I still use Invidious and Piped for searches and looking at comments, but they are currently broken (as far as I've seen).
(Conditionally) journals, studies and some books. And, for that matter, most television, film and music.
Particularly when paying is not supporting the creator, only the publisher.
Thanks for the detailed reply.
Strictly speaking, states cannot be friends; only people. Therefore, the comments by @PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works and @seejur@lemmy.world must be understood figuratively.
Of course, which I would interpret as, say, allies, or perhaps ideological siblings. The two states were clearly neither. They were enemies on both counts, even well before the war, despite any trade or pacts. I'd say they were no more friendly than the US and the PRC.
You're right that the treaty was not merely non-aggression and had major implications with spheres of influence in the space between the two powers, it was only non-aggression between the signing states (the two being called 'friends' in this context). I don't really know if there was any good ending possible for the countries between the two, because I believe war there was inevitable given the Nazi regime's ideology, expansionist policy and military strength. Those countries, unfortunately, were either going to be occupied by the Nazis or the USSR in the inevitable war, so the USSR made a choice in its self-preservation interest to gain power. Given that the alternative was further expansion of the Nazi regime, it's hard for me to realistically criticize it, despite the horrible implications for the occupied territories.
First, it is not and was not at the time clear that the entire West wanted the Soviet Union and the Third Reich to wear each other out; instead, it was a Soviet belief [...] That belief was questionable. The fact is that the West allied with the Soviet Union and supported it, through Lend-Lease and other means, after it was betrayed by the Third Reich. Of course, hindsight is hindsight, and Soviet leadership did have reasons to believe the West wanted them to fight against the Third Reich, but their assessment was fatally flawed and led to much suffering, not least amongst their own citizenry.
While I say this naively, Western support of the USSR doesn't contradict the theory that the Western powers wanted the two to wear each other out. Supporting the weaker side wears out the stronger side more, this is an established tactic in proxy warfare.
Second, you ignore Soviet agency and deflect Soviet responsibility to the West when you describe the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact as “realpolitik compromise resulting from the Western powers wanting the two countries to destroy each other”.
That wasn't the point of the line, I was emphasizing that the Soviet's first choice was to ally with the West. It's misleading for the poster to consider the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact as a signal of the USSR's alignment without acknowledging that they first tried to create pacts with the Western powers against the Nazi regime. They were rejected, and the USSR compromised and created a neutrality pact with the Nazis because the alternative was to be invaded first. At that point, what agency remained? To me, it seems like the options were 'form a neutrality pact and gain an opportunity to build your defenses' or 'get invaded first and probably die'. The first option was horrible too, but I don't know of a better choice they could have reasonably taken after being rejected by their first choice of allies.
These points both make sense given ideal conditions. People and businesses should have liberty over themselves, with the government serving as a neutral foundation representing the interest of voters.
Unfortunately, these ideal conditions don't exist. The government isn't neutral, but that's not because of themselves or a democratic decision, but because businesses have more power to influence politics than you and me. Look at the major shareholders of mass media and social media, look at fundraisers for political parties, look at the laws made to bias the system. The government is evidently not a neutral foundation or a representative of the common people, but a dictatorship of the owning class (I'm using the term dictatorship not to imply one person ruling, but rather, that business owners as a class dictate the actions of politicians and therefore the government). And while it's easy to consider this a crony capitalism or corporatocracy, it's ultimately just capitalism itself taking its logical course, as business owners generally have a common class interest and the government cannot work without the complicity of business owners. We see this consistently in capitalist states, all the way back to the first ones. It's not a fluke, it's the power of capital.
We also see the trend of monopolization emerge - more money makes more money, more resources makes more resources, so small businesses are generally muscled out or incorporated into larger companies unless the government can force them to stop. So while you technically don't have to interact with a specific business at all, there are many industries where you are effectively forced to interact with a small collection of the most powerful businesses or even a duopoly, even more so if you don't have enough money to be picky.
So, while I agree, the government is supposed to be representing voters' best interests, and business should not have power comparable to governance, they don't represent us and businesses do govern, and history shows this won't be changed through the electoral system they control. It has only changed when the worker class, as opposed to the businesses, has become the class directing the government.
