It is symbolic. It’s not even a rounding error on the actual material and political support Francis provided (or tried to provide given the blockade) to Gaza. It’s still not enough, he should have excommunicated Vance at the very least, but he was one of Gaza’s biggest supporters.

I’m not sure I could cope with the Sabaton song.

Morgenthau Plan but for the USA please.

To a disabled woman no less

And they’ve called it Dutton will lose his seat get rekd

Sometimes yeah you can see it. Not only with updates but within a conversation, Models degrade in effectiveness long before context window is reached. Things like image generation tend to get worse after >2 edits and even if the image seed is given .

"We had been working with their AI tool for a while, and it was absolutely not at the point of being capable of writing lessons without humans.”

Lol, LMAO this is gonna be a disaster once the bubble crashes and current models undergo recursive degradation.

I like the utopian star-trek-like cosyness of Black Mirror, really takes you away from the cares of the world.

Left unity in action

Find someone selling a newspaper and chat with them, that’s what the newspaper is for. They’re probably in a deeply unpleasant org but one thing you learn as a communist is to have a lot of friends in wildly different orgs, it makes large scale action way easier if you can stop dunking on each other over the theory of value or the correct praaxis against Austria Hungary at protests.

They can be more than that if you can get them consistent and growing. Protests have to be designed explicitly as a threat “We could fucking take you and guillotine you if you ignore us, you will run out of bullets before we run out of people, but we have decided to exercise mercy and give you the chance to see reason.” But the purpose of protests has largely been lost.

There’s a reason lib orgs complain about communists “Hijacking” protests. Very occasionally that’s true (usually due to some Trots) but mostly they’re just complaining that someone is offering a solution beyond whining at the government.

In a few places but in the manifesto and also Luthen in The Speech.

Combustion is now Hamas.

It’s good. Like actually good. They quote theory.

Saw Guerera did nothing wrong

I’ve always thought Tall Poppy was a false diagnosis. We fucking love success. What we don’t like is the appearance of trying to be successful. Our grifter heroes tend to grift the rich, not become rich through grifting.

I’d say what we want is the appearance of being successful without effort but Sprezzatura is an awfully wanky concept to load the Australian cultural psyche with.

Dutton arguably lost the election over it. I’m not saying the Australian public have no heart for cruelty, but generally saying it out loud in public doesn’t get much traction. Not because of the content but because you look like a Try-hard.

Looking at Declan Mansfield, it’s honestly shocking it took his comments on trans people to get him cancelled.