Welcome again to everybody. Make yourselves at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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I saw where Trump announced he’s running again, and I just wish he would have done it later so I wouldn’t have to see an endless barrage of liberals saying that “It’s illegal” and how “congress will stop him”.
Also I am putting my prediction up of a Trump win in 2028.
everyone should be aware of the upcoming/ongoing infiltration campaign as remarked by marco rubio.
Yeah the way they are talking I think they’ll start putting comrades into camps soon.
Huh?
True, people need to know this.
With the World Cup now over I’ve been watching the ASEAN Championship matches and rooting for Vietnam and Laos of course
Thank you for giving me something to watch. And the women’s AFCON starts tomorrow
Honestly i can’t understand being rich and like, funding nazis or whatever. I’d honestly spend all of my money paying people to make specific games/mods for me. Like not even to sell i just have really niche interests
Because after a certain point of rich you lose all human thinking abilities it seems. You don’t get to a trillion dollars if you have lost all your soul and the only thing you can focus on atp is more power.
I know some people from where I grew up who started businesses and sold them for a couple of millions. That is never having to work money, possibly for your kids as well. They just do fun stuff all the time, but they are nowhere near Musk or other billionaires.
They 100% do that. I don’t see any reason why they would share their mods though.
Like, they could just call someone in Rockstar to mod GTA or smth. It would just stay in their computer.
modding my copy of GTA 5 so that the cops just spontaneously explode at random
Another heat wave is approaching in Belgium. We are nearing a month without proper rain, it’s scary. I was watching the news here in England and some places here had 33 days since their last rain. In England. It rains forever in here.
Reminiscing when I was so broke all I had was an apartment, a phone and a couple pairs of clothes to my name. Ended up going without electric for like 2 months because I was pocketing as much money to get out of there. Landlord ended up completely losing shit because “muh pipes” but nothing was in lease demanding I pay it so he ended up just paying the electric bill until I moved.
I may actually want a subscription of Kimi now…
How is everyone doing?
5 hours of sleep. 4 espressos drunk. 3 minutes left to live. 2 times the blood pressure. 1 chance to atomize the national bourgeoisie.
Do not expect any posts from me tommorow, I already feel like I’m getting heart palpitations.
Please get lots of sleep tonight, if you can.
Also, just in case, if you are taking Melatonin, Benadryl, and Valerian root regularly, it may be time to start tapering and wean off of it since it can go beyond just grogginess during the day and dependency later.
Box-breathing does the trick for me when stuff like this happens, especially with the dark mood-drops during the day.
Also, definitely try to cut screen usage; screen usage leads to screen fatigue which leads to over-stimulation over time.
Erm, hope that helps in any way.
Thanks for the concern comrade. It just so happens I was coming home from vacation today (by car) and drunk 4x the amount of coffee I normally drink (4 times 0 is still 0, but I’ll say it’s 1 coffee a day for maths sake). I don’t think it’ll be too hard to fall asleep tonight, given the 7 hour drive and all. Caffeine generally doesn’t affect my ability (or lack thereof) to fall asleep. I don’t take anything for sleep, if you are wondering. Given I am properly home now (and don’t have to wake up at 9 am) I should be able to get plenty of sleep (though from experience just getting that sleep doesn’t mean I’ll feel well rested in the slightest.)
Will try to implement the advice too.
Box-breathing is a godsend.
There is also PLB or Pursed Lip Breathing.
Better to be safe rather than sorry.
You don’t want your nervous system being overloaded to be a daily occurrence (like it sort of it with me during almost every morning now for some reason).
Just a couple of these practices a day is good.
Also, look at this:
Might help too.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Lemmy.world admin account got compromised
Could you explain more?
See: https://www.vxreddit.com/r/fediverse/s/03kJtSKRwj
The ‘alias’ may have sabotaged an admin account.
What happened? What?
