theneverfox

Yes, good girl/boy. 20% reduction in cancer with five servings a week. Cooking it is just fine

I'm proud of you, you're doing well. You're doing it, you can cook the carrots. However you want it, I just want you to be better protected against cancer

Lentils are fine, but carrots greatly reduce the chances of cancer. This isn't a negotiation, just eat the damn carrots lol

Literally doesn't matter. It comes with fiber... Don't even worry about it

What are you going to eat instead? There's no staple food that isn't primarily starch

Every disagreement is a matter of understanding

Eat a serving of carrots everyday, five servings a week reduce chances of cancer by 20% across the board

Life has no inherent value. Only rich life has value

Learning to read was a mistake

Kids don't use file systems anymore, by the time they grow up they'll be begging an AI to pretty please open the file... No, I know it's there, I just downloaded it... I'm sorry, okay, just open the most recent download...

Oh, I'd feel nauseous lol, those nuggets are so gross and I don't really like the fries

Basically, if you defederate with a site, activity-pub will no longer send activity updates to that site and will ignore updates from that site

So if a third site makes a post, then someone from .ml comments on it, it'll send the comment to that third site and that site will update the post it sent to .world

And I think in Lemmy, that update (the .ml comment) would be ignored by .world. So if you look at the post on .world, the local version of the post won't be updated with that comment

But in this case, the original post is on .world, so I don't think .ml should even be able to see it if you're defederated...

I see an .ml comment and a reply from blahaj... Maybe .world has a site-wide block instead of defederation? In which case it'd be as if you have blocked every user from .ml

Think of it like this...a photon is both a wave, and the smallest discrete unit of energy

When the wave is absorbed by something, the energy must be transferred. But the smallest unit of energy is the full photon, and so the full amount of energy of the wave is absorbed at a single point, because there's no such thing as partial photons

Or in other words, the wave doesn't turn into a particle, the energy gets spent at a single point in space

Really, I think all of quantum physics works like this. Electrons don't exist as a point in space, they exist in an area. They're fields, they're not necessarily moving fast, which is why atoms don't randomly slip through each other and we can't measure all the properties of it at once

I do agree with that, fascism is really easy to organize... Granted it always has a shelf life for the same underlying reasons

But conservatism more broadly? It only feels that way because there's been a concentrated effort for a century to propagandize people. Liberals gave so much ground that cutting social programs and public private partnerships became the default position for both parties. There's so many lies that go uncontested... Some of the myths commonly believed about capitalism and government are insane, and that isn't an accident

In the days of FDR it was really easy to organize for progressives... The momentum was there. People's lives were improving noticeably, they had hope for the future, and they had confidence in the leadership

Political momentum is the key. The pendulum is shifting quickly left, so it's becoming easier to organize on the left than it's been for generations. It'll get even easier if the promises are delivered on, disenfranchised voters will need less and less convincing to mobilize

No, I mean this is a well documented thing that happened... They literally infiltrated leftist groups and would sow division and call for endless votes and debates on banal issues

I am talking about intersectionality, but I don't think we should use that word. It's big and scares the common idiot. Also it has implications about being idpol, which is thoroughly tainted at this point

I'm not saying you have to give ground... I'm talking about focus on good messaging. You don't have to throw trans people or Palestinians under the bus. You don't have to hide your positions or be apologetic either

But we all need to focus on message discipline. We need to be evangelical. Houses. Healthcare. Food. Wages. Tax the rich. Fix our democracy

Basically everyone agrees on the real issues, and we must be as Mumdani. He doesn't back down, he's totally unapologetic about his stances, but he doesn't get distracted

Tight, focused messaging. Universal problems, simple to understand solutions. No pamphlets, no scary words

Okay, well I disagree on the effectiveness of ML methods, they industrialized quickly but easily fell to corruption and ended up falling to capitalism

But do we really need to debate that? I'd love to build something better than capitalism, but a glorious revolution isn't on the table.

In the mean time, I totally agree.

I bet we'd agree with everything possible to do right now. I think imperialism is bad, but I'm worried about the future for my friends and family. I'm worried about my neighbors, about my country, about human rights violations against my countrymen

But I'm not going to live or die on stopping imperialism or on Palestine - we have to fix our county so we even have the ability to resist the forces of capital at home if we ever want to reign it in globally

I don't think we should sacrifice these issues either, but I don't think we have to... I just think we have to focus on that can be done now. We're not going to unwind the World Bank and the IMF to get the global south off the debt treadmill tomorrow

We could overturn citizens united and start trust busting tomorrow if we fix healthcare today. If we fix housing, and food availability. If we bring back social programs

The empire is collapsing. I think that's set in stone.

But Rome never truly fell, the people woke up the next day. The question is, do we fall into a dark age as we wait for the contradictions of capitalism to make the economy go poof, or do we wind it down gently

I think we can make material conditions for people better, which means that when the music stops progressives will be in power and have the trust of the people

And we can argue about how to build something better then. The next steps are the same

If you believe in ML or aspects of it, fine. I don't care if you're a full on tankie. You can be a militant vegan or radical environmentalist too.

But when progressives march, we all have to set down (not give ground on) our single issues to join them. Because they're the movement marching against capital right now under a banner that we can all fit under without compromising any of our goals or ideals