TIL in World War I, German and French soldiers would sometimes display "live and let live" behavior. Sometimes soldiers would refuse to target the other side and at other times they would fire weapons ceremoniously and with no intent to harm the enemy [source, comments]

TIL humans cannot actually feel wetness; we only perceive it through temperature and pressure. [source, comments]

I never learn something normal about PETA

"After the War, a Medal and Maybe a Job" (1914) by John Sloan
https://redd.it/1h1j2jz
@r_propagandaposters

TIL ChatGPT outsourced Kenyan workers to help train its AI by labeling harmful content such as abuse, violence, and gore; one worker called the assignment "torture". [source, comments]

TIL that from the 1800s through the 1970s, a secret pseudo-language was used amongst British entertainers, sailors, and criminals. It was a mixture of Italian, Romani, Yiddish and rhyming slang, and originated the modern slang terms “acdc,” “butch,” “camp,” “ogle” and others. [source, comments]

I first learned about this uprising in this podcast, which features testimonies by some of its participants !

https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e53-the-gwangju-uprising-1980/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising

Communism is NOT:

- Amount of property the state owns
- Policies that the state makes
- In short, it's not state
- It is not symbology
- It's not a party name or a name in the Constitution
- In short, it's not aesthetics

All of the above exists in capitalist countries, whether to a greater or lesser degree.

Oh, and communism isn't "equality" in abstract either. And the fact that there has been a revolution somewhere doesn't necessarily make it communist.

Concretely, communism is the negation of capitalism, in other words: it is the end of property, the end of commodity production (the end of value), the end of wage labor, the end of classes, the end of the state. And the emergence of a new mode of production from this negation.

Smell queen 😋😋

"The importance is not to change who's holding the leash, but to get rid of the chains !"