MattsAlt

MattsAlt , 1 month ago to science_memes in checkmate, big geology!!

melon-musk 's brilliant plan for reaching Mars

MattsAlt , 2 months ago to worldnews in As the US deliberately starves the Cuban people, solidarity activists launch campaign to send flour

So Cuba should dissolve a government widely approved of by the people and return to client state gang run institutions for the ability to receive food? You’re a fucking idiot. Calling people sith lords, please learn to engage in world politics by using meaningful vocabulary instead of trying to equate everything to your favorite work of fiction

MattsAlt , 4 months ago to worldnews in China to send 3rd aid shipment to Gaza, urges world to act

China should run port blockade

MattsAlt , 6 months ago to worldnews in Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels

Well if you have to have 28 of them…

MattsAlt , 7 months ago to worldnews in Israel search of Gaza's Shifa Hospital yet to reveal Hamas base

I kept wondering if they believed that as well or was purely for the rubes. Like isn’t the whole point of guerilla warfare that it’s decentralized and somewhat grassroots via pockets of resistance fighters with varying degrees of coordination

MattsAlt , 7 months ago to worldnews in Israel search of Gaza's Shifa Hospital yet to reveal Hamas base

Speculation it was deleted in part due to the laptop showing a picture of an IOF member which is blurred in the current one

MattsAlt , 7 months ago to worldnews in Hundreds of thousands march in London to call for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas conflict

So tired of “protests are useless” posting. There are good ways to make a critique of a movements but this is not it.

The past decade around the globe protest movements exploded into radical restructuring of various countries’ way of governing. This particular protest doesn’t seem like it will evolve into that, but no one ever predicted the outcome of past eruptions.

A protest isn’t a reliable or advisable way to create a revolution, but they are still great organizing opportunities and solidarity building events.

Please stop with the nihilism

MattsAlt , 7 months ago to worldnews in Malaysian PM 'The West's hypocrisy must end, expedite urgent action for Palestine'

PIGPOOPBALLS

MattsAlt , 7 months ago to risa in For the American people of the Federation, today is voting day.

Nah I think the people who constantly make the most barbaric decisions or excuse why they can’t revert them are the ones being anti-democratic.

Wouldn’t those with the power given to them by the population who then act against what those voters want be the anti-democratic ones?

I struggle to see how potential voters pointing out they never get what they ask for is the reason for any of our problems today.

MattsAlt , 7 months ago to risa in For the American people of the Federation, today is voting day.

Hey, uh, I think this thing is broken

Nah, it’s working as intended, if you look back here both levers are pressing this button that says ‘Barbarism’

MattsAlt , 7 months ago to asklemmy in If LED bulbs are supposed to last for 10 years, why do I still need to replace them every 9 months?

I haven’t explored LEDs too much, but have an education related to transistors. Because they are diodes, significant overvolting will degrade the diode itself and if it were to happen often enough could damage the junction to the point of no longer working. Fluctuating voltage could damage other parts of the device, but I’d guess overvolting is the bigger danger

MattsAlt , 8 months ago to worldnews in World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days

Had the misfortune of listening to State Department and White House policy ghouls talk to a class recently. They don’t believe moving to less fossil fuels quickly is viable because we’d become “dangerously dependent on Chinese minerals for batteries and solar cells” ignoring the fact that the entire globe is “dangerously dependent” on a liveable climate

MattsAlt , 8 months ago to worldnews in Israel-Palestine escalation live: Strikes hit Gaza after Hamas offensive

With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.

And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization a simply a question of relative strength.

Get this into your head: if violence were only a thing of the future, if exploitation and oppression never existed on earth, perhaps displays of nonviolence might relieve the conflict. But if the entire regime, even your nonviolent thoughts, is governed by a thousand-year old oppression, your passiveness serves no other purpose but to put you on the side of the oppressors.

MattsAlt , 9 months ago to piracy in Starfield has been cracked

Same 😭

MattsAlt , 10 months ago to worldnews in Biden calls China a 'ticking time bomb' due to economic troubles

You live in the US, how are you not being bribed to think the way you do?