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  • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.mltoCommunism@lemmy.ml•Join Revolupedia, the People's Encyclopedia!
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    10 months ago

    That’s great. Can you explain why you - sorry, I meant Wisconcom, who is obviously not you - have been a self-proclaimed hoxhaist for years, then when your defunct red spectre thing said that hoxha was actually a revisionist you followed along and edited his page to reflect that, but as soon as red spectre went defunct you undid Philip’s whatever-his-fake-name-is edit?

    User and perhaps known content creator The Statesian Bolshevik was banned from revolupedia for, as per his own claim, not following along with repudiating hoxha - perhaps that is why you obeyed the order, so that you wouldn’t get banned from the red spectre? Only rehabilitating hoxha when it became safe to do so, after the red spectre had disbanded and you gained complete control over revolupedia, not tied to any organization anymore.

    Following the dissolution of red spectre you also banned all of its membersfrom revolupedia with no reason attached in the log. Can people expect this kind of treatment if they join revolupedia too? The block list names can be compared to the red spectre constitutional document for verification.

    Now you call yourself a maoist, flip-flopping between positions never quite picking one to stand on as for years prior you called yourself a hoxhaist, until you decided some time ago that it wasn’t actually the right term (despite using it yourself, and insisting that you were always an anti-revisionist marxist-leninist instead).

    Just wondering. since you say revolupedia has internal democracy and is grounded in marxist theory you probably won’t mind answering these questions. People deserve to know if they can expect this kind of opportunism and ideology shopping to be going on if they join, and what kind of ‘internal democracy’, as per your other comment, you managed to build on that shaky foundation, because you have not given any examples.

  • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Checkmate dronies
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    10 months ago

    I just recently learned that Methyl anthranilate, the artificial grape flavoring, also repels birds and is used heavily by the agro industry nowadays. I imagine because of all the other products they also use they don’t need the birds around anymore.

    You can also use old cd-roms tied to a long-ish string btw, the sparkling makes birds stay away.

  • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Checkmate dronies
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    10 months ago

    he locked up a lot of people during the cultural revolution sometimes for quite arbitrary reasons

    He was not the one who signed arrest orders or ran trials though, a lot of different people were involved in that. You can’t blame Mao as an individual for stuff that other people did. You can’t run an entire state with just one person.

    the backyard steel and culling of the sparrows

    Nobody in the 60s knew about the importance of sparrows in agriculture. Not even in the West. I think it’s easy to say “oh well duh of course don’t kill the sparrows” but who here among us is an actual farmer? Who here knew that sparrows ate more bugs than grain before it was told to them? I can barely grow a plant, I have no room to judge others when it comes to growing food.

    I just didn’t find it to be very relevant to me

    I’m an adult in Europe and I find Mao’s writing to be both relevant and applicable. But there is Mao the general and Mao the chairman. By the end of his life he was definitely saying some stuff that I don’t think even he believed in. But theory is an all encompassing body, and that is true in all fields. One couldn’t read one physics paper about gravity and then say “now I know how to launch a rocket to the moon”. I opened up my copy of the red book randomly and here’s one:

    “Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas and leadership – such is the basic method of leadership”

    It makes perfect sense to me, but that’s also because I have the associated baggage to understand what he means there and how that fits in not only to more of Mao’s writings but also in regards to other figures, the ‘best practices’ if you will of organizing.

    I also found it really interesting that deepseek would refuse to answer any questions on Mao

    The deepseek devs want it to be mainly used for math, coding, and other STEM applications for lack of a better word. There’s nothing wrong with that, in fact personally I think people should stop using LLMs as oracles so much and focus them on tasks instead. Deepseek produces great results (and all for free with no rate limits) if you give it some code to start with, because it needs proper framing of the project to avoid trying to overdo it. I usually start with chatGPT, have it do the first working version of the code, and then switch it to deepseek to finish it, and it works almost perfect on the first try.

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