https://theintercept.com/2024/03/23/intercepted-doctor-gaza-interview/

But [Palestinian medical workers], they are working on a daily basis on the most horrific, explosive trauma that you’ve ever seen. They’re doing sometimes 14, 15 amputations, mostly on children, per day, and they’ve been doing it for six months now.

I bet way more people have worn temporary tattoos than have proper tattoos. (limited to living people)

I feel like you could bend the barrel a bit with that forward handgrip. Just a lil.

But unironically I think I agree with Keynes’ idea that once worker productivity gets sufficiently high that the government should start reducing the labor supply by shortening the workweek. I think that would actually get us incrementally closer to communism if capital would ever let it happen. (But it won’t, hence revolution)

Lots of laundromats do have employees; there has to be an attendant and if the owner wants to have business hours longer than they’re willing by to work they’ll have to hire someone.

I think any business with an owner and no employees can probably be classified as somewhere between a skilled laborer and a landlord, depending on how much capital is involved in their business. A web developer might only own $1000 worth of computer equipment and their main contribution is their knowledge. A laundromat owner owns many thousand dollars worth of laundry equipment and a space to keep it in, and only provides a small contribution of their own skills.

And then there’s this banger: https://x.com/sovietvisuals/status/1063311125687746560?s=20

My frivolity is coffee in the opposite (but also not opposite) direction: I grind my own beans, not with a fancy electric ceramic burr but with a cast iron hand grinder from the 1970s. I use a Melitta pour over filter because they’re so cheap, made of ABS plastic so won’t break ever. I have one I inherited from my parents; it’s likely 30 years old. r/BIFL eat your heart out. It’s probably full of cancer juice. I just want good coffee and don’t want to fall into the coffee gadget black hole.

There’s also a 3M product which is retroreflective tape suitable for fabric. Haven’t used it, but I think it’s a lot thinner and more flexible.

Instead of poking holes go get some Solas tape and put it anywhere you want

Nedludd.social is extremely inactive and extremely based

Commenting for the historical record here, I believe this is not Buena Vista Social club, but Los Calchakis. It’s listed on two of their albums, and none of BVSC’s

You’re right, it’s important that unions have elections; that’s how we finally got a militant UAW.

So it’s “rules based international order” except between armed corporations instead of armed countries. I can’t see how that would ever lead to problems /s

You want the merchant marine, longshore and fishing kind of maritime museum, not the cool battleship bro maritime museum. I know a few comrades at such museums in the US and Canada, and have seen old crusty guys with commie vibes at many more. There also are chuds and reactionary hippies for whom tall ships and such are just RETVRN cosplay.

I believe “we’re not so different” did a podcast series on the parallels, I think it’s paywall though. Great podcast!

I’ll second the volunteering idea. It’s easier to make friends with folks you see often, such as at work or school. That frequent contact really helps get you over the hump. Volunteer somewhere aligned with your interests, and go to every event you can.

• food not bombs
• bike coop
• museum if you dig old nerds (especially labor, industrial, and maritime museums, often full of commies)

This is Vomit Erasure and I will not tolerate it!

This is great stuff (by which I of course mean it is terrible).