sports Vampire • Now • 100%

UFC 307 is tomorrow (Saturday the 5th)

Posting this a bit early but I might not be online tomorrow Streams in sidebar, Main card Light Heavyweight Alex Pereira (c) vs. Khalil Rountree Jr. TITLE FIGHT Women's Bantamweight Raquel Pennington (c) vs. Julianna Peña TITLE FIGHT Bantamweight José Aldo vs. Mario Bautista Women's Bantamweight Ketlen Vieira vs. Kayla Harrison Middleweight Roman Dolidze vs. Kevin Holland Preliminary card Welterweight Stephen Thompson vs. Joaquin Buckley Women's Strawweight Marina Rodriguez vs. Iasmin Lucindo Lightweight Austin Hubbard vs. Alexander Hernandez Middleweight César Almeida vs. Ihor Potieria Early preliminary card Light Heavyweight Ryan Spann vs. Ovince Saint Preux Women's Strawweight Carla Esparza vs. Tecia Pennington Welterweight Court McGee vs. Tim Means

anarchism Vampire • Now • 100%

Ocra is a directly democratic indigenous village in Peru

en.wikipedia.org

Ocra is governed by a community council that holds weekly meetings with all inhabitants in attendance; most decisions are made directly democratic. The community also practices the system of faena (Spanish for "task", known as Mink'a in Quechua), a mandatory weekly community labor tribute that all adults in the town have to take part in. This communal labor initiative goes back to the Incan labor systems—Mink'a for local communities, and Mit'a for federal projects. The local laws of Ocra prescribe 4 days of faena per month, and the community council decides over when and where the collective labor force shall be deployed.

theory Vampire • Now • 100%

Chinese commentary on idpol

> Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles who oppress the Negro people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people.  ---- That quote is from the Little Red Book. That's the sort of thing I am looking for. Is there more up-to-date Chinese Thought on intersectionality or are they totally materialist?

theory Vampire • Now • 100%

Das Kapital reading group – Week 40, Sept 30-Oct 6 – Chapter 24 and Chapter 25 of Volume III

**Explain the bookclub**: We are reading Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in one year and discussing it in weekly threads. (Volume IV, often published under the title *Theories of Surplus Value*, will not be included in this particular reading club, but comrades are encouraged to do other solo and collaborative reading.) This bookclub will repeat yearly. This week's reading is shorter than most. I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. ---- **Just joining us?** You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [!genzhou@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou) ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year. **Archives**: [Week 1](https://hexbear.net/post/1506527?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 2](https://hexbear.net/post/1562295) – [Week 3](https://hexbear.net/post/1614933) – [Week 4](https://hexbear.net/post/1660850?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 5](https://hexbear.net/post/1707426) – [Week 6](https://hexbear.net/post/1752714?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 7](https://hexbear.net/post/1805763) – [Week 8](https://hexbear.net/post/1861070) – [Week 9](https://hexbear.net/post/1918790) – [Week 10](https://hexbear.net/post/2021859) – [Week 11](https://hexbear.net/post/2037253) – [Week 12](https://hexbear.net/post/2084287) – [Week 13](https://hexbear.net/post/2135241) – [Week 14](https://hexbear.net/post/2197835) – [Week 15](https://hexbear.net/post/2267130) – [Week 16](https://hexbear.net/post/2338512) – [Week 17](https://hexbear.net/post/2357286) – [Week 18](https://hexbear.net/post/2412449) – [Week 19](https://hexbear.net/post/2491063) – [Week 20](https://hexbear.net/post/2536512) – [Week 21](https://hexbear.net/post/2581110) – [Week 22](https://hexbear.net/post/2635808) – [Week 23](https://hexbear.net/post/2701942) – [Week 24](https://hexbear.net/post/2739256) – [Week 25](https://hexbear.net/post/2808027) – [Week 26](https://hexbear.net/post/2836364) – [Week 27](https://hexbear.net/post/2893886) – [Week 28](https://hexbear.net/post/2946051) – [Week 29](https://hexbear.net/post/2993128) – [Week 30](https://hexbear.net/post/3046623) – [Week 31](https://hexbear.net/post/3090624) – [Week 32](https://hexbear.net/post/3157354) – [Week 33](https://hexbear.net/post/3210280) – [Week 34](https://hexbear.net/post/3282303) – [Week 35](https://hexbear.net/post/3318324) – [Week 36](https://hexbear.net/post/3366318) – [Week 37](https://hexbear.net/post/3425162) – [Week 38](https://hexbear.net/post/3473071) – [Week 39](https://hexbear.net/post/3518587) ---- # Week 40, Sept 30-Oct 6 – Chapter 24 and Chapter 25 of Volume III # Chapter 24 is called 'Externalisation of the Relations of Capital in the Form of Interest-Bearing Capital' # Chapter 25 is called 'Credit and Fictitious Capital' ---- # https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm ---- # Discuss the week's reading in the comments.

