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Sonic the Hedgehog General 2

The Fans Do Sonic Team's Job Again Edition.

Previous thread: >>27867

JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE!!
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/brg/ - Brazil General

Edição Ian Snows Edition

"Anões, vcs viram este vídeo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg5winGpx80) no qual Ian Snows explica metodicamente os princípios básicos do comunismo?"

Edições Anteriores: >>4624 >>4212
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Plato and Aristotle

What is the value of either of their works of thought under capitalism? What is their intellectual value to studious communists today?

http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Plato.html
http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Aristotle.html
R: 3 / I: 0

western classical

Who's your poison?

I like Bach, Xenakis, Bartok, Mahler, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Ravel, Debussy, Boulez, Glass, Adams, Takemitsu (yes he counts because he's explicitly bridging east and west in his work), Lachenmann, Saariaho, Schoenberg, Mozart, Ligeti, Part and Dutilleux
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Big 2d booba #2

Electric boogaloo edition

ITT: lovely anime tits but the thread isnt full anymore

body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty
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Tomoko thread… why? Because I like the character… and other reasons…
Post lewds (spoilered), memes, edits, pics and anything else related to the subject
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/leftypol/core

What is quintessential /leftypol/core anime/manga? I DON'T mean "which anime are anti-capitalist/left-wing" like we're always talking about, but stuff that's kinda /leftypol/-coded even if it's not left-wing.
I propose
>Kaiji
<loser desperately fighting for his life against the whims of the wealthy
>Code Geass
<class traitor megalomaniac playing out his fantasies of violent revolution
>Welcome to the NHK and Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei
<NO EXPLANATION NEEDED
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>fighting game
>infinite projectile spam
Why do they do this? I just want to do some combos for God's sake.





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/BILLZ/

ITT we share protips to help struggling proles save money and shaft recurring plundering payment porkies

>fuck the phonebill by getting a prepaid fixed minute plan

>always periodically call ur interner provider threatening them to leave for better deals
>never buy new cars insurance rates are a scam on them
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/PROLE VENT/

Was tricked to sign a letter of resignation from my job at the russian post office. Despite the fact that I was on probation and my employment contract was fixed-term (although informally after its termination they almost always offer a full-time position) my…I don't know - supervisor? the main bitch of the workplace? didn't like me because of a couple of fuckups like a cash shortage, which I was really guilty of and paid for out of my own pocket (the statement of financial responsibility was signed by me on the first day of employment), and she decided to lie that the employee I was replacing was about to go to work.
Which was an easily verifiable lie that I realized literally as I closed the door behind me. Ah, yes, since I quit "at my own request", I have to work for three days, so called "otrabotka" (two weeks if you were taken without probation), which I will not do (devilish?), because after signing my resignation letter I am no longer an employee and can not be forced to work.
Also new thing I learned opening the labor code for the first time.
-there is no concept of working after dismissal, but there is a concept of notification before dismissal, so it should be 3 days or 2 weeks before the fact.

Thanks for reading my stupid rant.
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Anime figures thread

…in which we collect and post recollections of our moments of weakness which made our wallets cry and poor Karl roll in the grave for doing a hekking commodity fetishism.

In my defense at least I bought my Shuten Douji figure from the cheapest seller.
Also, does anyone have any idea of who could be the original manufacturer or producer? I can't find an official name or even product page for this figure besides the storefronts from the various resellers.
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Batman

Porky punching lumpens to get his kicks or class traitor who directly and indirectly helpi people?Also general capeshit thread i guess
R: 562 / I: 163

Film Thread

Alright filmfags, show me what you've got.

&ltS Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango (all very demanding)
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre (I love them all but this one stands apart)
>Kubrick: 2001

&ltA Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
>De Sica: Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.
>Pontecorvo: Battle of Algiers
>Cocteau: Orpheus, Blood of a Poet
>Godard: Breathless, Band of Outsiders, The Little Soldier
>Kurosawa: Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Ran
>Mizoguchi: Sansho, Ugetsu
>Kobayashi: Seppuku, Human Condition
>Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, M
>Bunuel: Discreet Charm, Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel
>Kieslowski: Dekalog
>David Lynch: Anything, including Twin Peaks old and new.
>Ki-duk Kim: Spring, Summer…
>Gilliam: Brazil
>Kubrick (pt. 2): The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, FMJ

&ltA- Tier - Entertainment
>Cronenberg: Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers
>Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three, Sunset Blvd, Witness for the Prosecution
>Becker: Le Trou, Touchez pas au Grisbi
>Melville: Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge, Bob le Flambeur
>Clouzot: Diabolique, Wages of Fear (the ultimate languagefag film)
>Bresson: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket
>Renoir: The Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game
>Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant, King of NY
>Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre
>Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Alfredo Garcia
>Woody Allen: Annie Hall. All the other old-and-good ones too.
>Carpenter: The Thing, They Live
>Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
>Scorsese: Kind of Comedy, Taxi Driver. The rest can kinda fuck off.
>Hitchcock: Pretty much all of them.

Let's talk about movies, then. Don't have to be lefty films but obviously recommendations on that front are also welcome.
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/futbol/

Hablemos del deporte rey

Si les soy sincero solo quiero la Unión Latinoamericana para ganar absolutamente todos los mundialesㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎
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Just how strong is the imperium by the 10th edition

It’s the 42nd millennium in the newest edition, the tyrannic wars have mostly ended, the wars for Armageddon still loom on with the orks weakening each day, the necrons, tau, and eldar are showing signs of instability, and the imperium is looking towards entering another “age of apostasy” situation even with the galaxy being torn in half. If the age of strife never happened, the imperium in its current state would be as strong if not stronger than the ICOG from xeelee. But how strong is the imperium right now?

They’re pretty fucking OP that’s for sure.

Unlike the low effort bait spewed out on community threads, the imperium has only been expanding rapidly since the Horus heresy. The guard and the astartes got reorganized into legions and chapters to maintain cohesion and improve their stability. The sisters of battle exists as a check to keep the administratum and inquisition from irresponsible decision making and as a stand-alone fighting force. Recovered STCs have brought the return of primaris and centurion space marine power armour. Guilliman, Vulkan, and rogal dorn are back. Several space marines were discovered during exploration trips or were added to the chapters. Some improvements (and I mean some) to imperial leadership have been seen to make the empire less comically fascist and incompetent under guilliman. Finally, the sheer number of humans in the galaxy has rapidly grown thanks to fertility rates and the introduction of vitae wombs on planets like Vraks—seriously, those planets can produce fifty million soldiers a year; imagine how many people in general they pump out. To top of everything else, all imperial worlds have been fortifying for ages now while the imperium has been passively expanding its reach into new worlds since the great crusade started. Just look at the story of tertium as an example of how fucking huge the empire really is.
Unless GW can pull an extremely sound excuse to give some random heretic or alien uniquely strong plot armour, this franchise isn’t going to end the way Fantasy did but with the galaxy cleansed of any nonhuman and robotic life in a few centuries to millennia. The only things going on so far are the returns of angron, Magnus, and mortarion.
Thoughts? Personally, I want to see how this board game ends. Would be nice to finally justify not painting anymore models.
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They say AI will take over people's jobs, how do we fight against it?

