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The fact that the order of execution isn't the same as the order it is written confused me at first (maybe I missed that in some 101 intro idk). So now I build the query in the order it is executed ('from' first, then 'where', etc.)
I still get confused about the more complicated queries, but the above helps with 99% of what I actually use it for. I'm not doing anything crazy shrug-outta-hecks
Best of luck in your career journey. Being able to work with data + having actual values is a big plus!
Yeah, I was looking into it, and like
FloridaBoi said it is mostly the driver driving an EV as if it were a regular gas car. Which is a mistake I would make too if I were driving one. They have regenerative breaking and that instant response that you mentioned. That in addition to cues we are used to in automobiles (sounds, vibrations, etc) being absent in most EVs causes motion sickness.
At least that's what I tiktok told me..
I've never had a pleasant experience in one, I've always gotten sick.
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a communist political party in the United States. FRSO formed in 1985 as a merger of several Maoist-oriented New Communist movement organizations. ...
You could likely still use the capital book club even if you are behind (assuming the questions are on, or adjacent-ish to, Capital).
I fell behind and debated on posting there or not, and comrade @Cowbee suggested posting anyway. Cowbee and
oscardejarjayes could chime in too for suggested practices.
There are other book clubs too, but I can't speak to their rules
Tbh, the engagement in last year's Capital thread started to wane after the first couple of chapters. I fell behind, and I'm sure many others did. I'm a slow reader lol. And there was probably a sense amongst us that once one is behind we shouldn't post in the older threads, or maybe we felt that our posts in the older threads weren't going to be noticed anyway - so some people (like me) just stopped posting. Life happened :(
There's also feelings of embarrassment or shame in feeling behind that we may just need to power through, or remind ourselves that people on Hexbear won't actually care if we fall behind in reading. Post anyway.
Even if it's hard to have an ongoing book club in those threads, they may still be a good central place to post questions on whatever topic or chapter is on your mind.
I'd still like to hear a mod give the final piece of advice, but I was getting a sense that it's okay to post in older threads if that's where you are in the book.
“As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.” ...
like it feels like the only way out of this spiral into mass servile proud illiteracy in the imperial core is that, for the third qualifier, ego injury might push people into learning out of spite. I don't know. What can you even say to people who don't understand how to parse what you are saying, and then get mad at you about ...
But like others have said here, more people support socialism and communism than you, I, or even they, know. When doing (what little) outreach I've done, I've been surprised at the amount of support we get. Growing in a very conservative place I assumed everyone was really just as vile as they are. And, while people may be kinda gross at times, more people are on your side than you realize!
If people are anti intellectual when we speak to them, then maybe we aren't using a language that meshes with people. They may feel we aren't speaking with them, just at them. I think there is a strain of anti intellectualism in America, but some of that may be suspicion of "elites" (and coastal ivy league schools are cesspools, but for class reasons) , some of it may be a coping mechanism where people feel like they don't get the terminology (don't talk to people using Marxist lingo from the get go) and feel intimidated or insufficient so they act dismissively to cope.
But I think the working class does want to understand something. But why listen to you VS all the other con artists with a story to sell. People are hungry for some political understanding and a place to belong.
Part of the "problem" here can actually work with us. Many people may not come to a conclusion because they thought about it deeply for years and analyzed all parts. There's too much in life in order to do this for every decision or belief. For some people their politics will follow those of the people they trust. It's a heuristic for cognitive overload.
If we are embedded in communities and workplaces, and are liked and respected people. Real people in others' lives. Then we can get people on our side simply through being trustworthy and likeable people. And we have the extra pro of actually knowing what's up in the world. That is amplified tenfold as revolutionaries become not just individuals but as organized groups and institutions (fingers crossed we get there!)
Some people need to be be convinced through deep argument. Some people are debate perverts. But I don't think most people are. This isn't to imply people are sheep either. It's normal that people will believe what their group believes. So much of knowledge is actually just trust in what others tell you.
I know jack shit about cars, everything I think I know is from what trusted people told me and I simply repeat it. But I could be wrong. That's normal for most things except the handful of topics each of us may have the energy and interest to deeply investigate.
So I think there is hope!
But of course the brainworms are frustrating and sometimes cocerning! That comes with contradictions of our class. You will find people who support you, but also have weird brain worms and horrible beliefs about other things...
That just comes with the territory. You gotta not wait around for the perfect proletariat. And remember the ideas we espouse really aren't as fringe as we may fear. As people engage in this struggle, they will learn. The party, the vanguard, can be like a vessel or school that unites various struggles and unifies them into a revolutionary movement. That means starting with the masses as they are, and finding out how they can move into more and more revolutionary action
But jeez... The brain worms do get me at times lol
But we're historical materialists. The act of struggle, and many Americans will find themselves thrown into struggle as shit breaks down, with an organized vanguard, will help us work through these contradictions. We won't think our way through brainworms or to the revolution. We will act, and it is through that grass touching that the proletariat will, hopefully, consolidate and the brainworms will get worked through.
Then we'll have a higher level of brainworms to work through. Brainworms so far out there that you haven't even dreamt of them. The spiral grows ever higher. Something's coming.
