Posts by zillion@freeradical.zone
(DIR) Post #AjdMLbBIgs7lsFYmOG by zillion@freeradical.zone
2024-07-05T22:11:25Z
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@Radical_EgoCom I don't have a good answer, but I'd like to know what your strategy is for preventing a vanguard party from becoming autocratic and refusing to subordinate itself to the proletariat? After all, we've seen that happen before.
(DIR) Post #Ak2U4wAy2HH1HNDRGC by zillion@freeradical.zone
2024-07-18T01:05:42Z
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@strypey There's a bunch of information about this at https://indieweb.org/POSSE , and more if you jost search POSSE. POSSE: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. I haven't done it, so I can't really recommend this, but it's a place to start.
(DIR) Post #AkhDMW5y0dhfre1xEO by zillion@freeradical.zone
2024-08-06T16:41:41Z
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@Radical_EgoCom I agree that anarchists have many conflicting ideas about what the proletariat will put in place, but the Leninist proposal of a dictatorship of the proletariat has decisvely been shown a failure. The dictatorship has always become a dictatorship of a new ruling class that has exploited workers for its own ends. I would even argue that the new rulers, by directing production, have simply replaced one group of capitalist oligarchs with a new one, but that won't fit in toots.
(DIR) Post #Akhvk9xYMBhE92BAbw by zillion@freeradical.zone
2024-08-07T00:59:00Z
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@Radical_EgoCom @niko That strikes me as a reasonable view, though who wants to wait that long? Egalitarian societies stand little chance against imperialism without protection. But Leninism has never led to a socialist society, and it has resulted in a dangerous Leninist form of imperialism: witness what happened to the Third International. I don't see a way forward. The decline of the U.S. as an imperial power and the growth of anticolonialist sentiment in the West are hopeful signs.
(DIR) Post #Aki6e1GsqUBixOUmps by zillion@freeradical.zone
2024-08-07T03:01:06Z
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@Radical_EgoCom @niko I'm referring to the U.S.S.R.'s attempted (and largely successful) takeover of communist parties in other countries and its active sabotage of other socialists. Maybe I shouldn't have called that imperialism, but that's what I mean.
(DIR) Post #An6f8L9SbNxzWYzS6a by zillion@freeradical.zone
2024-10-17T19:04:48Z
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@futurebird Having a probaility of one is not the same as certainty, so that doesn't quite work. Probability is a measure, so my claim is analogous to, and true for the same reason as, the fact that there are proper subsets of a unit interval of length one—for example leave out a single point.
(DIR) Post #AnmsSsm8F2KkgL1gJs by zillion@freeradical.zone
2024-11-07T03:52:04Z
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@futurebird @billyjoebowers I can't imagine living without cursive. It's so much faster. I do math, so typing is not an option for early stages. It's also great for taking notes.
(DIR) Post #ApmclaYv2CZ6JDIiUi by zillion@freeradical.zone
2025-01-05T19:59:39Z
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Surprise, surprise:"on average, almost half of the data required to view a web page is consumed by advertising,"https://www.nextpit.com/ads-consume-half-of-your-mobile-data.The study is terrible; the result, believable.
(DIR) Post #ArURSZqXcN3V6s7ROS by zillion@freeradical.zone
2025-02-25T21:52:59Z
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@frameworkcomputer A lot how? Are you getting DDOSed?
(DIR) Post #AsFaTlIzKtqMaHB7D6 by zillion@freeradical.zone
2025-03-20T04:17:04Z
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👹 FFS.When I first boot up my new Dell computer, I am "forced" to agree that• I cannot resell it.• That it is for my use. (So, I take it, my family members can't use it.)• That _any_ dispute I have with Dell—not just concerning this computer—will be governed by the laws of Texas. (continued)
(DIR) Post #AsFaTppOWM8sbwN3HE by zillion@freeradical.zone
2025-03-20T04:20:32Z
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• That _any_ dispute I have with Dell must be resolved by arbitration and that it can only be individual (no class actions or the like). That, Dell says, includes past disputes!(There are some minor exceptions: I can take them to small claims court, and if at least 25 people submit similar claims the arbitrations can be consolidated with the consent of the arbitrator.)It's a good thing I never intended to use the supplied OS (Ubuntu) anyhow, so I can ignore this crap.
(DIR) Post #AsFaTuh4QjSFhZVyUq by zillion@freeradical.zone
2025-03-20T04:35:37Z
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• If I move the computer or deny the activation [agreement] of the computer, I must notify Dell.
(DIR) Post #AsFqe8fSvbU1Cif5ua by zillion@freeradical.zone
2025-03-20T18:46:45Z
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@tomjennings Ordinary retail. Condition 3 of what I wrote could be argued to apply only to bulk purchases, though I don't think that's what it says, but the no resell clause clearly applies even to retail sales.
(DIR) Post #AuOwKQWlcVVFNIspI8 by zillion@freeradical.zone
2025-05-23T21:04:42Z
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@phocks That dogs cannot see color.
(DIR) Post #AvBz1xAdyWW7d11XZQ by zillion@freeradical.zone
2025-06-16T15:38:02Z
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@stux @RoundSparrow/114689662236330457
(DIR) Post #AvGbmuwwckYLF0HFGC by zillion@freeradical.zone
2025-06-18T21:11:16Z
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@tomjennings @babble_endanger (Making it about me, instead.) I can only code in scheme or perl because I can never remember syntax. Scheme has no syntax, and in Perl any syntax whatsoever works.
(DIR) Post #AvWvsx8T9d0ikA0Kqu by zillion@freeradical.zone
2025-06-26T15:22:22Z
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Trump Warns if He Does Not Win Nobel Peace Prize He Will Bomb Norwayhttps://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-warns-if-he-does-not-win-nobel
(DIR) Post #Azk5Qgg1Sve7rjJc8W by zillion@freeradical.zone
2025-10-30T17:58:24Z
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@Nonilex Tararanto made threats against the National Institute of Standards & Technology? WTF? Is he opposed to imperial units or something? I mean, I am too, but not violently.
(DIR) Post #AzwPLjiF54gOoTmzjM by zillion@freeradical.zone
2025-11-05T15:59:15Z
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This is real!
(DIR) Post #B2fOyszBjJe9xOpMrA by zillion@freeradical.zone
2026-01-25T01:40:43Z
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I never thought I'd see the NY fucking Times headline"State Terror Has Arrived"and"In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War."Maybe that will get the commentariat to write strongly worded letters.