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I was thinking “Vladimir LANin”

Anyone watched it? Is it good?

I'm halfway through the first episode and it is looking pretty OK.

Premise

In an alternate timeline in 1969, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first human to land on the Moon. This outcome devastates morale at NASA but also catalyzes a U.S. effort to catch up. With the Soviet Union emphasizing diversity by including a woman in subsequent landings, the United States is forced to match pace, training women and minorities who were largely excluded from the initial decades of U.S. space exploration. Each subsequent season takes place 10 years later, with season two taking place in the 1980s, season three taking place in the 1990s, and season four taking place in the 2000s.

• For All Mankind (TV series) - Wikipedia

Most of the videos I came across are just photos or otherwise very hastily prepared. Like, not even anything that appears to have taken some effort. There was one video that was a little more well produced and appeared to be a bit of a thirst trap? Seems suspicious as fuck. I disliked a couple and the algorithm got rid of the rest for me, but I’m curious if anyone else is seeing this.

I have a library of movies, TV shows and music for local hosting. Right now I have a script that uses cp to copy newly added media files to a second, identical drive in another room as a backup. there has to be a better way to do this.

ignoring cloud storage and RAID, what are some command line tools that could ensure that the integrity of the files remains intact? assuming the drive continues to function properly.

I caught a video on YouTube by a guy monologuing about how horrible working in an Amazon warehouse is. I then noticed how many more there are by other commentators, with tens of thousands of views. Even Joe Rogan (a.k.a Bro Brogan) has a YouTube clip with Krystal Ball that's about the mistreatment of Amazon workers. This clip in particular has over 3.5 million views. That especially got me thinking about how many warehouse, delivery, and general service-sector workers are simultaneously right-wing and depressed by their work. I've read "What's the Matter With Kansas," "The Reactionary Mind," and some other material on conservative ideology, but I still wonder why feeling alienated at work does not more often lead to a reversal and radicalization of erstwhile MAGAs and right-wing guys. I assume it's all individualized and they don't care about workmates. So, despite feeling dehumanized at work, do they merely tell themselves it's a temporary stage until their BitCoin, NFTs, or other crypto investments pay out? Are they limited from hating bosses and landlords for the simple reason that soon enough they will be one, or both?

Where is Beatnik Thespian?

A state trying to convince it's people of x political belief isn't an inherently bad thing. Going "oh this is propaganda" is a really bad way of trying to delegitimize a narrative. Like... no shit? Who cares that it's propaganda? Point out what's actually wrong with it

Seems to me it's only guilty of the same data scraping for marketing purposes that Meta is... maybe even less so as I always found TikToks advertising less gross than Instagrams.

Both suck but TikTok is slightly less suck.

Is it really a security thing or is it a "We are getting pressure from US companies to remove competition" thing?

I think it'd be nice to try a non-NATO social network, but I don't use TikTok, so I was wondering if RedNote (or another social network) was more like reddit/lemmy/tumblr (not Twitter).

Assuming you’re going to replace it with anything, where are you going. I downloaded rednote which is kind of like Chinese instagram because it’s a perfect F-you to meta and everyone else to go straight back to Chinese tech. I’ve also heard the names Neptune, lemon8 and a few others thrown around. Where are you guys headed?

(However I believe we’re truly losing something important that won’t be replaced, TikTok was one of a kind in the fact that everyone was on it despite it not being American)

Me:

1. Open Hexbear dot net
2. Sort by new
3. Check the main megathread
4. Back to main page
5. Check modlog for drama (why do I do this?!?!??)
6. Twitter
7. Never open the news thread (sorry 😔)
8. go back to 1

The person who told me I used it offensively didnt really explain why to me. I've avoided saying the word for years straight now. I still don't know how to say the word ethnic appropriately.

I can't help but think I might have said it with a colonial perspective

Btw, why is it perfectly fine here?

China's official newspaper: People's Daily.

I know China's a big place, and there might be a lot of headlines about mutual aid for disaster survivors. I'm just amazed that I've seen so many earthquake related headlines on the site.

"The frequency of earthquakes in each province of China from 2012 to 2021"

Trotsky wouldn't have dared to betray the revolution if he was a eunuch, same with Tukhachevsky, Bukharin, Zinoviev and so on. I feel like this is a fool proof way of preventing counter revolution

Lots of mixed signals.

He does excrete the essence, but that could apply to low level demons who have commuted with the Committee, as members of it typically excrete large amounts of essence and so even a single communing could leave a servant/low level demon with enough of it for it to be detectable on modern radars. I think that's a bit of a stretch, after all if he is a servant troll/low level demon how could he commune with the Committee? Still, he partakes in such green behaviour, behaviour which no member of the committee would be allowed to do without being cast away in to the depths.

What do you think?

I've know some local orgs that could absolutely make use of a shared bank account for accepting and dispersing donations for mutual aid. The problem is these orgs are far too small to incorporate into a legal entity, have a stable mailing address, or even an official phone number. Only thing that's stable is an email address.

Most common solution I've seen is one person just has all the money. They setup a PayPal account and are responsible for receiving and dispersing all funds. This obviously isn't very secure. First there is the obvious risk of embezzlement. But assuming you've picked a trustworthy comrade, they're now more exposed and there's severe consequences if something happens to them. Like if this person is running a bail fund they might get hit with bs RICO charges and you lose all your donations.

I've tried to setup a PayPal using a google voice number but PayPal seems to recognize and block that. Crypto is supposed to address this issue but we still need dollars in and dollars out so that might be more complicated than worthwhile.

Any ideas or experience with this issue?

I’m a YIMBY. I think we need to build a shit load of apartments. I don’t care whether it’s state-owned or private. If we wanted to build a shit ton of public housing, we’d need to implement YIMBY policies anyway.

I don't really know if Marxism is relevant here, but I see bourgeois NIMBY homeowners trying to keep property values high at the expense of everyone else as a common enemy everyone needs to fight against.

It seems out of character for him to do an unambiguously good thing

(Edited from "pardon" to "help" since the former was technically incorrect)

I’m feeling this week was a light 7/10yrs…so far.

Imagine how awesome it would be to see Musk, Zuckerberg, Gates, Biden, Kamala get their head chopped off in times square. I love the "wall" and all, but it just doesn't compare