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The Progressive International flotilla donation link is leading to 404 Not Found

https://act.progressive.international/flotilla_donate_en/

I'm guessing they got forced to take it down because Cuba is a "state sponsor of terrorism" or other such shit idk.

So how to I get my money into the hungry bellies of Cuban babies?

I was looking at the production numbers for stuff like thaad missiles and tomahawks. They're all in the dozens annually and seemingly have been for ages.

Given the staggering numbers these are used in, and how it seems like the way the usa fights wars now is to launch stupid amounts at people, like multiple years worth in a day. What happens when they can't? How close are they to that, interceptors are low atm but given there are hilarious announcements like: https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/over_1000_tomahawks_1900_aim_120s_500_sm_6s_per_year_us_moves_to_multiply_missile_production-17408.html I assume many offensive rockets are running low.

Is that level of production feasible? I know the usa has a surprising industrial base but a 20x increase in even one armament seems ambitious, do they have the factories mothballed? The skilled workers? The raw materials?

If they don't is there any inkling of what their military people intend to do when they can't realistically threaten to park a fleet off your coast and level your cities?

I'm not a military nerd, just a random person if I'm missing sometimes obvious or said sometimes funny.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7967514

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7967513

Hi family,

Some of you remember me from when I used to post here for mutual aid. I wanted to come back and share an update and also ask for support again.

For the past 5 years I was under UNHCR protection moving through different refugee camps. I lived in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya and later in Gorom Refugee Camp in South Sudan. Life there was extremely difficult. Many of us faced violence, police brutality, discrimination and constant insecurity. Those years were some of the hardest in my entire life.

Eventually my case was processed through UNHCR and the Canadian embassy and I was given the opportunity to resettle in Canada. I’m now here and safe which I’m deeply grateful for. However adjusting has not been easy. The weather, environment and everything changing including leaving my queer family in danger so suddenly has been emotionally overwhelming. I’m still trying to find my footing.

Before coming to Canada, I had a GoFundMe that many of you supported. The funds from that campaign were not just helping me, they were also helping some of my fellow refugees and the sisters I lived with in the South Sudan . Unfortunately the GoFundMe was closed while I was traveling and settling here due some circumstances.

The people I left behind are still struggling deeply. One of them is a 16 year old trans who is HIV positive and was also a beneficiary of the support we were raising. Right now they are facing rent deadlines and have very little food. Knowing this has been weighing heavily on me. A GoFundMe was started for Them and it will be help a few of others they stay with.

They need upto 850 in rent which as a new immigrant in Canada can’t afford.

I’m coming back to this community because I know many of you care about refugees and queer people who are still stuck in dangerous situations.

If anyone is able to support in any way even something small it would go directly toward helping them cover rent and food while they continue trying to stay safe.

Please consider supporting my queer family through the link in my Bio/ profile

Thank you for reading,remembering me and always showing compassion to people who have so little support in the world.

With pleasure, CyaraKaira

I'm a baby Marxist, and I'm not particularly knowledgeable on AES countries. I've really enjoyed finding effort posts debunking propaganda and talking about the actual state of them, but dredging them up with the search feature isn't particularly effective. I'd love to hear what people have to say, especially about China and the DPRK, since those are the ones that come up most frequently.

literally just learned of it through some random reddit comment (the comment was about how it really fixes issues with AMD gpu drivers).

good? trustworthy? pros and cons? good for first linux os?

i've been lazy and have been riding out my windows 10 extension but this actually seems really easy with clear instructions to set up a dual boot and slowly hand over more of my hdd space to it. also seems pretty secure, open source, etc but i just want to make sure it's not sus

I've realized that the local org I'm in is filled with theory heads. That's not a bad thing in itself but when these people do nothing except endless bureaucracy and theory study it gets old fast! It just feels like the org is COINTELPRO-ing itself by making itself useless by having so much procedure to the point where I can't anyone to even agree to run a newspaper ad for the org without going through five layers of approvals.

Sorry for the mini rant sigh

So what I really want to do, and what I think the left needs, is some sort of mass communication and propaganda outlet. I'd like to create counter-propaganda and set it up so others can easily add their contact info. Kind of like templates, but in more of a structured way vs. The very decentralized way agit prop is made now.

Does something like this exist? PSL near me just does protests. There was one ultra Maoist but that turned into a drama meltdown with DSA. There was a CPUSA chapter here that was basically 4 people who hated their national org and I haven't seen them in over a year.

Maybe I just need to go off on my own and make my own stuff. I wanna be a good comrade but ironically the people are hard to deal with. It's hard to be serving the people when I don't do well with people 🙃

What things do you all do within your organizations or parties to maintain discipline and militancy with rank and file members?

I'm sure we've all dealt with the same problem: the group votes to do some large project or campaign, a lot of people express enthusiasm and maybe even sign up for the "fun" or flashy parts, but the majority of the work for the project/campaign (all the prep work that leads up to the main event/flashy part) gets largely ignored by Rank and File members.

