I blame comrade JoeByeThen on my newfound obsession over leftist hip-hop.
The HD was what I was looking at when I ended up with my Kindle. I fell victim to the sunk cost fallacy since I had a few books on Kindle already and didn't know how easy getting books actually was. I went with the new 2022 model Kindle I think. It still does what I need it for and it does it well. I think I've had like 3 reboot relaled issues in the 2 years that I've had it. Open box or refurbished Clara sounds like a great deal though.
If I had to do it all over again, I'd probably go with the Kobo Clara BW. My tiny ass Kindle does just fine though. Just don't like being tied to Amazon because of it. I basically pirate all my stuff so I can't comment on the storefront of each.
I go with the nihilistic approach on this: I'm gonna be dead so I don't really care.
I think if I'm gonna be worried about if I save a fash, a lib, or a leftist, I might as well do some chud murders or something on the way out to balance it out. For legal reasons that was a joke.
So one guy grades programmers based on who writes the most lines of code, and the other fuck is suggesting firing people like some sort of Thanos style lottery?
And these of the 2 that are running the dept of gov efficiency?
Honestly we fucking deserve this. Go ahead and fire most of the people that know how to do the shit.
Death to America.
I'm still not sure how I feel about high wasted jeans. When I was doing the club/bar hopping scene low rise were in and that was kind of trashy and never seemed comfortable. I'm not a big fan of "mom jean" type pants but the high wasted but 80's esque baggy ones that seem to be in right now can be cute as hell tho for some reason. Maybe because it sort of touches on grunge?
If I've logged off it just means I died fighting in the counter-counter-revolution during the great socialist uprising in the West after the Second US Civil War. For the Revolution!
But no serious, I have no life and shitposting is therapy for me.
I'll check it out. Probably tonight after some on-boarding PSL stuff if I have time.
I have 2 pair of super cozy joggers I just picked up and almost wanna go and get like 6 more for backups lol. I know when I need new pants, these won't be on the racks. I have a few pair of stretchy jeans that are actually wearable without too much suffering I'd like some backups for but they cost $50 and I can't afford that now.
It's funny because your comment reminds me of that old image of a grocery store shelf in Cuba full of tomato sauce and people were all like "Only one brand? We have choice in Amerikkka!" and I was like "It's fucking tomato sauce. It shouldn't even need one brand!"
I believe it was corgi that got me on as a referral for Outlier.
My experience: Signed up for programming, took 3 months before I could even get onto a project, finally got a project and it was math shit that I was required to know LaTeX for. I suck at actual math. I asked them if I could get moved to a programming gig and they said I have to apply all over again.
What sucks is that the gig I got put o. Paid $50/hour. Fucking sucks just seeing the chatter about it and not being about to do shit. It was like waving it on my face or something.
Marxism-Leninism distilled into its purest form right there.
Normalize autistic fashion lol. Give me plain tagless tshirts and joggers/sweatpants any day.
Counterargument: The Office is my comfort slop but I also hate myself.
I think it's ok to be a quiet lurker and only speak up when you feel like you have something to say or have a question. Questions are good. I'm a victim of spoon theory so I will sometimes go wall of text, but then rest of the day just do a shitposty comment session. They haven't kicked me yet.
As for whether you are a leftist, collectivism and healthcare reform is a good start. I can't answer that question without knowing more. Do you support capitalism? Do you think it can be reformed in favor of the working class? Do you think we can only get to a better place through revolution? I think that is probably the best starting point. At one point I was a reformist, now I'm not. But it was a journey. And I think that is important too. None of us woke up as revolutionaries. It took time to peel away the western propaganda that at least us burgerlanders were victims of.
So with that said, I do think theory is important, but the cool thing is that the books and essays aren't going away any time soon. You can take your time when you get to reading it. And please do. I've even reread stuff to further solidify concepts. The more you do read, the better understanding you will get. A key thing imo is understanding actual dialectics but don't worry about that for now. It's hard to read about at first but once you get it, you start looking at things a lot differently. This is one of the places I would unironically use the word "woke" as a description. Dialectics leads into a better understanding of the "whys" of working class liberation but also gender, queer, trans, black, and disabled liberation, among other concepts. It's a big pill to swallow so take your time.
