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The other thread hit bump limit and I'm addicted to talking about the birth of the ̶a̶l̶l̶-̶k̶n̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ the biggest financial bubble in history and the coming jobless eschaton, post your AI news here

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>>32161
>A 10 year old computer can do most things a computer you can buy today at best buy can do
Real, it's also insane how low the generational bump is. If you ignore fake frame DLSSlop my 8 year old gpu still outbenchmarks the latest entry level offerings, and it cost less buying it used a few years back.

<A couple months back, a grad student reached out to me to see if I could help with some research they were doing. (I’m keeping things vague for reasons that will be apparent.) They had heard that I had previously been a patient at Connecticut Valley Hospital.
<(…)
<They asked me about several features of life “on campus” that I couldn’t answer, and I grew confused. One was about the “Vance Building.” I told them I wasn’t familiar with it, but that wasn’t unusual; CVH is a sprawling facility with lots of different buildings that in many ways operate as their own little worlds, and again, it’s been several decades since I was there. Then they asked me if I remembered “the club.” To which I replied, the… club?
<(…)
<So, the “Vance Building” or “Vance Hall.” Gemini discussed Vance Hall in detail, describing it as a hub of patient education, vocational training, job opportunities, commerce, and socializing. The intricacy of the descriptions provided by Gemini are somewhat offset by the fact that Vance Hall does not exist.
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/llm-hallucinations-are-still-fucking

>>32166
the replies are slightly irksome, people are answering "oh i'm able to use AI for rubber ducking" or "generate leads" or other menial uses i dunno if to disagree with the OP or what. he calls it motte-and-bailey but it strikes me as more akin to what tiktokers are calling "bean soup phenomenon", like yeah if you're limiting LLMs to generate very rough ideas instead of relying on it for your entire workflow, then the hallucination shit does not apply to you, it's also fucking irrelevant

>>32166
It seems to me that LLM chatbots are the absolute worst tool for doing research. People who claim that they are like a more advanced search engine probably never actually had to search for something obscure.

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>>31512
you wrote AI like 50 times in your response

i dont even



/edu/

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Choosing a language edition

I do not know why we do not have an active language learning thread, so here you go.
If you got other links you think are worthy of being on here, do mention them.

>Language learning communities

r/languagelearning
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/

Language learner's forum
https://forum.language-learners.org/

Linguaholic's forum
https://linguaholic.com/

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>>25414
>What language/languages are you learning?
Chinese
>What is your level currently?
I can recognize quite a lot of characters. Probably HSK2, I'll be HSK3 by next year.
>Why are you learning them?
I am interested in learning more on the eastern sphere of the world, and I hope to live over there one day.
>What is your plan for improving?
I just got an Anki deck and I plan to study each day by utilizing it, and I plan to master the Sanzijing in a month.
>What tips can you share with someone who also has your TL?
Learn radicals. Write things down physically. Read stories. Learn to think in Chinese. Solve problems.

>>25513
Good luck Anon

>>25417
if you try making sense of japanese by comparing it to other languages it will only make it more difficult

https://sakubi.neocities.org/ some resource ocmpilation for learning japanese, it already assumes you know the basics

i wish i could choose a language to learn



/labor/

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Why is it socially acceptable if not encouraged in all political axes to hate work but it's considered blasphemous to hate school?

Why is it that whenever I ask most people what they learn in school, all they tell is the dumb shenanigans they committed, even to the point of wanting to officiate "rites of passage" based on dumb reckless childish stunts, but they cannot remember one intellectual thing?


Whenever adults are asked to help with schoolwork, their minds are blank. Whenever it comes to bullying, they have no backbone except for punishing victims for self defense.

I notice that the people who miss school the most usually are those with no work ethic or people who kinda have some unfulfilled teenage quests.

I'm not against schooling, but we need to revamp it entirely. Trying to segregate worldly factors from the classroom for the sake of "protecting the younguns" usually results in an immature society.

I believe a lot of our problems with labor and education is due to how modern society views them as parallel worlds with differing rules.

School should reflect the workforce in social treatment, type of tasks, and infrastructural design

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school is mostly based on the ability to memorize information, rote learning basically. That means most people just learn facts for a test and then usually forget everything afterwards. That's what the education system is based on.

But anyway, I think most of school is pointless, they should only really teach you how to read and write and maybe do basic math. I think otherwise education should be a choice and personalized based on what you are actually interested in learning.

