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Have a great week, everyone! Try to break up your bigger goals into smaller ones, this makes intimidating work more achievable.
As always, communism will win.
I did not forget about the discussion thread and you can't prove otherwise
I did ... forget about the discussion thread
Smh my head
Going through break up, which always sucks. Gonna dust off the Frank Ocean records again.
The DNC is freaking out because they never expected that people would actually vote for socialists in their party.
Damn Nepal has been hit hard by floods caused by a glacier collapsing
Meta has reached some new lows it seems. They have an AI working to detect and ban scam accounts. If you get a new number and send out some messages to different people, you might just get banned from WhatsApp.
I got a new number. I moved back to The Netherlands. I send some people a message with my new info. I got banned by the AI for 6 hours.
This alone would not bother me. But you literally cannot appeal the ban. You can, but nobody sees it. It is all AI regulated. And the AI gets triggered by the most random shit. Your account might get permabanned forever with no way to way to retrieve your account and nobody to appeal to. Literally nobody working at that department at Meta.
Signal isn't a realistic option. Out of the hundreds of WhatsApp contacts I have, twelve have Signal. Just have to walk on egg shells now, I guess. Or face being cutoff from the social media virtually everyone here uses to communicate.
Have been vegan for some years now. Before that I was vegetarian for years as well. I have been so far removed from meat that I never think about it.
Saw a truck full of pigs headed to the slaughterhouse today and it filled me with rage. Like I legit got triggered by the unexpected sight. Wanted to burn the truck down and save them, but that was impossible sadly. We need to do better.
Idk both Dolly Parton and Michael Parenti had illiterate fathers and they turned out pretty good so maybe we should keep men illiterate (/s)
What would be news like in a Communism world? time to speculate a bit.
Like, there wouldn't be any wars or class struggle but there still would exist contradictions. Maybe "construction of new solar arrays in [place] causes discussions in Afghanistan" or "Linux OS updates break backwards compatibility. Old-timers create waves of propaganda against updates."
Maybe also celebration of old achievements, like "XXXth Aniversary of Turtle Island liberation", "new library in [rural city] dedicated in the name of deceased comrade educators" etc.
I dunno if there would be any global news. I assume that most contradictions would happen in a local scale; discussed and solved in cadres.
It would look more or less like the domestic news in China. Almost entirely focused on education, development, technological progress, social initiatives and culture.
True. I also think bulletin boards, forums and mailing lists would be more popular at a municipal level or for more niche subjects to fill the gap where it's not interesting for the general population. For example, maybe you could look into the city's local lemmy server (lol) to look for tabletop gaming groups, or subscribe to your friend's mailing list if he discovers any interesting hobby projects (like, someone reverse-engineers MS-DOS). Advertising would still happen, but it would be voluntary.
Achievements in science would be a big deal. Natural disasters?
Oh yeah there's that. I forgot that disasters would still happen bar some serious geoengineering.
i feel like there would be a lot of cultural discussion, scientific/medical achievements, logistical achievements (new railways built etc)
been a hell of a couple months, got the EOB from my insurance for the several hospital visits, ER and otherwise, along with imaging and all that. According to what they sent me I'm going to owe about $50k in bills after what they've already paid and refuse to pay. We also had to put our 16 year old doggie down after he had a 3rd stroke and could no longer stand or do much of anything without our constant help. He had a great couple of last days, we took him to his favorite old park he hadn't been to in years, he ate ice cream and cake and McDonald's and beef jerky. We spent every moment we could with him before we took him to the vet. Now we have a new little holy terror puppy in the house.
"China just copied singapore"
"Ignoring the falsehood, then why dont we just copy singapore?"
"Uhhh freedom or something"
Person just got shot multiple times at the place I work, luckily I was off. America is totally not descending further into being a bankrupt shithole where everyone is pissed off and agitated.
Glad you are safe. You got a union? Can you get some mental health leave for the trauma even though you weren't there?
New right wing Dutch party has started. They are convinced that Dutch people want right wing conservatism but get left wing policies instead. We have had a right wing government for over 20 years now. These people live in delulu land.
If Stalin had been Armenian he'd probably have looked more like Serj Tankian tbh.
Unrelated, but you ( 🫵 ) WILL have hope, comrade.
Georj Stalinian.
I'm still alive, just about, weather has been brutal where I live, if it isn't sunny and hot as hell it's constant thunderstorms
The saying goes, "100 years in the West, 100 years in the East". Each region of Earth enjoys their own period of prosperity before taking turns rising and falling. Romans thought their empire would last forever. It did not. We are living in a special era where Western countries are declining in power, and Eastern countries are rising in power. Nothing lasts forever. Change is the only constant. Asian diaspora are waking up and returning back to China with their talents, causing a reverse brain-drain. Welcome to the Asian Century. The world will turn from unipolar to multipolar. In the future, we will no longer be at the mercy of America's imperialism, and suffer from their tyranny. Countries will seek connections with China, a better alternative that does not bully, pillage, violate them.
I've been saving up a lot of money for years at this point, usually as an emergency fund or when I need larger purchases or want to take a vacation like I did last year with going to Japan. But I feel like the money is sitting there most of the time and could be better spent for something or maybe invested? Idk, should I buy gold or something?
banks usually offer savings accounts exactly for this purpose. they are very low percentage, so you don't get much income from it (unless the saving are like upwards of tens of thousands USD). the main benefit is that its usually enough to offset inflation
gold never goes out of fashion but liquidating it in an emergency could be hard.
The GTA 6 launch and the following rage by the most oppressed minority gamers should remind some of them to touch some grass
All I got from the trailer drop was a resounding wave of "it's a gta game" or "meh", clearly I have not been seeing gamers' reactions.
Looking into the LEGO heist scandal, crime is just legal when you're a business owner huh. If someone tried that in México, they would not live another day lol.
A local swamp has dried up. It is the first time in 700 years that this happened. Nothing worrying, though!!!
I am contemplating asking my GP for anxiety meds. I have been struggling with anxiety since forever. Probably a byproduct of autism. It's not always constant but I do have near daily intrusive thoughts. Though the meds themselves can kinda suck.
It would just be nice to have days on which I do not panic about a tiny pain in my teeth or back or whatever. It gets tiring sometimes.
Nice to see more Norwegian football clubs getting into the Champions League as they have left leaning fans mostly. I hope my team plays Bodo away so I can visit them.
Me when Napoleon: "I hate you, you aren't blamed for like millions of deaths for your ego while Robspierre is blamed for the reign of terror."
Also me when confronted with British "people"/Ridley Scott: "I would have personally fought in the Grande Armee to rid the world of you."
[I am more of a Clausewitz gal though]