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  • I think the point is not to consume it uncritically. To avoid the worst of it that’s just pure cop apologia or fascist love letters type of thing.

    And to not of course become too enamored with it to the point of not understanding it’s function as propaganda and the need to enjoy more than just that in life.

    Fact is there is not going to be a cultural revolution in the west anytime soon. Acting like this person acts is a prescription for despair and being seen as weird by the masses for most people. Part of me of course says good on her and people like her might be of great use in an eventual revolutionary situation and might be leadership material. But right now there is a need to engage with the masses where they are and being able to shoot the shit about a few popular shows isn’t a bad thing.

    It’s IMO much more useful to be able to talk to your average person about specific problems that are big propaganda in a given show than just go around screaming how it’s all bourgeois propaganda. One presents an in for class awareness education. The other makes people roll their eyes.

    The revolutionary moment is I’m sorry to say probably decades away in the imperial core. Most people would burn out after years or decades of this.



  • It means NVIDIA and their authorized resellers can’t ship certain things to certain countries and if an agent, end-buyer, etc in those countries that can be shipped to re-ships to a yellow country then they’re in violation of sanctions and will presumably have their assets frozen and stolen, their executives threatened with arrest, etc, etc.

    Laugh now if you want but the US is very experienced with sanctions.

    This isn’t to stop um say someone in Portugal from getting an RTX 4090 by the way. The point is to stop not small components that can be easily smuggled like a single graphics card, but to stop the kind of bulk sales of data-center and AI chips which are almost always sold and bought in bulk from reaching unwanted places. Even the US cannot stop some French citizen from selling a gamer graphics card to someone in Russia. But what they can do is identify any actor spending $300,000 on AI chips placed in the restricted category who then resells them to a yellow flagged or red flagged country in that quantity for use in building or expanding a datacenter or AI applications.


  • The US is declaring open war on anyone but them and their chosen obedient vassals controlling the commanding heights of technology.

    The imperial core will enjoy the best, everyone else will be artificially stifled and slowed to keep them lower than the west on the ladder and enemies of the west will find trying to use western tech extremely stifling, expensive, and prohibitive.

    I do like how Greenland, the US’s loyal arctic intercept, radar, and operations base is yellow. Shows you all of Trump’s bluster and talk about it has deeper roots in at least a desire for more control.

    And as usual the tech bourgeoisie wail but do nothing. Empire is more important than short-term tech profits or benefits to the financial capitalists and the continuing march of these restrictions I think shows the way the winds are blowing. Anyone here seriously hoping that wall street’s greed will restrain the west against China, BRICS, etc is clearly mistaken. The long-term thinkers are in charge, the hatches are battened down, it’s time for cold war 2.0, the empire draws all strength to itself, all its forces, all its might, slowly winding down global free trade to protect the capitalists but still forcing them to take a loss and for what? To play for it all, to play for another century of dominance, to bet on a few decades of intense sanctions, blockade, and all the dirty tricks of the CIA to bring down their enemies and give the US a “new American century” with exploitation of all that now defy them their prize in victory and their assured destruction and implosion their prize for failure.




  • Do you know what type of cleaner it was? Brand or what’s in it? I know I’ve seen washing machine cleaners that are either strong chlorine bleach possibly with other chemicals, oxygen bleach like oxiclean, and other.

    I’d agree use baking soda, make a paste, cover the dishes, just some to start with in the sink to test. Let it sit a while, then soak it with vinegar. If that isn’t enough you need more acid. Ideally powder form which isn’t as diluted and can work with the heated water during a cycle. Citric acid powder would be the easiest. If you can’t get it by itself maybe unsweetened store brand lemonade packets (dried, if you can ask about ingredients, citric acid should be high on it), a bunch and add them then run hot. Then run dish detergent through as normal.

    Disclaimer: I don’t have personal experience with this but know a little of cleaning and looking it up people suggest this.

    Just test on one dish to start before doing it all is my suggestion.



