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I’ve been using EndeavourOS for awhile now and it’s really good. Everything more or less just works.

“Gadzooks!”

“Egad!”

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.

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.

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

There’s a Youtube channel run by a couple with a domesticated mountain lion.

While lemmy.ml isn’t explicitly tankie like lemmygrad.ml or hexbear.chat, the fact that it’s the instance run by the two OG Lemmy devs (who, along with most of the instance’s admins, are Marxist Leninists) means you tend to get tankie friendly moderation. Most infamously, sinophobia is cracked down on, so shitlibs can’t just go hog wild with stuff like Tinyman Square and “West Taiwan” and such.

Our government might be two-party in form, but is one party in function. They both champion the same class interests, with most of the difference coming down to how much of the quiet part they’ll say out loud.

Stop blaming the world and make it yours.

Ogey

I’d like to see ol’ Donny Trump wriggle his way out of this jam.