Sleepless One

Unbiased reporting (or unbiased anything for that matter) doesn’t exist. The sooner people realize that, the sooner they’ll stop letting the imperial media pull the wool over their eyes.

I think he’s talking about Korea based on the figures he used.

Also, as a side-note, complaining about Communists when commenting on a community with quite a few Communists is pretty childish, and ends up hurting your credibility more than helping you prove a point.

Inb4 “But tank eez aren’t real communists, they’re muh redfash muhthoritarians.”

“Gadzooks!”

“Egad!”

A jihad against the Zionist Entity is a jihad I can get behind.

Regarding the markdown point for lemmy-ui, I think part of the issue is that we don’t use a markdown parser tailored to our purposes. We use markdown-it, and our custom (non-common mark, so stuff like the spoiler blocks) stuff uses plugins for it like this one. One of these days I’d like to make a markdown parser specifically for Lemmy.

Chilling in the morning before I start my day job.

I get a chuckle out of the “Tankie Triad” talking point some people keep using. It sounds like a villain organization from a Saturday morning cartoon.

I basically use it as a way to acknowledge that I saw a message but have nothing further to ask or add.

Fig jam. A local place makes a fig jam and bacon artisanal pizza that’s to die for.

You’ve heard people use the term “tankie” IRL? Damn, even the most brainpoisoned libs I know don’t do that.

I’m guessing “agency” in this case is being used in a way that’s very specific to that area of research and not exactly how people use it in normal conversation?

I’m too lazy and tired to go into it at the moment, so I’m just going to paste this infographic explaining the relationship between the material base and ideological superstructure.

To the falsifiability point, while I can’t say a lot without knowing the specifics that Popper argued, historical materialism (and dialectical materialism, the way of understanding the world historical materialism comes from) don’t on the surface make much sense trying to attack from a falsifiability angle. While one could attempt to disprove, say, the extraction of surplus value through profit or the tendency of the rate of profit to fall being properties of capitalism (these are claims about the world that can conceivably be true or false), dialectical/historical materialism is the tool used to analyze the world, attempt to change the world based on the understanding from that analysis, incorporate the lessons learned from those attempts (be they failed or successful) into one’s understanding of the world, and repeat. It’s basically a way of gaining knowledge about the world, as well as an explanation of how people get knowledge.

Again, I’d have to check out Popper’s full argument for the specifics, but I don’t know how one can make assertions about the falsifiability of what is basically an epistemology without committing some kind of category error.

From the memorandum:

The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE [Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe] Final Act, to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.

The US couping Ukraine’s government to install a neo-Nazi regime back in 2014 (not to mention Orange color revolution in 2004) isn’t a violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty, but Russia responding to that is? Make that make sense.

I subscribe to historical materialism, which is apparently a pseudoscience according to that Wikipedia article.

Yes. First as tragedy, then as farce. We’re in the farce stage, for those not already aware.

I’d be surprised if your average Joe Ukrainian would want to lynch him. I could easily see him being lynched by some of the heavily armed Banderites who perceive his working towards peace as a stab in the back of the Ukrainian nation though.

Dude just wants to snort coke and play pianos with his peen in peace.

Point taken. I still think it’s cool though.