Unfortunately not yet but we're playing around with the idea
Of course fitness is related to politics 🤨
It's a dialectical meaning. If there's no solution to a problem, then you have something other than a problem on your hands. An impossibility or a fatality. You must thus reframe that impossibility until it becomes a problem so that a solution for it exists.
In practical terms: I'm hungry on this desert island and there's no food around me -> being hungry is not a fatality, I can find food -> finding food becomes the problem, how do I solve it? -> I'll go walk around the beach and look for coconut trees.
Side note I originally uploaded the wrong URL and I'm very glad Lemmy allows us to edit titles and links so that I could fix it!!
Al Jazeera said Lebanon not Hezbollah, I'll have to open the nyt article later
I figured that might be the case 🤦♂️ indian outlets at the top of search results usually seem to be.
I can't explain how much I like this game. And I'm a notorious hater so when I say I like something you can be sure it's worth it lol.
Peaks of Yore is a free-climbing sim game that takes place in 1887. All levels are self-contained, and involve climbing a summit from ground to top. They start off easy, teaching you the core mechanics by climbing big boulders, and eventually you take on huge summits in subzero temperatures.
This level for example happens in a crevice that you have to climb down into and then back up the other end.
I love this game. It's definitely more of a skill game, in that the climb is a bit arcady and solely involves moving from holding point to holding point. I.e. there won't be points where you have to walk along a trail or anything. You can balance yourself with one arm indefinitely and build momentum to jump up to the next point.
Left mouse button basically reaches out with the left arm, right mouse button with the right arm, and you grab hold of holds like that and make your way from one to the next until you reach the summit.
What I really like is that the player skill definitely improves while the game changes very little. You do get upgrades which introduce new mechanics but it's not a cheat code (except the ropes maybe so you don't fall down) or really making things easier, it's just introducing new things you can use during a climb. You start off on trivial boulders and even those, at the beginning, make you go "how the fuck am I going to climb that". By the end of the 'fundamental' levels you're zooming around the map and taking jumps without any care in the world.
The second level (though you can play in any order) is an actual mill and you have to dangle from the blades to climb up it. It was nerve-wracking the first time I did it because you know so little about the game. But when you come back to it later after having done harder climbs, you don't even break a sweat. And I think that's what I really like, is that the game is fair. It's not one of those super hard games like Getting Over It or Alt+F4 which are meant to make you lose and rage. Peaks of Yore is consistent and fair, and you can tell was made by someone who cares about the topic -- I don't, but I appreciate that they do.
It feels great when you conquer a summit, and I can't overstate how much I enjoy opening up the level book and picking my next challenge. I like also that the climbs aren't usually overly long.
If you fall, you just start over at the beginning of the climb and make your way back up. You can secure dangling ropes during your climb to help you bypass areas you've already done. You can collect more on some summits by going out of your way to go get them.
All summits are graded in the handbook (the one above is 'very severe') but the highest grade is actually 'ungraded'. I haven't seen those summits yet but I can't wait to get to them.
All in all, highly recommend this game. You know where to get it.
[Tankies'] positioning, further to the left than subreddits like r/communism, r/socialism, and r/Anarchism
Bruh r/communism is unapologetically gonzaloist, they're even further 'left' than we are lol
However, when it comes to everyday societal challenges that are usually points of interest for the left wing—like policing, climate change, healthcare, housing, and workers’ rights—tankies seem less engaged.
Because we've settled these questions already. Police is a tool of the state, climate change is never going to be fixed under capitalism, healthcare should cover everything and be free for everyone, same for housing, workers' rights should be the basis of the socialist state. Also we don't want to dox ourselves by talking about local issues.
They often opt to use the nomenclature ‘Communist Party of China (CPC)’—Beijing’s preferred language—over the more colloquial ‘CCP’.
I didn't want to get into the language of the article, rather focusing on its shoddy research and understanding of communism, but... colloquial according to whom? The official term is "Beijing's preferred language" and the term you and your pals who don't speak a word of Chinese is better somehow?
Tankies have a tendency towards Stalinism. In our topic analysis, we find that tankies give more prevalence to topics related to Stalin compared to other far-left communities we analyse
Stalin died over half a century ago and he's still making liberals quake in their boots at the mere mention of his name 🫡
For instance, the way tankies discuss Khrushchev’s attempts to reduce Stalin’s influence, or “de-Stalinisation,” suggests a certain fondness for Stalin’s era.
You could literally have figured this out by just talking to a 'tankie'. You did not need gas-guzzling APIs and scripts to learn that.
An example comment from tankies on Zelensky: “Putin and our comrades in Ukraine are going to kill all the US financed nazi scum and hopefully hang Zelensky while they’re at it. Let’s go Brandon!”
Top tier shitpost and this dweeb doesn't even get it lmao, it is completely lost on him.
Our toxicity analysis also indicates that tankies are more likely than other far-left groups to post antisemitic content targeting Jews.
Absolutely no reference or figure forwarded to illustrate that very bold statement.
Tech companies must recognise and respond to the adeptness of groups like tankies in evading moderation efforts. Developing advanced content moderation tools that can detect and mitigate the spread of extremist rhetoric, irrespective of its political orientation, should be a priority. Collaborative endeavours between researchers and tech platforms can lead to the development of more robust and unbiased moderation systems. In this digital age, where platforms remarkably influence political discourse, it is imperative to understand and address all forms of online extremism to ensure a safer digital environment for all.
This is the most chatGPT conclusion of them all. You also haven't proven or even set out to demonstrate that 'tankies' are "adept at evading moderation" whatsoever, and are essentially saying you don't believe in free speech, which is decidedly not very liberal.
That's right bucko, you're a tankie too.
Winning behaviour is when you antagonize a third of the world's population lmao
I find it funny when libs say not to buy Chinese phones because they "may" send data to the CPC (because they connect to the internet from time to time, so scary!)
What can the CPC do worse than my own government can't? Like you should be more scared of the government you live under, not one that's some 3000 miles away or whatever.
Don't buy Apple, it leaks data to the CIA.
I'm preparing a reference list for these treaty terms in English that people can quickly link without going through the entire essay. It's very easy to find from françafrique websites (once you know about it), but not so much in English.
Also looking at translating works from Touré since I heard they're not really available in English.