But that's just it - it's not a useful heuristic, it's a delusional framework, even more than the geocentric model was. We were mapping the planets onto that, but that didn't make it useful.
- There appears to be a lack of “centrist”, non-political, or right-wing voices (and I don’t mean extreme MAGA-type views, but rather more moderate conservative positions).
I see plenty of them. They're just mostly on other instances to me (like your home instance).
Furthermore, while it's tempting to see the so-called 'left' and 'right' as equivalent mirrors needing to be balanced for diversity, the reality is far from it. After seeing Wolfballs in action (that instance died before the reddit API fiasco), I can tell you we don't need to be balanced out by 'white genocide' discussions and more open anti-semitism. I know that's not what you proposed, but it's to illustrate that sometimes there isn't value in arbitrary balancing the 'left' and 'right' on these websites.
is it a natural result of Lemmy’s community-driven nature?
It's also a result of Lemmy's history and appeal. When reddit went on sprees of deleting subreddits, the right-wing hate groups made their own reddit clones, anarchists typically went to Raddle, and when GenZedong and ChapoTrapHouse went down, they went to Lemmygrad.ml (as a result, it became the largest instance) and created Hexbear respectively. So there is a long history of larger communist communities from day one which was the status quo until the reddit API fiasco.
The Fediverse also tends to attract anarchists and other socialists by the appeal of its decentralized nature, along with a few right-libertarians who see it as an anti-censorship tool. So one could say there's a bias there.
How might we encourage more diverse political perspectives while still maintaining a respectful and inclusive environment?
That's tough, because you inherently limit which political perspectives you can encourage.
Joan is making some good points, and I'd also like to go another step and say that superheros are alienated from the masses like you and me; we also need Jimmy Olsen to punch out nazis, with Superman cheering Jimmy on.
If Lil Kim can’t handle us making estimated guesses based on the limited facts we receive
Well, it's a bit of a problem when the media's widely-reported 'estimated guesses' are comically ridiculous and easily disproven, like that everyone must have the same haircut as Kimmy (and that having that haircut is also illegal), or claiming multiple officials have been executed with an anti-aircraft gun but it turns out they're alive.
North Korea is open to tourists who film the place. They have websites you can visit. Despite the relative isolation, there's plenty of footage and information freely available. So I can't even consider half of this junk 'limited facts', it's just absurd claims made about a designated acceptable target. Look, here's some tourists who just got whatever haircut they asked for in response to that mass media frenzy.
What are we expecting the state to say, "hello world, we denounce the western media claims that you can't buy hotdogs here" every time some ridiculous claim is made? I can't imagine any of our leaders wasting time doing that, and DPRK's definitely got bigger problems to worry about than what we think of them.
Best of luck to you, comrade.
STAT is their new nickname.
Yep, tankies will probably disagree when someone claims the country that invaded the USSR was a 'friend' due to a diplomatic treaty of non-aggression. The USSR had already tried making pacts with the UK and France first, which were rejected, as referenced in the second paragraph in the link you gave:
The treaty was the culmination of negotiations around the 1938–1939 deal discussions, after tripartite discussions with the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and France had broken down
As pointed out in the Munich Conference section:
The Soviet leadership believed that the West wanted to encourage German aggression in the East and to stay neutral in a war initiated by Germany in the hope that Germany and the Soviet Union would wear each other out and put an end to both regimes.
Obviously the USSR didn't want to be friends with the most anti-communist regime in the continent who invented terms like 'Judeo-Bolshevik'. So tankies will consider it either ignorant or bad faith to bring up the Ribbentrop Pact to pretend it was anything more than realpolitik compromise resulting from the Western powers wanting the two countries to destroy each other. The alternative was being invaded sooner, which we know in hindsight was a real threat.
Why is a private entity significantly different from a government entity? If a coalition of private entities (say, facebook, twitter, youtube, ... ) controls most of the commons, they have the power to dictate everything beyond the fringes. We can already see this kind of collusion in mass media to the extent that it's labeled a propaganda model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model
I just don't think the private/gov dichotomy is enough to decide when censorship and moderation is valid.
which does a lot of censoring, even though the creators are sort of, somehow, outwardly against censoring?