When I was at Tishʻa Bʼav service a few hours ago, the Rabbi made no mention of the pogroms of 1917–1923 (but did mention the 1929 Hebron massacre as well as the Oct. 7th incident). When I asked him after the service why he omitted these events, he justified it on the grounds that mentioning every anti-Jewish atrocity would have taken too long. I then said that that era was very significant, and he brushed it aside saying that Tishʻa Bʼav is mostly about the destruction of the Temple anyway. (Although the service spent only a little time on the Temple.)
I know that asking for some recognition of the Palestinians—beyond mentioning the ‘Arabs’ behind the Hebron massacre—would have been an ‘outrageous’ demand, but I would have at least expected the clergy to mention the largest anti-Jewish massacre before the 1940s. I sent the Rabbi an email about the subject, but as I was rushing I carelessly left in the part where I wrote, ‘While most Herzlians insist that the Shoah was so unique that it was incomparable to anything else in history, it would be utterly baffling if they explicitly included this catastrophe as something else incomparable to the Shoah, which is possibly another reason that they almost never discuss it.’ If he ever reads that email then I get the feeling that he is not going to take that comment lightly; it would be so typical for me if I received an extreme reaction.
I can’t say that I was satisfied with the service, but oh well; it wasn’t for me. If it makes somebody sleep easier at night, good for them.
ETA: The Rabbi replied to my email with this:
Thank you for sharing. I am not sure I would call it a photo-shoah, but it was certainly part of the larger history of anti-Jewish violence in Europe. And you are right, it deserves more attention.
I’m surprised that he overlooked my potshot. Maybe he was unsure how to interpret the word ‘Herzlian’.
Was noticing how Lego stuff in a store was almost entirely sets based on popular media (such as Harry Potter or Minecraft). I can’t remember too well if Lego was always like that, but I think to a degree it was at least because I remember getting some Star Wars sets as a kid.
Anyway, it got me thinking about the way capitalism chases whatever is the big thing and tries to siphon every bit of value out of it that it possibly can. It fits very well with the AI bubble. Also fits with how even a thing like Black Lives Matter could get co-opted and turned into money-making. Capitalism is pretty shameless about that. If people will buy it, somebody will try to produce it and sell it. And sometimes, if people won’t buy it, they’ll do marketing campaigns to try to convince people that they should. But the path of least resistance is to chase the coattails of something already popular. You just make something derivative enough that it’s legal, or make some merchandising deal for a popular IP, and sell away.
Lego wasn’t always focused on major IPs, however the company began teetering on the verge of bankruptcy in the 80s and 90s so money ran dry to create novel sets, which only exacerbated the cycle of decline. The only factor that prevented a complete collapse was the partnership with Star Wars which single-handedly saved the company, and pushed Lego to adopt an IP centered approach.
The company did have several independent IP such as Chima, Ninjago, Atlantis, and Bionicle, but the company was aquired by private equity firms in the early 2010 and those IP were tossed in the trash as children were no longer seen as an effective target market. Now, the company primarily targets individuals in the 21-35 age bracket, and seeing as that group enjoys Star Wars, Harry Potter, and so on, the company goes all in on those IP.
Lego used to have its own IP. They had original sci-fi space stuff, some medieval knights and bandits, pirate stuff, some mildly offensive indigenous islanders, cowboys stuff, modern era lego city, and modern space stuff, Underwater sci-fi, Egyptian stuff.
I think star wars was the beginning of their decent into pop culture.
I grew up on BIONICLE. Coolest shit ever.
It is interesting to see what the UK is going to do with Burnham. He is by far not a socialist but he is doing something I guess. Nationalising some stuff and making public transport cheaper. If they manage to get some positive results I can very much see some trouble within the EU occurring.
He’s the same as Starmer. His political history doesn’t match his current rhetoric, most of the Cabinet is the same, and he’s already allowed the US to bomb Iran from UK air bases.
True, I was being a bit shortsighted.
Andy is just the scapegoat they’re using for the eventual victory of Farange. Andy is going to face opposition and hurdles at every step, and then Reform is going to claim the “socialists” are inept and unfit, especially as the UK economy enters free fall from the oil crisis and the debt crisis and all other assorted crises.
Perfect set up for a fascist to take hold
The £2 bus fare cap was a Tory policy that was backslid on by Starmer to a £3 cap. It is not particularly radical.
