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I am slowly converting over to a vegan diet. I have really enjoyed a handful of vegan cooking channels, notably Thee Burger Dude and Sauce Stache.

What are some of your favorites?

I really really want to get involved with the movement. I feel like I'm going through an immense political awakening at an extremely auspicious time, given the clear collapse of the empire going on right now.

Two issues, though.

A: I have no idea what I'm doing or where to go. The American left (and the left in general) is obviously fragmented and impotent, which certainly doesn't help. There's a local branch of DSA that I've seen flyers for, but I don't think I want to bother with a "big tent" organization like that. PSL is the only party I've seen mostly good things about here, but they only have a general branch for my state. If there are any smaller orgs, I have no idea how I'd find them.

B: As potential for revolution increases, so too does potential for arrest, and as a trans woman, that's a pretty horrifying prospect. I don't want to just sit around and do nothing, but at the same time... yeah.

I would really appreciate any tips, if any of this makes sense.

When it pops, will the current pervasive LLM and Gen'AI' slop dry up as their companies go under? Will LLM and agentic chatbots be removed from all the apps that have been shoehorning them into everything? Or will just some companies go under, some stocks lose value and people's 401ks are hollowed out

Boots on the ground or TACO as usual?

In the last year, I finally decided to drop out of the democratic party and work on politics more aligned with my principles. I'm trying to get politically engaged and stop being a keyboard warrior / lazy DSAer / bare minimum protest attendee and help organize... for the Revolution!

But so far I'm finding I'm failing to actually make it through the other side of the entry barrier. I've attended union organizing trainings and felt like I left a series of seminars and was now basically on my own. When trying to enter local socialist orgs, I'm getting tested on my ideological fit and they're making me do a lot of reading and interviewing.

I appreciate the education and all, and the people have been nice and generous with their time, but after attending an intro meeting or two I have to ask: is there any there there? Once I actually get let in, is it still people sitting in rooms reading theory at each other? Is it just more meetings? When will it get pragmatic? When will I actually be doing something useful? Or does that come later and right now I'm a liability / not educated enough to contribute?

Appreciate perspectives from those that have been down a similar path and open to suggestions and recommendations.

He left Kernari pretty young so you think he'd just talk like his adoptive parents on Ferrix. But everyone on Ferrix has a British accent (well except Bix but idk maybe her family immigrated there later in her life).

(And yes I know the real reason is Diego Luna is Mexican, but I'm high an felt like being a pedantic nerd)

(And yes I know Fiona Shaw is Irish)

I remember when I first entered the adult world paying my bills online was super easy.

These days, I feel like half the time I log onto some doctors office or mechanics website to pay a bill the site is like "yeahhhh, idk why but I'm just not going to accept your credit card. Also the button to the 'finalize payment' screen is grayed out even though you filled out everything."

And they you email tech support and they're like "idk delete your cookies I guess? That didn't work? Guess you gotta mail us a money order."

• it is in existence for many decades, multiple generations
• culture as a whole is integrated with the military via conscription, then many related employment opportunities later in life
• military not some sort of symbolic peacetime standby thing, but a way where majority of citizens are indoctrinated and jumped in as children or very young adults.
• israel has enjoyed almost a century of careful special treatment despite their crimes and atrocities being widely known since day dot
• immense internal/external propaganda force
• fake it til you make it -- the fascist method of reality. rather than discovering truth, as with science, you create it. israel being a prime example.

Hi friends. Is it fucked up to flirt with someone with no intention of taking it further? I'm in a long-term monogamous relationship. Sometimes I crave a little validation from strangers. I'm not going to cheat on my partner, but I do have a need to feel desirable to others. I don't feel like a bit of flirting is a betrayal of my relationship, but I'm less confident about how other people feel. Like, I don't want to waste someone else's time, but I guess maybe I am leading people on a bit if I chat with them without mentioning my partner.

What historical figures (recent or ancient) can compare to Trump?

Liberals will of course say Putin (which of course they know nothing about), but in my limited knowledge, Putin gained support by reighning in oligarchs and stabilizing the country. Trump is doing the opposite of this.

In my limited knowledge, he seems most like Boris Yeltsin. A complete dolt and perfect avatar for the terminal stage of a failed empire.

I think certain traits are unprecedented. He may be the most anti-social leader in history. His administration is doing things that don't make sense on a societal level, like defunding research for extreme weather and disease prevention.

Maybe this is just the most extreme form of narcissism on history: the entire world can end as long as I get what I want.

Mine is when someone tried to tell me that superannuation (my countries version of 401K I think) is communism

Maybe this is too fedposty (and let me know if it is), but I've been thinking about this a lot, especially with how things are going in Iran. It seems like modern warfare is basically just "my drones strike your drones", and if either side has drones free to not strike other drones, they can instantly kill whoever they like. With this in mind, is it even really possible for a revolution in the US to escalate into a civil war without simply being air-superiority'd into oblivion with modern sensors? Is guerilla war viable anymore? The main counterpoint I can think of to this possibility is that the US military is A: incompetent and B: mostly a colonial garrison force, but I don't know.

(And yeah, I know a revolution in the US would have a whole laundry list of prerequisites and is significantly hindered by the fact it can't be tied with anti-imperial nationalism. I'm talking strictly in terms of if it actually happened.)

I mean If ever there was a time, right? Might as well put a materialist understanding of the world to work.

I did a reverse image search - I don't know a single concrete detail about the photo.

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Counted 25 ICE officers (most with ERO vests) during my 26-minute wait in the LGA Terminal C Touchless line this morning. every one of them was either standing doing nothing or slowly walking the length of the line doing nothing. at least four were in masks.

https://bsky.app/profile/greenwell.bsky.social/post/3mhsma252rk2q

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11136332

Edit: I'm from the Global South, I should've clarified that on the post. The lesson has been learned.

Many leftist movements, legit or not, call themselves either Trotskyist or Maoist and keep dissing Stalin for his “socialism in one state” policy and “ruining” Comintern and Deng Xiaoping for his “liberal” policies.

I want to know what they are trying to do by distancing themselves from the USSR and PRC while fetishizing Cuba and Vietnam—you’ll only hear them talking about the Vietnam War, btw—and following either the guy who lost the power struggle or a literal Marxist-Leninist who supported one of the refused countries and founding the other.

Serious replies only, please! I assume this is some pro-hitler anti-trans hate à la 4chan, but perhaps I’m wrong.

Cropped and censored some identifying info to make doxing myself slightly more difficult.

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"Make me one with everything"

Like I've noticed normal people can say sit down and watch a whole movie, or play long stints of video games. Myself on the other hand, if something exciting happens or I get too stimulated, I need to take a break and walk away. Weird right? I noticed it more as I got older, when I was younger I'd normally just binge watch things or play games all afternoon. Today I can only do so much in short spurts, like an hour at a time, or else I get too worked up and stressed out.

Is this on the spectrum or maybe auhd?