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  • You can still teach people theory. Theory is important. But it makes no sense to open with it. That’s like being asked to teach someone how to use a computer and opening with an explanation of how a CPU works.

    No one is going to pay attention to all your theory if they can’t understand how it meaningfully relates to their circumstances.

    And, frankly, the term Marxism comes with so much cultural baggage at this point that you’re far better off focusing on what it actually means rather than what it says. You need to get people out of their preconceptions and help people understand what Marx really meant.





  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlAmerican Activism
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    5 days ago

    Did you expect some kind of mass uprising to happen the very next day? A hundred million people out in the streets, all armed to the teeth, hunting CEOs for sport?

    In this cartoon fantasy world of yours, what does “something coming from this” look like? Was his next stop going to be the White House where he would hold Biden at gunpoint until M4A is implemented?



  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlWell
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    8 days ago

    He actually did have the backing of a lot of the military top brass. The problem is that the rank and file wouldn’t back the brass in clearly violating lawful orders from the government. A big part of why those soldiers sent into parliament did such a shit job is because they obviously weren’t even sure they were supposed to be there.


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    9 days ago

    The magic words worked because they were backed by the power of institutions that people trust.

    The mistake this guy made - the mistake that the US Republicans are absolutely not making - is that he did not sufficiently erode public faith in those institutions first.


  • The practical limit to the number of containers you can run on one system is in the high hundreds or more thousands, depending on how you configure some things, and your available hardware. It’s certainly more than you’ll even use unless you get into some auto-scaling swarm config stuff.

    The issue is more about resource limits, and access to shared resources. I’d start by trying to figure out if there are certain specific containers that don’t play well together. Bring your setup online slowly, one container at a time, and take note of when things start to get funky. Then start testing combinations of those specific containers. See if there’s one you can remove from the mix that suddenly makes things more stable.







  • Wow, it’s almost like they fired all their developers, cancelled every good game they were working on, and underfunded the crap out of the rest so they were destined for failure.

    Remember when Aspyr released a hotly anticipated remake of Battlefront and it failed because Embracer gave them no time to fix the bugs and no money to run servers? Yeah, like that.

    Do you know who used to be part of Embracer? Sabre. Who just released Space Marine 2, a game that sold absolute gangbusters (because it’s fucking awesome).

    Embracer are the cause of all of Embracer’s ills. They hoovered up excellent mid-shelf studios, fucked them over, and then cried foul when consumers rejected the second rate slop that came out.





  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlDeception
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    1 month ago

    The Dem establishment will obviously blame anyone but themselves. That’s what establishments do. That’s why, assuming there are still free and fair elections in America in two years time, left wing voters in the US need to start planning now how they’re going to primary out every last establishment Dem who thought that leaning right was the answer, and replace them with people who do believe in real progressive politics.

    It won’t work everywhere. It can’t. And some of those people will inevitably get caught up in the machine, or turn out not to be what they claimed. Reality is messy. But get enough of them in and you can make a real difference. The mid-terms are the American left’s opportunity to do what the right did in 2010.

    But at the end of the day none of this matters, because we’re just two outsiders pontificating over another country’s politics. Despite how deeply those politics affect the whole world, there’s nothing we can actually do about it, other than focusing on what we can do in our own back yards.