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Talk to them about good political news as well. When all you hear is “everything everywhere is terrible” it’s easy to just tune it out. Successful unionization efforts, protests, progressive legislature.
Talk to them about good political news as well. When all you hear is “everything everywhere is terrible” it’s easy to just tune it out. Successful unionization efforts, protests, progressive legislature.
Actually, hard agree. Can we make filth a thing instead?
It’s the curse of being a leftist. I walk past a coffee shop and think about how there are no third spaces left to hang out for free. Because they were systematically destroyed, in order to separate the people into individuals, and at the same time commodify their leisure at ever growing costs. How there are so many people working miserable jobs in those coffee shops, jobs that we don’t need in the first place. About the chains that have swallowed all the individual businesses that could’ve been of higher quality, had better working conditions and pay. About the bench outside with extra railings, so that the unhoused people couldn’t sleep on it. They’re forced to sleep in designated “bad hoods”, from where they will eventually be kicked out by pigs filth so that their hoods can be gentrified. And all those freshly gentrified hoods will have tons of empty condos that would never house even one of those displaced people…
Then I smoke a joint, watch some cute animal videos, and forget about it until the next time I walk past a coffee shop.
Look if there’s any help needed in your local soup kitchens, mutual support orgs, homeless and animal shelters, orphanages, community centers, refugee service providers. Activism is about being active, not labels. And you are very likely to meet like-minded people there, who might introduce you to more politically oriented causes if that’s more your vibe.
Ooh baby, this is just a tiny part in how terrifying they actually are for the open web. Their implementation of manifest V3, platform for browser extensions (that they basically force every other browser to use), along with the deprecation of V2-based extensions (starting this month) is straight up authoritarian. In short, they entirely remove blocking of webRequest and Event pages (user-side background scripts), among other things. This will essentially kill open ad blockers (like uBlock origin) and let them control the supported ones (like AdBlock), meaning we will have ads from advertisers who pay the fee purposely let through.
We have known about this coming change and its implications for 5+ years.
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#issuecomment-496009417
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/
Meanwhile Firefox, who would also have to implement it for cross-compatibility, will not remove those critical features, as well as will keep support for V2 extensions. This is only one aspect in which Firefox is committed to user privacy, security, and control. I would highly recommend Firefox to everyone, including the Android version.
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/03/13/manifest-v3-manifest-v2-march-2024-update/
I gave a number of real life use cases where it would solve real problems. There are so many more, especially “boring” ones like official documents, research, and medical records that would benefit from it tremendously. Blockchain does not equal crypto, but they complement each other really well.
Proof of stake could make the thing not too environmentally damaging but it’s been years that major blockchains are saying they will implement it the next year
What do you mean, Ethereum is pos.
I AM NOT SHILLING CRYPTO IN ANY WAY OKAY THANK YOU
With that out of the way, those are not intrinsic qualities of either. The fundamentals on which every shitcoin and the bored ape garbage were sold to the public are still very strong. This is like saying “online shopping is horrible” in 2004 - technically not incorrect, but very shortsighted. While the proof of work protocol (mining for it to function and who mines more is the truth) is unsustainable, proof of stake (who holds more is the truth) and mixed ones are fundamentally amazing. Imagine stablecoins pegged to indexes of international currencies. BRICS coin, for example. With smart contracts (rules built into the transaction itself) and being practically legitimate international currencies it opens up so many possibilities. Transparency and easy comparisons in payments - salaries, rents, goods and services. Immutability - you can’t just whack a person and steal the deed to their house. The “chain” part of blockchain - clear history of ownership of assets, no more “I accidentally bought a stolen car/house”. And eventually the contracts can be made complex enough to cover most interpersonal transactions.
And the same thing for nfts. Especially now, in the rapidly exploding era of unethical AI art, music, etc. Artists could easily sell/lease rights for their work, including for it to be a basis for generative models. It’s not limited to digital products - whatever you want to to confirm ownership of can be tagged with one-way encrypted signatures baked into nfts.
