Full disclosure, I’m not a metalhead by any means, and Metallica isn’t always considered pure metal, but this one hits just right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQvLsifMZIE

Private property.

Private property.

Cixin Liu. Not only is the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy (Three Body Problem) epic, his short stories are really fun reads.

I don’t usually go for cocktails, but when I do I really like a peaty whiskey sour, or a boilermaker with Guinness or a session IPA and again a peaty whiskey.

I usually feel the worst first thing in the morning. It gets better over the day. Try to sleep and repeat for a few days.

I couldn’t agree more.

Lenin.

• Consumer picks one of the only three options they are legally allowed to have.
• They’re all bad options.

This guy:

• It’s the consumers fault that they picked the bad option and that all the options are bad.

I would be careful not to mix up what I’ll distinguish here as liberal social progressivism and communist societal progressivism. I’m sure there are more established terms for these concepts but I don’t know them or can’t think of them.

The imbalance we see in the liberal version is because it is, just like social conservatism, a reaction to current material conditions without a proper (ie dialectic) understanding of these how these conditions came to be and how they can be changed. Therefore it falls into the same paradigms and pitfalls which liberalism itself does, and is incapable of actually fixing the issues of the day. Then they get all caught up in things like “traditional” vs “modern” values, distinctions which are meaningless since both broad groups have been enforced across history in intimate relation to the reigning ruling class ideology of the time.

Whereas the type of progressivism we communists see as necessary is a holistic remaking of society, not limited to pushing for equal treatment of out groups, but banishing even the concept of out groups to the scrapheap of history, just to give one example. We go even further though, not in an “endless growth” type of sociopathic way, but in a strategic and structured way so as to fundamentally change the structure of society around us also on the political and economic levels, so that we can peacefully coexist on a human level rather than constantly struggling for who gets the upper hand.

Yes, but generally only bad quality loud ones.

If you can’t tell the difference between a super cheap keyboard and a well built one, fair enough.

If you like one of the things you use for a considerable portion of the day to feel nice to use and last more than two years, spend more. I spent an absurd amount on a keyboard about a year ago (like a week’s pay kind of absurd) and I haven’t regretted it for a second.

In terms of the offline solution I just edit Markdown files wherever whenever, and commit to the remote repo when possible or necessary.

I used Obsidian for a bit but recently switched to Markor which I quite like.

I do all the git stuff via cli on Termux. To be fair I do most of my notes on a PC so I don’t mind if the mobile experience is a bit hacky, with a couple aliases it’s easy enough. Alternatively I could edit files directly in on git server website (I run a self hosted git server but ymmv). For the major git servers like Github there are probably apps that make it more comfortable.

The markdown files are appropriately structured so I can run Hugo (config and layout files in a separate repo for tidiness sake) and get a static site build.

Instead of a personal wiki I chose to use a personal git repo for notes, which can be built as a static website if I want. Saving a link takes anywhere from a few seconds (saving it to a markdown file) to a few seconds more (committing that file to the repo and pushing).

The structure and concept of the notes repo is basically the same as your wiki.

I still save webpages I want to read later locally with Wallabag. Websites are in many ways an ephemeral thing, what you want to read later might not be there later.

Wallabag. It’s a little lacking and buggy, but I can host it myself. Omnivore looks slick but isn’t self-host-ready.

I notice this a lot in Canada and the US. I think it’s a weird internalization of the fact that these countries are made up of colonizers and people the colonizers brought in to do their dirty work for them.

Let me preface this by saying I’m white, and I lived in pretty much the same place until I was about 20. Most of my friends and acquaintances were also white and also born and raised in the area. My take on this is based on that lived experience. I am very aware that this question can take on very dark racist tones depending on the context.

“Where are you from” in a lot of cases doesn’t mean “you look different or you talk different,” it means “where did your ancestors come from”? When people ask, or volunteer this information, they’re talking about that family history. This is how you get people from Alberta with four generations of family history in Alberta claiming that they’re “a quarter German, a quarter Italian, an eighth Irish, and an eighth English”, and that’s the type of answer they expect when they ask a white or white-passing person this question.

You’re welcome to come discuss the vast differences between liberalism and Marxism over at Lemmygrad anytime.

I can’t respond to this, it’s so absurd and distortionist. In the context of tried and true Marxist-Leninist theory, the word philistine comes to mind.

In any case, this theory is all available online for free if you’re interested. Marxists.org js a good place to start.

I do have a grasp of what capitalist and socialist mean. I’m confused by your mixing and matching of terms. I’m consistently using Marxist definitions here.

France is a country with a capitalist mode of production.

China is socialist. China has home ownership for personal use, but no private land ownership and ever dwindling private ownership of the means of production. Homes for the purpose of living in, ie personal property, are not a means of production, and houses for rent for the purpose of enriching the owner at the expense of the tenant, ie private property, basically don’t exist.

Markets have nothing to do with the distinction between capitalist and socialist modes of production, the ownership of the means of production and thus also the class in control of the state is the defining characteristic.

If you’re interested in learning more about SWCC here are some resources.

Study guide: https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/socialism-with-chinese-characteristics?rq=Socialism with Chinese characteristics

An older but still relevant essay on how China is not capitalist: https://chinareporting.blogspot.com/2009/11/class-nature-of-chinese-state-critique_26.html?m=1