ProdigalFrog

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Highly recommend Linux Mint. It's the most beginner friendly, smooths things over, has a great app store, and will make you feel mostly at home.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Their military is in shambles. Satellite photos show their armored vehicle stockpiles are virtually empty, to the point where they're sending some troops on suicide runs using ATV's, golf carts, and motorcycles because they don't have enough APC's to spare.

They are in no shape to invade anyone besides ukraine.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 36 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Based on what I know of him, I think he really is bewildered. He was so stupid and enamored by Putin he couldn't anticipate that he would do something that makes him look like an idiot holding a sagging bag of dog shit.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Perhaps Wallabag, a self-hostable service to save and categorize articles?

Also @Australis13@fedia.io and @ratzki@discuss.tchncs.de

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Too bad it's being actively killed by Google. :(

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago

And Isaac Asimov's The Feeling of Power, a short story about a man who can do mathematics in his head, a skill long forgotten after computers do all calculations for humanity.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago

Cheers for confirmation ^^

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago

The ultimate goal of joining those types of groups is to find individuals that share your values who you can make connections with.

The more rural the area and sparsely populated the area, the harder it will be to find those types of existing groups, making churches, food banks, and non-profits or charities the only realistic options in the beginning.

If you live in an area where you're not able to find any existing group that deals with a particular issue in your area, the only option at that point would be to create your own group to tackle that issue, becoming the mutual aid you seek.

An example of what the latter could look like is to create a community garden or open a community fridge to help with creating food stability for your community, possibly by working with local businesses who have excess food to give away/write off, or by working with your local food banks or churches.

If you have a local DSA chapter, that can often have people interested in joining up with you in mutual aid.

Did you get any results from using a search engine to search your town/city plus the word mutual aid?

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Just to be sure; when you click that link, does it take you to a guide on how to find like minded people, or only a comment below the guide that says nonprofits are sellouts? It seems to bring me to the guide, but that's only a sample size of one.

I ask since food pantries and churches are some of the places it recommends looking, among others.

If you have a Food Not Bombs chapter near you, that'd be a good group to visit and talk to as well.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Short of going there as a medic or for humanitarian aid, the most powerful thing we can do to help is to organize ourselves in our local communities to better prepare ourselves for resistance and build up grassroots movements to demand our governments stop assisting in the genocide.

What that actually looks like:

  1. finding those local communities and getting involved to make connections
  2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This targets their income streams, and can bring a fascist government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
  3. Contact a union and attempt to unionize your workplace, so that the general strike is even more effective.

Suggestions:

  1. Continuing to participate in publicly visible resistance demonstrations like 50501 to encourage others to stand up with you and prove to them that there are hundreds of thousands of others who will join them in the fight. A large part of Nazi Germany's success in taking over the country was a lack of massive public demonstrations against the new regime, making people feel helpless and afraid to take a stand.

If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win, and that would be the best way available to us to help the Palestinians being genocided right now, as well as speaking out about what is happening.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

All I remember of that show was catching it on a VHS after I left it recording to grab squidbillies one night, and there was a scene of a shark trying to start a car for a really, really long time, which was pretty damn funny.

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