So admittedly, during my entire onboarding process they mostly focused on the ability to get an education paid for through the company. You only need to stay an extra amount of time if you go that route or something similar. Buuuuuut.

When you look at people who have been there more than the 2-3 year mark. There are a lot of people there who genuinely feel like it’s the closest they can be to helping the “war fighter come home safely”. We had many meetings and slogans involving this. They are so fanatical, I actually almost got fired once for tilting a framed photo of a soldier once in a hallway. Anyone that is salary either is waiting to get a better job/pay or genuinely loves the military industrial complex. Also they tend to hire veterans a lot. They will adjust job requirements for veterans. Know a vet with a FORESTRY degree that ended up in engineering. The military experience is usually a substitute for formal education, its listed on a lot of the job position postings. This kinda helps reinforce the amount of pro military people who hang around.

Hope this helps give insight and makes sense.

It actually is surprising how much the industry can end up growing doubt into the illusion they brainwash you with. I had my awakening while working there. Yeah a job is a job and with a family their livelihood comes before my pride. But there is a union, so worker solidarity and spreading awareness when applicable can help bridge the gap.

Sorry for late response. I’m still working on my education now actually, I worked as only a electronic assembler I was never there for a career, just needed money. In fact quite a lot of people get there education and leave there due to the nature of the work making a sizeable portion of people uneasy. My sympathies for anyone who has to swallow their morals or pride and just get the job done for the paycheck, all while hoping for better days

As some who has been a lowly employee of this company. The type of things people say, especially officials, where they openly get off on selling weapons of war… Just horrific. I have know some comrades there but the level of unreasonably homicidal rhetoric is at an all time high… Ughhhh

If you remember using teamspeak or ventrillo… Their is a FOSS alternative called mumble that works similarly. Its essentially the closest to what you’re asking that has both VOIP and other features. Some communities especially mmorpg clans and gaming clans still use it. Idk how popular it is in general though. Discord is supported by huge donations which is why they’ve been able to dominate, but teamspeak/mumble still exist and essentially are the same thing but less modern.

https://www.mumble.info/

IRC and Matrix are both IM systems but are alternatives to discord if that’s all the functionality you seek. Matrix is also in the fediverse.

I also am hoping for more Gamedev groups. r/gamedev is shut down so my only hope is a community growing fast on here. the discords are… ok but not what I’m looking for. And I’m off reddit now so nothing on there will work for me.

I’m pretty sure mine is available but I still opted to use a period and birth year. That said I have/had many fake name google, yahoo, and AOL emails so I’m a mixed bag.

I actually just happened to come across Raddle while looking for forum style websites today. Decided I was in the wrong space when a post about lemmygrad (them acting as if all of lemmy is as based as lemmygrad) was met with an upvoted comment left up for hours of some anarkiddie saying “I want to physically hurt them.” Oh no but WE’RE somehow the deranged ones, nah ok sure yep y’all go uplift your most aesthetically violent and then complain about TANKIE BACKSTABBERS.

Never should of looked in the first place.

It’s about god dang time, especially with the FPS drops it used to have when it got busy perhaps we can see MGS4 buttery smooth now.

No you’re not inherently hypocritical because while you may be the beneficiary of capitalist exploitation and landleeches, but that doesn’t mean you must do the same. Not unlike what Engles did, there are pro worker movements that you could put your efforts toward especially if you’re in a more comfortable and need to work relatively less… After all it’s hard to teach theory and spread awareness/organize labour power, if you’re always having to work for the meat on your plate. We’re not a movement of meritocracy/individuality, we need as many people to understand and teach the horrors of capitalism as well the way forward.

That all said ensure you get your education and don’t waste this opportunity to ensure your own financial security (ideally with no reliance on labour value extraction). To become a capitalist is “bad” but there always will be capitalists so to be a capitalists that is pushing for revolution will be better than anti-revolutionaries exclusive holding the power. Additionally, many great members of the movement have benefited from or been themselves capitalists. Their self-awareness and efforts they made to write these wrongs is what set them apart.

TLDR; Not inherently hypocritical. You’re benefiting from workers being squeezed, don’t let them be sucked dry just so you can lick the cheeto dust off your fingers or else yeah that’d be pretty sour. You sound like you’re already on the right track by even asking this question. Good luck comrade.

