DSA trots are so much better than trot-party trots for some reason.

All the trot orgs I’ve tried to work with were wreckers or cults.

But the times I’ve worked with the DSA I’ve seen trots, MLs, and anarchists working side by side. Much more productive. Definitely varies chapter to chapter I’m sure

I used Calyx Institute for internet for a couple years while working online and living in a car. Solid company. Definitely gonna check out his out.

Doesn’t really matter either way since simple image generation isn’t resource intensive

Try for yourself https://github.com/ShiftHackZ/Stable-Diffusion-Android

But that’s (very clearly) beside the point, which is that you can run a variety of models locally on your PC or phone for miniscule energy. Once a model is trained the damage has already been done.

As always, it’s the corporations using the resources and doing the damage, so pearl clutching about random individuals is less than useless.

Training models takes a stupid amount of energy. Using them after the fact uses very little.

I could generate something like this on my phone using any of the dozens of local models.

Same with Soviet historiography

Trotsky is good at appearing “right” because he plays fast and loose with the details so he can retroactively claim to have been for or against something after it already happened.

One example off the top of my head (forgive me if I misremember the specifics) is the NEP, which according to Trotsky and Trotskyites was originally his idea that Lenin initially disagreed with but eventually came around to. But, ignoring the fact that timing matters and a year is a long-ass time in a revolutionary period, the details also matter, since the goal wasn’t to retreat to capitalism but to very carefully reintroduce certain market incentives to help develop certain sectors of the economy that had been obliterated during the war. So you can’t just claim “oh I had this idea first” when your idea, at least according to Lenin, would overly benefit the Kulak class without adequately fostering a respective proletariat (or something along those lines). Lenin goes into this in great detail both when he dismisses Trotsky’s plan and also when he introduced the NEP.

But he was also an asshole, notoriously elitist and dismissive of anyone he deemed intellectually inferior.

Honestly reading through the debates and speeches from the party meetings and congresses is great for breaking through a lot of the ahistorical western bullshit.

Long history of wrecking/coopting movements and orgs.

I know good individual trots, but the trot orgs in my area are all white college students that show up uninvited to things they had no party in organizing, then selling shit or starting fights. We have a lot of coalition building among MLs, anarchists, and DSA types here, and it’s always the Trots that refuse to find common ground or show any support whatsoever. Their praxis consists of wrecking/splitting, raising money, and defending sex pests.

Inventing people to get mad at dialed up to 11

It’s true but they’re under constant bombardment from redscarepod and liberals, so the culture is in a constant flux of contradictory ableism and cryptofacism versus principled leftism. The zog nonsense will some days be massively upvoted with pushback buried at the bottom, then the next day it flips to downvoting zog and upvoting principled antizionism

Basically the least exciting/impactful battleground in history

For anyone reading this who thinks it’s a joke, a recent consumer reports study found high amounts of lead in most of their tested protein supplements

Side note, there’s also high amounts of arsenic in most US-grown rice. So eat imported or Californian rice if it’s a daily staple

I’m more in the layout space due to RSI. Currently running Colemak-DH on a split Corne.

GoTY is just somebody that I used to know

Reality has been farcified so many times I don’t even remember what the original tragedy was

Can they imprison you or garnish your paycheck? Do you have assets that can be taken? Are you gonna rely on a good credit score in the next 7 years?

If you answered no to all of these questions, then the debt isn’t real.

This is not financial advice

eBay Thinkpad all the way. T460-480 are what I usually go for. Easily less than 200 bucks.

Magnesium might help a bit

Not a doctor

Oh my god

$96.5 million for Nadella. Microsoft’s CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs

BECAUSE of a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs

Some guy named Viktor supposedly