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GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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UwU conservatism

  • Yep it is active, it's the nicest place I'm in, I highly recommend the matrix server^^

  • GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    Chay @lemmygrad.ml

    School children in Ukraine sing "Bandera is our father"

  • What do you mean by 'generalized experience'? There's federation and you can subscribe to whatever

  • Check out the GZD matrix instance it's cozy and nice: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1294067

    and the mastodon/akkoma/pleroma instance also run by our fellow comrades: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3850925

  • On what Mastodon instance are you registered?

  • https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RBLX/holders/

    Doesn't seem like Tencent has that much ownership of it unless I'm missing something

  • Reading "Sexed Up" by Julia Serano. I'm halfway through it and it's a great read about sexualization and trans struggles.

  • Check my above comment

  • GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    Chay @lemmygrad.ml

    The Zero Euro souvenirs by the EU

    The Zero Euro is a souvenir banknote with authorized printing by the European Central Bank (ECB) and is on queue to be a popular in 2017 banknote collector markets. It’s origins stem from France in 2015 after Richard Faille, creator of popular French currency souvenirs, decided to create euros that promote tourism. The banknotes are printed at a private fiduciary facility and they share many of the same characteristics of a real Euro except that they are marked as “0”, hence the name, and are tested to ensure they cannot enter circulation as legitimate financial currency. The front of all zero euros is the same and it includes a white zero followed by the Euro sign to denominate no financial value. Then (from left to right) Brandenburg Gate, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, Sagrada Familia, Manneken Pis and the Mona

  • Okay, thank you for your detailed writeup, much appreciated, I'm making notes from all the comments lol

  • I did overall good progress though, I have way more visible muscle and bulked around 13kg. I'm not following any social media persons, I started working out using Critical's prolewiki guide. I'm not yet doing squats and deadlifts because I want to go through some checkups first and I have flat feet. I know and apply the rest of the tips you've mentioned.

  • Yep I figured, thanks. At the moment I'm just increasing weight on my current exercises, seem to be doing okay

  • I have to research reps in reserve and dropsets myoreps etc I haven't heard of them.

    I meant the amount of reps in a set (english terminology is really confusing) like 3x8 or something like that which I saw you didn't mention

    Thanks again

  • Currently watching TheFinishBolshevik's Marxist Economy series, seems great so far I'm a couple episodes in

  • Yeah I do that in around 1h30m. I started around June 2023. My new gym doesnt mark the weights which is annoying, it just marks them like level 1-13, I assume one weight is 5kg. I'm unsure about my body fat ratio, how can I calculate it?

  • For months I had to do use the assisted benvh simulators to get to a basic muscle level; when I started I was way too skinny, now I'm in the normal muscle range I think.

  • I was under the impression that I'm doing way less than before XD It takes me around 1h30m to complete it.

    The "middle chest" is a device called that, my new gym doesnt have it though; was something like simulating a bench press but with weights and not an individual barbell.

    I see you don't count the exercises in the set themselves, just work to failure, which is interesting, I usually did this for my last set only.

    I know about the illiac lat pulldown but I'm not really using that zone of the gym too much to be honest. Thanks for the tips, I'll check them out!!

  • Physical Education @lemmygrad.ml
    Chay @lemmygrad.ml

    Rate my workout v2

    Hi comrades, a few months passed and I improved my workout, while in the past 2 weeks I wasn't as consistent as I would've liked I think I'm still doing good. I have yet to implement squats and the other ones cause I strained my knees too much, one of the reasons I removed the leg press; I heard its because of having flat feet?

    leg curl 55kg / leg extension 3x8 leg press 3x8 30kg lat pulldown 3x8 40kg shoulderpress 3x8 30kg chestpress 3x8 25kg / inclinepress 3x8 25kg dumbell row curl 3x8 10kg dumbell row triceps exercise (no idea how its named) 3x8 15kg biceps curl barbell 20kg 3x8 / skull crushers 3x8 10kg ~~middle chest 5x8 12.5kg ~~smith machine mid row 3x8 35kg

    The new gym I'm going at has different machines so I had to remove/replace some of the exercises. The lat pulldown one is especially harder now cause the machine is made for giants; and the shoulder press works at a different angle. It's cheaper and closer to me here, though

  • Esperanto was also popular in the beginning of the USSR iirc also Stalin studied it in prison

    I'd want to learn Spanish at the moment, I already know a romance language so irs easy, but still a lack of motivation at the moment

  • Physical Education @lemmygrad.ml
    Chay @lemmygrad.ml

    How's my gym routine?

