‘Lemmygrad’s resident expert on fascism’ — GrainEater, 2024

The political desperadoes and ignoramuses, who say they would “Rather be Dead than Red”, should be told that no one will stop them from committing suicide, but they have no right to provoke a third world war.’ — Morris Kominsky, 1970

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Cake day: August 27th, 2019

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  • Oh wow, that is awful. That reminds me of a time when I was having a walk through my neighborhood and I touched the rusty top of somebody’s mailbox out of boredom. As I was walking away, I heard somebody yelling at me and telling me to get back there. He asked me if I took something, then he looked inside of his mailbox, asked me if I understood that that was a felony, and yelled at me to never do that again. When I angrily arrived home, I yelled the hardest that I ever had in my entire life in front of everybody.














  • I’ve really been slacking off lately with /c/capitalismindecay. The main reason for that is that I have been focused on teaching myself Judezmo, which was easier for me to do from my smartphone than accessing writings on history was. I know that there is no ‘rule’ saying that I need to update that subcommunity daily, but I managed to keep at that for so long that I don’t want to disappoint somebody by taking another break despite having a working computer now.












  • Is it just me, or is pinball an overpriced hobby?

    Doing a brief search online, it looks like the average pinball table is more than twice the cost of a gaming PC, and even simulators like Pinball XF and Pinball Arcade have DLC that is overpriced for what you get: typically $10 for a handful of tables, which sounds trivial until you notice that purchasing the entire DLC library can cost hundreds of dollars, which is just obscene for one computer game.

    I guess that somebody can excuse the physical tables by saying that they’re made for establishments in mind, not ordinary households. I can accept that. Although you have to travel pretty far if there are specific tables that you want to try, and public tables can come with other inconveniences such as waiting for your turn.

    There are some low-budget alternatives besides simulators and public tables, such as portable pinball tables (I had one based on Small Soldiers when I was little), though I am guessing that those are unpopular with adults. In any case, it’s hard for me to imagine a low-income person being passionate about pinball in general. Even collecting LEGO sets would be a cheaper hobby.



  • This is what I wrote to them several hours ago:

    A friend is interested in donating to you, but they want to know what exactly you are doing to the money, asking me ‘how can i find out if they’re not just using donating to line their pockets or spending it ineffectively like the [U.S. Democratic Party does]?’ What should I tell my friend?

    The reply:

    Thank you and your friend for all your support and willingness to continue supporting us. We really appreciate your message and understand the concern of your friend. We are a very small team of only 4 people who work part time. All of us are refusers and together we spent around 3 years in prison for the cause, so we are a very dedicated team that the cause is very close to our hearts. Because we are a small organization, we are evaluating our work continuously and making changes if needed in order to make sure that we make the most impact with the donation that we receive. I would love to have a meeting with you and your friend, get to know each other, discuss your friend’s concerns and our work. I can also make sure that if your friend would like to donate for a specific part of our work, it will go to that. Looking forward to hearing from you.
    Best,
    Mattan



  • Modern Hebrew is essentially a Herzlian invention, with the grammar and other aspects modified to look more European, and according to Jewish tradition Hebrew is a sacred language that is no longer to be employed for casual purposes (otherwise it loses its specialty). The Herzlians threw this rule out the window, probably because it was the only language that all Jews had in common, and now it’s become something that many Palestinians associate with their oppressors. It is especially infuriating for anticolonial Jews to see their literary language used as hate speech against the innocent.

    Speaking Modern Hebrew does not make anyone a Herzlian, especially if you want to understand what the settlers are saying, but personally I would prefer that it be retired in favor of other Jewish languages and dialects. They could really use the attention. Hebrew should stay a ceremonial and literary language, more or less analogous to Latin.

    @AYJANIBRAHIMOV@lemmygrad.ml is a good person to consult on this subject.



  • I had forgotten just how severe the government interference was. (Somewhat odd, too, given Wales’s propertarianism.)

    In 2020, it was discovered that the Scots language Wikipedia was almost solely edited and managed by a 19-year-old US citizen who did not speak a word of Scots from the time he was 12. He also used his administrative powers to block others from correcting his vandalism.[18]

    Holy cow, that is almost upsetting to me since I think that Scots is a very interesting language.

    a group of committed Wikipedia editors on the English instancce have been promoting a skewed version of the history of the Holocaust that is touted by right-wing Polish nationalists, whitewashes the role of Polish society in the Holocaust, and bolsters stereotypes about Jews.

    This is a sad reminder that my work on informing others about Fascism remains necessary, as very few people in general talk about the Polish anticommunists’ collaboration with the Fascist empires. I can understand why many of us are uncomfortable approaching a topic where the subject is simultaneously a victim as well as a victimizer (like the Jewish Kapos), but this sort of evasion is motivated by something less innocent than that.

    Wikipedia blocks the IP addresses of VPNs and other proxies, preventing users from mainland China from editing. […] Wikipedia often deletes articles about topics outside of the West. For example, Chinese Wikipedia deleted an article about the Xuzhou urban expressway while keeping an article about a 200-meter-long street in Hong Kong.

    The hypocrisy is almost palpable.

    The Wikimedia Foundation collects over $100 million per year even though only $10 million is needed to keep Wikipedia running. It raises money by lying that Wikipedia needs more money to avoid shutting down.[10]

    Okay, now I definitely don’t feel guilty about ignoring their begging. These paskudnyaks are almost as disgusting as common scammers.



  • Should I feel guilty for refusing to donate to Wikipedia?

    The regular contributors tend to be jerks and the quality of content is notoriously variable, but the main reason that I keep ignoring their begging is that I suspect that Wikipedia already receives substantial donations from government agencies, since they’ve meddled in it before. There is no way that they’d let it go without a fight. So I think that the Wikimedia Foundation is only begging for donations so that government agencies don’t have to bail it out.





  • what broke!?

    The Noctua NH-D15S chromax Premium Dual-Tower CPU Cooler with NF-A15 PWM 140mm Fan (Black) and the Asus PRIME B550M-A AC Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard.

    They didn’t specify how I broke them, though. I did bend a few USB pins in the MB, and I broke the plastic lock for my graphics card, but I did not notice anything serious. As for the fan, all that I noticed was a slightly bent blade on the tower. That is it.

    I appreciate the offer, but to tell you the truth I really don’t feel like risking anything by giving it another shot. I’ll have to get somebody nearby to help.