

I def like it, although I’ve been supplementing with comprehensible input platforms like https://www.vidioma.com/
These apps have their place, but they won’t get you fluent as quickly as listening to native speakers with context.


I def like it, although I’ve been supplementing with comprehensible input platforms like https://www.vidioma.com/
These apps have their place, but they won’t get you fluent as quickly as listening to native speakers with context.


It always puts me to shame when I learn how many languages most communists spoke. Like Marx learned English and Russian to be able to study those country’s economics. Engels was apparently fluent in 12, and could read 20 languages.
Agree, we 100% need to push back against NATO’s tanks, bombing and encroachment. The US and Israel must be defeated at all costs.


Whatsapp and instagram are owned by facebook. Youtube is owned by google. Still US tech companies.
Which country’s economy?


You can also find an audiobook of this on torrents and youtube.


You obviously didn’t look at even a few of these links either!
The fact that they get memory-holed or paywalled after a few years isn’t my fault, but I’d be happy to update any ones that aren’t working with archived links.
This not sharing information, this flooding. This is a way of shutting up any kind of disussion.
Just silly. For one person its “too much info”, for another its “not enough”. AI really broke people’s brains. If they actually have to read some things and can’t be given a short summary, they call it “shutting down discussion”.


Was summoned once, and ended up on the jury. It was a really sad case where the cops were trying to put an 80-something year old former convict back in prison, because his son in law had a gun in the house (that they searched because of something the son in law did, but no charges were brought against him), and that was a violation of the 80-year-old’s release conditions from like 40 years ago.
I really wanted to end up on the jury in order to keep this guy out of prison, which luckily we did. The defense was very smart in making his case sympathetic, even though legally the guy had no leg to stand on. There were a few jurors that wanted to imprison him, but we finally got them to go with the majority to ignore the law and keep him out of prison.
The easy rule of thumb if you do/don’t want to be on the jury: the less you talk, the more likely you are to end up on the jury. The more annoying you are, especially talking about how busy you are, or asking a lot of pointless questions: the less likely you are to end up on the jury.


Why does the country have private businessmen owning large companies at all? China has domestic billionaires. Billionaires that have grown fat on the backs of their workers. This is not socialism.
You’re right, you didn’t read even a few of the links, and you’re proving the post correct.


Most countries of the world are capitalist. Most of them are poor or middle income.
Only a tiny number of them are in the imperial core, and fit most modern definitions of imperialist. Russia is not among them.


Authoritarian in the modern day is only used by westerners to denigrate countries that build alternatives models outside the western order (Cuba, Vietnam, PRC, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, etc), so much so that it basically means: “when you tell white people they can’t do imperialism”.
Somehow, this country is excluded from its definition:



That doesn’t mean the Chinese government and Chinese oligarchs aren’t also exercising an unjust degree of control over their own citizens. The Chinese government surveilling its citizens and tightly controlling the flow of information is not being done out of benevolence.
Just vague, unsourced orientalism. You only feel this “in your gut”, because your are propagandized by western media to hate the enemies of the US.


Like a solid 4th of trek episodes involve some sort of transporter malfunction. I’m not getting in one either.


Spain’s government only recently started turning against the US, and this vote was in 2022.
As for Ireland, can’t say.


I used photoprism for many years, and while its great, immich ended up being much better.
Oof yeah, this chart needs updated.


many human rights violations happening in China



The PRC is a mixed economy, with the state-planned, socialist sector commanding the heights of the economy, and a smaller sector for capitalist development.
Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy’s job for them. Youtube Audiobook