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while sending more military funding and weapons to Israel

edit: edited title to be more accurate. Now this bill goes to the Senate. I think it will likely be passed, but just for the sake of accuracy this has not actually been passed yet.

Story from December 2023

She asked me “what do you like to do for fun” and I said “ever hear of Hexbear.net?” She just stared at me.

“Oh yeah well it’s like this really niche communist website. Actually ever hear of the podcast Chapo Trap House? So it started out as the subreddit for the podcast, but the podcast hated the subreddit actually, then we got banned for saying slaveowners should be killed. So then we were on discord for a while and then we moved to our own website where we had endless struggle sessions about China and John Kerry. Yeah it’s like this terminally online communist website for people who would be posting on Twitter or Reddit except they hate Twitter and Reddit so they post there. Also it’s communist. Did I mention I’m a communist?”

She called me a liberal and told me to read theory, then made me pay for her dinner for being a “PMC labor aristocrat cosplaying at revolution” before walking out on me. Sucks man. Then the waiter tried to redpill me on the manosphere.

So as I understand it most covid rapid tests test for the nucleocapsid protein. But the nucleocapsid protein is generally enveloped by the viral envelope in covid, as I understand it. How then are antibodies able to bind to, and covid rapid tests able to detect, this nucleocapsid protein if it's enveloped by the viral envelope? Would it not be better to test for the spike protein or something else on the viral envelope itself?

I don't understand that much about virology etc. but I was reading about this and now I'm going down a rabbit hole and hoping someone can clear this up for me.

I used to make cheese. Our cheese cave was a large underground brick structure. It was mostly for tourists, the whole thing was supposed to look "rustic" and "traditional," and it did look really nice, but it was shit at controlling humidity, sort of important when making cheese. My boss always wanted to get a walk in fridge where we could more efficiently control temperature and humidity, but he was never allowed because the tourist aspect was as important (maybe more) than the farming/cheesemaking, and tourists wanted rustic.

Anyway, that's not the point. The winter was extremely wet. As winter comes to a close, the snow started melting and everything started thawing. Well, brick is porous and the ground is extremely wet. Because the builder (who was incompetent and I have more horrible safety stories from this farm) had not built a dome around our cave, water ended up saturating the brick and was now dripping down onto the cheese, bringing with it, of course, listeria. We had to test every now and then for the health inspector, and one day we tested and literally every square inch of that cave had listeria. Listeria, we realized, was dripping down from the roof of the cave onto the cheese that we were selling to tourists.

So, instead of stopping the sale of certain cheese, improving the cave or (what we should have done) getting a walk-in freezer, what we ended up doing was taking some really half assed measures to protect the cheese (like putting paper over it) and occasionally spraying a solution to kill the listeria in the areas we could reach (so, not the roof, which was the main danger), especially before the health inspector came - of course the listeria would shortly just start leaking through the walls again. And so we ended up hiding our massive listeria outbreak from the health inspector and kept selling the cheese. I managed to leave that same spring.

Anyway, the elon musk toxic tunnel sludge story reminded me of this and I wanted to get this story off my chest. Feel free to drop your own work safety stories in the comments.

"inappropriate requests of staff" truly a horrible read

really interesting account full of some of the worst shit I've ever read though

oh, we are so back

Hold on, I’m getting reports that NYC and everyone living there has actually been cloned to keep up appearances and not startle the libs (communists). Real patriots know the truth. Trust the plan!

I've been enjoying reading Krupskaya's works on education and how to study (e.g. How Lenin Studied Marx). I'm wondering if there's anything similar in the Marxist canon (or just worth reading for Marxists in general) on the subject of study and self-education. I'll try to compile the Krupskaya I've been reading in an edit.

edit:

The Organization of Self Education

General Rules for Independent Study

How Lenin Studied Marx

Unfortunately that's all I could find online