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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • There’s no such thing as “authorization”. The US can make whatever deals it likes, it doesn’t mean Ukraine has to listen. There’s no such thing as “international enforcement” in the first place, just individual nations flexing power on other nations.

    US weapons are important to Ukraine, so the US could flex that power and try to make Ukraine do what it says by withholding them, but if they think they can go it alone or Europe steps up, they don’t need to listen.







  • They don’t even want the same candidate. Whenever those candidates come up they complain that they sold out or they’re not radical enough. Whatever the deeper motivation is, their only perceivable act seems to be to complain.

    As to action, I do agree with the general sentiment that it needs to be sustained. The protests need to have a cost and disrupt regular life beyond just people taking a day off. But I think things are tense enough that something like BLM could kick off again. People just need to believe it’s time. A protest day after day, or a multiweek protest on a specific day, could convince people it’s real. A one and done protest following the prescribed route isn’t useless (it reminds people that basically half the country hates the guy), but it’s something people see and think they did their resistance and now it’s back to regular life.


  • Your actions are indistinguishable from someone trying to suppress progressive action. You call for something no one is going to do (take up arms) and make moronic absolutist statements to drive rancor within progressive action.

    You don’t need someone to give you coordinates or get you a gun. You could do that yourself. If you’re serious, just go do it, and mention Lemmy so we all get to say we interacted with the guy online. You don’t need our help or approval if you think that’s the next step. But you’re not going to do anything, just bitch about everyone else doing things you say are pointless. You’re just here to talk a big game and criticize everyone else to kill any sort of organizing or solidarity.


  • I think Kamala was an embarrassment that deserved to be called out, Biden is evil, and the establishment often cares more about suppressing progressives than beating Republicans, but I absolutely downvoted that dumb as shit comment.

    The Democrats can be responsible for failing to defeat fascism, complicit in genocide and the backsliding of civil rights, and a problem in need of active and forceful change without saying stupid things like they’re just as bad as the guy empowering Nazis, destroying the civil service, and persecuting trans people with deadly results.

    That’s fucking stupid online edgelord politics.





  • Seconding LaTeX. It’s kind of the standard for scientific writing. If you want to give them a head start toward that end, it’s the go to.

    I will point out that it’s not an editor but more like a format. It’s kind of like HTML in that your document (without a WYSIWYG editor) looks like raw text with some codeword markup. This means there’s a bit of a learning curve. But once you run it through the processor it will spit out professional and good looking documents. I have co-workers in a very MS Word dominated environment that would love to write everything in LaTeX.

    You can also find open source WYSIWYG editors to make it easier for them to get started.