Another perspective on the Lemmy situation is that, for example, I can sincerely say I believe free speech has merits while creating a book club where political discussion isn't allowed. Some would call that censorship, but restricting a certain community doesn't mean I approve of unconditional societal censorship. "Censorship", like many abstract concepts in the liberalist worldview, doesn't make sense to think of as a universal value, but rather in contexts, like you pointed out with hate speech removal being in line with the beliefs of most people on the main Lemmy instances.
There are some concepts, for example, that I think are fine to discuss in an academic situation but should be censored in public spaces, especially when it comes to explicitly genocidal ideologies like Nazism, or bigoted hate speech.
Yeah, same when I came across it. I'd assumed it was just some recent hyperbole, but it's a long-used term with serious theoretical backing.
I imagine the only way out of this would be a non poverty level UBI?
UBI is one of the suggestions, one in the reformist category. However, looking at the little progress made by most countries in reforming capitalism over many decades, and in light of the control that the owning class have over politics and economics, many instead propose revolutionary solutions. Obviously, the richest of the rich would prefer to avoid either, and use the mass media to promote UBI as a bandage for capitalism, while using their influence over politicians to avoid even that happening. Unless citizens can gain real power, the promise of UBI is a long road to nowhere. If we ever see it, it will probably only be used as a last compromise to avoid revolution.
The alternative to reformism, the revolutionary solutions, demand a major reorganization of society to control or replace the capitalist wage system. Now, that's the simply summary, but the details stretch across about a century of theoretical and practical discussion and experience, from a broad range of worldviews and circumstances, from partyless direct-democracy anarchist communes to one-party states and everything in-between. I couldn't hope to do it justice here.
Hi, please consider editing the post title to briefly mention the camera model and the issue. This will help the people who might know the answer to find your post instead of skimming over it. :)
Something like "Canon EOS R50 is unexpectedly zooming back out"
Thanks for bringing up that program site (link, for convenience)
Like you said, it's hard to know the internal situation in the prison, so it's reasonable to want to avoid labeling this specific case as slavery or not without further evidence. The title is ultimately subjective, rather than the objective titles a news community typically encourages (by 'subjective', I'm referring to the fact that different worldviews have different interpretations of slavery, even up to the point where many through history consider regular work to be wage slavery based on a holistic analysis of labor in society)
These prisoners are supposedly doing this specific job voluntarily, with pay.
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Being voluntary doesn't contradict slavery. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_slavery
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Being paid $0.50 an hour, as opposed to $0.00 an hour, is trivial. If the slave-owners of old societies gave their slaves a penny a day, they would still be slaves for all intents and purposes.
While I personally haven't looked into this specific case, there is a very consistent and ongoing history of forced prison labor in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century#Prison_labor
Inmates who refuse to work may be indefinitely remanded into solitary confinement, or have family visitation revoked. From 2010 to 2015 and again in 2016 and in 2018, some prisoners in the US refused to work, protesting for better pay, better conditions, and for the end of forced labor. Strike leaders were punished with indefinite solitary confinement.
That is forced work on an imprisoned person upon threat of punishment, even if they can theoretically decline it. This is a form of slavery, even if they get paid a dollar an hour.
I'm glad you mentioned the open infrastructure projects. For example, I use some of the few remaining nitter/invidious/etc. servers.
As for free software projects I suggest donating your time with contributions.
Definitely. I'm already spending much of my spare time doing this.
"Which FOSS projects have enough funding that we should donate elsewhere?" is more-or-less asking "Which FOSS projects are overfunded?", making it almost the opposite of “Which worthwhile FOSS projects are underfunded?”
Plenty of projects I rely on are underfunded or adequately funded, and there are many thousands of underfunded projects. So I'll have no shortage of projects to consider. By instead asking for the overfunded projects, I can simply cross them off my list of projects to donate to.
That's a different question.
There were some posts over the holiday season asking for projects to donate to, and for those who have the means to comfortably do so, this is an important gift to consider.
If there's only a limited amount each of us is able to give, I assume there's no point giving it all to, for one example, The Linux Foundation, because a small personal donation is trivial next to the ~$15,000,000 USD they receive from sponsors dependent on them[1]. I understand that funding sources can be a major and profound source of bias[2] and ideally we would be, for example, helping to make Firefox independent of Google, but until we have more collective power, it's not worth letting smaller important projects struggle instead.