So, I'm a musician, who wants to have a musical career (a lot of communist musicians had stable careers) and meanwhile stupid porkies tell me that "no, we'd prefer if you were replaced, prole, because there if no place for people like you" and I hear, not only music, but other art, computer science, programming etc. will be replaced by AI. How do we stop this, so people are still prosperous in the real socialst societies?
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Disco Elysium(spoilers)

I just beat this game, I remember seeing another discussion thread about this game but I can't find it, but I want to talk about the game, full spoilers.
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Are master's programs really just cash cows like everyone keeps telling me?

Tldr all the arguments I hear against doing one:
>costs too much
>easier admissions process
>bad quality of education
>more debt
>can get a job without one anyways
>mainly used by internationals to game visas
>most jobs dont require it

But, I cant help but feel a lot of this is cope from people that dont have one. It has to help get more interviews easier and the wages are probably higher.

I got an admit into UCLA and feel like I should take it. My undergrad was in a shittier state school and the rep would help me out. But its going to be 40grand and dont know if Im just about to get scammed
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Far Cry 5 is the best game in the Far Cry franchise.

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HILO LATINOAMERICANO
EDICION MURO PROPIO
Terminamos el año con una victoria mas de los socialdemocratas en Uruguay y con Pepe Mujica en modo espectro alentando a los jovenes a militar
¡A Darle con Todo!
Para luego buscarlo en el catálogo:
Latinoamérica, Latin America, LATAM, /lat/, latinoamérica, latino américa, hispanoamerica, /ñ/
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how to get ammo?

hi i am a tunisian who want to enjoy some freedom sticks like you amerikants , i can make some primitive shotguns and 3d printed pistols but my biggest hurdle is getting ammo , it's extremely difficult to get a hunter licence and it's easier for me to find cocaine than bullet in the black market , any idea how to make/smuggle some rounds ?
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Downloads keep failing unless I use VPN

In fivem downloads go all the way 0 and keep trying over and over if the archive is more than 30MB, and eventually fail

In every single browser they fail immediately after awhile

I can navigate normally but downloads in particular fail all the time, VPN fixes it but then my connection becomes incredibly slow, can anyone help me? I really don't want to reset windows
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Union contract language during the new red scare

Seeking good contract language protecting political activity and speech to reduce the risk of getting fired over being a communist or anti-zionist. My workplace is majority anti-zionist Jewish people with a plurality of reds. A handful of zionist and rightoid pricks really hate that fact and keep trying to wield management against us and call in outside zionist orgs for backup because our existence fucks with their messaging that all Jewish people support Israel.
We're in the US and I expect the attempts at purging leftists to get worse in the future. Any good examples of protections we could copy? Also, general suggestions on things to definitely fight to have in our contract are welcome.
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Has anybody read my Poli Sci prof's book?

Found out my Poli Sci professor has a lot of books on Marx and his relation to gender and such. Has anybody read "Marx on Gender and the Family" by Heather Brown? I couldn't get a PDF rip online and I want to know if she's a lefty or not.
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Repeating Crossbows

Want a gun but its impossible to get a gun license in your country? Buy a repeating crossbow. These things will nail the target in a wall behind them.

<Tactical Repeating Crossbow – Maybe this is the biggest innovation in the crossbow market ever – this weapon changes everything.


<The 7.5 inch arrows (or bolts) have screwed-on field points and reach a proud 30 joules at 130 pounds tensile weight. The arrow speed is approximately 78 m/s (256 fps), which makes the Adder accurate even at distances up to 50 meters (55 yards). In our tests, the standard field tips penetrated through several layers of clothing and a thick layer of ballistic gel, then perforated a coconut poured into the gel block. By using the special High-Penetration Bodkin tips, which have razor-sharp edges, this penetration power can be further increased.


<The removable tactical rear stock is adjustable. The weapon can also be used without the rear stock, which makes it even more compact if required. The all-metal red dot visor supplied with the weapon can be adjusted vertically and horizontally.


https://www.amazon.com/EK-Archery-Automatic-Repeating-Crossbow/dp/B07ZQNWBDV
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PDF/EPUB post outage thread

drop them PDFs, we will rebuild edition
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Left wing vs Right wing anime

Found this random chart of anime that is considered left wing vs Right wing on the Xitter.
Thoughts? Agree or disagree?


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IT IS OVER.

>>Proxy
>Not proletariat friendly. Big Corpos BTFO
>>VPN
>Not secure
>>TOR
>All nodes blacklisted despite l(i)eftypol """"providing"""" .onion interface
>>just Clearnet dude
LOL.. no. (check flag)

knew it. this place has been secretly overrun by nazis.
What are our plans for immigrating from here?
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Draw Alunya 3

Alunya Art thread
(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)
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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

LeftyPol talks about reparations for the proletariat, yet from what I see, it's mostly people who wanna escape work and get luxury for merely existing.
They feel that people who wanna go into/currently working in blue collar jobs are subhumans.

They think that the only jobs worth respecting are the white/pink collar ones.

This fearful and contemptuous attitude towards work is the same I find in liberalism and the right.
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/arg/ - Argentina General

SANTUCHO EDITION

El thread con más copas del mundo™

Ahora que tenemos nuestro propio board, es hora de tener nuestro propio hilo también.

Bienvenidos.
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SEX music

Post music about sex, or music you can have sex to
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if you live in the imperial core

the best thing you can do is join a clandestine vanguard organization where you can sabotage imperialism from within and serve as useful collaborators for liberating forces when the time comes. “Communist” parties in America are either completely irrelevant cults focused on idpol, federal honeypots that collaborate with the Dems, or in the case of CPUSA both, and they will receive the least amount of leniemcy up there with politicians and financial bourgeoisie
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SEXO

I thought Latins were famous sex-havers. What's going on? You guys aren't developed enough to have birth rates this low.

How do we fix the LatAm birth rate crisis?

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/01/18/plunging-fertility-rates-are-creating-problems-for-latin-america
Plunging fertility rates are creating problems for Latin America
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inferiority complex from not being "extremely manly"

Im a man and I DO consider myself, really, very manly. But I genuinely suffer daily, or extended angst, because my "material conditions of existence" don't allow me to ,not even TRY OUT FOR, extreme manly lifestyles….
Special unit active-War soldier, SWAT team member\SORT member, or even mma\bluhurt\rugby amateur player. non-violent yet extreme jobs like Underwater Welder, altitude rescue\medicine missions. etc
WTF Am I supposed to do? i changed and suited my whole lifestyle to be manlier: diet, sleep pattern, exercise type, so on.
>inb4 being a rEAl Man is about being a (((householder)))
No. Im Celibate.
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METAL THREAD

Post any genre good metal songs.
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>Vibe coding, sometimes spelled vibecoding, is an AI-powered programming practice where a programmer surrenders to the "vibes" and power of the AI, while ignoring the details of the generated code. After describing a problem in a few sentences, a programmer can watch as the AI codes a custom solution such as an app or website.

