Read Settlers by J Sakai, the entire book addresses this one question for white USians.

Thanks for pointing out the issue! That makes a lot more sense.

I kinda agree, but there must have been some practicality issues with doing so.

Buses can take the new bridge. Also, there’s already rail between the 2 cities. Here’s Baidu Maps’ options for the trip:

It is kinda annoying that the trip is 30 minutes by car, but at least 1 hr 30 minutes by high speed rail and costs 100+ yuan.

Fucking parasites. I know China already has laws against capital flight, but increasing their strength would never hurt. Why would you ever let people make money in your country, with your infrastructure, then have them fuck off as soon as you ask for some of it back?

Fnally, my anime knowledge is coming in handy.

Crunchyroll is like Netflix, but dedicated to anime. They used to compete with Funimation, a rival anime streaming service owned by Sony, but then Sony bought Crunchyroll also and merged the two under the Crunchyroll name. Together, they now own 90%+ of the Western anime streaming market. Predictably, Crunchyroll’s prices have ticked steadily upward since.

Not only does this hurt consumers, it also harms animators and voice actors. Because there’s no competition, Crunchyroll can lowball animation studios, which is one reason why Japanese animators are so overworked and underpaid. Similarly, Crunchyroll despises all unions, and since they’re the only game in town, most voice actors are forced to go unionless and accept shittier pay. This keeps unions in the animation industry perpetually weak.

The only things stopping Crunchyroll from becoming a full monopoly is the well-developed pirating industry around anime. Netflix, Disney Plus, and HIDIVE are technically competitors also, but each have glaring issues. Netflix is even more shit, Disney Plus buries anime in their catalog so you can’t find them, and HIDIVE is too small to be worth paying for.

Simple, really. If black/brown, shoot. If white, don’t shoot.

There are various tools you can use to strip metadata from the final image if you want to.

If you VPN into Russia and check the Russia Ministry of Defense website (https://eng.mil.ru/), they post daily and weekly reports on the progress of the SMO. If you add up all the Ukrainian troop deaths in their report from 22 – 28 June 2024, you get 13820 deaths in the week, which averages to ~2000 per day. Russia also lists a bunch of armored vehicles and aircraft they blew up, I do not know if casualties from them were included in the troop death counts.

Here’s the full report if anyone’s interested:

From 22 June to 28 June 2024, the Russian Armed Forces have carried out 17 group strikes with high-precision weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles. Enemy energy facilities, infrastructure of military airfields, logistics centres for storing weapons delivered by Western countries to the AFU, as well as assembly and storage facilities for attack unmanned aerial vehicles and uncrewed boats.

Temporary deployment areas of AFU troops and foreign mercenaries have been also hit.

Over the past week, the units of the Sever Group of Forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy defence and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of three formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one marine brigade, and three territorial defence brigades.

The AFU losses were up to 1,560 Ukrainian troops, 12 armoured fighting vehicles, and 43 motor vehicles.

In the course of counter-battery warfare, 33 field artillery guns, including seven foreign-made howitzers, three Nota electronic warfare stations, Bukovel-AD, and two U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar stations have been eliminated.

The units of the Zapad Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation and inflicted fire damage on four mechanised and two tank brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as on two territorial defence brigades. Six counter-attacks of AFU assault detachments have been repelled.

The AFU losses were up to 3,230 Ukrainian troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, 40 motor vehicles, three Grad MLRS combat vehicles, 24 field artillery guns, six of them were U.S.-made.

In addition, three U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 and AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery warfare radars, as well as 11 field ammunition depots have been destroyed.

The units of the Yug Group of Forces have liberated Razdolovka (Donetsk People’s Republic) and seized more advantageous lines.

The strikes have been delivered at manpower and hardware of the three mechanised, two airmobile, and two air assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The AFU losses were up to 4,410 Ukrainian troops, two tanks, eight armoured fighting vehicles, 48 motor vehicles, and 39 field artillery guns, including 11 U.S.-made M777 and M198 howitzers.

