Fuck off crypto demon. You’ll be facing felonies when your scam crashes.

I love how free the bike lane is all the way down, even if a painted line isn’t infrastructure. This hill would be so pleasant both ways on my ebike. Great view, urban forest, 5 minute access to what looks like downtown from the high density housing. The same density of commuters wouldn’t need more than a two lane bike path to not feel congested.

Healthy slop

Start by sauteing a mirepoix. If you’re doing meat or mushrooms, saute those until browned as well. Then anything healthy goes in the slow cooker with some stock until it’s slop. If it’s something that gets sweeter when roasted, it’s roasted first. I season it with a bay leaf, mushroom powder, onion/garlic salt, black pepper, and whatever works for the protein. I like my soups/stews very earthy and comforting, with healthy slop ending up being like a non-acidic borscht or thicker chankonabe.

Give yourself time and space to distance yourself emotionally from it. Delve into something that lets you reestablish your identity and do independent personal growth, then use that regained confidence to find the kind of relationship you want. I just hike exhaustively until I no longer think about them or care what they’re doing, becoming more of a naturalist which helps my self-worth. In that community I can find people with similar politics who make better partners. If you try to rush your recovery from that relationship or turn to self-destruction instead of growth, you just further entrap yourself in the patterns that resulted in the last one.

Step 1: everyone be nice to each other

Step 2: please bro

Favourite: civic infrastructure. I turn a lever and safe water comes out. If my entire city uses the bathroom at the same time, nobody gets cholera. I’ll be warm this winter. I can bike on a flat path to a lake owned by the public, then charge my phone for it at free and browse hexbear instead of looking at that lake. When infrastructure works and meets our core needs it’s a miracle of collectivism.

Least favourite: Atomisation and the idea of isolated “first/second/third place”. There’s no reason a park can’t be as educational as a university class or as enriching as a wilderness or as productive as a homestead, other than we choose to develop it for one limited set of recreation use. Downtown cores don’t need to be hyper-commercial, hostile spaces that are unsafe to walk around but we develop them for the benefit of capital instead of pedestrians. The ideal garden city is intensely focused on critical geography and situating people in a larger socioecological project. The lines should be blurred between grey and green space, between commercial/residential/social, and between human/natural enrichment as much as possible. It’s all the worse when you bring in the separation of town and country with those rural communities alienated from civic infrastructure and cultural participation and the urban communities alienated from touching something other than grass.

At what point did the current politics leanings of the Democratic party would make up your spiritual and moral framework?

When Obama won in 2008 and didn’t end the wars or close Guantanamo Bay or provide recession relief, I knew I wasn’t a liberal and that the democrats represented a .

Before that I read the Communist Manifesto at like age 12. Its worldview made more sense than the social studies textbooks I was otherwise reading and when I found the Theses on Feuerbach it gave me a foundation for secular morality/ethics that clicked with the Sartre and Camus I was starting to read.

I don’t know what you are, but my is beeping.

Geology and hydrology are intertwined. When the mountain grows or erodes, it changes the flow and composition of the river. When its glaciers melt the water level increases, when there is no snowpack the river recedes. The river meanwhile cuts into the mountain, metabolises its minerals into biodiverse ecosystems, and populates the mountain seasonally with those organisms. As one changes the other will irreversibly change in response. If one stops its function, the processes shaping the other no longer occur and it becomes something different. Over time we’ll see the canyon or the desert where there was once a plateau or stream.

I like using nature as the proof of dialectics because you can point at it. There’s a clear and easy to understand sense of historical materialism when can use your immediate surroundings.

I try to maintain good work relationships with managers because I want things to go easy for me. My time off requests, my ability to be promoted or transfer, the daily workload and its division, my ability to advocate for what I think is best- all of these are at the discretion of the manager regardless of my beliefs. When there’s no target on my back and I’m seen as a team player, the job is predictable and not unnecessarily difficult.

