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in reply to king_comrade

Marxism is scientific truth and fears no criticism. If it did, and if it could be overthrown by criticism, it would be worthless. In fact, aren’t the idealists criticizing Marxism every day and in every way? And those who harbour bourgeois and petty-bourgeois ideas and do not wish to change — aren’t they also criticizing Marxism in every way? Marxists should not be afraid of criticism from any quarter. Quite the contrary, they need to temper and develop themselves and win new positions in the teeth of criticism and in the storm and stress of struggle. Fighting against wrong ideas is like being vaccinated — a man develops greater immunity from disease as a result of vaccination.
− Mao
in reply to 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴

Be mindful of your karma score


There is an option in your settings so you don't see upvotes or downvotes.

None of these imaginary points matter.

(Lemmy is rad)

I beg you to please block and downvote me. Please. It is all I want. Even if you agree with me. Pretty please?

in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic

The comment is about PieFed, whose developer is the kind of person who posts on thought policing communities like Meanwhile On Grad, globally tracks your score and restricts your account. It also has some features to drop messages that seem like a good idea but will certainly be used by a coordinated liberal order to silence leftists.


Video - How Do Cubans Feel About Trump’s Oil Blockade?


Donald Trump’s latest executive order allows the U.S. to impose additional tariffs on countries that ship oil to Cuba, deepening the economic siege on the island.

The result isn’t abstract policy. It’s collective punishment: blackouts, long gas lines, delayed medical care and families struggling to get through the day.

We’re in Havana asking Cubans about the new measures and about what life looks like when fuel, electricity and transportation begin to disappear.

Cuba has already been suffering increasing fuel shortages since the U.S. blocked all oil going to the island from Venezuela. In recent weeks, power outages in Havana have increased.

Stay tuned for more reporting from Cuba.

#Cuba


Video - How Do Cubans Feel About Trump’s Oil Blockade?




What are everyone's plans for watching the Winter Olympics?


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in reply to JoeBigelow

I will glance proudly at the TV, knowing my city dodged the biggest economic bullet that we probably ever faced. This was the Olympics that we would have been holding too. While I lament that our current Olympic facilities are decaying, I don't at the same time think it was responsible to invite this organization (and all the chaos that they bring) back into our city. We can provide the funding for future infrastructure in other and more sustainable ways.
in reply to GrindingGears

Salt lake? I lived in the Liberty apartment complex for a while down in Kimball Junction. Thing was definitely not built to last.




The Conservative Party is overhauling its policy playbook. Here's what's changing


Party adopting a 'stand your ground'-style policy, demands crackdown on criminal immigrants


If only the title could have ended partway through

in reply to trashcan

I always wonder what the tipping point is for failed government policies as the world slips deeper into dystopia and the old beat goes on. If people are starving and freezing in the street you don't invest in commodities, do you? You try to feed them and get them some warmth, so they don't die. Fiscal prudence should never enter the equation for these types of issues. The best we have here is kill someone before they kill you?
in reply to melsaskca

Conservatives think letting them die is the "fiscally responsible" option. Even if there are mountains of evidence suggesting otherwise the concept sounds simple and "common sense" enough for their base.


Search Engines, AI, And The Long Fight Over Fair Use


Long before generative AI, copyright holders warned that new technologies for reading and analyzing information would destroy creativity. Internet search engines, they argued, were infringement machines—tools that copied copyrighted works at scale without permission. As they had with earlier information technologies like the photocopier and the VCR, copyright owners sued.

Courts disagreed. They recognized that copying works in order to understand, index, and locate information is a classic fair use—and a necessary condition for a free and open internet.

Today, the same argument is being recycled against AI. It’s whether copyright owners should be allowed to control how others analyze, reuse, and build on existing works.


in reply to commander

Now if only we can get ourselves some reasonably performant RISC-V chips to run this...


It's totally normal for tools to say they're depressed, just tune it out


'It's just parroting the training data!' That's supposed to be reassuring??
in reply to Andy

The problem isn’t that the machine “feels sad”.
The problem is that it can lie, and the bigger problem is that some people will believe it.
in reply to BluJay320

Remember they answer what they think you want to hear

They gladly lie to make that happen

They cannot be depressed



Kaja Kallas: "I don't think there is anything that we can offer to Russia"



in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

At some point, we’re going to have so much crap in orbit, nothing else is going to be able to leave the planet.
in reply to Zephorah

spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-synd…

in reply to jankforlife

Obama will burn in hell for what he did to Libya.
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EMEP: Rojava belongs to the people of Rojava!


Statement from the Labor Party (Emek Partisi) of Turkey | Jan. 20, 2026 | Translated from Turkish– The Kurdish People must decide their own destiny, the siege must end! The Kurdish forces, who for years have been fighting to stop the... Read More ›


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EMEP: Rojava belongs to the people of Rojava!





Linux, FOSS, and whatever else makes me happy in my homelab


I'm kinda addicted to the standard 2" hexagon stickers. I decided to make my own since they didn't all come in hex. Whoever loses between Obsidian and Trilium (open to other suggestions) gets replaced with ceph.



Sovranità digitale europea, Ibm prepara il piano B


L’azienda statunitense propone un software che consente alle organizzazioni europee di mantenere il totale controllo delle loro infrastrutture tecnologiche AI. Punti chiave: indipendenza dalle piattaforme e un approccio open source

wired.it/article/sovranita-dig…

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