BreakThrough News has some good original programming. Not a daily per se but that have a few different shows they produce which are quite informative.

It's not even radical, but there should not be any vehicles allowed near schools, particularly elementary schools, without special permission based on need. It should be a safe area for people to walk and play. I can't tell you how many people barrel through the parking lot of my kid's elementary school just to avoid being tardy (another concept which should be reformulated). I work at a university, and a 19 yo with a 2 ton truck struck a pedeststrian yesterday afternoon, sending them on an airlift to a not close by hospital.

The extended substance to Descartes is broadly the material, whereas the thinking or res cogitans is the thinking substance. How to bridge the immaterial mentality of thinking as a causal force in the material presented a problem for him and was difficult to bridge in this conceptualization of the full human: the mind body problem. The split subject in Lacanian psychoanalysis refers to in part the "mirror stage" of psychological development, where the undeveloped infant first sees it's own image in a mirror and begins to recognize it's own incomplete self image (only seeing of itself without the mirror its legs, arms, perceiving its clumsy motor skills, etc) compared to the ideal subject reflected in the perceived-to-be complete "other" in the mirror, which is not first recognized as itself but an ideal form which seems to be superior and complete in comparison. This is furthered by the imposition of language or in Lacanian terms "castration" which is essentially the imposition of a defining, limiting, prohibitive symbolic structure by way of language which creates a separating or splitting of the self independent of the flesh and blood, now extant in the symbolic and signified sense. There can be no unification of the split self, which is the underlying source of the neurotic or psychotic, with the former responding to castration with repression and the latter responding with a complete rejection of the prohibitions circumscribed therein. This is a vulgar understanding but how I interpret it.

https://twitter.com/yugopnik/status/1773315647411261827

If i must know then so must you

All my blue reps voted for this. Oh yeah, they also voted for unconditional military aid to Israel and to not support UNWRA right after. Loser party.

LogSec for students, project organization, and the aspiring corkboard conspiracy theorist in your life wanting to be the next Mark Lombardi. Use markdown in a free flow style notes app that has powerful tools to connect ideas, so you can focus on the information as opposed the organization. Semantics instead of syntax, as it were.

For a video about recognizing the ways in which unrealistic or misinformed cultural ideas of attractiveness and masculinity are a huge component in the rise of the incel, black and otherwise, this presenter sure likes to hammer that balding is unattractive. He says "it's fine to be bald" like one time but all of the context clues and intended humor suggest that he is entirely aware that this is widely viewed negatively in the domain of attractiveness and is using it in the demeaning sense. And then just does the same intended-to-demean joke like three times. Big dicks, giga chads, bald shaming, these are all things I see embraced in left spaces which then hand wring about the negative and toxic forms of masculinity and the ways in which they are reified in culture. I am not singling out this mostly decent and well-intended video as the sole or worst offender, but just another example of doing the thing you say you are against.

Yes they acknowledged the old sub for sure. Will and Felix did AMAs at different times. I feel like Felix posted in the sub in 2016 for an AMA that was like for 10 people because the sub was so small at the time and Will did his AMA in 2018 or so. Chris definitely was in there and did an AMA and I remember this huge thread where he was engaging with like every question. I was impressed. One of the mods (mugrimm) told him the shows were too long and to keep them at 1hr45min which pissed me off because I lived for content at the time. Even funnier that Chris agreed that that was the perfect length and recently they are going for a solid hour and that's pretty much it. Dave Anthony from the Dollop did an AMA on the sub, too, lol. Dave Anthony would post on the sub sometimes randomly and he would get into it with shit talkers. Did not shy away and embraced being mad online. I think cush had a couple of comments on the sub from the early days out of curiosity, and I remember somebody around here saying that he was asked about this site on a cushvlog and was aware of hexbear and supportive of the decision to stop calling it chapo.chat. And BadEmpanada would shit post there from time to time too

Honestly the one that came to mind involves the same user from the same thread which is unfortunately buried in a morass of text block. But a comrade was explaining to them why they disagree with common mischaracterizations of Stalin, and the lemm.ee person responded approvingly, saying they appreciated the nuance in the comrade's representation of Stalin.

I lol'd when comrade replied that it was jarring too hear a self-declared conservative approve of their explanation of Stalin's legacy.

Also, other comrades did great work in politely suggesting further reading, and the .ee poster was open to it and thankful.

I keep thinking about how "Lib" r/cth was back when it started. How the struggle sessions and the desire for learning led us to refine our understandings, filtering out the nonsense, and how long this took, how many of us straight left the community, some to return and some not. It was and can be painful to have your held beliefs challenged and to be negatively implicated in harboring reactionary tendencies. I read another user from on of the defederated instances talking about how the comments that they received from hexbear pushing back against their received wisdom obsessed their thoughts for days (relatable) before they moved on (no you didn't). It's easy and advisable to "not get mad online" but I would be lying if I said I hadn't. I have grown from the uncomfortable interactions I have had in this community over the years (uncomfortable in the sense of challenging my preconceived notions and reflecting poorly on my thinking) even though I have been overwhelmed at times by the intensity the community can sometimes operate on during tumult and struggle sessions, but I come back because we have the best posters, the most caring online community I have encountered (our mutual aid community speaks volumes), and we are by and large willing to challenge our own thinking. The growth of the community (in the intellectual, political, "spiritual" sense) is obvious when you look how far we've come from like 2016 or whatever (I joined r/cth mid 2017). That growth has been hard fought, and while the culture is still that of the "overly online irony poisoned" variety, little remains of the political tenor that characterized r/cth. If the posters from r/cth were transported here by time machine, they would be dunked on as succ dems by their future selves or something. If anything, hexbear seems a closer cousin to r/cth2, which was itself controversial among some users of the original sub.

I am rambling, but it is funny that we went to an online hidey hole and emerged this striking figure which is unfathomable and highly foreign to the reddit brain after only 3 years of breaking away. Reddit cut off the potential of r/cth and it appears what they were thinking about our presence there and it's effect on the broader community were at least partially true. Our engagement was a threat to the western anglosphere thinking that dominates the site, and when they took the sub away many of us fled and stopped posting there. Since r/cth was nuked I have commented only a few times, and it's for stuff like "how do you do this in minecraft?" or something. When the sub was alive I was all over the site engaging with others in political discussions etc. The sub being nuked left a rhetorical and philosophical void, the fallout of which we are now seeing as we attempt to reintegrate.

These other instances have not gone through the same kind of community building and education that defines ours, and I hope that federation is at least successful enough too see the lemmy verse grow, and to have our presence a relevant force in that space as new users are exposed to new ideas. I can already see fellow travelers from other instances who were unaware of our existence previous to federation cautiously dipping their toes in and I for one am here for it.

So good