>In a March 2025 video "Vibe Coding is the Future", managing partner Jared Friedman said that AI has generated 95% of the codebases for a quarter of the current batch of Y Combinator startups.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding

How fucked are we?
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Espaço para compartilhar livros digitais.
Espacio para compartir libros digitales.
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Hey everyone, so I was told it would be for the best to make a new thread and that's what I'll do. I'll upload some updated artwork too and some other stuff that I'm sure you'll like

Old OP:
Sup everyone, for a while I've been working on this comic idea and I would like to share some stuff I've been cooking up for it.

The setting is in Mexico City and the protagonist is a working-class, Nahua girl, living in a working-class neighborhood. This comic will explore issues regarding gentrification, child labor, systemic violence, class struggle, and different kinds of discrimination. Think of it as a social commentary and slice-of-life comic.

Sadly, I'm drawing this on my free time in between work and my studies, so the process is slow, but I'll try to release the first chapter sooner than later.

Here are the character sheets of the three protagonists, I posted them in the previous thread but they are now all complete and updated. Also, a neat drawing I did some time ago as an extra.

Finally, I will try to do the comic both in English and Spanish.
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I admit it, I like european metal with female vocals, cringy lyrics, and normal melodies.
Or as I have come to call it, bitch-metal.
Recommend me some, pls.
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Permaculture v2

Old thread (v1): https://leftypol.org/hobby/res/7136.html

The practice and principles of Permaculture are one of the most important tools for not only creating a sustainable socialism, but also for repairing the damage done to the global ecosystem by capitalism, and lessening your individual reliance on the current capitalist system.Permacultural practice and socialism are two very powerful allies, and learning about permaculture should be necessity for modern socialists and communists.
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HoI4 + HoI4 modding thread

Operation Deep Sneed edition

Made a new thread since the other one is full. You know the drill folks, gather here to discuss and/or complain about Hearts of Iron 4 and all the alt history mods that make the game relevant. From green natpops to sicko mode Savinkov we've got a lot of exciting stuff coming in the next Kaiserreich update, one which will make the LKMT look like pre-rework Germany by comparison. But dont worry TNOomers, you're getting some new content too! After a year and a half and three focus trees that only last for four years, we finally have something new and that's…

…three years of fucking Antarctica
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What is science?

Following from
>>24081

So, how do we go about defining science, and what good is "science"? The key break for modernity for me was the German idealists putting a stopper in genuine science and inquiry and insisting that science was something entirely alien to what it had been.

The chief purpose of the scientific endeavor is not to attain "absolute knowledge" but to eliminate enough of the known wrong paths to arrive at the least-wrong, which for our purposes is as close to the truth as the scientific approach is capable of. Science has no particular necessary philosophy or existential claims to be "science", but metaphysical and philosophical claims are necessary to establish the models that communicate any scientific inquiry, and two scientists can talk past each other by entering into an intractable metaphysical argument. The point of science is that there is a claim between the participants that there is a world outside of us or any conceit about it, and this is the only way there can be such things as facts. It is possible for the scientist to render the metaphysical and philosophical positions of any claim in language that is compatible with some other metaphysical framework, and so there is no singular metaphysics that has to be accepted for something to be "science". The only requirement is that everyone agrees that they are referring to the same world that is the only meaningful subject of inquiry.

It's stupefying to me how this is missed, and "science" has been commandeered by the most imperious statements and decrees, recited as dogma and a presumptive monopooly. I really wish people would stop doing this or encouraging this, without saying "science is the problem". No shit, science can be conducted badly. Humanity's scientific endeavor, all taken together, is not replicated by any other area of human activity. If someone produces obviously wrong results, the entire purpose of the scientific discourse is to eliminate those who are obviously malicious actors like the German idealists.
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Morality, Ethics, Work and Radicalism

Do you consider certain jobs off-limits, for youself or in general from the perspective of a leftist or for personal reasons, such as military, the defense industry, banks, maybe even the meat industry or the work in capitalist governments?

Do you think that there is a point in entryism into those spaces?

Do you judge people based on the profession they chose, independent of their personal circumstances or do you take that into account even if it's probably? Is there a difference if you are talking to someone who 'should know better' i.e. is a self-styled class- or otherwise politically conscious person?

Should a leftist who can't afford or sustain to be a 'professional revolutionary' seek out professions that seek to 'ameliorate' the worst effects of capitalism, like social work, teaching etc.?

Or is just obsessing over the ethics of one's job just moralist lifestylism, akin to 'ethical consumerism' and basically 'anything goes' since the profanition is considered absolute?


What are your thoughts on these points?
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are these guns real or airsoft?

I posted this before, I got ignored..I suspect slide-play, so im posting again.
It seems that after a long and badly paid career (140K for like 20 years) of being a literal fbi informer, he got sacked and now he's into weirder, nastier s*. Also seems to have IRL (Online, but i mean not made-up) connections to MKY\MKY\Manic murder cult from russia-ukraine.
>im not a gunfag, someone confirm whether the guns I post are real, or airsoft, please
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most evil legal jobs

What are the most EVIL (non-violent so; petty, cowardly..not like at least being a (((soldier))) on the frontline) 100% Legal jobs, under American Capitalism?
I think of:
>Repo Agency CEO
>Medical Debt Collector
>Pharmaceutical Lobbyist\ healthcare company negotiator (meaning; uses legal and other tactics to make CLIENTS pay more, have less benefits)
>specialised pro-landlord Lawyer\ pro-gentrification legislator
what else!!
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Are universities just glorified capitalist labor camps? How can people not see the obvious corruption and collusion with the bourgeoisie. They merely serve as supplies of labor reserve armies and even stemlords cant get jobs easy now.

Will communists eliminate these rotten institutions?
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TURN OR BURN