With that said, regarding not ever having read theory, my cut and dry suggestion is to read Principles of Communism by Engels. It's short and extremely easy to read. If you seem to agree with everything, or at least a lot of what's in there then you are probably a leftist. If the content interests you then come back to cowbee's list and start working through that. But, to reiterate, please take your time.
I've only been wrong about one person I felt was a leftist, and that was actually super recent, but at that I wanna say, I think you are on the right path. You are here asking questions and that's a hell of a start.
If you need some ear bleach, look up Kharii. I just found out about her and she's pretty talented I think. I'm not big into rap though. But I dig it.
Traywick ran Ascendance Biomedical, which encouraged non-scientists to conduct their own medical research. In February, he took off his pants in front of a crowd at a biohacking conference in Texas and injected himself in the thigh with an experimental, non-FDA-approved treatment for herpes, Gizmodo reported.
Completely normal behavior but tech-bros as usual.
I've never heard of that but it's fucking hilarious 
This election loss should have resulted in Dem infighting imo, instead of blaming the group that Harris told to fuck off.
I just checked and Stein ended up with 744,757 and de la Cruz got 138,095. West's totals are negligible. But those are the leftist votes that probably matter.
The Dems lost by 3,005,137 votes. Harris got 72,953,282 and Trump got 75,958,419 votes.
In 2020, Biden won with 81,284,666 votes compared to Trump's 74,224,319.
Biden won by 7,060,347 and Harris lost by 3,005,137. The leftist vote total is 782,852 and some change. There is no concevable way I can see that magic 6 digit number being the catalyst to Harris' failure when Biden got 8,331,384 more votes. Those are the Dem votes. Not the Left waffling this time around.(Ok, subtract one vote because I did vote for Biden in 2020).
I'm not a numbers guy but this really just points at Dems not turning out to vote because Harris just isn't likeable. Dems didn't get a say in their candidate because Biden waited 2 months until election to step down and the DNC had to scramble to make Kamala look "hireable" even though she was one of the first to bow out during 2020 primaries. In that 2 months time, Harris managed to alienate the Muslim vote because she's a terrorist, and when asked about whether trans people should exist, she said "it should be up to the states to decide" which is fucking exactly how we got to where we are with reproductive rights. Her saying that is a right-wing talking point. All she had to do was lie about it and she'd have appeared slightly more likable. But instead she supports genocide and wants to sweep my trans friends' right to exist under the rug. Fuck her. She deserved to lose.
And why the fuck did RFK jr still manage to get 718,693 votes when he bowed out 3 months ago?
Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_and_independent_candidates_for_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election?useskin=vector
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/president-results
- https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/president
The left can't even put aside their own differences half the time, how is anyone going to expect them to orchestrate a presidential sabotage?
Again, not a numbers guy so forgive any errors here.
It's gonna be so funny when this guy dies from something fucking stupid instead of just using his money to just be healthy.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3855446
> So I have an interview coming up sometime in the next 2 weeks and I have to do a few coding and SQL problems as part of it. I wanna start practicing now because I've gotten a bit rusty on algs and such. Does anyone have any suggestions on like array sorts and such to work on or like code golf sites to use? I have Leetcode pulled up and will be working a bit through that today but I just wanna get in as much practice as I can leading up to the interview. I donno when the interview will be but I just heard through the grapevine that there will be one. > > I've been working on my own webdev stuff but the most I've had to touch JavaScript for is basically conditionals and loops, so I feel like I've fallen down on the other stuff a bit. > > TIA
Last week I saw an odd thing on Indeed where I was apparently "already qualified for an interview" for a job posting at a local hospital that I've been trying to get in to for years for IT. I didn't have to apply but just set up an interview time. Well turns out it's actually a "hiring event" which I was informed after a recruiter called and was like "Are you sure you wanted to apply for this? You aren't even A+ certified anymore." You know because you forget how computers work if you let your cert expire even though you've been working with computers for the last 20+ goddamn years and at an IT level for the last 6 but sure.
She asked me if I was willing to re-cert and I said yes but whatever. My Google IT cert which is the same thing isn't worth shit I guess so that's a scam. Thanks Googs...
