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@Уважаемая Илья Ну вот я как раз и пользуюсь Дзен-мани, в котором не надо "просто заходить в приложение банка" и "просто записывать" 🤣 Оно и само неплохо справляется. Было бы еще свободным...
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Anyone have experience with taking elderberry cuttings for propagation?
We're on the verge of freezing overnight regularly, some berries are still on the bushes, so I think I'm still in a good window.
I am pretty confident that I'm supposed to cut from this year's new growth, but I'm not sure. I'm also not sure about storage (freezer vs fridge) or when to plant in the spring (probably after the frosts stop?)
Доброе утро всем! В общем... я хотела кое в чем признаться! Я давно страдаю от никотиновой зависимости и я чувствую, что пришёл момент мне от нее избавиться, во первых это дорого, а во вторых я стрессую когда не могу покурить или если не сделаю это утром и страдаю я от этого уже давно:(
Если у кого то есть истории успеха, то пожалуйста поделитесь ими со мной, надеюсь и моя история станет таковой!
привязанность к сигаретам чисто привычка, сигареты всегда можно просто положить и больше никогда не брать в руки. Алкоголь тоже, кроме запоев, там надо аккуратно чтобы в горячка не попасть
Unlike the more massive social media or the real world where theres not many leftists and we are gladly more united Lemmy and its left leaning tendencies with the instances providing natural cult grouping tendencies. Add to that the matrix in groups there and we all seem to be making a thing out of how to anger each other. How to troll each other or annoy x or y instance.
I hate this.
Living in an extreme right wing nation I know no other anarchist. A few left wingers. Even the libs here are right wing extremists by the standards of a western nation. I hold dear any solidarity.
I support unions here even when everyone there is a religious fundamentalist who wants sharia law bc they still qantnto improve the conditions of the working class.
Many folks here, who again I don't have any hate for, I see intending these fights and dramas. Having the goal to be banned from x or y community or instance.
Tribalism. Humankind haven't progress beyond the instincts of having in-groups and out-groups.
Until that happens, there will be discrimination. People would see things in black and white instead of understanding there are shades of gray between.
It's just tribalism. This is ingrained in us. Our group good. Other group bad. It's survival.
Doesn't make it right. Or logical. Best we can do is check ourselves when we have these thoughts or perform these actions. And to call out others who do it.
There's a lot of people out there whose goal is to feel morally superior, rather than change the world in any way. They tend to congregate at the extremes both left and right. Anywhere when they can loudly judge and exclude others.
I'm not a fan of the infighting either. It's a very online kind of tribalism. I'm pretty active in anarchist organizing where I live and routinely have people from all sorts of tendencies showing up to help out without it devolving into a struggle session over factional infighting from a hundred years ago.
Just from the time I've spent here it seems like it's specifically the people occupying the centrist liberal positions who are most invested in fostering a culture of leftist infighting
It was the first lemmy account I set up and I haven't bothered to change it! I had figured the developer instance would get updates the fastest. I like that it can access hexbear db0 and blahaj and I haven't run into any issues beyond the occasional sectarian post.
There are actually a few active anarchists on Lemmy.ml, for the reasons Diva is stating. It's broadly federated and doesn't crack down on leftists, even if it's majority Marxist.
I have tried to talk to anarchists here, as I feel there is potentially something to it, but it always ends up with "read this and shut up libtard"-like posts. A shame, we should welcome different opinions and angles seing things, not always try to "convert" everyone to some very specific thing. IMO.
you have been pretty anti-communist every time we've intracted, on top of calling me a tankie. not surprised you're having trouble with people welcoming your different opinion
Oh I see, it is I who have to "welcome a different option".
Most of "communism" here on lemmy is either hardcore stalin/lenin/mao authoritarian ruling or it is some sort of workers dictatorship. What's not to criticise? And when you try to discuss you get downvoted and people act aggressively, or so I feel.
I also does not know what that has to do with anarchism?
Oh I see, it is I who have to “welcome a different option”.
reread my comment, not what I said. Maybe if you're less quick to call people tankies you might not get called a liberal in response.
I consider a workers dictatorship to be a lesser evil compared to the dictatorship of capital we live in currently.
I also does not know what that has to do with anarchism?
To put it simply, anarchists want to abolish hierarchy, communists want to abolish private property. They overlap when you want both. Liberals tend to oppose dismantling both of those things.
Okay, like I'd love everyone getting together well, but I know it won't happen, but I can still try, and maybe make the world a little better.
Your ideas are absolutists, there is no possible gradation, and even taken one by one they are insane idea that has never worked, and you want both? How is that even going to work? No property, no rulers, I mean good luck with that.
It's just not possible to have a serious conversation here, so I wish you luck!
Cheers
Edit: well look at all that civilised discussion right here! Ah no? Only anonymous downvotes without any reason? Who would have thought...
Well I did hope for an answer, but all I got was victim blaming.
