https://www.marxists.org/archive/brecht/works/1935/questions.htm

Who built Thebes of the 7 gates ? In the books you will read the names of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock ?

And Babylon, many times demolished, Who raised it up so many times ?

In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live ? Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished, did the masons go?

Great Rome is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them ?

Over whom did the Caesars triumph ? Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its inhabitants ?

Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it, The drowning still cried out for their slaves.

The young Alexander conquered India. Was he alone ?

Caesar defeated the Gauls. Did he not even have a cook with him ?

Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down. Was he the only one to weep ?

Frederick the 2nd won the 7 Years War. Who else won it ?

Every page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors ?

Every 10 years a great man. Who paid the bill ?

So many reports.

So many questions.

All dinosaurs looked like beavers of varying sizes and lengths.

Were you born this fucking stupid or did you just wake up this morning and choose to insult the world with your existence?

After Gaza, liberals have nowhere to go except full Hitler.

Retvrn to tradition. The internet peaked with 2000s-era forums.

This is not of God’s design.

[wabi-sabi] [habitat]

Real motherfuckers leave dead organic material in their landscape.

A jihad against thinking machines, then revert the internet to 1997.

I just got one of the current strains. It felt just as bad as the ones in 2020. Vaccination is totally warranted.

It still has room for growth, but the happy spot is when you can get like 3-5 good posts per subcommunity per day with 10-50 comments per post. That’s a few good conversations between known community members that you can jump into without the content volume being too under/overwhelming. Beyond that the amount of activity is so high that we have to game the algorithm to compete with strangers. Hexbear seems like it’s right below the low-end of that with our federated commenters and it’s a pleasant user experience. Back when it was /r/chapotraphouse with 100k~ subscribers, it could still maintain that feeling but was already reaching the point of oversaturation that a subreddit like /r/hasanpiker now has. Each thread had like 50-100+ comments with the majority being filler or algorithm bait.

I joined reddit in 2009 after lurking for maybe a year. It felt as small as the fediverse and that’s what made it good. Instead of it being a gigantic nightmare machine it was just talking with the usernames I recognised on a silly forum where I could make a subforum for anything I was interested in at the moment. Every subreddit I started or got involved with early grew in quality until 50k subscribers and then mutated into something only recognisable as worse.

Having been on the internet since 1995, the golden ideal is just a basic forum where you can talk with weird friends. That’s it. Nothing feels better than the close-knit World of Warcraft guild or hobbyist forum. It doesn’t matter if that has five members or 50k, but beyond that it’s so far outside of our Dunbar number that it stops being what we liked about the place. I’d hate to be on a fediverse with the traffic of reddit. It’d just make me leave for something like Hexbear again.

That somehow manages to be sadder than at least 5% of the things her base does. Maybe even 6% but that would displace getting the hexcode of her campaign colour tattooed on their wrists like holocaust victims.

Plenty of good solid people have a business and pump the money back into their employees and community.

Small businesses have a higher rate of wage theft than large ones. For the vast majority, the employees they aren’t stealing from in a legal sense are still trapped in wage slavery. They pump money back into the chamber of commerce, local republican party, police department, and anti-human development efforts because those things protect their business. The only thing separating them from Jeff Bezos is the degree to which they succeed at the same thing.

If this guy is enough to trick you, cool. Peek-a-boo is going to blow your fucking mind when you see that one.

The bandwagon use of oligarchy stood out to me before anything else too. That’s nothing more than a judas goat term being used by social fascists to make baby leftists vote blue no matter who. It belongs on those “In this house we believe…” signs that liberals immediately removed from their lawns after Trump won.

He has big 2018 John Fetterman energy for me, but like if Fetterman had a job prior to holding office. I don’t trust anyone who proudly boasts about being a combat veteran in a war other than WW2.

It’s a shame that it’s honeybee research. In Colorado one of our major pollinator ecology issues is that honeybees aren’t native and our 842 species of native bees have to compete with them during the three snow-free months. The apiaries doing better negatively impacts the broader goals of my pollinator gardens. Those native species are the rapidly dwindling ones we can’t replace commercially.

Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening.

My ebike battery is 720 watt hours. I can ride with like 60kg on the back for approximately 100km at 32kmh. That’s like 12.9km of riding per chatGPT response, and riding something good enough to replace a car for most needs.