The Magnificence of Jesus Christ
What are we to make of Jesus Christ? It seems to me that people don't take this question very seriously these days. After all, they say, we live in the twenty-first century. Jesus Christ lived a couple of thousand years ago. Surely, we've advanced beyond Him.
This, of course, does not really make sense. No other figure in history has so profoundly influenced our culture as Jesus Christ. More books have been written about Him than about any other. He has furnished the theme for more songs than any other. Quotes from Jesus Christ have become common knowledge. The principles He taught have influenced the constitution and laws of many lands. We date all the events of history from His birth.
Nevertheless, Jesus Christ is the most underestimated, undervalued figure in history. To many, Jesus Christ is merely a profane interjection-a name to say when you hammer your thumb or when you're shocked by unexpected news. To some, Jesus is a myth. He never lived, they say, ignoring the testimony of the Scriptures, history, and common sense. To many, Jesus is simply an excuse for merrymaking at Christmas time. "Who can't use another holiday?" they reason.
To many, Jesus Christ is the man whose portrait hangs on the living room wall. To those who hold to the liberation theology, Jesus was a revolutionary with fire in His eyes. To those of the counter-culture, Jesus was the first anti-establishment rebel. To some, He is a baby in a manger, or a corpse on a cross.
Perhaps to most, Jesus is a good man, a great teacher on the order of Buddha or Confucius or perhaps even greater, but surely only a man.
These visions of Jesus all have one thing in common: they are too small! The magnificence of Jesus Christ outshines these popular notions like the noonday sun overwhelms a nearly dead flashlight. Somehow the human race has forgotten who Jesus Christ really is. I'd like to share the true story with you as it is recorded in the Bible.
But one caution first. As we attempt to examine the character of Jesus Christ, we face a problem. He is simply beyond us. As the noonday sun overwhelms our unprotected eyes, so the magnificence of Jesus Christ overwhelms our puny intellects. We may look at Jesus, we may see His flashing brilliance, we may even fall awestruck at His feet, but as for comprehending Him, that will have to wait. In eternity, when God enlarges our minds, we will much more fully grasp His majesty. But for now we must rest content with such glimpses as God has revealed to us in the Bible. What does the Bible say about Jesus Christ?
Jesus Christ
Is Magnificent in That He Is Deity.
The plain truth is that Jesus is God. How He could be man and still be God is beyond me. But the Bible is clear. In words that have fill the hearts of men for generations, Isaiah foretold the coming of God to earth in the form of a baby: "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6). Only one person has ever been born who justifies such a description, and that is Jesus Christ, "true God of true God." Jesus is the wonder of the ages. He is the one who needs no counsel for Himself, but who has perfect counsel for all others. As the everlasting Father, He is the source of all life. As the Prince of Peace, He is the only one who can bring peace to the troubled souls of men. And He is all these because He is the mighty God.
Jesus Himself, while He was here on earth, frequently said things that make sense only in the light of His deity. Faced with angry Jewish leaders who were accusing Him of illegitimacy while themselves claiming to be sons of Abraham, Jesus said, "Your Father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. Then took they up stones to cast at him" (John 8:56-59). Why? Because they understood that He was claiming to be God Himself. As God, Jesus knows no past, present, or future; all is present tense to Him. "Before Abraham was, I am."
When the people brought a paralytic to Jesus for healing, Jesus said, "Son, thy sins be forgiven thee" (Mark 2:5). Once again, the Jewish leaders were furious. The implication was clear: Jesus was once more affirming His deity because only God can forgive sins.
Now it is true that we as men may forgive sins in a way, but only in a very limited sense. If you deliberately stomp on my toes, I may say, "I forgive you," and reasonably so. If, however, you injured my neighbor's toes, and I said you are forgiven, you'd laugh in my face. I am out of my place; I cannot forgive sins not committed against me. With God, the case is different. All sin is an offense against the God who made us and who holds us accountable for our deeds. And all sin is therefore an offense against Jesus Christ, the mighty God, the everlasting Father.
Evidence of Jesus' deity proves the falsehood of those who like to refer to Jesus with a patronizing smile, as only a great moral teacher, a good man, perhaps even the best man, but still merely a man. Now consider a bit. What would you think of your neighbor if he made such claims as Jesus made? Would you call him a good man, a great teacher? Hardly.
Contemporaries of Jesus had this much right, at least. They didn't prattle about how good He was while at the same time denying His deity. Either they accepted Him as the true Son of God, the mighty God, the everlasting Father who is one with and equal with God, or they called Him an evil man, one to be hated and even destroyed. And those, of course, are still the options today.
Praise God for the magnificent Christ, the mighty God and the everlasting Father!
Jesus Christ
Is Magnificent in Power.
As the Son of God, Jesus exercises a power that is beyond anything we can conceive of. In order to test the power of any source, you must be able to overload it–you must have a load it is unable to carry. Engineers figure the horsepower of a diesel engine by putting it on a dynamometer and loading it until it begins to die. Educational psychologists measure the achievement of a group of students by devising a power test–one which includes questions none of the students are expected to answer correctly. Only then can they ascertain the "power" of the students.
It is for this reason that the power of Jesus Christ is so mind boggling. He is unlimited! There is no load He is unable to carry, there is no problem He is unable to solve, there is no question He is unable to answer. Nothing is beyond Him. Just before His ascent into heaven, He told His disciples, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth" (Matthew 28:18).
Power over men is His. The hypocritical leaders of His day were dumbfounded before the onslaught of His logic. Sinners saw the heinousness of their crimes and they trembled. Peasants and priests alike were awestruck with the authority of His teaching. Even the apostle Peter, an intimate friend, when Christ's glory was revealed, cried, "Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, 0 Lord" (Luke 5:8).
Jesus has power over nature. By a creative act, Jesus transformed water into wine in an instant. Jesus overruled the laws of gravity in order to walk on the sea, terrifying and astounding His disciples. The wind and the waves obeyed His voice when He commanded them to be still. And no wonder, for Jesus is the Lord of nature, the Creator and the Sustainer of the universe. "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made" (John 1:3). "And he is before all things, and by him all things consist [are sustained]" (Colossians 1:17). Nature shuddered–the sun hid its face, the earth trembled, the rocks shattered–when her Lord and Sustainer closed His eyes in death one unforgettable day two thousand years ago.
Jesus has power over disease and over death. Christ knows no incurable disease. No disease is terminal against His will. Jesus never turned away a sick man because He was unable to help. The blind men were restored to sight, the lame leaped to their feet, the lepers were cleansed when they exercised their faith in the power of the great Physician. Merely touching the hem of Jesus' garment delivered a woman from the ravages of a disease that had stymied the doctors for years.
And death. Death, the bane of the human race. Death, the terror of every man. The fear of death binds every man in hopeless slavery. That is, every man but one. The God-man, Jesus Christ challenged Death and won a mighty victory. Though He submitted to the humiliation of death to bring salvation to mankind, Jesus could not be held in the grave. The only grip death has on a man is sin, and Jesus was sinless. Therefore, His flesh did not, could not, see corruption. With a blow that dealt death to Death, Jesus burst triumphant from the grave into eternal life. And this eternal life, this power over death He shares with those who are His.