So, which important projects should we leave to the sponsors, and which really need our support?
Most online communities have a low barrier of entry and effectively no user onboarding, and end up becoming chaotic messes where content is difficult to navigate. Obviously this is fine for more chatty communities, but is unfortunate in more serious and discussion-focused forums and for content archives. Even on Lemmy, there are communities where formatting rules are completely ignored[1]. This results from a combination of site design, moderation, and user respect for the community (three things notoriously bad on reddit-like sites, and well, most popular sites)
A couple of exceptions to the trend are forums which enforce a barrier of entry and quality control (unfortunately I can't recall any right now, but I would love to hear of some!) and some booru IBs. A booru site is an archive where users upload media without titles and tag it for easy searching. If a booru manages to enforce a decent quality of tagging (and there are mechanical ways to assist with this, such as tag aliases) then the site becomes a well-organized online content community.
Most boorus I've found allow NSFW content, so here are some work-safe examples:
- FindAfox (photos and videos of foxes)
- FIRST Robotics Competition Archive (unofficial)
- Safebooru (mostly anime drawings)
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> > "The ideas of the ruling class are, in every epoch, the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force." > > - Marx, German Ideology (1845)
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> "The ideas of the ruling class are, in every epoch, the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force."
- Marx, German Ideology (1845)
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Context: Pony Diffusion v6 is one of the most popular SD models, and the upcoming v7 has the potential for similar popularity. An interesting aspect is their controversial decision to use AuraFlow as a base model, rather than Flux or SD3 The creator of Pony Diffusion (AstraliteHeart) was interviewed on a Civit.ai stream two weeks ago where they discuss this further. I don't use Discord so if you have more visibility and insight into the details, I'd like to hear it.
--- As mentioned in the stream, as of Nov 2024, some of the big drawbacks with AuraFlow are the high VRAM usage (apparently 24GB VRAM to generate a 1024x1024 image) and the lack of tooling (afaik there are no ControlNets, or training scripts for making LoRas, and many generation UIs like A1111 don't even support it yet). These sound like big issues, although the stream host points out the recent release of Mochi:
> Mochi, the video model release two weeks ago, on release the developers said you're going to need three H100s [80GB each] to run this model. And now, two weeks later, you can run it on 12GB of VRAM. So I wouldn't be too worried about this,
There has been a long-standing claim that the missing tools will be built and optimized by the community once there is a decent community using AuraFlow and it's reassuring to have real examples of these rapid leaps in accessibility and efficiency to look at. And I believe the Pony project is one of the things which does have the real potential to bring in that rapid development activity.
Which brings to mind another side of the choice to use AuraFlow, which I would casually call an activist aspect. And I don't mean 'activist' in a melodramatic way, I mean it just as much as me saying 'You should help make Lemmy more active because reddit abuses its users' is activism: I believe one tool is better for our communities and therefore I choose to use my small influence to promote it. I'm also not saying 'activist' as a solid claim, accusation or glorification because AstraliteHeart's contextual reasons for choosing AuraFlow could effectively be 'I prefer their commerce-enabling license' or 'I think this base model is more effective for this one specific project', I honestly don't know, but on the other hand, I notice they praise Simo and their team for this open project. And whether or not it's intentional, Pony shines a big spotlight on their admirable work. Further than that, upon launch, Pony could even be the catalyst to enable AuraFlow to receive major community support and remain competitive with the venture capital-fueled Flux, SD and others.
If PonyFlow is deemed a groundbreaking finetune, with strong enough results to bring its huge audience from SDXL to AuraFlow, that's a powerful force and one big enough to bring technical development, just like the reddit API exodus brought a wave of devs into Lemmy development, resulting in important improvements in a relatively short time. When I say a powerful force, here are a few stats from civit.ai on the stream:
> 468,000 downloads, 160 million on-site generations > Out of the 3,500 LoRas that we train every 24 hours [...] the vast majority are Pony-based.
