This still seems pretty not real. This is basically a note saying "I did it, it was me and only me and the proof is I own a computer (I work in engineering so you won't find any "real" evidence). I did it because I hate United. Anyway I know nothing, have no message to send, and couldn't possibly write more bye now"

Even if this really came from the police, if you wanted to convict somebody with very little effort, this would be the perfect evidence to "find". That in reality makes no sense to actually write.

People are affected by material conditions, and the USA is very good at manipulating those material conditions from afar. That's all.

'agency' or 'free will' are nonsensical concepts with no significant shared definition. People's actions are ~99% based on their material and social contexts, and those contexts are heavily controlled by central authorities, some of whom are in turn heavily controlled by the USA.

I think this is very important to mention. There is currently no good, common, international quantified measure of 'standard of living'; Exactly like GDP, it's mostly measured by the largely made-up value of arbitrary goods.

Bernie Sanders is what putting all your effort into electoralism does to a mf

I agree, it definitely happened in olden times too. But it was certainly a lot less frequent.

I've come to terms with the fact that we just don't live in an era where games are finished when they're released.

I'll look to play the game in a year or two after it's been officially patched and after a COMPLETE mod comes out to fix that.

But.. basically every email provider or hosting service is legally obliged to give the information they collect to the government. It's not like this is exclusive to Proton in any way whatsoever. If anything, subpoenas are evidence Proton tell the truth and do at least stop themselves from having most of the important data so they can't give it away.

To start it's important to remember that money is fictional.

In a very short, simple view, say minimum wage workers were getting 10% of the revenue, while the bourgeois owner gets 90% - After a minimum wage increase, the minimum wage workers are getting 50% more, so they're now getting 15% of original revenue and assuming prices are only raised to cover this rise while keeping the bourgeois owner's income the same (ie 90% of the original revenue), then the total revenue (and thus, inflation/prices) only need to go up 5%.

The effect is that workers are getting a larger slice of the pie, and the bourgeois owner's income effectively goes down in real (inflationary) terms. Prices don't rise because that margin is effectively being taken out of the pockets of the rich (and in a more complex model, out the pockets of higher-earning workers).

However, there is always risk of an inflationary-wage spiral, which is a product of the rich holding society hostage. Where the bourgeois decide they won't be forced to lose money, even in inflationary terms, so the workers get a 50% rise, to cover this, inflation goes up 5%, so the bourgeois pay themselves 10% more, so now inflation is ~15%, so wages have crashed, so workers demand another rise, etc. etc. Essentially a battle between workers and the bourgeois as to who must lose out on their share of the pie.

In western countries, this battle is forced in favour of the bourgeois by raising interest rates (increasing the flow of wealth from the poor to the wealthy) and policies to promote unemployment, making workers desperate enough to not demand any wage increases. And that is not just speculation, these two goals are explicit policies most central banks will actually publically admit to.

I wouldn't be surprised if I was the hexbear user with the most blocked users and comms ever. And I don't have you blocked, so it's a good start.

Fruit is goddamned delicious. But to add suggestions not yet said - deglet noor dates (not Israeli ones), passion fruit, figs, coconut, pomelo, dragonfruit.

And of course the king of all fruit, effectively unchanged in form for over 50 million years - The delicious physalis.

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Pre-politics, they had a few genuinely funny early comedy videos, I'd argue.

Agreed. I liked his early comedy / Youtub drama videos, and that was it.

Though he never had good politics, even by liberal standards, at least he used to just not talk about it. He then just waded into it and wobbles thoughtlessly in every political direction without a single bit of cohesive thought behind anything he says. I still have genuinely zero idea why anyone likes it.

I stopped watching when he started the podcast (especially given one of the earliest episodes had Jordan Peterson on and was just them fawning at his super massive intellect).

Oof, I always hated how the revolutions tended to take your centralised states and leave you with nothin'. I do the same as you in terms of construction sectors, though I still have no idea if it's the right choice.

And yeah the exile and promote agitator actions are fun. I only discovered recently if you have Secret Police you can also try to kill them.

Uncritical support for the save scumming, it's frequently the way to keep a fun campaign going.

Whoop to the endless growth, max that GDP and living standard. Big spoons for all

Yeah, unless you have a lot of construction sectors and a high-tech training rate, I suspect you're not likely to train enough troops before they make significant inroads. That being said, America's mass conscription can be a bit of wildcard sometimes.

I normally only face these revolutions if I wasn't paying enough attention, and so justify my save scumming to avoid it. But if you're going to fight them, you're probably doing the best tactics available. Conscript everyone immediately, ensure your big armies have the extra supplies/support mobilizations, maybe consider a small backdoor naval invasion to put them on more fronts (especially if their capital is on the coast).

Ideally, be economically prepared to fight for a couple years at least. Don't worry if a lot of your soldiers die en masse - that just means you don't have to pay their wages. If you're near a new training rate tech, prioritise that. Bankruptcy is not necessarily loss, a 50% penalty (and penalty to training) is overcomeable if you have >3x their troop numbers by then. You can keep an eye on the bourgeois' debt by looking at the "take their debt" diplo option, if they're nearing bankruptcy, then just play it cool until they do, and push for the win.

As for Marxy boy, just bring the farmers into your government, then promote him to be leader of the party. His personal values should sway those of the party and the commie coalition might be back.

Whatever you do, save scumming or not, a glorious salute to crushing their spirits on the battlefield or in making the new socialist utopia

Nah, not gonna happen. Too many diehard conservative voters. Maybe the election afterwards, when Tories have either officially merged with Reform or admitted complete political defeat. Something major is going to have to happen to not be another easy Labour win because FPTP and the Tory/Reform vote is too split.

Shame it's austerity, anti-immigration, pro-genocide anyway from the working people party.

Americans breached electoralism containment, strict measures must be put in place to restore order.

If there's a serious security bug, like Heartbleed, you should totally update and reboot the service. That is basically the only "must" for staying atop things. The rest is mostly personal preference.

In my job I maintain publically exposed Linux servers, and many of them don't get rebooted for years. I think our record is about five years.

Yes, if you want your server to be theoretically the rootinest tootinest securest setup ever, you should update about every 6 hours, but even then you're just more vulnerable to repo attacks (which have happened a few times lately). Apt upgrade every month or three is probably good practice to keep on top of bugs.

So really, how frequently do you need to reboot? Eh. So long as it works, there are no critical kernel vulnerabilities, and updates are available, I really would argue you should never "have" to.

Servers are horses for courses, if you're being heavily targeted by hackers, obviously stay on top of updates, but if your server is pootling along without harassment and doesn't contain life-altering stuff if it got leaked, then don't worry too much. A standard, barely-changing, 'stable' build is usually a very secure one.

You have a chance to vote for someone better right now.

Let me tell you something I'd bet my life savings on: Trump isn't going to dismantle democracy and be a super pooper dictator scooper. Can you really not cast your mind 8 years back to when people said exactly the same thing, and he won, and nothing changed? He'll just be the same decline that the Dems would have been.

I do agree that the focus of argument should really be on dismissing any claim that voting (in the current system) makes a difference. That being said, I think part of that argument can be composed of "look at the choice that voting has driven us to, genocide or genocide".

I don't think EelBolshevikism was saying "you must not vote". You can criticise the idea of voting as effectively pointless, and still vote PSL for the tiniest mind bogglingly little almost-nothing it will achieve.

I do think it's important not to concede to any argument that voting in the current system is important in any meaningful way.