It’s just a poorly-placed line. The dunk has been made.
It’s just a poorly-placed line. The dunk has been made.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Oil-rich monarchy: “We are the guardians of Mecca and Medina, anyway no AC for you if you don’t pay us registration fees, also we only give annual permits equal to 5% of our country’s population”
OP: “Haha religion, amirite?”
A lot of this sounds really, really familiar, although my experience was a bit less severe.
One mantra I try to give myself, as frequently as possible, is “Anything you put out there is good enough”. I would have massively benefited from hearing this in childhood.
Another thing that I’m trying to live by is “Don’t leave worthy things undone or unsaid”, because I have way more regrets from what I haven’t done than from what I have done.
Make mistakes and embrace them. Bob Ross did it in painting, the Japanese have a whole philosophy of wabi-sabi, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Some substances may regulate the neurotransmitters in ways that makes it all seem way less paralyzing. Use moderation in this though.
Fruit juice has vitamins and other micronutrients, but it doesn’t necessarily have that elemental salt profile.
Blackstrap is the good stuff, it’s got potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, iron. Because of how it is produced, it has lots of the impurities of the sugar concentrated in it. Sorghum molasses is okay but not as good for this as blackstrap is. Take a look at the nutrition facts, and you’ll see a bunch of quantities for stuff that’s on the periodic table. I suspect various other concentrates might have similar properties.
Typically I add maybe 20g molasses per liter of water, with another 10g of iodized salt or baking soda or cream of tartar (potassium hydrogen tartrate).
I had a health condition for a while that had me carrying salt water on my person for a year, just as a precaution.
3 main groups of political positions: socialism, liberalism, reaction.
3 main groups of value sets that underlie the politics: egalitarian collectivism, individual liberty, might-makes-right.
3 main groups of philosophies that underlie the value sets: constructivism, relativism, essentialism.
Over a long period of time, people develop their value sets based on the philosophy they have. In turn, they develop their politics based on their value sets. Sometimes people try out ideologies for a fit, or cycle or drift through ideologies. If they change, it’s not so much due a lack of commitment, but because the ethical/philosophical grounding wasn’t there. Individualists, regardless of what they profess, tend to converge on liberalism. People who admire exclusive personal power tend to become reactionaries.
If you want to get people who aren’t already on board but might have their heart in the right place, frame your beliefs as egalitarian. If you are interacting with people who are fully propagandized against egalitarianism but are somewhat scientific-minded, claim constructivism, defend that position, then work your way up. You can’t lose with constructivism because it is the most valid model/approach.
I often use molasses with a little bit of salt, that’s about as cheap as you can get.
strawmanarchy
I had to read until the end to read something that wasn’t tired strawmans.
And even then, instead of digging into history to produce some valuable insight, the substance of “anarchists create something that is a state in all but name” is a low-effort meme.
I’d like my 6 minutes back.
I tell ya, after watching the wars in Syria and Iraq and Ukraine, I am OBSESSED with padding my numbers of tanks in a prospective war. It all comes down to those tracked, turreted, armored fighting vehicles that are great investments and not easily countered by anything that is not another tank- certainly nothing that infantry can carry individually.
I’m feeling a lot lately like a lot of therapy-speak is toxic positivity rooted in liberalism, kind of has a mindfulness style to it but isn’t actually useful.
“Don’t turn to blame, this won’t help anything”
“Saying what people deserve is a trap, it’s best to not worry about that”
I mean sure, these are negative emotions that will have a negative effect on your psyche. But there’s a reason why they’re there. If we all gave up on the idea of people “deserving something” or “not deserving something” or “getting what they deserve”, we’d be giving up on the idea of justice, and giving up on the idea of curating what behaviors and consequences we want in the world. If we don’t have a sense of blame, we give up on taking any side or even affective position in what goes on around us.
the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: “theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron”
Someone cleverer than me has probably written a piece about how a very cherry-picked selection of Buddhism has been popularized and co-opted by capitalism to promote moral relativism, the underlying philosophy of liberalism.
I for one embrace blame and determining what is deserved, as well as lots of other value judgments. They shouldn’t be the biggest part of who we are, but they are important.
Here are the news in Spanish, for anyone interested
Gonna have to read and digest this later, with this level of excitement I think I could only handle 1 single new right now.
You probably need something that’s equidistant from the two colors on either side, a betwixel, if you will.
Y’know how text will often have reddish pixels that smooth out on one side and bluish pixels that smooth out on the other?
Here’s an easy way to check: if you go outside, and touch a bunch of grass and dirt, and develop AIDS-like symptoms, you have a compromised immune system.
This diagnostic can be a fun family activity!
my parents deliberately inoculated me by taking me to play with a sick child in the neighborhood.
I grew up thinking that was standard practice. And judging by that time frame, I think I’m younger than you.
Early First Cold War (Korean War, Suez Crisis, Cuban Missile Crisis, Six Day War and Arab nationalist movements)
Precursors of the Eurasian Common Defense Pact, beginning with Syria circa 2013
The Undeniable Year, what they are calling 2035 because of the unprecedentedly severe droughts and storms that knocked out lots of oil infrastructure and set 40 million climate refugees on the move, and the draconian emergency measures that Western governments took in the wake of this
Indian Civil War
At least in the fedded verse when a user gets b& you can still see their posts
My agreement with you is deep like a mineshaft.
Every ad represents, in the final sense, a missed opportunity for a meaningful communication, displaced by redundant consumption.
the doohinckley
This and this might be good places to start.
There’s also a newer org that provides revolving funding and other assistance for workers’ cooperatives, called Seed Commons.