Outside the 49 countries of the Global North imperialist camp, making up the vast majority of the world’s population, are 145 countries that constitute the Global South.
The use of the term ‘Global South’ has primarily been a loose, imprecise reference. The actions over the last four years of the now fully aligned and integrated US-led Military Bloc have, however, created a large group of countries that are the ‘Rest of the World’. The ‘Rest of the World’ are thus aligned initially by ‘negative unity’, i.e., all its members are excluded. Consequently, they have become a negation of the imperialist camp. These countries include Russia and Belarus, which are not developing countries but are heavily targeted for regime change and subjugation.
The Global South includes mainly so-called ‘less developed’ or ‘developing’ countries, geographically associated with countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. It implicitly refers to countries that have been historically marginalised in the global economic system and are all grappling with the legacies of colonialism and imperialism. These countries were often called the Third World
It is a term used in anti imperialists circles. But that may be completely missing the point as to whether it is offensive or not and should be replaced. The phrase is definitely clunky, and the above authors admit that too. But they do define it via imperialism so there is a coherent concept lurking behind it.
I was in hiding back in those days. Because I do think about the roman empire a lot lol. But that's because I like historical materialism and the collapse of that demon slave empire is one of my favorite bedtime stories.
It wasn't because I was a chud. I hate the Romans sadness
Reminds me of 99% of Americans I've met. Including family
“I don’t think the shooting was necessarily 100 percent justified,” Mr. DePoppe said.
Mr. Dope
“I can see both sides of it. Obviously when you drive into someone that has a gun pointed, that’s probably not the smartest idea. But at the same time, why do you have a gun pulled in that situation? And then to walk away on your body cam and be using foul language toward the person?”
“I think it’s great to start to get some of the illegal immigrants out of the state,” he added. “I think it’s bad how they are going about it.”
These folks would say the same thing about any atrocity and genocide happening to somebody else.
No different than a German or pIssraeli saying "I can see both sides of it. I mean we really should be extermimating x. But jeez do we have to make a scene when doing so?"
Mr. DePoppe had never seen an ICE agent in town. He said many residents see the Twin Cities — also known as “the Cities” in these parts — as almost another world.
“Until something happens up here, it’s not a problem for anyone up here,” he said
That's the mentality of every right wing sack of shit. It's happening to them, not to me. Until it happens to me, it isn't real. Until it happens to me I won't give a shit. If anything I'll actually support the death machine and cheer for it like a game. Cheer on the nexus because the blood isn't mine and I've never had to see the bodies crushed. And if the tormenters find you, then you had to have deserved it surely. If they find me, they've gone too far.
.... Sick fucking people in a sick fucking country. The sooner this place becomes ancient history the sooner the rest of the world can actually get along and do something good.
The Aztec protests led by Hernán Cortés are a clear demonstration of the struggle of the Aztec people against the militaristic and theocratic Aztec Empire. ...
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I'm reading Red Plenty with a book club of mostly libs, and my job is to keep my temper down and also know more than everyone else about central planning. ...
Also for Cybersyn, you can look for Raul Espejo (mentioned in the comments) and Stafford Beer. Both worked on Cybersyn. You can read about the Viable System Model, which is Beer's theory on what makes a system, well, viable
Like, yeah, they can 'get away with' ending soft power. They can 'get away with' extrajudicial killings. They're operating off of pure machismo right now. They're getting drunk on their vices. They're stripping masks where masks wouldn't be advised to be stripped. I feel like I understand now that Fascism is, in part, an ...
Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 pages a ...
I've definitely had that thought too. Last year I fell behind. And I debated on posting comments on older threads where nobody would revisit them thonk
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And sorry if the tone in the original message was snarky for anyone reading. But it is a friendly reminder that grass engaging in the struggle IS the antidote to doomerism.
It's dialectical materialism folks. You got to touch the grass and the dirt
Ours was too! And even though we had libs with questionable takes on Maduro, they still showed up! And a.) we need the numbers and b.) most people aren't lost causes. :)
I definitely don't do as much as I should or honestly even wish I could. It takes a level a dedication that I can't even confidently say I have (but hopefully can).
You don't need to think of it as a failure though if you haven't yet been involved. It's a space you can still grow into. I can't outright say it isn't "moral", though, because it is so tied in with what it is that makes one a leftist. And that can come from some different places. And I believe that it is tied in with our personal development and ethics.
But imo the outward and inward struggles move together. So as you work on one it can help develop the other. And so the process goes. And I'm still early on this too
Meanwhile, The AI World, based in Pakistan, contains AI-generated shorts of catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, with titles like Poor People, Poor Family, and Flood Kitchen. Many of these videos are set to a soundtrack called Relaxing Rain, Thunder & Lightning Ambience for Sleep. The channel itself has 1.3bn views.
I can see both points here.
This is just a personal and anecdotal rambling, but I think of it as "once you get the message, put down the phone"
I find that psychedelics, over the years, have had this diminishing return where it shows me the mountaintop for a moment before placing me back at its base. The mushrooms are like a helicopter trip over that summit, you can get a look at it for a while but you don't get to stay there. If i want to stay then I have to do the hard work of climbing.