Before people spent all their time working, people would start working as children and teenagers in earlier periods, and that was seen as the test for the individual to prove their merit, or some unnecessary standard to pass through. And that has shifted to school and the education system mostly, we are forced to spend years, and years in school to prove ourselves. It's just not very liberal I guess. There's all these ways to spend and waste an individuals time, it's just horrible. I personally hated school growing up. I just found it extremely alienating and strange and uncomfortable. The most strange and uncomfortable atmosphere you are supposed to go and spend all your time in. With the state basically babysitting you.

ugh I don't really see where you're getting this idea that people hate working or jobs, I think that's maybe something you see a lot on niche places on the internet, but in real life most people are still just slaves to capitalism, they don't even want you to think, you're supposed to just either find a job and work (and if you don't then it's your fault you're just lazy) or you're just supposed to immediately take something in school and get into debt to pay for the tuition. I have always seen the way most people view working and the education system as like some pinball machine, it pretty much is this strange game you are supposed to play, you are just taking risks and chances all the time with your god damn life, and it's almost like this daring, exciting risk of chance to the average person. You just hit the ball around trying to strike gold or get "rich" or some shit. At least, that's the average understanding the average person seems to have of the workings of the system we are in. The thing is, even if they do know more, they mostly want to keep people like you in the dark as much as possible.

But it's like capitalism is supposed to just literally be a part of nature or life, and you're just literally surviving on your ability to fend for yourself in nature. It's just weird as fuck.

That has been the majority of my experience with a lot of people, the vast majority, which is why I don't really have more experiences because it started to become so dreadful. Most people aren't that intelligent I think, and have no idea what they're really doing. Or they know just enough to extort people, but for them it's probably something they studied a lot and it was a major deal with them, like simple intellectual concepts, intellectual concepts at all are a sign of intelligence or a big deal to the average person probably.

I just see a lot of people like they're slaves, or not much different then dogs, like they're made to be incredibly territorial and they can't be taught hardly or see beyond those strong instincts. Property=territory, and a job, I have no idea what that really is to some people. They really think that some rich capitalist industrialist or bushiness owner is like some caveman Savannah dude who is like a tribal god or deity magically creating the conditions by killing a t-rex and stealing a pterodactyl egg or something like I don't get it? it doesn't make sense.

But that's why I think some people are predisposed to being right wing or something, and not really very capable of being liberated.

The thing is scientists say that human beings are supposed to be social creatures, and that quite obviously is true to an extinct, but the way in which people can be social really diverges quite a lot. Some people they remind me almost of cavemen. There's a lot we don't know about the cavemen, but you can totally imagine their ancestors hitting people over the head with clubs, and using rocks for everything, without bathing. I mean, I like the flintstones and other depictions of them, so maybe I shouldn't go there.

I think higher up on the intelligence spectrum there are people who see everything like it's some part of a party, an extension of corporations basically, since they basically rule the world, and not all that removed from sports or something. That doesn't bother me as much, but to see everything like an extension of corporations is terrible. I guess it's more like an allegiance and is not quite the same.

But seeing capitalism like it's just 'nature' is just super weird to me. But I don't think some people can really be as communal or collectivist as others are capable of. But that's a complicated subject because I want to be collectivist for example, but I find myself considering myself an individualist most of the time. I would have to be really extreme if I were to be a collectivist as an example, sort of, but not in a super traditionalist way like a lot of people would think of that notion.



/ufo/

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Does this shit actually work? I just wrote it, and then burned the note using a matchstick, it was 3PM though, not 3AM. Anybody with any previous experience? Any favorite deities?

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>>471
Well ISIS burn their passports and I don't know what they wished for but it must've been shit

Depends. It reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_paper, where you burn paper that's meant to be money for spirits. So if you burn a message maybe something literate and having agency will pick it up and lend a hand. Really seems like a gamble if that's what it is.



/lgbt/

 

I'm straight and I always thought that it was funny when a character for example says "I'm gay" and that's the entire joke. This video is a very good example of what I'm talking about. However I always wondered if this type of humor otherizes gay people. I know that this is idol or whatever but I still wanted to get your thoughts.
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>>5856
>>5857
Makes sense

It's funny and not offensive.

>>5858
Not really because we already like men and we (mostly) don't have insecurities about masculinity nor care about performing it so it would be pointless

But I do make ironic homophobic jokes with my friends and slut shame them by calling them dick breath and ass crater.

>>5861
oh okay

>>5859
The homophobes are, in fact, the trve gays.