If you can't say, respectfully, what you think, how do you think there could be a meaningful excange of ideas?
For what I have understood: you roughly think all actual existing government are bad, police is bad, banks are bad, enforcing rules are bad, having your own things are bad.
If that's so, how is your society suppose to do anything productive or useful?
Just read these 14 books from 1930 if you want to have an opinion. No, I can't summarize anything from them. They can only be understood in their entirety.
Seems like a caricature rather than someone that's actually around.
I really don't see anyone of consequence on lemmy being like 'no Putin is good actually.'
One example, I was reading a hexbear (allegedly tankie central) thread a while back where they were shitting on the CPRF for receiving praise from Putin for their support of the SMO. (ie saying that they were losers that lenin would have had shot, and that they're not communist)
In what substantive manner (real world issues) are you different from a stereotypical tankie?
In this very thread you bring up "approved narrative" in context of russian genocidal imperialism. This is comically stupid (and very ironic) for anyone that knows russian and has lived there.
You even bring up "workers dictatorship" in a seemingly serious manner. There have never been any worker's dictatorships, just some thugs dominating everyone else with some communist styled marketing and PR.
Centrists lie when they claim to agree with progressives, as indicated by their legislative accomplishments: blocking progressive legislation and arming genocide.
You may agree with them on those points, but don't pretend that centrists care about anything else at all because they just fucking don't.
Democrats still need to listen to criticism. They still need to realize that there are things they can do that will cause people who would otherwise vote for them to stay home in well-earned disgust. Voters have standards, and when they see a party willing to do nothing for them and anything for a genocidal apartheid regime on the other side of the planet, the expectation of unquestioning enthusiasm takes a lot of gall.
You can blame voters all you want, but the party wasn't failed by the voters. The voters were failed, repeatedly, over the course of decades, by a party that has no interest in ever actually representing them.
You’re encouraging people to “stay home in well-earned disgust”.
I'm remarking on a genuine phenomenon. At no point did I tell anyone to stay home, but anyone who wants no criticism of the party interprets all criticism as such.
There are ways to say what you want to say carefully.
There is no criticism of the worst behavior of the party that won't be regarded as disloyalty from people who like how the party moved so far to the right that it supported genocide.
But in my opinion stopping the Nazis needs to come before any other priorities.
democrats didn't even consider that enough of a problem to change their most odious position.
At this point not telling people to stay home from voting isn't good enough. It's great to discuss different views. But especially when heaping criticism, you must balance that with warranted criticism of opposing political sides. Making a point about the democrat's failure to stop the abuses by Israel needs to be alongside the context of the republican's stated goals to flatten Gaza and turn the area into a trump casino. Otherwise you are damaging the democrats relative reputation and so promoting worse outcomes for the people of Gaza by helping the GOP. If you can help with the bigger picture while also helping with specific causes, that's great.
No one here brought up the Democratic Party or genocide except you.
This is a post about division on Lemmy.
You actually don't have to demonstrate that. You can choose to find common ground in the culture of the platform and save the division for matters that are important to you in the communities that discuss them. That's up to you, friend.
No one here brought up the Democratic Party or genocide except you.
This is a post about division on Lemmy.
And it sure would be nice for all the centrists who spent a solid year screeching abuse at anyone who dared to say that genocide was wrong if anyone who said it could be silenced by saying that they're being divisive.
Meanwhile, I don't see you saying boo to anyone who's calling anyone to their left a tankie in this thread. "Divisive" is a club used by the orthodox to enforce orthodoxy.
You actually don’t have to demonstrate that. You can choose to find common ground in the culture of the platform and save the division for matters that are important to you in the communities that discuss them.
I can choose to agree with genocide or shut up. That's the only thing you're saying.
I'm not scrolling through the thread to police people. I'm just responding to you as one person to another. I'm certainly not trying to shut you up.
I didn't call you or anyone else in this thread a tankie, because I actually agree with the premise that Lemmy could benefit from a more collaborative culture. I'm not identifying and harping on which political issues we disagree on here, because there are plenty of other threads on Lemmy for that.
I'm just letting you know that I honestly believe that you and I are on the same side. We agree on 90% of the most important issues in the world right now. I don't think there is any daylight between us when it comes to Trump or unions or healthcare or LGBTQ+ or protecting online speech or most other things. I don't consider you an enemy at all, and I hope you think the same about me. We can and should (and have) discuss when we disagree on threads related to topics where we differ.
Neglecting the majority of topics where we support one another does not benefit us, Lemmy, or the world.
I didn’t call you or anyone else in this thread a tankie, because I actually agree with the premise that Lemmy could benefit from a more collaborative culture.
Then tell the people who supported genocide for a solid year. Oh wait. You agree with them about 100% of everything and wonder why I'm so hung up on a little insignificant thing like genocide.