  • Well I don’t want to call it the start of the war which is why I put it like that.

    The fact is the war was started by the US Nazi Ukrainian proxies in 2014 and involved Ukrainian citizens fighting one another for 8 years. Russia simply got involved in an existing war that was on the verge of escalating.

    I refuse to accept or propagate the western propaganda framing of Russia as the aggressor which is why I put it that way. They didn’t start the war, they got involved in one being waged against them instead of turning the other cheek. But that’s not a succinct way of putting it.




  • darkcallingtoComradeship // FreechatMy thoughts on veganism
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    Three day old account asking for the creation of what has the -potential- to be a highly divisive, highly inflammatory community. I wish people would have a different attitude, one of lurking a bit in their new home, understanding its nature and waiting before seeking power and influence and change over it. I doubt OP is ill intentioned I just think “lurk more” is a good mantra.

    Let me lay out some thinking.

    Whereas:

    1. Hexbear has an existing community around this already that is much larger than this one will ever be and as we are federated you can view and interact with that community and perhaps accomplish your goals?

    2. Whereas the creation of that community on that site led to some of their most enduring struggle sessions and division (curiously their application asks applicants not to be racist, not to be homo or trans-phobic, and about animal liberation stuff, not a whiff about women’s rights though even after their big post about misogyny problem, really kind of telling priorities in the western left but perhaps that’s for another time). And whereas we have a meager 550 monthly users on lemmygrad total and further division of that is bad.

    3. Whereas great Marxist theorists have written many more times as much on atheism, anti-theism, anti-religion, etc (compared to a few carefully mined quotes relating vaguely to this) and whereas despite this most Marxists and anti-imperialists almost certainly fall within the camp of not being offended by such content nor having a problem integrating it in their lives. But whereas such content was prohibited from becoming a community unto itself on lemmygrad to prevent strife, struggle sessions, disharmony, dis-unity, and division from the wider masses.

    4. Whereas this by contrast would be much more divisive, tends to bring in a lot of problematic people (as with the atheism community in places) who are very dogmatic, inflammatory, hurtful, antagonistic (I’m thinking federated instances here) towards those who don’t hold their view and tend to make such posts in great number which are unfriendly to those who don’t hold their persuasion and would result in strife, dis-unity, division, and struggle that distracts from primary interests such as anti-imperialism and anti-capitalism. (And please let’s be honest here, if we’re going to say Muslims and Christians should feel welcome by not pushing the Dia-Mat hard in that direction and beating them over the head with it, it’s equally if not more important given the amount of people who eat meat even compared to the religious/irreligious (greater) that we not create an unnecessary point of tension here and a point of division from the masses).

    Theory-crafting in a dedicated community? I don’t have an issue with that, I’m not freaking out about trying to connect veganism and Marxism. What I worry about is the memes, the casual posts, the rants, the venting about “carnists” and so on that stir up trouble and strife when things have been so relatively harmonious here compared to hexbear. Some of that is due to the vetting and requirements for membership, some credit is due to the admins and a lot of that I think is from discouraging anything too inflammatory that distracts from the uniting interest and goal here. I hope you can keep this in mind if you make such a community when setting rules.


  • If you eat meat you should consider trying the famous In’n’Out Burger fast food chain which is native to southern California. Definitely get some fries with it if you do (though unlike McDonalds their fry quality can really vary throughout the day from good to kind of dry). Nothing iconically vegan here that I’m aware of in a way that people from other states lust after and know about.

    There’s celebrity and Hollywood stuff to see of course, the citywalk with all the celebrity stars in the sidewalk, the Chinese theater, some museums for that. Universal Studios theme park has a vehicle tour thing which is mostly gimmick and does require paid admission to the park, I wouldn’t place it high on my list unless you had a lot of time (no visits to anything but held over preserved old sets and some theme-park-ride gimmicks along with trivia but it’s not uninteresting if you have an interest in older universal movies). There are also other studio tours which are a bit more authentic and involve getting close to the sound-stages which you can check into but many of them require more advanced bookings and may be more expensive.