I saw the name Burnham and thought of the comedian Bo Burnham for a moment. He’d probably be far more conscientious in running a country, but also have no interest in doing so on account of extreme disinterest in public life.
I just became aware of this strange video of Putin singing Blubery hill to a crowd including Goldie Hawn, Kevin Costner, Sharon Stone and Kurt Russle and now you too are aware of it.
strange
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
CW: mention of death, suicide, drug use, etc.
awful stuff
Is it unrealisic to want someone who doesn’t drink, smoke, or do anything else as a potential partner? Living in a country where those things are the norm, and you are seen as weak for not doing them makes it extremely difficult to find anyone at all. At times I feel like he only person in all of the balkans who doesn’t drink. I’d rather die of natural causes than smoke, and would rather kill myself than vape. Not that I want to die in the slightest, but I find death preferable to drug use. I wish I could say that “I let people enjoy things”, but I’m a serial hater, whether it be gatekeeping bands, or hating the bourgeoisie. I think I only brcame straight edge due to being traumatized by other peoples drug use (something that I’m not gonna get into now). To me it like a very individualist “solution” to drug use. I can’t help but put people down for whatever they do (finding out someone smokes instantly makes me think less of them), and that is a personal failing that is going to take some time to rectify. Seeing someone you love resorting to self medication instead of pursuing help is a horrible thing to see. There are definetly easier ways to learn not to hang out with the bourgeoisie than traumatising yourself. But this is definetly getting in the territory of self-pity, so it’s best to leave this rant here.
Is it an autism thing or a writing essay thing to seperate rants into paragraphs?
That’s perfectly reasonable, neither me nor my partner smoke, drink, do drugs, or other negative activities, and we are both incredibly happy with each other and the relationship. We don’t even avoid such activities for religious or some sort of moral reason, we just enjoy a vast array of other interests, and drinking, clubbing, and drugs are expensive. Plus, after spending a short stint in the medical field, and seeing firsthand what even light smoking and drug use to the human body, I can’t think of anything I’d want in my body less then drugs.
It’s kind of impossible to not judge others by the standards we set for ourselves, but I think it is important to learn to isolate that judgement from the appreciation of someone else as an individual—social life is full of contradiction and you must learn to operate with these ambiguities—that is to say, I don’t think you need to stop being critical of how people use substances but you can compartmentalize this thought and still be friendly with people. From another perspective, people are usually offended by judgement of their habits, so it doesn’t serve you to share these thoughts directly. They will be more receptive to you and your ethical code if you give them enough subtle social signals that you don’t care what they do, and if you actually want to change someone’s behavior you have to form this social bond first.
And with regards to partners, it’s not unrealistic but you may have to be very patient. Personally I sometimes think about how capitalism reifies this one path of life, finding a life partner and starting a family. All the media and narratives in our current society reify this, elevating and transforming the sexual impulse towards this; whereas in radically different social contexts of the past it was not pathological to deviate from this. Engels wrote about this (“On the Origin of the Family” I think) and as comunists we should interrogate all aspects of the existing social order.
Perfectly normal position tbh.
I also don’t touch drugs, alcohol, or tobacco and try to avoid those who do - especially tobacco as I’m allergic to tobacco smoke.
Smoking is fair but I feel like no drinking at all will be very difficult. The people you’ll find that would share your opinion on alcohol are likely to be close in some way to an alcoholic or extremely religious.
No drinking is a fantasy, I wish I could find someone like that but I’ve settled on them drinking in moderation. I think “I only drink at parties” means they do, then get plastered chugging vodka and I’m the one left to babysit them, because I’m the only sober one there. Not like this has happened to me twice or anything. With groups of 5 at once. Seriously, do rich people have no self control?
i’m a teetotaler and neither of those things 🤷♀️
I don’t know about unrealistic, but it’s not unreasonable.
No, rants come in various lengths, good writing skills make them easier to read and comprehend.
Now that I learned to mark spoilers properly, the text is hidden properly.
Sorry to Eternity users, post is still ready to cause psychic damage to you without your consent.
