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I have unfortunately been made aware of what goes down in an AP Computer Science Principles class and my god this shit is an info hazard. Why are we subjecting students to this

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One bit of good news is I have a telehealth appointment with my therapist from rehab tomorrow. So I'm looking forward to having someone to talk to about him.

It sucks because he was doing well, then he had to leave the house today and it made him sick :/

So I am being brought to one of these No Kings marches on Saturday. Any pointers on talking to libs in a way that they will listen and get curious about Socialism?

A couple orgs will be there including PSL, but from comrades' stories from the last two of these they don't actually bring up Socialism during their speaking slots and talk about imperialism instead. I would like to be more explicit in tying what is happening to Capitalism and especially try to get across that Trump is just a symptom of the problem.

I've been into a few bookstores while wandering around and have seen exciting novel interesting books in the genres of horror, sci fi, and even fantasy (a genre I thought had been self preferentially done to death). And it's cool! I want to read these! But I am no longer a crippled child with ample time to read, so if I'm going to spend money on books and then spend a bunch of time reading I damn well want it to be worthwhile. This has led to me snapping pics of books so that I can download them instead later and give them the old up-to-3-chapters-to-hook-me try, and then at that point if I like it I may as well just read the eBook and not buy the book at all. Not a terrible way to do it tbh! But there's still the time investment problem and there's still the problem of the books or plots getting terrible later as the author injects more of their terrible worldview into the mix.

My issue is that when I'm reading a blurb on a book from an author I don't already know is good, I have no way to know if it's going to be interesting, innovative, and good, or if it's going to be mediocre slop. I have no idea if it's going to be full of shitlib tokenism and selective peace-policing. I have no idea if it's full of anticommunist brainworms or not. I have no idea if this is a tropy snorefest.

Googling for reviews online is surprisingly not as helpful as I'd have expected! I suppose I could turn to social media to see what people in general think, but the credibility is immediately undermined by how vapid and superficial BookTok's taste is (does it tokenize minorities? Then it MUST be good even if everything else about the book is dogshit!) or by how much Reddit loves Brandon Sanderson (have you ever heard of Mistborn it's the best series ever). I can't take these sources seriously for recommendations anymore because they've burned me.

If they couldn't handle me at my mental health worst, then they dont get me at my....fuck it, whatever, ive been thinking about hanging it up for years anyways 💅💅💅💅💅💅💅💅

Lmao i dont even listen to doom anymore, its been fuckin years. Might go back to doing folk punk shit, or at least doing "full band" stuff on my laptop like I did when I started doing metal.

Also im going to bed now. On some new brain shit that makes me sleep (seroquel). I dont expect or really wanna have any conversations about this right now. I just wanted to post to make myself feel better.

I'd have more success genuinely arguing with brick walls sometimes and I genuinely want to believe I am being baited because I would have more faith in humanity if that were true. The problem is it doesn't feel like bad faith when their arguments are so bad I can't piece together what part of my position they are even attempting to challenge.

I blocked most of the people who I encounter this with but I keep one around simply because of how much they perplex me. Also they have a silly username and I think that's chill.

Edit: what if they are just giving me a strawman to beat so my arguments look good? Secret comrade? /s

and it's a cis white manchild from Utah.

I was a solid 6, maybe even 7, out of ten and I'm tired of pretending it wasn't. Suddenly we were all too good for feelgood movies? It was nothing special, but it was good. Good acting all around, good costume design, cute little story, I loved the sideplot about the letters to the italian guys wife and the ending where he had a gun all along was neat.

Sure it's the kind of slop the crew from the Sopranos would hail as being absolutely fantastic but that doesn't mean it's not a good movie. I hate when people suddenly insist something sucks because shitty people like the thing too much.

• Family house robbed by student militants during the Cultural Revolution
• Mother forced to denounce father as an enemy of the revolution in front of a crowd
• Father imprisoned
• Arrested and sent to a labor camp for deserting the post he was assigned as part of the Down to the Countryside Movement
• Rejected for Party membership 10 times

To me it also demonstrates a big difference between capitalism and socialism. Compare Xi's post-prison trajectory to capitalist countries, where a criminal record basically makes you a part of a lifelong unemployable underclass (unless you're a millionaire, of course).

