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  • Bees are one of the only animals we observed to understand the concept of 0. They can do algebra. They can communicate complex ideas to each other, like the relative position of the sun accounting for the passage of time.

    And for silly facts, carpenter bees don’t have stingers. They live in procreating pairs. The males usually defend the nest. But without stingers, what can they do? Well they fly around their nest and “bump” their heads into threats. Over and over. Until the threat leaves, feeling threatened by the little bee.

    If you’ve never gotten a little bumblebee headbutt, you feel really special. Like “wow little guy, thanks for saying I’m big and scary”.

    Bees are cool. Some might say they are the bees knees even!







  • novibetoVideosGermany never De-Nazified
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    The Soviets kept the Nazi scientists in prison tho… and after they finished their work they were left to rot.

    Stalin famously wanted to execute every single military officer from Nazi Germany after the war, and Churchill threw a hissy fit saying “they didn’t deserve it, they were just protecting their country like any good (white, racist) man would!”.

    And then the US “rehabilitated” many of the Nazis and put them into positions of power, in the West German US occupied territories, in the nascent NATO, in the US itself….



  • novibetoDM Academy@lemmy.worldMigrate fresh campaign to new PHB?
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    You shouldn’t need to rewrite anything for your world with the new rules. It’s 99% mechanic updates.

    It rebalances the classes, martials v. magic users etc.

    I’d say I liked the changes, and I think it makes sense to just allow the players to use the changed classes according to their wish (you have to use the whole class tho, base+sub). And if you like them, use the updated rules for magic, weapons etc. Weapon mastery is p cool.

    But like it doesn’t take a full conversion, you can take just some of the updated rules as they fit into your playstyle, world and desires.


  • novibetoSocialismClass Solidarity
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    And it’s been happening for decades already! Like it never stopped. We put the fear of god into their hearts in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and they never recovered.

    A special armed squad to protect capital was born because they understand class war even better than most current leftists.

    Even after they “won” they just doubled down because unlike working class libs, they know class war will not end until one or all of us are done for.



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    Except no? The capitalist class historically bands together to fight possible revolutions and the working class 100% of the time. They are more class conscious, meaning they understand their position better, and start working to protect it sooner than the working class can perceive the class conflict escalating.

    Just look at what’s happening right now! The far-right is rising all over the “west”, worker protection laws are being eroded, pensions “reformed”.

    It’s undeniable the capitalist class is much more united and organized. It doesn’t matter if they’ll or do stab each other in the back behind the scenes.

    They have a natural sense for “democratic centralism” it seems, cause their outward actions are always united against us.




  • novibetomemes@hexbear.netHow capitalism works
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    Varoufakis is a commie so the book doesn’t make a case for “ethical capitalism”, no. Not sure if he is a Marxist, but I’m pretty sure he has called for a revolution many times.

    Edit: I think his point is not so much that we’re at a completely different system, but that the current mutation of capitalism is so far removed from what people think of as capitalism that we need new language to talk about it.