    Without knowing a budget and how much time you have to spend it’s hard to begin. LA has a lot of interesting things, say Griffith Park Observatory which is pretty famous and which has amazing views of the city after dark. Though note you may have to take a tram/bus up to the top or walk a little ways, it’s not a super quick stop but you can probably quickly see the outside, take some photos and leave within an hour.

    There’s also the Getty museum which has some pretty interesting artwork by a number of famous masters. Admission is free and you get to take a tram up to it but you must book a reservation in advance for a time-slot.





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    Tri-part god. Holy trinity.

    They say he’s part of god, used his power to be born as human as a son of himself and Mary, got nailed to wood by angry Romans, died, shed human mortal form or transformed it into something else and ascended to heaven to be with his other part of itself called god the father as well as another part called the Holy Ghost.

    Confused? Good. Centuries of apologetics and no one has been able to explain it with anything more than handwaving and mysterious talk of god being beyond human understanding.


  • Ideally something with DRAM based on TLC NAND. That said if you’re NOT going to run an OS off it and just games QLC NAND should be fine though I’d still want DRAM.

    Here’s the thing though. If you’re getting an NVMe based drive (because you have a free NVMe slot on your motherboard) many don’t have DRAM and can be fine (it’s still better but their higher speeds and things like using host RAM mean they can get away with it).

    Amazon’s on page AI question assistant should usually be able to tell you whether a drive is TLC by simply asking it “TLC”, same with whether it has DRAM though you can also look up details like this on certain tech review sites.

    I’d stick to the brands mentioned in the other comment as well as Crucial and SK Hynix. Those two plus Samsung I believe are the only ones in the west who actually make the NAND storage while others just make a controller.



  • I’m sorry you had this experience. It’s not by any means something I think most people can rush through in an hour like some youtubers who do it so frequently it’s easy for them.

    I’ll offer some thoughts on specifics:

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    It should not normally be possible to break Noctua CPU coolers without serious effort and repeated blunt brute force. Now you can install them wrong, ruin the pre-applied thermal paste (and need to replace that for $9) or potentially install them in such a way that they put stress on the motherboard and cause cracks after a few hours but you should notice something going wrong before that happens like one side of screws not tightening and the cooler leaning. Noctua in particular gives VERY detailed step by step written guides with pictures with their products and tends to have links to videos. Honestly the most detailed instructions of any component these days tends to be their coolers IMO.

    I suppose you could have broken the little spring clips that hold the fans on but you can get replacements for those by either begging Noctua via email (and waiting a week) or buying knock-offs on Amazon for $8. The trick by the way with those spring clips is to pull them forward along the surface of the cooler until the second ridge can line up and hook into the fins, the very top of the clips should just rest against the surface of the fins, not hold it, it’s the part behind that which should hook on and hold it. That’s the one part that messes some people up and isn’t always super clear.

    Are you sure this technician is not exploiting your inexperience and ripping you off with false claims of broken things? Because that sounds suspicious.

    As to bent USB pins that’s also interesting are you sure you did that or are they claiming you did that? Possible that it was bent from the factory (does happen) or a return. Not a huge deal, just something to note to always line up and push in connectors dead-on not from an angle. As to the ziff-connector PCIe/graphics card lock, I hate those things and they’re not necessary and are increasingly being phased out anyways. Tons of people break those. You can use the motherboard and graphics card just fine with it broken, at most if the card is really heavy you might spring $9 for a graphics card support bracket to prevent it from slipping out.

    As to fans, unless you’re hitting them they shouldn’t break unless they had a defect and even Noctua fans can be replaced (including those for CPU coolers) for $16-$25. And Noctua warranties their fans for like 5 years so they’d definitely replace it. If it was a non-Noctua case fan those are often cheap anyways, manufacturer should offer a replacement if you contact them.