In addition, seven Anklav, Bukovel electronic warfare stations, and 25 field ammunition depots have been destroyed.

The units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have improved the situation along the front line and defeated units of four mechanised, two infantry formations of the AFU and two territorial defence brigades. Enemy 39 counter-attacks have been repelled in this direction during the week.

The AFU losses were up to 2950 troops, three tanks, six armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 30 motor vehicles, and 42 field artillery guns, including six U.S.-made M777 howitzers.

The units of the Vostok Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, three formations of the Territorial Defence and two National Guard brigades.

The AFU losses were up to 930 Ukrainian troops, six armoured fighting vehicles, 36 motor vehicles, and 19 field artillery guns, including six UK-made FH-70 howitzers.

The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have defeated units of two formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and three brigades of the Ukrainian Territorial Defence.

The AFU losses were up to 740 Ukrainian troops, three tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, 48 motor vehicles, and 23 field artillery guns, 11 of them were foreign-made.

In addition, eight Anklav, Bukovel electronic warfare stations, and six ammunition depots have been destroyed.

Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have destroyed six M142 HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system launchers, one M270 MLRS launcher, and one transport and loader vehicle together with foreign specialists who ensured their use, as well as three P-18 air target detection and tracking radars.

Air defence facilities have shot down two Ukrainian Air Force’s MiG-29 aircraft, 589 unmanned aerial vehicles, six U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, eight U.S.-made Patriot anti-aircraft guided missiles, one U.S.-made HARM anti-radiation missile, and 61 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, Czech-made Vampire and Olkha projectiles.

Over the past week, 56 Ukrainian servicemen have surrendered on the line of contact.

In total, 615 airplanes and 276 helicopters, 26,777 unmanned aerial vehicles, 533 air defence missile systems, 16,446 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,357 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 11,020 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 23,049 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

United Fruit Co. IS Chiquita. Don’t let their rebrand fool you into forgetting their criminal history.

They gotta pad those falling GDP numbers.

Agree, Discord is kinda a ticking time bomb for privacy. Their privacy policy is sus as f*ck.

Nice suggestions! I really need to make an account to be an editor sometime, to motivate me to learn more about socialism and communism.

One suggestion I have is to expand the library as a backup for present-day socialist works. For instance, I maintain the r/Deprogram Wiki backup here on Lemmygrad, but would like to move it to Prolewiki where it belongs more, and so more people can work on it. Is this OK, or is there no system for this yet?

Just how much has Bongbong Marcos’ propaganda fucked up the Philippine people?

I’ve talked to people from the Philippines who say that the Marcos family has made several propaganda movies of themselves, showing themselves as “regular people” (albeit with shittons of jewels and shoes way out of reach of the average Filipino) and benevolent leaders under Ferdinand Marcos’ dictatorship.

This is the same Ferdinand that killed and tortured all his opposition with US support, and robbed ~$7 billion from the Philippines Central Bank when he was finally kicked out to Hawaii.

You see, when the wind blows from South to North, any shit carried along is free expression. However, when the wind blows from North to South, flying shit is a grave national security threat.

Hell yeah. If the US can sail a ship between Taiwan and China and call it freedom-of-navigation, Russia has even more right to sail ships between Miami and the Bahamas.

That is how you shit all your insides out.

Lexend. It’s a font designed with research to have variable widths to aid legibility.

There’s even an Arabic+Latin version called Readex Pro. There’s a really cool article documenting how they adapted variable widths to the unique connected structure of Arabic writing.

Both are freely available on Google Fonts.

There are only 2 ways the worker-capitalist contradiction can ever be solved:

• communism
• exterminism (from Peter Frase’s Four Futures), where the capitalists finally fulfill their dream of automating everything and can genocide all the unneeded workers.

It’s quite important we bring about revolution before option 2 becomes viable.

This is quite an interesting study into how we prevent LLMs from absorbing the capitalist thought that dominates the interwebs.

Tsinghua University made a nice multi-language rendition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the CPC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNPKRjNEZ5E