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Yeah, synesthesia counts!

Find a physical activity you enjoy and do it at least three times a week. Either join an organized religion or specifically curate a group of people you do a weekly activity with who will come check on you if you suddenly stop showing up.

I managed to get both these with sport teams. (At least in my area), the local sports competitions are actively looking for players, and if you have skills or enjoy a role others don't, you can even just volunteer (instead of pay fees) in a few teams before joining one you like. And one foot in the door will likely get you invited to other teams and competitions when someone's team needs a substitute player (or you can just ask, "Does anyone have a team that play on Thursday nights?").

In my favorite team, I became de-facto captain of because I showed up most reliably and was the remaining member of the original team as people left and joined. One week I forgot to tell them I would be away for the match due to travel, and the next day I wake up to a couple of check-in messages just to make sure I haven't vanished or had a bookshelf fall on me. And it's a reassuring feeling to realize you're part of a community that cares about each other.

The Soviet Calendar has similarities to the technocracy movement (not socialism but has some lines of similarity) functional calendar proposal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement#Calendar

In lecture form: ~~skip to 7:32~~ Better quality (skip to 43:23)

An end result of liberalist idealism. (plus what others have said)

Celebrating on the 24th. It's not even a long historical tradition in my own family or local culture, we adopted it after my grandparents celebrated a few Christmases with a Central European immigrant family in the neighborhood who start celebrating at midday 24th December and realized it enabled those of us who were married/etc to celebrate the next day with our other families. It's much more relaxing like that, I've heard my friends complain after trying to fit in a breakfast, lunch and dinner at three different Christmas parties in one day to avoid offending anyone.

Honestly, I think there's a silver lining to people learning through experience even if you and I already know the answer, and I believe Bernie $anders being shafted in Democratic primaries, despite their clear popularity, was a catalyst for radicalizing lots of people nationwide.

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I immediately disregard any comment the Socialist Equality Party ultras say about other people or groups being non-left. I'm not even saying they're right or wrong; their statements on the matter are simply worthless.

^ Their front page alone has 10 different mentions of "pseudo-left" right now. They're obsessed with sectarianism.

By the way, in some countries they're banned from union strike actions after counterpicketing the strikers for not being pure enough. An infantile disorder.

only a few hundred

Christmas music

There are a couple of songs I like, but honestly a lot of it is junk, which wouldn't be too bad if they hadn't already been playing in stalls for half a month.

The Grinch wears a top hat.

Normal is crazy, so it could be either. My shock when 🏴‍☠️ I realized that TV show episodes (not streaming) are generally 22 minutes for a half-hour slot - almost a third of TV is ads.

Large corporate offices often run VPNs in a similar way, anyone with a work-from-home laptop or phone generally has to log into a VPN to get internet/network access.

Simple non-inflammatory option?

People who litter.

I can't remember the last time I've been outside and not seen plastic, cartons and dumped household items that had been tossed aside. This includes hiking and other activities away from cities.