I’m not in any of the Hexbear chats, do you know if someone over there is actually planning on starting this? It sounds fun.

Hexbear Luanti server with some custom mods for Hexbearian flair would go pretty hard.

This is genuinely so funny. As is typical, most of the well-sourced comments you make never receive anything rigorous in return, and they can’t even claim trolling/harassing/AI/bot or anything because your comments are always cool-headed and respectful.

So I guess the best retort is to just completely hide your comments from their users? Lest they become curious and actually consider reading a book or an article?

I wouldn’t expect a reply to this comment, lol.

I thought that was what the .ml account was for, lol.

Acing exams to own the libs.

Unconditional support to our trans comrades.

Love the username

They’re not even pretending to be genuine at this point.

There are already Open Source dating apps. You might be interested in checking out their implementations and how they address the questions you’re asking.

The most-used one appears to be, of all things, the 4chan dating app Duolicious. Here’s a link to a “KnowYourMeme” article describing what it is. It had a lot of discussion around it and seemingly a lot of active users.

The other is Alovoa which has been around for a long time, and is the one that usually comes up when you search for Open Source dating apps. I’m not sure if it actually has an active user-base though.

I think this actually highlights an important point, which is that attempts at creating generic alternatives are a lot less likely to succeed compared to targeted ones. Even the big companies realise this. You see more and more dating apps popping up in different countries targetted at muslims, lesbians, vegans, black people, and so on.

People tired of Tinder & Co. are more likely to find and try your app if it’s the one that comes up when they search “flat-earther dating app” (if that’s what appeals to them) as opposed to randomly choosing one of the dozens of generic dating apps.

Ultimately, I think that’s more important than the specific discovery mechanics of the apps. They become less relevant anyway as you’re already filtering a lot of people by using a more niche app.

In a lot of countries and cities you might find only a handful of people in your region to begin with, and it’s more likely that you’d meet them and talk since you already have a common ground, as opposed to endlessly swiping through hundreds of profile.

It should just be a combine harvester. The machine itself is an impressive product of ingenuity, engineering, and labour, as well as symbolising agriculture. It is also a symbol of progress and prosperity.

Yeah, that’s understandable of course. It becomes very difficult to find anything to trim once we get to this level. The only thing I can think of, and I would pose this as a question rather than a suggestion, is “Value, Price, and Profit” absolutely necessary for the basic course? The “Political Economy” section would certainly feel quite thin if it’s excluded.

Aside from that, I don’t think much can be done in terms of cutting things out. Maybe if there are shorter alternatives to works such as “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism”, or a couple essays to replace “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific”, but at this point we’re resorting to quite extreme measures.

I believe the only way to go beyond this, which is completely out of scope of this project, is to create more works such as the Abriged version of “What is to be done” and use those for introduction rather than the unaltered classics.

I don’t disagree. Admittedly, it’s a bit difficult to put myself in the shoes of a lib who’s been exposed to this list for the first time. Different people would be curious about it for different reasons.
I hope you’re right that reading the works in the first section back-to-back would be enough to motivate them to read further.

I would rather aim for 20 hours as the goal as opposed to 25. If I were in your shoes, I would add “Yellow Parenti” at the end of a section (maybe after the checkpoint) as a “strong recommendation” and just not count it to the hour count because it would technically be “optional”.

I like the list for the most part and believe that the decisions for what to cut and what to keep in each section are well-reasoned.

My main concern is with whether too much is being asked from Nia Frome’s 5-10 minute “Tankies” article.

The way I see it is that while the first two sections do more than a good enough job of correcting misconceptions about Marxism, they do not do an adequate job (in my opinion) of addressing the ‘elephant in the room’ for most people, which is AES.

I know, I was trying to get in on the insider trading, but @[email protected] won’t help me out :(

tells me to ask my GP to refer me for mental health treatment if I’m having difficulty coping wit my life situation

This is beyond what even I would expect from these fascists. What in the actual fuck. You couldn’t make up a more fucked up response if you tried.

I’m sorry you have to go through this bullshit.