I’ve worked at a company that did injection molding, and they made people have to work at superhuman speeds with equipment that continued to give injuries. Part of the reason is because they would collect data from the fastest person on the machine and expect everyone else to work as fast. The mentors who were being timed caught on and started working slower to make the pace less ridiculous. Management would also let go of people who had injuries because they didn’t want to pay for it.

Personally I would like to work in a semiconductor factory as an engineer or even start off in a lower level position, but of course that’s not going to happen anyway.

LinuxRuleZ (who is a moderator and major contributor to torrminatorr.com) rocks. Their packaged Linux native and Wine prefixed games work nicely with the Steam Deck (though sometimes I have noticed the Wine ones are broken). Make sure to seed their torrents as they are not up for very long, and they delete their old builds because they cannot sustain the storage requirements.

I think they–actually maybe the adminstrator of torrminatorr.com, I thought LinuxRuleZ was the host because they are very prolific and people mention the administrator’s sites mainly to get LinuxRuleZ’s repacks–also host zamunda.se (also other domains/mirrors exist, but this one is possible to create an account successfully atm), and have been working on a new site appnetica.com.

While 1337x is too risky from pirate from, and this creator’s repacks don’t work with the Steam Deck due to the immutable OS which also lacks various linux packages, I think johncena141’s repacks are pretty cool because they use DwarFS, a virtual filesystem like FUSE that has some of the best possible compression ratios and speeds possible, for their repacks. I saw redditors complain about this person’s repacks being too difficult and complex, lol, but I think this is one of the best ways to use open source tech for Linux piracy. This honestly inspires me to learn to crack my own games and software and create nicely packed torrents.

Some of my feedback in the past regarding Proton and why you should avoid it:

https://hexbear.net/comment/5674053

Mullvad, IVPN, and AirVPN all support crypto. They all do not require email accounts, too.

I do not recommend Proton for many reasons.

They support Israel.

https://proton.me/support/protonmail-israel-radware

https://protonvpn.com/blog/israel-vpn-servers/

They supported the 2020 Hong Kong protests.

https://protonvpn.com/blog/hong-kong-servers

This comment from Lemmygrad explains why Proton may be a honeypot and to be wary of VPN services in general.

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/361523

Here is a list of potential issues with ProtonMail (including their onion site deanonymizing Tor users when they create an account by redirecting them back to their .com address):

https://encryp.ch/blog/disturbing-facts-about-protonmail/

Some practical reasons I don't recommend Proton

• Port-forwarding on linux is shoddy.
• Proton treats Linux and its open source community as second-class citizens.
• ProtonMail Android app is slow as hell. Takes several minutes to load an email and is basically unusable.
• 3+ year old issues never get fixed: https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/180

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/3306884

I want to get rid of ProtonMail eventually because they may be a honeypot.

1. Protonmail Behaves like a CIA/NSA “Honeypot”

Protonmail has an Onion domain that allows users to visit their site using the TOR browser. Protonmail even has an SSL cert for that onion address even though it’s completely unnecessary. When a user makes a new account with Protonmail on TOR they are re-directed from Protonmail’s “.onion” to “.com” address. This breaks your secure encrypted connection to their onion address, enabling your identification. There are absolutely no technical reasons for this feature. In fact, the only other websites that operate like this are suspected NSA/CIA Honeypots.

This is a huge security issue that was either created because Protonmail is managed by Particle physicists who do not understand computer security OR they have been forced to operate their website in a similar way as CIA/NSA honeypots. Both possibilities are serious concerns.

https://encryp.ch/blog/disturbing-facts-about-protonmail/

I’m planning to self-host my own email service, but that comes with its own problems, including major email services banning most IPs that are not other mainstream email providers for the sake of “spam protection”.

https://vadosware.io/post/its-never-been-easier-or-harder-to-self-host-email/

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

To hopefully counter this and to have a separate email for payments required to be able to host my own email service, I have an email on macaw.me and monocles.de (about monocles).

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/3307267

Tutanota mail is an alternative to Protonmail, but you can’t use another email client like Thunderbird. There’s some more options listed in this link:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/

As I suggested before, macaw.me offers free email, and monocles.de offers free and paid encrypted email (both use Roundcube webmail).

