-libertarian way back in the day with Ron Paul 2012 spam everywhere. Stuff like /r/jailbait was also a reflection of that techno-libertarianism. It’s that plus the militant atheism plus a general disdain for Bush era evangelical neoconservatism that led to the (undeserved) reputation that persists to this day.

I went from greatgrampslop to grampslop to indieslop to making my own mod to moving on from gaming. My abortive experience at modding was cool in its own way, but after so many hours gaming, all I have to show for it in the end are a bunch of save files. At least if I took up woodcarving or sewing or any other DIY hobby I could fix various things or use those created objects in my everyday life.

These days, the various itches that gaming used to scratch have long since been scratched by other hobbies. Even the conspicuous spending (or fantasy about having enough money to conspicuously spend) itch is now being scratched by solar generators. I would rather blow 1k on some 2000Wh solar generator plus foldable solar panels than on some shitty gaming PC.

H*lo instead of DOOM in my grandslop

FFVII instead of Super Metroid

GTA3 instead of GTA:SA

no Red Alert 1 or 2

no HOMM3

Goddamn tourists

Even so, they have a better explanation than “chatGPT is my wife” levels of delusions the Dawkinian mind can conjure. Before writing, they should’ve done some reading.

But what do you mean? My wife also shits all over herself when you ask her about whether there’s a seahorse emoji.

They’re trying to argue a hard physicalist line in the mind-body problem. Physicalists would say that consciousness is an illusory mental state physically produced by the brain. “The pie tastes good” is actually “my tongue has physical contact with various compounds of the pie that subtly changes various hormones within my body which compels my body to consume more of this pie.” The qualia of the pie’s particular taste and various emotional states associated with the qualia leading to the final evaluation of wanting to eat more of the pie aren’t real in the sense that all of those are just various mind states the physical body has long since made up when the tongue touched the pie. The illusion of consciousness is at best a byproduct of those hormones impacting the brain.

As you can see, hard physicalism is completely undialectical and pushed by people like Dennett. In a way, hard physicalism can be rejected in the same exact way sophism can be rejected: you might claim that consciousness isn’t real, but you certainly don’t act like consciousness isn’t real.

There’s constant carbrain infighting (Prius drivers vs truck drivers, EVs vs gas cars, US-made cars vs foreign-made cars if you’re from the US). Every carbrain hates every other carbrain. This is called “I hate traffic.”

“I do not support countries that support Israel.”