bestmiaou 5d ago • 100%
i'm so tired of libs (especially "leftists") saying things like this are a win, or even that this is a "pretty significant shift in the status quo" (literally quoting one of them) because they might consider restricting arm transfers. another one i saw mentioned potential domestic military raids as a reason not to vote for Trump. the american left is fucking cooked. willing to vote for a genocide to save themselves is pure cowardice.
bestmiaou 1w ago • 100%
the process, in brief, goes something like this:
- you write something (if this is the first time through this sequence for this work, it will definitely be bad. that's ok and expected)
- analyze that, which will reveal some significant flaws
- figure out some ways that may help with those flaws
- go back to step one with your improved understanding
this can be very frustrating to begin with, but after a few tries you will start to see some improvement, and maybe even something you actually like.
bestmiaou 2w ago • 100%
yeah, i do
bestmiaou 2w ago • 100%
unfotunately, you have once again overestimated the morons. i know at least one who responded to this with "she's being quoted out of context".
bestmiaou 2w ago • 100%
this is how you get no-call/no-shows
there's a guy that i'm mutuals with on other social media who's on the young side, like just out of college, and he's figuring out what he thinks about politics. he's pretty smart and hangs around cool marxist(-leninist) people, but he's definitely trying to figure out stuff on his own, which is really cool and he's critically engaging with stuff well. however, it seems like he's seen a lot of patsocs and ACP members bring up weird corners of Marx's writing to try to justify their positions. the particular case he brought up recently was about an ACP guy on twitter using the productive vs unproductive labor distinction to call baristas (you know, people who make coffee for usually really low wages) enemies of the working class because they are unproductive labor. my friend was worried that this kind of weird nonsense argument was necessary for marxists in general. me and some other people explained that no, the ACP guys are picking weird bits of Marx to try to justify their reactionary bullshit and we actually mostly focus on class and not this other stuff. so like no harm done here, but it makes me wonder how often those kind of things go unchallenged in other people's experience.
bestmiaou 1mo ago • 100%
the lead dev has gone on the record that using singular they in the documentation is putting politics into his project, so i expect it to be possibly technically interesting (emphasis on possibly), but no effort put into accessibility and with a fucking horrendous dev community.
bestmiaou 3mo ago • 92%
i think the way they want it to be understood is "if elected, i will so thoroughly address all of the issues you care about that you don't have to vote on them again", which is kind of reasonable until you try working out how that would happen
bestmiaou 3mo ago • 100%
clearly foreign adversaries are trying to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids
bestmiaou 3mo ago • 100%
i know at one point they were quite proud to have a federal (DHS i think?) cybersecurity department on there. like, there was an announcement. this was a couple years ago, so i guess stuff may have changed since then, but i don't trust like that.
bestmiaou 3mo ago • 100%
infosec dot exchange. they gleefully welcomed feds on there
bestmiaou 3mo ago • 100%
in a week he'll be talking about how the woke communists tried to kill him and we need to return the favor to them
bestmiaou 3mo ago • 100%
from what that link says, it sounds like the rule was made mostly to get around employers saying "this part of your paycheck is a bonus, not a wage, so it's exempt from the time and a half rule"
bestmiaou 3mo ago • 100%
nah, that's a load bearing personal fantasy. once you put it in, it's never coming out.
bestmiaou 4mo ago • 100%
i know i'm not the first to make this comparison, but everytime another one of these embarrassing misstatements comes out, i remember the dean scream
bestmiaou 4mo ago • 100%
so, start with:
x = 0.999...
now multiply each side by 10
10x = 9.9999....
now we subtract x from the left side, and 0.999... from the right, which is fine because they are equal:
9x = 9
and from there it should be fairly obvious that x is also equal to 1, which means 0.999... is also equal to 1
bestmiaou 4mo ago • 80%
Slim Shady
bestmiaou 4mo ago • 100%
that's an ergonomic nightmare. the keyboard is too high and the screen is too low. if you use that for more than a couple minutes at a time your shoulders will hate you.
bestmiaou 4mo ago • 100%
i think this is the link to the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultraleft/comments/1dii2hl/leftoid_ethnostate/
i have a hard time reading the conversation as anything but pro-colonial
bestmiaou 4mo ago • 100%
a "fun" game i like to play is when i encounter an anarchist writer i'm not familiar with is to search for the author plus age of consent/majority/adulthood/etc. this pretty reliably brings up a good reason to disregard their entire body of work.