now i've never used a sickle in my life but every time i see the Chinese hammer & sickle, i think: that's a really impractical handle on that sickle.

every other hamsic has a decent rectangular handle, but the CPC just has a little nub. what gives

From the Mississippi to the Pacific 🤔

i, for one, support the annexation of California into the People's Republic of Nevada

But this was 2019, why did she go quiet on (the website formerly known as) twitter so recently? And what did she mean by getting "wings clipped" in the tweet?

you forgot Place, North Korea: Either paid actors or oooh so spooky literally 1969, there are government spies in the tree, the nort corean gobernment doesnt want us to see this photo and/or this photo was staged by the govornament for propaganda! Basically how they react to China but x10

This is why we keep the "critical" in "critical support", comrades. What a hellworld we live in where this dumpster country is the second biggest threat to american hegemony.

REST IN PISS

WON'T BE MISSED

so… second thought isn't a communist according to whoever's responsible for this?

the economist reveals their anti-landlord ideals by letting Vladimir Lenin live rent-free in their heads for 100 years

finally, lyrics that make sense.

my god, you brought Karl Marx himself on for a podcast!?

Winchester (the firearms manufacturer) dropping (killing) game (wildlife in the context of hunting)

got an archive link for the asiatimes article?

ugh did you try staying awake during 4th grade history class 🙄 they taught the "pilgrims" how to grow corn, had a big feast, then politely stepped aside to make room for the new guys. we still dont know where they went...

not really, he's very focused on the scientific details, i cant remember him talkimg about the political side at all.

you dont own anything under socialism? thats crazy. let me check the list of countries by home ownership rate rq

I know Huawei phones are very high-end so beefy emus like Dolphin and maybe, if you dare, Yuzu (yes it has an android version!) would run Fine™.

for retro consoles i use Lemuroid (from f-droid).

here's the original publication: meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-work-that-way/

…i'm not sure what you're getting at, maybe i didnt summarize properly. give the article a read and see if it makes sense to ya.

rules-based order (i make the rules and order every one around)

the article very clearly explains that. Give it a read, it's not that long.

…but if you aren't going to read it, the summary is that the way we think ads work, associating brands with positive emotions (termed "emotional inception" in this article), is bollocks. Instead, they rely on "cultural imprinting", i.e. associating the brand with a kind of person or situation. For example, corona is the beer for relaxing on the beach, nike and gatorade are for athletes. So, if you want to relax with some homies, you drink corona. If you value athletic performance, you drink gatorade and wear nike shoes. Major exceptions apply, please just read the article.

i had a long reply that i accidentally deleted but conveniently this book about Stalin just came out that should give you an infinitely more nuanced "history and critique" of Stalin than the average westerner could imagine exists.

TL;DR Stalin is a complicated figure, just like everyone else. The cartoon villain picture of Stalin that western propagandists have been building for almost a full century now isn't real, no one likes the "eastern hitler" caricature that doesn't exist. We like Josif Stalin, the real person who existed, did great things, did bad things. a lot of what you think you know is simply false, and to understand why we "like" Stalin, you have to learn who Stalin really was, and find out what you think you know about him, the Soviet Union, and communism as a whole, that is just plain wrong.

sorry about the downvotes and dunking that are going to come to you, some folks around here have trouble distinguishing genuine questions and bad faith trolls.

why is Russia blank? does no one in Russia edit wikipedia??

those links don't work. also i noticed i follow @prolewiki@matapacos.dog perfectly fine, though a lot of the acct's follows/followers dont show up from kolektiva. are you sure it's still defederated?

matapacos defederated from kolektiva for what security concerns? i too am a kolektiva user hiding my power level and looking to migrate, but i dont want to lose the comrades ive met on kolektiva :(

i can't find this video on f*x's channel, probably fake but i also didnt search very well bc it's still funny and i dont care.

but if someone does have a link share it here, it look hilarious

that's a real bold move when their phones are already stunted without google play services on the stock OS. i now have zero reasons to recommend huawei. fuck 'em.

