Maybe you could look through Russian Wikipedia in the meantime.

Oh my god I can’t believe I’ve been missing the forest for the trees. There’s so many footnotes here.

I appreciate it, comrades. If anything, this also builds a pretty solid case for just removing that claim from the Wiki page outright.

It’s fascinating to see—in real time—the contradiction between imperialist interests (NATO pushing Ukraine into a proxy war) and finance capital interests (ensuring Western powers maintain financial hegemony) work itself out.

Do the powers that be care more about maintaining forever war, thus bankrolling the MIC indefinitely, or ensuring USD hegemony? This article, as well as the trend of BRICS strengthening, seem to imply the former is more important to the global capitalist class.

PSL made the nyt

I can’t find it, but there’s a gut-wrenching excerpt from a Red Army soldier’s memoir about them trying to speak different languages to the prisoners upon discovering the camp. They weren’t understanding the soldiers until one spoke Yiddish, and then the prisoners’ eyes lit up because they realized they were safe.

I whitelist-enable JS with ublock on a per-site and it’s so satisfying being able to fully use a website with JS disabled.

We used to be a proper society

I’ve got one right next to wear I live and it’s stuck behind the door of an abandoned storefront so there’s nothing I can do

What book?

Interesting, but also not surprising. Like I said, it works completely fine with the exception so this was more about drawing attention to the issue.

Ooo I like this a lot

For some reason TNR is one of those fonts that I don’t hate, it just feels like such a “default” font (which it is for many, many people). Seeing it just makes me wish people would branch out a bit.

gotcha gotcha. making the switch is definitely on my list of things to do.

oh I thought the bot would automatically convert the link, but that only works with comments.

What’s supposed to be the difference between the Ancom flag and the Ancom w/the “A”?

C’est la vie. I added a link to the video in the post (no need to watch, just so people know what it is).

Update: watched it with my gf (who hasn’t read the book). We both liked it.

It skips over the Cultural Revolution opening pretty much entirely and goes right into Wang’s perspective, then ends a little after his first meeting with the military. Subs are solid (a lot of dialogue is directly lifted from the book!) but go a little fast. Looking forward to watching the rest of it.

How much of the book does this episode cover?

Point one makes sense. The Obama blurb on the back definitely surprised me but so far I’ve enjoyed the book. Haven’t gotten too far into it yet but it’ll be interesting to see what happens with regard to point 2.