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Sometimes I find myself reading theory and thinking to myself ‘man am I too stupid to understand this or what?’. I’m not but I think reading theory just doesn’t help to bring across the point that is made in the books. I feel like I need some other form of learning theory.
I like to listen to theory a few times as an audiobook while I do chores, cook, exercise, or play less cerebral videogames. It builds a familiarity with the simple ideas and the flow of the text, how the parts relate to each other in general. It lets my brain work on the ideas without my conscious mind getting in the way because it is busy doing other things. Then after listening to it 2 or 3 times read along with it and really get down to attaching all the parts together in the order they are presented and turning them into one solid thing.
Takes a time to process sometimes.
I feel like if the blackout that happened in iberia wouldve happened in the US, there would be at least 10 mass shootings from psychos thinking there is a zombie apocalypse.
Today’s strike was fun (for a lack of a better word). There were 7000 people present at the march in my city which was honestly more than we excepted, so that’s good. Several thousands of people in other cities around the country as well. I assume many more people striking but not going to a protest.
I spoke to many different people, also from different communist parties. Mostly Trots though but still interesting to see what they are up to. Being anti-China was one of those things which I thought was funny coming from a party in the margin (duh).
I did however like their wish to become a bit more radical with the protests because holding up some quirky signs every month will probably not save our rights and our own party is not doing much different (insert Lenin’s What To Do quote).
The sun was absolutely blasting though so I feel a bit woozy from walking in the sun all day.
On the way home I got stopped by this girl working for a charity who asked me to donate. She was very passionate about the case which I thought was cool. Upon getting home however I saw that I subscribed to a monthly thing and I don’t want that given how many things I already am active for or are paying for, so I called the org to stop it so that I can make a one time payment. The lady on the phone said ‘okay, I will send a mail to the girl you spoke to to cancel it’ and I found that quite sad lol. I at least asked the lady to tell her in the mail that I still donated though so that she would not feel too bad.
I did however like their wish to become a bit more radical with the protests because holding up some quirky signs every month will probably not save our rights and our own party is not doing much different (insert Lenin’s What To Do quote).
but isnt it more than just a protest, because its also a strike? the way to make it more radical would be to hold an indefinite strike, but that is something for the unions to decide
Well I guess so, it was a strike. But the Trotskyist members were there on their own account instead of striking it seemed so their vision of it might be a bit skewed.
Personally I am all for (a version of) an indefinite strike but I doubt ABVV and ACV want to do that given their ties to Vooruit and CD&V so as to not jeopardize their positions on the negotiations. I also don’t feel like there is a party ready to back the unions, able to provide the neccessary context to the working class people apart from PVDA-PTB but even then I´m not too confident in how they will handle that with no allies apart from the unions. Vooruit will never back PVDA and neither will Groen I´m sure.
yeah exactly, it seems like things are not bad enough for unions to completely turn their back on the government and burn all bridges, same with greens and socialists
The thing is that there are some really serious things that are being proposed that they cannot ignore I think, otherwise people will be royally fucked in the coming years and-or decades. And simply remaining idle with some accepted strikes in between is not going to solve it, so at some point they would have to do something more serious.
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I make a su*cide joke here please forgive me. Also mention of queerphobia.
Ever hear something so stupid you just wanna die? Like you just wanna get vaporised off the face of the planet so that you may not hear something so stupid again?
I overheard some family members talking about children’s cartoons. Then a guy said Cocomelon should be avoided. I agree with this. But why does he think so? Cocomelon is (along with Peppa Pig) a leftist psyop where this nebulous leftist cabal uses bright colours in a (I quote) Manchurian Candidate experiment to indoctrinate children into waving the rainbow flag.
I wish my eardrums would have given in before the waves for these words fell upon them.
You should should lean into it.
Tell him you listened to what he was saying about pepa pig and that its worse than he seems to know. Its Nazis that are doing the brainwashing and they are hiding in the CIA. Then dump the skinny on MKUltra/Galidio/Congress for Cultural Freedom and all the shifty stuff the CIA got up to under Richard Helms the nazi lover who was a lead negotiator on project paperclip.
This guy is too far gone. He thinks CIA is communist. You can’t do irony or sarcasm with person.
Meanwhile the pro-wrestling and the entire country music scene are some the campiest aspects of American (I assume this family member is American) culture.
So it turns out DPRK troops were fighting with Russians in Kursk this whole time.
Yeah its kinda funny that the Ukrainians lied so much prior and did such a bad job of actually proving it that everyone thought it was fake this whole time lol.
The real DPRK troops were the friends Russians made along the way.
Well, holiday is over. Back to striking tomorrow, and 1st of May on Thursday!
The trend of countries deporting migrants protesting has me worried, as a migrant myself who is politically active. It’s not happening here but still. It might.
Gotta say I don’t love the Lemmygrad language filters because I couldn’t post my comment calling a transphobic user a fucking loser, but to give y’all credit between the time I reported the post and edited my comment to pass the filter the post had already been deleted and the user banned, so gd credit to some fucking kickass mods
Our mods are great! 😊
Shoutout empathy
Don’t say that in front of Elon Musk!
Anyone who is familiar with getting into programming/coding field, especially without prior paid work experience in it? I’m US-based. Have some self taught experience, I would say I’m beyond novice albeit rusty, but proving that on a resume is another thing and I might be a better fit for entry level for that reason. Part of the problem is, a lot in my area last I looked tends to be military contractor stuff and I do not want to go work on weapons tech or whatever. I guess I could look for remote stuff?
Does anyone know of specific opportunities? (Not asking people to google search for me, just wondering on that level if anyone already knows of something.)
There is the Ren’py programming language to make visual novels that I am now learning.
Anecdotal experience but a friend of mine, who was objectively bad at coding but good communication skills, got a “requires Y years of experience in X language.” job after doing a 2 week bootcamp in X language by lying on the resume/interview. So unless you are looking for a job at the FAANG companies, which ive heard do a lot of vetting, fake it till you make it really can work.
Interesting, will keep that in mind. I do tend to be overly conscientious about that kind of thing to my detriment sometimes. 😅
Has anyone seen “The Great Ambition” movie?
I spent the entire day trying to find a torrent for it, and I did find an Italian version, but no subtitles, no English version, nothing. At this point I either give up watching it, or watch the Italian version with a live translator.
I see one Italian Blu-ray rip for that with Italian PGS subtitles. It’s on a pt. It would be possible to ocr the Italian subs then use a translation service to get an imperfect but perhaps serviceable result. I know subtitle edit can do ocr and translate via google for free with lesser results. Otherwise you could ocr, chop into smaller files and feed them to deepl which may give better results.
Thanks for the tip, I’ll try my best.
I’ve been listening to lots of King Crimson lately, especially ‘21st Century Schizoid Man’ and ‘The Court of the Crimson King’. I’ve tried some of their later stuff and it’s not really my thing though. Maybe I’ll give it another go.
Have you listened to the album Killer by Alice Cooper? King Crimson was one of his inspirations for the album especially the song Halo of Flies.
Haven’t yet since I only got into King Crimson through jojo, but I’ll definitely give it a try!
