So Stalin helped kill a buttload of Nazis which is nice.

And saying “under Chinese rule” is a weird way to state it. I mean, of course the Chinese people should rule themselves. Unless you’re butt hurt about China resisting the western colonial powers and murdering a bunch of capitalists.

Given the bad faith of your comment, I feel no need to elaborate, clarify, or provide nuance.

Bruh

Just use a cheap face lotion to help with the dryness. To reduce the look of redness you can use an inexpensive anti-redness BB cream. Cheap lotion first, then BB cream (like garnier or something)

Even if this is true (which it definitely is for the liberal “democracies”) the scale of being untrustworthy, and the consequences of that, vary immensely.

He will likely release them to manufacture the consent required to dismantle, or at least retool, the fbi and cia so that he can further consolidate power.

It wouldn’t change my opinion tbh. Regardless of what is in the documents, the country is literally dripping with blood from the domestic and international assassinations, coups, genocides, etc… I’m not sure my opinion can be any lower, and it would take a miracle to improve it at this point.

We could always introduce a purge. Maybe every 5-10 years (random) the 10 wealthiest individuals must fight to the death. Win or lose they lose all their money and have to start over. Its like the Olympics. And they can use their money to equip themselves, with tech and weapons.

Its like the Olympics

But yeah capitalism is no bueno

I mean isn’t this more "circle jerking " about dismantling state propaganda? Interacting with those you were told are your enemy?

Besides, people should always celebrate the positives, and look towards them as something that is possible in their country too.

And as an fyi: when we were here before, the workers revolution in Russia was new. The achievements were so profound that workers in North America began demanding similar concessions from our governments. There was a real threat of overthrowing the existing power structures. And what happened? Weekends, literacy, healthcare, just generally improved living conditions. To dismiss cultural exchange as circle jerking is to ignore history and the power that comes with knowing things are better elsewhere, and that you can have that too.

Maybe chill with the ableism. You can call a removed a removed without bringing disability into it.

I dont know if the west has enough military forces to maintain control of their current roster of subservient states, impose their will on the rest of the Americas, and maintain order on home soil. At some point they will become spread too thin and the whole thing will come crumbling down.

I mean, it is exciting

Petro dollar collapses too. The west blames China and probably Russia for economic disaster and huge unemployment (even though it’s the wests fault for not planning for that inevitable reality).

Civil unrest in the west, potentially war with China unless NATO collapses first.

Many bad things for the people in the west since our entire political economic system depends on cheap energy facilitating “infinite” growth (of GDP at least).

Though, hopefully leaders in the west are smarter than trying to beat a dead horse.

Maybe the judge was worried, in the current political climate, that if the Onion owned InfoWars, a lot more frogs would be turned gay. And frankly, being a gay frog in present day America just isn’t really a great way to live with all of the oppression.

So really, the judge is doing the frogs a favour.

Physicists abhor a black box. So long as it is an option, most will choose not to use AI to any great extent, and will chastise those who do.

You mean when the Soviets wanted to put missiles close to the USA to stop the American Invasions of Cuba that kept failing, and let the Americans know what it felt like to have nukes pointed their way, and the Americans have been butt hurt ever since?

You can easily fascinate a woman with cheese

I do something similar. But I also have a huge master list organized by category (for chores it’s rooms based) and frequency (daily, monthly, etc) with a check box next to each thing.

I have it posted up on a wall where I can’t help but see it, and next to it is a whiteboard calendar where I schedule all of these tasks. You could always try something like this (I know it’s borderline insane but ADHD gonna ADHD) or make it your own.

The key though is to make it iterative. Pay attention to what works (for example with chores, is sweeping daily too often? Then change it. Same goes for studying) and modify it on set intervals (every 2 weeks, month, whatever).

It gives a visual representation of what needs to be done, when, and provides accountability because you can see what you did/didn’t do, and so can anyone else who has access to it.

It took me probably 6 hours to initially set it up, but it’s been huge for me.

Alternatively (or as part of some organizational strategy), focus your effort on tasks you do like and subjects you do like, while doing enough to just get by on everything else. Breaks are important, but try not to interrupt any states of flow you get into.

Bonus: Post Secondary School is hard! Be gentle with yourself. And remember it is rarely a life or death situation. Follow your syllabus, it’s there to guide you, and talk to your instructor and classmates when you can. There will never (unless you have insane physics professors like did) be new material on a test. It’s always something you have covered. It may not be a specific question/problem/topic you have solved/written about, but it will use all the same skills and knowledge you’ve developed. Plus, a lot of questions come from fairly standard question banks with digital learning software becoming nearly ubiquitous.

Lol I have so many conversations like this. Someone was saying a bunch of people got laid off at their job during covid and they almost lost their house. I said something like “it’s a shame that they didn’t just temporarily decrease everyone’s hours so you all still had work. I mean, the work was going to come back eventually”.

And they of course agreed

I think many will obey the decision, just not the USA, Canada, terf island, the E.U., you know the usual culprits for not following international law.

The real question is if you slapped hard enough to raise the temperature to 74C (undergrad clearly doesn’t cook), what would the temperature of your hand be? And for the engineers: how far up your arm would you have to measure before the temperature returned to normal body temperature? And for the bio/kin/nursing/premed students: how much would need to be amputated?

Two questions: do you want to be able to play the guitar?

If yes:

Can you turn the guitar sideways and take a picture so we can see the space between the strings and the fret board?

Do that and I’ll send you a link to a tab that is super easy but still a recognizable song. Then you can build from there.