Progressives have been betrayed by the party for decades. We've watched the party come up with constant procedural bullshit to throw in their own way to block progressive policy for decades. And then we watched them ignore actual law because they wanted, dearly wanted netanyahu to have his genocide. And because we had the temerity to be upset at genocide, we're being blamed for the loss democrats refused to let go of their only actual policy to avoid.
I don’t think there is any daylight between us when it comes to Trump or unions or healthcare or LGBTQ+ or protecting online speech or most other things.
Democrats slow-walked the trump investigations out of an unwillingness to pursue justice. They happily broke the rail strike. They let republicans set the narrative on trans people and did nothing to challenge that narrative at best, and actively participated in it by running republicans' hateful "boys in girls sports" talking point in their own ads at worst. Their actions run contrary to their stated positions.
I don’t consider you an enemy at all, and I hope you think the same about me.
You have made it clear that you don't want me to talk about topics on which we differ, on the grounds that expecting accountability from democrats is "divisive."
"I'd rather die alone shot down by a fascist than teaming up with this pal that do not share 100% of my vision on what this dead dude did 100 years ago"
Hey, I don't speak for anyone here, but this isn't a problem. Decentralization is a means to an end, not a desirable state in and of itself. Federated networks being separate from each other is fine. I feel this has been a critical misunderstanding among advocates of open source social media.
Honestly, best experiences I have had on ActivityPub were replacements for a group chat of 40-200 persons, not an attempted replacement for Twitter. (Also crucially not on a Mastodon fork but stuff like Akkoma.)
Since this app is clearly for some people a replacement for the general mechanics of websites like Stack Overflow, HN, and Reddit, and for other people meant to be a direct fork of specific Reddit communities, it makes sense to me that the networks would diverge completely, though it seems it hasn't happened yet.
What really kept me from using Lemmy is the poor integration with Mastodon. It's not a UI thing. Mbin and Kbin were a step in the wrong direction by furthrt splitting the UI between two types of posts that are the same under the hood
Nobody hates leftists like other leftists with a slightly different flavour of leftism. This is by tradition as long as the leftist discourse has been up. Plenty of people find it unthinkable with nuances or compromises even for communal goals that would benefit everybody.
Add to this that social media is inherently toxic and anonymity brings out the absolute worst in many people to spew hate for slight differences in opinion.
It's too bad but I'd recommend you to not get caught up in it and don't let it get to you. People are people and the chances that they will change in any foreseeable future are small. Keep doing what you think is positive and constructive and don't let others make you disappointed.
It would be interesting to learn something about the demographics on Lemmy.
I usually liken the bad vibes on Lemmy to being stuck with a bunch of cynical teenagers. Nothing is ever good enough, nothing good can happen. They know this with absolute certainty.
I think some of it is intentional, and some are just taken along by that.
Also it's always easier to throw rocks from the sidelines than to actually lead. It's so much easier to find something wrong with everything than it is to try to figure out the right thing to do.
Plus nuance is always difficult. Better to just treat everything as back and white.
Honestly, IRL or online, once that 'my leftism is the only good leftism' shit starts, I leave the community. I have no time for bigots and bullies in my life. No matter the flavor of their politics.
And I go find another group where they actually do good work, rather than sitting on their asses pontificating about how noble and good they are and how they need more minorities in the group to improve their brand image.
I just got silenced and banned from that other thread on asklemmy at ml because I explained what other leftists consider Tankies. They sure are a sensitive bunch for anything other than the one authorized truth.
In my experience, we don't have quite that many leftists trying to rile each other up. What often happens is that some people want to character assassinate some others due to previous dislikes or because they oppose one of their core beliefs, so they try to blow up any "impurities" they can find in order to turn people against them. You can see it with people who get short term bans from leftist places and then get into year-long grudges.
Generally I would suggest people start ignoring people who constantly post and try to stir up drama about whole instances or specific subgroups of lemmy users. For example, I dislike intensely, like threads.net, hilariouschaos and lemmygrad and yet you don't see me constantly opening drama threads about them.There's some caveats in this statement, but it by and large, it applies imho.
Yeah 'my honor has been slighted and so i must now escalate' is quite common.
Character assassinations too.
But yesterday we had 2 fellow dbzer0 folks do this very trolling/ baiting. Which they also planned in the matrix channel. I think I instantly made clear I strongly disliked that. So did the community. And there was an apology luckily.
But we both know there's one provocateur there. Who I personally always have had lovely chats with. But someone who likes to go looking for trouble.
And thats not an isolated case. Many similar profiles I've seen.
I know the "provocateur" you're talking about, and I've never seen them go to troll others outside their own space. I also haven't seen many similar profiles either.
I can say I have, used to see a lot of propaganda from my country being constantly crossposted from ml and hexbear, since dbzero (among others) tolerates them, it helps them bypass the faulty defederation/blocking system that lemmy has so it kept appearing in my feed and I had to see accounts dedicated to defend the propaganda. Until I moved to Piefed and was able to actually block them (also this instance defederated them).
Tribalism isn't always bad, sometimes it's needed to help take care of others by cutting off bad instances or instances that enable them. It's not black and white.