Jesus has power over evil. To the honest onlooker, it is obvious that there are powerful anti-God forces in this world, pressing mankind inexorably into the depths of sin. Violence and death prevail. Crime balloons while justice falters. Men have lost faith, and at their deepest core, they cringe in fear. "Where is God?" they wonder. "If there is a God, why is the world in such a mess?" questions the cynic. And there are no easy answers. But several things we know. Jesus Christ Himself never yielded an inch to evil. His life was one of perfect holiness and spotless purity. He never had to make a wrong right; He never needed to offer an apology. We know, moreover, that the evil that is in the world is not here of His choosing, nor does it have His approval. All the wrongs under which the world groans are here because He graciously granted mankind the freedom to choose goodness, and man has exercised this freedom to choose evil and thus wreak havoc in God's perfect creation.
But evil will not continue forever. Sin will not triumph in the end. The same Jesus who lived a perfect life on earth, the same Jesus who reigns with God the Father at this moment-this same Jesus will return to this sin-smitten earth in triumph to rout the forces of evil and to judge those who love and work evil. Not one will escape His hand. All the kings of the world will not be able to withstand the Son of God when He comes in peerless majesty as "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS." "And every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so. Amen" (Revelation 1:7). Not one wrong will remain unpunished; not one injustice will escape retribution. Every sinner will call for rocks and mountains to fall upon him, every skeptic will confess His Name, every super-sophisticated cynic will bow the knee in deathly fear. Jesus Christ is on the throne, and truth and goodness will yet prevail!
Jesus Christ
Is Magnificent in Love.
Perhaps this is the greatest marvel of all. Why should God Himself take notice of a mere man? And if He noticed, why should He love him? But Jesus Christ is magnificent in love. Only love could have moved Jesus to create mankind, knowing in the very moment of Creation the ruin that evil would bring and that only His own death could bring healing. Only pure, selfless love could have moved Jesus to leave the stupendous glories of eternity to descend to a cursed and bleeding earth. Only love could have moved Him who was and is God Himself, to become a man, a creature-not an aristocrat, but the humble son of a peasant woman of a subjected nation. Only love could have moved Jesus to spend His years traveling from town to town, preaching in fields and streets, smarting under the disdain of His own creatures, to share their pain, to give them the answer to their needs. Only love could have caused Jesus to lay down His life and partake of the curse of death so that a remedy for sin may be available to all. The Jews thought Jesus was powerless to prevent their abuse; they thought Jesus could do nothing as they stripped His clothes from His body, beat Him, spit upon Him, and finally crucified Him. They thought it was the cruel spikes that held Jesus on the cross. They were wrong, completely wrong. Only the magnificent love of Jesus held Him on the tree while His enemies snarled at His feet and mocked His Name and shamed Him before all. Only His magnificent love could do that.
Jesus the Christ waits today in love for those who will receive the provision He has made on Calvary's cross. In love He calls, in love He disciplines, in love He intercedes for us.
When Jesus faced Pilate in the Roman judgment hall at Jerusalem two thousand years ago, the onlookers thought that Jesus was on trial and Pilate the judge. They were wrong, dead wrong. Jesus was the judge, and Pilate was on test. What was he to do with Jesus? And Pilate failed miserably.
Today we are the ones on trial: what will we do with Jesus? We may shrug off the question, but that in itself is a decision. We may try to wash our hands of the situation; Pilate did that too, but he found, as we will, that guilt cannot be removed by water. We may smile and mock-for now. People have been doing that for years. But remember, Jesus is the judge; we are in the dock. We may reject His pardon and scorn His grace. We are free to decide for Him or against Him, but He does the sentencing. He decides the outcome.
I assure you, the one decision you will never regret is to repent of your sins, receive Jesus' hand of love, acknowledge His lordship, and give Him your heart and service forever.
ETERNITY DEPENDS ON IT!
Dear Soul, the Bible declares that one day you will die and then stand face to face with God to be judged. "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:" Hebrews 9:27. Nothing in your entire life could be more important than to be ready for that day, for it will determine whether you will spend eternity in Heaven or Hell.
This judgment will be based on "righteousness";
which means to be absolutely perfect and without sin. The Bible says, "he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained;" Acts 17:31a. The man spoken of in this verse is Jesus Christ. This means that your righteousness must match that of Jesus Christ.
Can you make it through your entire life without committing one single sin? Jesus Christ did, and He is the one that you will be compared with at your judgment.
NONE HAVE IT!
Nobody but Jesus Christ, could ever lead a life without one single sin. The Bible says, "For all have sinned," Romans 3:23a. Nobody but Jesus Christ is that righteous. The Bible says, "There is none righteous, no, not one:" Romans 3:10b. If you claim to be righteous, you are only deceiving yourself, and making God a liar. The Bible says, "If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar," I John 1:10a.
"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." I John 1:8.
WITHOUT IT YOU GO TO HELL!
The Bible says, "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?" I Corinthians 6:9a. If you're not going to Heaven, that leaves one other place. "The wicked shall be turned into hell…" Psalm 9:17a.
YOU CANNOT WORK FOR IT!
The Bible says, "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us," Titus 3:5a. If you could "earn" the righteousness of God, then Jesus Christ would not have had to die on the cross. The Bible says, "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." Galatians 2:21.
Dear Soul, you cannot earn the "righteousness of God" be leading a good life, church membership, sacraments, baptism, or anything that YOU do. If you do something for it, then it is SELF-righteousness.
FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST IS THE
ONLY WAY TO GET IT.
Faith is a "complete" trust or dependency upon someone. The Bible says that Jesus Christ died to pay for your sins and purchase the "righteousness of God" for you. You must stop trying to "earn" it, and "put complete faith in Jesus Christ" to receive it. The Bible says, "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." Romans 4:5. "Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe:" Romans 3:22a. Then, you will not have to fear your judgment day, because in your heart you know that you will "be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:" Philippians 3:9.
WILL YOU TRUST COMPLETELY IN
JESUS CHRIST TO SAVE YOU?
Dear Soul, Jesus Christ has already paid for eternal life, you need only to receive it as a "gift", by putting your faith in Him. The Bible says,"…the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23b. God cannot lie, and He has promised to give you eternal life. The Bible says, "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; "Titus 1:2.
Will you right now believe God's promise? Will you right now stop trusting "your righteousness", and put all your faith in Jesus Christ and receive "His righteousness"?
If you will call on Jesus Christ, and put all your faith in Him, He will save you right now. The Bible says,"…Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; "I Timothy 1:15b. It says, "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:13.
Eternity is real, and Hell is real. If you want Jesus Christ as your Saviour, then pray from your heart, "In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness." Psalm 31:1.
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Why the fuck didn’t half life have any binoculars? The zoom feature was such a poorly implemented and thought out addition to the games. I’d rather just have a normal fucking pair of binoculars than whatever goofy shit Gordon is doing with his eyes.
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Punk

