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He was very dehydrated, which is kind of goofy to say, but the man never drinks water, it's always his V8 fruit juice. Anyway they're keeping him for observation and giving him fluid. PHEW I feel better now, and he said I can eat his pizza he had in the fridge so bonus for me.

I've befriended a few, have Indian American friends that tell me what their close Indian immigrants friends are like, work with them every day, and see/interact with them in the city daily

She's also like a weirdo hippy lady with white girl dreads.

Should we stage and intervention?

Hoping for rainout at work today.

Thanks Zuckerberg

I mean the photos are still on my phone and even saved from prior phones but I don't even know why my shit got suspended but it's still fucked that they just wiped out those memories and now I have to catch shit for it

I honestly can't handle being around them, they love pretending to be more reasonable than they are, making me look like an emotional ass (thanks neurodivergence). Seriously, what's up with chuds dancing around the point and never being honest about their intentions? Like they pretend they don't want to exterminate muslims, or people from countries they don't like, why all the dishonesty? I know she believes these things because they like watching Ben Shapiro, Assmongold, Matt Walsh etc. She's joined Orthodox church after finding Catholics too woke for upholding hasic COVID restrictions, and constantly whines about Muslims.

I'm more than happy to admit I want society to be violent towards billionaires, fascists etc. Why can't they be honest about it, why dance around the point?

Hey comrades. I've got a chronic condition the system failed to catch. I don't blame the overworked medics; I blame the politicians who sold my country for a buck and treat us like cogs in a machine, and the system that allows the satanic pedophile elites to exist. My cope? Turning that rage into content creation. Not because it's easy (the stats haunt me), but because I'm here and I'm spiteful.

My goals are modest but radical:

• A living wage.
• Hire someone to help me with the things I don't care much about, like making video thumbnails.
• Use the platform to build a decentralized organizing tool, not just another Discord. Think a mesh network for pure mutual aid & direct action, free from party lines and doxxing. Hopefully a way to connect the different leftist parties of each country so that it feels like you're participating in a universal movement.

What I need from you:

• Tips for making it without selling my soul.
• Best resources to learn video editing, SEO, and promotion.
• Harsh truths, delivered gently. I know the odds are trash, but so is the healthcare system, and I'm still here.

Upvote so a comrade can afford to exist. ✊

I was walking back around a corner from a water meter and saw an orange stray semi-running up to me and screaming. He was a sweet cat, followed me for a few minutes, making figure eights around my legs and stopping to holler at me occasionally.

I petted him because he was a good kitty, and went on my way. I got home an hour later and while my cat was greeting me at the door she stopped to sniff the palm of my hand I used to pet the orange boi. She growled a tiny bit, put her ears back and kept sniffing my hands. She walked to the couch, jumped on it and hissed at me.

I thoroughly expect to find a cat poop in my shoes tomorrow.

Trying to run a DND campaign for the first time but I don't know anything about map making, geography, or geology. I want the physical features of the land to mostly make sense from a geological perspective and then conform the borders of my city-states and empire to their natural geographic constraints. How do I even begin with this?

Water you doing today? I just got off work and haven't been able to post all day. So here I am. Let the shitposting begin.

At the very least to describe what the various communities are for. There seem to be many "general-purpose" communities and I do not understand the difference between them, and there are also communities that seem to be duplicates of one another, namely /c/hexbear, /c/den, and /c/feedback.

Additionally, I believe having a wiki blurb for common "emoji" would be beneficial. Who is the person in the image? What is their politics? Why is their image immortalized on our platform? What are some of the common usages of the emoji in terms of communicating a message or emotion through shorthand? Often I am faced with comments that I find incomprehensible due to the use of an emoji that I do not understand.

Did they really think that making the least charismatic man alive the face of their product would endear the public to it?

at least my InstaSlop account is fine

Don't even know why, probably told too many transphobes to off themselves

Sick and twisted fate

Local area has received a boatload of rain recently, and wet weather seems to generally be sticking around, for once.

One month ago, we were at 8% capacity. Today, lake level is one-tenth shy of 23%. Some folks are here talking about watering lawns, and watering cars again. 'Back to normal', they say.

Man's hubris knows no bounds. Round them up and [removed] them.

btw is it just me, or are there less and less people on this website, all i see around me are familiar faces

My dad worked as an engineer (ironically, or perhaps because of this, later as a safety engineer) and when he left university he got a job in Zambia for a short while (we are from the UK). He has many horror stories about how insanely racist the colonials were. I don't remember exactly what I said, but he told me two stories of how buisnesses handled pollution. He said when he worked in Avonmouth (near Bristol) what they did was kept strictly to regulations for emissions of N2O during the day and then at night when it was dark and it couldn't be seen release as much as they like (to the point locals knew not to put washing on the line at night since it would dissolve).