Libs claim tankies make sockpuppets in our instance, tankies claim libs make sockpuppets in our instance. It's just inability to comprehend the anarchist perspectives
To be fair, some of us Marxist-Leninists used to be anarchists. That's how I came to Marxism-Leninism, actually, so it isn't that I misunderstand the anarchist viewpoint, I've just come to agree more with Marxists over time and after reading more theory from both.
They've previously claimed other users are alts of me, which is especially funny considering I only use accounts with the same name for the sake of transparency.
You have repeatedly made this claim but still haven't given any proof after a few weeks.
Please demonstrate the users you believe are alts of .ml and other instances. Any and all of them.
Edit: After being asked 3 times, this time after 24 hours, still no response with any information. Good misinformation that .world allows to be spread.
Might be worth looking at the behaviour of so called leftists on Lemmy.
Many of them openly support and cheer for russia's invasion of Ukraine and support summary killing of Ukrainians ("summary executions in Bucha [and beyond] is a BIA conspiracy!!!" is not a serious statement), openly state that Ukraine does not have the right to self-determination and generally support the extermination of Ukrainian culture, language and identity.
I am from Ukraine, from Donbas (Lugansk) no less. What sort of reaction do you expect when you see alleged leftists cheers for the total occupation of Lugansk by the Russians with BS like "Lugansk is free of da Nasizzz !1!1!".
Or what about Jeromy Corbyn fanboys denying Corbyn's open support for russian genocidal imperialism (keep in mind these type of things get reported in Ukrainian media)? The fucker literally worked for Russia Today (which is managed by russian intel) and cheered the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
As far as I am concerned, I hope all tankies meet the same fate as "Donbas Cowboy", Russell Bentley.
Bentley’s wife, Lyudmila, then claimed that Russian soldiers from a tank battalion abducted him.
According to the Investigative Committee, Vansyatsky, Agaltsev, and Iordanov tortured Bentley on April 8, and he died shortly afterward.
Vansyatsky and Agaltsev are suspected of blowing up a car with Bentley’s body in it and ordering Bazhin to get rid of what was left of his remains.
Is this an unreasonable reaction to disgusting tankies? What reaction do you expect?
Yeah, the support of a blatantly fascist/imperialist state like Putin's Russia by self-described leftists is absolutely wild to me. I'm not convinced they're serious people. Like, yeah, there's some silly infighting between leftists online, but from my experience, it's usually tankies saying some smug bullshit blanket statements and defending authoritarian douchecanoes.
It's still possible for internal US dynamics to change and there have been positive outcomes from US foreign policy (Germany, Japan, Poland, Baltic nations).
To call America a fascist state is just dishonest. To call the EU fascist is unhinged. Where America is certainly struggling internally with a legitimate attempt at a fascist takeover, too many fundamental principles of the republic remain intact to honestly define the country as a fascist state. There are plenty of things to criticize about the US government, it being fascist isn't one of them.
Russia, however, is literally doing an old school imperialist invasion right now. Like, shaky casus belli and everything. They're even throwing in a whole host of red flags indicating a genocide. Their "elections" are consistently used as textbook examples of rigged elections using statistical analysis. Political enemies of Putin are assassinated, jailed, and suppressed. The state sponsors a narrative campaign of a fictitious idealized Russian ethno-state. Public dissent is actively and harshly suppressed by the state. There are re-education camps to indoctrinate certain demographics with Russian supremacist propaganda. Russia is a fascist state. The tankies that rush to defend Russia online are defending a fascist state. That is directly contradictory to leftist principles and is, quite frankly, fucking stupid.
So to reply to someone pointing out how ridiculous it is for tankies to support a fascist state like Russia with "hurrdurr libs support fascist usa/eu" is yet another dishonest strawman wrapped in a red herring. And, certainly no surprise to anyone paying attention, just serves as another example of a tankie talking point that refuses to engage the actual argument.
Strongly disagree on this one. Tankies and MLs are almost universally supportive of genocidal imperialism and authoritarianism.
Had some unhinged ML quote tweet my post about how she was in no position to complain about removal of Soviet monuments (she doesn't live in Kyiv, doesn't walk in Kyiv's parks and doesn't pay local taxes).
"Libs" do not all hold identical views on Palestine. If anything, negative perceptions of Israel (not just the current leadership) is on the rise. Libs are no where near tankies or MLs in terms of toxicity and comical stupid polemics (I refuse to believe tankies genuinely believe NK is a vanguard against imperialism and a great place to live).
The good trend in this case is murdering half a million Palestinians has slightly shifted liberals views on their chosen settler state?
By god, at this rate it will only take the genocide of the entire middle east by israel to finally have liberals decide that it all should end. Just in time for the racially pure ethnostate to by complete! How convenient!!
You should leave any instance that is federated with the Triad, imo. Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and ML are all Russia sponsored/supported instances that should be shunned by Lemmy as a whole.