If PonyFlow can show those people it's worth crying out for, generation services like civit.ai would be crazy not to try and support it and there will be significant demand for other open-source tools like generators and trainers to support AuraFlow. So if Pony can bring those kinds of boosts to an open project, then I say good on them for it and I think that anyone wary of venture capitalist enshittification should support this push towards a more open tool.
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There is a well-known internet proverb, the bullshit assymetry principle:
> "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
Anyone who has been in a few software chatrooms, a political communities, or any hobby groups has probably seen the eternal fountain of people asking really obvious questions, all the time, forever. No amount of patience and free time would allow a community to give quality answers by hand to each and every one of them, and gradually the originally-helpful people answering get sick of dealing with this constantly, then newcomers will often get treated with annoyance and hostility for their ignorant laziness. That's one way how communities get a reputation for being 'toxic' or 'elitist'. I've occasionally seen this first hand even on Lemmy, and obviously telling people to go away until they've figured out the answer themselves isn't a useful way to build a mass movement.
This is a reason why efficient communication matters.
Efficient teaching isn't a new idea, so we have plenty of techniques to draw from. One of the most famous texts in the world is a pamphlet, the Manifesto of the Communist Party, a way for the Communist League to share the idea of historical materialism to many thousands using a couple of dozen pages. Pamphlets and fliers are still used today at protests and rallies and for general promotion, and in the real world are often used as a resource when someone asks for a basic introduction to an ideology.
However, online, we have increased access to existing resources and linking people to information is easier than ever. I've seen some great examples of this on Lemmy with Dessalines often integrating pages of their FAQ/resources list into short to-the-point replies, and Cowbee linking their introductory reading list. So instead of burning out rewriting detailed replies to each and every beginner question from a propagandised liberal, or just banning/kicking people who don't even understand what they said wrong (propaganda is a hell of a drug), these users can pack a lot of information into their posts using effective links. Using existing resources counters the bullshit assymetry principle. There's a far lower risk of burnout and hostility when you can simply copy a bookmarked page, paste it, and write a short sentence to contextualize it. No 5 minute mini-essay in your reply to get the message across properly, finding sources each time, getting it nitpicked by trolls, and all that. Just link to an already-polished answer one click away!
There are many FAQ sites for different topics and ideological schools of thought (e.g. here's a well-designed anarchist FAQ I've been linked to years ago). There are also plenty of wikis, like ProleWiki and Leftypedia, which I think are seriously underused (I'm surprised Lemmygrad staff and users haven't built a culture of constantly linking common silly takes to their wiki's articles. What's the point of the wiki if it's not being used much by its host community?).
Notice that an FAQ is often able to link to specific common questions, and is very different from the classic "read this entire book" reply some of you may have seen before - unfortunately when a post says "how can value com from labor and not supply nd demand?", they're probably not in the mood to read Capital Vol. I-III to answer their question no matter how you ask them, but they might skim a wiki page on LTV and maybe then read further.
(Honestly, I think there's a missed opportunity for integrating information resources into ban messages and/or the global rules pages, because I guarantee more than half the people getting banned for sinophobia/xenophobia/orientalism sincerely don't think anything they said was racist or chauvanistic - it's often reiterating normal rhetoric and ""established facts"" in mass media; not a sign of reactionary attitude. The least we can do is give them a learning opportunity instead of simply pushing them further from the labour movement)
Films and TV shows and more often have subtitles, which are helpful for enjoying muted video, translation, people with hearing impairment, people struggling to understand accents, checking fast unclear dialogue and other reasons. They are important, and sometimes it's clear when they do something right or wrong.
Maybe we can't expect them all to be works of art, but there are certainly some easy wins even in the industrial media environment. What do you think?
The English-speaking web has many different types of websites. For social media, there are link aggregators (Lemmy/Mbin/etc., reddit), microblog sites (Mastodon/Pleroma/etc., Xitter), forums like BBS boards, and more.
This post talks about Misskey and how it diverges from Western-made Fediverse culture. This reminded me of some other Japanese-style websites, such as textboards, chan imageboards and booru sites (booru imageboards are essentially a tag-based media archive, which similarly to chan boards have entered into the English-speaking internet but remain niche, mostly centered on art communities such as anime and furry fandoms).
What other styles of websites exist beyond the English-speaking internet? Does their design reflect a different culture? Are they better in some ways?
