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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

Obviously there are the climate change denialists who think “global elites” have paid actors setting forest fires around the globe, but there are also reputable people saying this. When I hear arson, I hear a person starting a fire with malicious intent. Are there really massive numbers of malicious firestarters around the globe, or does arson also cover things like recklessness/carelessness, like if I burn trash in my backyard or start a campfire on the woods and it gets out of control?

With the fires in LA it’s hard to feel optimistic about the future. I want to be reminded that all is not lost, we need to do a lot that likely won’t be done but there are still things to do.

So let’s say Climate Stalin became Supreme Leader of the World or just President of the United States tomorrow. Whats next? What steps do we take to stop climate change getting worse and mitigate the damage we’ve already done?

I've been sick the last few days and to pass time I watched a Video from Geopolitical Economy Report, where he states that about 8 percent of the US GDP (I know that that measurement is shit, but it's still the most used one) is attributed to imputed rent from owner-occupied housing and therefor bullshit.

I tried to read up a little on the topic because I have trouble believing that such a bogus figure is included in the GDP, because it doesn't add value. Everything you do in your own home is not work that 'benefits' the economy and if you hire contractors or buy materials it's already included in the GDP. Though the reading material I found is either full of jargon or skips this question.

So now I hope that someone knowledgeable can clarify this: is this rent imputation really just padding for the GDP or does it server another purpose?

Material I used:

• Why does GDP include imputations? (bea.gov link)
• Imputing Rents to Owner-Occupied Housing by Directly Modelling Their Distribution (bea.gov link, abstract of paper, leads to pdf)
• Imputing Rent (NATO-Pedia link)

And footnote: It's very telling, that capitalist countries view rent as an important part of their economy

So much liberal slop in fantasy stories. Mr. Dogood kills the bad king, then becomes the good king. Gimme some peasant revolts or something. Ones that aren't portrayed as some evil murderous mob

Feel free to use fake details or whatever (just no obviously fake names I don't wanna get voided or something)

There's been a lot of shitflinging on my TL concerning this tweet. Honestly, I'm not sure. Can the "not touching the opposite sex" thing can be just a quaint local tradition or is this necessarily associated with misogyny and patriarchy?

I don't think I've ever known a Muslim like that but in my experience orthodox jews like that are more likely to be misogynistic than not...

I somewhat spontaneously booked a trip to Vegas next month for my partner and me. Mostly because we live somewhere dreary and cold and my sunlight lamp ain't cutting down on the seasonal affective disorder enough this time of year.

I've been to Vegas a half dozen times, but not in the last ~10 years. We're both . I want to see Red Rock and the wetlands. And the Sphere cuz I think it's neat. We're both into but don't want to go to the punk rock museum cuz fat mike sucks. I've been to the Atomic Bomb museum and to the shooting range to on full auto.

Just wanted to see if the anti-capitalist forum had and recommendations on enjoying this hypercapitalist helltown. Any live shows that are especially fun or memorable? Any local spots to see?

Time sensitive question btw

Imagine there's a bird flu pandemic. In the first year in the US - what will be...

1. the total number of dead?
2. the total number of people that end up debilitated?

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The following is not part of the question.

Earlier today it at dusk and I did an errand on foot from my house. I saw a medical mask on the ground on the sidewalk on the sidewalk very close to my place. My first instinct was to pick it up and carry it to the garbage. Of course I didn't. Who knows what sort of germs could be on that mask. Tomorrow I'll use the end of rake to carry it to the garbage.

I started thinking what's going to happen if we get a bird flu pandemic. In the US - the chaos is easy to predict. How many people will use protection for their eyes, etc? Even if we get another vaccine miracle - how many people will take it?

I started to think about bird flu pandemic press conferences. Will Trump be there? And I realized it doesn't even matter if he is. Whoever the "medical experts" are up at the podium - they will be some combination of a lackey, a flunky, a grifter, a conspiracy theorist, a delusional person, and a fool. The Trump administration will make the pandemic worse by amplifying all sorts of nonsense.

I wonder that the bird flu versions of Ivermectin will be.

EDIT: Translation - 'quid' means £1 ... British slang.

Not saying I have the time to host it right now, but there's a lot of 'free' money to be made in referral links to various offers. Most of these offers truly only take about 5 minutes.

Some are a bit more elaborate but still easy - and technically better paying than many of our jobs per hour, I bet. Don't expect it to cover your rent of course, but an extra 30 quid here and there really racks up. I've seen lots of people make an extra 1500 yearly by essentially doing nothing.

Anyway, with these referral links, not only might we all end up a little better off and less stressed, but I think it opens up much more 'mutual-aid' ability - I certainly feel more generous when it's 'free money' that I'm giving away.

Currently, I'm using referral links from total randoms on Reddit, meaning half of the referral money is going to some Reddit bloke, when actually it could be going to one of us, or even towards hexbears maintenance fees. If a hexbear admin had a referral link to all of these offers, they could end up with 200 quid in their account from just one post...

I get there's probably privacy issues with it, but to me it seems like a good idea.