I had to travel over twice my normal commute to get to the location of an all-day event which is highly unusual for me. Now our finance person is saying I "don't get paid for travel", which I would agree with if it was my ordinary commute and not over an hour! Funny thing is I usually get reimbursed for ride share (except the tip 🙄) but I opted for public transit this time because I didn't want to bother with the reimbursement process and half expected them to stiff me...

Mostly just venting, but if anyone has a legal source more directly talking about this under FLSA that would be swag. A lot of stuff is couched in "travel to another city" which isn't technically true in my case

Don't get me wrong. This site's dunking culture is good and it serves an important purpose. It's an immune system that stops bad-faith trolls and fascists from getting a foot in the door. Just like a biological immune system, though, it can get overactive and start attacking its own body. This is called an autoimmune disease and it can severely damage or even kill its host body.

What's appropriate for a lib or a fascist who refuses to even consider whether they might be wrong about our fundamental ideas isn't appropriate for a comrade who, in good faith, is voicing an opinion you happen to disagree with. This is very similar to something Mao talks about in his essay "On The Correct Handling Of Contradictions Among The People." Mao's essay splits contradictions into two types:

• Antagonistic contradictions are those between class and political opponents with irreconcilable interests. There's no real debate to be had here. They're enemies. You don't engage in dialog with them. You defeat them.
• Non-antagonistic contradictions are those that occur within a class or movement. The interests of all involved are fundamentally aligned, but there's disagreement on how to advance those interests. These disagreements are resolved through discussion that improves mutual understanding and allows for arrival at a consensus.

Applying the analogy to posting on Hexbear:

• Antagonistic contradiction: A chud wanders in to lecture the site about how Stalin killed 50 quintillion people / Hamas is an evil terrorist group / the transes are corrupting the youth. You can't convince these people and it's not worth trying. Post dunks, express hostility, drive them off. That's community hygiene.
• Non-antagonistic contradiction: A comrade who's been on this site for years voices a concern that you posted something bigoted / disagrees with your interpretation of a work of media / advocates engaging with people politically in a way you don't consider effective. You both want communism, you are both anti-imperialist, you both want Hexbear to be a welcoming space for marginalized people. Good-faith dialogue is a way to share information and enhance mutual understanding. Responding to these people with insults and dunks just pisses them off and discourages them or anyone watching from engaging with the site except to post their own insults and dunks. The site becomes more toxic and hostile.

Good video explaining the housing crisis.

Yard bird.

Pressure testing a residential underground gas line, house next door is using the utility easement as a chicken roost.

At first they scattered, but after about five minutes they were all clucking and circling around me. One really curious one kept pecking at my overalls and my tool tray looking for bugs.

I just started learning Mandarin again with HelloChinese and it seems like a lot of the spoken example sentences are not following the written tones. Like the sentence “我说中文”. The speaker is pronouncing 文 as wèn instead of wén. I don’t have any experience speaking with tones, but I’m a musician with very good relative pitch and I feel like I ought to be able to tell whether a pitch is rising or falling, so this is confusing.

I like Mandarin. Based on my previous attempt and some videos I’ve seen explaining grammar rules and whatnot it seems to be a very logically structured language compared to English. But then in that same sentence from before, 说 and 中 are pronounced with different pitches despite both being the first tone. Which is fine, but what dictates that 中 is higher than 说? Does it matter that they’re about a tritone apart? What is the meaning of the relative pitch? While I’m confused about the above thing with the tones being mixed up, the way that pitches are chosen for the tones is absolutely fascinating and I’d love to read more about it if possible.

I know there’s a certain amount of “just do the work and stop asking questions before you’re ready for the answer” involved here, but this is just a lot of how I learn. I love jumping around and getting bogged down in theoretical stuff at the same time that I’m doing the more rote stuff. It makes it go down easier.

