RedSailsFan

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[–] RedSailsFan@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://www.chess.com/blog/erik/how-i-got-the-chess-com-domain-name

TL;DR - I got the Chess.com domain name out of bankruptcy for $55,000 in 2005

[–] RedSailsFan@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

an eye watering sum presumably lol

[–] RedSailsFan@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

you should point this out in the headline or in the post body then, my original impression was that you were saying they are calling others "bots" or something like that

[–] RedSailsFan@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

the NYPD is literally funded like an army they would outright just kill him if he tried this

[–] RedSailsFan@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

what exactly is the issue here? the article is complaining about DDOS attacks from botnets and LLM scrapers, seems very reasonable to me

[–] RedSailsFan@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago (5 children)

it's a for-profit website that tries to do everything it can to get you to subscribe to a premium service (certainly sells your data too) whereas lichess has everything free and open forever

[–] RedSailsFan@hexbear.net 27 points 3 days ago (8 children)

chess.com mentioned doggirl-growl

if you like chess you should only use lichess.org btw

[–] RedSailsFan@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

seeing this get posted always pleases me greatly.

[–] RedSailsFan@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

im not even sure how to do that at this point. live in a very reactionary area, all my friends no longer live here (i only live here to help take care of my dad), and im honestly extremely scared of revealing im a communist to the wrong person that could hurt me and my family. like out of all my 10 closest neighbors half have trump flags kitty-cri-screm

[–] RedSailsFan@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Also, orgs near me

wish i had literally any org near me, closest org afaik is over 2 hours away from me, i tried to get involved in setting up a regional DSA chapter when i was younger but the main organizers fell apart after only a few months and since it was so early in the process + none of the other people involved were even that close to me (within 30 min) i didnt feel like i could take up the torch kitty-cri

[–] RedSailsFan@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

think we largely agree here, hopefully final clarification of myself lol but i dont think FD is harmful to the left like i think typical breadtubers are, for instance iirc he has more than one vid in which he makes fun of people that use the word "tankie" which many other people on "breadtube" would never dare to do. when i want him to connect bernie's (rhetorical) failings towards his failings towards externally colonized people i dont want him to call him Bernie $$ander$$ (as funny as that would be) or anything like that, dont even have to use any mean words like imperialism, just put something in the vid to hint at the connection idk if that makes sense

btw cornbreadtube is one of my favorite yet wasted concepts on yt, ik it was never serious but tweaking breadtubes nose in how white and rich they are was an incredible idea that never really fully came to fruition like i would have liked lol

[–] RedSailsFan@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I think a lot of what he had to say was more relevant toward how one should address the black electorate. Whether it's for Bernie, Zohranz or a revolutionary movement, if you want the support of these people, the white left needs to get it's shit together. I think electoral campaigns are good "practice" for doing so.

yes something that (i hope) is implicit in my comment is that these older black voters that are the majority of the black electorate are important in any revolution because they have the most first hand experience of white workers betraying black workers which is something any hopeful revolutionary in the west/the US especially must deal with in its entirety. slight pushback/clarification, i believe white revolutionaries need to learn how to identify which populations are revolutionary and where the most likely betrayals will occur to both try and mitigate those betrayals (i.e. convince as many white workers as possible not to betray for soc dem benefits) and also actually help organize the most populations with the most revolutionary potential (i.e. gain the trust of black workers).

Also, I think you'll enjoy Signifier going head to head with someone to his left here: https://youtu.be/SPOYP8LnwOU

hahaha i bet i would, deculturation is a part of the "decolonial ML" circle of people i used to follow on twitter, thanks for the link comrade!

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