Maybe it's just a reddit/Threadiverse thing, maybe it's stronger in political communities, but I constantly see sarcasm everywhere online, far more than anywhere else. Scroll down and you'll even see it here.
Funnily enough, in a vacuum, one might expect online forums to avoid it more, since written text can mask tone and make sarcasm unintentionally ambiguous, to the point where it's common to see people adding </s> tags to clarify. It's not rare to see arguments started when people don't recognise non-literal language.
Is it merely a habit being repeated? Is it a widespread coping mechanism for frustration? Is it simply the lowest form of wit, a simple and popular way to make fun? Is it an effective way to normalise unpopular views with the plausible deniability of just making jokes?
The megathread mentions Diffusion Toolkit, although this is a Windows-only tool.
There is also Breadboard, however I consider this abandoned and lacks some features like rating/scoring.
*My hacky tool and why I want something better*
I've been using a hacky Python script to interpret prompts and other PNG Info metadata as tags and inserting them into a booru-like software which lets me search and sort by any of those tags (including a prompt keyword, seed, steps, my own rating scores). This tool was useful in a lot of ways when using tag style prompting, but as I move towards natural language prompts with newer models, a tag-based media software will make it harder to search and to compare prompts between images. Also, my hack was hacky and somewhat manual to use, images wouldn't automatically be imported when generated.
So I'd like to start using a purpose-made tool instead, but I'm struggling to find any other options. I'd rather know if a good tool exists before I start rebuilding my duct-tape conveyor belt.
I want to buy a new GPU mainly for SD. The machine-learning space is moving quickly so I want to avoid buying a brand new card and then a fresh model or tool comes out and puts my card back behind the times. On the other hand, I also want to avoid needlessly spending extra thousands of dollars pretending I can get a 'future-proof' card.
I'm currently interested in SD and training LoRas (etc.). From what I've heard, the general advice is just to go for maximum VRAM.
- Is there any extra advice I should know about?
- Is NVIDIA vs. AMD a critical decision for SD performance?
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I'm a hobbyist, so a couple of seconds difference in generation or a few extra hours for training isn't going to ruin my day.
Some example prices in my region, to give a sense of scale:
- 16GB AMD: $350
- 16GB NV: $450
- 24GB AMD: $900
- 24GB NV: $2000
edit: prices are for new, haven't explored pros and cons of used GPUs
Speech bubbles and other text can transform an image wildly, even just captioning existing images then sharing them is common practice.
Unfortunately, some artists just aren't skilled at it. I've even seen highly skilled, emotive drawings with an MS Word plain-white speech bubble and Times New Roman text hacked over it by the creator, crushing the work's atmosphere. Matching the work's style is important.
I would like a tool or workflow that lets me quickly add and adjust a stylized speech bubble to an artwork. I haven't really explored any templating/prefab/preset options in, say, Krita or GIMP or Inkscape, or any comic-making tool, so if there's a dynamic way to do this rather than me poorly copy-pasting-stretching a raster or manually drawing every time, I'd love to know. I really just want to avoid it taking more than a couple of minutes to add a nice-looking dialogue. Ideally: select a style, type in the text, and place it on the image.
Some random examples of different forms text can take. ! ! !
At the end of the day, my hardware is not appropriate for SD, it works only through hacks like tiling in A1111. And while that's fine for my hobby experimenting, I would like other people, or even myself once I finally upgrade my desktop, to be able to recreate my images in better quality, as closely as possible (or even try and create variations).
I already make sure to keep the "PNG info" metadata which lists most parameters, so I assume the main variable left is the RNG source. Are any of the options hardware-independent? If not, are there any extensions which can create a hardware-independed random number source?
Every place has its different environment, whether it be the level of organisation, reputation of socialism, dominant values of society, history and experiences, conflicts and crises. Because of these dynamics, I'd expect to see stark differences in what the movement looks like around the world. An obvious example familiar to most here is seeing the widespread and militant union mobilisations in France's retirement age protests.
Which countries do you have experience in, and how are their labour movements different?
The title is intentionally vague by saying 'labour movement', so you're welcome to talk about workplace attitudes, unions, socialist organisations, legislation and more.
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