Bro went back on this IMMEDIATELY. Fucking March 2021

I so want either a Xiaomi or a Huawei when my current iphone dies. I don’t think there’s any way around the bs though

Speaking from the US, I’ve known some Catholic Workers Movement people here and there. There aren’t many, but they mean well.
There’s a church out in San Francisco called GLIDE that used to be a part of the UMC. They’re certainly not revolutionary socialists, but they do some genuinely good work. They have one of the largest soup kitchens in the US, as far as I’m aware. They serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and give out literally hundreds of meals a day, every single day. They also do clean needle exchanges and quite a lot of other programs.

That makes sense, thanks for the insight!

A colleague of mine is Lebanese and last week told me that they’re (hopefully) going back to see their kids for a few weeks this summer. I tried to keep the conversation away from politics or current events, but they eventually made it clear to me that they are very anti-Hezbollah. Could you say anything about the general feeling in Lebanon towards Hezbollah?
This person is in the US and doing STEM, so that will definitely impact their perspective, but I’m curious what the broader opinion might be.

What makes people freak out about molotov ribbentrop is the agreement to partition states.

Made even “funnier” given that the Munich Agreement ALSO included a partition agreement: Germany got the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. Truly just hypocrisy to single out the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact like they do

The “anti-conformity” dork wanting all the protestors to get in line come together in a quiet room with pillows and meditate. lmfaooooo

Hahahaha I keep one at my desk at work

Creamer was another expense when I was in college, and I kinda wanted to see if I could “make” myself like it. And now I have my scale, burr grinder, pour over, local beans…

Thank you for sharing this; it’s a great story!

some real Strategy of Tension shit. Bleak.

From a comment there:

We are quite lucky that China is so bad at being friendly to its neighbors because we keep shooting ourselves in the foot. No wonder third-world countries see a moral equivalence between our countries: there actually is one.

I’m reeling, these fucking ghouls are so goddamn racist, jesus fucking christ. Saying that under THIS article is fucking unhinged. I know that subreddit is ran by literal feds, but fuck.

Public roads in Wyoming have stuff like this happen as well. A popular picnic stop at the top of a small mountain I went to once had a public road all the way to the top until a guy bought the land on both sides of the road and closed it off. Now you have to park about an hour’s walk down and hoof it to the top.

Damn, deleted in the seconds it took me to log-in for a response. Should have been a tagline

Don’t get me wrong, I love chilling out and being lazy, but I don’t think I totally agree: I don’t think work is inherently bad. It’s bad under capitalism because we’re exploited and alienated, but under communism I think it will actually be fulfilling and meaningful.

It’s pretty great, honestly. Simply trying it shows you how completely fucked the war on drugs has been.
Definitely be cautious about over-doing it, but have fun! It’s an incredible enhancer to experiences, but can make you very ok with being unproductive and lazy.

I think you’re pretty much spot-on. The actual math behind most machine learning algorithms isn’t THAT complicated, and with tons of computational power, eventually someone was going to stumble into the ideas.
Also, the cats kind of out of the bag. We should use it as a tool to organize around, or even help us organize in general. But I think boycotting it feels like a distraction.

On three separate occasions this past school year, some contractors were removing asbestos from one of the labs in the basement. The only notice was a paper sign posted very inconspicuously on two of the building doors, the day removal started.
They did some sealing on the hallway that room was in, but otherwise no precautions were taken. My office was two hallways down, and all classes in the building ran like normal. Very safe, very good

Learning about Canada’s PM back in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and how he practically had a crush on Hitler was wild.

Oof. Or like. You’re solving the genuinely interesting problem of designing the switch for the track, along with the trolley itself. And as long as you don’t think about it beyond that, you can mostly convince yourself you’re in the clear.
STEM is so cooked it’s overwhelming sometimes. Really hope I can find something that doesn’t make me hate myself or others.