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I remember these guys coming to my school and dumping a bunch of sand on the table. It was supposed to be impressive or something. They were sold as exiled monks who just wanted to be holy and practice their religion. It was dumb. The world wasn't going to be worse off without their sand art and if they wanted to do it and we cared so much they could do it here, but it didn't seem reasonable at the time that China was banning sand art or quietly humming to yourself. I found a video of the Dali Lama and didn't see a man with sacred knowledge. The idea of picking some random child to be the pope of the mountain was never sufficiently romantic enough to make me care.
It's like the people who say China was oppressing them for doing yoga in the park. "That's all we were doing, I swear". You've got to be a certain kind of person to buy this.
I'm going to Cuba just as soon as my passport comes in. I'm so done. There's not much left to save here.
// as an aside, I just watched the last of us. Great show, but this sort of world isn't what people here think people would be like after the apocalypse. It's how they think they already are. It's not just the government that's the problem. There's something wrong with people. They are stupid, pig-headed, servile, fantasy minded people who hate and fear everything and everyone but their masters. The whole lot of them, and there's nothing to be done about it.
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It's basically the same as wearing a kilt.
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Lol. I love this new Mexico. NAFTA days are over
lxvi Now • 100%
If you buy a digital book you should rip it and share it.
lxvi Now • 100%
A nice long terror is essential to longevity
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I'm sure it's helped Africa to decide who to align with
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Better to drop it. You made a dumb comment. We all do it. Trying to defend a bad position is a bad habit.
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JFK is running I'll vote for JFK: back for blood.
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This is not the way brother. Come with me. I will show you the way.
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The web should be broken into nooks of a thousand gardens. The superficial web should be entirely smashed. The majority of the web should be crazy, personally hosted websites off of someones personal computer. There should be no more cloud, no more server farms. We should land an artillery shell into the middle of google's, facebook's, etc, warehouse and see what happens.
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Steam and emulators work great but somethings are more complicated. As far as games your confined inside the steam environment unless you're willing to do extra work.
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It doesn't contain nuclear components because we defined it to be outside of the definition of nuclear components. Just like the US isn't involved in gain-of-function because it would defined beyond the definition. That's how they smugly say their bullshit thinking anyone else is going to play their game
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Are you really going for the fact that they aren't using s,d,p orbits? You can still use a simple orbital map where it's practical to do so, the only thing that maters at most levels is the outside orbital and how far it is from complete in which direction. But it's an artistic depiction of an atom. You can find pictures that have the same structure. It's meant to be immediately recognizable. If you were going to be critical it would be for how bloated the nucleus is. You wouldn't do that though because it's an artistic depiction. It's not trying to convey an accurate model of an atom. It's trying to model a geopolitical relation while harking to the atomic model.
First you misidentify it as planetary and now you're saying that the problem is that it isn't accurate enough. Talk about a headache
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Yeah it's a Chinese show
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This all reminds me of petition.org. let's all sign a petition to have Putin arrested and have Russia pay to rebuild Ukraine. That'll show them. We're doing something guys
guy wants to remove federal insurance for YOUR money. He straight said he wants to abolish the department of education; and then what?, give it the titans of capital. You'll have have Lookheed-Martin and BP running the schools, but that will teach them. Worst of everything is his open threats of war against Mexico. I've never been more against a war than a war with Mexico. The Mexican-American War was the most hated war in United States History. Lincoln denounced it. Thoreau wrote "Civil Disobedience" in regard to that war. There was the highest rate of mutiny ever recorded in the US military. The US cannot be allowed to do this, and if it does it will not survive as a Hegemone. How do you think all the Mexicans in the United States, as civilian and as members of the military, are going to respond? The government has lost it's fucking mind. Just because the people of the United States couldn't give a shit about a war in Europe doesn't mean they won't go berserk over a war on their border against a nation a lot of us have extreme affection and solidarity toward. Greenwald not only brings this lunatic on, but says he likes some of his points. Which one? Which fucking lunatic point did Greenwald find appealing? I gave him a lot of credit because of Snowden, but this is leagues beyond the pale. This is utterly abhorant.