I'll eternally shill the Urinals they are so fucking good its unreal. If I had to classify them in one single genre, I would probably say they are an early precursor of egg punk, very similar to The Coneheadsshare some other punk gems if you have any. Can be noise or something similar as well
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Western Animation

A general for "western" animations/cartoons.
Gonna start off with a recommendation to watch The King and the Mockingbird the 1980 version especially, absolutely comrade-pilled movie.

Good torrent sites (massive pop-up warning, put on an adblocker):
https://kimcartoon.li/CartoonList
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=movies
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=2;18;41;49
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Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread Thread

Thread for questions that don't deserve their own thread.
I wanna buy some headphones to go outside i don't want to spend more than 100€ on them. I want them to be mostly durable and secondly to have good sound quality, also i don't want to look like a jackass while wearing them, any suggestions?
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God damn we should have gotten a biomega like art style for cyberpunk man. The art style in 2077 is so fucking bland compared to the dark grey, purple like, edgy shit pumped out in this fucking hard as fuck comic.

Everything in cyberpunk looks too much like it’s trying to hard to appear punk as shit. Nothing in that game radiates the same fucking force felt just by staring at DRF goons.
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Ranking Justice League episodes because its 3 am and I wanna do something for fun after working on my coursework for all evening. Not doing Unlimited because the first two seasons are my childhood nostalgia but Unlimited is not.

Worst story - The Savage Time. This episode features WW2 and does not even once (!) mentions (!) Soviet Union. The burger "We wuz Nazi beaters!" self-fellating at its most egregious. Sucks this has to be the story that introduces Vandal Savage in DCAU.

23rd place - Fury. This story really wants to say something about gender and feminism… but, of course, turns out to be a complete worhless nothingburger that fails to even have a proper climatic battle.

22nd place - Secret Origins. A… passable pilot for the series, even though it visibly takes a massive dip towards mediocrity after the end of the first part.

21st place - Hearts and Minds. Too much sexual subtext for the children's show, period. The action is horrible and the setting is too big for the generic "villain of the week episode" (ironically, this is one story that probably could have worked better as a three-parter) Also is it just me, or are villains Islamophobic caricatures?

20th place - Secret Society. A typical "teamwork good" story, executed rather poorly. Most of the action in there looked like a circus show for me (though there were a couple of awesome moments). And did they really just… killed poor Clayface like that?

19th place - Metamorposis. It is a fun story, but what ruins it is a jarring fact that so much time is put into building Metamorpho's character that the only real way to justify it would be to add him as a League member at the end… and yet we never see him again until Unlimited.

18th place - Legends. Easily the most overrated DCAU story. Largely this story is just early 2000s capeshit writers jerking off to Silver Age capeshit writers… which has almost zero value to viewers outside of BurgerLand. Oh, and the Soviets are implicitly the real main villains in this.

17th place - Eclipsed. Really nice showcase of both full extent of Flash's powers and his character… and nice normalisation of USA imperialism in the Middle East.

16th place - A Better World. A facepalm-worthy soulless liberal propaganda about "dictatorship bad". At least Doomsday vs Justice Lords battle was excellently choreographed and Flash outsmarting Lord Batman was awesome.

15th place - Paradise Lost. The battle against Hades and his undead army was almost flawless and I love the showcase of Wonder Woman's lore and character in there. On the flipside, Faust is both OP and is killed in simultaneously the dumbest and most predictable way possible, and poor Hades is portrayed as Satan yet again.

14th place - War World. Better than the "Gladiator" movie it was ripping off, but still lame. Would have worked much better as a Superman the Animated Series story than as Justice League story.

13th place - The Brave and the Bold. Actually a superior showcase of Flash's character than "Eclipsed" despite being a season 1 story. And it doesn't normalise USA imperialism (if anything, it's the opposite there). Even if the concept of a civilisation of talking gorillas is silly.

To be continued…
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This is how a real socialist leader approaches the music question.

Most “narco music” is CIA-funded, identical to how the intelligence apparatus funds and promotes hip hop. Banning it is objectively the correct position for a socialist leader to take. China also bans rap and promotes classical music as a way of empowering the masses through culture.
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Mobile browsers

What mobile browser are you using?
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Serious question:
Why do adults always say that newer generations are less literate when kids nowadays read and type more text than any other era?

Also, most adults are incapable of remembering let alone appreciating any academic material and they're not held in contempt for it. Yet kids are morally burdened with the task of academic fulfillment.

We are living in an age where young people spend more time in school than every before. Compulsory laws and extensive additions to curriculum make every youngster a student.

Yet schoolteachers are unappreciative of this.
Meanwhile, we are seeing less industrial and social skills present in the prime age population.
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/chem/ - Chemistry

Let's have a thread about chemistry. I can't be the only amateur chemist on here. To please the mods, everything in here is purely academic. Check local laws before you embark on your projects. And before you do anything, make sure you have appropriate safety equipment. Think about the worst thing that could happen to your reaction, because chances are it will. Don't be stupid.

Resources
https://www.sciencemadness.org/ The go-to site for amateur chemists
Wiki: http://www.sciencemadness.org/smwiki/index.php/Main_Page
Forums, require email registration: https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/

Archive.org has plenty of old chemistry textbooks. The most useful ones for me are those meant to teach youngsters from the early 1900's.

YouTube
NurdRage, the OG channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/NurdRage
NileRed, the internet's premier piss chemist: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRedNile
NileBlue, secondary channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1D3yD4wlPMico0dss264XA
Explosions&Fire, energetic materials: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVovvq34gd0ps5cVYNZrc7A
Extractions&Ire, secondary channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvFApMFo_AafXbHRyEJefjA
Cody'sLab, chemistry and physics: https://www.youtube.com/user/theCodyReeder
ChemistNATE, educational: https://www.youtube.com/user/chemistNATE
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/eo/ Ĝenerala Esperanta Fadeno

Kie estas mia genigruloj? Ĉu iuj parolas la sennacian lingvon ĉi tie?
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God I wish Ubisoft would make a daggerfall clone

All the AC games released are just that. Daggerfall wannabes. It’s obvious that the developers at their studios want and have the technology to make a daggerfall sized RPG and just fucking won’t over budget concerns. God damn it.
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Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
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Welcome to /leftymu/ sticky (WIP)

Discuss what info, links, resources, etc. to add on this sticky as well as drop ideas and suggestions to the /leftymu/ board at large

Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#leftymusic:matrix.org
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Hazbin Hotel

How do you feel about it (and its creator)?
also please spam Charlie pics
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is they're A. Mine Craft Srevers???/ i am board and i got baned on a srever for "steling" (takign stuf f from another guy's hose afte rhe said it was ok but the moderator's discord handle was "the raging russian" and he was signalboosting pro-russia and anti-communist memes…)))) hello bing bong HELLO WOW HELLO HELP ME i am WOW hell o but really is there a community minecraft server pleas etelling me hat would be good Ok hi
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I fucking hate ai, nothing good will come of it, humanity has enough problems with out some ghoulish ketamine retards making a machine that makes it's own descions we can't control.
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/ career /

Career - job/career advice and other related stuff from a leftist perspective. EX: How to get a job, promotion, skill, switch companies, resume, life hacks, etc.
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/edu/ checkpoint

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/

Reality has a Marxist bias
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Is denuvo just pettynesd or boomer retardation???

