It’s a friend-enemy distinction for them.

UA media is being their cool, cryptic self about it and redditors are eating it up.

I meant more like how including liberal premises of how the world works into media. But I guess that only means it was made by liberals with their worldview. I still experience it as propaganda though, maybe cause I’m just sick of it.

I often think Hezbollah should have attacked Israel on or right after October 7. But then I think “who am I to wish war, death and destruction upon the people of that region?” because that attack probably would have triggered a regional war with the involvement of the US. I think Iran has a big say in what Hezbollah does and they are afraid of Israel. And rightfully so, Israel has the ability to nuke Iran.

Killing the leadership of Hezbollah doesn’t make them any less effective. If the report is true, then new leadership is already in place. They know exactly who is to replace whom when these things happen.

And then you storm off to play the piano and solve math problems?

That’s pretty funny, and tragic.

NewPipe does.

Did someone use AI to write a whole book?

I don’t understand the angle of “Punishment” because anyone who fucking says that has never spent a single day in jail. If you have, then you’ll know that spending an entire lifetime there is more than enough to punish you for whatever tf you did.

In this case the judicial angle isn’t punishment, but completion. They can now “close the case”. If he were released, then the case would still remain open (and unsolved), which looks bad on their record/statistics. Now they (the DA/police) got +1 solved/closed cases.

Another possibility is that the actual perpetrator is well-connected or known to the DA, so they threw this guy under the bus.

If you want to think “wtf?” for an hour and a half watch the documentary The Thin Blue Line (1988). The subject of the documentary was actually exonerated after the documentary came out (but received 0 dollars as compensation).

Spotify sucks. Youtube sucks. MP3s suck.

https://newpipe.net/ (for mobile, playlists, background play, no ads)

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube (desktop youtube app, no ads)

If you have an android phone, you can just seach for “Spotify premium apk” and you can find a cracked Spotify premium.

But if music is “your thing”, then there really is no substitute for the library of FLACs available on private torrent trackers for music. What.CD has been down 8 years now (rip), but RED and OPS exist.

You can pass an interview on IRC to get into the trackers. The interview is a short test about file formats, rules and transcoding, they give you the page where to learn it all.

https://interviewfor.red/en/starting.html

https://interview.orpheus.network/starting-the-interview.php

For a lossy format alternative to mp3 try (ogg) vorbis.

Try private torrent trackers, they have rules on tags/labels as well as quality control. It is much better to rip from FLAC -> 256kbps mp3 than it is to rip from 320kbps mp3 -> 256kbps mp3.

nobody pirates FLACs these days

There’s two private trackers for music full of FLACs: RED and OPS

I’ll watch it. I also found a recent (2023) paper by two economists/Marxists in China, among other things.

David Axe

That guy’s a clown.

Literally.

“How much Vuhledar is worth to either side is a matter of debate … it’s possible Bohoyavlenka, a few miles to the north, could perform the same function”

You know what? I honestly don’t know as much as I’d like about productive/unproductive labour as it applies to industries in general, and services in particular. So instead of coming up with some kind of half-baked answer I’ll go and read about it.

You’re right, it was a meme about sleeping with the partners of deployed soldiers as praxis.

I don’t have it, but it was a meme about sleeping with the partners of deployed soldiers as praxis.

Perhaps Rumble is not enemy territory, but an opportunity. Cause while the people who run it and lots of content creators on it may be right-wing/fascist, that doesn’t mean that all the people visiting are. In fact, I’d say that most who visit aren’t. People are scared and confused, they’re looking for anything that makes sense and they can get behind. Communists should be providing that alternative. Speaking to people’s frustrations, understanding where they’re coming from and then offering an alternative to liberalism, fascism, conservatism.