[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 10 hours ago

The 4 day 8 hour per day work week for the same pay would be a good step forward in many countries.

Unfortunately companies have caught on to the marketing and often mean 4 day 10 hours per day. So you're working the same amount. Maybe for some people this is better but ten hour days are really hard on a person. Even eight hour work days are suboptimal.

In Germany the metalworkers union was pushing for a four day work week but they've all but given up. Meanwhile capital interests have pushed the government to consider extending legal working times, and the Chancellor claims Germans work too little (in reality they work more than most EU counterparts).

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 17 hours ago

Ironically enough most non-US banks will not serve potential customers with US citizenship due to the excessive financial reporting requirements the US has for citizens abroad.

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 day ago

Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch is crucial ML-Feminist reading, she even explicitly positions the work as a feminist expansion of Marx's theories. It primarily deals with the period of primitive accumulation.

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I just started The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson. It's the second part of a really intruguing political drama set in a fantasy world.

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 5 days ago

"Mental health team offers help" by offering affordable housing, right?

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 days ago

Thanks for sharing this. The OP is The Left Berlin and they've done a 7 part series on this topic in English.

https://theleftberlin.com/neo-nazis-anti-fascism-germany-deutschland/

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 5 days ago

Between the name ("Peter Hungary" could be a character in a bad spy comedy movie) and how celebratory the EU establishment is I can't help but wonder if there was election interference.

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In light of the Superb Owl occurring this weekend I thought I'd share this episode of Rev Left discussing the class nature of sports.

The conversation covers a lot of facets of the business of sports. Some things I found interesting were the purposeful sidelining of football (soccer) in the US and the way football clubs are owned in the global south (publicly by the fans or the community) vs. the imperial core (billionaires club), and the history of why certain sports are popular in certain regions.

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Is rest even real? (lemmygrad.ml)

As my two week Christmas holiday comes to - a close I find myself thinking (as I always do after a longer break) back to the real world. Back to wage slavery and a chronic lack of time, not only for leisure but simple labour reproduction and household labour. A part of me is still so conditoned that I can't help but think of breaks from work as fantastical and dream like; a cruel taste of how wonderful life can be when one isn't beholden to a capitalist master. When one has time and space to breathe and be and enjoy the cosmic miracle that life even exists.

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Baltics being normal.

It alreasy took Lithuania 13 years to get around to ratifying the treaty (just last year).

The president has vetoed the bill for now.

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Billionaires are necessary because they take money out of circulation, providing some deflationary pressure to the monetary system. If we were to distribute all their wealth, we'd have such high inflation that the entire economy would collapse.

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As part of my apprenticeship I am doing a business management course.

I'm going to have to be careful not to out myself as an ML (if I haven't already).

The economics portion of the course is pure lliberal bullshit.

But I guess that's what I signed up for.

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If I have to hear a petit bougie or better yet a wage labouring petit bougie wannabe complain about how high their taxes are, that they basically work for the state, and that stuff is expensive because of taxes, I am going to explode.

Like I get that they think it's in their material interests and a whole lot of bourgois propaganda revolves around taxes, but I'm just over it.

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I must have missed the part where living costs excluding housing dropped 15-20% over the last two decades.

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 71 points 1 year ago

I don't think kids should pay taxes or have jobs. Some kids aren't interested in baseball or poetry. Some aren't ready to date, others don't want to. Some need assistance with everyday things. Let kids be kids.

In all seriousness though, this is the same kind of rhetoric which lead the Nazis to categorizing neurodivergent people as Untermenschen and killing us.

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You will be work and you will be happy, dammit.

Blaming the recession, at least in part, on working people taking sick days is so unaware I can't even put it into words.

I don't even think such surveillance of employees by a company is legal, but no company will get punished.

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TikTok Psyop (www.mintpressnews.com)

Not sure if this one has been posted in the last few weeks, but this follows up previous MintPress reporting on the links between western TikTok and the US military-intelligence apparatus. It was probably clear to us from the beginning, but the crusade against TikTok has been an entirely cynical ploy for the empire to gain even more control over the internet.

Previous articles:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-run-by-state-department-officials/284353/

https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-national-security-agents/280336/

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 80 points 2 years ago

Glad to see some bougie academic reaffirm the fact that our desire to see everyone treated like a human being is an extreme position.

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German politicians have been discussing making applying for citizenship easier for a couple years now. Today the Bundestag (Parliament) approved the draft legislation, with two surprising new additions.

In applying for citizenship a person will now not only have to say they agree to and respect the German constitution (standard practice for gaining citizenship anywhere), an applicant will also have to agree to a statement "on Germany's special historical responsibility for the unjust Nazi rule and its consequences, especially for the protection of Jewish life." It's reasonable enough if taken literally, but we all know what this means in practice: Zionism is the law of the land. There could be an additional statement regarding the "illegalty of wars of aggression" required as well. If a person is found to have lied during the application or even behaves against such statements in the future, their newly gained German citizenship could be revoked.

To be fair, all of this is based on press reports and I haven't seen the law directly yet, so it may only be half as bad. But things are going in a really worrying direction.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I have been having such a difficult time getting a 2018 Dell Latitude 7930 to run any Linux distro stably. Maybe there is something obvious I am missing or maybe it really is dying hardware that's the root cause of the issue.

The silly thing is I had a stable install of openSUSE Tumbleweed running for a few months but because I made some poor choices on disk partition when I installed it I was eventually backed into a corner where I had to wipe the SSD and install from scratch.

I since then have tried Tumbleweed again as well as Ubuntu, Mint, and finally Manjaro to no avail. The Debian based distros completely freeze at some point, either immediately upon login and loading the desktop or when running apt update. Tumbleweed gets a kernel panic within an hour or so, even though I changed kernel options to a previous known-good config. Now after quite a frustrating time installing Manjaro it freezes within an hour as well and the diagnostic light code indicates a CPU issue.

Strangely enough none of these issues are apparent when running from a LiveUSB, but occur on two different M.2 SATA SSDs with proper installs.

At this point I don't really care which distro I use, as long as it doesn't crash constantly. Does anyone have any suggestions on other things I can try?

Edit: seems to be solved with the kernel options I already mentioned. For whatever reason it didn't work for the Tumbleweed reinstall but Manjaro has run for a couple days without crashing.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics#Crash/freeze_on_low_power_Intel_CPUs

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I also made a website (site.knfrmity.space)

Back in October I found a really cool book containing the speeches delivered during a Marxist theoretical conference hosted by the SED in the DDR in 1983. In the meantime I have started to transcribe some of these speeches with the intent of sharing them here and with the international community of working people. There are three speeches up at the moment and I am working on more. There are 140 in the volume so a complete digitization may take some time.

I plan to post my own thoughts on this site, as well as some more materials I have found. I may also consider cross-posts as well where appropriate.

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 77 points 2 years ago

Oh great, even more lies from German state media. This AfD group had no official invitation from the Chinese government, nor did they meet with Chinese government officials. DW is really trying their best to push horseshoe theory on us, and it would be laughable if people didn't take it seriously.

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 84 points 2 years ago

An embarrassing number of things get me way too worked up, but right at the top of the list is saying healthcare shouldn't be accessible to all. To say that by phrasing your response with an absolute obscene level of racism is a whole new level. But I suppose we shouldn't expect anything less from the footsoldiers of fascism.

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