/latam/

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EDIÇÃO BEBÊ-DIABO DO ABC
"Durante um parto incrivelmente fantástico e cheio de mistérios, correria e pânico por parte de enfermeiras e médicos, uma senhora deu a luz num hospital de São Bernardo do Campo a uma estranha criatura, com aparência sobrenatural, que tem todas as características do diabo, em carne e osso. O bebezinho, que já nasceu falando e ameaçou sua mãe de morte, tem o corpo totalmente cheio de pelos, dois chifres pontiagudos e um rabo de aproximadamente cinco centímetros, além do olhar feroz, que causa medo e arrepios."
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
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>>15529
O meme está errado porque supõe que "pessoas" que assistem BBB tinham um cérebro pra jogar fora pra início de conversa

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>>15530
Verdade meu sobrinho querido 😂😂😂

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📍 Mossoró - RN

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Entrei na board /mu/ do Leftypol por curiosidade e a imagem do sticky é baseada na capa de Ys da Joanna Newsom, algum moderador tem bom gosto.



/ufo/

 

>Many different short-lived actinide elements, namely, actinium, protactinium, neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, and einsteinium have been reported in the absorption spectrum.[25][26] Radioactive elements have also been reported to include technetium and promethium.[25][27] While the longest-lived known isotopes of technetium have half-lives in the millions of years, the longest-lived known promethium isotope has a half-life of only 17.7 years. The presence of these elements in the stellar atmosphere would imply some process constantly replenishing it.
Where does this star get elements that we have to create in a lab, and in such abundance that we can detect them from 356 light-years away? And why not take a closer look at this with JWST?

>Przybylski's star has occasionally attracted attention as a SETI candidate[33] insofar as it aligns with speculation that a technological species may salt the photosphere of its star with unusual elements, either to signal its presence to other civilizations[34][35] or to dispose of nuclear waste.[36]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przybylski's_Star

>>423
yea aliens are real, come to me aliens, save me aliens
I'm sad here aliens, take me away aliens, drive me away from humanity please



/lgbt/

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lefty gay general - boyfriend edition

How do we feel about our bfs /lgbt/? I love mine lots and lots and can't wait till he gets home from work personally.
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>>5839
What if he has regrown his foreskin and has a bigger foreskin than before?
Has anyone here regrown his, btw?

Where can I read about Caleb Maupin's view on male sexuality? A quick search doesn't bring up anything

>>5848
He thinks that Toxic Masculinity is hot

>>5849
Yeah same but where did he say it?

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>>5851
You don’t need a book to know this



/music/

 

Music your parents listen too
Post whatever music that your parents listened to while you died in the back seat of their car from the radiation coming from your gameboy. The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short
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thanks dad


A select few 90s psych bands and Nickelback





/draw/

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Alunya Art thread
(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)
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how about Flintstones style primitive communism Alunya

>>5700
what's she holding and why is it steaming?
also cool concept lol

>>5706
>what's she holding and why is it steaming?
I thought it was an iPad

>>5700
what is she holding? an tablet doing some number crunching? it looks to big to be a mug of some hot drink. also check'd

>>5705
Is the second image supposed to be an Alunya variant that has a sun-tan, is Asian, Latin-Americam, or Greek?

>>5706
amazing how cute this is



/draw/

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just got a tablet a few days ago, only made two attempts thus far at pictures in MS paint. Steeper learning curve then I imagined. These are not really meant to be taken seriously though and also I am not pro-Trump or anything.



/hobby/

 

Wtf even is this sport and how do I get good at it? I can’t grapple for shit yet. Is the secret grabbing the asshole like vid related? Is it better to just learn BJJ?

Fuck, didn’t embed.
Here’s another example.



/labor/

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What is the coziest job? I love the idea of being a fisherman. Can you imagine being a Scandinavian fisherman? Must be awesome.

I fantasize a lot about being a hard-bodied young man sailing across the world, exploring all of Europe, all the while serving my nation by being the best Fisherman in all the land. Hopefully I will reincarnate into something like that. Unfortunately I'm a lazy-eyed, glasses-wearing, wimpy little freak.
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>>1523
dont you have to stand in one spot for like 6+ hours as a security guard?

>>1526
It probably depends on where you work

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I always wanted to be an inland waterway boatman when I was younger. I thought the biggest part of the job would be drinking tea and watching the world go by. Don’t know how it really is tho.

Computer programmer. You just sit on your ass all day solving fun puzzles while making huge amounts of money and changing the world for the better.

>>1531
now give us your serious answer



/latam/

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No encontré el hilo anterior así que hago uno nuevo porque es necesario

que con todo y todo Estados Unidos no ha parado de intentar meter las narices en el país y me esta empezando a cansar y mas si en el 2030 planean poner otro titere de mierda en especial si es el puto de Salinas Pliego que planea ser literalmente un Milei Whitexican.

Alguien seguia la campaña de Manzo?
Que opinan de Morena en pleno 2025?
Que nos queda por hacer?
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>>15376
salinas pliego es come un elon chafa
>>15377
>era parte de la 4T
ya no era parte de morena cuando fue electo alcalde de uruapan

A que partido comunista de eria de unirme?

