Vai de mine, nu mă gândeam că o să găsesc aici o altă persoană care să fie din România, cum ai ajuns să găsești acest site, tovarășe? Câteodată mă simt ca un extraterestru, până și în cele mai înalte contexte academice lumea nici nu vrea să îi șoptească numele lui Karl Marx. Îmi pare bine să știu că nu sunt singurul român care a trecut prin barierele anticomuniste ale societății în căutarea adevărului.

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bit idea: people suddenly start using the term "redpilled" to refer to people who have read communist theory and nothing else

when other people say that it means something else they just respond with utter confusion and reaffirm that it refers to people who read communist theory and it has no other meaning

Well done!

I love pieces where people are just chilling with skeletons.

I would say it is the beauty of creativity itself, many species on the planet have also developed higher cognition and employ limited forms of creativity for survival or even recreational purposes, but humanity is unique in its ability and drive to manifest creativity into diverse and complex forms. Some forms can be as immaterial as sound waves or as long lasting as architectural design, the human drive for creation will always persist. While art is the culmination of a person's ideas, skills, innumerable experiences and creativity the results are also never constrained to be representative of such grandness, a canvas of abstract colors is as valid of an art piece as a page of simple sketches, a portrait painted in a realistic style or handprints on a wall. I would say it is as close of a representation of "soul" as one can get.

One of the reasons I got radicalized was because of how antithetical art is to the conditions imposed by the capitalist mode of production.

bit idea: new movement for gender equality from liberals, but it is to change the term 'landlady' in the dictionary into 'landempress' for equality with the male term 'landlord'

Let's not forget the greatest 'freedom' of all, not only is it not enough to be effectively censored by the profit motive, but everyone is also severely hindered from developing artistic skill to a higher level if they do not find a way to monetize their skill, something which is so notoriously unreliable it created the stereotype of the starving artist. This phenomenon was a direct cause of what I would call a flattening of culture all across the globe as traditional arts faced mass extinction due to their lack of profitability.

The cold war was won by capital and lost by humanity.

I recently discovered the Create mod for Minecraft and it is still blowing my mind, it might be the best mod ever made for the game. I still remember watching the trailer for the mod and my first reaction being "THIS MOD ADDS THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION TO MINECRAFT!"

I already had the idea to make a post scarcity fully automated luxury communist villager society in Minecraft and this mod is exactly the missing piece to my plan.

I'm glad to see someone else thought to mention the Create mod when faced with this question, however, one must also mention the addon mod Create: Interactive, it would in theory allow you to create a self-perpetuating giant train base that drills its path forward, creates more rail in a built in production line with the drilled stone and deploys it automatically. Let's not forget the one addon specifically made to expand the train system as well.

Everything in this quarter of the colour wheel.

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Thank you.

Since getting my first tablet back in 2020 I always used Krita, initially on principle as to not even dignify adobe photoshop with a pirated installation, but I learned over time to appreciate Krita for what it offers.

Krita is free to download, open source and frequently updated with new features. It might not have the fanciest functions of photoshop but it has parity with all the functions that matter for digital illustration. As a plus it even has basic animation tools if you wish to have fun with those.

Compared to SAI I would say it is an objective improvement, compared to photoshop I would say it is much more user friendly, sadly I never tried GIMP so I can't compare it.

It definitely was. I wonder when the next "decades within weeks" moment will happen and finally bring about a paradigm shift for the better. The imperial core is deindustrializing and steadily rolling back so many of the guardrails meant to keep capitalism from imploding one wonders if the theoretical endpoint in a couple centuries is some form of neo-serfdom and subsequently the modern reenactment of the fate of the Romanov dynasty.

Dreams that many had and we must continue to have in their stead.

I personally find that the most tragic thing about the internet is how if you looked at the way it was made you'd almost think it was the product of a socialist state. It is a product of intensive collaboration between different researchers, fully subsidized by the state every step of the way and the end result effectively given away for free to the public. Now it is rendered a wasteland, carved up and privatized, and with LLMs and image generators it can only get worse as everything gets filled up with computer generated slop.

However, let's take a moment to think about how much good such technology could do if it was subservient to the needs of a socialist state, search engines that actually give you what you want, central planning networks with unparalleled efficiency, social media that prevents the reproduction of reactionary thought, a free, fully organized and easy to access centralized digital library of all academic resources. I can't help but be hopeful for whatever society comes out of this capitalist hell.