Don’t feel bad for not reading “enough”. Capitalism is indeed shit, so you can just go from there. Doing stuff irl is more important that debating the nuances of state and revolution on twitter. Check out your local social orgs - mutual help funds, soup kitchens, shelters, etc. If you have free time, they could always use your help. And you can make some like-minded friends along the way.

There’s a lot of confusion, other comments addressed it pretty well. Meanwhile you might be interested in looking into IPFS. It’s kinda like the internet over torrent.

Damn, I sure would hate it if the grocery prices in Canada were to plummet. Instead of going up 40% in the last ten years. I should be thankful though, at least it’s not like the rent that went up 50% since covid. Boy, I sure love the stimulated economy.

I’ve seen is a blurry video of like, two women, sitting in a room supposedly peeling garlic with their mouths

Kinky

The foundation of colonialism/imperialism is the heavy imbalance of power. The relationship between countries is about as consensual as was Andrew Tate’s with his cam models.

You can usually find English movie showings. Either in proper theaters, or sometimes in public centers, game cafes, etc. You can look those up on ig/fb/local boards. From my experience people there are pretty open to socializing. Smaller shows for international bands can also work. And just stuff that’s not too reliant on language in the first place - gym, sport activities/events, food festivals.

If you are experiencing alienation that strongly, there are definitely other people who are in the same boat and are looking for new connections.

Same. Don’t sully the beautiful and working maglev trains with that garbage scam that killed any HSR hopes for millions of Californians.

Holy fucking copium. The entire thing is “we’re only interested in our national and strategic interests, but that’s actually good for both parties”.

The year began with the relationship at a historic low point. A year ago this week, a Chinese spy balloon traveled across the United States

Lmao

Databases are not really about what information is stored, but instead how it’s going to be used. Compared to writing software you have to kinda think backwards while designing them. So not “we create a profile to calculate everything that goes into the economic planning”, but “what simplest parts constitute the economy”.

To give you a direct example - you’d need a dataset for people Person() who use and manipulate the economy, and another for stuff made of individual Thing() that together form it. You can say that people have a labour_value property to them. And things could have their production/maintenance Thing().labour_cost expressed in that Person().labour_value.

From there it’s about actual programming and understanding the smaller parts of the problem as you solve it step by step. You can delve deeper into additional relationships between people and stuff- Person().basic_needs_cost, Thing().lifetime, Thing().transportation_cost(Person().location), whatever.

To put it very simply, programming is about having a refined final idea and breaking it into simpler parts. Data architecture, on the other hand, is taking the basic components and building the details on top of them.

Unironically “but the other choice is worse!”. The democrats have been doing literally the same shit that republicans did (police funding, title 42, Roe v Wade, willow project, rail strike blocking, sinophobia, etc). And even the little good they’ve done, like the student loan freeze and forgiveness, infrastructure bill, build back better/inflation reduction act, are not really their campaign focus. So we’re just doing the 2020 election 2: electric boogaloo.

I can only comment on the shitty mic part. There’s a lot that can be done with software processing - leveling volume, cutting static and background noise, adjusting the sound of your voice. I recommend VSTHost with reaper plugins. The two really useful ones are:

reagate - noise gate. It cuts audio below a certain threshold. Great for random noises in the back, mouth sounds, etc. Here is a good explainer on how to use it.

reaeq - equalizer. You can tune out ambient sounds, level your voice frequencies, and compensate for all the weird things that cheap mics do. There’s a bunch of youtube videos on how to set up a good baseline for voice recording, and from there you can adjust by feel.

This image further proves that the main difference between anarchists and commies is showering habits.

Lettering says “there’s no God”. Spider tattoo is a prison classic for pickpockets/thieves. Since it’s crawling up - it means “I’m gonna keep doing what I did”, as opposed to the one crawling down meaning “I’m done with this”. Idk about the snake though.

Yeah, that’s valid. I just took it as “they might do it wrong, so maybe they just shouldn’t have done it at all”, my fault.

https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/defund-police-myth/

Of the 25 largest cities, 20 saw increases in their police budgets from FY 2019 to FY 2022. Twenty-one of these cities are run by Democrats.

Bro, trust me, just one more counteroffensive. This one will surely work. Losing troops and material support only makes our will stronger!

There’s no other hand. Trans representation in the media is good. What is this gamer gate take?

Project 2025, lets go babyy.

In many regards it’s worse. Chinese schools are extremely individualistic and competitive, as well as centered around teachers’ authority. They’re exam/test oriented, especially closer to the OG “first tier” cities. After each one of those exams the ranking of all students is published, and if you’re outside of the top 20% you are pretty much considered a failure. This puts an insane amount of pressure on students. Since 2010 the suicide rates have been steadily decreasing for general population and for age groups 25+, while for younger people, and especially for the 5-14 group they have been rising significantly.

Or women. Or LGBTQ+ people.