Ha! Found another cornbread commie 🫡

Yup yup, I’ve made a couple contacts through the repeater onboard the international space station to people across the US with a handheld radio. Neat stuff! Ham radio was my lockdown hobby 🤷

I could DEF learn a lot more in that department. Especially in the realm of farming and food storage

Prepping as in hoarding resources? I’m not so big into that. Prepping so that I and a group over dozens, to hundreds, to thousands of miles could maintain communications? That shit’s my special interest.

I definitely feel like I could be a much better communist and find and culture actual relationships and arrangements with others to improve situations for us all.

A: I said “n’stuff” and “n’shit” waaaaaaay too much in the 90s. B: I wasn’t a teenager until 2000 so…

I’m squeamish about bugs or water bugs.

I also have a tough time eating animals after I see someone clean it.

Do I wish someone would make a grasshopper burger that wouldn’t get chitin stuck between my teeth so I could eat more protein with a lot more of a clear conscious? Hell yeah.

Whelp, I should just save a bunch by eating a rich sammich, js

Charlottesville, is that you?

Also… +10 for vim

I mean, I’M not gonna square up with him

I have a good list on my kobo waiting for the opportunities to dig in, I get to spend some time almost every day.

I have a good bit of the basics, and when there’s a decent bit of age on them they can get a little heavier… I’ll take a break and read some parenti because my brain can digest that easily. But there’s been PLENTY of “ah ha! MFr” moments in Marx’s heavier stuff where something fell into place

I have horrible penmanship as a millennial, I was typing from around 6 on

I was a hardcore Ubuntu user but I’m all in on Linux mint now. At one point I had lots of time to dedicate to getting my and other’s system working with their hardware through updates. Mint has for the most part been perfect.

“what kind of damn name is Charles for a ca… Oh. Yeah that’s Charles right there”

Well I’m not helping much, just lurking with a few comments. Hell yeah go us

I think that would be awesome, I’m still learning a lot and that could be helpful.

I do also believe that my understanding of communism and my place in it calls for a lot more interpersonal connections than I cultivate 🥴

I’ve been messing with bard a little seeing what questions it will answer and how those answers line up with what I’ve been learning from lately and how I’ve been fed a steady diet of propaganda in US schools… And it’s easy to see from the questions I’ve asked that it SEEMS to have been trained on a good bit of factual info but clearly from the lens of “liberal democracy=good” even as far as acknowledging that many conflicts in my life, if asked about the situations, as I’ve come to understand them, that happened initially destabilizing certain areas, had “fear of communism” high in the list of reasons. Obviously it’s a program trained on certain information, and with guardrails installed. If asked about how much devastation the US has caused related to fearing communism it will talk about that, but if you ask for example “why has the US supported fascists” I got a road block and it stopped answering lmao.

Obviously just anecdotal about me playing with an existing program, and I’d love to see one trained on a large variety of different leftist theory and writings. It would still need to be used with the broad understanding that in the end, it’s just a program that takes input and processes it and spits some info out, and shouldn’t be trusted more than pointing us in directions for more study.

People pay good money for that when their color is called!