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I’m starting work tomorrow.
I’m not anti-work, and at the very least, I prefer to have an income.
But goddamn, I’m a bit nervous, ngl…
Smoking is bad for you but it’s great for socialising. I always have a person come to me after the club because saw me smoke a cigarette, because they need a cigeratte or a lighter. And then we start talking. I don’t smoke a lot, but it’s great to be a social smoker when you don’t have that many social contact. I’m gonna quit when I have a better social life
When I was still in my partying era, and smoking, I’d have the Wilders conversations in the smoking areas of the bars (which existed back then). If it wasn’t so bad for you I’d do it again just for that lol.
It also gives you an excuse to remove yourself from crowded social situations that you are not enjoying. You say you need to go outside for a smoke and chances are at least one other person will join you and you can finally talk one on one. Or you meet someone standing in the smoking area and strike up a conversation with them. Regardless, it’s an excellent opportunity to socialize in a smaller circle or just to chill together in silence and enjoy the fresh air.
I don’t smoke anymore and haven’t for over a decade, but i still miss that part. If only there was a way to be a smoker without actually smoking…
This was one of the best parts about smoking. My favorite part of smoking though was that I never had to sit around waiting because I could just go have a dart.
I think you should stop now, but I understand why you’re doing it.
Still, my grandpa died of lung cancer from excessive smoking, at the end of the day.
New thread of mine:
Can we keep Gatorade when the revolution comes? (unless they’ve committed atrocities I am unaware of as is usually the case with capitalism soft-drink brands)
Been tryna wean away from buying treats but Gatorlyte/Gatorade just hits the fucking spot that IV powders and shit don’t. Lots of landscaping finishing touches before winter hits with some fall-weather work and it makes me feel normal so quickly unlike the other hydration stuff that takes forever. This feels like an advertisement for Gatorlyte but yeah. I guess mostly I’m just posting this to see if some user tells me about the Gator-Death Squads in central america squashing trade unionists or some other atrocity I’m unaware of.
you can just make your own; it’s mostly water, sugar (sucrose and dextrose) and salt, along with some kind of flavour
i know and have done that for extended trips but it doesn’t hit as hard as the treat does.
sounds like you need to modify the recipe until it has the same effect; there’s probably already research on the proportions available online
(the answer to your original question is that the new proletarian state would create its own equivalent, so there would be no need to maintain the old corporations)
(the answer to your original question is that the new proletarian state would create its own equivalent, so there would be no need to maintain the old corporations)
Wouldn’t nationalization of the corporation basically lead to it being the same entity just reorganized in whom it rewards/enriches? I genuinely wonder if it would get a new name. Stalinade.
And yeah, I was seeing if anyone had their own similar recipes. Gotta crack their powdered/concentrate recipe from those pods/powder packs they have and it’s surprisingly tough to find an exact match online. I do make my own if I am gonna be away from a store for a couple days in a big 2l. A link I found was pretty close to what I do and my partner showed me it a while back
https://gardenbetty.com/vietnamese-preserved-lemons-chanh-muoi-and-salty-lemonade
Really close to the yellow flavor.
it’s not just nationalization; it would fundamentally change the company by having workers directed by other workers rather than professional managers
Yea, nationalization comes first and then the transitionary period of worker control, which the design of depends entirely on the conditions of the socialist experiment in that nation/area, e.g soviets.
The nationalization period is funny to think about though. Entire capitalist corporations at first getting completely owned by whatever form of socialist experiment comes to X country. Even a soviet leading groups of local supply chains of Pepsi is a funny thought. Just the idea of Pepsi becoming socialist. Major capitalist brands that have been associated with the face of the economic hegemony now reorganizing under the will of the workers. I understand it’s happened in the past, but we are such a terminal stage of capitalism that Stalinade is just funny.
I hate all U.S. soldiers.
When Bob Vylan and his corwd chant “death death to the idf” they are chanting about the end of the institution when I say it I mean every individual soldier.
straight facts
In China the government can force you to leave your village so they can tear it down to build more industry. They will offer you below market value for your house. A market value which has already declined drastically because your location has no future, fucking you over twice.
Except this isn’t China but wholesome The Netherlands instead.
I fucking hate Americans so much. My countrymen are completely insufferable.
Criticize Republicans and you’re a Democrat; criticize Democrats and you’re a Republican.
Nothing else exists. Two parties, two ideologies, two worldviews, two moral compasses, two philosophies, two of goddamn everything. Nothing more, nothing less.
I fucking hate it here so much.
Now imagine that same discourse, while playing telephone, make it ‘‘en Español’’, and you have Puerto Rico.
It’s sometimes the same discourse in Latam, but that’s mainly due to the media there being largely Americanized.
I feel you. It’s sad that they don’t understand that when they reflexively bring up the other party (or parties) they’re Falling For It.
Like… we are so past partisan politics and electoral solutions lol. Even in Canada I have to hear this donkey shit about the alternate universe where the conservatives won and how it’d be worse when I’m being fucked over by the banker factions NOW, in this timeline.
“Sure they’re promising to gut everything and build new pipelines and give handouts to Bay street and turn their bureaucrats into soliders (HUGE LOL btw) but PP would’ve licherally made Handmaid’s Tale real!1!”
I think people would be just as upset, Democrat or Republican; we saw more pro-Gaza protests under Biden than Trump.
I wish the pro-Palestine protests were still going on.
Yeah, feel like there’s no choice sometimes.
Police has once again launched water canons at a peaceful protest for Palestine. This time we were even at the right location.
In order to keep the entrance to certain streets a certainty, which was the reason for the rejected protest place, the police blocked all the entrances themselves with their stormtrooper ass performance tonight.
hrm
I just don’t like this. God, at times I feel powerful but then I feel powerless.