Here’s a list of email providers that work with Delta Chat:

https://providers.delta.chat/

Here’s a list of email providers that work with dismail.de:

https://dismail.de/serverlist.html

I have been on the search for another larger and more developed email provider as a backup for instances when I can’t use my other emails because they are blocked by some services or an entity I need to interact with. Here’s a list of email providers I have managed to find for you:

• cock.li (Vulgar, but has less vulgar domain name options, and they claim to be more transparent and honest, but I get some right-wing libertarian vibes from this service as I learned about it from Mental Outlaw (yeah, I know I watch some cringey tech channels, but I learn some helpful device from them, which is the only reason why I still watch them on occasion))
• Fastmail (Proprietary, but they contribute to open source projects, and their JMAP standard project is pretty interesting)
• Forward Email (Free/paid and open source, including the backend, and quantum-safe encrypted)
• Mailbox.org (Proprietary)
• Maildrop (Free and open source throwaway email service)
• Migadu (Proprietary, but built with open source software and has some open source repositories (GitHub), but forced free tier users to switch to a paid tier within one month during the pandemic)
• MXroute (Proprietary, but built with open source software and has some open source repositories (GitHub))
• Runbox (Proprietary, but built with open source software and has some open source repositories (GitHub))
• Swisscows.email
• systemli.org (Apparently it’s only available by invite link, and you have to be a leftist and know someone willing to give you an invite link)
• Zoho Mail (Proprietary, but has some open source repositories (GitHub), have a good reputation, and also provides services such as an office suite, though their services are business oriented)

Keep in mind I haven’t done much research on these email services to be able to recommend them. I am posting whatever I find, and hopefully someone may be able to make a comment or you will be able to research more about them to see if they fit your needs.

Here’s a short list of email providers:

https://github.com/cdransf/awesome-email

I’m going to post this as it lists some email resources, testing tools, etc. even though the curated list is more intended for self-hosting email and email design:

https://github.com/jonathandion/awesome-emails

For VPNs, I would suggest using:

• Mullvad
• IVPN

I probably recommend ForwardEmail as that is what I am switching to soon, but I heard some of its security features and claims are a bit gimmicky, and SQLite may not be scalable if you have a lot of email (this would be a large company’s worth of email, so small groups and normal users would be fine). I may consider self-hosting my email (at least to archive my mail) as well using Stalwart, and it’s built in Rust.

If you care about languages the VPNs I recommended are built in, I saw Mullvad is built in Rust, IVPN is built in Go, and AirVPN, which I have now for torrents because it can do port forwarding, is built in C#.

Mullvad is cheaper than IVPN, and both are nearly the same.

Lenin foresaw that success in socialist construction in Russia would serve as a model and example for the victorious proletariat in other countries. He said: “If Russia becomes covered with a dense network of electric power stations and powerful technical installations, our communist economic development will become a model for a future socialist Europe and Asia.”

Trotsky, Rykov and their supporters tried to frustrate the plan for the electrification of the country, but Lenin and Stalin thwarted all their efforts to do so. In a letter he wrote to Lenin in March 1921, Stalin subjected the arguments of Trotsky and Rykov to withering criticism and at the same time paid high tribute to the plan drawn up by the Goelro. “It is a skilfully drafted outline of a single economic plan, without ironical quotation marks,” he wrote. “It is the only Marxist attempt made in our times to place under the Soviet superstructure of economically backward a really practical and, under present conditions, the only possible, technical-industrial basis.”

With the cessation of the civil war and the transition to peaceful economic construction the Party was confronted with the task of laying down a new line on all questions affecting the economic life of the country. The Central Committee of the Party clearly realized that the system of what was known as War Communism had now become obsolete. The need for the surplus grain appropriation system had passed away and it was necessary to create opportunities for the peasants freely to dispose of their stocks of grain left over after paying their taxes. This would stimulate the revival of agriculture and trade, help to revive industry, improve the food supplies of the towns and create a new economic basis for the alliance between the workers and the peasants.

Lenin was of the opinion that the severe wounds inflicted upon the economy of the country by the imperialist war, and civil war and foreign intervention could be healed, and that its foundations could be reconstructed on socialist lines, only if the working class and the trade unions widely co-operated in this task. He strongly urged the necessity of making the workers and peasants understand that it was impossible to live in the old way, that the old economic conditions of existence had to be changed, and that production had to be carried on in accordance with a great economic plan. He put into the forefront the task of conducting extensive explanatory and educational work. It was necessary, he said, to create “a broad and firm basis of conviction for the new production tasks.”