¿Cuándo van a echar a todos los expatriados yanquis digitales que están convirtiendo la Ciudad de México en el nuevo Brooklyn?

>>15534
La gentrificacion es progreso.

>>15535
Mientes



/lgbt/

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hello i’m transpecies elf, dragon, and werewolf and overall an alterhuman in general. i also want to be a shapeshifter sometime in the future too or something like a squid. i wonder if transpecies would be considered just as valid and acceptable as transhumanism in the future or would it even be possible to be “fully” transpecies (changing from one animal to another physically and perhaps biologically as well in the sense it’s similar to transitioning)

https://otherkin.wiki/wiki/Transspecies

art creds vv
https://www.reddit.com/r/dragons/comments/1i06mdt/dragon_drawing_i_recently_completed/
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>>5517
> i wonder if transpecies would be considered just as valid and acceptable as transhumanism in the future
All forms of transitioning are valid.
>in the future or would it even be possible to be “fully” transpecies (changing from one animal to another physically and perhaps biologically as well in the sense it’s similar to transitioning)
Yes. In the future you will be able to transition to other species through genetic therapy or even possible to become bispecies(See: catgirls)

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Therianism is based because dialectics and I hope it becomes more prominent. So much of bourgeois ideology prerequisitely requires that humanity as an identity also be taken seriously.

I want to be one of them 👽

>>5517
>how do you do fellow queers

I am trans-species



/games/

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So i dont have much money just the minimum wage, i gotta buy food, meds for both me and my sister and theres a lot of expenses. i like to achievment hunt on steam hence why i buy these games but they're getting more expensive each year. should i just start pirating ? i was thinking of buying red dead redemption remastered but its costly as fuck.

and i kinda wanted to know you guys opinions, is it worthless to 100% (platinum) games on pc since most people just use the achievment unlocker thing?
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>>42565
>Pirates everything, even free games
Kek but true

>>43294
>If buying isn't ownership, piracy isn't theft!
I fucking hate this phrase even if buying gives you ownership who cares. If you want it for free download it for free (even if it's an indie) there is no need to justify it.

>>43386
Only a relatively small number of gamers actually know how to pirate though

>>43196
Maybe I'm retarded but whenever I search for a game on TPB it has like two seeds. And I can't find a free VPN that supports p2p.

PIRATE EVERYTHING!



/games/

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>In 1983 the video game industry crashed, plunging from an estimated global market value of $42 billion in 1982 to only $14 billion in 1985. It was catastrophic for what had seemed an unstoppable industry and, like most economic crashes, spawned many myths about its causes and outcomes.

>The popular imagination blames the crash on a combination of poor-quality games (most famously, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), the rise of home computers, and the increasing number of video game consoles for consumers to choose from. These myths have largely been accepted and perpetuated by historians, social media personalities and popular culture.


>Fast forward to 2025 and the video game industry seems to be going through another crash. Just this year alone, according to the website GamingLayoffs.com, the industry collectively has laid off 3,563 game developers. Gaming website Kotaku reports that Virtuous Ltd, the studio behind one of the biggest successes of the year with The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered, is laying off three hundred employees.


>What the crash of 1983 and the ongoing crash of 2025 have in common is that in both cases, most media, historians and social media influencers have muddied the waters on the cause and source of the crisis.


>In a way, the gaming industry is a canary in the capitalist coal mine. Video games are a sort of luxury goods – nobody ever died from not being able to play Donkey Kong Country or failing to grab the latest Call of Duty game. What this means in practice is that the capitalists who own and run the industry can be as greedy and rapacious as possible, above and beyond what they think they can get away with in more “serious” industries.


>Going back to 1983, Atari’s home version of Pac-Man – considered one of the worst games ever made – still managed to sell a total of seven million copies. Subjectively that’s an eye watering sum of units to sell; objectively it was the highest selling game the Atari console would ever sell. But despite this, Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 console reveals one of the unspoken truths about capitalism: it’s not enough to be successful. While Pac-Man sold seven million units, the corporate executives had banked on selling twelve million – that target would have required every single Atari
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>>45186
>collapse of the western video game industry
didn't happen,give me one studio who collapsed

>>45190
several small studios collapsed, but you're right, that's less of a collapse, and more like a concentration of capital towards the top

>>45190
Massive layoffs since 2021

>>45209
that's just the covid/post covid boom in the market no longer being relevant,so they fire people to compensate with the hirings that happened back then

>>45034
I think you'd have a lot more indie developers under socialism. If you didn't have to work to eat every day until you die, there'd be more of a reason to dabble in programming and learn something.



