PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org
Why don’t you have a second account?
Lazy. Don’t care if my shit gets fucked. But if you do care if your shit gets fucked, then you shouldn’t rely on centralized social media.
—PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@vlemmy.net, Professional Life Regretter, about a week before his shit got fucked
- Comment on You broke your butt cleaning your driveway and then this always happens 1 hour ago:
😭
- Comment on If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for? 4 hours ago:
Your faction of capital lost because they couldn’t stop fucking genociding Palestinians, campaigning with the fucking Cheneys, and they couldn’t even be fucking arsed to lie about a concept of a better future to a population so fucking servile than they would have forgotten about everything else if even offered the tiniest amount of mercy in domestic affairs, it was always ‘let’s go back to normal like Trump never happened, like the Gaza genocide never happened, like COVID-19 and Biden’s homicidal return to “normalcy” never happened, and like Kamala didn’t literally promise that there would be no fucking daylight between her and Biden’.
And turbo fuck you for trying to claim the moral high ground or even a harm-reduction position when the candidate you want me to fucking vote for did a genocide and supported stronger ICE, police, and military. Just fuck you and fuck everything you care about, and I hope all your nightmares come to life forever.
- Comment on If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for? 4 hours ago:
Actually I have a better voting strategy:
But the moral prohibition on siding with any administration that endorses genocide will force a different flavor of the exact same logic that centrist liberalism has depended on for so long: hold your nose and align with the least worst thing. Only the least worst thing will no longer be the mild, ethics-agnostic emptiness of modern Western liberalism, nor will it be the multitude of barbaric authoritarians and their secret prisons. It will be communal solidarity, or else nothing, a walking away from all of this. Countless otherwise pragmatic people who would in any other circumstance choose liberalism by default will instead decide none of this is worth the damage to one’s soul. They will instead support no one, vote for no one, wash their hands of any ordering of the world that results in choices no better than this. And the obvious centrist refrain—But do you want the deranged right wing to win?—should, after even a moment of self-reflection, yield to a far more important question: How empty does your message have to be for a deranged right wing to even have a chance of winning? Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of Western liberalism, the most damning is this: Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to
make it close.— Omar El-Akkad, One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, correction mine.
- Comment on If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for? 5 hours ago:
EST here. I woke up at 12am. Morning gang rise up ✊
- Comment on If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for? 5 hours ago:
Do not live in the states, but have the feeling that with all the ICE killing going on (media makes it seem rather serious) it would have been a reduction of violence if democrats had won ‘24.
Nah the violence would be the same, but the vote-blue-no-matter-who liberals wouldn’t be yelling about it, because it’s okay when the Democrats do ICE/Gaza genocide/police violence/environmental destruction/regime change/basically anything Trump has done butfilling out the legal paperwork first.
Do not live in the states, but have the feeling that with all the ICE killing going on (media makes it seem rather serious) it would have been a reduction of violence if democrats had won ‘24.
Read the link. Voting is not harm reduction. I’m an anarchist. 🏴
To organize from a position that voting is an act of damage limitation blurs lines of the harm that settler and resource colonialism imposes. Under colonial occupation all power operates through violence. There is absolutely nothing “less harmful” about participating in and perpetuating the political power of occupying forces. Voting won’t undue settler colonialism, white supremacy, hetero-patriarchy, or capitalism. Voting is not a strategy for decolonization. The entire process that arrived at the “Native vote” was an imposition of U.S. political identity on Indigenous Peoples fueled by white supremacy and facilitated by capitalism.
- Comment on If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for? 6 hours ago:
- Comment on If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for? 6 hours ago:
Well at least I appreciate the honesty 😆🏴
- Comment on If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for? 6 hours ago:
Broke: There will be an election and that’s good. Woke: There won’t be an election because Cheeto Fascist will cancel it. Bespoke: There will be an election but that’s bad because it implies that the conditions that allowed for Cheeto Fascist to flourish have not been abolished. amerikkka 🏴
- Comment on If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for? 6 hours ago:
- Comment on HELLA TITE 1 day ago:
Wait really? I demand links!
- Comment on Thanks 🙏🏻 2 days ago:
Fun fact: for a system of differential equations to have a unique global solution, you only need the vector field to be continuous in time and Lipschitz continuous in the state space.
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- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 week ago:
However, it is also true that the auth-left has access to a significant amount of centralised resources that other lefties do not
Nah they’re just as poor and miserable as everyone else. No one’s getting paid to shitpost on Lemmy.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 week ago:
I’m all for free speech but if we want Lemmy to achieve widespread usage we need to make the cranks less prominent (same goes for most left-wing spaces)
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 week ago:
I think you overestimate the importance of the Threadiverse to the movers and shakers in geopolitics. Like the Lemmy developers are themselves Marxist-Leninists, Marxist-Leninists were some of the first people to use the platform, and Marxist-Leninists talk a lot, so it’s absolutely not shocking that human Marxist-Leninists have an outsized influence on this platform.
