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As always, communism will win.
A popular theme park in The Netherlands replaced their chicken nuggets with vegan nuggets and their mayonaise with vegan mayonaise because they said it literally tastes the same and it saves animals from being exploited.
Good news, right? No, people are having a legit meltdown about this.
All these people saying left wing vegans are snowflakes but the second they have their beland chicken nuggets removed from a theme park they turn borderline genocidal.
Kinda crazy considering the chicken paste used for nuggets is highly sus. I for one, as a carnist, in this specific case, would prefer a vegan alternative.
Saw two nazi dudes walking at my supermarkt. Full on Nazi tattoos, SS soldiers and White Power shit and all that.
Of course they were Ukrainian. I hate dunking on refugees but fuck me man. Imagine a Syrian dude walking around with ISIS stuff. It would be all over the place.
Was one of them this guy?
what kind of brainworms make you like this lol
Genuinely looks like one of them lol
China invited the party head of the Walloon right wing party MR to have a chat. The diplomacy of the CPC is interesting because you'd think they'd barely notice a guy like this in the grand scheme of things.
So my family somehow has three branches of like...Hippies [my part of the family], Rednecks, and Ivy League HW Bush Clique Republicans. I have no clue how this happened and honestly I'm too afraid to ask
Edit: I hope one day I can come out as both transgender and a communist. Cause literally 0 of them are gonna take it well [well, except my grandma <3, cause shes always been accepting]
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
Given all the turmoil, I'll try. 😔
Is it just me, or are we suffering more technical difficulties than usual?
For a while I could tolerate them, but now they’re slowly killing my interest in revisiting this network. Now I’d rather be replaying computer games.
Yea the grad has been somwhat unstable lately.
One month until my pilgrimage starts. Just me, nature and the road for a couple of months. Can't wait.
Just a general life update thing: I'm at a bit of a crossroads in my career. I'm currently at an institution that is not great, but pays decently. In the future I have been wanting to apply for jobs in my field in Hanoi, or back to the UK. Move and settle.
But I have been leaning towards Vietnam overall. But a position is open, that basically aligns with NY skills very closely, back in Scotland. I'm obviously applying (but not expecting much). It just feels like a crossroads of "If I do this, it basically locks out my moving to Vietnam, which sucks. But it'd suck as well to lock out UK.
Anyway, just a lot to process. But the UK job probably won't even pan out, so I shouldn't worry too much anyway.
Dang, I wish I could even consider moving to Vietnam (or China, but honestly, Chinese citizenship or permanent residency is basically impossible), but lack of money and the fact that the requirements for permanent residency there are very difficult from what I have read makes it so that I am just stuck in America.
They're definitely tough for long term residency! I have a narrow pathway that could work, so I'm thrilled. But I really wish moving countries (especially just leaving the US at all) was easier
True, true. I really think socialist countries are cool, but the fact that none of them are dual-citizenship (I want to do political work in America) really makes me sad lol. If you do not mind answering, what sort of narrow pathway do you have for long-term residency (not that I would be able to make use of it though)?
Easter Monday. A nice sunny day so far. Spent the weekend with family and with all the things happening you almost forget that's what life is about eventually.
is there something more dystopian than having a baseball game being sponsored by lockheed martin?
Sounds about American
Iran going beast mode 😎
I'm planning to write about the albums I'm currently listening to, but I couldn't decide where to write, like whether I should use Lemmy or other sites—definitely not the mainstream SM sites. Monetary income isn't my first concern; that'd be me talking about my thoughts and feelings with other people. I'm open to your suggestions, comrades!
i'd love to have you write over in the music community i moderate, which is ostensibly about discussing and talking about music! you could write your own posts or write comments in the weekly listening threads i started.
I'll definitely write there comrade!
Lately western "society" feels more hollow than normal, but I can't tell if it's me projecting my own feelings about it or there is something to the decline showing up in little ways in how people talk and act.
Thoughts of the looming Greatest Depression are probably lurking in the back of their minds and they are starting to put up social barriers so they nobody will ask them to share their food.
Running a (half) marathon is so fun because you get yelled at by strangers wanting to give you strength like 'CMON MAN YOU GOT THIS YOU BEAST'. Like, imagine us being like this every day. Going to your work and everyone is just cheering eachother on lmao.
I want to move away from Spotify. What are some ways to have a personal music library where you can organise into playlists and play those playlists on shuffle?
audiophiles probably hate me but a lot of my locally downloaded music is just youtube rips
My wife does that too. I don't mind some audio quality loss because i hate the idea of my music taking up tons of unnecessary drive space when I can't even tell the difference between 192kbps and 320kbps bitrate anyway. But i like controlling the quality reduction myself so it's at least consistent, so i'll usually download higher quality rips and then scale them down.
i use a combination of musicbee on desktop, vlc on mobile, and syncthing to sync between them, love it. let me know if you have any questions
I think I'm too socially inept to be useful
I don't want to go into it, since it deals with irl stuff at my work.
But...I made a stupid mistake that is dumb and stupid and I just want to quit and never show up again.
Edit: I guess I can elaborate actually. I basically autopiloted and ate a coworker's food by accident. They were really mad at me and him and another coworker looked at me like I'm stupid. Which I guess i am. I paid for the food and threw in extra as an apology but i know they and everyone else who knows probably thinks I'm insane or selfish or stupid or whatever. Now i remember why i was nearly a Hikkomori outside of attending classes.
This is why I overthink so much, but if I'm ever doing good then I under think. I should've just been aborted
So you brain glitched and then did the ethical thing by paying for it and even extra as an apology. That's the important part, not that you made a mistake. The other important part is, assessing why it may have happened and if there are ways you can do differently going forward that would prevent it from reoccurring.
Nobody gets through life without making mistakes. Some mistakes are just more visible than others and so are perceived as more embarrassing. Now, sometimes people don't try to learn from mistakes and so they just keep repeating them; that's a problem. Or sometimes people repeat mistakes for reasons that are largely out of their control, which is a problem, but they aren't necessarily the cause. But nobody is getting through life mistake-free and embarrassment-free.
Also your account birthday also?
oh yeah, a decent number of users created their accounts around this time in 2022 because of the /r/genzedong quarantine
Weird feeling to wake up and pick up my phone with the full knowledge that i will either read about a ceasefire or a nuked iran.
Music taste be like:
80's jpop
Folk
Rock [especially Kino]
Chinese military songs
Ngl I think the Moranbong/Ponchonbo groups were made for my taste alone.
what's the deal with nasa? like why do we keep doing this? is it because china wants to do it? or does nasa increase recruitment/funding for rocketry companies and air force or something?
I am stressed out because my arrogant dog father is pressuring me into getting a job or going to college when I have numerous mental illnesses (one which results in me being scared of children), cannot drive, and do not trust them not to break into my room when I am away at work.