    Hi comrades, what do you think of my routine?

    shoulder press 3x10 25kg chest press 3x10 25kg incline press 3x10 20-25kg seated dip 3x10 30kg biceps curl each arm 10kg 3x10 total arnold pose 3x10 7.5kg biceps curl with iron rod 20kg 3x10 middle chest 5x8 10kg leg press 3x10 20kg mid row 3x10 35kg lat pulldown 3x10 35kg

    I go three times to the gym per week. I'm getting noticeable improvements lately, wondering if I can do any improvements. No splits at the moment.

    GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    Chay @lemmygrad.ml

    Is federation with Hexbear broken?

    I am subscribed to various communities from Hexbear, yet I see zero posts from there since recently. Even if I manually go to a community from Hexbear it's empty

    Edit: Fixed, accidentally made the post in Afrikaans, for some reason my language settings were broken lol

    GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    Chay @lemmygrad.ml

    PSA: You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowing

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/4273025

    Someone made a tool to remove CSAM content automatically: https://github.com/db0/lemmy-safety

    You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowing that the image is there if the admins are not regularly checking their pictrs database.

    To do this, you create a post on any Lemmy instance, upload an image, and never click the "Create" button. The post is never created but the image is uploaded. Because the post isn't created, nobody knows that the image is uploaded.

    You can also go to any post, upload a picture in the comment, copy the URL and never post the comment. You can also upload an image as your avatar or banner and just close the tab. The image will still reside in the server.

    You can (possibly) do the same with community icons and banners.

    Why does this matter?

    Because anyone can upload illegal images without the admin knowing and the admin will be liable for it. With everything that h

    GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    Chay @lemmygrad.ml

    cross-posted from: https://jamie.moe/post/113631

    I put this post in GenZedong so it reaches more people

    cross-posted from: https://jamie.moe/post/113630

    There have been users spamming CSAM content in [email protected] causing it to federate to other instances. If your instance is subscribed to this community, you should take action to rectify it immediately. I recommend performing a hard delete via command line on the server.

    I deleted every image from the past 24 hours personally, using the following command: sudo find /srv/lemmy/example.com/volumes/pictrs/files -type f -ctime -1 -exec shred {} \;

    Note: Your local jurisdiction may impose a duty to report or other obligations. Check with these, but always prioritize ensuring that the content does not continue to be served.

    GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    Chay @lemmygrad.ml

    Zhao Lijian wallpaper, 2880x1620

    I upscaled the original cover and tried to make it wider. It's a little messed up in the left corner, though.

    Comradeship // Freechat @lemmygrad.ml
    Chay @lemmygrad.ml

    How do you apply DiaMat in your daily life?

    Hi comrades, how do you go about applying Dialectical Materialism in your daily life? What tasks have you successfully solved using it?

    I'm trying to get a deeper understanding of it right now by reading literature on it, right now I'm at Anti-Duhring (excerpts of it). I find it sometimes hard to apply what I've learned in personal cases, such as a discussion with someone, and so on.

    World News @lemmygrad.ml
    Chay @lemmygrad.ml

    The language in the article is just eugh though. Some funny bits:

    Mr Xi has called food security a guozhidazhe. That is the high-flown phrase which he uses to denote “the main affairs of state” or “national priorities”. To that end, the supreme leader and his underlings emphasise the need to grow grain, rather than frivolities like fruit or flowers, on China’s limited stocks of prime arable land.

    When food priority is on the task list of the state, it's bad apparently

    In and around Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, officials are focusing on Mr Xi’s current priority. That means growing grain. They are making their obedience visible. Mr Xi visited the fertile Chengdu plain last year, recalling how it was known in history as “heaven’s granary”. Those words, along with Xi-isms about food security and cropland, now appear on village walls and roadside propaganda posters.

    Xi is eating all the grain. Food security is a Xi-ism now

    Comradeship // Freechat @lemmygrad.ml
    Chay @lemmygrad.ml

    How do you deal with your time spent online and the news?

