Yes, we are gonna care. Please don't make antisemetic remarks.
Jesus Christ. Americans are barbarians.
It might be hard to imagine now, but Mr Putin himself told the BBC back in 2000 that "Russia is ready to co-operate with Nato... right up to joining the alliance".
"I cannot imagine my country isolated from Europe," he added.
Back then, early in his presidency, Mr Putin was eager to build ties with the West, a former senior Kremlin official told the BBC.
Gotta wonder how Russia never ended up being able to NATO despite this.
"General purpose" instances are something else. Someone claimed that during the Tiananmen protests PLA tanks intentionally ran over students. When I pressed for evidence I was banned by the lemmyshitpost mod for denying genocide. Tiananmen "massacre" is a genocide now too. The Chinese are geniciding themselves.
Isn't she a physicist?
Why are humans so bad with drawing hands?
The rest of your answer makes sense but this rhetorical question is not helpful IMO. There are lots of things that humans are not good at but at which computers excel.
It's not as severe as a blackout because I can still see a few bits and pieces. I like to call it a brownout.
That's true but I would have thought that the models would be able to "understand" hands because I'm assuming they have seen millions of photographs with hands in them by now.
Even if Oprah had donated this amount singlehandedly, it would have been 0.4% of her net worth of $2.5 billion.
The problem I have with the meme is not just that the donation is a measly sum that did not require any courage from them whatsoever, it's also the fact Hawaii's problems are in part because of global warming and in part directly because the USA wants to genocide its natives and turn it into resort islands for crackers. Disasters like these attract the worst of wealthy like vultures. You get people like these two who use the victims to boost their PR ratings and vulture capitalists looking to buy disaster-struck land for cheap. Meanwhile the US state continues to treat Hawaiians as third class citizens.
If you have an RTX card you can try the DLSS mod. Maybe it helps.
According to NYTimes they have donated a combined 10 mil. USD.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/us/oprah-dwayne-johnson-maui-fires-relief.html
For those that are unaware, ethnic violence has affected the state of Manipur in India for about the past three months.
Manipur has been in the grip of ethnic violence resulting in the deaths of over 150 persons, displacement of tens of thousands of people and horrific crimes against women.
It has been taking place between the majority Meitei community and the minority Kuki community.
In an insane twist, the prime minister until very recently had been completely mum about these grotesque riots. Why? Because the state is under BJP rule and the chief minister, Biren Singh, has himself stoked this violence by making statements like this:
Just a month before the May incidents, he had told the RSS paper, Organiser, that, “The indigenous people of the state have been reduced to the status of second class citizens after the foreigner Kuki immigrants took control of the social, political and economic affairs”. Here he echoes a longstanding propaganda of the RSS about illegal immigrants flooding Assam and the North East.
What forced Modi to speak publicly about this issue was something terrible that happened to two Kuki women.
Mention of sexual assault
It was only when the chilling video showing two women being paraded naked by armed Meitei men became viral on social media on the eve of the parliament session that Narendra Modi was compelled to speak.
True to his form, after expressing token sorrow, he instantly trivialised the incident and diverted attention away from it to attack his opposition parties instead:
But he immediately sought to divert and trivialise the issue by talking about how such crimes against women must be firmly put down in states like Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Manipur. This was the cue for BJP leaders and the party’s IT cell to take up the refrain of how women are being abused and assaulted in states run by the opposition parties like Rajasthan, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh.
As a side note, Modi was welcomed with open arms during his US visit while these riots were going on:
Marxists.org is notoriously an eyesore. Someone on GitHub by the name of ArkansasWorker made a custom CSS for the website that makes it more readable. I forked their project for some minor changes based on personal preferences (for example I prefer serif font on light mode and I remember there being problems customising the font in the settings).
Installation
First you will need to install Stylus for Firefox. There must be a Chrome counterpart extension as well but I am not sure.
After that click on ONLY ONE of the links below based on whether you the original or my fork:
This should open the file in Stylus automatically and you can install with the install button on the left hand side.
You can also customise the layout using an intuitive menu. The instructions for that are described here: https://github.com/ArkansasWorker/marxists.org-UserCSS#customizing-user-styles
You can do this if you, for example, want to make the text column wider without having to edit the CSS by hand.
Screenshots
Original
Custom CSS
Swiss theme
Dracula theme
A little while ago I created a sort of podcast using audio ripped from Michael Parenti YouTube videos. It can be found here:
- Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0xKKAAcZUgnlg88k1KXKee
- RSS feed: https://anchor.fm/s/ddf4dbd8/podcast/rss
I only shared it here and once in a discord server but it has been racking up listens slowly:
I take no credit but it's cool that people are interested in Dr. Parenti's lectures. Feel free to share the podcast with other people and communities.
P.S. I make no money from it.
I thought the title says "... if I make antisemetic remarks" so I responded according to that. Sorry about that. I just meant that yoi shouldn't make them. Doing it out of habit is no excuse either but you probably know that already.