Everyone in my family just turns their head to the side and lets their sneeze rip into the house. I've only convinced one of them to cover their sneeze sometimes.

I told my sister that if she couldn't grab a tissue in time, then she could pull the collar of her T-shirt up over her nose (a move I copied from my friend from Vietnam) and she said "that's gross!"

...But coating the entire room in a fine mist of the same stuff isn't!? That's like opting to throw your turd at a moving house fan instead of shitting your pants.

I also had a classmate who would sneeze with so much substance that I could literally see chunks of snot hit the floor.

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And I know he was feeling better because he was short with me on the phone, lol. I know this is probably going to be a thing with him, having him wax and wane with feeling better then worse then back again with chemo. But for now at least my mind is at ease.

Today I have a phone call with my therapist from rehab, so we'll see if I want to go that route with her, getting counseling again.

I usually make a mutual aid post towards the end of the month. It usually asks for a supermarket gift card, with an email address to send it to. In January after making a mutual aid post, someone emailed me what gift card I need, and suggesting we go to a different website to talk. I thought it was a bit strange they were asking me what gift card I need when it was clearly stated in my post, but I sent them a link to the gift card site anyway. I also said I'd prefer to just communicate through email rather than signing up to some website I don't know, also I'm not good with tech stuff and it looked complicated.

They said they were unable to do the supermarket gift card, it wasn't working for them and asked if something else would be OK. I suggested amazon and they sent a £15 amazon gift card as a tester, saying if it worked they'd send one every month, up to £100 a month. It worked just fine but they never sent another. Over the next few days they sent multiple long emails about Australia, where they claim to live and emails asking again what gift cards I want.

Then for 10 days I heard nothing from them and thought they'd stopped. But then they started again, now asking for my address so they could send groceries to my door. But I didn't feel comfortable giving my address to this particular person, something about them just seemed off. They also asked "send details on what i can do to help you," even though by now I had told them multiple times that supermarket or amazon gift cards would help.

They said they could send a £50 justeat card but they never did. They said they could get another amazon card but never did. They then asked for my address again. Sometimes they'd send three emails in a day, always promising things. Much of the content in the emails was paragraphs and paragraphs about disabled people in Australia and sending me documentaries about them and asking if I'd watched them yet. They asked how much money I need per month to live on. Then they said "I will make sure to send a gift card in 24 hours." Well, days passed and the gift card never arrived. Finally they sent an email saying they'd been unable to get the gift card as they'd spent their money booking a trip to the UK and Ireland and if I would give them my address they would come and visit me. They actually seemed to think I would be happy about this. Bear in mind I know nothing about this person, not their name, gender, anything.

Then they said they were already thinking about cancelling this trip they'd just paid for so they could stay in Australia, get a job and therefore "have more money to support you." Honestly I was getting creeped out at this. It's one thing for people with money to spare to help out, but a complete stranger getting a job with the intent of supporting me long term seems off, especially since they don't ever come through. They even asked for my opinion on whether they should take the trip or get a job. I just said the weather is bad here and I'm not well enough for visitors. Which is true.

They didn't respond for a week, but then started emailing me again, saying they'd cancelled their plans and again asking me what gift cards I need. I said, for the like fifth time, an amazon gift card would be fine as it worked on the test run. They didn't respond for another two weeks. Then emailed me to say they had £200 for me and yet again asking me "what gift cards would you like?" I provided links to multiple gift cards sites with various different payment methods so surely something would work or they could just do amazon, but three days have passed again and no response.

This person is just teasing me aren't they? I keep hoping they're genuine and just busy but they said they don't work, what can they be so busy with that they don't respond for up to two weeks at a time? Why keep asking me over and over what gift cards I want. Why say they want to come and visit me when they don't even know me.

What colors would marx, engels, lenin, etc. play in Magic: The Gathering?

She has her own practice that's telehealth and takes my insurance, so that's comforting to know. I have it on the backburner for now though.

*edit: I reached out to her, what the hell.

*edit2: she got back to me, I'm surprised it took that fast. Will update with anything that comes.

This is probably a well known combination but I jsut disovered it and goddamn it is good