At this crucial moment, at the turning point from war to peaceful economic construction, the Trotskyites launched and attack against the Party. Trotsky advocated a policy of immediately converting the trade unions into state organizations, of “shaking up” the trade unions, as he called it, and of regimenting and bullying the masses. The sole object of this policy was to rouse the workers against the Party and to split the working class. This would have been fatal for the proletarian dictatorship. Trotsky’s attack was followed up by attacks by other anti-Party groups, such as the Anarcho-Syndicalist “Workers’ Opposition,” led by Shlyapnikov, the “Democratic Centralists” led by Rykov, and the “Left Communists” led by Bukharin. It was they who forced upon the Party what was known as the “trade union discussion” concerning the function of the trade unions under the proletarian dictatorship.

Lenin hurled himself upon these enemies of the Party and disrupters of Party unity with his characteristic determination and relentlessness. He regarded the campaign launched by the Trotskyites and the other anti-Party groups as an attack upon the dictatorship of the proletariat and as an attempt to break the alliance between the working class and the peasantry.

He immediately replied to the politically harmful and dangerous platform proposed by the Trotskyites in a speech he delivered at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Party in November 1920; and on December 30 he spoke on the functions of the trade unions at a meeting of the Bolshevik delegates to the Eighth Congress of Soviets and leading trade union officials. He showed that the Trotskyites were confusing the trade unions with military organizations. He denounced their attempts to draw a contrast between the trade unions and the Party and revealed how dangerous the Trotskyite and other anti-Party platforms were for the proletarian dictatorship. He directed his main blow at the Trotskyites as the principal anti-Party group.

In January 1921, he attacked the opposition groups in an article entitled “The Party Crisis” and in a pamphlet entitled Once Again On the Trade Unions, in which he expounded and amplified the Marxist view of the functions of the trade unions under the proletarian dictatorship and showed that they served as a reservoir of state power, as a school of unity and solidarity, a school of administration and management of industry, and as a school of Communism. He exposed the anti-Marxist theoretical and political fallacies of Trotsky, Bukharin and Shlyapnikov on the trade union question and showed that they were substituting eclectics for dialectics. He called upon the Party to give a strong rebuff to all the anti-Party groups.

The great service that Lenin rendered in the course of this union discussion was that he revealed the true significance of the conflict within the Party. He showed that all the anti-Party groups were actually contending against the leading role played by the Party, against the alliance between the working class and the peasantry, and against the proletarian dictatorship. In this struggle Lenin received the loyal backing of Stalin, and together they repelled the attacks of the opponents of Leninism on the unity of the Party.

In March 1921, the Tenth Congress of the Bolshevik Party was held. The preparations for the congress and the congress itself were directed by Lenin. He was the reporter on the main questions on the agenda, such as the political activities of the Central Committee, the tax in kind, Party unity, and the Anarcho-Syndicalist deviation. He also drafted the main resolutions for the congress.

This congress took place in one of the most critical periods of the revolution. In February and March the country was in the throes of an acute food, fuel and transport crisis. Discontent grew among the peasantry. A week before the congress opened the Kronstadt mutiny broke out—this was another attempt on the part of the counter-revolutionaries to overthrow the Soviet regime. The Bolshevik Party had only just hone through a fierce internal conflict.

But under Lenin’s direction the congress marked a turning point in the task of cementing the unity of the Party of the working class and of working out the New Economic Policy.

In his report and speeches on Party unity Lenin severely criticized the anti-Marxist views of all the anti-Party groups. He showed that they were merely unprincipled politicians, and that their ideas were akin to those of the petty-bourgeois counter-revolutionaries. He said that the main lesson to be drawn from the discussion was that factionalism must be combated with the utmost severity and the unity of the Party maintained at all cost. This lesson had to be learnt by and must become a law for every member of the Party. As the history of all revolutions showed, the slightest relaxation of the unity of the Party—the vanguard of the proletariat—would facilitate the restoration of the power and property of the capitalists and landlords. With amazing penetration he exposed the new tactics of the class enemies who were banking on a conflict within the Communist Party and on utilizing in their interests the activities of every opposition group. As was stated in the resolution drawn up by Lenin on this question: “These enemies, having become convinced that the chances of a counter-revolution openly conducted under the flag of the Whiteguards were hopeless, are exerting all efforts to take advantage of the disagreements within the Russian Communist Party to promote the counter-revolution in one way or another by transferring power to political groups which on the surface appear to recognize the Soviet regime most.”

