comrade-bear

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Cake day: August 24th, 2023

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  • Most any of them will work fine, for more information check here. So it’s more a matter of budget, I’d focus on size, just making sure it’s from a reliable brand(Kingston, adata, western digital, Samsung, I’m sure im forgetting some others) and that it has a DRAM controller(which should be the vast majority of them just keep on the lookout for ones that seem too cheap for their size). I’d only focus on speed if you deal on moving large files, such as movies or high res images or renders with some regularity. Otherwise for gaming I’d say size is the priority.








  • Both of them kinda are by the end the guy posting was defending the CEOs as well with that extra judicial killing stuff and denying the surprisingly reasonable affirmation of the clueless lib that one person’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter, which is quite correct. So I think they are both libs that have some sparks of understanding stuff, but out of phase with one another


  • Yeah that purpose is awesome, my issues are to the idea of making it a common language, every thing I said here on afterwards is related to that idea, because at first I’ve read that you DID think it was a good language to talk to anyone anywhere, not the contrary, so here is the expanded version of why I don’t believed the folks(you mentioned their name but I do not recall) that want Esperanto to be a common language will not succeed: It seems a bit idealistic to me, because there is a very small amount of speakers, and that means a very small incentive to learning it, if you are not interested in learning it as a hobby, outside of the hobbylike allure there is very little logic to when deciding to learn one and only one second language, to pick Esperanto, as many other languages might offer carrer opportunities, travel opportunities and much more, Esperanto does not. That’s not to say Esperanto is a bad language or that does not have upsides, but assuming people only have space for learning one other language it’s rarely gonna be Esperanto. And if you cross this with the data of how many people world wide get to learn a language that’s not spoken where or near to where they live, it puts the idea of Esperanto or any artificial language to be a common language. As things are set up the most culturally and economically powerful county kinda makes it’s language the common one, because it materially benefits people to learn it. So until there is an agreement to collectively set a non national language to be the world standard and build it with support and incentive of international proportions, artificial languages will never become a common language, it’s much too much effort to much too little gain, for much too long to justify the individual energy spent on learning it. At least it’s how I see it. It’s an awesome hobby with a lot of upside indeed, but just not practical enough for most people


  • Linguist perspective here, albeit not specialized on this area in particular, it that artificial languages have a hard time becoming a naturally used language, I would think because of the lack of incentive, if no international relevant force makes an effort to make it so, you are asking people with an already constrained time and energy to do are very hard and time consuming thing that is learning a language, with the hope that maybe someday it will be useful. Not to mention that natural languages have cultural meaning which may connect people with their own culture or cultures they have affinity for and that can be another source of motivation which artificial languages sometimes lack. So I found the idea about making this language a somewhat nation neutral natural language is nice, but somewhat wishful without big changes in how international relations works. Not least of because whitout a generalized contact with different locations that speak certain artificial languages become prone to heavy regional changes often denying their main appeal that is general inter comprehensability of different cultures.



  • I think this gets to a relevant point that the average Joe in any imperialist country has not the smallest clue about how much pain and suffering his lifestyle costs, but it does not change that his lifestyle costs that much pain and suffering, and this whole complicity stuff is some semantic hair splitting and ultimately unproductive, if by complicit you mean part of the system that exploits the subjugated countries, yes they are, but that don’t mean much because by this logic most everybody is, even those living in the exploited countries, so if you mean complicit knowingly furthering the exploitation, sure most people do not act like this, in fact I’d wager a very small group does. So this complicit stuff is meaningless because either everybody is or nobody. Once that is understood the point becomes: the enemy isn’t Joe cracker from America or Europe, the enemy is the system, that uses Joe cracker as frontline buy seducing him with a small share of the fruits of exploitation. Our job is to dispute the ideological mechanisms that keep Joe cracker in line and show him what could be different with the system changing and what he had to gain, like not worrying about leaving inheritance for the children for no one will ever be destitute, not worrying about cost of health, working less, retiring sooner, have appropriate support if he wants to have children.

    TLDR the complicit argument is kinda pointless, and the average Joe is not necessarily our enemy many of those are potential allies once we get them to understand more about how things work.






  • I think that revolutionary optimism comes from coming to terms with how bad the situation is, and sometimes there is not much prospect of change in the short term. So we feel like giving up, but the fighting spirit cannot come just from us wishing for a better life for us, which by all means is a powerful driving force, but also from the realization, that if nobody fights for a change, future generations are gonna suffer just as much and possibly worse, so even if for us right now there is no happy retirement, we must fight for the possibility of that retirement to exist for most people, and that’s our struggle, for the horrors we go through in the present to become things of the past.

    I hope that this perspective is of any help, because it is in some ways harsh and it is a hard thing, I do not know your reality and maybe there are ways for you to get a better life with some luck, but to many people there is no way of escaping. Because of that, that revolution is necessary and that is why and where we can look for strength. But if you can’t find it even so, we’re with you either way and those of us with the will and the means to fight will fight in your name as well comrade. If you can in any way help any promising organization around you I’d highly incentivize it. But if that’s not viable to, that is nothing wrong with that, we are together my friend and you are part of our fighting spirit, your story makes the fires of my anger burn stronger for every story like yours I see around me it makes my fighting spirit stronger, and I’m sure I’m not alone here so know this, you are part of the revolution, in one way or another. And I truly hope things get a turn for the better and you get to live with more peace, but until then know that there are people here who will fight for it.