WW3: Cold War WW4: War on Terror

Thank you comrade, they were very cute

I couldn’t possibly imagine how it would be a bad thing honestly. Kids need time to be kids and their free time should be just as respected as the free time of adults working jobs.

Private schools being intrinsically better are a form of petty-bourgeois propaganda born out of the racism of the American segregated school system. Many public schools in nice areas are significantly better than many private schools that charge an arm and a leg. Now, this is of course not to say that some private schools aren’t better than any public high school in the US, but those private schools are for the top 0.1% of the population that can afford USD$30,000+ a year tuition for 4 years per kid. Mine definitely falls into the former category of being a worse private school (inferor to even my local public school) that just sells itself well to wring more money out of the gullible and better off members of the ‘middle’ class labor aristocracy. It was 100% a business first (and probably one that laundered quite a bit of money for school leadership judging by a few questionable investment decisions the school made) and an academic institution second.

I can certainly say if the private school I went to was to be a high standard, premium level of Statesian education, I can understand why we have a literacy crisis. The education there was a joke. I took honors and AP classes all the way through and 90% of the homework was pointless busywork that sparked no curiosity and stimulated no learning. The non honors/AP classes? Please. If attendance wasn’t compulsory, it would be more time efficient to not show up to class and skim the textbook.

I could go on for quite some time about that school.

May they indeed!

Thank you comrade 🫂

Unfortunately, not the case. Ant Queens can live even up to or beyond 20 years in some cases, and colonies can go on living longer depending on the species. From my investigation, the girls unfortunately moved some of their soil away from the sponge I used to give them water, meaning they couldn’t go as long without water as they used to be able to. I kept my typical frequency of supying them water, expecting all to be good, and their nest became very dry. They require a good bit of humidity and water because they were a tropical species. Just a really unfortunate situation that I could’ve remedied by being more of an attentive keeper.

Ah, it’s not all that bad. We could just throw him under the foundation of a newly constructed women’s shelter.

By the wall, you mean being walled up right? As in, immurment. As in, we put him in a brick box, and then cement the only exit shut, right?

I did read part of his post that I linked, and that’s what led me to add that he might be a lunatic. Since then, I’ve looked into it, and scratch that, this guy is insane. I think he’s an ecofascist of the socdem variety going by his website and the various sources supplied by it. He’s still has a bunch of supposed scientific support behind his FMT company Human Microbes and all they’re doing though. It’s funny because he literally says “infinite growth on a finite planet is suicide” which is basically a core tenet of modern Eco-Socialism/Eco-Marxism, and in his politics archive on his GitHub page cites Einstein’s Why Socialism?, all the while his principal claim is that we are living in a dystopia because people are getting dumber and the only way to fix that is by making smarter people. He also believes human overpopulation is the primary driver of climate change and we need to stop having kids. No takes on communism, but you can kinda assume his views because of his link for “why the left should be anti-censorship”.

TL;DR: This guy’s nutty, but he knows his shit.

I am blessed to be in some ways a part of such a resilient people. I’m first in line to reject spiritualism of all kinds but, it touches something in me so deeply to see the resilience of the Cuban people and the insurmountable strength of their freedom. I have begun to redefine myself due to their bravery and unrelenting, and I find myself embracing my roots more and more as I walk away from the person I used to be.

The posts like these are great ways for me to clear my head and see that again. Honestly, sometimes the worries are quite irrational (My Spanish is fine and so is my accent, I only flub some things like occasionally messing up when I roll my 'r’s and that used to make me feel like I wasn’t really Hispanic/Cuban because of that when I was younger). They used to just be journal entries, but now, somewhere in the world, I have comrades to share them with ❤️.

Gracias, compañero 🇨🇺.

May each and every one of those parasites miss their payment dates and be executed and their assets expropriated as a result.

Dude some of these programs pay big bucks in the states. There’s one here that looks for people considered medically athletic (like sub 15 body fat%, good BMI, and mile times) that can pays $500 per donation. If you go one a day you can make $180,000 per year just shitting. It’s crazy.

Here’s that same one offering a $500,000 reward for a million dollar donor. To be fair, I think the guy running it may also have some screws loose (understatement, he might be batshit insane), but if it actually cures something I guess that’s a good thing.

Indeed

Right but, it certainly doesn’t have age verification right now. Trying to eternally escape enshittification in a bourgeois society that is literally enshittifying itself into catastrophe within the next 20-30 years is a fruitless endeavor. As of this very moment, Stoat is undeniably a better choice than Discord, although not perfect. It is also more user friendly for people who aren’t super aware of this stuff than alternatives like Matrix or SimpleX. Obviously still use those for activities where OPSEC matters.

Besides, it’s FLOSS, and can be self-hosted, the default file size limit is literally set by the config file. Only usages supported by the Stoat team’s servers (i.e. not self hosted) have 20MiB enforced. If it makes any wild decisions it’s millions of users don’t like, it can be forked and made irrelevant.

To my knowledge it still isn’t added but it’d still be an easier pill to swallow for moving your DMs and groupchats to.

At least from my experience with Matrix clients, your average Discord user is gonna absolutely hate trying to use Matrix. Dealing with encryption keys, identity resets, and the inability to easily sign into your account on multiple devices is a pain in the ass, just absolutely worth it for the added security and privacy. The average Discord user won’t see it that way unfortunately. Stoat mimics enough of Discord’s environment and is more convenient than Matrix for most users, while also being much more private and self-hostable e2ee notwithstanding. Would love to actually see it implemented though.

If you want a good, privacy respecting alternative to discord that’s a bit more normie friendly than a Matrix client and your friends are willing to move to it, check out Stoat. Still do sensitive shit over Matrix though.

Good god, this reminds me of when my liberal feminist cousin started losing her head about the phrase ‘I’m just a girl’ and went on talking about how women fought and died for their right to vote, then started spouting some bullshit about working hard and how she ‘liked the old style capitalism’ (FDR era social democracy) and the proceeded to drop THE N WORD for no reason (she is not black). How is it that you can be so close, and then completely miss the point so hard you end up going from left wing to reactionary 😭

I’ll see you all at my deposition for domestic terrorism when the feds link me to this account lmao