    Hi comrades,

    As the title suggests, how do you manage your time spent online? I personally don't use any social media aside from Lemmygrad, but I'm still struggling with being online too much, even if it's lurking here or on other websites. I try to focus on offline things, such as books mostly that I download. My biggest problem is the refresh feature, even smaller sites such as this one just become an issue because of refreshing for new posts or discussions.

    As a Linux user, I can say I tried to make my desktop as offline-focused as possible. I don't use any "cloud" services etc., though I still find myself dealing with this. Perhaps it's the interface.

    I do like the Small Web movement, especially protocols like Gemini or Gopher. From what I see, they're filled to the brim with conservatives and anarchists, sadly. I do lurk on YouTube via Invidious, which is probably the biggest time-waste, though there's much valuable niche content on there. Sometimes at least.

    Speaking of th

    Physical Education @lemmygrad.ml
    Chay @lemmygrad.ml

    Fitness & Nutrition

    Hi comrades

    I want to start handling my nutrition and fitness better. I usually work out at home and can do pushups etc., I would say I'm quite underweight.

    While I'm reading the guide by CriticalResist on Prolewiki, I decided to count my calories. I barely reach 1500 calories a day which at this point I'll go malnourished. I just feel full very quickly. I do not eat processed sugars and avoid sweets, and I'm basically vegan at this point.

    I exercise too and can do push ups, squats etc with no problems whatsoever, though as expected I cannot build muscular mass, most likely because of my nutrition. I don't have the money to go to a gym so I want as much as possible to work out at home, I saw that calisthenics might be a good option? Though they seem unreliable for building muscle mass and strength. I want to put more weight but not fatty weight, which had happened to me in the past. I do eat healthy, but I eat way too less because I feel I just get full quickly. This might be due

    GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    Chay @lemmygrad.ml

    Cambridge University is teaching students that the Anglo-Saxons never existed as a distinct ethnic group, in an effort to “dismantle the… myths” of English nationalism, the Telegraph reported on Saturday. Liberal academics have long decried the term for its association with “whiteness.”

    Cambridge’s Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC) will seek “to dismantle the basis of myths of nationalism – that there ever was a ‘British’, ‘English’, ‘Scottish’, ‘Welsh’ or ‘Irish’ people with a coherent and ancient ethnic identity – by showing students just how constructed and contingent these identities are and always have been,” the British newspaper reported, citing information from the university.

    By denigrating the idea of a distinct Anglo-Saxon identity, the university said that it aims to make its teaching more “anti-racist.”

    The controversy over the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’ began in 2019, when Canadian academic Dr Mary Rambaran-Olm resigned from the International Society o

    GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    Chay @lemmygrad.ml

    Expansion of Lemmygrad, future services & more

    Hello comrades!

    I want to outline a few potential projects the Lemmygrad community could benefit from and expand its reach. I think they could foster real growth and be not only of help, but actively create counter-spaces to the Right in various domains.

    FOSS in this case means free and open source. For more information, check out this.

    Privacy Guide

    I'm personally interested in tech privacy. The biggest places around are r/privacy, and PrivacyGuides, the de facto flagship website for privacy and security advice.

    The sub-Reddit is known to be overtly against China and non-western FOSS communities. It's mostly a circlejerk of Westerners screaming "We don't want to be like 1984 China!" without any kind of material analysis. Besides, Reddit is Reddit and we know how that goes.

    Now, PrivacyGuides. It is definitely a helpful resource, but there are a few issues with it. First off, the administrators frequently promote A

    GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    Chay @lemmygrad.ml

    NATO will deploy 700 additional "peacekeepers" to Kosovo

    The NATO bloc will deploy 700 additional peacekeepers to Kosovo, where 30 troops were wounded during clashes with local Serb protesters. Another battalion will be placed on high alert in the event of further escalation.

    NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced the move during a Tuesday press briefing, saying the deployment was a response to recent “attacks” on the peacekeeping force, which he said were “unacceptable.”

    Stoltenberg urged officials in Pristina and Belgrade to take “concrete steps” to de-escalate the situation, and said the two sides should participate in an EU-brokered dialogue.

    Dialogue is when we force you to recognize your breakaway province

    Violent clashes between local Serbs and NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR) erupted after peacekeepers attempted to disperse demonstrators protesting the inauguration of a an Albanian mayor in a Serb-majority area. The standoff resulted in dozens of injuries on both sides.

    ...