Imnecomrade - pronounced “I am any comrade”

Techie, hippie, commie nerd

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I hope this means content quality goes up. As forums get larger, which we do want to occur for our community, it seems they are prone to the effects of entropy and more irrelevant posts start to muddy the entire instance. I’m probably at fault for posting some things here that aren’t very relevant to ML, thus I try to post on hexbear more for less relevant stuff and limit my posts to higher quality and relevant topics here. Nevertheless, I am still working on improving this as sometimes I’m not sure if a post fits this community, but sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised when I get more reactions than my hexbear crosspost.
























  • Honestly, I feel like I have no hobbies, even video games. I feel like everything I do is for the purpose of me escaping Autistic burnout. I play video games to lessen the burnout. I garden to reduce expensive food costs. I learn programming for the sake of escaping my ludicrous job. I build computers in order to work on servers and applications to build a portfolio for work. I spend time with my spouse to, once again, reduce burnout. I participate in PSL to hopefully help push for revolution in the future. I practice guitar to ease my burnout and to build a skill that would allow me to creatively support PSL by playing music in rallies.

    I yearn to learn an esoteric language, build Linux From Scratch, design a PCB, practice soldering, learn a CAD scripting language like OpenSCAD for 3D-printing, play board games with friends, go hiking and biking, learn another spoken language, read fiction, finish my drawings and paintings, or anything else just to have fun with no long-term goal in mind. I’m so tired.









  • To be fair, it would make sense to divide megalopolises from large rural areas to create more proportional states for a functioning and equally representative democracy (as in a council/soviet democracy (or other forms of the dictatorship of the proletariat), not the plutocracy of the US). Beijing has a population of 21.9 million, while Wisconsin has a population of 5.9 million, so even as a city, Beijing is much larger than Wisconsin. It’s an imperfect analogy not because Beijing is a city, but because Beijing is much bigger than Wisconsin, so in this regard, I would consider the analogy close enough.


  • Not a brand, though this answer will not help if you or someone else needs new clothes, but surviving with the clothes you already have and limiting your funds to support potentially genocide-supportive brands as well as limiting money circulating in one’s imperialist country is an act of protest and is something to keep in mind if the option is available.

    This option works for me because I kept so many clothes my family and friends gave me over many years, continue to wear the same few set of clothes until they are in shreds, and continue to use them for dirty work clothes and/or make plans to turn my old graphic tees into a blanket or curtain. I probably should get rid of clothes, but I kept them because they helped me save money. I am a bit of a hoarder, which is influenced by my poor upbringing.

    Also buying second-hand stops money going directly to the businesses that made said products, and I always try to find anything I want or need to buy used, whether on eBay, at a thrift store, at a garage sale, from a friend, etc. first before resorting to buying it new.

    I typically buy clothes at my local thrift store, especially if my work clothes rip or a zipper breaks. My mother has helped me sew some of my work clothes when I was really busy and really didn’t want to purchase more clothes.




  • I agree. Keep in mind anything I post I may or may not agree with, and I am always willing to change my mind with feedback I get from here. I post things here because I am interested in listening to discussion.

    I’d pick Valve over most game companies, but they are still a company, and I predict Valve will become worse over time unless they are bought or go under as the tendencies of capitalism lead toward greater monopolization. I have accepted that everything that I like and was produced in a capitalist system will be rotten and spoiled eventually.