The embargo, which the international community argues is designed to exert political pressure, has failed to achieve its stated goals of “denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation, and overthrow of government,” reads the U.S. Foreign Relations document from April 6, 1960.

For thirty-two years straight at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the world has voted 187 to two, in favor of calling an end to the U.S. embargo against Cuba. The only countries that voted to support the embargo were the U.S. and Israel, while Ukraine abstained.

My bad, misread

My chinese colleague said the state translations of Marx’s writings read like poetry haha

‘Tonne’ is red with the metric ones and ‘ton’ is blue with the imperial

We think they’re referring to the british ‘Long ton’ which isn’t used much anymore

Imagine having the emotional capacity to be mad at a measurement sign multiple times ha. I hope he cares so deeply about other issues too.

Yes I agree! Nihilism lets you dictate the terms so dealers choice how you decide to create meaning.

Also agree that pessimism is probably the more immediate opposite but I kinda like negativism because it feels like it carries a little more agency for some reason.

I like that. Building community spontaneously builds coalitions because people naturally become mutually invested in protecting eachother and pool their various skills to do so.

Yeah I’d say so with their shoot first vibe, also think some true crime fans I know fit in the category of ‘radical negativism’ (haha I’m going to try to normalize your term).

The only answer is radical optimism: trust that things can turn out better than the facts say they should.

Any moderate/rational takes on reality predict only failure so we have to lean into radical optimism on the off chance that we can pull off a miracle with enough determination and work.

At the very least don’t squish someone else’s radical optimism!

This is one reason I refuse to carry pepper spray despite it being a reasonable response to the realities in my area. To do so is to treat each stranger as a potential threat and I refuse to live like that (this isn’t advice don’t put away your pepper spray! Just an irrational choice I’ve knowingly made so I can squash reality into the kind world I think is worth living in).

Apparently there’s also a (mostly outdated) unit called a long ton (or “ton”) not to be confused with a metric tonne (or “tonne”). TIL.

boston_irl

I’m not positive if you’re making this up ✖‿✖

Hmm I was sorting by top>all time (on voyager as well) and I don’t think the post you mentioned is the same one. Hopefully that means the mis-use is decreasing since the election/pre-election days but it was quite prevalent at one point.

I unblocked.world temporarily for you, searched “tankie,” and sorted by all time.

Second post is someone equivocating not supporting biden with being a tankie.

So is all time top post number 10 and 12

16 is a a highly selective (lots of … to piece it together) mlk quote with a title that seems to imply tankies don’t want a change in the system???

So 4/20 (20% also hehe blaze it) of the all time top posts mentioning “tankie” in the title seem to misuse it. I do think it was more common during election season but that may be because I filtered out .world posts awhile back. Come to think of it my post search count above may be off because I have some words and users blocked, but that would likely make it an underestimate not an over-estimate.

That’s my impression from visiting. My british friends threw me (an american) a 4th of july garden party last I was there.

I have some thoughts on “private languages” that are probably not appropriate for this context

For some reason I don’t think that will be catchy enough to spur adoption

In case anyone wants to randomly take a deep dive into the origins of numerosity (including finger counting) I highly suggest the work of Karenleigh Overmann.

A paper to get you started

A youtube (sorry, not on peertube) video if you’re not into papers

Yeah I have a feeling not being on twitter made me miss a transformation in the definition used in popular discourse. This one aligns with the more traditional definition and I’m not sure it’s useful to have it being used in a totally different way without any signal to differentiate the two.