Wow that’s a cool site, putting your name and pronouns into stories to test how it feels. I have no current doubts about my gender or pronouns and no real desire to explore at the moment for myself, but can see how valuable this is for anyone with any doubts or desires to explore! I’m going to keep this one in the back pocket for my child once he’s old enough to understand it.

Cool thanks!

Off topic but what are the tenses/grammatical cases of your pronouns?? I’ve never seen it with more than 3 cases and you have 5 in many. The last (with self) on it I can understand. But that still leaves 1 too many for my current understanding in between.

Edit: wait possessive, I figured it out with comparisons between them. Leaving comment for posterity though. Would still be interested if we should all be doing that? Or is it only needed for neopronouns?

I just mean that people in a post-capitalist society will still need to convince each other to use their limited time on earth to give their production the time of day. For example, artists are still gonna have to market their songs to get people to listen, even if the motive for it is different (not profit, but notoriety or being accepted as an artist for their contribution to society). If I make a new design for a train wheel, I still gotta convince people it’s worth their time to even analyze it for improvements. Even without profit, we will probably have people who think they found/made a good thing when it’s actually shit. Making a filter for time wasted means some convincing of others is necessary

In a post-capitalist society, people creating new things because they think it’s cool or good will need to be able to advertise it to people to convince them it’s worthwhile to even take the time out of their day for it. That’s just marketing but now without the bullshit. Otherwise how will new things ever get picked up and maybe even integrated into large production processes? Someone has to do persuasion, even if it’s not harmful persuasion with current marketing backwards methods

I don’t think it’s actually beneficial to be shit at marketing at any period, honestly. Like even marketing that the ideas of the socialist leadership are going to be beneficial when implemented well is msrketing, or at least utilizes the same skills. The methods and such will inevitably shift significantly, but marketing and propaganda are in distinct at that point.

Agreed, absurdly irresponsible to be acting like this is somehow conclusive. @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net, give a time line with views and likes over time with the dates of the internet outages and shutdown of starlink to get a full picture. I’ll believe it once I see that. But these 2 static numbers at 2 separate times do not make a good argument.

I for sure don’t want to claim they do the exact thing. But the strategy of making yourself useful but on your own terms is possible in some way. That’s essentially what China managed, and Venezuela may be able to leverage something of theirs in a similar way. But I know little about oil so no idea what they could do specifically. Other than this, idk what they could do except go into guerilla warfare and stagnate as an economy.

Damn hexbear internal video playing. I can’t turn off mute in my browser on my phone

I have no idea. I think they should likely try to follow an accelerated version of China’s path, starting with a revolutionary purge to have a party in power and then allowing US investment but with ultimate ownership within the state. But idk how the US will react considering the difference of distance between the two. But this is just speculation, I’m no VZ expert

This is stating nothing that Maduro hadn’t been saying for well over a year + discussing consequences (not sure what this part will mean). This is not an indication of a coup.

I’d prefer the reality where they can just say “shove it up your ass, USA” but that’s not the world we’re in. This is a government buying itself time, maybe to its detriment, but not out of willing overthrow of their revolution

Oh Nia Frome said what I was thinking much better actually and I just saw it a second ago: https://x.com/i/status/2009651161289162838

Agreed that this commentary (which I haven’t heard, but the sentiment is more common) is entirely useless. But there is a real fear that the big burly dudes doing the most radical thing are feds (burning a flag isn’t radical, but is more radical than chanting or marching). It’s good to discuss this in a way much more understandable and useful though. I doubt Hasan (idk about the other person) means that leftists shouldn’t burn a flag at a protest, but that you should be weary if someone else does who shows other signs of being a fed.

Now I think this is wrong, too, but not simply because we don’t know if the person is a fed or not (and I doubt this one was tbh, but that’s irrelevant). I think that, regardless of the identity of the person, a movement should do the actions set out to do and allow those to be done by whoever is around. If a fed burns a flag, let it incite others to do it too, it’s fine and good. If the major or says that flag burning is undesired, I find it weak, but it totally changes that. If a fed starts beating up passersby who have no relation to the protest, they should be stopped and called out. This is an argument of discipline instead of intent

But the Pentagon budget can just be reallocated without anyone with power caring. They’ll say it’s to fight China and Russia, vote for it, then the executive will just make a Gestapo out of it .

The difference is a strategy. Tech bro bullshit is based on belief that the magic of technology alone will justify any sacrifice now. This belief in China isn’t based in magic, but a very planned strategy with concrete steps. And it doesn’t justify any sacrifice now, just more than you may feel comfortable with.

The fault of tech bro longtermism isn’t in thinking about long term effects, it’s the magical thinking which is grounded in little to no material reality

I got them all right until then, then quit immediately after that one

I recently became a new parent! It’s super fun but I’m not finding the time to do anything like reading anymore. Hoping that time comes back to feel capable of working and organizing but for now it feels impossible. Love the kid tho, damn it’s fun

Whoa I thought Suess was like a fascist or something. This is cool as hell

What’s the hook? Why should I watch it?? Willing to take 1.5 hours for it, but nothing online about it has hooked me into wanting to

When you’re right, you’re right. I thought this was a veto-able vote. Still stands that the difference between no and abstaining is nothing in these cases. I’d bet the Israel representative went to the bathroom or something.

To be fair, this sort of thing just doesn’t matter. Though if it’s unanimous, it would give in to the idea that the UN has some role in the matter (as opposed to just preventing wars as much as possible between members), and so the list of countries that want the US to be the real leader just switch off breaking unanimity to prevent that idea from being too deeply planted.