RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]

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  • During WWII, America shocked the world when they revealed their nuclear capacity by dropping not one, but two atomic bombs on strictly civilian targets. Since then, they have maintained a first strike policy, meaning, their plans for their nuclear arsenal are not defensive, but aggressive and the highest form of escalation.

    During the Korean War, Dugless MacArthur asked the joint chiefs of staff for approval to use nuclear weapons on China, to the tune of 30, to 50 nuclear strikes. They approved. MacArthur’s goal was to create a radioactive no-mans land across Russia and China to act as a buffer zone between after the war was “won”.

    During the JFK Administration, they drew up plans for nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union if conflict in Berlin turned violent.

    The Nixon administration drew up plans to drop nuclear bombs on North Vietnam.

    Just this week, news broke that the Biden administration is considering giving Ukraine nukes. “Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union.” You’ll tell me this is strictly defensive, then I beg you to consider reading why the Soviet Union was giving Cuba nuclear weapons during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

    The only place threatening a Nuclear Holocaust is the United States. They remain today the only country on earth to have dropped not one, but two atomic bombs on war targets (read civilian populations).





















  • 7 months ago the sites active sort was changed to be more like “chapo.chat” active sort, but I can not find a code repository with a commit that shows what was changed (I welcome it of anyone knows where that is). So I can’t review what the difference between Lemmy active sort is and Hexbear active sort.

    What I can tell you is how Lemmy sorts:

    • Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time
    • Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published
    • Scaled: Like hot, but gives a boost to less active communities
    • New: Shows most recent posts first Old: Shows oldest posts first

    Now I think what was changed is that the decay for Active was made more aggressive.

    This means that the algorithm already favors posts that attract a lot of comments. The more a thread gets comments the longer of stays on the front page. Since score is also a major factor, it means that content you can digest quickly and upvote is also highly viable content.

    The Dunk Tank and The Dredge Tank were baked in a lab for that kind of math. You get fast food for up votes and fire and forget comment sections. These comms are the peak of the mountain for keeping the front page fresh and lively.

    You know what doesn’t do that? Marxism, Anarchism, and Theory comms. I managed to game the system with out knowing it a few days ago by including a photo and a title to an effort post that yielded over 100 up votes which is a high water mark for a post here.

    What I’m saying is, this shit posting site has a default algorithm that thrives off shit posts. You can’t just nuke the shit post communities and expect it to stop. The algorithm doesn’t favor thoughtful discussion, long form posting,

    Several comms effectively became dunk and dredge after their closure and it you didn’t pay attention you might have thought they were still open. This is because from what I can tell, outside of dunk and dredge, comms seem meaningless. Dredge content in the chat comm, dunk content in the chapo comm, both in main. The mega threads seem to occupy most of the posts in the site. That’s a whole other topic for another day.

    Womenby reopened and no one posts there. Menby I think is open? No one posts there. No one posts in parenting, they post in the weakly thread. No one is posting in theory, Marxism, anarchism, or really any other comm outside of news, chat, chapo, main (but not always), gaming, tech.

    This is a small site, it might not have the foot traffic to drive these other communities, and the active sort isn’t helping. This is just my rambling but I think if I pull on this thread some more I could draw better conclusions.