So both are great technologies that can still be improved on a lot. But it’s just that the ways in which they’re used today are almost exclusively rugpull bubble dogshit.
That’s neat and all, but especially considering the eventual outcome this has nothing on the legendary Soviet faceted glass. Autogenerated auto translated subs on the video are pretty good.
I can only say from the experience of my centrist liberal friend who was getting a PhD in math in Western Europe, the people there were very very conservative, both socially and academically, to a point where he quit it a year or two in and went for an entirely different career.
Crowds gathered on the square in front of the 14-story hotel to celebrate the fall of the Soviet Union. Now, Hotel Ukraine is up for auction as part of an effort to sell off some large state assets to help fund the military and bolster an economy
Fucking hell man. If this was a movie, you’d call it lazy writing. Literally 90s 2.0, and they’re even making communism the bad guy again somehow.
And a third woman alleged that Musk asked her several times to have his children; she refused. He then denied her a raise and complained about her performance.
A 2022 story reported that a flight attendant on Musk’s private jet said he exposed himself and offered “to buy her a horse in exchange for an erotic massage,”
Actually, this is pretty much verbatim what I expected, what a clickbait title smh.
I’m saying this as someone who went (and is still going) through the same experience of not fitting anywhere, including my own head, incapable of hard labor, and for the longest time unable to land a spot to work with my brains. The only thing that really matters is that you do well by yourself. If you’re not okay, you’re definitely not freeing the colonies, not helping Palestinians or bringing about the revolution.
There is nothing fundamentally broken in you. People are very different, but the conditions of the world force everyone to be the same, and then shame you for not trying hard enough if you’re not. There absolutely is a place for you in the world and lives of others. I can’t give you a solution, but my advice is to be more open, with yourself and others, and to learn to ask for and accept help. Coworkers, family, friends, government, mutual support orgs, whomever. It might be extremely difficult. But you’re not alone in any of this, and people are built to work together. You’ve done a good job getting this far.
Absolutely not. If you like streaming - by all means, do it, it’s fun, and it even might eventually take off. But it is an industry where 99% of people don’t make any money after years and years put into it. Definitely do not start with the expectation to make a living. Any other form of content creation has better odds of working out. And it’s almost always better to move into streaming after amassing some audience that way.
Originally it’s just a beach/surfing brand and, well, lifestyle. But pigs and military co-opted it as a kind of thin blue line symbol, since it’s word play on “assault life”.
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One of the most destructive lies that was sold to the American public was that the stock market = economy. Line goes up means good. Even when you’re homeless, hungry, and sick.
I mean, the book of Genesis was essentially a collection of earlier Sumero-Babylonian, Canaanite, and Egyptian cultural materials. And it reflected the contemporary practices, laws, and customs of neighboring people in its narrative. The specific part I was referring to, the shift from the Mother-Goddess to God-the-Father, was also in line with it. It just happened to be that the cornerstone of western monotheistic religious thought was birthed in social setting and conditions that affirmed and reinforced patriarchy.
I guess my point is that what they shat on in the bible was what they were already shitting on as societies. And then they used it as a justification to keep doing just that.
Fun fact, Minoan snake-goddess was one of the many female goddesses from 4000BC onward that were worshipped as a source of fertility for vegetation, animals, and humans. Other great goddesses for millennia were depicted surrounded by snakes, goats, birds, often amidst pillars of trees. And then in the christian story of the Fall the tree has become the tree of forbidden fruit. The power to give life is represented by the bearded patriarchal God, the Father. And the snake, long associated with the goddess, now becomes the tempter, and the first command to the woman is that there shall be enmity between her and the snake.
Deadlines and external responsibility as the only driving forces is indeed a very ADHD thing. I can do literally anything at a moment’s notice for my friends, but I’ve been moving the pile of laundry between the computer chair and the bed for the past month.
Ngl I’ve been getting the same weird vibe from them for a while. Particularly when the questions are framed as “is this thing that we generally support actually bad, or maybe not?”