Example: your org votes to put on a day class - people are excited, some volunteer to help out "day of" to be greeters, presenters, or setup and teardown, but few people volunteer to assist with event prep (finding and inviting presenters, writing & editing presentations, finding a venue, advertising the event, etc). The prep work then falls on a few comrades that don't want the event to fail, who end up picking up too many tasks to drag the event across the finish line. Despite all their efforts to involve new members or existing rank and file members, during the debrief some of the rank and file members express concern and wonder about how the event had major problems (some may not be literally major, but the comrade offering the critique doesn't have enough context to see the larger issues because they weren't around for the work, so they are bike shedding dramatically). The folks that got the work done are exhausted and then end up doing it again for the next event. Some (or all) of the comrades who showed up for the flashy parts repeat their actions and critiques.

How do you all combat these issues? The orgs I've worked with have tried various methods and none have had lasting success. I have worked with a tenant union that was OK at getting people involved, but the nature of that structure did not involve keeping those people involved long term.

I'm getting back into MtG - Really I never left, but all my friends who played have moved + I lost all my good decks in a move myself. Now some of my other friends have started playing, and though I hate universes beyond, I enjoy the game.

I don't want to spend a bajillion on cards however, but I also don't want to play with paper cutouts or proxies. It's silly, but I like the cardboard for some reason. And I'd really like to regain some of my old decks, which were from Return to Ravnica/Original Innistraad era.

So I'm looking for a good printshop that prints good-looking Magic cards. I hear some shops in China have gotten better than WOTC at printing.
I'm in the EU.

Anyway, I'd love to get some recommendations. Please help me out.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44399155

Dude has 30k people watching his streams at all times.

How do I stop that fucking nag without signing in? Ideally by blocking js or whatever the code is. If you don't sign in - it's highly aggressive and it appears on every page. It's sneaky - it appears after you scroll.

Ublock Origin filter stuff

These do not work.

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theguardian.com##DIV[id*="sign-in"]:style(display:none !important;)
theguardian.com##DIV[id*="sign-in"]:style(height:0px !important;)

This works but - of course - it fubars a lot of the site.

||theguardian.com^$inline-script

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7928605

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7926986

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7921945

I'd first like to state for the record that I do not believe it, but at the same time, I've seen very, very little discussion of these claims from both the few times I've browsed the news mega (which, to be fair, I haven't done a lot of and I need to do more of) and from using the search bar.

I am curious about this, but the combination of brain fog, trying to sort through the muddled, tangled mess that is the output of most modern search engines, and just a sort of unwillingness to entertain the constant stream of western sources has left me with almost nothing.

I know very little about it, and I want to be better equipped to deal with these claims I know are most likely at bare minimum highly exaggerated.

Thank you all in advance.

I have a potential contract in Singapore. I know it's not based, but if I can turn that into a full-time job and residency, I'm thinking it might be a better escape hatch than anywhere in just by proximity to and relations with . Is that part off? It's largely vibes-based.

Then there's the general question about fleeing the imperial core instead of staying and helping my community. I don't have a community. The last place where I knew the names of my next door neighbors was my childhood home, which I left a generation ago. Do I owe it to the people living here to pick a place in amerikkka and join an org or am I ethically free to just pack up and move wherever suits me, even to a place with maybe even less revolutionary potential?

Found at the memorial to the paris commune. I tried writing it out but the symbols are too difficult to distinguish as I don't speak mandarin. Below the writing is a gold ring and a rock if that context helps anything

Like I recall spending too much money on peel and eat shrimp when I had the drunchies at the beach, but I didn't even get close to the amount he was spending.

Got my first ever interview in a few days, any tips? It's remote.

Long road, long struggle to get housing has been over for a month. It took.... 608 days from becoming on the streets homeless (not even crashing couches) But I moved into my apartment on February 1st with help from a housing org!

Now what?

I literally feel feral, idk how to connect with people, lost most social skills from the sheer dehumanization and I dont leave my apartment much because I'm afraid ill lose it or won't be able to come back or some neurotic shit i cant help but to think.

I guess what im asking is; Formally unhoused loves of hexbear, what steps did you take to help get you back to "normal" social functioning/out of survival mode?

picture is my gfs lovely orange baby named Athena

why do so many people seem to have a hierarchy allergy round these Western leftist parts

Am I meant to assume a_i is defined the same way as a_n for each of 1<= i <= n-1 ?

If so, I think I see the proof by induction on n, but the question just says a_i is defined for each 1<=i<=n-1, not that it is defined in that way. Is the question just overly vague or am I missing something obvious?

If only a_n is defined as the greatest integer such that the sum from 0 to n of each a_i/k^i is <=x, then I think there are counterexamples to the hypothesis, right?

Like if x=0.32, k=2, n=2, then a_0=0, and the inequality is satisfied by a_1 = 2 > k-1 = 1 and a_2 = -3 < 0.

To explain, I'm just a big old ignorant layman, but with other scientific fields I at least CONCEPTUALLY understand how they came to their findings.

Like if a Geologist tells me something about rocks I'm like: "Okay, idk how geology works, but I assume you did some kind of experiments involving rocks so you probably know what you're talking about."

Or if a neurologist tells me something about the human brain: "Okay, idk shit about neurology, but I assume you did some kind of brain scan or took some brain samples or did some kind of scientific experiment thingy to know this stuff about brains. I don't know the exact details but I can at least abstractly understand the process by which you learned this thing you're telling me now."

Then I'll see some news report about some finding a theoretical physicists made and it'll be like: "The Universe is made of strings! And also the sun is a black hole! The universe is shaped like a doughnut!"

And my honky ass is just like: "How the fuck do you know that shit? What are you looking at? How did you figure that crap out?"