I don’t like adding up more isms as more authors add their knowledge to it, like after Mao added his contributions, then some people started calling it afterwards Marxism-Leninism-Maoism… Marxism is a broad field of science that encompasses economics, history, sociology, revolutionary organization etc…

That said, I love Mao and Lenin’s additions to the theory. But for simplicity, I just call the field of study as Marxism.

It’s not a double standard. It conforms to Western politics standards.

At least in some Brazilian communities, there were recent news of companies HR making a cartel over hiring new employees. Suddenly people started getting angry at companies and the “market”. I could even see people shitting on liberals and ancaps. I think we are seeing a small rise.

Unfortunately, collective suffering is the best fuel to develop class solidarity. It’s not a desirable thing, but this is what actually happens.

Do you have kids? Does your schedule accomodate parenting and chore duties? I feel that after my kid was born, I lost the possibility of having a good night of sleep. And my kid is already older, so I don’t have the issue of waking up many times during the night anymore. Even so, just surviving has been difficult.

Uyghur genocide is a hoax, Iran is indeed helping Russia with drones (not missiles), but the only actual genocide is the one Israel is commiting against Palestinians.

Workers gain absolutely nothing from any of those wars, and we should support a ceasefire in all occasions.

And Voldemort was a CIA asset or operative.

While I find it good news that he is talking about Marxism and Marxist philosophy/ideology, I don’t like much the idea of following someone based on appearances. Is Lukashenko promoting Marxism in universities? Is he applying dialectical materialism to understand his country and that is being translated into actual policy? I find this important, because otherwise it would be much more a PR move rather than an actual change. Regardless, it’s better to have a leader promoting Marxism than one who condemns it.

If you don’t know already it might be useful to look for the source of these problems, if possible. Think about going to a physio, for example.

I spent two years with a lot of back pain (I used to run, do some BS martial arts and gym). I could barely stand for more than 30 minutes, before feeling a burning pain from the back to the leg (sciatica). I went to a neuro surgeon and he said I should undergo surgery (it was in Brazil, so every private health surgeon opinion should be taken with a grain of salt). I went to traditional physiotherapy, which was horrible, until I went to a physio clinic specialized in spine treatment. Their treatment worked wonders and after three months, I stopped feeling that acute back pain, but couldn’t run or do any more intensive activity. After this treatment, I looked for another physio specialized in Pilates and I was able to improve my muscles until I was finally able to fully recover. Today I don’t feel anything, but every now and then I still do some exercises for back muscles.

Moral of the story, physiotherapy works wonders. Too bad that not everyone has access to it.

I think they are actually thinking on something worse. They want to dehumanize an ethnicity to justify applying means to stop their reproduction. From things like exile, deportation, chemical sterilization and the like. What they are actually looking for is a “rational” justification to commit genocide.

What a coincidence. In Brazil, Bolsonaro also suffered an homicide attempt in the eve of the elections. This is the second something like this happens, following the same recipe.

I hope it’s history repeating itself as a tragedy… Rather than the alternative.

I don’t mean this layoff but all that are happening in the last months.

That’s hard. It’s bad they had to turn to this. I hope it gets attention.

It is both. Global warming will make these incidents more frequent. And there’s the corruption and negligence of the bourgeois government, which treats whatever is of public use like shit.

In Brazil we are very much used to hypocritical, greedy, sadistic and corrupt politicians.

Happy labor day, comrades! A shame people don’t celebrate May 1st in Canada (in Brazil the day is very celebrated).

It’s not dumb. They understand what they are doing. They think firing multiple people at once can flood the market with developers, and the situation could be used to hire new people with a lower compensation.

Don’t think the rationale behind this is work quality or developer productivity. This is a power move. For Google and many big tech companies devs are replaceable and are just cogs in the machine. The problem is that they became too costly with the advent of COVID.

Very good joke indeed.

They are willing to set up in the US to exploit cheap US labor and low taxes.

People are talking about Java, but the majority of programming languages are memory safe nowadays. Go satisfies this requirement, for example.

Actually, in order to test your assumption, you’d need to quantitatively measure skill, which per se is something already problematic, but you’d also need to run a statistical test to confirm the distribution is a normal/Gaussian distribution. People always forget the latter and often produce incorrect statistical inferences.

I remember of calling myself a Luxemburgist 10 years ago just by reading her wikipedia article instead of reading her actual works. Well, at least Reform and Revolution is a real banger.