The other one was the lead smelter in Zambia. He told me the colonials intentionally put the black township downwind of the smelter and the white homes upwind. He said expats who came to Zambia would always be shocked but the colonials were in his words "soulless inhuman husks".

While working there he got bullied for refusing to be tolerant of the extreme racist attitudes and so they arranged for him to have an accident which led to him getting molten lead spilled on him. He has a very large scar on his lower back, I loved the texture of it as a kid, I had no idea that was why he had it. He told me this story literally a few days ago.

I was so incensed by it I was like where was this, maybe we can make like a video where people talk about their experiences, its so horrible, so many people are tryna whitewash colonialism these days and these stories need telling...

It was Kabwe. I'd never heard of it. I look it up and there's multiple documentries about "the most toxic town in africa".

My dad ...was there... he was part of that...

A few years ago they tried to bring a class action lawsuit against Anglo American (the mining company) in South Africa because Zambia does not allow class action lawsuits. It was not allowed to be heard.

It drives me mad even to this day so many decades later no-one has managed to make anyone pay for what they did there.

I'm thinking the PD is off, but that's not supposed to be this bad if its off by 2mm. So now I need to send my glasses back to zenni to hopefully get a new pair in a month. It's bullshit. And for what? I don't even fucking need glasses. I'm near-sighted anyway. What, you want me to look at something over there? I'll just walk up to it, you fool. I have the power of locomotion, a gift that I don't take for granted, by the way. Why would I try to read text that's across the room? I can use a computer, I just need to sit a little closer. You know what? This glasses bullshit is a scam anyway. I paid 65 bucks and I'm still going to get screwed. I got the fancy filters on the lenses, I bet that's what did it. Too many filters, if I scraped them off I would be right as rain. You can see them in the light, a blue one and pink one. They gotta go. fuck glasses. Communism wouldn't allow this rent seeking from my eyes. Every year new pair, new bullshit to deal with. I already struggle to see with two (2!) other eye related disabilities, I should just get a braille keyboard and forget out sight. I don't need it. I don't need to see to smell flowers, hear a symphony, or fuck your mom. Sight is probably the most overrated sense in the world. You know what is the most underrated? Proprioception. You ever lose that? Because I have. In both of my hands. That was fucking hell. I would take being blinded any day of the week over going through that again. Eyes ain't shit. It's just hte bain forgetting it's place as the lump inside my skull. They are putting the eyes in scientific diagrams of the brain now, they have been elevated far above their station and I am taking a stand against them. Fuck eyes. Fuck glasses. Fuck opticians. Fuck Zenni. Fuck luxottica. I wrote this whole thing without glasses and you can't even tell because glasses are bullshit.

I'd give them a 9/10 texture and 6/10 flavor

Y'all got a favorite squash?

like for example i've noticed in my life that beginners luck is a real phenomenon and pops up constantly. i've just now thought of applying the dialectical method (or my own terminally online, meme-addled, haven't-read-enough-theory imitation of it) to be idea of beginners luck and skill mastery/learning in general

let's say beginners luck (playing well without understanding why your plays work) exists as a phenomenon due to the dialectical nature of the process by which humans acquire skills and its consequent non-linearity and unpredictability. mastering a game is the process of iteratively refining one's mental model of how best to play it, coming up with new strategies and tactics, testing them by playing the game, and keeping or rejecting reject strategies and tactics according to whether they succeed or fail.

this is pure thesis - antithesis - synthesis, right? like when you're totally new to a game you just try what seems natural (thesis). then you reach intermediate level by correcting for mistakes you made as a beginner (antithesis). then you jump to advanced mastery by recognizing which of your first round of corrections helped you and which were overcorrections, and for those overcorrections you revert back to (or at least toward) the way you were doing it when you first started (synthesis).

a good example is in chess. if the best move is one which breaks a common rule of thumb, a beginner might play it not knowing it breaks a rule; an intermediate player won't play it because they know it breaks the rule of thumb; and an expert will play it because they know this is an appropriate situation in which to break the rule of thumb.

are any of you aware of a book or paper about this dialectical understanding of learning? or am i just rambling nonsensically here?

I have never had a "nice" cigar but the one I had was enjoyable. Are they worth the price?