On Lenin’s motion the congress adopted a resolution entitled “On Party Unity” which was an exceptionally important factor in the defeat of the anti-Party groups and in reinforcing the unity of the Bolshevik Party.

The congress adopted another resolution proposed by Lenin which was closely connected with the resolution “On Party Unity.” This was entitled “The Syndicalist and Anarchist Deviation In Our Party.” In this resolution the congress condemned the Workers’ Opposition, declaring that the propaganda of its Anarcho-Syndicalist ideas was incompatible with membership of the Communist Party and calling upon the Party to combat this deviation.

Lenin took determined measures to strengthen the General Staff of the revolution, viz., the Central Committee of the Party. The Congress elected to this body firm and tried Bolsheviks like Lenin, Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Kalinin, Dzerzhinsky, Orjonikidze, Frunze and Kuibyshev.

By inflicting defeat upon the opposition Lenin cemented the unity of the Party and prepared it for fresh battles against its enemies and for fresh efforts to overcome difficulties. In this way he ensured the success of the Party’s sharp turn in its economic policy.

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Lenin,_a_Biography_Prepared_by_the_Marx-Engels-Lenin_Institute#XII

That’s my president

I think I would have figured out the image quickly; I should have took a few seconds to look at the image instead of immediately resorting to an online search. I will have to check the game out some time, looks intriguing. I learned about morphic resonance from my spouse, who iirc told me the originator of the concept, Rupert Sheldrake. There’s been a few other places the idea has appeared in pop culture and in academics according to Wikipedia.

Upon further reading of the Wikipedia section, yeah, I guess that game is one of few media, if any more exist, in popular culture that is inspired by morphic resonance and doesn’t have Sheldrake directly involved in some part. I’ll definitely give that game a look.

Ah man, I did a reverse image search to see what reference you were making, and apparently it’s from an anime video game series called Zero Escape. I haven’t consumed much of any anime content, but this does look interesting. I accidentally saw an image that revealed the answer before I tried to guess. At first, I thought it was a mangled cross in a busted birdcage upon first glance. If I had known this wasn’t some Rorschach test and that there was actually something in the image beyond abstract black shapes, I may have had guessed it correctly within a few minutes. Now we’ll never know, I failed you.

(Replied to myself somehow the first time…)

Obligatory:

You could replace this chart with a different Western nation and its equivalent parties (or at least scales between the strong left and strong right among the population) and the numbers would mostly match up. It seems to be a pattern, even in Amerikkka, too, at least in regards to the older generations voting more conservative and siding with status quo generally while the new generation of voters have been radicalizing towards the fascist right (especially among young men) as well as the socialists/progressive left (especially among young women and non-binary).

Yes, it’s a party in the US.

https://tankie.tube/w/8fPwWmszNf5VBm5seTpzpV

This was the video that led to me joining the party.

From my comment in lemmy.ml in regards to security issues:

Many Signal alternatives also have security issues of their own, often making them less secure than Signal. This includes Matrix and XMPP. In the blog post regarding XMPP+OMEMO, the author replies to a question about which would be better than Signal, Matrix, and XMPP with this suggestion:

Anyone who cares about metadata resistance should look at Cwtch, Ricochet, or any other Tor-based solution. Not a mobile app. Not XMPP. Not Matrix.

In regards to Ricochet, not having a mobile app version makes it difficult to recommend to less tech savvy people.

Credit to @[email protected] for pointing me to the blog post.

It’s so bad here, some radicalized Americans want to skip revolution already and have their cultural revolution now. I have already began to witness the masses in my local area being ahead in class consciousness and itching for real change.

I also thought of hexbean.net as an alternative, then out of curiosity, I looked up beanis.net, and it redirects to https://bluebear.ltd/

Is this some hexbearian’s site?

Maybe a new name entirely, like

zheleznogorsk.net

I do find hexbear clever, though, if you connect honeycombs and honey-loving bears together

Maybe honeybear with a different tld

I believe the domain will likely be taken back once the owner responds, though.

But hexagons are the best-agons 😞

Unfortunately, Mark has been silent about Palestine.

Here is an explanation of the origins of the photo.

Even an air fryer for the burger would be a better purchase, but yeah, cast irons are the shit.