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Lenin's powers: class analysis and organization.

Who saves more lives?

Asking because I value opinions here.

Personally I don't think anyone can influence what the general audience of chat users ultimately coalesces around. That's going to happen, and it's going to be out of anyone's control as people discuss and compare and decide which they prefer of the dozens of alternatives appearing.

This however looks interesting to me. I know it's not Matrix and thus not secure like everyone here wants. But it is fully open source and it is AGPLv3.

It feels like it's getting some traction and interest. If it has problems that anyone here can spot (besides the full encryption which isn't something the rest of the discord users looking to leave are going to demand), I am interested in hearing them.

So far my setlist includes Olivia Rodriguez and Green Day.

Kind of an odd question to ask here I guess but are pier and beam style homes common in northern climes in the US and elsewhere?

I'm a few miles north of the southernmost part of Texas/mexico so it freezes for a day here. Plumbing is exposed, underside of flooring is exposed, etc. is this common elsewhere or just a southern/hot weather thing?

I'm rerouting plumbing under here today. Made me curious if this happens elsewhere...

Or at least events commonly considered in the bourgeois media to be "conspiracy theories." Personally, I believe that Joseph Stalin was assassinated in 1953 by the Khrushchev clique to ensure their rise to power.

Signing up for X dollars a month to have access to an interface that will simply allow me to make notes about how i might feel at a certain time. Best of all, companies will probably use my own reflections on my mental health to...sell me more shit.

Anyone got a mood tracking app they like, or should I just set up a spreadsheet month by month and invite my therapist to collaborate on it?

I would love to hear the thoughts of this leftist community, not least any comrade in Russia. In the US it's so hard to get any serious Russia news/analysis because of the propaganda here- you have red guys that love Russia & Putin to own the libs, and you have blue guys that hate Russia & Putin because it's their favorite boogeyman. I ask because I personally don't like Putin for his war on gayness (wake me up when we get to war of gayness) but I understand that countries in the US's crosshairs are those that make their history under the least self-selected circumstances. I was looking at some stats when this question came to mind:

UA

RU

So material conditions have definitely improved under Putin, which is a miracle considering the fall of the USSR and the disgrace of Yeltsin, which makes me think there are probably people out there who like Putin for rational reasons, besides owning the libs. I would love to hear your thoughts either way.

Or is Marx gremlin coded

Boneappletea ? What does it mean ?

I know he won independence for Ghana, was somewhat socialist and later he carried out crackdowns on opposition parties and the press with the stated reason being to prevent imperialists regaining ground in the country before being overthrown in a military coup that was allegedly backed by the CIA. But beyond that I don't really know anything about him, curious if anyone has any recommended further reading beyond just his wikipedia page

I'm feeling a bit stifled in my city and want to move. My priorities are $1500-2000/mo rent and a path to an affordable house (see: picture), a unionised city workforce, good greenspace with an extensive parks system, good biking infrastructure, a good public university, and a good political scene. That leaves Portland, Minneapolis, Chicago, and maybe an East Coast city I haven't researched yet. Of those, Portland is at the top of my list because I'm getting an ocean for Great Lakes prices.

What's bad about the city that makes people move away? Is there a better option in Oregon, especially one that would let me commute into Portland without whatever problems it has?

Wondering if it's just me and my own legitimate fuck-ups at work or if this is possibly part of a broader trend. I've been at my current blue collar job for almost two years. For the first few months I was just training and not touching anything, but I've been on my own for about a year and a half. Starting maybe six months ago, my managers have called me into meeting after meeting, usually every few weeks, to talk about how I suck and how they're going to fire me. In their defense, I was legitimately fucking up. And before you tell me to unionize: I already talked about it with my coworkers (white males on the older side) and they aren't interested. I'm on my own at this job for 99% of the time I'm out there so I barely talk with them anyway.

One manager called me recently to thank me for my hard work. Two meetings ago, he basically said I had nothing to worry about, with regard to one of my recent fuck-ups; then we just had another meeting yesterday where he and another manager once again threatened to fire me (over the same fuck-up). We have regular safety meetings with my coworkers—a few safety meetings ago, the managers gave us a list of items all of us needed to have in our work vehicles. One meeting later, they told us we had too many items in our work vehicles. They're just kind of all over the place, and I'm wondering if this is because they're under pressure from their superiors or market trends or they feel emboldened by Trump? What do you think?

What's a very easy way to kill all js at a particular domain? Ideally - I'd like some kind of kill switch I can click.

Example link at news4sanantonio.com. The damn site showed me page as normal but for only literally about one second. And then I got that very annoying error message.

The only way I know is via Ublock Origin. I have to write a couple filters and that's annoying.

! news4sanantonio.com
! 2026-02-17 "Oops! Something went wrong!" Yes, that's true - you fuckers!
||news4sanantonio.com^$script
||news4sanantonio.com^$inline-script

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Trivia

The number of SCRIPT tags on that page is insane.

• In HEAD 53
• In BODY 128

does it? can i see? where is it?

Marx vs Engels . no weapons allowed

been reading Barbara Allen's biography of Shlyapnikov. Very well written and sourced almost entirely by archival stuff. But depressing because the workers' opposition gets run roughshod over by basically everyone in power (Lenin, Bukharin, Stalin, Trotsky, Molotov, etcetc). Been wondering what others' have read on the workers' opposition and what your takes are.

The 1930s have been by far the most depressing

But even the late 10s and early 20s have some "dude wtf" moments from leadership imo

Somewhat relatedly, what do folks think of the Democratic Centralists? I've actually never heard of that faction in the 1919-21 debates before