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There are studies about people like you (said in the most positive of ways).
I'd ditch my car for the bike entirely if not for road trips.
The next step is to tally up the yearly costs of owning a car with all that this incurs, then weigh that against how many days per year you typically go on road trips and how much car rental would cost you in the amount of days you'd have to hire a car for.
If it looks like you'd more or less break even without factoring in those surprise costs that happen with car ownership ("Gee, that's a nice alternator you've got there! It sure would be a shame if some day it decided to shit itself and then you'd have to pay for a tow to the mechanic's to replace the thing while missing a day of work...") and you think you'd be fine renting for road trips then you're probably going to be better off selling the car, especially in the long run.
What I'd do from there, if I decided to pull the trigger, would be to set up a secondary bank account and automatically transfer money that would go to typical car-associated costs like insurance/registration/gas and set up an automatic transfer into that secondary account. Also set aside enough money to replace your ebike from the sale of your car so if anything happens you aren't going to find yourself in a tricky situation. Then use the money that accrues in that secondary account to fund car hire when you're ready for your next road trip. It's going to be painful shelling out a thick wad of cash for a car rental on your first road trip but keep in mind that car ownership is a financial form of death by a thousand cuts that you rarely think about since it's just the cost of doing business.
Honestly, over time I'd expect that the secondary account would start filling up faster than you can spend the money on car rentals which might free you up to buy other things you want.
The other option is to find a good friend or loved one who would be willing to split the costs for car sharing arrangement between the two of you. This would be a little bit tricky to navigate and you'd want to make sure that you've got the right person to do this with but if you went about it the right way you should be able to come up with a mutually-beneficial arrangment.
I'm broke lol, I'm not about to throw cash at S4A if I can just pique their interest instead and get them to think they came up with the idea to narrate the article by themselves
I used to be a terrible mischief-maker in my younger days but, with maturity, I've channeled this urge into achieving win-win outcomes for everyone. I have confidence in myself to get this one over the line by leveraging just the right amount of influence at the right moment.
That would be immensely appreciated.
I'm going to put together a post with the preferred way of uploading books to LibGen and how people can access the book while it's still in the upload/approval queue before it's listed in the search results (it used to take about 2 days for a book to become available through the main search, not sure where the turnaround times are currently at). Catbox is good for being instantaneous but it's better for preservation of material if we could upload to LibGen, though this does require some metadata entry (sometimes it will pull metadata from Amazon or similar sources perfectly well, sometimes it can be patchy) so it can take an extra couple of minutes to get a LibGen submission completed vs the simple Catbox drag-and-drop. That being said, if that's the difference between having a book request fulfilled or left open, I'd much rather it people use Catbox because someone like myself can then upload it to LibGen and handle the metadata side.
I'm also thinking of creating a list of people who have the title of librarian in the sidebar to kinda deputise people such yourself, if they are willing to be pinged if I'm left completely stumped and can't fulfill a request, as well as to recognise your efforts.
Oh you were thinking of paying haha? I'm just gonna try drawing their attention to the article in such a way that it will just make sense for them to want to narrate it. I got a strategy all planned out already, just gotta wait until an opportunity presents itself to me - likely in the next few weeks. Will keep you posted.
Hell yeah! I didn't even think about why having anthologies would be a problem until I encountered your post so it's been a good learning opportunity. It's not so bad having an anthology because you can timestamp within a playlist but it just makes more sense to have them as separate books because it's more user-friendly that way.
I'll see if I can entice Socialism For All to narrate the Jones Manoel article. S4A is on an Anti-Trotskyist reading arc right now and Manoel's article fits neatly into that scope, plus the article is short - I'd guess it's well under 30 minutes of runtime for a narration so I feel like that might be enough to get it over the line. I'll see if I can work some magic in the next few weeks.
Elementary Principles of PhilosophyHow To Be A Good Communist
Alright, the only thing I haven't done is Lavender & Red because I S4A is still in the process of recording that one. I'll have to remember to finish the job once they have completed it but that aside your playlist is complete.
Unlimited hot soup on the lap of Trotsky!
On Practice and ContradictionPedagogy of the Oppressed
Other ones are in the pipeline but I have to redownload them because I ran out of space on my harddrive and deleted some of the original files since I wasn't expecting to need them again.
I'm tired of learning new things
What Is To Be Done?Imperialism: The Highest Stage of CapitalismState and Revolution
Okay I need to sleep
Btw I'm working on splitting the audiobooks at the moment. I'm gonna have to get to it tomorrow because Audacity wasn't playing well with my computer.
I don't know if you saw my edit, but I will try to squeeze it in!
Of course I didn't see your edit. Do I strike you as one of those
?Just kidding. About the hostile tone that is. I actually didn't see it but that's awesome thanks for letting me know. Also know that your comment inspired me to make this and submit it to the emoji comm lmao
For real, whenever I come across a baby leftist I have to restrain myself from acting like some sort of deranged person from a time travelling scifi movie who has come back to warn people about the dire reality of the future while I recite this article at them at a near-shouting volume.
Instead I'm like "Oh um, you know, uhhh... just be careful of the political organisations who sell you on this idea of them being the valiant underdog and how great everything could have been if only they weren't robbed of their opportunity. You want to find an organisation that has a positive future perspective rather than just lamenting the past."
I know that the character limit is tight but I just remembered that the short piece by Jones Manoel titled Western Marxism Loves Purity and Martyrdom, But Not Real Revolution could have saved me years wasted as an eclectic radical. I think it dovetails nicely after Left Communism but it's updated and takes aim at people who idolise Che yet despise Castro and Stalin, that sort of thing.
I'd like to suggest it, if there's room and you think it's suitable. Also if you haven't read it yet, goddamn you should because it's really incisive.
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And your friend has never denied pissing in the kitchen sink so... y'know...
x also spoke in a very pedantic way with very poor language pragmatics from a social perspective.
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I'm sorry to hear about your panda friend :(
I was absolutely a irrepressible thug (in a "do not poke goblin" sense, not a bully/etc sense) of a grade schooler, though.
"Oi let me give you some facts about pandas, kid - no complaining and don't make me pull out my rubber knife on you like last time.
We're gonna learn about the recent evolution of the panda's pseudo-opposable digit thumb today..."
I'm just imagining an irrepressible thug of a grade schooler who pounces on other students when they are away from other people to mug them of their time and attention while giving them panda facts and threatening to pull out their "knife" if the other kid isn't compliant.
This is just a joke obviously but now it is headcanon for me.
I'm still hanging in there. New treatment soon so fingers crossed. It will be a few months until I'm on the other side of it. Will update when there's something to update on.
Sorry if I've missed any messages or pings.