Hey, I’m not the one wishing for forced conscripts to commit mass suicide

Yeah, death to all the 18 year old conscripts who are literally forced to join the IDF to commit atrocities (forced conscription), while also being blasted pro-war propaganda by their national bourgeois.

Kill kill kill I love murder I love suicides I love dehumanizing I love proletariat blood flowing if they happen to be on the bad side.

In that case, the best play is probably to practice speaking to others at work, even if it’s cringe or small amounts. How would one even go about making friends by constantly being mute? There’s no cheat code for speech, and it’s especially important for (ex-)shut-ins, as social skills such as speech are kind of a muscle that can atrophy, which is where many problems come from.

Btw speaking of exhaustion issues, are you eating enough? I had a similar issue myself where I’d be exhausted after shift, with hardly enough time to recover my muscles and energy and it got fixed after I stopped skipping lunch and just ate more nutritious meals. If that’s the case for you, maybe this could give you enough energy to get stuff done after work and on weekends such as finding groups of people in communities that interest you? It’s also a very much viable alternative if you can’t find anyone at your job.

It’s not just a reddit thing, the internet is filled with gooners

Yeah, after you’re out of school it becomes really difficult to make friends (especially as someone who’s different), but it does happen eventually be it due to changing jobs and what not. Until then, you kinda have to rely on online friends for socializing so you don’t go Insane.

Also, dunno what you’re like IRL but it’s possible the issue could stem from you, it’s something you have to look into how you act yourself and see how you come off. Maybe you’re acting in a way that’s too unapproachable, and is there any way you can change that?

If theres any tips I could give you, it’d be practice small talk with coworkers if you get the chance to maintain social skills, change jobs once you’re able every once in a while to also change the people.

You’re still like 20, you still have 8+ years of your youth remaining so there’s time.

Have you tried just giving the friend MP code and them joining through it? Worked for me without any zerotier, so it could be repack dependent. I used the GOG version.

I literally just paraphrased Marx’s definition of that mode of production as seen in Critique of Gotha Programme, where he critiqued Lassallean utopian socialists who didn’t know what they were fighting.

In this definition, socialist mode of production is when commodity production is abolished (which is the defining feature of capitalism) and replaced by producing for needs which is achieved via economic planning (since how else are you going to know how much to produce), value form is abolished meaning one cannot accumulate money/capital anymore, therefore ownership and class divisions it brings are also abolished since you can’t extract surplus value anymore. The economic planning would also act as a regulator for work hours, meaning instead of working a set 8 hours every day a worker would have to work as long as it is socially necessary to fulfill all the needs, which would almost always be much shorter if you consider capitalist overproduction, inefficiencies and so on.

This was a major goal of communists and even some socialist reformists worldwide that wasn’t historically achieved given how all of the revolutions happened in undeveloped countries (can’t produce for needs if there’s no factories to produce them) and failed to achieve internationalism (it’s necessary, both for globalized cooperation for trade to build socialism and for defense against capitalist influences and aggression). Of course, after Stalin came along and shit all over this definition with his “socialism in one state” concept where the country started focusing on national interests in a way that wasn’t different from capitalist states, that’s when waters became muddied.

If you think this definition is invalid, what do you think socialism is then and how does it differ from capitalism?

Why? US foreign policy hasn’t changed since manifest destiny so threats to attack are literally nothing new, it’s still ““aiding”” a lot of western countries with stationed soldiers in case some countries outside the western bloc decides to attack, nuclear tests is a bit more iffy after the cold war, but can easily be justified by wars breaking out, trade war isn’t in the interests as well given how they have a very large economy and losing American products from all their companies would be horrible (imagine all the tech for instance)…

There’s genuinely no reason to cut ties with US for any country, doing so would just shoot it in the foot since you lose one of the largest economies for trade.

If an economy is (centrally) planned, produces to satisfy needs rather than for profit, abolishes money as value form, then you get a socialist mode of production. Full economic planning is the biggest part of what socialism would be.

