I guess my bike? Have saved loads of money on bus tickets and it’s much more reliable too.

Sewing machine pays for itself quite quickly as paying a tailor to repair your clothes is like 1/3 the cost of a brand new sewing machine, so just repair like 3 items of clothing to get your money back.

People may be aware of a China-specific instance who are on .ml though. It’s not like you’re incapable of knowing about lemmy instances unfederated with your own

“nearly” is, by definition, not.

He is an anti-capitalist afaik, but in any case, if you thought he was a conservative, why do you support him leaving the US? Out of sight, out of mind, let him go terrorise some other countries where it doesn’t affect you? If it’s outside your country it doesn’t exist yeah?

I only cook for myself so most recipes end up going in the fridge or freezer since they make more than 1 serving. I don’t like eating the same meal twice in one day but I don’t mind eating the same meal every day, so as long as I have 3 distinct meals in rotation each day I’m fine. If that number drops to 2 or 1 then I get cooking again.

gofundme is very strict so if theyre on gfm theyre either legit or you’d be refunded if not.

Keep in mind people in Gaza usually have English as a second/third/etc language, or don’t speak English at all, so often use templates to make their fundraisers. And obviously machine translation too.

Yes it is difficult to get money into Gaza but it does happen. I have a friend who evacuated in 2024 and he’s talked quite a bit about how it works; his friends and family who are still there do occasionally receive money from outside which lets them buy the extremely expensive vegetables and flour.

First I’ve heard of em dashes being an “AI” thing. Aren’t LLMs trained on human-generated text? They wouldn’t be outputting em dashes if humans didn’t also output em dashes.

That sounds like an awful idea lmao. I would never.

ID requirement is terrible for everyone but that especially seems like you’re limiting this to citizens or at least people who have managed to get appropriate immigration documents, which is a difficult and obstructive process that many migrants haven’t got yet. Plus a lot of countries make it hard to get ID without a fixed address.

I prefer paper books when I can afford them as I find it easier to focus when I have a physical book to hold. And it just feels like a nicer experience.

This is only because Microsoft’s employees have been relentless in their pressure on their bosses. They’ve been doing occupations of Microsoft buildings, office crashes, etc. They fire the employees who take part but then there are more employees who crop up in their place; there are just too many to fire them all. And Microsoft still provides a lot of support to Israel, so don’t be fooled into thinking that things are over.

I don’t think it makes sense to list as something in common with the various groups called “tankie” when (at least until recently) it was rather orthogonal to whether or not anyone considered you a “tankie”. But in any case it doesn’t really matter.

Sure, some people use it that way, but you listed it as a requirement. Chauvinists get called “tankies” too so clearly it’s not a requirement.

I don’t think it’s fair to say that “anti-imperialism” was one of the requirements when many of the western ML/Stalinist groups that would generally fall under any anarchist’s definition of “tankie” were very much chauvinist/nationalistic. Like that describes basically nearly every “communist party” in the west.

Obviously the modern anarchist usage of the term was fairly different to the origin of the term anyway, which meant a self-proclaimed communist who supported Soviet imperialism in Hungary, which Stalinists were/are opposed to. But I guess they re-used the term now that Khrushchevites are not really a thing anymore.

It was very bizarre seeing that change happen in real time. It was always a stupid word though, because even back when it was an anarchist term for a particular type of Marxist, the boundaries of what exact kinds of Marxists were encapsulated by it always changed from anarchist to anarchist. If you’re actually talking politics and not memeing then you should say what exactly you mean.

No, FreeTube is its own thing, but it can fall back to an invidious instance. Idk why it fails for me with inv.nadeko.net as my default instance though.

No in the sense of back when anarchists used it to mean ML/Stalinist/AES types. No idea right now where the word seems to have no meaning. I don’t think I’ve heard a definition of “tankie” that described my politics at least so probably still no. In general you should just say what you mean.

Yeah have been using https://inv.nadeko.net/ as FreeTube broke for me. Unfortunately there seems to be some kind of bandwidth throttling as I’m getting 720p videos only (my internet is fine for 1080p and I was getting 1080p on FreeTube).

Cute! I wonder if they think they’re just being respectful

There was a movement to decriminalise women being topless (because it is actively criminalised in a lot of places). Unfortunately it’s fallen off. It’s particularly ridiculous because women are the ones who have an actual need to expose their breasts in public, ie some women need to breastfeed—no men need to.

Some people get turned on seeing topless men but it’s not a sex crime for men to be shirtless in public. Free the nipple 2025

I’m gay so idc. You should be dressing because you like to dress that way, not for women’s attention. Women who like men in skirts and crop tops will go to you.