Didn’t notice that. I used a low polygon Earth model I found on the internet, no idea why the person who created it hates your people

I created a bone for every branch, and the result was already satisfactory, but I could’ve created more bones for each leaf and make the animation a little more complex, but all things considered it wasn’t needed that much.

The scaling and animation of branches already did wonders

I eventually followed your approach, comrade. Here are the results: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/569783

I think that did it, comrade! I was finally able to make the video work. Thank you very much

I think it’ll probably work. Make sure the origin of each stalk is where the stem is, so they grow in the right direction. You could consider rigging them with two bones to add some bounce and jiggle to them,

Wonderful suggestion, comrade, I’ll look into rigging thanks to you. I can already see how to do give it some life through that approach. Any idea on how I would create the effect of the leaves growing from the stems? The shape of the wheat would have to grow different rates in different areas

I used ffmpeg to convert a sequence of PNG images (sized 1080x2400) to mp4, having a lot of trouble with compatibility. I had trouble uploading the video everywhere. I tried many things, and later I used these options:

ffmpeg -framerate 30 -i %04d.png -c:v libx264 out.mp4

The input part is because I have a sequence of 0000.png, 0001.png, etc.

Unfortunately, Handbrake doesn’t deal with image sequences as far as I looked.

You can keyframe any value in your node graph and then use that for animation.

So you recommend that I animate it by altering its shape through keyframes?

You need to describe in more detail what you want and what you can’t figure out.

The idea is to make the stalks grow in this direction. Animating the scale of each individual stalk could be a good idea, but I’m looking for a more elegant look to it, and I’m not sure scaling them would do the trick… The fact is, I’m extremely ignorant in Blender, and I’m probably having a hard time to even explain what I’m trying to accomplish, so sorry about that. But I think you got the idea of what I’m trying to do

This is what I currently have. Selected is a 2D mesh converted from a curve imported from an SVG.

I haven’t done anything related to Geometry Nodes, but I have the impression that it’s possible to create an animation through it. But no matter how many tutorials and documentation I go through, I can’t even think of where to begin

Edit: the geometry of the stalk is a bit irregular

Very nice descriptions of party organs, but their justification of the Reform is honestly bad and all over the place lol

Qiao

Thank you for further context, comrade

Just try not to fuel the ideological discourse to ban TikTok because this serves the interest of US monopolies on social media, who directly benefit from the banning of TikTok and regain monopoly on discourse and public opinion. More like opposition to banning but a demand to regulate TikTok, is a much better discourse. In fact, a regulation on social media in general.

Yes, TikTok is a nightmare and pushes ideology, softcore pornography, mindless dopamine hits and affects children of several countries. The Chinese company takes the opportunity that there are no legislation to regulate the content of these social media, so they push the most addictive content possible, in hopes to profit from marketing.

China has a regulation of social media, hence why the Chinese TikTok (Douyin) does not push this kind of content in the country.

“You see, both Russia and China are authoritarian great powers who each wish to disrupt the status quo in Eurasia to their benefit” (direct quote, 1:50)

I was about to drop a few R-Rated words about you posting this comrade, but then I saw where this was posted

There’s no right answer to this, only the concrete conditions of each people in each epoch can tell. For instance, the main contradictions of the Soviet Union in 1922 were quite different from the main contradictions of the Soviet Union in 1953, yet you can argue they were both socialism if your understanding of socialism means the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Even if the Soviet Union abolished (for some time) the existence of exploitative classes after the collectivization of their rural economy, they still had a class contradiction between the imperialist class of the worldwide economy. Class contradictions would only cease after a worldwide victory of socialism over capitalism.

So, taking into consideration that this is a guessing game, like @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml said, and that each people will face different contradictions based on their historical development, I would say the main contradiction after a worldwide victory of socialism would probably to reduce the impact of climate change and research methods to revert them if possible. In fact, I would argue that the changing climate conditions are a major contradiction of our times right now, of course, subordinate to the class contradiction.

Under communism? No point in delving over something that far from now, we can’t tell what things will be like in a hundred years. The main focus of study of communists is not “communism,” but the current historical conditions of our times.

Puedes publicar contenidos como este en la comunidad Leftsthetics, camrada. Puesto que sólo son imágenes

It’s Poland. We have probably the most tight information bubble i ever saw, even in murica propaganda isn’t that uniform. Finding any alternate worldviews to our information oligopy is possible only in the internet.

When I went to Poland, news related to Ukraine and war was omnipresent. Every place with a TV was flashing news about Ukraine, NATO and the war there. From the airport to the hotel, that was the only subject it was talked about.