Of course that is what socialism is unless you go for Stalinist revision of the term, or bourgeois socialism (think Mussolini’s Italy but a bit more leftist) - in that case it’s meaning can be whatever one wants it to be

Crazy it took this long tbh

It might not be that crazy - the poll here is only for Treasure Hunter which is a lootbox, not all MTX in general. “”“Coincidentally”“”, EU is about to introduce regulations that would essentially ban or limit lootboxes in video games.

If you asked me, I’d say it’s just a way for Jagex to fix an upcoming legal issue and get positive PR for doing so. With this poll, there’s also a proposal to add in a way to buy bonus exp directly for real cash, albeit with a cap.

It’s not meant to be a democratic poll, but rather a PR stunt.

They did this kind of a poll in 2012 after they fucked their game up with Evolution of Combat update and most people quit as a result, but then they decided to make a vote if they wanted old school servers back which blew up on all the corners of the internet and it was the most talked about thing.

This poll works in almost exactly the same way and their goal is for RS3 to gain new players. They know 100k votes will be easily met given how there’s around the same amount of RS3 players and OSRS players will act as “cavalry” that’ll come into aid due to social media’s call to actions, they’re just hoping it’d create enough buzz for people to pick up that version of the game again or people to learn about the game through media. The poll had no chance to fail.

Surprised it took that long ngl, the game especially at the start was a dumpster fire that lost 95% of it’s players in like a couple if months

Activism

Truth nuke

When we’re talking raw resources that can potentially be turned into things needed to provide for the people, then yes there is easily enough. Today you have a lot of people living on a subsistence level, but also a ton of potential arable land, resources to be mined, production to be refocused that can provide for said people.

However, unless we get rid of capitalism (tired trope but hopefully I can provide substance below), then even in the best case scenario of how capitalism can develop from here on will this idea of “providing for everyone” remain impossible.

The main issue here isn’t “the rich” or them not being taxed (which others blame in the thread), but how capitalist mode of production fundamentally organizes production - goods aren’t produced to satisfy human needs (use value), but strictly for profit (exchange value) as commodities, to be bought and sold.

If you have millions of malnourished lower-class people and a million middle and upper strata demanding more luxuries, the latter’s demand will always be prioritized while the former’s will until things get desperate that production for them finally leads to desired margins and profit rates. Why produce cheap commodities whose main buyers have very limited purchasing power (therefore a low cap on growth) when a business can produce a commodity that turns more profit and whose buyers are more wealthy, leading to more potential growth?

That’s not to mention overproduction, the need of a reserve army of labor which are unemployed people kept on a brink of poverty to compete in the labor market to keep wages down and therefore profit up, and many other funny things. To change this fundamentally, one would have to ditch production for profit and instead replace it with production to satisfy human needs via economic planning - anything short of that is not enough and results in “capitalism coated in X”.

it’s called material conditions sweaty, you wouldn’t get it

I mean yeah? That’s how basic economy works - if a state gives people free money, they get to spend that money on commodities which benefits the economy in terms of GDP.

The issue with UBI is still that it comes from the state, meaning once the overall rate of profit inevitably starts dropping and state gets less and less taxes/dividends and has to increase spending, meaning cuts or abolishment of welfare programs such as UBI. States don’t have infinite money, and UBI for a state is an expense, not a profit endeavour. It’s why welfare states don’t really exist anymore apart from the few.

It wouldn’t make a difference, it’s just moralist masturbation to put it bluntly. Declaring something as a human right doesn’t magically open up a portal where we can take an infinite amount of “human right” goods, especially not under capitalism where water, food and everything else produced and extracted are commodities to be produced for profit

Pocket it. Won’t make it any better to live in, but neither will a pitiful investment that’s enough to host one event that’s forgotten in a few days

Marxists would get annoyed at liberals crying fascism at things that aren’t fascism. It’s a very specific thing