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Aah it's mostly internal stuff in how to incorporate, I only followed tangentially so even I don't know too much. But from what I heard it's getting there slowly.

There's still a bit of jankiness in the incorporation btw but it's getting there, hopefully

Yes, we only de-federate from spam and porn instances. This means technically you can read comments from worlders on say lemmy.ml, but they won't see your reply. Other users however might still see it. Defederation is one-way, and lemmy.world is able to refederate with us at any time, they just choose not to.

Thanks I love Juche can't wait

actually some processes and organs in the body seem to work autonomously. The heart is one example, its cells use an electric charge to beat automatically. The gut also has a "brain" of sorts (that's how it was described to me at least) that controls motility and nutrients, with nutrients being held until they are needed elsewhere. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/the-brain-gut-connection https://columbiasurgery.org/news/your-heart-has-brain-its-own

that's about the extent of what I can say about this lol

oh thanks but I'm not the founder x)

Love your name lol. We should also have a VladimirLemmy.

edit: and on a third layer, VladimirZemin...

If you don't find any org you can join prolewiki. it's where all the disenchanted people end up lol (said affectionately)

Even an anarchist that I otherwise like over on substack (she has lots of correct takes about palestine) can't help but throw MLs under the bus unprompted once in a while.

I would also like to add, lemmygrad is very different in culture from reddit. There are very few liberals and chuds wandering in because most of their instances have pre-emptively defederated from us. You may still see them on lemmy.ml (sort of the hub instance) but if their instances are not federating they won't see your comments.

We also moderate differently from reddit and because this is such a tight space you'll see a lot of the same usernames all over, including the admins. We purposely keep the rules on the instance simple so that there's not a whole bunch of stuff to remember and due to the aforementioned tight space, we usually act on community reports as sort of sitewide moderation. Don't hesitate to make reports if you see something off, and please give us as much info as you can in the report so we can make a decision.

I just recently learned that Methyl anthranilate, the artificial grape flavoring, also repels birds and is used heavily by the agro industry nowadays. I imagine because of all the other products they also use they don't need the birds around anymore.

You can also use old cd-roms tied to a long-ish string btw, the sparkling makes birds stay away.

he locked up a lot of people during the cultural revolution sometimes for quite arbitrary reasons

He was not the one who signed arrest orders or ran trials though, a lot of different people were involved in that. You can't blame Mao as an individual for stuff that other people did. You can't run an entire state with just one person.

the backyard steel and culling of the sparrows

Nobody in the 60s knew about the importance of sparrows in agriculture. Not even in the West. I think it's easy to say "oh well duh of course don't kill the sparrows" but who here among us is an actual farmer? Who here knew that sparrows ate more bugs than grain before it was told to them? I can barely grow a plant, I have no room to judge others when it comes to growing food.

I just didn’t find it to be very relevant to me

I'm an adult in Europe and I find Mao's writing to be both relevant and applicable. But there is Mao the general and Mao the chairman. By the end of his life he was definitely saying some stuff that I don't think even he believed in. But theory is an all encompassing body, and that is true in all fields. One couldn't read one physics paper about gravity and then say "now I know how to launch a rocket to the moon". I opened up my copy of the red book randomly and here's one:

"Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas and leadership -- such is the basic method of leadership"

It makes perfect sense to me, but that's also because I have the associated baggage to understand what he means there and how that fits in not only to more of Mao's writings but also in regards to other figures, the 'best practices' if you will of organizing.

I also found it really interesting that deepseek would refuse to answer any questions on Mao

The deepseek devs want it to be mainly used for math, coding, and other STEM applications for lack of a better word. There's nothing wrong with that, in fact personally I think people should stop using LLMs as oracles so much and focus them on tasks instead. Deepseek produces great results (and all for free with no rate limits) if you give it some code to start with, because it needs proper framing of the project to avoid trying to overdo it. I usually start with chatGPT, have it do the first working version of the code, and then switch it to deepseek to finish it, and it works almost perfect on the first try.