lmfao american conception of "terrorists", just video game mobs that kill anybody and everybody. what issue would the IRA have with a bunch of internet Marxists who are probably entirely pro-Irish republicanism

Glad to hear the automobilism is being rejected. Really it was one of my biggest worries about the direction China is going, that there seemed to be lots of cars, but I had yet to make an investigation and I like what I'm hearing :)

To quote @Giyuu: I do not not live in China/am not Chinese/do not know [much of] the language/etc. But from the outside, it seems that due to reform & opening up, Chinese go through much of the same shenanigans we do, whether it will be eventually solved through planned economy or not. They have bosses, landlords, and cops; they work too much and compete for stressful jobs and rigorous education, and there is sure to be some amount of corruption even with the victories of the Tigers & Flies campaign... a friend from Tieling, Liaoning province personally complained of his folks having to pay bribes but did not get into why.

Wow, that rules! What is your party called & does it have an online presence, like a program etc available to read?

Also on a silly note, Does the district name Borgerhaut have anything to do/ contain cognates with "burgher" and "haute"? a name something like the High Burgher [District]? Burgher Heights? :P

It is an understandable but misguided sentiment. There is plenty of work for the communist orgs to do, I think, and some of the more progressive community orgs may even be friendly or ambivalent to the communists. Maybe instead we should be relieved that our relatives and neighbours are finding ways to try to improve their situation, even though they lack a radical perspective and critique of capitalist society. We know charity has limits and deficiencies. Does anywhere have a food bank that has good enough food in good enough quantities, with no hoops to jump through?

May we live to see a revolutionary socialist restoration, but more than a restoration, a forging anew <3

we can have a few impersonators as a treat

There is no doubt that the unpaid internship is exploitative, moreso than the already discouraging/tiring path to a first job programming. But I also think you were right to accept it as a step towards launching a career. It's something you will never have to do a second time... onward and upward

Well put, I'm also not familiar with any sentiment that assuming Chinese means putonghua is a problem. Although I won't assume OP meant to imply that. Many nation building projects in the "old world" (where linguistic diversity is great) have involved language standardization.

I think a modern socialist planned economy fit for our situation would come out with a very pemanent, modular, and repairable cell phone. It would resemble an Apple product in no way, making use of open source hardware and software and with an ideological commitment against planned obsolescence.

I believe as individuals and society we are over reliant on unnecessarily advanced technology and should seek alternatives to distance ourselves from this.

I feel about the same way, to the point I don't even really want print media to die. We're still looking at something right in front of us, but at least it isn't a screen. I've been framing it mentally as part of an intentional relationship I want to have with technology, and I think generally others should consider this too. Adopt technology selectively and critically, don't just let them foist new consumer durables on you, LOL.

Makes sense, a limit as strict as 8 minutes for the youngest kids seriously inhibits basic communication, so really this either has to iterated on or a great deal of parents will just opt out so it has no effect.

Let's see if the less clever of the bourgeois can figure out the falling rate of profit / secular stagnation

It seems like degrowthers have some valuable insight but yeah if you simultaneously did not believe in the neccesity and potential of revolution and state overthrow it would be very "doomer".

Is this page a good description of the Refold method? It sounds as though you have really put in the work and so have propelled yourself to fluency very fast, relatively speaking. Two years may be a long time but to be fully conversational at that point strikes me as incredible. Thank you for sharing. I'm gonna have to get on Bilibili and pick out a "language parent"

Maybe we can say it's more like saying a French person from one region speaks Languedoc and one from another speaks Provencal. Yes, there are multiple languages in France with origins there, but there's massive institutional weight thrown behind a standard one, and the variation is, as I understand it, almost completely gone in France, and mostly being maintained or slightly declining in China?

I'll check it out, I think i've seen that one talked about online!

Really I can't wait to see what a modern, technologically advanced socialist economy comes up with in the field of technology. Just hope we live to see it

Yes, and I'm inclined to think there is a not-tiny subset of people who really would be tireless creatives/athletes etc under conditions of full communism, that our general level of engagement with learning, art, and science would probably increase, and there would be plenty of room for a far easier way of life as well.

Working on my 2d Unity game, working on coding problems on Exercism, I am so close to being done the C++ problem set on that site, like 87%. Having a horrible time trying to pick what to write my paper on in Environmental Sociology, there just seems like so much to write about, even if I focus on my region.

Playing Thief Gold and loving it, I'm going to check out the open source clone as soon as I'm done. Installed and booted up New Vegas to show my gf the amazing game I've been talking about and OMG, it was a liiiitle jankier than I remember, I really should have installed the mods first if I wanted the game to look polished.

I checked into the library to ask about a casual job I applied for... It's been screening for like 2 months.