From my understanding people who can't afford to pay a game and pirate it would still not buy it when locked behind denuvo. They would just not play it at all through piracy

>boohoo you won't pay up for my shitty aaa goyslop so I'll just lock it up behind a horrible server based DRM making life miserable even for my paid audience
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Musique Française - French Music

Let's begin with the best. Léo Ferré is a great french poet and also an anarchist, the organized chaos of his songs inspires people of today. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
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Art critique and the "classical" art

What can we really consider a "masterpiece?" And who's to define what is a masterpiece and what isn't? Moreover, how can we compare "masterpieces" of different art forms? I'm asking this since the only undisputed masterpieces in our society seem to be classical literature and classical music while everything else has to constantly prove itself to be as good as them. And when it comes to defining masterpieces in animation, let alone anime, instead of someone more professional like Roger Ebert or whatever we have some random YouTube essayists that gush about how this and that cartoon/anime is a "10/10 masterpiece." And when it comes to video games all we have are corporate journos giving 10/10 to games that become dated after 5 years. In the video game world what was considered a "masterpiece" before would be considered merely decent at best if it was published today. This is such a unique situation that literature never had to wrestle with (it's just letters on paper). And don't get me started on just how many of these "masterpieces" exist and how not every person may even vibe with the same type of game. Say, Mario 64 is considered a masterpiece. But I like Sonic Adventure. I like the sense of speed, I like the flow of movement, I like to go fast and never stop to take a breath. These are completely different feelings to those you get from playing SM64. Same for Super Meat Boy, another favorite of mine. It too makes you rush at a breakneck speed but it also punishes you for a slightest mistake which is very different from Sonic games which are very forgiving even compared to Mario games due to the ring system and the safety required to reach high speeds since Sonic is more physics-based.
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Danganronpa

>teens forced into world where they have to kill each other for freedom
>problems resolved by "voting like their lives depended on it.
>once the characters awaken from their false consciousness and see the world for what it is, they literally solve the finally problem with abstentionism

was it actually 'based?'
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/Latamnews/ hilo-fio de noticias

Camaradas, há algum tempo venho pensando como é importante ter algum meio de poder compartilhar as notícias que importam a classe trabalhadora, e penso que um fio de notícias onde coletivamente compartilhamos notícias ou versões digitais de jornais de nossas organizações, caso você seja organizado, seria uma forma de ficarmos mais informados sobre as novidades da luta de classes.

Camaradas, desde hace algún tiempo he estado pensando en lo importante que es tener alguna forma de poder compartir las noticias que le importan a la clase trabajadora, y creo que un hilo de noticias donde compartamos colectivamente noticias o versiones digitales de periódicos de nuestras organizaciones, si estas organizado, sería una forma de estar más informados sobre los últimos acontecimientos de la lucha de clases.
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Tools, Gizmos and Contraptions

Post less computery hardware you think is neat or have question about.
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Peripheral Web Stuff

I watched this video recently, and have been fascinated by the concept of "the peripheral web" (in contrast to "core web") and want to find more stuff out there. So how about a thread where we share neat stuff we find on the peripheral web?

First thing that comes to mind for me that isn't a blog or meta on this topic feel free to share either tho, just wanted to start the thread on a cool note is https://firstpersontetris.com/

Also relevant >>/tech/23548
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Total War has deteriorated to such an absurd fucking degree they make good ideas shitty in practice every new game. i entered the TW fanbase quite late (2016) but despite that i find myself playing mostly older games, shogun 2, Attila and occasionally Napoleon. i LOVE the ideas Troy put foward having more resources has always been an obvious expansion for TW, being able to switch between fantasy and historical is also a very good idea considering the many mythical creatures they could've/havd added. and yet despite all of this Troy is fucking shit because the core fundamentals of TW have degraded to such an extent it's just a worse game. Morale is utterly useless and broken, units can survive until they have 5 men in them, literally what's the point of tactics? why flank? battles are now only decided on who has the better men. Shogun 2 and Napoleon have by far the best morale system, despite Attila using the Rome 2 system i still find it quite good (at least for the early game). shit even fantasy TW should be awesome and instead all units feel the exact same, how do you even do that? you have limitless opportunies yet 90 percent of the roaster serves the same function. i have lost all hopes on those faggots.
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Should I actually stop people who are shoplifting?

I work at a shitty grocery store in an even shittier area. People come in who are completely illiterate and need to be walked through each step of paying. Basically everyone uses foodstamp payment and we get robbed every single day whether it's the carts and baskets getting carried off or someone running out the front with food.

Is it anti-Marxist to prevent shoplifting? Should I just ignore people blatantly stealing when I am working the self checkout machines?
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/ck/ -- everything cooking related

Onyo edition
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Winter in America

Thought I'd make a song for sad songs about how much America and life in America sucks. One of my favorite genres. Thought I'd start with one that has America right in the title and is self-explanatory.

>Winter In America - Gil Scott Heron

Here is a live version, I'll transcribe the introduction myself, you can look up the rest.
Intro:
>Thank you very much, for the last few years we've been doing a song that concerns the fact that the seasons have been affected recently. Don't seem to have Spring like you used to, or Summer, or Fall, it has been a season collectively of frozen aspirations, and frozen hopes. We'd like to a song for you about the season we are trying to get over. It's called: Winter in America.
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where to start when building a new pc

I just have come across some money and I want to build a new gaming PC, my old pc is starting to show its age. Where do I start? I have a 3000 dollar budget. Looking for a high end gpu, The best cpu and and can carry a blueray player.
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Music against Trump

Why haven’t we seen an explosion of anti-Trump music in the past two months given how hated Trump is as president and how pop stars are given loads of credit for being socially conscious? Not even Kendrick Lamar seems to be making anti-Trump stuff despite being liberals’ favourite.
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Is my art okay

I also threw in some of the first tattoos I did on myself
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Should I quit drawing or not?

I would've posted this on the draw board, but that's deader than Jeffrey Epstein. I started in mid-late October of this year (I didn't keep track of when I started, unfortunately).
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I'm so fucking tired of my job, it's so boring and soulless. All I do is stare at a computer all day and contemplate my life decisions.
Worse of all? I have to work another 40 fucking years or so until I retire, which at that point I'll be an old fart sitting in some shitty nursing home watching the window and praying that someone dares to visit me.

Work all year round just for two rest days where I have to do other life shit. The reward? Living with the basics and a two week vacation. Fuck this man, I can't stand living like this anymore.
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Amenazas de Bomba en Uruguay

Udelar suspendió todas sus clases luego de que recibiera amenazas de bomba

https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nacional/udelar-suspendio-todas-sus-clases-luego-que-recibiera-amenazas-bomba-n5991498

Nuevas amenazas de bomba, esta vez en Portones Shopping y el anexo de Medicina: es la quinta de este tipo en los últimos días

https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nacional/nueva-amenaza-bomba-esta-vez-portones-shopping-es-la-cuarta-este-tipo-los-ultimos-dias-centros-comerciales-n5991373

“Grupo 764”: cuál es el origen de la red a la que dice pertenecer quien amenazó a Udelar

https://www.montevideo.com.uy/Noticias/-Grupo-764--cual-es-el-origen-de-la-red-a-la-que-dice-pertenecer-quien-amenazo-a-Udelar-uc918811?utm_source=Portal&utm_medium=Link&utm_campaign=mas_noticias_abajo
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tfw no middle point between wm bars that barely use cpu but have plenty of minor but annoying bugs or lack some functionality or another and wm bars filled with eye candy running on fucking gtk3 or some shit without bugs and a module for pretty much everything

i hate the concept of ricing i just want something decently pretty and decently efficient for my old computer man
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Nacionalismo