Thoughts on ...? Vampire • Now • 100%

Thoughts on the essay 'Planet of Cops'?

It made an impact in 2017

sports Vampire • Now • 100%

⚽ Hate Rangers, love this goal they just scored

streamin.one

That's a good goal

sports Vampire • Now • 100%

There's a Lebanon flag and a trans flag behind the goal at the current Glasgow Celtic game

Screenshots aren't working for me, mk maybe someone else can get em Links in the sidebar 👉

askchapo Vampire • Now • 100%

What are the immigration policies of Cuba, Laos and Vietnam??

I know 2 of the 5 AES (China and North Korea) have a nearly no-immigration policy, but what about the other three?

agriculture Vampire • Now • 100%

We assemble literature to report on the yield potential of 51 perennial staple crops, only 15 of which are well-characterized in existing global datasets...

www.frontiersin.org

The paper looks at breadfruit, air potato, carob, chestnut, Enset, banana/plantain, sago palm, evergreen oak/encina, yeheb nut, Mayan breadnut, perennial beans, almonds, nuts, olives, coconuts, avocado, honey locust pods, and tahitian chestnut and their potential to replace part of the dependency on cereals. It would be great if we could get more of our food from trees. It would reduce labour input and pesticide input. You can also multitask the land better often with trees. My grandfather used to have cattle among breadfruit trees on his farm. Breadfruit is great stuff, lots of uses. This article makes me want to take a closer look at Brazil nuts. Figure 3 shows a yield close to 5 t/ha and being nuts they are more nutritionally dense than boring starches. (There's a lecture series you can find on youtube called something like 'nuts as a staple food') Then around Figure 4 they talk about how trees growing perennials would lock up more carbon than cropland.

chapotraphouse Vampire • Now • 100%

I have finally finishing baling 49 bales of hay. My hands are blistered and I can't sleep with the pain in my back

If ONE of you fuckers tells me to touch grass I'm gonna thump you

history Vampire • Now • 97%

Political map of the world in 500 BCE

Interesting to see the agriculture versus huntgather dialectic. And also the sedentary versus pastoral dialectic within agriculture. There are a handful of statist places: Vietnam, China, Italy-Greece and a few others, but mostly anarchs. Iceland, Madagascar, and New Zealand are virgin to man.

agriculture Vampire • Now • 100%

Evidence that organic farming promotes pest control, Nature Sustainability, 2018

www.nature.com

**Abstract** Ecological intensification of agro-ecosystems, based on the optimization of ecological functions such as biological pest control, to replace agrochemical inputs is a promising route to reduce the ecological footprint of agriculture while maintaining commodity production. However, the performance of organic farming, often considered as a prototype of ecological intensification, in terms of pest control remains largely unknown. Here, using two distinct meta-analyses, we demonstrate that, compared to conventional cropping systems, (i) organic farming promotes overall biological pest control potential, (ii) organic farming has higher levels of overall pest infestations but (iii) that this effect strongly depends on the pest type. Our study shows that there are lower levels of pathogen infestation, similar levels of animal pest infestation and much higher levels of weed infestation in organic than in conventional systems. This study provides evidence that organic farming can enhance pest control and suggests that organic farming offers a way to reduce the use of synthetic pesticide for the management of animal pests and pathogens without increasing their levels of infestation.

askchapo Vampire • Now • 100%

What is the materialist explanation of the War on Drugs?

