Dr. Jenkem

I didn’t realize it’s a collection of short stories, but yeah, on Casting Off right now.

That’s what I use it for lol.

I just finished Quantum Radio by A.G. Riddle. Now working on Wool.

I don’t see how acknowledging that other branches of communism and Marxism exist is idealism, bad faith, or irrational.

Nope, just trying to have a rational, good faith discussion.

It’s speculation because you don’t know what the future holds. And just because you’re not interested in a particular ideology or don’t think it has merit doesn’t make it any less communist.

My only point is that words do in fact have meaning, Marxist-Leninism is not synonymous with communism. Therefore, one can be anti-tankie without being anti-communist.

Speculation and also not relevant.

no it usually refers to whatever the fuck the person posting it seems to think it is, there is not a coherent label for it.

Why are you letting libs define everything? You and I both know they’re dumbasses and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

Oh cool, which societies use those?

Anyone could have said the same to Marx about communism at any point in his life, as he died before the October revolution.

Tankie usually refers to Marxism-Leninism (as well the ideologies that derived from it such as Maoism). But there are communist ideologies that don’t derive from ML such as Orthodox Marxism, trotskyism, libertarian Marxism, bulshevism, etc.

Can’t decide if I just want to renew everything for as long as possible to delay the price increase or just move to a different registrar.

Private torrent trackers.

Pretty sure https is a requirement for federation. Not sure about non-standard port number, but I would try and move to 443. I know you mention in a comment port 443 is already in use, in which case, I recommend setting up a reverse proxy (I like nginx-proxy-manager), and configure a subdomain for the lemmy instance.

I have half a mind to start releasing cracks just so there’s 1 cracker who isn’t a fucking bigot.

EDIT: btw, didn’t Voksi get arrested back in 2018? And EMPRESS started releasing cracks in like 2019. So are we to believe that Voksi goes to jail for a year, and immediately comes out and starts cracking again, all without receiving another visit from the feds? Doubt.

EDIT2: lol here’s Voksi’s response: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2218172

Fuck EMPRESS and SKIDROW, SKIDROW for dragging Voksi into the petty bullshit and both of them for their childish, edgleord bullshit.

If this is the general spirit of piracy, I don’t know if I’m interested

I don’t use soulseek but no, I certainly wouldn’t describe that attitude as the general spirit of piracy. I’m mostly familiar with the private torrent trackers. While I’ve certainly come across fascists (EMPRESS is a good example, they’re pretty explicitly transphobic and include a bunch of slurs in their nfo’s), I generally come across plenty of libs and even some anarchists and communists. And based on events and how the private trackers are moderated, the staff, at least on the sites I use, they seem pretty alright. For example, I know of at least a couple trackers that ran events for pride month.

And from hanging out in leftist spaces, they seem especially cool with piracy. They’re anticapitalist after all, so it shouldn’t be a surprise.

I personally use Proxmox on baremetal and just run a bunch of VM’s, most are Ubuntu. But with only 8gb of RAM, a hypervisor might not be of much value to you. But if you ever upgrade the server and want to do more with it, having a setup with multiple VM’s will be really handy.

Otherwise, I’d say go with Ubuntu or Debian on bare metal. I personally don’t like the NAS style distributions, I prefer to setup everything myself, rather than getting a distribution preloaded with a bunch of shit I’m not going to ever use.

I too want to reengineer the economy.

All good

You’re right. What’s been done so far won’t fully solve the problem. Better undermine support for people trying to get what can be done, done, and then doom all over the Internet.

The libs are the ones undermining the progress. It ought to be self evident by now that radical measures need to be taken, and that the markets will not solve the climate crisis, the kind of regulation we need would kill entire sectors of the economy. Even when it comes to moderate improvements, Democrats are obstructed by both the minority opposition and members of their own party (as libs are always quick to remind me).

The Democrats will never be able to do what needs to get done. So you undermine the chance for meaningful change when you tell people, “don’t worry, Biden is on it, just vote and everything will be fine”.

Nah, even in areas with ranked choice voting, third parties are jokes. Don’t get me wrong, I’m in favor of reforms designed to allow them a more reasonable and equal access to the political levers of power, but the two most significant third parties are the Greens and Libertarians. Neither one is a political force, and not just because of first past the post voting. Niche, ideologically focused parties will always underperform wide coalitions within democracies.

Which areas? Areas in the US? Yeah, hundreds of years of entrenched power at the local, State, and federal level will do that. Would take time and likely ranked choice at the federal level to change.

Yup, like I said, lots of leftists I disagree with. That includes ML’s. What’s your point exactly?

Not an ML. And certainly don’t think I’m the only leftist. Lots of different types of leftists, many I disagree with. But unless you’re opposed to capitalism, then you’re a liberal, not a leftist.