I have Lemmygrad and Hexbear blocked. ML still has a few communities that need to move off ML.
FWIW, I actively mod/curate several communities that have become vibrant alternatives to the original (half dead) ML variants.
I actually joined Threadiverse via ML (did think the domain and their application was strange but didn't think too much about it) and then I realized Dessalines also admins Lemmygrad and he is a scumbag; of course I left ML ASAP.
I am generally doing my part to move over to Piefed, which also has a lot of cool features and better devs.
So independent that Moscow could extract all food supplies from Ukraine to create a horrific man-made famine.
The fact of the matter is that tankies don't believe in self-determination or democracy (the few who are not shitposting and/or engaging malicious demagoguery).
Agreed. I'm anti-authoriatiran first and a leftist second. I'll gladly overlook disagreements on most policy for the sake of unity, but I won't overlook authoritariansm.
Libs and tankies are both right-wingers masquerading as left. So they're constantly locking horns over whose empire is better, whose glorious leader is more righteous, whose genocide (ukr/pal) is more the fault of the victims, etc. It's as simple as this:
That is because "left and right" conflate too much in the same name and depending on what you are thinking they may be right wing or not. I feel like tankies, in regard of social policies are more left wing, for economic policies it may be right or left wing depending on how you see it, but on the control, political, democratic policies they are right wing, because they are more authoritarian.
Tankies feel like they push pseudo communism with the bourgeoisie still at the top giving scraps to the proletariat and passing it off as paltry socialism. There’s no societal change to the hierarchy, balance of power, or wealth. Usually some power of personality to rally around as their God who's surrounded themselves with oligarchs who are enriching themselves and providing scraps to pass off as communist enough.
It’s more a weird ultra nationalism where proletariats are being tricked into thinking power has been given to the people when the ones at top are abusing their power to oppress forms of counter thought to seize whatever they want and retain their wealth. I wouldn’t consider them left just because there’s some form of socialism. Lot of countries do if at the very least they fix roads and have fire fighters.
The integration of authoritarianism just conflicts with my idea of communism, since my idea of communism is power to the people and one where the government fears the people because people control the means of production and they choose who stays in power. Not trading the usual suspects of kings, dictators, warlords, or whatever they call themselves for a different coat of paint.
You're correct. They aren't right wing. They are communists.
I haven't figured out if I'm fully anarchist, a "left libertarian" who can accept a restrained state, or if I'm coming around to being an ML, tbh.
And I'm not sure if I care. I just want capitalism dismantled and fascism/conservativism opposed. And I don't want a police state.
But, and this is gonna be hypocritical of me, I feel like the sectarianism always seems to be coming from online anarchist and progressive spaces. Like no don't join our mass movement against capitalism if you, IDK, don't dislike China enough? Doesn't make sense to me.
Leftists hate every other flavour of leftist that doesn't align 100% with their flavour of leftist. Its the same reason the centre is moving right. As the right is unironically more accepting and ideologically diverse.
I’m kind of surprised to not see this answer, so I’ll throw it in: it seems to me that there are a lot of people from various countries who have built-in language for politics that they believe is shared across the world - but it isn’t.
As a dumb American, I’ve always been a liberal because that was the inclusive, progressive, luxury-gay-space-communism option as opposed to the conservative, regressive, racist, ignorant violent option. People from other countries don’t seem to appreciate that at all, because their “liberal” is what we’d call neoliberal or corporate Democrat, and they apparently don’t have a FPTP / Slaver’s College fix on their elections and they just don’t grok the two party thing.
As you can imagine on here there’s a lot of hate from both conservatives and leftists for “liberals”. I think that’s ridiculous but it’s usually easier to try and adopt their definitions than to explain why the other 379,999,999 of us don’t use it that way. (Well - 350M, say. Parts of the PNW use it that way too.). It’s just kind of exhausting in threads about American politics.
If someone calls me a “liberal” (or libtard, libcuck, etc) I naturally assume they’re racist, fascist, AM radio fuckwits. But then they want to jump into some world where H4A, UBI, No Oil is what they’re all about and once again I’m like - well, yeah we agree, again. So.
(Usually the retort is, “well then why are you a liberal?!” Which. Goes back to the exhausting thing.)
In a very basic sense (and this may very well be debated but to explain it simply I'll say): anyone who doesn't own their own labour, as in you work for someone else.
This is also where the concept of alienation in the Marxist sense comes in. He took Hegel's framework, which Feuerbach and Bauer had used to analyse religion and he applied that to law and economics.
So this Marxist alienation which is in the Hegelian tradition is worth reading.
Now alienation can interestingly also be a desired outcome in leftist movements as the French existentialists talked about.
We also have a third brand of alienation in Buddhism etc.
Some want it some hate it.
I'm with Marx on this one.
If you are interested I can find some introductory article for you to take a look at.
I have a little knowledge there, but I'm good, thanks. I'm really more interested in defeating the republiQan hate machine so we can get people healthcare and save the environment.
