[-] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago

to do my best to engage in good faith, could you let me know what you think about this interview with the person who took the famous 'tank man' photo?

it's from cbs news: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tank-man-photographer-reflects-on-30-years-since-tiananmen-square/

[-] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 months ago

so happy to see prokewiki linked

[-] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 5 months ago

After reading your comment and I looked through the sources cited. Besides the initial source (i.e. linked article) being from a place I never heard, and the 'increase' in cost of oil purchased $74 → $76 (which, if I understand correctly, is a minor increase and doesn't seem to take inflation into account; without calculating or knowing my sense is that it's not meaningful) what part is 'fake news'? I'm trying to understand and I don't really get it.

The link and info stated in the linked article which links to Foreign Policy is legitimate from what I can tell. I skimmed it, and it seems completely in order.

[-] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 6 months ago

I prefer western eurasia myself, though i respect your choice too of

[-] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 7 months ago

That sounds hilarious, do you have a link by any chance?

[-] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Christ, you made me spit out my water laughing.

[-] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 7 months ago

Can you share some specific examples of what he shared and what the context was broadly?

[-] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 7 months ago

Rather poorly actually. The advent of commodified space travel has resulted in the need for adherence to the speculative market and consists of mechanical failure after failure. The profits and benefits which NASA brought (and still brings) are funnelled into fewer people and people who do not require more resources. The idea that private space companies can compete with a public option is laughable. It's only due to the progress of technology and disparity in wealth which individuals and companies can own which allows for this. The lack of a public option is a feature, inefficient planning is a feature, cycles of hype and manufactured consent is a feature, as is the idolatry and abysmal working conditions associated with these private space ventures.

[-] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 8 months ago

Jeez, imagine mirror's edge style parkour here. Would definitely appreciate more green.

[-] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 9 months ago

By 3 reinstalls do you mean you were distro-hopping, if so which did you use and what did you like?

[-] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't have put it as crudely, but you captured the essence of what I was thinking.

[-] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 10 months ago

Does anyone have any examples of Linus genuinely admitting he made a mistake or was wrong in a way where he dealt with a modicum of consequence? I can't think of any, but I don't watch him very much, at least recently.

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I'm looking at recreating some of the stuff in a paper which analyzed the news discourse around Xinjiang Cotton (H&M made a stink about it some time ago among others) to compare the difference between Western and Chinese news entities.

They use a tool called Wordsmith 8 which seems to be the de facto tool for this kind of thing if you don't want to use a traditional programming language like Python or R. I wanna use R but I kinda don't wanna do it alone and was wondering if anyone had experience or knew anything about linguistics. My background is in the life sciences with some programming so I am a bit out of my depth, more so my theoretical knowledge in ML is lacking and I wanted to analyze (after getting the technical stuff done) through a ML point of view and if someone had any way to help with that I'd really appreciate it.

Comment or message me directly and maybe we can figure someone out!

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Hello comrades, I read a comment on a post either on lemmygrad or hexbear talking about how most discourse happening was of poor quality and indicative of a lack of genuine leftist groups in the imperial core. Basically if there were patty's with some teeth they would enforce party discipline and education and that would lead to higher quality discourse online.

I also read some of Lenins2ndcat's comments which were very patient when they were interacting with users from other communities.

Is there anyway to work on like, an online party discipline? Or like having users who are very good at discussing with libs have a more concerted approach to their interactions? It really seems that much of us are often too aggressive and meme-y and as fun as that is it really isn't productive.

I get that this isn't how praxis or anything happens, it seems more like the way we engage could be more productive and fruitful in the long term and considerations like this might go a long way.

TL;DR Planned economy but for memeposting

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