RedClouds

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago

He was hiding in a bush presumably waiting for him to come by or something and Secret Service saw his gun pointing out of the bush and shot at him.

Pretty pathetic in my opinion.

They even admitted that there's a lot of dense cover around and he'd basically be invisible if he didn't stick his gun out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

I fell for it. But OMG that was hilarious.

 

Apparently, he didn't get that close before he was caught in the bushes at Trump's Mar-a-Lago golf course. Shots were fired, but it might have just been shots between Secret Service and him. The shooter was caught after a camera picked up his license plate after somebody took a picture of his car as he was fleeing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Neat, but nanotubes have been around for a long time now. The problem has always been scaling up, which this article mentions is still an issue, sigh.

Although, the 86% connectivity of copper seems relatively low, I think with higher quality nanotubes, it would be higher than copper, right? I'm stretching my memory a bit. I feel like I haven't read about manotubes for a number of years. The high strength they mentioned later in the article, sounds the same as I've heard before. A well-formed nanotube braided properly should be basically the strongest rope we've ever made.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I didn't miss that subtlety. Thank you for mentioning that!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was just wondering what the percentages were lately. Hot damn things are still going in the right direction!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Good on ya SFSU

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is basically the last argument I made to my family before we stopped talking about politics

They were like hey, you seem to be going down these propaganda rabbit holes. But here's what I believe. And I'm like yeah, I know what you believe. I believed it for 35 fucking years too, I'm the one that did more research and changed my mind, You all don't even know the definition of socialism, let alone communism!

At that point, I decided that, yeah, I'm talking to brick walls. I'm not going to do this anymore. They'll have to research it themselves.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah that's where I'm at now, on both accounts. I started a segment on YouTube a month or so ago and could not get more than a couple minutes in. Too frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh man. In the not too distant past. About a year and a half now. I would say that, Yeah, that was one of my favorite shows and... Its very true. Watching that show give me a sense of superiority for sure.

In fact, it's kind of funny. I think that show had a backlash effect on me. I'd watch this show every week expose some problem and then society would do fuck all to fix it. Long story short, I eventually realized that the problem was capitalism, obviously. Went on a journey to learn how to actually solve these problems.

Now I'm a tankie.

Thanks Mr. Oliver!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I'd laugh, but this was too real :-(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

OMG googling for China green energy news is nearly impossible...

Anyway I read something recently that said that if China's green advancements were ignored, the world would have gone backward in percentage of green energy production.

China is a big country, so anything it does make a huge difference. The fact of the matter is that when they build more green energy than many european nations entire energy output, we know for sure that whatever they do sets the stage for the world. Taking them out of the equation and seeing how bad the rest of the world is doing highlights how China is dragging the rest of the world kicking and screaming into the energy future.

On a related note, when trying to find this article you can't help but run into "ChInA hAs gREen eNERgy buT AlSo hAs cOaL sO iT doEsnT CoUnt" nonesense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I like driving when it's fun. Like by myself through the country roads when no one else is on the road haha.

Going down my local stroad just pisses me off haha. I'd sell my car and move to a city if I didn't have kids (I can deal with public transit but it's not good enough for kids in my area)

 

Article title: Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’

Okay, I editorialized the title a bit. Basically, Eric Schmidt said that if you were to build a competitor to TikTok after it gets banned using AI, then you could just steal all of the IP, and if your company was not successful, then nobody really cares. But if your company was successful, then you would have the money to pay off the lawyers to get you out of a jam.

It is a rather obvious acknowledgment that money and success tend to generate more money and success. One can engage in dishonest acts, cheating, stealing IP, etc. as long as they possess the money to hire lawyers to get themselves out of the situation.

They even took down the talk from YouTube because of how bad it looked.

And I thought Musk and Trump were the only one stupid enough to admit the obviously evil shit.

 

Just heard about this organization called Operation Olive Branch. They claim they are:

Grassroots movement to support & amplify aid requests of Palestinian families.

Since I know a lot of organizations like this can be fishy, and/or outright scams, so I'm wondering if people have experience with, them or have any reason not to trust them.

Thanks all.

 

A cybersecurity company started by 4 Israeli military officials is going to be potentially acquired by Google for $23 billion.

Anyone that tells you that Israel and America don't collude is either bullshitting you, or incredibly uninformed.

America keeps Israel going, without the USA it would fall instantly due too it's apartheid. Their genocidal military sets them up to be capitalist billionaires.

Remember kids, they don't fight fair. You don't have too either.

 

It's a personal story and he goes through a bit slow but he does get to the point. Basically capitalism has ruined medicine and the actual ways to solve most medical issues cannot be recommended because they don't make a lot of money.

 

Obvious bullshit is obvious, but i don't have time to track down the source of this. They say every conspiracy theory starts with a grain of truth, but of course it doesn't have too!

Anyone know what three libs are talking about here? A misunderstanding or just a lie?