Not that it's not interesting - I just have a slightly different take than Marx because Marx didn't live in 2025.
To me as a European, posts and comments about US politics can be very confusing. There’s the different interpretation on the word liberal you mentioned. There’s also the fact that the colours are reversed: here red is for the left - socialists and communists - while blue is the liberal right (not so much conservative right, though there are conservative subgroups of the “blues”). And there’s the fact that they often assume familiarity with political events and people unknown to me.
Somewhat related: posts and comments from the far and extreme left are often even more incomprehensible. They seem to have their own language entirely.
Liberalism has an actual definition. Neoliberalism is a subset of liberalism. Either way, neither position is socialist and both are capitalist. That's the distinction. That's always been the distinction. Leftist politics is distinctly anti capitalist.
To leftists, liberalism, even progressive liberalism, can never address the material concerns for workers, inequal accumulation, and capitalism's contradictions because it cannot attack the central tenet of its ideology: the private ownership of land and resources. And most of the social stuff was being advocated by leftist groups in the west for years before they became popular enough for the mainstream, liberal parties to embrace.
I'm an American. Conflating liberalism with leftism is a media game that has successfully ensured the Overton window does not shift left. It reveals the mass political ignorance here. Of the policies you've listed, only H4A is arguably socialist.
You can understand the two party system and make decisions to support certain candidates/policies in an election without identifying as a liberal.
To leftists, liberalism, even progressive liberalism, can never address the material concerns for workers, inequal accumulation, and capitalism's contradictions because it cannot attack the central tenet of its ideology: the private ownership of land and resources.To leftists, liberalism, even progressive liberalism, can never address the material concerns for workers, inequal accumulation, and capitalism's contradictions because it cannot attack the central tenet of its ideology: the private ownership of land and resources.
Well put, and yes I’d agree. Where I seem to draw the ire of leftists is when I point to the clock and say we have one year before we have to vote, and all things being equal we’re going to vote for the Democrats because attacking the central tenet of this country’s dominant ideology is not going to happen in this election cycle.
The 2024 Presidential election threads were a depressing reminder that some leftists can’t get out of their heads, or ivory towers, or whatever to make incremental progress because the glorious revolution is at hand. Or something. So I get to be the evil liberal who wants healthcare for all, student loan forgiveness, and a Green New Deal. And all of those things go down the shitter because republiQans vote as a single juggernaut bloc and we don’t.
I'd like to share my offline perspective here. All online spaces are kind of heightened versions of the discourse, Lemmy less so than other places but it's still there.
In the real world leftists are generally kind and empathetic people who genuinely want to do good. It's nice when you find another leftist, I have friends who are various flavours of anarchist and socialist and even some real life, genuine, aging commune hippies now living in town. There is no animosity and we would basically all agree on local direct action or local politics. In my experience even most liberals are just naive rather than genuinely holding counterproductive political beliefs.
It would be best to focus on policies and ideas rather than ideological alignement. The moment someone says "thats socialist!" "That's right wing!" Is the moment where no meaningful action is taken, where discussion ends since you suddenly decide that your alignment is irreconcilable and makes no outcome possible.
most other SOCIAL media, astroturfs left leaning communities with right wingers. its very hard to find them. and likely most of them were banned on other SC media.
I just kinda wanna know what your basis for this is? It sound outrageous because it is. Maybe it's troll farms, or bot farms? But anyway, it could also be that you are seeing a problem because you want to, you know we can easily find anything if we look for it these days
Because politics is not limited to Left and Right, compressed down to it's minimum reasonable simplicity it is at least two dimensional. In mass media you see "Left" vs "Right" division, on Lemmy you see Lib Left vs Auth Right vs Center divisions, which are just as strong but largely suppressed by entrenched political interests especially in the US but also across the industrialized world where Lib Left has been suppressed by the capitalist political apparatus.
Note that most of the time when someone on the Fediverse decries "Liberals" they mean capitalist centrist in the "Neo-Liberal" mode. In some specific circumstances though you might see Auth Left criticizing Lib Left with the term, essentially insulting them by lumping them in with the Centrists. In other cases more in line with mass media you might see any Right position using the term against anyone center or left of center.
Essentially, Liberal has become a term only meaningful in context, and for that reason largely useless in common discourse. This is why the Political Compass is so useful a tool, situating political positions in their context, though of course it is flawed by being only two dimensional when actual political groups are very much multidimensional.
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The political compass is actually a terrible tool. Left vs right is broadly okay if framed as collectivized ownership as principle vs privatized ownership as principle, but economies in the real world aren't "pure," and trying to gauge how left or right a country is by proportion of the economy that is public vs private can be misleading. The next part, "libertarian vs authoritarian," is a false binary. The state is thoroughly linked to the mode of production, you don't just pick something on a board and create it in real life. There's no such thing as "libertarian capitalism," as an example. Centralization vs decentralization may make more sense, but that can also be misleading, as centralized systems can be more democratic than decentralized systems.