For that reason I’d apologise and explain the situation. Work smarter, not harder. You’re making your job more difficult if she dislikes you and your coworkers like her.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/brecht/works/1935/questions.htm

Who built Thebes of the 7 gates ? In the books you will read the names of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock ?

And Babylon, many times demolished, Who raised it up so many times ?

In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live ? Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished, did the masons go?

Great Rome is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them ?

Over whom did the Caesars triumph ? Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its inhabitants ?

Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it, The drowning still cried out for their slaves.

The young Alexander conquered India. Was he alone ?

Caesar defeated the Gauls. Did he not even have a cook with him ?

Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down. Was he the only one to weep ?

Frederick the 2nd won the 7 Years War. Who else won it ?

Every page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors ?

Every 10 years a great man. Who paid the bill ?

So many reports.

So many questions.

Maybe I’m just the only person on here who has actually read Lenin’s What is to be Done, but the first thing he suggests is changing the Cracker Barrel logo. Even back then actual communists knew the importance of a debranded Cracker Barrel. When the people see Uncle Herschel, they’re psychosocially compelled to go there even though it’s unhealthy and overpriced. They go to Cracker Barrel instead of vanguard party meetings.

They ran Biden in 2020 sure, but then people actually saw Joe Biden doing public appearances and it was so detrimental to the party that they spent four years hiding him and gaslighting the public. When they ran him in 2024 without the COVID bump, they knew he was going to lose. They swapped him out for a female clone, faced immense backlash because she would have lost another primary vote (and she was the first to have to drop out in 2020), and lost every swing state because nobody in Ohio likes a polished Californian astroturf person.

However bad things are in 2028, that’s three more years of democrats like Newsom alienating their electorate by being like him. 2020 proved that Old Gavin Newsom won’t do a thing about COVID except lie and cheat the public out of relief funds. In 2024 we knew the economy was about to implode and the country was committing a genocide, but Female Gavin Newsom didn’t win because everyone knew she was going to be No Rizz Hitler.

If you want to hedge your bets on history repeating rather than rhyming, base that off 2024 instead of 2020. 2024 is when they tried the same trick twice. 2028 is when they try the same trick three times and I can afford even fewer groceries.

They’re all ideologically terrible, but I think he’s uniquely the worst aesthetically. He looks like he’s playing the devil in a bad 1990s movie.

I don’t know who else they’d run that isn’t as functionally demonic, but I don’t see Newsom’s current PR push lasting. He’s too weird and off-putting for a national stage. He always looks like the opening scene of American Psycho and always sounds like he’s giving the same monologue. Pete Buttigieg’s policy platform was standard , but his energy is so negatively abnormal that the public rejected him immediately. When the media gave him outsized promotion in the 2020 primaries, all it did was expose more people to a person they instinctively dislike.

Their candidate:

>steal the toilet from the UFO

>advance Earth technology by 2000 years by disassembling it

Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0TLxJyY7-w&list=PLIB8rikvk8oiSfMll59UvVNs2SWDhxvHG

It’s a really dynamic neopsychedelia album which has good highs/lows/mixing. With surround sound the violin is intense.

thinking Hitler/Stalin is awesome

Guy who did the holocaust versus guy who stopped the holocaust. These are not the unless you’re pretty stupid.

With every snake I’ve handled, maybe a dozen species of domestic pets and wild ones, they’ve always been more afraid of me than I am of them. Even the rattlesnakes on hiking trails. One small part of their body is a defensive weapon while I have four limbs and tools. They can’t see well, they’re pretty dumb, and their mouth might not even be large enough to bite me.

They don’t really have mammalian affection but snakes do seek warmth. My chainlink kingsnake was almost 2m long and he wanted nothing more than to hold onto me while I did things. He could have constricted but I wasn’t posing a threat and he was fed regularly on a predictable schedule. On feeding and shedding days I didn’t handle him to minimise that conflict. The reward of having that pet was peaceful coexistence with something I have a mild phobia of and being able to see the behaviours that humanise it. They’re all the fun of an aquarium but you can hold the fish.