LineageOS has no actively maintained builds for Huawei devices (but they used to, fairly recently) and it's a very limited selection of older devices for /e/OS.

idk much about rooting but if you can do it on the stock OS, you can install microG and get bare minimum features like push notifs working.

also FUCK google for locking essential features behind their pooprietary services. they will not be spared in the revolution.

i really should have made the image more obviously leftist, by all means you could see this in a fash community and not seem out of place at all.

inb4 horseshoe theory

it's unfortunate that righties learned the word "liberal", causing confusion like this. but it's funny that so many of them technically are liberals if you want to be pedantic with definitions

i know of copyleft, but im not sure i like MIT(+other lenient licenses) or GPL. MIT makes my code free for the taking for any big corpos (not that im cool enough for that to happen, but hypothetically) and i'd like to inconvenience them at every opportunity. yet GPL would be a pain for normal smaller devs who just want to use or modify my stuff without license headaches.

but i'm probably overthinking it, aint nobody using my shitty ass code 🙃

TIL about that loophole. im weary of using GPL because i dont want to inconvenience average joes who want to include and redistribute my work while using a different license for other bits. but if my mind is changed i would want to use Affero, thanks!

supposedly, the many banned terms were quickly unbanned, but further reading would require being able to read Chinese. which i can't.

for comrades braver than me, here's br*tmonkey's source list for the video: https://pastebin.com/qNQbXyUE

and the source for "letter N was banned" (from the guardian, notorious source of Unbiased™ reporting about china): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/28/china-bans-the-letter-n-internet-xi-jinping-extends-power

it's the "i'm almost enjoying my anger!" mood, the deliberate exposure to things you don't like for the catharsis and/or sense of superiority that's not unique to internet libs, see also 'shit X says' communities that exist everywhere under the sun.

…and liberals once again thinking their votes matter 😎

really just said "nuh uh" 😭 how did you stumble into lemmygrad

save yourself the braincells and dont bother learning anything about "breadtubers". destiny is just another one of them, and you're better off knowing nothing more than that.

from the pinned post in r/TheDeprogram:

We recently received a formal warning from the Reddit Admins that we need to emphasize the following part of Rule #2, (which is really Rule #1, according to Reddit policy):

Use screenshots or an archiving service. If the content is coming from a non-leftist subreddit, please censor all usernames and the subreddit name as well. If you must link to somewhere else on reddit that isn't politically aligned, please use the non-participant (np) variant of the URL. (e.g., https://np.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram)

If we do not want the sub to be quarantined or banned, we need to take this seriously.

well no matter how well they follow the rules i give the sub six months before it gets chapo trap house'd. no good commie sub lives that long after getting so much notoriety.

i havent verified for myself but i believe Deepin has proprietary components that make it not "truly" open-source like Kylin. or at least that's what ive heard.

you have to pay at least a $2530 fee to renounce US citizenship, if you somehow avoid all of the other hidden fees. and Allah help you if you mess up part of the application. cool country 👍

edit: i conclude it's probably easier to lose citizenship by committing treason or joining a foreign military than doing the state department's arcane (and expensive) rituals

the original version of this comic is about the Romani lol

take it from a programmer, folks: knowing how to make computer do magic doesnt equate to general intelligence or automatically make one better at unrelated things like politics. computer shit is a skill like any other that just happens to have a (false) connotation of "high intelligence" whatever that means.

sorry fellow nerds, you aint special. read lenin.

video encoding is far from my area of expertise but i can advise

1. your CPU is fine as long as its getting proper cooling (if it hasnt overheated and auto-shutdown, then it's ok). Also, 80°F? slightly above comfortable room temperature? you probably misread 80°C, a more reasonable temperature for a CPU at maximum overdrive. Which is fine, CPUs get hot. 90°C is where the problems start. EDIT: 80°C is very hot actually, make sure your fans are working as hard as they can.

2. Video encoding is just a really complex process that takes its sweet time no matter what, but just in case you can check if handbrake is converting to x264 or x265. x265 is very nicely compressed but takes longer, though its probably doing x264 by default.

3. check out ffmpeg (ffmpeg.org) for the technology behind HandBrake that you can use on its own, presumably with more options… if youre willing to read all those docs 😵‍💫. But when you have the basics down it makes mass-converting videos with shell scripts super powerful.