Your country is beautiful, nonetheless, a shame it was made a vassal anticommunist state

To attract more members and have more influence especially in student movements

It’s so sad because apart from their shitty views on gender, CPGB-ML has so much potential

I wish I was joking, but yes, they use their members to romantically involve with sympathizers so they could attract more members. It’s so prevalent it’s hard to believe their members are not instructed to do so

There was a protest against Jair Bolsonaro where UJS came with a huge speaker and because of that basically took direction of the protest and kept chanting extremely cringe and pathetic things over and over (it was repeating “o tsunami da educação!” over a funk track and rhythm), basically making the protesters look ridiculous

In Brazil it would have to be Partido Liberal (PL) or Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCdoB) depending on what’s more disgusting to you: a party which represents bourgeois interests so well it’s full of fascists or a party which disguises itself as a communist but it’s run by capital and electoralism and has a disgrace of a youth wing. PCdoB’s youth wing is known for using Tática 2 (attracting members through pragmatic romantic seduction) and for frauding student elections in universities.

damn, bro almost cited dessalines’ List of US atrocities verbatim

That could be considered true if you were saying that like 5-10 years ago. Fascist discourse became very mainstream, especially because of 4chan. But in recent years, we’ve been seeing the opposite trend, Marxism is becoming more and more mainstream.

Sometimes I wonder what’s the point. As in, should I just back off and not say anything? It doesn’t seem like saying anything makes a difference anyway.

You should definitely criticize fascists publicly, because not all readers are fascists, and they can be convinced, however, it depends where you do that. I’d say if you wished to push communist discourse in 4chan or some Twitch streams it would be useless, but on social media, such as Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc., it makes more sense. You should never try to convince fascists, you are only debating a fascist because others will see it.

Fascism is also on the rise, unfortunately. It’s become natural in some spaces, so to give up criticizing is to let it rise further. It’s easier for fascists because fascist discourse is promoted by bourgeois means of communication, from TV to internet social media, but self-defeat only makes it stronger, so yes, there is a point indeed in criticizing these people.

I think so too. Thank you for making this post, comrade. Let’s wait for the opinion of others before we act on it, but it should be very evident the outcome of this.

If you are able to help open a new language for ProleWiki, the administration (in this case me) will support you in opening it, you’d just need to translate some interface messages and some documents (such as our principles), etc. Honestly, even if you do not have the technical experience, the effort to translate stuff is a bit of work, but if you’re into that, please, contact us in any way and we can arrange opening it in your language

Can you let us know what was your main account and why you can’t access it? What error does it give you when you try logging in?

The majority of people use Discord, so that’s a major reason why we won’t focus solely on Matrix, but we’re open to it, that’s why we have a chatroom there. However, we focus on Discord, but I respond to messages in Matrix whenever I see them. Since the overwhelming majority of editors and sympathizers of ProleWiki are on Discord, it’s reasonable that we prioritize developing our community there instead of on Matrix.

Ideally, we could have a Matrix server for us and an account associated with Matrix. ProleWiki could also have its own Lemmy, can you imagine that? Editors would be given an account where they could interact with others, share links, request and discuss articles, about 20 to 50 editors from all over the world interacting and discussing in public view.

We can dream very high, but we are lacking in numbers for such organization. We only have 2 managers at the moment, me and Critical, and there is just so much we can do. There are some editors specializing in certain tasks, such as Clover and Deogeo on agitprop, let’s hope we’ll have someone associated with ProleWiki interested in developing things like this in the future.

Absolutely, unfortunately Discord is still more convenient than Matrix (roles, custom emojis, integration with MediaWiki, and few other things, especially bots)

I understand your restrictions with Discord. I myself have much restrictions with it, but why do you think Jitsi would be better for everyone?

It was initially something restricted to ProleWiki’s Discord server but the editors decided to open it

I reject that I do any hard work for ProleWiki, in fact I wish I could spend more time working on it. I have no dreams about ProleWiki, I’ll try my best to help make it an useful tool for revolutionary education

Yes, I always found the most obscure shit ever on soulseek. Whenever I can’t find any album/artist on thepiratebay, rutracker or similar, I always resort to soulseek, and it never disappoints.

My grandmother once asked me if I could make her a CD because a specific CD stopped working and it was a 1974 compilation of Chico Buarque songs, so I downloaded up to 3 torrents of Chico Buarque’s discography (between 50 and 70 albums each), and it was in none of them. I could only find them in Soulseek and I made my grandmother smile that afternoon.

If you can’t find it in soulseek, it probably never existed

COVID was lab-produced by the United States and the Pentagon. The US has historically used bioweapons both through wars (Korean War) and covertly (Cuba dengue epidemic) [those are just two examples].

In its desperate drive to compete against a fast rising China, the United States (DoS + Pentagon + CIA) preferred to sabotage world economy and hurt the two countries through a global pandemic than to let China outlast them very quickly. They could be seeking for more time to react to the rise of China.

The Foreign Ministry of China called in 2021 for investigations in the United States biological weapon facility Fort Detrick and the University of North Carolina, to which the United States never gave a response.