- Comment on If trump is really implicated in Epsteins pedo-ring what is your theory as to why this wasn't leaked by an opposition leader? 1 week ago:
Because both sides are implicated.
Epstein is a class issue, not a “X faction of capital is less evil than Y faction of capital” issue.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 week ago:
Too sad to be a robot 🙃
- Comment on Are there any quick ways I can study, read and process socialist/communist theory? 1 week ago:
What I said applies to socialist theory with the appropriate changes.
- Comment on Are there any quick ways I can study, read and process socialist/communist theory? 1 week ago:
It’s okay to read things multiple times, get stuck, stop and think, take a long time, etc. The fact that you’re not just blowing through the reading is a sign that you are critically engaging with the material.
Lately I’ve been reading more technical/mathematical books than socialist theory since I started engineering school, but here are some of the reading habits I’ve developed.
I very rarely ever read a book cover-to-cover in a linear fashion. For math books, I usually skim the contents, then read the preface. Then, the first pass of the book is just to learn the notation and conventions, and to get the most basic overview of what is going on. (For socialist books, this might mean how words look in the font the book uses, the structure of the book, words you’ve never seen before, definitions (especially if the author uses some words with a novel definition!), standing assumptions, and the conclusions the book makes.) Then, for the second reading, you gotta follow the proofs/arguments more carefully. And the third and subsequent readings are focused on specific sections that you figure out in previous readings that you want to take away from the book.
My preference is to read on a computer sitting at a desk, but I keep copies of basically all my books on my phone so if I’m too sad to get out of bed, or if I’m stuck waiting in line, I can read any time, anywhere, basically anything.
Personally, I prefer dark mode, to the point that I invert the color of my PDFs. (In Okular, I usually use the “invert lightness” option. The default “invert” option makes blues oranges, greens reds, etc., which is annoying for color diagrams.) I personally like to read while listening to tech metal in the coldest room I can find. (Music silences the “head voice”, i.e. if you’re reading this right now you are probably imagining how it sounds. This slows down your reading; you can read a little faster than you process speech. I pick tech metal because it’s a subset of what I like, it’s energetic which gives me the energy to keep reading, but it’s proggy as fuck so it makes me feel smart 🤓. If you don’t want to have your ears melted off, try some jazz. IMO make sure you have at least 24 hours of study music on hand. For some people, music makes it way way worse, so be careful 😆) I just picked up some noise cancelling headphones and even with no music, it’s so fucking helpful to be able to actively cancel some of the outside noise. And I like to read away from my room/bed whenever possible.
IMO the key here is: make yourself comfortable when you read. And only you know what makes you comfortable 😄. Reading should be fun!
If I get stuck on an equation or passage in any reading, I will spend a finite amount of time racking my brain and the Internet trying to get through it under my own power. (First reading, up to about 5 minutes. Second reading, up to about 30 minutes. Subsequent readings, however much time I have left to read, since I probably decided to read the section to nail down the equation/passage I’m having trouble with.) IMO thinking through problems is a hugely important part of reading and just life, but the thing with books is that sometimes, your question gets answered later in the book. E.g., in pure math books, authors sometimes define objects before they tell you (or you figure out from context) why that definition matters or what it aims to encode.
Hope this helps.
- Comment on purely basedbon vibes 1 week ago:
Nah, this is some rando’s slop OS. I would never use it but it’s whatever.
The real “kill it with fire” VibeOS is this homonymous monstrosity, which supposedly lets Claude Code control everything in your computer 😆
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yes because your image has been projected onto my flat screen.
- Comment on At this point, should we form an alternative government of the United States as a micronation? 1 week ago:
- Comment on At this point, should we form an alternative government of the United States as a micronation? 1 week ago:
I mean both of these micronations do claim to have seceded from the nations that surround them.
IMO micronations are a way for weirdos to LARP as world leaders and aren’t really a solution for anything.
- Comment on At this point, should we form an alternative government of the United States as a micronation? 1 week ago:
If by government you mean federated network of autonomous anarchist communities, then yes.
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 1 week ago:
Jissouri
- Comment on pasta bowl of nades 2 weeks ago:
give me now 🍽️
- Comment on Are you there, God? 2 weeks ago:
Then can it stop?
- Comment on Are you there, God? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hello Kittypede 3 weeks ago:
Only initially.
- Comment on Hello Kittypede 3 weeks ago:
Why not have enough kitties to go all the way around?