/games/

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it brings me no pleasure to announce this, but it's peak. the furry twink has done it again. total tumblr teen victory. i can't sleep at night and my life is irrevocably changed.
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>>45326
Anon, the point is that a human would break even if some monsters are kind. Imagine getting stabbed, burnt, gutted, drowned and etc by a lot of monsters you meet. imagine the exhaustion you feel crossing the underground, through hostile biomes. Imagine, not having the save powers so you cant take any potential risks.
Undertale relies on supernatural abilities for the pacifist ending to be possible. Even if you dont kill all monsters, you are probably going to kill some in self defense. Neutral is the most likely option

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>>43444
i see your keller and raise fagtrain.

is the connection and differences between frisk and chara a form of Hegelian dialectics


>>43962
Not familiar with Homestuck and Andrew Hussie, are you.



/music/

 

Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
<vid
CLASS WAR DECLARATION MIX FROM THE THAI LABOUR MUSEUM STORAGE ROOM
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GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!





/ufo/

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I was reading random articles when I came across this skeptic guy named Miles Mathis. He has a billion papers on different people and other things and basically just hates millionaire capitalist families and glowfags like any other conspiracy theorist. I like his hoax event and glowfag shitting papers but saw he has a paper on Marx, Castro, Hitler and other leaders.

To tl;dr the paper he says Marx was a mole from an elite family and socialism and communism is a meme devised by jewish industrialists. He rambles on a lot and talks about shit no one cares about, but some of Marx's family ties to European nobility does make me wonder if many of the people we trust and care about aren't actually who they appear as. Or maybe this guy is just an agent himself and trying to slander us. What do you guys think?


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Evendoe marxism goes directly against those types of people so it makes zero sense for them to be funded. Also zero proof

>>447
the point of the analogy is that the pamphlet is fake, and to uncritically take it at face value is to play into the antisemitic propaganda. it is the same as reading a pamphlet about the yellow peril and saying "I'm not sinophobic but this sounds concerning" without first asking yourself if the book is real, and if not, why was it made and what agenda it was trying to push

He actually wrote a little bit on the protocols I'll have to find a PDF

Scientific socialism is a glow op. Lemme explain, Marx was from a middle class family and married an aristocrat while Engels was straight up bourgeois capitalist. They weren't the only ones, Kropotkin was a serf owning aristocrat. It has nothing to do with Jews. So these people were non-proles who infiltrated the workers movement because of a sense of bourgeois guilt and shame at raping the workers and their bourgeois values influenced their beliefs and theories. Scientific socialism is just socialism with bourgeois characteristics stealthily mixed into it. Anarchism is romantic aristocratic thinking pretending to be a popular movement. So all forms of Marxism and anarchism today are evolved from bourgeois systems.

Neo Nazi uyghurs say Jew because they project all the problems of white bourgeois civilization onto Jews so they can pretend someone else caused all their problems. This is sublimation of class struggle the way jocks sublimate their repressed homosexuality into sports.

>>455
> So these people were non-proles who infiltrated the workers movement because of a sense of bourgeois guilt and shame at raping the workers and their bourgeois values influenced their beliefs and theories. Scientific socialism is just socialism with bourgeois characteristics stealthily mixed into it.
This explanation falls apart the moment you look at

A: Utopian socialism before scientific socialism, who was responsible for it, who was in charge of it
B: Marx and Engels's critique of utopian socialism

Utopian Socialism was the approach taken by Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier, Robert Owen, all of them from wealthy ruling class backgrounds, all of them with the same exact sense of guilt you ascribe to Marx and Engels.

Marx and Engels criticized Utopian socialism on precisely the same lines you claim Marx and Engels are wrong: they attacked the Utopians for their reformist and bourgeois ideas stealthily mixed, for their philosophical idealism, and for its ineffective and overly pacifistic organizational strategies. They denounced bourgeois guilt, bourgeois charity, class collaboration, bourgeois-led workers movements, overreliance on electoralism, reforms, unions, and cooperatives, (i.e. the legal half of the struggle).

If your suggestion is that the struggle should be entirely illegal and that Marx and Engels were wrong for suggesting that there even need to be a legal half of struggle in addition to illegal struggle and violence, then you are of a deviation known as Otzevism which Lenin criticized thoroughly.



/lgbt/

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Does anybody else not understand why they find guys attractive? I recently came across a video that said "straight men just dont understand what women and gay men find attractive in males" and it made me realize that I couldnt even identify what it is about men that im even attracted too.