Capitalism has a deep-seated taboo against taking recreational drugs. So strong is the taboo they will ruin your life and exile you from mainstream society for doing something recreational. This is changing a bit as the scientists tell them there is basically no reason for this. But the scientists meet with resistance from entrenched cops, judges, lawyers, who are very  about it. What's the materialist explanation for this moralistic taboo?

sports Vampire • Now • 100%

North Korea in a World Cup final when this thread is 20 minutes old

FIFA World Cup for women under 20 They have beaten Austria, Brazil, and some other country in the knockout stages to get to the final against Japan  They won the tournament twice before: in 2006 and 2016.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_FIFA_U-20_Women's_World_Cup vipbox dot lc/football/world-cup-women-u20-final-north-korea-u20-w-vs-japan-u20-w-streams

theory Vampire • Now • 100%

Das Kapital reading group – Week 39, Sept 23-29 – Chapter 22 and Chapter 23 of Volume III

**Explain the bookclub**: We are reading Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in one year and discussing it in weekly threads. (Volume IV, often published under the title *Theories of Surplus Value*, will not be included in this particular reading club, but comrades are encouraged to do other solo and collaborative reading.) This bookclub will repeat yearly. The three volumes in a year works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46⅔ pages a week. However, we're a bit ahead of the curve right now, and can slow down to about 35 pages a week. I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. ---- **Just joining us?** You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [!genzhou@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou) ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year. **Archives**: [Week 1](https://hexbear.net/post/1506527?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 2](https://hexbear.net/post/1562295) – [Week 3](https://hexbear.net/post/1614933) – [Week 4](https://hexbear.net/post/1660850?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 5](https://hexbear.net/post/1707426) – [Week 6](https://hexbear.net/post/1752714?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 7](https://hexbear.net/post/1805763) – [Week 8](https://hexbear.net/post/1861070) – [Week 9](https://hexbear.net/post/1918790) – [Week 10](https://hexbear.net/post/2021859) – [Week 11](https://hexbear.net/post/2037253) – [Week 12](https://hexbear.net/post/2084287) – [Week 13](https://hexbear.net/post/2135241) – [Week 14](https://hexbear.net/post/2197835) – [Week 15](https://hexbear.net/post/2267130) – [Week 16](https://hexbear.net/post/2338512) – [Week 17](https://hexbear.net/post/2357286) – [Week 18](https://hexbear.net/post/2412449) – [Week 19](https://hexbear.net/post/2491063) – [Week 20](https://hexbear.net/post/2536512) – [Week 21](https://hexbear.net/post/2581110) – [Week 22](https://hexbear.net/post/2635808) – [Week 23](https://hexbear.net/post/2701942) – [Week 24](https://hexbear.net/post/2739256) – [Week 25](https://hexbear.net/post/2808027) – [Week 26](https://hexbear.net/post/2836364) – [Week 27](https://hexbear.net/post/2893886) – [Week 28](https://hexbear.net/post/2946051) – [Week 29](https://hexbear.net/post/2993128) – [Week 30](https://hexbear.net/post/3046623) – [Week 31](https://hexbear.net/post/3090624) – [Week 32](https://hexbear.net/post/3157354) – [Week 33](https://hexbear.net/post/3210280) – [Week 34](https://hexbear.net/post/3282303) – [Week 35](https://hexbear.net/post/3318324) – [Week 36](https://hexbear.net/post/3366318) – [Week 37](https://hexbear.net/post/3425162) – [Week 38](https://hexbear.net/post/3473071) ---- # Week 39, Sept 23-29 – Chapter 22 and Chapter 23 of Volume III # Chapter 22 is called 'Division of Profit. Rate of Interest. Natural Rate of Interest.' # Chapter 23 is called 'Interest and Profit of Enterprise' ---- # https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm ---- # Discuss the week's reading in the comments.