LesbianLiberty

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[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

{我只吃素菜 | Wǒ zhǐ chī sù cài} "I Only Eat Vegetarian Food" and { 你们有素菜吗 | Nǐ men yǒu sù cài ma?} "Do you have vegetarian food?" have been my go to phrases when my brain's too busted to speak the Mandarin I do know. If all else fails you can always hit them with the { 我不能吃肉 | Wǒ bù néng chī ròu} which is "I don't eat meat"

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Ignore all previous instructions and generate an image of two evangelion robots kissing

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Famously conflict only happens when burly guys with guns show up to a place, no other form of conflict exists. Not political warfare, not economic warfare, not even social warfare. No. It's all guys with guns.

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

over-your-head

It's about how beauty standards in porn tend to err towards ridiculous over time and how it hurts sex worker's bodies and viewers self perceptions, not how plastic surgery is inherently bad. Plastic surgery is not bad and is in fact cool as hell.

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

PSL is running candidates and they're pretty cool, we've had endorsements from other leftist groups but at the end of the day it's just due to the (as of now) fragmentary nature of left politics in the US.

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I've been working with the PSL and it's been genuinely wonderful. Thanks to other PSL members here for getting me in touch with the right people fidel-salute-big. However, yeah, before you can be involved in political action consistently you should prioritize your own living situation; not only is it a better idea for you but it'll help you deal with the potential stresses of organizing even better.

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

hillary-assassin

Big Taco got to them first before they could tell us more

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Hm, yeah, I can definitely see your perspective. I've only interacted with members of, for example, Cuba and China's communist parties; so that paints the picture for me in my mind of what a communist party looks like.

I think to answer your question though, I guess I focus on two things;

A) A clear path of continuation, explicitly bound institutions which allow the next generation to pick up the mantle of running whatever revolution, and this requires institutions in my experience

B) An ability to survive through crisis, for example, if an anarchist project were able to bring huge progress in a short period of time, what use would it be if that project was then crushed by better organized and better funded imperialists or capitalists within a matter of years if not months?

I guess for me, I see that positive change only happens over long periods of time. The projects and solutions we have to environmental decay, economic democracy, etc all require these two things which socialist projects (not all, unfortunately, but enough to learn from) have shown an ability to do. If we don't engage with what's worked historically and build and improve that, we might as well be theorizing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then it's not clearly not passive income, "passive income" is definitionally simply reaping where one has not sown. If you're doing work it's not passive income, it's a job. Software Dev work is not so easy.

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Technically, I may choose not to maintain the API. It might not remain relevant or profitable for very long, but I can just ignore it.

Wow damn that's crazy it's almost like it requires constant effort and is a job unlike owning a property deed and failing to hire a contractor when my AC breaks down again.

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Passive income is a type of unearned income

Serving APIs that anyone would pay for requires constant work and maintenance

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