I definitley know when i find another guy attractive, but I usually couldnt explain why. My tastes in men arent even very coherent, I like feminine men, but I also like buff hairy dudes, and I also like incels. My attraction to men makes no logical sense
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>>5801
They'll just call you a uyghur transhumanist, a 41%er and tell you YWNBAW

>>5813
Is it just me or do Russians and Ukrainians treat each other better than chuds treat trans people?

>>5600
Holy fuck. That fact was no fun at all :(

>>5598
>discussion about humans
<but what about my cat?
checkmate atheists

>>5813
If they do that then theyre volcels



/ufo/

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There is nothing anti Marxist antimaterialist or idealistic about this truth. It's material reality. People who deny the presence of literal demons in the capitalist ruling class are no different than those who dismiss Epstein having ties to Mossad as a "conspiracy theory".
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>>317
Yes, the more money someone has the crazier things they can do. Our demons are extracting loosh because they found it most efficient, why do you thinks systems become worldwide for hundreds of years? When we die, we are sent to a reality, our lives are a struggle to create technology before it's too late, so the demons create wars, look at how feudalism doesn't exist anymore, or how republics didn't exist after Rome collapsed. Or how anarchist societies stopped after Sumer was created.


>>317
cool that they made a whole board for psychotic retards just to drive up "engagement"

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>>460
>a board deader than the dodo

>>326
not all of us go to /pol/



/lgbt/

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Why does every single transfem character in media make me feel so miserable?

I know I should be happy that people like me are getting more representation but im not. Everytime I see a character like brigette from guilty gear im just reminded how ill never be as pretty as her, and how ill never be as confident and happy as her.

Even that one movie I Saw The TV Glow which every trans person was raving about made me feel worse than any other piece of media has ever made me feel before. It felt like the movie itself was mocking me for being too cowardly to transition, and basically telling me that I was gonna suffer and be unhappy forever until I die.
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>>5823

why 10 years? they should have it in a week most as soon as i get there, otherwise a lot of people in the association chat would be complaining.

i'll try to talk to them today tho i need to calm down because i'm mid panic attack

>>5804
>are you even on hrt

No, I wouldve been by now if it wasnt for incompotent postal services. Plus even if I was, im unable to do blood tests so it might still all go wrong anyways.

>you sound incredibly neurotic

Youre not wrong lol

>even if it is pretty terrible, you still need to interact with cis women


I just cant bring myself to approach them, or anyone for that matter. Nobody wants some random strange man coming up to them for no reason. I would just seem like a creep and make them uncomfortable. I havent had a single friend since elementary school so ive completly forgotten how to socialize in the slightest

>>5827

curiosos feos

>>5826
>postal service mishap
that really sucks when you're just trying to get on it anon, i assume you've already ordered another vial?
anyway i think you will feel better a little while after starting, this period you're in especially is always the worst
dont get involved in some weird polycule or something
>unable to do blood tests
are there no options available in your country for this?

>>5831
>that really sucks when you're just trying to get on it anon, i assume you've already ordered another vial?
I actually ordered two before and both times postal service messed it up, this would be my third attempt and im starting to lose hope. its like whatever god is out there is doing everything to prevent me from ever being happy
>anyway i think you will feel better a little while after starting, this period you're in especially is always the worst
I hope so, thank you



/hobby/

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Hola filmfags, last thread was full so here we are. I'm thinking we also could use this thread as Films You Just Watched edition 3 as traffic is low.
Here's the list of the first thread I very subjectively added some shit to.

&ltS Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre
>Kubrick: 2001, Barry Lyndon
>Shane Carruth: Primer

&ltA Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
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>>47099
It's a mediocre, purely artistic movie. Some scenes are so unrealistic that they're laughable, and some are deliberately comical, which doesn't suit this type of movie. The actress playing the commander is bad and her Japanese sounds weird. I don't like that everything is so sterile, clean and aesthetical. In my opinion, historical movies should be dirty and realistic.
>>47106
I haven't watched it but I've heard that the original is much worse

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>>47099
Its a shitty squid game movie that has nothing to do with UNIT 731 outside of it being namedropped, they turned UNIT 731 into a game show.
Watch the men behind the sun instead if you're looking for a realistic documentary.

>>47108
>peter coffin still exists

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Watched the 80's Running Man movie for the first time in 10 years and found it to be better than I remembered



/tech/

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phonesisters its over…
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>>26538
I go on nukechan too but leftypol is the main one I use. Hope someone forks this app because I don't think any other chan app has this site on it

>>26539
Time to put PWA back on the menu…

>>26560
anything but that

>>26561
Why not?

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it's back :)



/edu/

 

Everytime you visit /edu/, post in this thread. Tell us about what you're thinking about, what you're reading, an interesting thing you have learned today, anything! Just be sure to pop in and say hi.

