[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 3 days ago

For good things

Supports the deliberate creation of an addiction crisis which has claimed over a hundred thousand lives in the name of profit

As far as I'm concerned the Sacklers deserve a taste of their own "medicine."

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 4 days ago

The irony being that China has the tools to overcome a declining population, whereas the west is a goldbergian paperclip maximizer.

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Would be a good comedy bit, much like the opening to Monty Python's Holy Grail.

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 57 points 5 days ago

As with every other "crisis" capitalism faces, the solution is simple: no more capitalism, no more crisis.

“A reduction in the share of workers can lead to labor shortages, which may raise the bargaining power of employees and lift wages — all of which is ultimately inflationary,” Simona Paravani-Mellinghoff, managing director at BlackRock, wrote in an analysis last year.

Yeah, fuck that babbling bourgeois bullshit. Fun fact though, after plague killed so many people in Europe, the surviving serfs (and their more immediate descendants) had an unprecedented level of power and agency over their living and working conditions.

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 days ago

This has been the EU's modus operandi since the beginning.

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 5 days ago

Based hacking group. This kind of stuff puts "anonymous" and other cosplaying CIAnarchists to shame.

On a slight tangent I can't wait to pore through "secret" government documents after the revolution.

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 5 days ago

This more than anything else shows that it's a pathological obsession rather than an evidence and merit based approach. A perfect microcosm of liberalism if you will.

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 6 days ago

So US cops don't hunt down communists, and therefore the US isn't fascist? I'm having a hard time seeing the thought process here, but then again I'm not a fascist.

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TikTok Psyop (www.mintpressnews.com)

Not sure if this one has been posted in the last few weeks, but this follows up previous MintPress reporting on the links between western TikTok and the US military-intelligence apparatus. It was probably clear to us from the beginning, but the crusade against TikTok has been an entirely cynical ploy for the empire to gain even more control over the internet.

Previous articles:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-run-by-state-department-officials/284353/

https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-national-security-agents/280336/

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 60 points 4 months ago

IIRC the "Soviets raping women" atrocity propaganda was just Göbbels looking at how the Nazis were behaving and projecting it onto the Soviets.

In reality the Nazis raped (and killed of course) their way nearly to Moscow and then all the way back to Berlin. Compare this to any Soviet rumored to have raped anyone being investigated, and those who were found guilty were dealt with in the way you deal with criminals on the battlefield.

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 62 points 4 months ago

Last I checked, neither Russia nor DPRK have any law that requires them to follow sanctions made up by the USA.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I have been having such a difficult time getting a 2018 Dell Latitude 7930 to run any Linux distro stably. Maybe there is something obvious I am missing or maybe it really is dying hardware that's the root cause of the issue.

The silly thing is I had a stable install of openSUSE Tumbleweed running for a few months but because I made some poor choices on disk partition when I installed it I was eventually backed into a corner where I had to wipe the SSD and install from scratch.

I since then have tried Tumbleweed again as well as Ubuntu, Mint, and finally Manjaro to no avail. The Debian based distros completely freeze at some point, either immediately upon login and loading the desktop or when running apt update. Tumbleweed gets a kernel panic within an hour or so, even though I changed kernel options to a previous known-good config. Now after quite a frustrating time installing Manjaro it freezes within an hour as well and the diagnostic light code indicates a CPU issue.

Strangely enough none of these issues are apparent when running from a LiveUSB, but occur on two different M.2 SATA SSDs with proper installs.

At this point I don't really care which distro I use, as long as it doesn't crash constantly. Does anyone have any suggestions on other things I can try?

Edit: seems to be solved with the kernel options I already mentioned. For whatever reason it didn't work for the Tumbleweed reinstall but Manjaro has run for a couple days without crashing.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics#Crash/freeze_on_low_power_Intel_CPUs

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I also made a website (site.knfrmity.space)

Back in October I found a really cool book containing the speeches delivered during a Marxist theoretical conference hosted by the SED in the DDR in 1983. In the meantime I have started to transcribe some of these speeches with the intent of sharing them here and with the international community of working people. There are three speeches up at the moment and I am working on more. There are 140 in the volume so a complete digitization may take some time.

I plan to post my own thoughts on this site, as well as some more materials I have found. I may also consider cross-posts as well where appropriate.

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Berlin Travel Tips (lemmygrad.ml)

I'll be in Berlin for a couple days soon and I'd like to see some DDR stuff while I'm there.

The DDR Museum looks interesting, even if it's just to look at the visual representations of everyday life while ignoring the lib remarks on Stasi oppression and whatnot.

Also happy DDR annexation celebration day. /s

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I've been back into reading fiction over the last three years or so after a long time away. It's been really nice to slow down and read a book for entertainment rather than always going for a series or movie (when I'm not reading theory of course). For somewhat nostalgic reasons I'm missing some easy reading spy thriller type novels. There's plenty loaded with CIA/MI6 propaganda but I've had a hard time finding anything with similar pacing from outside of the imperial core. Most of the "best translated / English Chinese authors to read" lists are chock full of liberal emigrants and the like, which isn't a perspective I'm terribly interested in while reading for fun. I also enjoy sci fi, but there it seems to be a bit easier to find non western authors.

Does anyone have anything to recommend? Unfortunately it's gotta be available in English or maybe German at the moment.

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 76 points 10 months ago

Oh great, even more lies from German state media. This AfD group had no official invitation from the Chinese government, nor did they meet with Chinese government officials. DW is really trying their best to push horseshoe theory on us, and it would be laughable if people didn't take it seriously.

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