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From China! Celeberation of the Long March
YEAAAAHHHH
Wow Lula won! Not bad.
Even though I dislike him because of what he did to Venezuela with BRICS, he is a better choice than Bozonazi.
tbf being better than a bozonazi is a low bar
Yeah, the left hasn’t reached their full potential in Brazil yet. But at least the communist movement has space to grow now. Especially if Lula decides to ban Meta
Especially if Lula decides to ban Meta
Inshallah. It would be amazing.
True, it would also turn into a catalysator for other countries to do the same
Well, uh, I know comrades have opinions about Pedro Sanchez here in Spain, but I am kinda hoping the snap elections don’t result in a right-wing victory at the moment. 😭😭
🫂🍀❤️
Just now getting my insurance. I hope they don’t change anything about how to become a full Spanish citizen later (I am only an EU citizen atm)
Think positive thoughts, be prepared for anything. I have the utmost confidence in your ability to navigate complexities and heal, simultaneously. Of course, I want to take concerns seriously, and you can address them, with online and 3D comrades, a therapist with whom you work well, all of the above. Always with an eye toward, “I’ve come through the worst. I am strong, healthy, getting better, and things will work out for me!”
It may sound a little doubtful to you at tomes, but as Sun Tzu noted, the battle is won and lost before we’re ever on the field.
I love you, dear comrade, and I’m glad that rather than remain paralyzed by fear, doubt, denial, rage, you are finding a way to make the most of your available options. That takes real courage, strength, taming the inner beast. I am so proud of you!
And maybe one day we can meet in 3D. I would be honored and love to meet my sister and friend in real life.
Have a great week, everyone! Be sure to wear weather-appropriate clothing as the seasons change where you live!
As always, communism will win.
We’ve got to change clothes twice a day, temperatures can change up to 10 degrees C in a single day where I live.
o7
You too!
It’s wool season 😎
Thanks Cowbee! Hope your week will be great as well.
Mbappe got metaphorically smacked very beautifully by China due to his disrespectful comments regarding Mao Zedong.
I love it tho Mbappe is not that terrible politically as other footballers so it kinda sucks it happened to him. But props to China for putting a stop to the infantile and malicious slander of their political figures, lie after lie turned the characterization of Mao as a dictador in the west while Mao is widely loved in his country.
Honestly, it is good that he was made an example. It feels nice when libs can’t get away with their anticommunist slanders.
Life is happening fast right now. On the plus side I feel the most alive I have in years. On the downside I have an anxiety disorder that likes to punch me in the throat.
I am starting therapy soon, though, so I hope it can help me in my eternal struggle against my own brain.
I’m sorry for that, Comrade. I wish you swift success in slaying that “demon.”
Wishing everyone a good week
I am still in some denial that he actually won, like what were the odds.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
You too!
You too!
You too! (人 •͈ᴗ•͈)
También usted, camarada. 🫡
Adorable 🥰👍🏼
thanks oppo
You too Oppo
❤️
You too
Thanks! You too Opp- AH!! AH!! AH!!
pauses, then continues screaming
I love your new profile picture. It’s cute.
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
Also I’m so over anarkiddies I’m just done with these losers.
Omonoia, Cyprus
based cyprus
New Oppo dropped I am a witch now
That’s a really cute profile picture.
New Oppo dropped, before Gta 6.
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a cute witch
Cute cat
…raccoon…
Ah you’re right
Photos of a celebration of Lula reelection in Brazil!
I wish I could be friends with these people
This makes me want to leave the United States.
Come to Brazil lol
I’m realizing that if Marx was alive today, he would 100% be the sort of guy that would use Excel or LibreOffice Calc as an everything app.
I’m talking a giant spreadsheet with random notes, links to other books, and images and graphs on any cells.
And poor Engels would have to parse this mess.
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You can think of AI ethics what you want. What amazes me most is that people genuinely seem to like the art style many of these AI’s produce. It just looks like pure, soulless slop to me. But it’s everywhere. Stickers on lampposts are now made with AI. Pictures of food in restaurants are. Wedding invitations. I wonder how you’d look back on a souvenir of one of the most special days in your life years from now and it’s just… slop. Even drawing something yourself would probably be better.
I despise the glossy wet texture or the high saturation and gooey colors.
I feel like they took the “late 2010’s small gaming youtube channel” logo style and applied it to everything.
OMG, that’s so true. The last few days, I’ve been getting the same two AI drama shorts as ads where everyone looks like a human except for the women intended to appear attractive - they look like straight-up uncanny dolls.
The GPT asthetic is an artistic lowest common denominator of all the training data. It makes sense that many people would like it.
I imagine that after the american AI giants fall there will be a new wave of boutique AI companies that have more focused models and the different image generation companies will likely try to differentiate themselves from the GPT look and one another.
Can’t wait for YUP’s to hang their boutique AI art on their walls
I want a roll of copies of a sticker I got form a local artist, which is made to get on these AI images IRL, which translates to: FUCK YOUR AI IMAGE. And along the edges: PAY AN ARTIST, YOU FUCKING MISER. I might even want something of the eggshell variety, that one that either can’t be destroyed without leaving crap behind or the glue itself keeps some words on.
On a side note, I get this weird feeling that the digital is bleeding, like JPEG artifacts in actual printed images and such. It’s weird.
For real, and the information in those stickers/posters is very cluttered and hard to make out. That’s why graphic design is so important
hopefully at some point the novelty of making something very quickly will wear off in favor of what the experience of consuming it is actually like
I really don’t understand why some churches depict Satan in “demonic” fashion. Dude is supposed to look like an “angel of light”. He isn’t supposed to look obviously evil. Who’s gonna get tempted by that??
If I see some hooded old guy or horned beast offering riches in exchange for my soul, I’m not gonna take that offer based on his looks alone.
These churches don’t even read the lore smh
I think that depiction is showing what happens when you sell out.
Makes sense then. I guess images are supposed to be symbolic.
The EU new age restriction laws mean that subreddits about sexual health or transgender surgeries aren’t visible anymore, unless you give them your personal data. And since I’m a communist and those subreddits can be very personal, I don’t trust them with that information. They’re not making anyone safer, they’re just withholding important information, which leads to people being unsafer. If it was China, I wouldn’t mind giving them my data, but this is the EU we’re talking about. Fuck the EU
Use a VPN so that Reddit thinks you are opening the site from outside the EU.
Totally forgot about VPNs. Firefox apparently has a built in VPN that works perfectly. Thanks!
Use a VPN
Always good advice.