The creator of the compass is also politically biased.
As a fun little side-note, I can answer the standard political compass quiz and get right around the bottom-left while being a Marxist-Leninist that approves of full collevtivization of production and central planning. Yet, at the same time, the quiz will put socialist states in the top left, seemingly based on how the creator wants to represent things. It's deeply flawed. Add on the fact that it's more of an idealist interpretation of political economy than a materialist one, and you've got a recipe for disaster.
At first read I see a flaw in the first part of your argument, which is that centralization vs collectivization of economic ownership is not directly indicative of policy, rather it is the percentage of economic output which is used for collective services that dictates the Left/Right spectrum, which indeed is how a Far Left position can be coextant with a market economy and private ownership but with a tax or public stake in economic actors that returns a majority of the "profit" to collective service, it is rather the degree of enforcement of property rights as one of a set of rights and regulations by a central Authority which lies on the Auth/Lib spectrum that dictates the structure of the economic order. This is how for example you could be a Lib/Left Marxist who prefers central planning of the economy, so long as you don't believe the central planning should be enforced by monopoly of violence and instead implemented by collective consensus, there is no fundamental conflict in the position. Leninism on the other hand implies use of force by a centralized state military/police to restructure the economy along central planned lines, which is an Authoritarian position.
I agree the "quiz" is very flawed, it would need an order of magnitude more questions to be accurate, and authorship bias is certainly an issue.
That said, the compass itself I find to be quite accurate to the mental political models of most individuals. What you are pointing to, Centralization vs Distribution, is a relatively new way to concieve of the older Federal vs Local or State vs Community political framework. I would indeed view this as a "third axis" or omission by the two axis compass, as both Authority and Economy can have organization and flow biased towards fewer or more numerous nodes of participation/enforcement. To go back to your Lib Left Marxism, you could say that the Marxism part of that formula calls for a State economic planning model with high collectivization of economic output and low State enforcement of policy. On thing often missing from the Auth/Lib axis description is that reduced State enforcement does not mean reduced enforcement overall, but rather that the enforcement does not rely on the state monopoly on violence, instead directing enforcement through social exchange relying on the individuals applying their independent power onto each other to discourage deviancy from the consensus.
An easy example of this is in many tribal groups and including pacifist Western religious sects the worst corrective action an individual faces is shunning, which relies on all of the individuals of the community independently choosing to no longer participate socially or economically with the individual being corrected. The decision to do so may be more or less centralized or decentralized (for example a Priarch/Priest might declare shunning in a nonviolent Christian community, while a specific tribal group may only do so through a process of full group consensus, or even the most lib/local of all a spontaneous reaction of each individual against the deviant based on norms.
You're wrong about the Marxist-Leninist position, though, and that's exactly why the compass makes no sense. Marxists all agree on using the state as the collective means by which planning is accomplished. All the compass does is make things more confusing.
Overall, it is much better to abandon trying to measure things on a non-existent spectrum than it is to try to force them into one.
I agree it can get extremist. I'm left in some areas, right in others so I just keep my opinions to myself. I've found generally when I say anything that isn't extreme left I get some nasty comments. It's a shame cos I love balanced and reasonable conversations with people.
вроде бы код pharm-record закончен. почти закончен - я думала, что что-то последнее поправить - и всё. я думала, что щас пойду на кухню, налью себе чашку кофе - и поправлю. я пришла с кофем - а что поправить надо было, в упор не помню. проглядываю код - не помню. так что ща я поеду трогать траву, мб вернусь - вспомню
но в целом оно уже готово к использованию! неделю-другую потестю использованием ща у себя
публичные убийства безоружных мирных палестинцев, задокументированные на видео, гуляющих по соцсетям, не вызвали НИ КАКОЙ реакции ни среди прогрессивной прессы, ни среди борцов за права и свободы палестинцев.
почему? потому это же хамас их убивает. Хамасу можно - во-первых это жертвы ради благого дела, во-вторых - раз расстреливает - значит есть ща что, а что без суда и следствия - так это их традиции, а мы же за культурное многообразие.
@Digitual проблема настолько повальная, что GitHub их начал в автоматическом режиме сканировать и завёл партнёрскую программу, позволяющую сервисам об этом узнавать и такие ключи отзывать: docs.github.com/en/code-securi…
Но OpenAI, видимо, в эту программу записываться не спешит
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@Meko #nowar actually I have this one thing at work where users can add their photos and then it gets synced to internal systems like corporate mail.
There's a size limit so my integration compresses images. I used to walk on this rake too and ended up making the tool check if the compression actually helped (made it small enough and not larger) so it would try again more aggressively if needed.