 

Hey all, if there is a better place to put this, please let me know.

jewish community foundation of los angeles

Does anyone have any knowledge about the donors or donor history from this group? Looks like they are very tight lipped about who donates to them, though it appears to be over a thousand sources and millions of dollars. Helping out a friend look into some background information.

 

(Reposted since this is a better community for this)

Even the liberals are starting to catch on that China is outpacing the United States in terms of EV production and quality. This is a shot from one liberal to another that they are failing to meet the market demands, and China is doing much better than us.

This person actually calls out the USA’s protectionist policies and claims that they aren’t here to protect users, but to prevent their car companies from being completely out-competed by China.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4310865

Hello comrades! I am in the position now that I can start helping out with some organizing and I'm looking for some tips.

First, a general question. Can anyone provide some resources for protesting tips? Anything from safety, legality, and how to be successful? I have come across very sparse help in the past, but I'm sure there's some resources out there that people have written down.

Second, a more specific question. Does anybody have a good recommendation for a sound amplifying machine? Something bigger and more boisterous than a simple loudspeaker. Price is reasonably flexible. I have some money set aside I can spend on this in the hundreds of dollars.

It's probably necessary to know that I live in the United States in the Pacific Northwest, but I won't get any more specific than that. Point me in the right direction and I can figure it on my own. I'm just looking for places to get started. Also, I am not alone in my organizing, so I don't plan on doing anything without referencing the more experienced people around me.

Thank you for everyones help and recommendation, comrades.

 

It's time to put my money where my mouth is and buy some flags.

I don't want to have to support Amazon if i don't have too. But if thats the best way, so be it, recommendations on high quality flags from amywhere welcome.

I was going to search history, but im mobile atm and I can't find search for posts.

Also looking for who I can donate to that will actually get supplies on the ground. I knew of one but cannot for the life of me remember the name. Life has pulled me away from politics for awhile, trying to get involved again.

Thanks for resources comrades.

 

But when someone finally does, they think they've gone crazy for not agreeing with their politics.

TLDR less than a year ago I decided to get real serious about researching what communism actually is. Now that I'm a communist (Because doing the real research opened my eyes to a better system than capitalism, and ML seemed to be the best way to go about that), my family is questioning whether I'm like, in a cult or not? I dunno, they aren't saying anything specific, just pushing back hard any time I prove their liberal media bubble lies to them.

I've opened up a politics channel on our family chat, and every time I post something about media bias, anything questioning the status quo about China, Cuba, or North Korea, it get's scrutinized to the level of a pseudo-journalist combing every "media bias" website looking for any reason whatsoever to prove that my source is wrong (Besides, you know, just actually finding the evidence or anything). Last week a family member shared the NK story about censoring jeans... I did push back, and immediately they caved about the story and pivoted to moving the goal posts with "Well North Korea is just a dictatorship so whatever they say can't be trusted", then when I asked if they knew anything about NK they said "How can we? It's so suppressive they won't tell us anything", which there are resources out there, they are genuinely hard to find, but I ended with "Welp they are opening up soon so you can see for yourself". Not a single one of them knows what a politburo or peoples congress is... I have told them too, they seem to have selective memory sometimes.

If anyone posts anything from the BBC, CNN, the guardian, whatever, they give a nod and a "true true". But second thought? Nah, that's tankie bullshit, he's biased, can't be trusted... Like guys, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT MEDIA BUBBLES, YOU ARE IN ONE RIGHT NOW, I'M SHOWING YOU, I WAS WITH YOU A YEAR AGO, I GOT OUT, YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME.

It's as if "media bubble" to them meant Fox news, or ONLY conservative news. But they watch the "real news" like NPR, CNN, MSNBC, BBC. So they are fine, it's not their media bubble that was the problem. One of them admits they ONLY READ HEADLINES (Well, 95% headlines anyway), and claim that "reading news is their hobby". Like... dude, you don't read the news, you said it yourself, YOU READ HEADLINES. I sent them Second thoughts video about biased headlines and they're like "But all sources do that". And I'm like "YES THEY DO, PLEASE BE CONSCIOUS OF THIS FACT AS YOU ONLY READ HEADLINES THEN CLAIM YOU KNOW THE STORY FROM IT. AHHHHHHHH I feel like I'm going crazy :( I even tried offering my ground news subscription. I know it's baby steps but I figured they would be interested, no bites yet.

I can't push too hard or I just won't ever see them again, but at this point, is it worth it? I'm nearing 40 btw, not young. We are all grown adults. I spent so long going through this transition of learning/growing, so I know it's not fast. The older you are, the harder it is to change, especially your biases. But still, I did it, I hoped they would too. Right now they are truly practicing the backlash effect.

Thanks for listening to my rant comrades. May your propaganda efforts not be in vein!

 

I just saw this campaign in my email to try to send wheat to cuba.

Does anyone know if this campaign should be avoided? Or maybe if there is a better competing one?

Thanks in advance for the insight comrades.

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