Oque os anões acham de nacionalismo? excluindo claro, aquelas cópias baratas do fascismo europeu, os integralistas, mas sim um nacionalismo real Latino-Americano e Brasileiro, que visem tirar as garras do império merdunidense e europeu de nossas terras?
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Now that the JFK assassination files are out, it is the perfect time to point out the fact that legendary punk vocalist/guitarist Ian Mackaye's father William R. Mackaye was in the motorcade which JFK was shot in as a White House reporter for the Washington post. Ian's Washington DC based label Dischord records have also signed several bands who perform regularly at the infamous Comet Ping Pong. Kinda gives new meaning to the term "Minor Threat"! I am almost positive this is all a big coincidence though and will be careful from now on and not look into it any further.
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Tech field

Anyone regret being in this porky hellscape
>spend all day every day learning a billion different tech stacks
>by the time ur caught up 30 new technologies to learn
>constant boom and bust cycles that leave u jobless
>workers are greedy gusanos that just came here to make money
>no solidarity at all, techbros happy to step on u to keep their job
>eyeball retinas are just deepfried
>have to produce some shit datamining sw
>grind ur way through 4 years of theory just to fail some shitty coding autism score test
>work under h1b immigrant managers who force u to work all day so they dont have to go back
>get outsourced anyways
>PIP factories to keep ur penis in pain
>get attitude from FOBs who think theyre hot shit because they make more
> the smell
>daily stand ups and justifying ur existence
>oversaturated field because learn2code propoganda
>no jobs headed the way of finance
>threat of AI and dumb managers who cut workforce

Why tf am i still doing this bros
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they read marx, but do they do the laundry?

i was doing the laundry yesterday and wondered: is "how to fold clothes a solved problem?"

at its core, the most efficient fold for any piece of laundry should be able to be identified by optimizing for stability and shape: you want folded clothes to stay folded, and ideally any item would fold to the same or similar shape to allow efficient packing for storage

when folding, i notice that the first step of any item is to get it to a regular shape: typically a rectangle. for a T-shirt, fold the sleeves in and fold the sides together either by halves or thirds, then fold the top to bottom. from here, there's some variation: if the fabric is thin enough, fold it again into thirds, or if it's too thick, fold it in half or leave it as it is

with larger items like sheets and towels the goal is the same, but you are already starting with the regular shape. reduce its longest dimension by half, repeat until you're done

challenges arise when fabric is thicker, or even for tshirts. some optimizations for folding a shirt include offsetting hems when folded by him width to reduce bulk, folding with "flex area" along the folds

it seems like mathematically, we could identify the optimal folding strategy for any one article. has that been done? can we prove that the folding strategy employed by the kondo method is any better/worse than any other strategy?
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Is it bad to pirate games if they're too costly for me?

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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Would anyone be interested in going through Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit together?

The way that we would do it is choose a date every week and then get into a voice chat together and have one member read through a portion of PoS followed by something like Kalkavage's Logic of Desire (or Hegel's ladder) and then talk about it together. We'd have a reading session every week until we finish the book. Everything would be contained within the session.
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i've been playing GTAV with the raytracing update

I'm gonna post the screenshots i took with RT on and off and I CHALLENGE you to guess which ones have raytracing on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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/OPSEC/

Operations security AKA OPSEC

OPSEC is the protecting of critical information deemed mission essential from military commanders. Protecting this critical information is through the use of email encryption software, being careful of who may be listening to you (like in a hotel bar), paying close attention to a picture you have taken (back ground), or not talking openly on social media sites about information on the unit's critical information list (military deployments, shortages of equipment or movement of VIPs).

<"If your secure communications platform isn’t being used by terrorists and pedophiles, you’re probably doing it wrong."
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If you're not organised with wage labourers in any meaningful and consequential way you're not a communist, just a sympathiser who knows plenty. It's akin to calling oneself a physicist because they watch PBS Space Time & read Feynman sometimes.
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Is there any good space ship or space battle game? I've been reading SF lately and want to know if there is any game where you control a spaceship or a fleet into battle, or just travel through space.
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China has made AI open-source, cheap and efficient.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/open-source-deepseek-r1-uses-pure-reinforcement-learning-to-match-openai-o1-at-95-less-cost/
<Based on the recently introduced DeepSeek V3 mixture-of-experts model, DeepSeek-R1 matches the performance of o1, OpenAI’s frontier reasoning LLM, across math, coding and reasoning tasks. The best part? It does this at a much more tempting cost, proving to be 90-95% more affordable than the latter.
<Specifically, where OpenAI o1 costs $15 per million input tokens and $60 per million output tokens, DeepSeek Reasoner, which is based on the R1 model, costs $0.55 per million input and $2.19 per million output tokens.
https://xcancel.com/DrJimFan/status/1881353126210687089
<DeepSeek-R1 not only open-sources a barrage of models but also spills all the training secrets. They are perhaps the first OSS project that shows major, sustained growth of an RL flywheel.

Read the paper yourself. https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
>Reasoning tasks: (1) DeepSeek-R1 achieves a score of 79.8% Pass@1 on AIME 2024, slightly surpassing OpenAI-o1-1217. On MATH-500, it attains an impressive score of 97.3%, performing on par with OpenAI-o1-1217 and significantly outperforming other models. (2) On coding-related tasks, DeepSeek-R1 demonstrates expert level in code competition tasks, as it achieves 2,029 Elo rating on Codeforces outperforming 96.3% human participants in the competition. For engineering-related tasks, DeepSeek-R1 performs slightly better than DeepSeek-V3, which could help developers in real world tasks.
>Knowledge: On benchmarks such as MMLU, MMLU-Pro, and GPQA Diamond, DeepSeek R1 achieves outstanding results, significantly outperforming DeepSeek-V3 with scores of 90.8% on MMLU, 84.0% on MMLU-Pro, and 71.5% on GPQA Diamond. While its performance is slightly below that of OpenAI-o1-1217 on these benchmarks, DeepSeek-R1 surpasses other closed-source models, demonstrating its competitive edge in educational tasks.

The newest model R1 is not paywalled and registration is free. Is there any doubt that China is socialist at this point? After seeing what's going on with Xiaohongshu, following what's happening since the centenary of the CPC (green energy production, 15-minute city policy, social cohesion and harmony, more and more automatization and great projects of transformation of nature, like the Taklamakan geen belt, liberation of productive forces and more free and leisure time for the Chinese citizens… I'm so sorry I ever doubted.
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Opinions on Ronald Grigor Suny's Soviet histories?

Title. Have been reading into Soviet history for a while now and have recently came across his works. Halfway through both his overaching Soviet works and have thought them brilliant thus far in their fairness toward all parties involved in the experiment.

Can anyone offer any further laudations and/or criticisms? It's far too monumental of a task to verify it all alone, though from what I've seen it's mostly accurate.