Previous thread >>>/leftypol_archive/580500
Archive of previous thread
https://archive.is/saN3S

Excuse me coming through
A quick note on the video @ >>>/leftypol/1538283
Also [vid related] for archival purposes

Around the 29 minute mark Peterson criticizes Marx and Engel's for assuming that workers would magically become more productive once they took over.

This actually happened historically, most of the actually effective productivity tricks work places use now were developed by Stakhanovites.

https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/year-of-the-stakhanovite/year-of-the-stakhanovite-texts/stalin-at-the-conference-of-stakhanovites/
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>>25622
Nice man if you end up reading it let me know your thoughts! I'm shelving the Furies for now. I keep running into the issue of not being familiar enough with the history of the French revolution and it makes it somewhat frustrating to read through.

I got Wages of Destruction for christmas so probably gonna continue with that instead. In case anyone is interested in reading about the holocaust I read picrel last year and it was really interesting. It's not explicitly Marxist, but I do feel like it takes a very materialist approach (emphasizing food, housing, plunder, forced labor and anti-partisan activity to name what comes to mind right now) to the topic. Gerlach also takes into account the broader European dimension showing how policies regarding Europe's Jews differed from country to country, but also how these policies contrasted in the heartlands vs the occupied frontiers. He also writes about the 3 million Soviet POWs that were starved to death at the start of operation Barbarossa, which is something that is not talked about often in the mainstream.



/edu/

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I've noticed that a lot of orthodox Marxists are also obsessed with Freud and are convinced that Freudian psychoanalysis is essential for combating fascism, and I don't understand why. Can someone explain the connection?
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>>13047
>and I don't understand why.
They are stuck in 19th century pseudo-science.


I am starting to read "Neurosis and civilization : a Marxist/Freudian synthesis" of Michael Schneider, but is my first book about the subject, and i am not experience in neither Freud nor Marx.

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We may first read Lacan's assessment of Freud's project (1956):
>"Psychoanalysis should be the science of language inhabited by the subject. From the Freudian point of view man is the subject captured and tortured by language."
<Jacques Lacan, Seminar 3, Ch. 19, Sct. 3
This "torture" we can see structurally, by the separation of the signifier from the signified, and further, of the signifier's internal separation from itself, as we may read from chapter 14, from seminar 3:
<The signifier, as such, signifies nothing […] Experience proves it - the more the signifier signifies nothing, the more indestructible it is […] There's no other scientific definition of subjectivity than one that proceeds from the possibility of handling the signifier for purely signifying, not significant ends, that is, expressing no direct relation of the order of appetite […] the signifier, which is that it signifies nothing and is therefore always capable of yielding various meanings.
I take this to mean that the signifier "as such" (S) is separated by its formality from what is "signified" (s), and so, the appeal to the signifier (S) is an end in-itself, not a means to an end. An example is in religion, where the signifier "God" only refers to itself, and so is internally contentless. as an example, we may read hegel (1816):
<This proposition in its positive expression A = A is, in the first instance, nothing more than the expression of an empty tautology. It has therefore been rightly remarked that this law of thought has no content and leads no further.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hl/hl409.htm
Thus, the signifier cannot signify anything other than itself (A is A), yet the internal content of A is also empty, so A is not-A. Hegel works this out by applying negativity to give identity totality, but Lacan resists totality, speaking of "set" (Ch. 14, Sct. 1):
<I said a set, I didn't say a totality. As a matter of fact, the notion of structure is analytic […] I think that you're well enough oriented to understand that the notion of structure is by itself already a manifestation of the signifier.
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We can also compare Marx's structuralism against Baudrillard's poststructuralism, by looking at simulacrum. Marx insists upon a real relation in symbols:
<The fact that money can, in certain functions, be replaced by mere symbols of itself, gave rise to that other mistaken notion, that it is itself a mere symbol […] Lawyers started long before economists the idea that money is a mere symbol, and that the value of the precious metals is purely imaginary. This they did in the sycophantic service of the crowned heads, supporting the right of the latter to debase the coinage, during the whole of the middle ages, by the traditions of the Roman Empire and the conceptions of money to be found in the Pandects.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch02.htm
<the issue of paper money must not exceed in amount the gold (or silver as the case may be) which would actually circulate if not replaced by symbols […] Paper money is a token representing gold or money. The relation between it and the values of commodities is this, that the latter are ideally expressed in the same quantities of gold that are symbolically represented by the paper. Only in so far as paper money represents gold, which like all other commodities has value, is it a symbol of value.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch03.htm
Thus, money can only be "real" if it directly represents a proportion of gold or silver, to Marx. This distinction is older than Marx, however, such as in the work of Adam Smith (1776), who distinguishes between the "real" and "nominal" values of currency based in their relationship to exchange. For example, a currency which is depreciated by excess, loses its real value, while preserving its nominal (or "face" value). £1 is still £1, but may purchase less per unit. The £1 is constant, while its purchasing power is variable. This variability is the measure of its "real" value, since it represents what it can really exchange for, not what it denominates. For example, being a millionaire in America makes one really rich, while being a millionaire in Zimbabwe makes one poor. Equally, being a millionaire yesterday meant more than being a mPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



