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Interesting that they bring up clocks. That’s something I have thought about too. I try to use analog clocks over digital in an attempt to follow time less precisely, and I have even pondered removing the minute-hand from a clock, like suggested in that excerpt. Interesting stuff.

Yes, I mean strictly no caffeine. I very much like coffee and tea; it’s practically a hobby of mine. I pretty well understand the effect that caffeine has on my body… and I think most people underestimate the negative side effects.

I believe caffeine makes me more anxious and stressed out as a baseline. I thought it was a natural reaction to the anxiety and stress in my life, but I am surprised just how much better I cope with life when I haven’t had caffeine.

My sleep is deeper, more restorative, and regular. My eyes look less tired and my skin looks healthier. I don’t have brain fog. My energy and focus is more consistent throughout the day. I don’t feel as tired after work.

I wasn’t drinking an abnormally large amount; 2 cups per day, probably 300-400 mg, inside the “safe” daily allowance.

The weirdest observation is that my emotions came back. I think for a long time I’ve had a more flat affect and found it harder to laugh. I thought I was just depressed, but that didn’t seem right. I’m fine on the inside, but it’s like I couldn’t connect that to an emotive state.

It will be hard to cut the psychological attachment to coffee and tea, but I’m already finding alternatives like juice and herbal teas.

Since this is the bear site I will add one edgy comment, that caffeine is a perfect drug for turning us into soulless worker drones. Going off caffeine feels like a tiny rebellion.

Trying to finally eliminate caffeine from my diet. I feel so much better already and it’s only been a few days.

Finland still has very very beautiful nature. I really like it and it’s worth preserving.

My first impression upon moving there was that Finland is far more ecologically conscious than the US. But at this point I fully agree with what you said about old-growth preserves being carefully managed around cities. It’s propaganda to keep the liberals ignorant of how bad it is once you venture out… that’s my feeling at the moment. Appreciate the historical context you added, as always.

Up to our knees in shit

I only use youtube via RSS feed these days and block all algorithmic content / suggestions. Way better experience. You can optionally turn off your watch history to stop it from ‘learning’ from what you watch

The Guardian called the Atlanta Falcons the “Bird Reich” and I thought that was pretty funny

Many likely do not own the houses outright. The bank owns it, and they are using the business to pay off the mortgage.

Great woman theory

@Finger@hexbear.net

John Bellamy Foster is good. Focuses mostly on ecology, not really a generalist, but he has an excellent understanding of the history of materialism and of Marx’s academic context.

And his frequent collaborator, Jennifer Ponce de León.

He directs the Tricontinental Institute which puts out really high quality dossiers and other articles from an anti-imperialist, Marxist pov.

Then his substack Lucid Dialectics he posts more mundane daily stuff, poems, photos (including recently from China)

He also has an obscure YouTube channel by the same name, “Vijay Prashad’s Lucid Dialectics”

Marxian and Marxist are semantically different terms.

• Marxian = in the manner of, or following from Marx’s work
• Marxist = an identity of a person, or an idea attributable to someone with that identity

“Marxian” makes sense as a term, we don’t go around calling ourselves Newtonists if we accept his theories on physics and calculus. I think you’re right about why Harvey specifically might reject the label “Marxist” but I don’t think Marxian is a bad term as such.

Anyway I think Harvey’s course on Capital is much overrated. He basically ignores volume 3 and cherry picks from volume 2 in order to maintain his interpretation of volume 1. There’s a great video on YouTube of Vijay Prashad roasting David Harvey, in person, where he points out the total neglect of imperialism in Harvey’s work

He’s going to get his email blacklisted by spam filters of Gmail, outlook, etc

I haven’t watched the Bourne movies in many years. Were they more based than I remember?

In my opinion Andor, while not perfect, is great for its fairer portrayal of revolutionaries, of revolution, and of empire. They managed to show some of the complexities of liberation, without much liberal handwringing about “at what cost” etc.