curmudgeonthefrog [he/him]

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Cake day: August 14th, 2020

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  • Nothing that couldn't have been done better by public institutions had they had the same funding. Most of the big research they get to claim is because they already have shit tons of money to buy the best newest equipment and pay for 10+ postdocs per lab. Even then they don't actually pay the grad students or postdocs (who do all the research labor) all that different compared to public universities.



  • curmudgeonthefrog [he/him]togamesChristmas games
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    2 days ago

    -kingdom hearts 2, nightmare before Christmas level

    -spiderman Miles Morales

    -undertale, Snowdin area

    -saints row 4, Christmas dlc

    -banjo kazooie, freezeezy peak (Christmasy vibes)










  • It's been pretty good but I think I've lost some interest about 30 hours in. After reclassing every party member, gaining some levels and getting to the second map, the routine is repeatedly use padfoot to decrease encounter rate. And then just leave every character on "fight wisely" which is better in most cases than controlling them. The ai is just a little too smart, every battle can kinda go automatically.





  • They're probably just trying to be nice. Folks are more likely to listen to what you have to say when your kind and polite and not seeming judgemental. And being nice pushes against this idea of scary communists trying to take everything you own and change everything you like.




  • Probably not, the US skirts the legal definition of a blockade by creating insane hoops to jump through. Countries that want to trade with Cuba can't use the SWIFT banking system, meaning no digital transactions, meaning they literally have to carry the cash with them to the island and back. They have to use ships that can't dock in US ports for 6 months after docking in Cuba (which Cuba having a gdp less than half a percent of US gdp means businesses have no incentive to choose trade with Cuba). And the trade has to be humanitarian, no military applications (but this also applies to medical and tech equipment which US says have "dual purpose"). All that said, there are awesome countries that choose to go through these hoops at significant cost and risk. But it takes a lot of time and planning to setup and get the right permits.



  • Probably the same goal as any ML party: Spread revolutionary ideas to wider audiences, expose contradictions in the bourgeois political system, develop organizational capacity and connect with and educate the masses. The vote number itself can also be helpful as a structure test for self-analysis. Where was PSL successful, what tactics worked, how did that contribute to cadre growing, larger protests, etc.