I grew up late to the early internet days as I am just about as old as google itself. However, even in my time I remember light saber mouse cursors, neo colored backgrounds, the stupid but adorable fairy animations all over myspace, and websites auto playing Queen songs. There was character that we put it as a community.

While I may not be the biggest fan of the flat design of the lemmy website and how clinical it all seems, the FOSS nature leads to so much customization with apps and so forth while the content y’all produce is absolutely magical. If I see an ad I know it’s cause one of you have something unique to actually show off and it’s not just bots pushing me to open my wallet. Thank you, you lovely bunch of adorable dufuses.

I think its just easier for many to go from 5e backwards due to how 5e has more “freedom” while earlier editions rely on additional rules and mechanics to determine a lot of the bloat. I started with 2e because my group was very stubborn and took years to adapt. congrats on joining the modern world though!!!

Lets Enjoy Meeting Merry Yiffers, finally a slogan I can get behind!

You made an account on lemmy.ml which means you automatically can check out the communities on this instance and through the federation. You can subscribe and treat this instance just like any normal forum/reddit type thing.

A quick note, lemmy.ml is the instance itself. When you see [email protected] or [email protected] the XXX@ is the name of the community inside that instance. Also [email protected] is essentially the “homepage” community for the instance. Like a webpage almost. So if you see [email protected] that is the Android community on the lemmy.world instance.

However this is then where the “federation” comes in.

We’re part of the “federation” of servers, meaning by default you can participate in “linked/federated” instances and subscribe/post/comment within them. Think of this like reddit1, 2, 3, and so on all exist. You’re on 2 but can utilize all parts of 1, 3, etc from the same account. It’s like your account is a general purpose account allowing you to contribute to multiple instances separate from your “home instance” which in your case is the @lemmy.ml part of your name.

Go to Communities and you’ll see “Subscribed, Local, and All”.

Subscribed is the ones you’ve subscribed to, ground breaking.

Local are the communities within the instance you’re currently accessing through, so for you most likely it’ll be lemmy.ml communities but for me it’s lemmygrad.ml communities.

And “all” is the list of communities under all federated instances organized by (I think) user count/month. These are all open for your contribution.

However to all this I will say there are some caveats. Firstly some instances (beehaw for example) has defederated lemmy.ml. Therefore, if you’re a beehaw user you can’t see lemmy.ml content. However, do to the way the federation works us here on lemmy.ml can see beehaw content if you go to access it since “defederating” only works one way.

However, the content won’t load by default or be stored on this server unless someone requests/accesses it first. At the time of requesting the information it’ll download a local copy of that post to be stored on the “requesting” instance. (I believe this is the correct way of describing it)

However, contributions you and others make will stay only viewable to the lemmy.ml instance and will not be sent back to beehaw.

There is more technically information behind this but this is just a starter and over time you’ll come to understand the interesting quirks of the tech. Additionally there are admins of the Instances (lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, etc) and then mods of the communities. They’re separate and you may be blocked from a community but not the instance. So keep in mind to double check rules whenever you are on a new instance/community.

Sorry if it seems like a lot but just trying to help out without making it confusing, I’m new here too haha. Best of luck and welcome to lemmy!

Some additional info… https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/introduction.html

There is nothing about the core ideology of Marxism Leninism that is opposed to queer rights. Actually there are a lot of queer people in the community at large who are communist and findable on YouTube or Lemmy. I’m one of them.

I’m not here to teach everything and I trust you know enough to be able to look up more as you wish. If you want an example of an ML nation that is pro queer look up the Cuba Family Code changes made recently. They’re among the most progressive in the world and help to guarente rights for trans people, lgbt, and more. Additionally China has a large trans healthcare clinic first of its kind recently opened in Beijing and a well known trans TV host. Vietnam also has a vibrant lgbt community and even in North Korea homosexuality and cross dressing to my research are not criminalized despite lacking public interest/support.

The days of old are over and new communist nations can and are doing better to ditch reactionary tendencies especially around queer rights.

Welcome to the world of ninja-cats, totally mexican cyborgs, and MEMES J A C K.

As a lemmygrad user it really just took a one paragraph summary of myself to get in, not too hard and was approved I think within the hour. They just want to keep out the trouble makers and I’ve done WAY MORE for low pop discord servers so no biggie.