Living in Florida I feel it’s more common to see publicly. Recently join a “Walk for Heart Health” type event and it started with the national anthem and pledge. Local army ROTC high schoolers also came by a did… some form of rifle performance. This all was to “kick off” the event and most people had hands on their heart type stuff the whole time. Not to mention the city has “Land of the Free” flags on all the light polls in that plaza and it was interesting just HOW MANY people in florida wear those 1776 shirts or the “F around and find out” shirts still.

I can’t remember exactly, but I know he said they were a bit bland. I think he described it as a pasta that mostly just tasted like the sauce/toppings.

Guy I work with had silkworms when they went to China for vacation. They stand firm that they tasted pretty damn good.

People who like these videos probably think sushi and sauerkraut are the limits of acceptable cuisine.

So admittedly, during my entire onboarding process they mostly focused on the ability to get an education paid for through the company. You only need to stay an extra amount of time if you go that route or something similar. Buuuuuut.

When you look at people who have been there more than the 2-3 year mark. There are a lot of people there who genuinely feel like it’s the closest they can be to helping the “war fighter come home safely”. We had many meetings and slogans involving this. They are so fanatical, I actually almost got fired once for tilting a framed photo of a soldier once in a hallway. Anyone that is salary either is waiting to get a better job/pay or genuinely loves the military industrial complex. Also they tend to hire veterans a lot. They will adjust job requirements for veterans. Know a vet with a FORESTRY degree that ended up in engineering. The military experience is usually a substitute for formal education, its listed on a lot of the job position postings. This kinda helps reinforce the amount of pro military people who hang around.

Hope this helps give insight and makes sense.

It actually is surprising how much the industry can end up growing doubt into the illusion they brainwash you with. I had my awakening while working there. Yeah a job is a job and with a family their livelihood comes before my pride. But there is a union, so worker solidarity and spreading awareness when applicable can help bridge the gap.

Sorry for late response. I’m still working on my education now actually, I worked as only a electronic assembler I was never there for a career, just needed money. In fact quite a lot of people get there education and leave there due to the nature of the work making a sizeable portion of people uneasy. My sympathies for anyone who has to swallow their morals or pride and just get the job done for the paycheck, all while hoping for better days

As some who has been a lowly employee of this company. The type of things people say, especially officials, where they openly get off on selling weapons of war… Just horrific. I have know some comrades there but the level of unreasonably homicidal rhetoric is at an all time high… Ughhhh

I think he isn’t the most consistent person when it comes to global politics(russia/china most notably), but it really comes off like he has a ongoing effort to funnel young leftists/liberals/socdems into the ML pipeline. For example, he watches stuff like Second Thought on stream and even went on the deprogram recently. Uses ML terminology whenever appropriate, etc.

That said while not perfect, he IS in the “debate verse” or “reactlord” sections of twitch. unlike Vaush, Keffals, other “leftists” he actively puts China, AES, and THEM TANKIES in a good/neutral light. And anecdotally I have seen members of his community eventually start getting into MLism through that (such as myself). But he will occasionally say/do shit that upsets me as a ML, still I’d recommend him over many others to any liberal friends as a Primer into more Leftist/Marxist content.

If you remember using teamspeak or ventrillo… Their is a FOSS alternative called mumble that works similarly. Its essentially the closest to what you’re asking that has both VOIP and other features. Some communities especially mmorpg clans and gaming clans still use it. Idk how popular it is in general though. Discord is supported by huge donations which is why they’ve been able to dominate, but teamspeak/mumble still exist and essentially are the same thing but less modern.

https://www.mumble.info/

IRC and Matrix are both IM systems but are alternatives to discord if that’s all the functionality you seek. Matrix is also in the fediverse.

I also am hoping for more Gamedev groups. r/gamedev is shut down so my only hope is a community growing fast on here. the discords are… ok but not what I’m looking for. And I’m off reddit now so nothing on there will work for me.

I’m pretty sure mine is available but I still opted to use a period and birth year. That said I have/had many fake name google, yahoo, and AOL emails so I’m a mixed bag.

Yet to find one for specifically Arena, but if you haven’t found the normal MTG community put this into the search function. [email protected] and also for specifically you (a lemmy world user) https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] here is a link if you wanna be lazy lol. Maybe they or their discord (linked in their sidebar) would know if an Arena one exists already or not. GL

It’s about god dang time, especially with the FPS drops it used to have when it got busy perhaps we can see MGS4 buttery smooth now.

I grew up late to the early internet days as I am just about as old as google itself. However, even in my time I remember light saber mouse cursors, neo colored backgrounds, the stupid but adorable fairy animations all over myspace, and websites auto playing Queen songs. There was character that we put it as a community.

