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It always bothers me how engineers, mathematicians, and biologists all favor different notations for derivatives

It will probably be most effective to build locally: get plugged in on local labor fights and help build solidarity funds. Solidarity funds for small groups of workers are usually just cash funds managed by the workers themselves with zero administrative overhead.

Some of them might not even have a fund and you can help them out by starting one. Tabling at local events for their fund and recruiting others and so on. You'll amplify your impact a lot by fundraising from others and getting more people involved.

Applies to both.

Get a load of this slava ukraini

You did cite Wikipedia itself.

Did... did you forget? Already?

Buddy nobody is impressed with your media criticism process of regurgitating Media Bias Fact Check and Wikipedia. It's actually an announcement that you have no familiarity with any of this and don't know how to critically consume media yourself. Ironically you're going to mislead yourself by simply uncritically accepting what is written in those two websites.

Rather than searching around for someone else to tell you what to think about The Gray Zone, why not critically engage with the content? What do they cite? What topic are they discussing? Do you know anything about it? To what are they responding? Are their criticisms valid?

There's no reason a random dude with a bachelor's in physiology can't be good at media criticism. It's not like the big nerds that go into journalism or join think tanks are beacons of truth. Media criticism is about flexing your skeptical and investigative muscles and being highly informed about the topics in question so that you can do the hardest thing in it: identify what was left out, what was neglected, and what articles were not written instead of what is before you.

That said, this particular random dude physiology major is not good at media criticism.

There is no such thing as neutral. That site is a good example of it: they're personally highly biased towards "centrist" liberal positions to the point that they conflate it with writing "just the facts". They have no consistent methodology, they're just showing you their own inability to detect bullshit when it's something they agree with.

For example, as it has often done in its history, The New York Times has been carrying water for fascistic settler colonial narratives, including hiring an obvious racist to write implausible articles about alleged sexual assaults by Hamas on October 7. Articles contested by the people interviewed, the families and friends of those who died. They censored their own attempts to admit fault and their workers creating media about the errors. Only in the last week have they fired the author in question, which will surely be used to imply that this is the only thing wrong with their consistently biased coverage that focuses almost exclusively on interviewing state department officials, Zionist NGOs, and Israeli government officials.

Did you find any of that on "media bias fact check"? Did it rank the NYT lower than The Gray Zone on its ability to report factually? For having a Zionist bias? Even this one example I've provided is far more damning than anything you've listed.

You can't outsource media criticism, you have to do it yourself and engage with it.

There was no issue re: nuance in your statements, they were just nonsensical and revealed a lack of understand the basic ideas of the topic. This trend has continued with this reply.

The DDR was socialist. However, it was state socialism, which in my opinion is not ideal and not something we should strive to replicate.

The framing of socialism as ownership of the means of production goes hand-in-hand with control over the state. It's how it was originally formulated by Marx, Engels, etc. The term "dictatorship of the proletariat" is stated in the same breaths and texts and concepts. There is no such thing as non-state socialism in this conception, the only conception that is relevant to this discussion.

This is something a person would know if they had ever read even a basic summary of this topic.

Yes, the means of production were "owned by the people," but the state tasks itself with protecting the people. And therein lies the problem with state socialism - the state is easily commandeered by a corrupt minority who then uses the governmental apparatus to run an authoritarian regime.

You're even using the liberal NGO lexicon for this description! Vague generalizations about authoritarianism and cute little stories with no grounding in reality.

We should be able to recognize the imperfections in prior socialist attempts, without immediately calling it "capitalist NGO propaganda."

It's not hard to identify a poor understanding when you have, you know, actually learned about these things. And interacted with thousands of people just like you and know why they parrot such nonsense. If you had an informed or valid criticism that would be something to talk about, but we are not in that situation. I think we are looking at a graduate of Reddit University, with all the intellectual humility that implies.

Have you considered that you seem to know almost nothing about this and therefore shouldn't share your opinion like it's some kind of fact?

The USSR was a communist country. A normal use of that term is that a country communist is one that's run by a communist party.

If you mean it didn't achieve communism, well duh communism is a hypothesized society achieved through socialism where the state ceases to exist. No socialists, including the people of the USSR, would think that their nation-state has achieved communism as that's oxymoronic. They would think of it as a transitional socialist state.

That is indeed what your capitalist NGOs tell you with unlimited funds.

Consider that socialism is about control over the means of production, of deposing the capitalist system, and that your dismissal of the DDR as socialist didn't address that at all. Do you think it's possible you've been lied to?

Nazi Germany wasn't left and the USSR, which included more than Russia, was a transitional socialist country lol.

Bankruptcy can kill Reddit. Give the C-suite some credit, they can still drive that sucker straight into the ground.

Gentoo is good for learning. It's not really a privacy or security-focused distribution per se. It promotes you being comfortable with the command line, configuration files, networking, unix-ie things, and of course compiling programs. If you're tired of the compiling there is basically no downside to switching to Arch as a "one step up" distribution.

If there's anything to retain concern for it's Chinese companies sharing data with the US gov. On the plus side, that will probably decrease as the US tries to isolate (read: undermine and create a cold war against) China.

Like talking to a brick wall

Assuming there's any truth to the story, your bro got a placebo and that GP is a quack. Ivermectin is for treating infections by worms, which is what river blindness is caused by. That's why they give it to horses.

You'd think four years of mockery would've provided the opportunity to learn anything at all. No such luck.

The number being somewhere on your computer isn't something I'd worry about. The real risk is from a liberal autocomplete that might throw it into website forms where you don't want it to be, including hidden ones. Maybe there are protections in place since I last let Firefox save anything like this, but it used to try pasting address and CC info whenever it could.

Westerners are so propagandized that they don't even recognize propaganda when they see it. They just internalize it as fact and fight when someone points it out.