I think there was a subreddit called /r/covid19pandemic that split off from zcc for not being zero-covid enough and/or not being explicitly anti-zionist, as well
Budgies are wonderful and you can get them really cheap at rescue centers, but I probably spent at least $200/year on my little friend every year til he died. Well worth it to keep him healthy and try to give him a good life.
Also do plan ahead for what happens if you have to have a pet put down. I got a bird from someone who was taking very bad care of him, but I didn't realize how bad of care until a few days later he was visibly ill and needed to go to the ER, where they diagnosed him with renal failure from long term heavy metal poisoning from... The water? Or eating paint chips? We were looking at $3000 (which I did not have) to keep him on life support and do some treatment, see if he could recover, but his quality of life would be shit after, or idk how much to euthanize him. Vet recommended euthanasia as the only humane option. All total this bird cost me $800 in the 3 or 4 days I knew him, plus the grief.
You have to pick your battles. You can't get the average USian to love the word "communism", but you can easily get them to hate billionaires and federal establishment corporatists.
So this is something I've observed. I can get right wingers to agree with leftist positions by identifying these problems as long as I don't use the word "Communism." But that does not make them end up joining up, they just take those ideas and go with strasserite shit. My big fear is that if we do not get people to understand that functional and effective solutions can only be found on the Left, they will turn to the Right for their solutions. They'll want 'socialism' but only in one country, and only for themselves, hang the rest of the world.
If I'm reading somwthig in a book I can see my physical progress going through the book.
If I'm reading on an ereader , I swipe to turn the page and it feels like I'm moving forward.
If I'm reading something on a computer screen I can see progress when I scroll down. My gaze is moving through space.
If I'm reading something on a phone there's often no scroll bar so it doesn't feel like there's any progression. I scroll the words up to get to the next one and my gaze is mostly in one place, maybe a bit of shifting up and down the phone screen. It feels much more mentally taxing, like being stuck in one place, I get fatigued quickly, and my attention wanders. I may scroll or skim to get through what I'm reading, or just give up on it entirely.
I think I do not understand what a general megathread is for. I've been trying to figure it out from context but have not. Can someone who regularly posts in these tell me how you decide what to post in a general megathread?
I want to salute you for how based your posting was in the thread someone else posted here with jax