С сегодняшнего дня, 14 октября 2025 года, обычная Windows 10 не будет получать обновления безопасности. Это не значит, что операционная система моментально перестанет функционировать: вы можете продолжать пользоваться ей, и для большинства не будет серьёзных проблем. Однако стоит понимать, что с каждым днём система будет становиться всё более уязвимой и менее стабильной. Постепенно новые версии программ перестанут поддерживаться на Windows 10. Поэтому если вы всё ещё пользуетесь ей, пора планировать обновление.
1. Расширенная поддержка
Временное решение для получения обновлений безопасности Windows 10. Бесплатно для пользователей до 13 октября 2026 года предлагается войти в аккаунт Microsoft и синхронизировать ваши файлы через OneDrive. Это некая попытка подсадить пользователей на сервисы Microsoft: отправленные в облако файлы проще восстановить на новой системе с Windows 11. Для организаций поддержка платная, но до 2028 года существует неофициальный способ с помощью знаменитого скрипта.
2. Windows LTSC
Редакции, предназначенные для специальных устройств: компьютеры в организациях, киоски, банкоматы. Отсюда удалены некоторые компоненты, поэтому что-то может не работать или придётся возвращать. Можно обновиться без переустановки системы. Windows 10 Enterprise будет поддерживаться до 2027 года и Windows 10 IoT Enterprise до 2032 года. Есть аналогичные редакции и для Windows 11.
3. Перейти на Windows 11
Не получится вечно пользоваться старой системой — нужно переходить на новые. Однако Windows 11 многие критикуют: высокие системные требования, необходимо наличие TPM 2.0 и Secure Boot, становится сложнее создать локальную учётную запись без интернета. Существуют кастомные сборки, которые обещают очистить весь мусор и оптимизировать систему. Однако мы их не рекомендуем: в них зачастую удалены компоненты, отвечающие за неочевидную функциональность, из-за чего появляются нестандартные ошибки, которые трудно исправить. Лучше привыкать к официальной Windows 11, или...
4. Перейти на Linux
Вместо того чтобы продавать или утилизировать свой нормально функционирующий компьютер (как этого хочет Microsoft), вы можете установить Linux. Он становится лучше с каждым годом, но всё ещё отсутствует поддержка профессиональных корпоративных программ и античитов для соревновательных игр. Будет тяжело привыкать к новой среде и исправлять проблемы, но в конце концов вы избавитесь от зависимости Microsoft и необходимости обходить их очередные препятствия.
Поддержка Windows 10 прекращается в 2025 году. Вдохните новую жизнь в свой старый компьютер, используя Linux, а не покупайте новый. Это быстро, безопасно, и всегда можно найти помощь, чтобы начать.
Не люблю математиков, по крайней мере тех что у меня в вузе
Особенно препода по лекциям алгебры и геометрии. Создаёт стойкое впечатление что он в какой то степени оторван от реальности будто. Вчера на лекции (для всего 1го курса) как обычно отмечал кто есть. Некоторых человек не было, после чего он решил “закручивать гайки”. Заявил мол будет в конце проверять у всех наличие лекций и проводить коллоквиумы и вроде еще что то было. И я вот всё думаю кто меня учит, да может у него там какой то крутой диплом есть, но есть ли от него толк если мир постоянно все быстрее развивается? А практики обучения нет
Читает лекции с какой то книги где листы уже пожелтели, заставляет писать лекции в тетрадь, а смысл? Мне кажется бóльшей части людей гораздо лучше подошёл бы подход, более свободный, без ненужных формальностей в виде тетрадей и сухих лекций из потрепаной временем книги
@EnigmaVoice я понимаю, также как и то, что, то что он рассказывает по своей сути важно (по крайней мере должно быть так). Я скорее про подход многих педагогов к тому как они доносятся материал, контролируют учеников и прочие подобные моменты, конечно не стоит ожидать от педагога вау подхода к организации своих уроков/пар за низкую зарплату и возможно даже в целом какое то порой пренебрежительное отношение (та и даже те же его консервативные взгляды из за того же возраста) в каких то моментах, вот к чему я скорее Это глубокий вопрос который требует решения не только на уровне самого педагога но и других уровнях…
Был у меня недавно жуткий депресняк. Поставил в аське и контакте стасус "готовлюсь к суициду", и жду, когда меня завалят сообщениями типа: "ты ж еще молодой" "одумайся" "что сдучилось"... Ага щас! Пришло 3 сообщения: 1) Ты говорил, у тебя нэт проплачен до конца года, скинь мне логин и пароль, плиз. 2) Сделай меня админом на своем сайте, буду всех банить 😀 3) Подожди до завтра, ты мне еще курсак не доделал! Я так подумал, НЕ ДОЖДЕТЕСЬ!
#Shine #астрономия #сияниеСравнил два сияния которые я снимал два дня подряд в одинаковое время. Время указано как 22:15, но я был там с 22:00 до 22:30, исследуя цифры я взял средние значения и время указал среднее. Считается, что самые главные параметры для того, чтобы увидеть яркое и красочное сияние - это Bz и скорость. Кажется, что-то пошло не так.
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