/games/

 

Post in this thread every time you play a new game and rate it, I'll start, currently playing Dread Dawn, pretty jank and honestly not that good but I'm desperate for more zombie games to wait until PZ 42 comes out. 6/10.
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>>45316
i had it pirated but tbh i just buy stuff for steam workshop and pirate the DLCs

My winter car.
I had a glace at the steam awards when logging in and while recognizing most of the games, I had only actually played one of them. Is it over for me?

>>45380
>My winter car
Same. It's a grind but pretty fun. Might finally get a wheel/shifter/pedals

Picked up The Crust and The Outer Worlds 2 during the winter sale. The former is basically a typical factory sim combined with something like Surviving Mars. I got the latter to satisfy my itch for a singleplayer FPS.

>>45477
How does Outer Worlds 2 compare to the first one? I really wanted to like that one, but couldnt.



/AKM/

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Do you fill put an application form or is it a job you make it to through connections? Is there a formula?

I have no money, no job and no purpose.

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>>6056
Soft hands brother, you've got soft hands.

>>6058
Hard hands, empty wallet, and a future of blown-out knees. Congratulations on winning

>>6057
I regret not learning to weld each day

>>6059
the wallet's empty because the ol' ball 'n chain keeps it all brother

>>6061
just get a cheap fluxcore/stick welder from amazon and start laying beads

>>6061
It really isn't that hard. As the anon above me said, get some cheap equipment and go to town on some scrap. A few things to keep in mind though:
- Always wear proper ppe
- Don't breathe shit in
- Keep a fire extingusher nearby
- Always have a good earth
- Prepping the work is 90% of the job



/ufo/

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Doing tarot readings to grind divination EXP points and because I'm bored as fuck.
Post any dream you remember having (ex: "I dreamed of a giant lady tied upside down to a tree in the middle of the ocean") and a picture you like.
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Alright OP here. I forgot to say it but besides the dream and the pic, please state a query! such as "what do I do about [insert problem]?" or stuff like that. So it'd be
>query
>dream
>pic

>>467
>>464
Thank you ;-, this actually kinda gave me the positivity boost I needed
>>465
Alright, first let me tell you the type of reading I'm doing. One card represents your general situation, the next 3 represent potential "paths to victory" and the last one represents something to avoid.
>general situation
Picked The World, a very powerful card. Represents endings, success and opposite things finally becoming whole in a way that enriches both. So you're likely surfing the wave of some sort of fulfilling event, be it on an external or internal level. Something has successfully been manifested.

The "path to success" cards are page of cups reversed, 9 of wands and the high priestess reversed. This suggests that you likely need to get in touch with a neglected inner world and let yourself be vulnerable. Maybe you have some "ignored inner child" stuff going on too and could be good to revisit that sort of thing (actually kinda related to the newgrounds bit. Maybe there's a side of you that you repress or ignore out of fear of what others would say or think). 9 of wands suggests that you've been through a lot of hard work of hardship and are tired, but it also encourages you to keep on trucking. You need to be courageous and resilient and things will pay off. It also suggests you're also on the verge of getting something that you want (so you're kinda surfing a wave of fulfillment already and there's a nice chance you'll get to surf another such wave nearly right away, kino)

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>>472
You're a good person anon :D
Is it necessary to put in my dream? I suck at recalling them

>>473
If you want you can just go with the query, but I feel I do better if there's a dream and a pic.
Also the dream doesn't have to be recent, it can be a dream you had when you were a kid or years ago for example. And it doesn't have to be a dream you fully remember either, a snippet (or a bunch of them if you want)will do.
And thanks! ;w,

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>>474
>Dream
Well, a snippet is that I was getting lost in one, ending up in places I shouldn't be when trying to get back to my location
>Query
When do you think I'll be able to marry in terms of a year? 2026-2028? What time, January-April? May-September? October-December? Where will both of us first meet?
Will the rest of my life be alright despite my rocky start?
What'd be the easiest for me to choose as my college major?
Will I be able to move out to another place? Could you describe it?
Thank you!

>>472
Thank you, this was very interesting and made me reflect (positively) on a lot.



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