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Got my first ever interview in a few days, any tips? It's remote.

Long road, long struggle to get housing has been over for a month. It took.... 608 days from becoming on the streets homeless (not even crashing couches) But I moved into my apartment on February 1st with help from a housing org!

Now what?

I literally feel feral, idk how to connect with people, lost most social skills from the sheer dehumanization and I dont leave my apartment much because I'm afraid ill lose it or won't be able to come back or some neurotic shit i cant help but to think.

I guess what im asking is; Formally unhoused loves of hexbear, what steps did you take to help get you back to "normal" social functioning/out of survival mode?

picture is my gfs lovely orange baby named Athena

why do so many people seem to have a hierarchy allergy round these Western leftist parts

Am I meant to assume a_i is defined the same way as a_n for each of 1<= i <= n-1 ?

If so, I think I see the proof by induction on n, but the question just says a_i is defined for each 1<=i<=n-1, not that it is defined in that way. Is the question just overly vague or am I missing something obvious?

If only a_n is defined as the greatest integer such that the sum from 0 to n of each a_i/k^i is <=x, then I think there are counterexamples to the hypothesis, right?

Like if x=0.32, k=2, n=2, then a_0=0, and the inequality is satisfied by a_1 = 2 > k-1 = 1 and a_2 = -3 < 0.

To explain, I'm just a big old ignorant layman, but with other scientific fields I at least CONCEPTUALLY understand how they came to their findings.

Like if a Geologist tells me something about rocks I'm like: "Okay, idk how geology works, but I assume you did some kind of experiments involving rocks so you probably know what you're talking about."

Or if a neurologist tells me something about the human brain: "Okay, idk shit about neurology, but I assume you did some kind of brain scan or took some brain samples or did some kind of scientific experiment thingy to know this stuff about brains. I don't know the exact details but I can at least abstractly understand the process by which you learned this thing you're telling me now."

Then I'll see some news report about some finding a theoretical physicists made and it'll be like: "The Universe is made of strings! And also the sun is a black hole! The universe is shaped like a doughnut!"

And my honky ass is just like: "How the fuck do you know that shit? What are you looking at? How did you figure that crap out?"

Simple question. I'd love to have my account for hb work for lemmygrad.

I stopped using 👍 IRL because in many cultures it is analogous to 🖕. And the more I thought of it, the vulgarer it felt.

Switched to 👌 as it is widely understood but has a US/fash undertone to it. I am aware of it but idk if other people are.

I do kind of need a non-subcultural hand gesture to communicate positive sentiments, particularly across language and culture barriers. Not in a position to be introducing new gestures.

What's the best you think?

I need advice on whether or not I should fabricate references that an employer asked from me. I haven't worked in 3 years and I've quit all of my previous jobs in not so great ways ( I'm a dumbass ), which leaves me unable to give any real contact info. I've never faked references before but I'm desperate for work at the moment and this specific job could lead to an actual career for me. The business owner who I spoke said he prefers references from my past employers, I just have no idea on how I could fake this or if I even should? I've already lied on my resume about various things but for whatever reason I just feel super anxious about lying when it comes to my references

I need the Chaos Emeralds for personal reasons

Like...do places like this actually even exist?

He makes me cringe like no other. I think it's because he thinks he's slick when he's just some silver spoon neolib. He's got an air of Chris Cuomo except much less authentic.

Take this clip from The Adam Friesland Show: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/s5Js10uQxbo

Was the Burning Man thing a joke? Does he think some guy from Ohio wants to go to the drug festival for tech oligarchs?

And at the end when he swears... oh god... he thought he was on fire, you can tell. So awful.

There was another interview I saw with him a few days ago that just icked me out, can't remember the specific bit now but I can remember saying 'ohhhhhhh god'. I think it was all the gesticulation. Waaaayyy overdoing it. Completely transparent meat puppet man.

EDIT: found it, 17:40 . Fucking painful.

(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ug0NaUdhuho)

That said, seems to be cooking up some sort of legitimate bid to be the next president. Fuck knows how that'll go.

The commie org that I am a member of is looking to move off of Discord given the fuckery with their age verification controversy and general insecure-ness about it.

A couple options have been put forward, mostly Discord clones because that's what people are comfortable using.

Personally, I am pushing for something that supports end-to-end encryption like Element/Matrix, but there are of course some drawbacks (it's a bit buggy/glitchy sometimes esp with video calls, and it doesn't seem to support whimsical emojis unless I am mistaken)

Is anyone able to provide some suggestions? Ideally I'd like to encourage something that is open source and supports encrypted messaging, but also user friendly if possible. I have used Element/Riot/Matrix for years and I know it can be a pain in the dick (especially for n00bs) with setting up encryption keys and whatnot, but IMO is probably worth the trouble.

What other options should we be looking into? Telegram? WhatsApp? AFAIK there is Pissraeli Pegasus (and probably other) malware that specifically targets broadly used applications even though they are touted as secure and encrypted etc.

I've been keeping an eye on these:

https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/s/QODS_COM
https://t.me/s/FotrosResistancee

anyone have any more recommendations?

As in like, I get there's really terrible B-movies and shit like Neil Breen's work that ends up on BOTW, but what's the worst movie that actually had a decent sized budget and was made by an actual movie studio and maybe even had some somewhat well known actors in it?

I have a new note-taking system and I want to add some deboonks in there that I can quickdraw on a lib, any day, any time.

I don't want some self-satisfying /r/breadtube rot, I want the links you've actually sent to people when they say something silly.

Shoutout to the copypastas that Davel, Dessalines and Cowbee have developed.

I want to dispel the narrative of Iran being evil; that they were mowing down protestors (lol) and some ways to convince people to uncritically side with Iran in this conflict

books are fine, but I read too slowly for me to actually get ready fast enough Western narratives contradicting itself would be a good start Maybe common views? I just need a guideline so I don't get caught flat on my ass looking for citations on something I wasn't prepared for, thanks

I really enjoy the Big Spooky Creatures and tales of cosmic horror, but the dude is, like, everything-misic. Everyone who's not an Anglo-Saxon straight male is just abhorrent to him, though I'm sure y'all already knew that. Does anyone have any recommendations for similar stories by Cool People?

Reading this article:

While women in capitalist countries were struggling for the most basic rights, such as the right to vote, the transitional workers’ state created by the Russian Revolution implemented measures to promote socialized housework. This was one of the fundamental pillars of the Bolsheviks’ policy for female emancipation aimed at ending women’s isolation in the home and promoting their inclusion in public and political life.1 This socialization policy was never fully realized because of the breakout of the civil war and severe economic crisis. The policy was later crushed by Stalinism, which promoted traditional gender roles.

I've read a couple posts on here recently that claim that "Stalinism" is an imaginary phenomenon made-up by people who think international blockades, outright military aggression, and the external sponsoring of internal destabilisation and plots never happen in the real world (VOTE!) and political violence has no place in politics and blah blah blah. But I know the Soviets got the first woman into space so I started to wonder if the gender roles from the article was accurate.

Is it true what the article said about gender roles, especially during Stalin's time?

The article is interesting, though, and it's topic can be roughly summed up with this paragraph:

Capitalism relegates women to unpaid reproductive labor, although today it would be more correct to say that for the vast majority of women, it overburdens them with it. Capitalism relies on these unpaid tasks for the reproduction of labor power, although no surplus value is extracted from this activity since it does not generate exchange value (i.e., it cannot be exchanged on the market). Reproductive labor is indispensable, although it does not generate value or surplus value. According to the logic of capital, it is thus unproductive labor.

Natural enshittification, planned sabotage, or both?