And the worst part is?
I’m constrained by mundane things in my life, like family and other people.
It’s them stopping me. I wish saying so didn’t make you sound spoiled, but that’s how I feel.
Diplomatic relations have strained between socialist Lemmy instances Hexbear and Lemmygrad as /c/[email protected], one of Hexbear’s most active and influential communities, ceases federation with Lemmygrad.
The seizure in federation was first noted by Lemmygrad user @[email protected], who submitted an inquiry to the Embassy of Hexbear on Lemmygrad.
“For some reason the chapotraphouse comm [sic] isn’t federating with lemmygrad.”
-Hexbear moderator @[email protected] confirms.As of the time of writing, no definite cause for the issue has been made public.
Lemmygrad and Hexbear admins are yet to provide an official statement.
Update:
Lemmygrad and Hexbear admins, @[email protected] and @[email protected] respectively, have confirmed that the issue regarding /c/[email protected]’s federation with Lemmygrad is not intentional.“We have not deliberately defederated from any Hexbear community. This is likely just a bug.”
-GrainEater“There was nothing done on hexbear’s end from either mod or admin with regard to the federation of c/[email protected]”
-CARCOSAThe root cause of the disruption is still under investigation.
P.S.
This comment is mainly a joke. While the federation issue and comments are real, I’m just dramatising for fun.
We have not intentionally defederated from any Hexbear community (I don’t even know if it’s possible to do at a community level with an unmodified backend), and neither has Hexbear according to at least one admin. This is likely just a bug.
Is this the Sino-Soviet split of our generation? 😭
It seems completely random to me but they can do whatever they want of course 🤷🏼
I just joined lemmygrad and am so confused, what?
Lol, it’s a joke. I think the defederation is probably some technical glitch or an oversight. I doubt there is anything more to it.
This comment is mainly a joke. While the federation issue and comments are real, I’m just dramatising for fun.
I love it, it felt like reading a serious report.
“evil see see pee has breadlines”
What? You mean that there are dedicated community services fully financed by the state to feed the community actual shelf-stable food that isn’t spoiled or expired? It’s free too and accessible to anyone not just church-members or specific townships? Sounds better than America.
“people disappear in evil see see pee”
woah, wonder what ICE is doing these days.
“You don’t have freedom in evil see see pee”
Don’t make any Charlie Kirk jokes or your employment is subject to scrutiny!
“social credit score”
economic credit score
“apartments are only 15ft by 15ft big, standing room evil see see pee”
sounds better than a closet you pay 200 dollars a month for to live in
Why is that evil china propaganda sounds better than most living conditions American proles live in?
In China they hunt down homeless people… and give them a place to stay and help them get back on their feet.
No for real though, when I’m sitting there explaining actual poverty and bring up China, motherfucking chauvinistic fucks have to sit there and remind me of the “freedomless see see pee” as if anything they describe in their worst propaganda nightmares is any less dehumanizing than the actual cold-hard capitalist reality that they live in. “oh uh would you like it if the government picked out a job for you?”
Sure! Sounds great! Maybe my actual aptitude for dealing with production machinery and facilities maintenance will actually contribute to something other than jocking a gas station register!
Got a few days off the job this week. Which is good as I could feel my sanity slipping away with every living second there. I can use the days off to read my new Star Wars EU novels which I am looking forward to.
Keep yer mental health steady. Communism will win.
there is large discussion on the korean left about china. many see them as a model of efficiency, while others are quick to point out their contradictions, particularly their overseas investments in real estate in korea. in my opinion, these questions are there to obfuscate the primary contradiction that is the military occupation of the united states.
another day, another struggle!
Not gonna lie people are dumb as shit and fall for the easiest propaganda possible. A TV station aired a ‘documentary’ on people getting unemployment benefits and found two people who were willing to say, on camera, that they do not WANT to work. And people fall for it and say we need to destroy the welfare system. Based on TWO PEOPLE.
I could also create a documentary of my job which is also in the same welfare system and paint an entirely different picture but that won’t get tv time.
We as communists should really lead people away from mainstream TV
We need our own TV and media.
But I do feel that our alternative media kinda underserves us.
BadEmpanada, HasanAbi, and especially the “MAGA coms” like Haz and Jackson Hinkle.
The people representing leftism or communism right now are just not what we need, but unfortunately, we’re stuck with them.
We need more voices, new voices, more content creators, but also, people doing actual organizing and IRL activism.
We aren’t stuck with them. If you do not choose your leaders, someone else will choose them for you.
Yeah, I’m hoping so
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I hope you all have a nice week :D
YouTube, Oppo
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
You too Oppo… Tomorrow I get to go to a library opening
If my local libraries were open 24x7, I wouldn’t be found at home on the weekends. It’s my dream to open or help open a 24-hour library or atleast a book cafe.
Unfortunatly this one will not be open 24 7
it also has a funny thing where it is opeing vetrens day while bragging that they are closed vetrens day
hahaha That is very funny.
Thanks comrade!
Have a nice week, comrade o7
You too!
hope you have a nice week oppo ㅇㅅㅇ
You too comrade!
Was back in The Netherlands to fix some stuff today and the mentality between The Netherlands and Belgium considering Ukraine continues to amazed me. On a few occasions now I have heard people in the wild having a discussion about Russia invading ‘any time soon’ over here. Not once have I heard people discuss it back home in Belgium. Like people are legit scared Putin will show up in Oldenzaal anytime soon. Not that Belgium is perfect on this but people are at least less scared it seems.
You hear that in Germany a lot too. Crazy how easy it is for the media to induce mass hysteria.
