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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.
Lemmy.world admin account got compromised
Could you explain more?
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 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 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.
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 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?
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.
“Never invade Russia, you fools.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Scientists wonder whether the October Revolution was an example of Russia invading itself or merely a transformation of Russia. Research is ongoing.
Soviet superposition
I went to visit Chethams library in Manchester because Marx and Engels used to study there and their study corner is still there. I expected to be probably the only one hyped for it (it is a 70 min tour of lots of things after all) but multiple people nearly RAN to the booth as soon as we saw it lol. They had books on Engles for sale as well and they were all gone after the tour. Sometimes I’m surprised to see other commies in the wild.
communists are returning to libraries; nature is healing 💙
I hope we have more libraries in the United States
cricket, cricket
Hi, I’m trying to join the Matrix space, but when i try to join vetting answers, it says ‘Your matrix.to link was malformed’? Help ;~; Edit: I manually typed in the room name and that’s how I joined
The web being full of liberals is never a great thing but at least it usually doesn’t prevent me for watching entertainment videos. For some reasons though I have encountered quite a lot of videos with crazy claims in the last two days. Your typical “communism requires following a leader without questioning them” or “Stalin committed atrocities” or “Cuba is a dictatorship” and I even got a bit of “Sweden is true socialism” and “people in Finland are happier than in China, therefore the Finnish system is better.”
I have no idea how this happened, I wasn’t even watching anything overtly political, but it was a bit infuriating.
What do you do when you are in a bad mood comrades? Me, I like to write stuff.Doesn’t Finland have a significant suicide rate? And also a lot of Neo-Nazis?
Anyway, social media platforms seem to tend to form a balance between ragebait recommendations and normal recommendations to get you to spend as much time in them as possible. If you follow a lot of things the solution is RSS. If you stick to a few corporate platforms anyway the solution is third party clients that filter out the algorithmic stuff if possible.
I try to distract myself when I’m in a bad mood. Mainly play video games while listening to some podcast. Neurotypicals may struggle with doing both at the same time, or maybe not, I don’t know.
That’s just how Western platforms work, anticommunist content will always be promoted, regardless of what you watch. For YouTube, you can use a proxy like inv.nadeko.net to avoid the tracking and “tailored” recommendations, at the expense of stability.
Using a local client is much better. Like PipePipe on Android. It’s not as smooth an experience as it used to be since YouTube sucks, but it’s still preferable to a public Invidious instance in my opinion. Selfhosting a private Invidious instance could be a solution too, I don’t have the money to selfhost stuff so I can’t comment on it though.
What’s a good way to “theoretically” scam businesses? Invoice thing used to work more but since the economy is getting worse they’re starting to actually check them.
Gooood moooorning!!
Getting rid of my Twitter account.
Should be gone in 30 days.
Hell yeah! Don’t cry because it happened, smile because it’s over 😌
Thank fuck there are some things that end.
(looking at you, web novels and infinite scroll websites!)
Please don’t overuse this but if you need to keep some Chinese journalists or whatever that are twitter exclusive, try https://xcancel.com/ [username] /rss (if the RSS reader isn’t whitelisted you need to email them, Feeder & Netnewswire work). Note that I went too far with this & it just ended up making me even worse because now I actually have the chronological timeline that Elon keeps fucking with & nobody else does
friend [has never done anything wrong despite being addicted to cocaine]: I am quitting cocaine
me [educated substance aficionado]: crack is way better than that stuff
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Well, I, uhh, never heard of these before.
May have heard of yewtube but I think I’m confusing it with peertube
I’ve been wanting to try a mock gov/online pol sim, does anyone know any good ones? I think it’d be fun.
I have wanted to do a MUD since 2002.
…I really should just resurrect my idea for it and implement it…
A MUD? I’ve never played one but it looks fun
I miss them ;_;
I don’t know what a MUD is but you should do it! Sounds like fun!
Nobody 'members 😭😭
Old Web 1.0 is DEAD
You should implement it! I know a little bit of coding I could help too if you want
I may also need help with my Internet forum (it’s ready, it just doesn’t have a mod team and, arguably, it may not even have any real distinction or focus to it at this juncture)
ooh you could start a new community on the site so everyone can discuss it further ??
Well, back on the late 1990s and 2000s, forums usually had MUDs
But it’s been a long time now.
When you’re doing a stealth mission and the guards start chatting:
On another note, this is Oblivion-aah dialogue, ngl
honestly sinister behavior
(I’m using “sinister” here to mean “weird but also dark”)