Who exposed the Uyghur genocide for what it was and, without missing a beat, exposed the credulous source of that propaganda? Who exposed the ins and outs of the Russian Conspiracy while everyone bought the into it or shut up out of fear of reprisal? Whoever these people are who've been around fighting the same tired fight, even while doing it alone, for longer than most of you have been "socialist": I think I'd follow them and whatever movement they were joining before I followed some nameless nothing who hasn't earned an ounce of reputation who was denouncing them. Some of you don't know who Chris Hedges is, and that's a shame. I've been following him for about my entire adult life. He was the first person to accurately declare the end of empire, well before anyone that it was possible. He was the first person to accurately define American Fascism. He's a master theologian, a war corespondent (when that meant something), a decorated professor, and a prisoners advocate, in ways that exceed anybody else in the country. His presence at an anti-war rally would give that movement unimpeachable credibility. Even Jimmy who's done more by exposing the liberals for what they are and attempting to force a vote for medicare for all has done more for the American Left than anybody has anything to say against him, excusing whatever child idiots he sometimes lets talk beside him. And some nobody nothing without an ounce of reputation is going to try to throw mud. That person isn't anything but an arrogant fool. Just have a little bit of history and a little bit of memory. It will go a long way. Not everybody who has something to say is worth listening to. Nobody is credible who hasn't earned their credibility. Learning who to listen to and who to ignore will save you a world of confusion.
Capital chapter 10 section3 Branches of English Industry without legal to exploitation >So far, we have dealt with Ireland. On the other side of the channel, in Scotland, the agricultural labourer, the ploughman, protests against his 13-14 hours’ work in the most inclement climate, with 4 hours’ additional work on Sunday (in this land of Sabbatarians!), [54] whilst, at the same time, three railway men are standing before a London coroner’s jury — a guard, an engine-driver, a signalman. A tremendous railway accident has hurried hundreds of passengers into another world. The negligence of the employee is the cause of the misfortune. They declare with one voice before the jury that ten or twelve years before, their labour only lasted eight hours a-day. During the last five or six years it had been screwed up to 14, 18, and 20 hours, and under a specially severe pressure of holiday-makers, at times of excursion trains, it often lasted for 40 or 50 hours without a break. They were ordinary men, not Cyclops. At a certain point their labour-power failed. Torpor seized them. Their brain ceased to think, their eyes to see. The thoroughly “respectable” British jurymen answered by a verdict that sent them to the next assizes on a charge of manslaughter, and, in a gentle “rider” to their verdict, expressed the pious hope that the capitalistic magnates of the railways would, in future, be more extravagant in the purchase of a sufficient quantity of labour-power, and more “abstemious,” more “self-denying,” more “thrifty,” in the draining of paid labour-power. [55]
I just found out about it the other day. Its literally p2p file sharing. You can let people visit designated directories on your local file system and go visit theirs. Its fast and personable. They even have an AOL IM thing going on. I found out about it because they've got a lot of music and its relatively difficult to find good music torrents. I thought it was basically transmission or another torrent client, but its totally different. Linux Mint has the FOSS client Nicotine+ in their repository. The whole process was quick and easy. Find me there under the same user name.
Hate-ch BO. I know its not very good, but the whole archipelago doesn't have to make the same dumb joke. Likewise, "whilst" isn't a word. Its just something people say because they think it makes them sound smart.
The whole city's frozen over. I slipped hard off the first step off my stoop and went comically flying. Took a couple minutes lying on the frozen earth to recover. Tis the season.
