"Pocket sand! Your wife will never expect it!".
This shit guide didn't mention it had to be in your SHIRT POCKET, got my ass beat by my wife while I struggled to get into my pants pocket that was buried underground.
What's your objection here then? You don't seem to have a problem with the ideas core to Marxism such as class struggle and the abolition of private property, even if you reject the terminology used to describe it. Do you just reject the attribution of these ideas to Marx or there bundling under the term Marxism? If I rephrased my arguments and quoted bakunin instead of Marx would I still be indoctrinating people?
If Darwinism was used to brutaly oppress and murder countless people I would seriously question it.
It has been and I gave examples above which you refuse to address. Darwinism is as core to eugenics as Marxism is to leninism, both take an idea and use it to justify the control and murder of people in the name of progress.
The ideas of Marx, such as class conflict, private property etc. , have advanced socialists understanding of society and political economy significantly. To reject all of those ideas because they were co-opted by dictators is myopic.
Are you going to reject Darwin's theories of evolution because he had some questionable views on eugenics and since his ideas were used to justify Nazi eugenics policies and the Holocaust?
Are you indoctrinating people into a philosophy from a hundred years ago that has been used by brutal regimes espousing social darwinist ideals to send people to their death when you explain the concept of natural selection?
I haven't driven at night in a while until recently and I was wondering if it was just me losing my ability to distinguish cars but when I looked into my rearview at night, especially on multilane highways, it just looked like a disorienting constellation of stars. I don't remember trying to figure out wtf is happening behind me being so hard.
Am I just getting bad at driving or is this a universal experience?
Only if you dip them in "cheese" sauce to get protein, that's what's called a balanced diet.
It's not just the Saudis, in fact they're one of the few who haven't signed on to the abraham accords, it's the entire ruling class of the Arab world who would rather get US money and weapons then confront the terrorist state destabilizing the region.
you don't have to torture yourself by typing anything on a phone.
I think that's part of the generational divide, gen z / alpha can type better on their phones then on a keyboard. Also probably very reliant on auto correct.
Sacrificial lamb to the almighty stock market to stop the stock from hemorrhaging value.
I agree in most contexts I wouldn't use it, but this is a meme about communism on lemmy which is 90% socialist / fellow travelers. The level of discussion on this forum is high enough that we can use or introduce people to ideas like Marx's definition of private property. We don't need to dumb down shit for the normies here.
I'm having trouble understanding you're objection to it then. If the purpose of art is to make you feel something and this AI media is accomplishing that, why do you need to distinguish between the two?
Do you not trust what's happening in those higher dimensions?
Do you want to preserve a walter benjamin-esque aura in human art?
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
/- Karl Marx
Marxists distinguish private property and personal property. Personal property is stuff you own to use, eg. Your home, your car, your phone etc. Private property is stuff you own to make money from the labor of others, eg. Rental homes, factories, stocks, bonds etc.
Seizing the means of production doesn't fully capture the goals of communism as it would leave other forms of exploitative property, ie. Rental properties, in the hands of the rich.
We could save on water and pollution by using children for anything we already use machines for, that doesn't make it right.
Should we have children toiling in the mines because the mechanical drill uses too much water and emits pollution?
Context: princess Andromeda of the perseus myth was from Aethiopia, while it doesn't exactly map to modern Ethiopia, it does literally mean burnt (black) face. So yeah Andromeda was black, despite what most modern western depictions would have you believe.
Alt Text: buff doge on the left representing 1970s america with the caption "I've eradicated all the screw worms in North America by releasing sterile males". Crying doge on the right representing 2020s america with the caption "scary worm back"
Sorry for the shit image quality but here's another ad by the same company for a better idea of it
Flew over the may day rally in San Francisco.
They're dabbing on us
/- Matt christman
How I ranked the Lemmy instance visibility by sort type
I'm building Stakswipe, a mobile Lemmy client with a swipe-to-vote UI. One of the problems I ran into was the anonymous feed — when you're not logged in, you need to pick an instance to connect to upfront, and that choice matters more than most people realise. Rather than just guessing or defaulting to lemmy.world, I wanted to objectively measure which instances give the best view of lemmy for someone browsing without an account. I put together a benchmarking script that tests the top 20 instances by monthly active users and scores them.
It's worth noting that some instances defederate from others or block certain communities, and that's completely fine — it's one of Lemmy's strengths. Communities and instances should be able to self-govern and set their own norms. These rankings aren't a judgment on any instance's moderation choices; they're purely about federation breadth and visibility of all that lemmy has to offer for a general anonymous feed.
What I measured
For each instance × sort combination, I fetched posts anonymously until I hit a quality floor suited to that sort's algorithm:
- Active (48 hours) — Lemmy's Active sort decays based on the most recent comment time, capped at 48 hours. The script stops when the last post on a page has been quiet for more than two days.
- Hot (24 hours) — Hot decays based on post publication time using a gravity of 1.8. Anything older than a day is well past its peak rank.
- New (2 hours) — Purely chronological. I stop at 2 hours to focus on live traffic.
- Top 6 Hour / 12 Hour / Day — These are ranked by score within a fixed server-side time window, so the feed exhausts naturally. I stop when posts drop below 5, 10, and 20 absolute votes respectively.
How scoring works
Every post has a canonical ActivityPub ID (ap_id). The script builds a universe — the union of all unique posts seen across all instances for a given sort. An instance's ability to surface that universe is what is measured.
Each instance is scored across four metrics, then the scores are normalized against the best performer and combined:
| Metric | Weight | What it captures |
|---|---|---|
| Posts visible | 40% | Federation breadth — how much of the universe this instance sees |
| Comments visible | 35% | Federation depth — whether post threads actually federate |
| Post vote totals | 15% | Signal quality — are the votes syncing, or just stubs? |
| Comment vote totals | 10% | Thread engagement fidelity |
The instances with the highest weighted score for each sort type are shown.
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