In any case, if you had half a day to crash study for a stupid fucking IT interview that was the equivalent of a 10 min speed date, what would you brush up on?
I ask because like you literally just google what you don't know. Everyone in the industry knows this, but you can't fucking say that at an interview. Just like when they say "can you tell me about you employment gaps?" you can't say "well you see I was fired from jobs because I am autistic." I already and prepped to lie and say I've been doing freelance IT and web dev in my spare time and that also covers those gaps.
Edit: done with interview. They closed the position on Monday because a guy that quit asked for his job back. I'm going to go kill myself now.
I'm on a mailing list for Claudia and got this today. Kind of funny since last week the Democrats tried kicking de la Cruz off of the Georgia ballot.
No seriously, I have an interview in about 3 hours. I lied on the screener and said I LOVE working with and helping people. It's a partial lie I guess because I like helping people but not in the "corpo" way since that isn't really helping people and it's all fake as fuck...
I am already daydreaming about having the job, where I have to mask hardcore and pretend I love talking to large groups of people but only after I hit a rockstar rail of coke off the toilet seat in the restroom beforehand. I've never done cocaine before... which nostril should I go with?
I sort of maybe would be ok if I got the job but like I really wanna get this freelance web dev thing off the ground instead.
I guess it wouldn't be horrible since it's a remote gig all done via Zoom meetings but like Idk... Every time I get going on programming a fucking job comes my way and screws it all up.
Sidenote but if anyone knows someone that wants a small business-esque static website that almost doesn't suck, hit me up. I need money to pay for things like food and weed.
Idk why I made this post really. How's everyone's week going?
E: so I got a "job offer" but did some googling and it's basically a cut-through insurance job sales position, I'd be working evenings so won't see my family. Probably won't take it. Sick of this tbh.
Honestly, I'm fucking tired. There is a God damn sticky in every r/LSC post that says it is a commie subreddit, by commies, for commies, and these motherfucking dweebs are upset about it being full of commies? I could write whole essay about this fucking post. Jesus fucking Christ.
Got my new retro handheld emulator. It's an Anbernic Arc-D. Just got 50 GB of roms loaded from my personal currated collection and I kind of think I wanna jump into some jrpgs I can play on the couch when I wanna decompress. Right now I'm looking at starting with GBA titles since I missed that whole era but I'm mainly looking for any suggestions up to PS1 era. I've played all the main ones like Chrono Trigger and FFVI but open to anything.
My current line up is looking like Mario RPG, Mother 2 And 3, and Golden Sun.
What are some other bangers I should definitely check out?
Also the Arc-D is dope as fuck. Stock firmware isn't even that bad.
E: thanks all for the suggestions! Gonna currate a list this morning and probably start with Golden Sun before diving into the rest. A lot of gems I recall missing out on when I was a kids too that I'm eager to jump into.
I just realized that ebook collectiong has become something of a hobby for me. I think I like that lol. I am currently sifting through saved browser tabs of book recommendations that I have amassed over the last month in an attempt to clean up my browser sessions.
I've even developed a system of sending all tabs to my computer from my phone to create a list to check with libgen, then add to Calibre and sideload to my ereader from there. I hadn't really thought of it as a hobby since reading is a hobby but I think this might be close to data hording?
I also have 90 GB of roms that I have collected that cover all eras up to N64. Do I play any of them? No, but I got them. I did start playing Mario RPG and Earthbound during Indigenous Genocide Day.
So what are your weird but interesting hobbies that have snuck into your lives?
Has /r/socialism_101 been compromised? I have noticed over the last 2 or so months some incredible takes in the comments and this thread is even locked.
I usually don't really care but this kind of thought is on par with libs that use "utopian" when talking about Marxism. Just so confidently wrong. I'm not even that well read yet on theory but, Jesus, this set off my lib radar bad.
No for real, I'm bored. Ask me stuff lol.
I'm trying to not lose my mind debugging this stupid Android app. I'm jobless and don't know what I'm doing with my life.
Recently got diagnosed with ASD at 40. I'm severely depressed and suicidal. I listen to shitty music, read theory and pretend I understand it, oh and I'm super hungover because I suffer from alcoholism. I'm an open book so please don't doxx me <3.
