Just a tiny one, occupied by a single person

There’s a tiny blue dot outside the red circle.

Fine for cleaning but I can’t imagine it’s good for your gut biome

True revolutionaries bears are driven by a great feeling of love care

Empty signifiers are an easy way to obscure reality.

Institutionalists like to ignore that the supreme court has always been an ideological entity, not some neutral interpretive one.

Dredd Scott might be the most infamous proof of this

If it’s gonna take more than a few years to pay off, you might consider defaulting. Credit card debt is some of the most easily dischargeable debt.

That can range from offers in compromise to declaring some sort of bankruptcy to just not paying them anymore (the latter might have repercussions if you have seizable assets or enough debt that the carriers think it’s worth going through the courts to try and garnish your wages, assuming you have regular W2 income). Or if you currently have decent credit, a refi might even be a good option.

Do your own research, this is not financial advice.

I know people that just stopped paying and basically nothing happened. Credit scores went through the floor, but that’s pretty much it. Within a couple years they were able to open new cards, and after seven years the dings fell off their credit reports.

like a lot of work

It really doesn’t tho, not inherently. I’ve worked ag throughout my life and there’s nothing about food production in and of itself that’s quantitatively a lot of work.

The hardest it gets historically is subsistence farming with no commons/wilds, and that generally isn’t gonna be close to the 2,000 hours of labor a year that we now consider the minimum. Hunter/gatherer is gonna average less than 4 hours a day (large variations globally and historically ofc). In a well-maintained food forest even less than that.

Technology has increased food production efficiency like a thousandfold, to where a single person’s worth of labor can produce enough food for dozens to hundreds of people.

What is a lot of work, though, is being forced to produce surplus value for a non-working owner class. That held true for the peasants working 1,000-1,500 hours a year to feed themselves and their lords, and it holds true for the workers currently working 2,000-4,000 a year to feed themselves and fatten bosses and landlords. That’s the whole point of the post, to describe the enclosure of the commons.

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.

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.

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

$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

massive mental breakdown for like more than a week

Iirc this is Khrushchev revisionism. Or at least the secretary notes and hours (or whatever they’re called, showing the comings and going of people out of Stalin’s office by the hour) show Stalin meeting with leaders and working tirelessly for like 40 hours straight prior to and after the invasion. Then he goes home and presumably tries to sleep, but returns like 4 hours later to work another 24 hours

/\ this is off the top of my head and definitely not 100% accurate. I have my notes and possibly the source somewhere, I’ll see if I can dig them up.

I mean training a model is incredibly expensive both in electricity and labor, but none of us are doing that. Is using already-trained models locally that expensive?

I don’t have a GPU so I haven’t delved into this, @[email protected] what’s your take?

Lmao imagine the Chinese equivalent to Epstein is getting photos of people with Winnie the Pooh contraband and using that to keep them in line

Great comment!

It makes things difficult in IRL leftist circles where everyone has different exposure to theory and different abilities to engage with theory. Not understanding something is seen as a weakness so everyone has to pretend they understand it, and thus conversation ends up being really shallow and unproductive. The worst a person can do is say something “incorrect” and prove they’re not a “real” leftist.

Like, to convince people of things you have to appear confident. But to learn things you have to be humble/vulnerable. And our culture makes it difficult to code switch.

Power dynamics

I’d be happy paying taxes if they went to social works and infrastructure and whatnot, but yeah.

Now let’s talk about spending 60-80% of my remaining income on rent