While I may not be the biggest fan of the flat design of the lemmy website and how clinical it all seems, the FOSS nature leads to so much customization with apps and so forth while the content y’all produce is absolutely magical. If I see an ad I know it’s cause one of you have something unique to actually show off and it’s not just bots pushing me to open my wallet. Thank you, you lovely bunch of adorable dufuses.

I think its just easier for many to go from 5e backwards due to how 5e has more “freedom” while earlier editions rely on additional rules and mechanics to determine a lot of the bloat. I started with 2e because my group was very stubborn and took years to adapt. congrats on joining the modern world though!!!

Lets Enjoy Meeting Merry Yiffers, finally a slogan I can get behind!

You made an account on lemmy.ml which means you automatically can check out the communities on this instance and through the federation. You can subscribe and treat this instance just like any normal forum/reddit type thing.

A quick note, lemmy.ml is the instance itself. When you see [email protected] or [email protected] the XXX@ is the name of the community inside that instance. Also [email protected] is essentially the “homepage” community for the instance. Like a webpage almost. So if you see [email protected] that is the Android community on the lemmy.world instance.

However this is then where the “federation” comes in.

We’re part of the “federation” of servers, meaning by default you can participate in “linked/federated” instances and subscribe/post/comment within them. Think of this like reddit1, 2, 3, and so on all exist. You’re on 2 but can utilize all parts of 1, 3, etc from the same account. It’s like your account is a general purpose account allowing you to contribute to multiple instances separate from your “home instance” which in your case is the @lemmy.ml part of your name.

Go to Communities and you’ll see “Subscribed, Local, and All”.

Subscribed is the ones you’ve subscribed to, ground breaking.

Local are the communities within the instance you’re currently accessing through, so for you most likely it’ll be lemmy.ml communities but for me it’s lemmygrad.ml communities.

And “all” is the list of communities under all federated instances organized by (I think) user count/month. These are all open for your contribution.

However to all this I will say there are some caveats. Firstly some instances (beehaw for example) has defederated lemmy.ml. Therefore, if you’re a beehaw user you can’t see lemmy.ml content. However, do to the way the federation works us here on lemmy.ml can see beehaw content if you go to access it since “defederating” only works one way.

However, the content won’t load by default or be stored on this server unless someone requests/accesses it first. At the time of requesting the information it’ll download a local copy of that post to be stored on the “requesting” instance. (I believe this is the correct way of describing it)

However, contributions you and others make will stay only viewable to the lemmy.ml instance and will not be sent back to beehaw.

There is more technically information behind this but this is just a starter and over time you’ll come to understand the interesting quirks of the tech. Additionally there are admins of the Instances (lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, etc) and then mods of the communities. They’re separate and you may be blocked from a community but not the instance. So keep in mind to double check rules whenever you are on a new instance/community.

Sorry if it seems like a lot but just trying to help out without making it confusing, I’m new here too haha. Best of luck and welcome to lemmy!

Some additional info… https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/introduction.html

I couldn’t reply to message in a community outside of Lemmy/lemmygradand was so confused… Till I found our you can check modlogs and WOW there are a lot of people in that modlog blanketly banning “tankies”. I’m actually upset I got banned for being a “borderline” tankie. Dang it I wanted the full tankie ban what is this shit.

There is nothing about the core ideology of Marxism Leninism that is opposed to queer rights. Actually there are a lot of queer people in the community at large who are communist and findable on YouTube or Lemmy. I’m one of them.

I’m not here to teach everything and I trust you know enough to be able to look up more as you wish. If you want an example of an ML nation that is pro queer look up the Cuba Family Code changes made recently. They’re among the most progressive in the world and help to guarente rights for trans people, lgbt, and more. Additionally China has a large trans healthcare clinic first of its kind recently opened in Beijing and a well known trans TV host. Vietnam also has a vibrant lgbt community and even in North Korea homosexuality and cross dressing to my research are not criminalized despite lacking public interest/support.

The days of old are over and new communist nations can and are doing better to ditch reactionary tendencies especially around queer rights.

I get you’re trying to make a big point here about China, but within the last 3 years they opened a multidisciplinary trans healthcare clinic in Beijing and additionally a well known TV host in the country is transgender and this is easily findable even within US new sources. It may still not be culturally fully accepted but I don’t see how the government is doing anything against us when they’re literally opening trans healthcare clinics. Hell there were trans expat teachers who used to move to China for teaching before the changes in education laws for expat teacher licensing.

So does it look like the rest of Blajah zone is safe and just 196 went ultra-reactionary? The mod on there has gone super anti-“tankie” the last 3 days and I had originally had homes for that group, but it seems like all of it is going downhill… I hope that the admin keep us federated at least