From January to August 2019, a few months before the pandemic, the United States ran a joint exercise called Crimson Contagion to test the capacity of the federal government to respond to a pandemic from China. It described the virus as a “respiratory virus [that] began in China”. The Times of Israel reported that the CIA alerted Israeli and NATO officials of a pandemic in China in November 2019, a month before China fist detected the virus and sent the information to the WHO (end of December 2019).

But isn’t trans then much more a reaffirmation of whatever dominant historical gender-expression/-definition?

If they were really a reaffirmation of traditional gender expression, then why would they be so attacked by the most conservative and reactionary sectors of bourgeois society?

Trans people will exist irrespective of what we argue here. It’s not a reaffirmation, but it’s certainly a reflection of the historical gender expression. Trans people are in fact a subversion of the dominant historical gender-expression by making it more apparent that gender is not a biological thing. What is perceived as feminine is much of a fiction as being trans, because what makes a child have interest for pink colors, a baby doll, a kitchen set and make up at childhood is much more related to bourgeois ideology and production than an inherent biological predisposition. The dominant bourgeois historical understanding of gender was that women were those who were born with a uterus, and man with a penis. But neither biology is that simple, much less social life. Trans people through their mere existence frees gender from its arbitrary (pseudo)biological prison.

This doesn’t prevent gender from being reproduced historically through the family institution. Because of the traditional family, people born with an uterus are raised as women precisely because of their genitalia. This is how womanhood reproduces itself. They will be given baby dolls to take care of, they will be given a kitchen set to role-play with, they will be closer to their mothers doing housework with them. This is the traditional gender norms, which still survives in the family. The struggles of trans people have pushed society to re-evaluate traditional gender norms and what is expected of people based on their gender. This newer generation will be more and more open to share housework, to share work raising children, because that will be no longer something expected solely of a particular gender of people.

Gender expressions not associated with genitalia have existed since the beginning of history. One concrete example is the Sumerian gala priests which had a penis but were not associated with males, and were considered either “genderless” or feminine. West African societies had up to 5 different gender expressions, and the same can be said for some Native peoples of North America.

Gender expression is a social-historical construct and what is perceived as being associated with one gender changes over time. In some epochs, women were expected to be talkative, in others, to be silent and subservient, the same for men in different epochs. Gender may have biological predispositions, but it’s largely determined by historical conditions.

For some time, gender was socially associated with genitalia, an assumption which overlooked manifestations of transgender behavior in every period, such as transvestites, and instead were severely repressed them throughout Western history to conform to behavior expected of the gender assigned to them at birth. Heliogabalus, a Roman emperor was a transvestite, regularly used makeup and wigs and preferred to be called a lady. There wasn’t a term for trans people in the Roman empire, but it doesn’t mean there weren’t already trans people at that time.

Trans people existed throughout history, and it’s a social phenomenon which only had prominence in Western countries in the modern era after the struggles of LGBT people to be recognized, beginning in the late 60’s

I’m so sorry for your situation, comrade. It sounds really disappointing to know that you suffer from a poorly understood condition with no easy treatment available. Can you describe the pain you feel? I have no idea what generalized pain feels like. Is it pain like a burning, a needle, a cut, or blunt trauma? Also, have you always felt this pain in your life?

I know this may sound really odd, but have you tried smoking cannabis (or even better, ingesting edibles)? Cannabis has long been used by humans for treatments related to pain and diseases related to nervous system, and it’s known to have anti-inflammatory properties. There is preliminary research claiming it has positive effects on reducing pain on patients suffering from fibromyalgia, such as this one:

While the current evidence is still limited, emerging data do suggest a positive effect of cannabis in fibromyalgia. Cannabis use is not without risks, including psychiatric, cognitive, and developmental as well as the risks of addiction. As such, clinical judgment is warranted to weigh these risks and prescribe to patients who are more likely to benefit from this treatment. Further research is required to define appropriate patient selection and treatment regimens.

Edible cannabis products are preferred because it doesn’t hurt your lungs and it’s the safest option, but the “high” is usually stronger.

An important disclaimer: cannabis is not for everyone and people may have awful experiences with it. The drug can also be addictive (despite what your dopehead friends say) and can trigger some psychiatric disorders for some people, especially those with history in their families. Long-term and chronic use can be especially detrimental to your cognitive development, too. Like all substances, it should be used with moderation.

I honestly do not understand what furries are all about

When you reply to others on the internet, your reply is most probably going to be seen by other people. When you engage with liberals in honesty, showing the limits of their thinking, you are inviting those who are just reading to critically evaluate their arguments as well, even if you do not directly convince the liberal you are talking with.

So I think it’s useful to respond to arguments from liberals in public forums and such sometimes

In this line, we have “xereca” in Portuguese, which is exactly how you describe. What is top notch disgusting for me is using “cuzinho” (diminutive slang for anus) non-satirically. Either you say “cu” or just be quiet, but “cuzinho” is ridiculous

I’ve seen Russian state media openly state something like “Wagner Group was essential in the liberation of Soledar” in their news media (RIA Novosti, Sputnik and TASS), so I think they are very real indeed