In Soviet countries there was a tradition to keep the remotes in their original packaging or a fitting plastic bag. They work almost the same, and this prevented the remote from getting nasty over time, or breaking apart all over the place when dropped.
In Russia between 1990 and 1994 male life expectancy at birth dropped from 63.8 to 57.6 years. Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltics experienced a similar decline. Suicides accounted for 16% of that decrease. Good times.
Let them eat crumbs!
This dude looks so much like John Fetterman, I was really confused why would that newly zionist dumbass talk positively about Chinese innovations.
Doing public action stuff is kinda like going to the gym. It’s great for you on multiple levels when you do it, but doesn’t really hurt when you don’t. I’d suggest you check out a smaller thing first, maybe a reading club or a local meeting. That way you can meet the people you’d be protesting with, maybe even link up and go together next time. But just the vibes of being around like-minded people are very inspiring and motivating.
You make a good argument, but have you considered OCTOBER 7?
PSA - remember to pin versions of the dependencies your software uses. Just recently there was a 0day vulnerability in libwebp with CVE severity score 10/10, and that library is extremely widely used.
A random grandma took out a mortgage for a family she didn’t know and housed for two years. And you don’t see this as kindness, but as evil doing of a hardened capitalist? If you hold humanity in such low regard, then who is the future for, the one we’re supposed to be achieving?
“I guess it seemed obvious because there wasn’t anywhere else to rent and I thought if you can do it, you should do it - so I could, so I did.”
Ms Penn-Barwell added: “I’m not a wildly wealthy woman, far from it, I have an NHS pension but you know, if you don’t need things, why not do something useful?”
Are we just doing cynicism as a form of self-validation now, going for the trotskyist vibe? This was, in fact, a generous and kind thing to do. It is an enormous pressure, living in a foreign country not knowing if you’re gonna have a place to stay next month. Especially if you have children.
Extremely well put. I personally always thought of science as evidence that the dialectical approach makes the most sense, so OP’s question was hard for me to rationalize. To touch the moon we needed experts from almost every field to work together on a single goal. It doesn’t really get more interconnected than that.
It’s a good thing for good people to have money. It can go a long way - to relief orgs, mutual support funds, helping family and friends. And just to take care of yourself physically and mentally, so that you can reach your further goals. There’s a lot to be done. Get your bag, king.
Reddit silliness aside, here’s probably what you’re looking for: https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto
Absolute classic.
Absolutely. It goes “educate, agitate, organize” for a reason. In the imperial core being a capitalist is a default state of things, so it’s up to us to help people see differently. More and more people are being shoved into the contradictions of capitalism face-first through economic crises, wars, climate disasters, and reactionary policies and policing. But there’s still a lot of privileged people who are personally insulated from the direct effects. Having them on our side is much better than letting them fall into the (shortest ever) liberal-fascist pipeline. That’s where educating comes in, when we have to charitably explain stuff at the risk of the person not being genuine and wasting our effort.
There are a lot of reasons why people in this community would dislike your message. But on the very fundamental level you’re correct, voting for the less reactionary party is better. As you said “it’s a two party system”, but keep in mind that these parties are not two polar opposites that people have to split between. On the contrary, in most regards they’re protecting the same interests, which are never your average American’s. Of the things you mentioned would suffer under Trump here is what democrats did:
Abortion is illegal in 14 states and limited in many more
Trans rights are being repealed in multiple states, Florida being the leader in inhumane treatment of genderqueer people
Slavery is legal for prisoners (13th amendment), and prisons are at their most populated right now
Child labor protections are being rolled back and now we have tweens working nights in slaughterhouses
Worker strikes have been discouraged and killed
After the Uvalde shooting basically nothing was done about gun accessibility or cops’ response model
Immigration and environmental policies are pretty much carbon copy of Trump’s - more fracking, willow project, title 42 staying on for years, current proposals for metering the border
White nationalist rallies and general rhetoric are protected under the discrimination laws, yet a house representative gets an official reprimand for voicing her discontent with genocidal actions of Israel
American politics normally have a ratchet effect. GOP moves the country to the right, and stop Dems from any leftwing momentum. But Biden is straight up moving everything to the right himself. So either way you’re voting against the things that you mentioned you care about.
Don’t feel bad for not reading “enough”. Capitalism is indeed shit, so you can just go from there. Doing stuff irl is more important that debating the nuances of state and revolution on twitter. Check out your local social orgs - mutual help funds, soup kitchens, shelters, etc. If you have free time, they could always use your help. And you can make some like-minded friends along the way.
There’s a lot of confusion, other comments addressed it pretty well. Meanwhile you might be interested in looking into IPFS. It’s kinda like the internet over torrent.
Damn, I sure would hate it if the grocery prices in Canada were to plummet. Instead of going up 40% in the last ten years. I should be thankful though, at least it’s not like the rent that went up 50% since covid. Boy, I sure love the stimulated economy.
You can usually find English movie showings. Either in proper theaters, or sometimes in public centers, game cafes, etc. You can look those up on ig/fb/local boards. From my experience people there are pretty open to socializing. Smaller shows for international bands can also work. And just stuff that’s not too reliant on language in the first place - gym, sport activities/events, food festivals.
If you are experiencing alienation that strongly, there are definitely other people who are in the same boat and are looking for new connections.
Science does, in fact, have questions that could never be answered. In his case it’s “who asked?”.