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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6292756

let's give each other something to cry about that heals instead of hurts ❤️ what silly thing makes happy tears spring up in your eyes?

awards ceremonies always get me, no matter how mundane – I was the weird 4H mom applauding and wiping away tears about every kid, not just her own 😂🙃

love seeing someone open a gift they're genuinely super excited about

commercials often get me, too

Like being able to read Arabic without understanding what it says

My chair suddenly started lurching precariously from side to side, and when I took a closer look I noticed this inner ring around the cylinder that keeps the chair centered had popped out and vomited a bunch of grease everywhere.

I can push this thing back in and it'll sort of click into place but a few minutes of sitting later the chair starts wobbling again.

It has to be somewhere inside my car, as in inside the cab or whatever, because of reasons.

Like…I have some things I have vague interest in, I guess.
But not anything I have ever put time into, or am good at, or am knowledgeable enough to hold a conversation.

Maybe I’m just depressed…maybe I’ve always been depressed…or maybe I’m just missing some kind of spark most other humans have.

Like how does someone just know or decide like…”yeah I’m really into architecture.”?
I don’t know if I’ve ever felt like that…I feel like I’ve tried and it’s never lasted.

I feel like I’ve spent half my life just addicted to social media and video games and that’s no longer working.

Looking to host a personal website. A couple static pages and an instance of FoundryVTT. Maybe a wiki. Single digit users for the foreseeable future.

Turkey should be invaded by a coalition of Syria, Armenia, Russia, Kurdistan and Iran for it's crimes against the Kurds, Armenians and it's support of the Palestinian genocide. I can't believe Erdogan gets away with pretending to support Palestine while materially aiding Israel. Fucking hell, put this opportunist down already. The Kurdish rebels should car bomb him, IRA style

I have some suspicions, but I’d like to learn a bit more about the actual process. When the US sends another x billion in military aid to Israel, how does that physically go down?

My guess is that money is magicked up into some account out of thin air, and then is sent to mostly US defense contractors to pay them welfare to ship weapons and munitions to Israel. Added to that would be DOD budgets for operations to support them in theatre, etc.

So basically my assumption is that the whole process is basically a giveaway to defense contractors, at the expense of the entire country, either by wasting tax dollars or creating more money supply which contributes to inflation and other fun things. I also keep seeing headlines about bills to stop “weapons sales to Israel” but it confuses me because my understanding is that most of it is being given to them and they’re not buying anything. (I guess we’re giving them money and they then buy from the defense contractors?)

Anyway, lots of vague speculations and assumptions, hoping someone knows better or has a good source for me to read to educate myself.

why do you keep going? what drives you? what do you aim for? what is the meaning of life?

simple questions really.

I have a passport, but aside from some half-remembered Spanish courses from high school, I'm completely monolingual.

Sadly, the US prohibits travel to Cuba for vacations, otherwise I'd gladly put some money into their economy.

It appears to me that the complete deindustrialization of the imperial core is a historical arc that, since 1973, has been more or less unstoppable. The question is, if a socialist world revolution were to happen in the near future, and they basically established JDPON, how would it be possible to reindustrialize the former imperialist nations without relying on exploiting the former periphery countries? The actual productive capacity has been decimated.

I've been wanting to build up a small library with the classics from Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc. and want to know which online bookstore y'all like the most for that, like which have the best translations, physical quality, etc. And, ideally, not too pricy so I can give them out and replace them if I think someone in my personal life might benefit from a particular work.

Extra unnecessary: Ideally they look nice on a shelf together too, but not super important lol

Sorry for this question. I am still learning.

Something that has always bothered me is how much u.s. politicians obsess over helping the middle class. Seems like the two major parties talk about it a lot. Why do they endlessly talk about helping the middle class, but never seem to acknowledge or focus on helping the (lower?) or poverty or proletariat class?

To me it sounds like the middle class by definition should be not be as in need as other classes that don't have as much? What's the purpose of this?

Edit: Thanks for all your responses. :)

'Stalin killed 100 million people' is mine

I constantly get comments about how fast I walk. Like, it’s not a run or a sprint—I walk kind of funny but other than that it’s a normal walking gait, just sped up. I walk so fast that when I have it in me, I can keep pace with my friends when they’re on their bikes.

I also like listening to metal or hard rock while I’m walking, and matching my pace to the drum beat or something. It makes me feel awesome.

It's been a couple of years since the last discussion on here. I'm trying to get more serious about it since I'm getting older, but there's a lot of information out there.

What's everyone using?

Gotta be the hamberder feast

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3919416

Serious question, I don't recall what exactly it was.

So, in my recent transition from an ancient Windows OS to a Linux distribution I installed Transmission for torrenting. I had a decent experience as a user who isn't super nerdy about this stuff with the Windows version I was using.

Using it with Linux has been similarly easy but for one thing. When trying to seed torrents, after about 10ish minutes, the torrents in the list will turn red and with the word "Stalled". I can pause and restart the seeding and it clears the "Stalled" from the item on the list but it will come back after a short while.

This never happened when I was using the Windows version and I haven't been able to find an answer about what this is supposed to mean in this context online.

Anybody have any ideas what this means and what I should do to fix this if its a problem on my end?

After his TikTok account was deleted and his YouTube channel de-monetised, pro-Palestine content creator Rathbone migrated to right-wing Rumble. Seems like an odd choice based strictly on ideology, and I figure it's probably only a matter of time before Rumble kicks him too, simply on the Palestine question alone.

So that begs the question - how capable is Tankie Tube of absorbing a popular content creator? Assuming this is going to continue to happen more and more (Hasanabi seems like he's on the Twitch chopping block at this very moment).

Paging @TankieTanuki@hexbear.net

Not a lib.

How can one not love listening to some Einheitsfrontlied, Katyusha or literally any other Soviet song. God, how did they manage to produce such bangers? And why don't we have a 21st century Einheitsfrontlied? Imagine being a rotfront member in the early 30s, fucking up a bunch of Nazis while singing about the United Front