So they definitely show me that there exists something different, a different way to think, be, and experience, but once I've got "that message" then the subsequent trips hit less and less.
It's like it did what it could and now the ball's in my court.
And this isnt to knock them. They definitely can give you a good "reset" for a time!
At this moment, I take them as it telling me that I need to do the next steps full of personal changes. Which is the less fun and more difficult part sad-boi
But I dont think these folks will get much, they may not hear the message lol.
Watch them come back with the 'realization' that "other people have, like, feelings and stuff, man!"
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When I was a child, I went through a Digimon phase. One night me my brother were outside jumping on a trampoline or something and we saw some little floating lights swirling around us. There seemed to be more and more of them and I got terrified cause I thought I was getting sent to the Digimon realm or something, so he and I ...
Is it wrong to like Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent"?
Considering all the recent attention surrounding Noam Chomsky and his connections to Jeffery Epstein, I thought I might ask this question. ...
Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 9th to February 15th, 2026 - The Return of the Special Period - COTW: Cuba
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Black Rose Anarchist Federation - Novo General Megathread for the 6th-12th of February 2026
A History of Black Rose/Rosa Negra ...
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Parenti haters are coping hard after their pro US state Anarchist professor got caught in the didler's list.
But at what cost.
Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' ( www.pcgamer.com )
Freedom Road Socialist Organization - Novo General Megathread for the 30th of January to 6th of February 2026
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US Senators are FURIOUS at Canada For Affordable Chinese EV Deal ( www.youtube.com )
Angela Yvonne Davis - Novo General Megathread for the 23th-29th of January 2026
“As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.” ...
Donald, that's enough!
I am the sum of my parts
You could have given Trump the Nobel. You could have avoided this war. The blood is on your hands now.
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bourgeois-enforced social reproduction of proletarian anti-intellectualism lowkey got me feeling hopeless
like it feels like the only way out of this spiral into mass servile proud illiteracy in the imperial core is that, for the third qualifier, ego injury might push people into learning out of spite. I don't know. What can you even say to people who don't understand how to parse what you are saying, and then get mad at you about ...
Is "Global South" an offensive term?
Because it is not entirely correct, China is a Northern Hemisphere country and Australia, New Zealand are Southern Hemisphere countries
remember the "how many times do you think of the roman empire thing"
i think mine is the burger empire
SHUT THE FUCK UP! ( archive.ph )
Why don't we have more people supporting the Aztec protests?
The Aztec protests led by Hernán Cortés are a clear demonstration of the struggle of the Aztec people against the militaristic and theocratic Aztec Empire. ...
Zoogeographical map of the Soviet Union, 1928.
This early Soviet masterpiece depicts 236 species categorized by region, from Arctic seals to Far East tigers. It served as a vital "Visual Education" tool, framing nature as a state resource by highlighting the fur trade and agricultural utility. The map also reflects historical geopolitics, showing USSR-claimed borders during ...
Anyone have any good recs for learning about Cybersyn?
I'm reading Red Plenty with a book club of mostly libs, and my job is to keep my temper down and also know more than everyone else about central planning. ...
With AI, it should finally be possible to make a film version of Marx's The Capital inspired by Ulysses based in Eisenstein's notes
is it naïve of me to feel, deep in my bones, that despite how bleak it is now, the Western Bourgeoisie are overplaying their hand
Like, yeah, they can 'get away with' ending soft power. They can 'get away with' extrajudicial killings. They're operating off of pure machismo right now. They're getting drunk on their vices. They're stripping masks where masks wouldn't be advised to be stripped. I feel like I understand now that Fascism is, in part, an ...
Das Kapital Reading Group 2026 – Week 1, Jan 4-11 – Volume 1, Chapter 1 'The Commodity'
Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 pages a ...
Bulletins and International News Discussion from December 29th 2025 to January 4th 2026 - A Bold Step Forward For The AES
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It took twenty years to realize that?
More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds ( www.theguardian.com )
Someone thought replacing the doorbell with a fucking QR code was a good idea
The Rise of AI Denialism ( archive.ph )
Got an article from BigStink that made me roll my eyes. Wanted to share the amusement. Not much new, or of substance lol ...
American describes Co-working Spaces in China
I hate the antichrist
Ponche de frutas navideño - Novo General Megathread for the 1st-5th of December 2025
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STEM nerd here to remind you LIBERAL arts students to suck it up and get DEFUNDED
The market speaks. ...
When your own AI tells people you're a poopoo eater and a piss maxxer [Warning: will make you stupider for reading]
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The Economist here to remind you dum dums that actually the bubble is a good thing
Duh
What's the stupidest thing you've ever been scared by?
When I was a child, I went through a Digimon phase. One night me my brother were outside jumping on a trampoline or something and we saw some little floating lights swirling around us. There seemed to be more and more of them and I got terrified cause I thought I was getting sent to the Digimon realm or something, so he and I ...
Economists agree: You’re not crazy for feeling like the rich get richer, and the poor are doing worse. Welcome to the ‘K-shaped economy’ ( fortune.com )
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