I'm playing with steam with the latest version of proton on Linux Mint 21. Kernel 5.15.0-56. RTX 3070, last generation am4 R7 1800X. Certain games crash for no apparent reason, requiring a hard reset. The two most recent games with this issue were Horizon Zero Dawn and Remnant: From the ashes. It doesn't seem to be related to anything. It's not related to high load or load in, though sometimes it correlates other times it will just crash while nothing is happening. I think it might have something to do with the Vulcan shaders. Both of the named games take an unusually long time to process them. With Horizon Zero Dawn it can take up to twenty minutes and the processing itself causes the CPU fans to ramp up. I checked Nvidia's website to make sure I was using the most recent driver. It shows 525.60.11 as the most recent, which is what I'm using. The recommended open kernel version simply doesn't work, but closed works just fine; and I have no reason to think it's a gpu issue. I don't know if this is a solvable issue or if its something that has to be dealt with. On a side note: how do you get the resolution you want? I have a 4k monitor but my display is set to 1080p for readability. There's upscaling, but that upscales the game. The option to go above your system resolution is not available. So the only real solution would be to set the display to the hardware resolution and put my nose against the screen in order to access the game. It seems like such a weird hindrance. The hardware is there, but for readability sake you're stuck at 1080p
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I think this is essential reading for everyone who considers themselves Marxist Leninst. For those who don't understand the division between socialism and liberalism this is possibly the greatest explanatory work. For everyone regardless of thought, this is a conversation between two of the most well known intellectuals of their time discussing a paramount subject which most people find perplexing. I don't know much about the party hosting the article, as I have no taste for blood pudding nor hard tact. The introduction they provide is decent enough. I hope you'll take the time to read this short interview.
All I want is a way to finalize a post or comment without having to reach for the mouse. It's a little thing that's almost universally implemented. Just a simple Ctrl-Enter. That's all I'm asking for.
I'm sorry. I shouldn't even know what Pulse Audio is. It should just quietly do it's thing. The fact that I know it's name tells you enough. I have to constantly kill it in order to stop terrible audio distortions. It often struggles managing multiple audio sources from different applications. It completely fails at managing bluetooth devices often forcing audio output that sounds like AM radio and requiring a complete system reset in order to allow high fidelity output. Pulse Audio is the worse and most unacceptable part of my Linux Distro and should be completely abandoned as a total failure and an embarrassment to any developer who is shameless enough to take credit for working on it.
Money isn't a made up concept. It's a stand in commodity, a universal exchange commodity. It represents the exchange value of socially useful labor. Money is fetishized and treated like a think in itself. You're not buying made up things with it. You "buy" money with labor and purchase the products of other people's labor. You can print all the money you want but it doesn't expand the sum of national useful social labor. If the money newly printed remains in circulation it will simply water down the exchange value represented per unit. You can print money but you can't print tangible commodities; you can't print bread, oil, houses, electricity. Your premise is a lazy cope out. Social constructs are mutually agreed upon, but without a material basis then there would be no purpose: no material consequence. The belief that money is imaginary harms the working people directly responsible for the creation of social value, while benefiting the wealthiest members of society whose business is the extraction of social value from the working people. It totally alienates the worker from their role. They believe that they are being paid by the capitalist in imaginary figures something that belongs to the capitalist. In reality the value represented by the money they are paid as well of the money they weren't paid was born from them, by their labor.
Click the link, get a book.
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I juggle logs for fun while doing the squatting kick dance.. is how I assume the English translation goes.
delete the app. Open your browser. Download an ad-blocker. Add the youtube homepage to whatever a phone's desktop is called. Open a video, minimize the browser, and play audio from your notifications taskbar. No more ads. No more needing the app to remain open to play audio. Also you can buy Huawei phones from Newegg. The P50 is shiney if anyone wants to know.
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From Fox? This video showed up on my feed. First time I heard of it. I'm impressed with the Chairman who's speaking. I hope you'll find value in it if you haven't seen it before.
Chinese Ambassador grilled on US fabrications. The NPR interviewer brings up Taiwan, asking the ambassador if he supports Taiwan right to choose their government. The Ambassador answers no without caveat. He brings up the US is selling arms to Taiwan and even went so far as to put US soldiers on Taiwan soil. He warns in no uncertain terms that the US is playing a dangerous game that will end in war. On another note. NPR is top tier propaganda. They literally tell their listeners that they're better than everyone else because they listen to NPR, and the people listening to it are sold on it. They're saying all the same lies but they're doing it in such a cock-sure way to an audience that hinges their identity on being the kind of person who listens to NPR. I kind of wish there was more push back, but you can tell the ambassador is measuring every syllable in a second language. He said everything that needed to be said. It's not his job to do theater. Calling the alleged genocide the "the biggest lie of the century" should get the point across. It's not his fault the audience is block-headed.
Is there any hope of getting keyboard shortcuts? If nothing else ctrl+enter is strange to do without.