The fucking irony that there was a tree burned down somewhere in the Amazon, or a child died of asthma in Memphis to produce this garbage is just wild. Grok, make Marx wear a novelty T-shirt on stage.
The time you spend questioning "are you really sure it doesn't work this way?" could have been spent asking "how does it actually work?". Who cares about any of this? Chinese citizens have had their material conditions continuously improve for decades with no signs of stopping, quite the opposite, and not at the expense of the rest of the planet. And this is the only thing that ultimately matters in a world where most people can't say that.
Big time agree. People often build their entire positions on top of a few very shoddy lies that simply have been repeated enough and never challenged.
Recognize the narrative they're following ("israel is defending itself/China is doing a genocide in Xinjiang"). Empathize with their underlying concern ("I care about the safety of civilians/rights of minorities"). From there you can easily deconstruct the underlying arguments and show that they do not match the reality (israelis are not safe/Xinjiang is).
Huh, what are you saying? Literally all the sources you mentioned have consistently done tons of great coverage on Gaza? And "reading a report" is not "being obsessed with glazing".
I will give you $100 if you comprehensively explain any out of these "plenty negative things to say about him", negative enough to warrant this comment, and back it up with exhaustive in-context video proof aligning with that explanation. Especially on Hamas, surely that should be so easy, he spent thousands of hours covering it in the past year alone.
Or you can save yourself some time and just think why your knee jerk reaction directly aligns with all the right wing grifters posting "content nukes".
Edit: This sums up my entire point in 13 seconds. From a few hours ago, when he covered the LA anti-ICE protest on the ground: "I used to hate-watch you, but you're all good and now I fuck with you".
It's crazy to me that a decade into this, and here of all places, and leftists would still have anything but positive things to say about Hasan.
He's arguably (and it's an easy argument to make) the most influential progressive media personality in the western world. As a media analyst alone his input is invaluable. The man streams every single day for 8-10 hours, breaking down the news and explaining the underlying material reality behind the current events to a stadium full of people.
There is a very clear reason why each time he goes to rallies and events both attendants and organizers line up to say "thanks for getting me into this". He is a role model that we so desperately need more of if we were to have a coordinated mass movement.
As he likes to say: "Judge me by my enemies". When your enemies are the entire online right, fox news, republican politicians, the ADL, and just generally all the worst people, but you only ever come out stronger - you're doing the right thing.
This is extremely reductive, but the gist is - creatine is good for brains. In part because it regulates glutamate. People with ADHD have significantly higher glutamate levels, which cause synaptic spillover - synapses triggering neighboring ones and essentially spamming the brain. Stimulants help with that by improving the metabolism of glutamate. And oral creatine supplementation just increases creatine levels to fight the high glutamate levels. Both result in ADHD brains being quieter.
This is a pretty deep rabbit hole and a heavy read. But here are some interesting papers if you wanna dive in. I'm by no means an expert in any of this. I'm just interested in understanding my own ADHD, and at one point was curious how does creatine actually help, since I feel better taking it c:
That's funny, I could write pretty much this exact post myself. And since getting out of my head and following my own advice feels impossible, here it is for you. Look up the address of the employment services office that's closest to you, don't bother researching beyond this point. Wake up tomorrow, do some pushups until you're bored, take a shower, eat a snack and go to that office. Either get a meeting then and there, or get one scheduled and repeat the steps on the day of. Tell them what you hate about working, and that you struggle getting your foot in the door, so you'll need some help with finding openings. You got it from there c:
Also buy a jar of creatine, it's great for brains and ADHD brains especially (I can find the research I went through if you're curious). 20g a day for a week, then 5g a day. And energy drinks are great if they don't make you feel bad, you can buy powdered ones for cheap. Mix it with the creatine after breakfast, makes for a decent brain day. Good luck!
What an interesting gripe. Personally I'd say it's dst itself that is pointless and confusing, causing strokes and car crashes. Rather than the device that automatically handles it not notifying you to change the oven clock.
There's nothing wrong with taking a couple years to focus on yourself
You said it. If you're not okay, your output is not gonna be the best either, be it political, creative, or otherwise. Self-actualization is important, so if activism doesn't cover it alone, it only makes sense to balance it out with other pursuits. And after all, revolutionary movies also need screenwriters.
I can tell you a short summary of multiple first-hand accounts - these people suck ass juice. It's a glorified newspaper selling operation that shits on any and all leftist action for not being revolutionary enough. All while they have zero interest in cross-community organizing, relationships with unions, or welcoming members that are not already hard-line Marxists to agitate and educate them. Much less participate in any direct action stuff. At every picket line when they try to show up "in solidarity" with their papers they either get directly shooed away or ignored.
At this point it's a common meme among organizers over here, to pass through this group at some point. Lots of people start out their activist journey with them, because the aesthetics are very appealing to someone just switching to real-world leftism, and they're easily accessible. Welcome to the club of happily former members. It's only up from here.
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
The fucking irony that there was a tree burned down somewhere in the Amazon, or a child died of asthma in Memphis to produce this garbage is just wild. Grok, make Marx wear a novelty T-shirt on stage.