AlbigensianGhoul

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[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Me too, tbh, but it's a bit of a "Great Taste;Awful Execution" right now. I think a better approach would be to do one for each country first, and actually bothering to invite historians from those countries, and then if possible joining those together. I've been reading Galeano's "Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina" lately and it would be cool to do timelines and maps of the events listed in broad histories like that one in easily digestible form.

Edit: For some reason I also forgot to look at the USSR region there, and it along with China just being that sparse is a really bad look for the map makers too.

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Brazil doesn't have any workers, we're all just very urban peasants. Very weird map. Turkey is somehow worse despite having such a long and well studied history.

Edit: Oh god the Native Lands layer in Brazil is actually horrible. Apparently nobody lived in all those lands with native names.

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That food should be free. We have too much already, not reason it should not be.

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Even in a vacuum, "human nature" arguments for individuals make very little sense against things humans already do or want to do. Here we have humans which are pretty natural doing that very same thing, so in order for them to not obey "human nature" they'd need to have been influenced by space aliens or something.

Obviously Nazis effectively already believe that, but it's odd how "well meaning" libs often fall into that same trap.

It does make a bit of sense, and there are other sane reasons to do gun control in the USA and stop their gun cults. It's a bit hard to get statistics on "unsuccessful" attempts because how it gets reported varies a lot, so although firearms are usually the most lethal, I'm not sure if they're the most prevalent when considering the failed ones.

But this is a common tactic of their media outlets, to frame every social problem as if the only way it could ever be solved is by voting Blue harder or convincing the Republicans to be normal, or some other nonsense. They always frame it in such a way that implies that common people have zero agency besides voting once every two years and maybe emailing a "representative."

I'm no church lover, but even churches can sometimes be more materialistic on these matters of social decay than the libs.

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago

I'm really bad with expressing positivity, but since in the post you linked you mentioned that your posts don't get much traction, I just want to explicitly state here that I really like your posts.

Hopefully things get more manageable for you, even if I have nothing tangible to offer here. Good luck!

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even if that wasn't the case, the main advertised methods for helping are medication, therapy, lifestyle changes, better diets and exercise, all of which are heavily bounded by one's financial condition.

People do as they will, but they do so while bound by their social conditions, or something of the sort.

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Starting tomorrow is "yellow September", so just watch a bunch of health privateers dressed as insurance companies putting on a show about how "you matter to somebody (financially)" or "it gets better (with my service)."

Bourgies and libs have infiltrated every aspect of people's mental health and somehow made it worse.

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago

And in a sense that is what the USA already gives to their citizens. But would be cool if they actually gave you food, healthcare and housing and stuff. You know, humanitarian stuff.

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, Google thinks I'm Br*tish because I love watching their country burn, and whenever I searched about mental health it gave me liberal idealist nonsense from the Mind Group that wants to privatise the NHS. Lovely bunch.

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Having gone through some of that myself, it always annoys me to no end how liberal outlets hyperfocus so hard on the methods (and banning of those) or vague "reducing stigma" rather than actually addressing literally any of the reasons people consider dying. I understand that there's no "one-size fits all" solution, but really basic stuff like having access to mental healthcare, or, in the case of their listed example, dignified drug rehab, being relegated to half a paragraph while they spend most of it talking about guns.

How about public funding for free mental healthcare in order to combat a mental health crisis? No? Or how to build local communities for support and mutual aid? Not that either? Or literally just listing reasons people did it so we can think of solutions? Nah, let's talk about the absolute only thing that Democrats and Republicans actually sorta disagree on, that is tangentially related to this, but will never actually change due to how entrenched gun culture already is in the USA.

CW: Suicide Methods

Research indicates that firearms aren't even that much more effective than some other suicide methods, though they obviously require some more preparation. I doubt banning guns is going to do much, and just actually reading the low rates of mortality and all the cases of people who survived it to a long lifetime of suffering and severe disability was enough to convince me that it is just a horrible risk to take, even if you actually believe that it is worth it.

If there is a nation that actually needs actual humanitarian aid from the USA, it is the USA.

This one glorifying Baby Doc Duvalier's selling out the Haitian economy to the USA as "an alluring investment deal." Later on they pretended they never supported the dictatorship.

 

It'll even feature VS Code extensions so you can debug your copilot bugs you don't understand by posting generated prompts on Stack Overflow.

The video demonstration is also pretty funny, apparently CEOs think programmers don't know how to use search engines.

 

Joels of both sizes have been making pretty good videos lately.

 

Get a load of this guy. Apparently, putting forward "beliefs and ideology" are against their code of conduct.

His comment about blocking lemmygrad don't seem that bad to me, it's getting a bit annoying seeing lost dotworlders thinking they're the first one to ever say "communism bad."

 

Tava cavando umas gravações históricas e encontrei esses videos perdidos no canal gov lá de 2009.

 

Tentei melhorar um pouco a qualidade do audio que só achei versões bem ruidosas, mas provavelmente só piorei porque ainda não sou bom com Audacity. Como imagino que muitos não tenham ouvido esse aí ainda, tá aí pra quem tiver interesse em historia.

 

I've been looking into getting some freelance gig to help paying rent, but a lot of the websites look like those YouTube ad scams, promising "elite jobs" or other nonsense, and rely too much on building fake résumés. Stuff like Turing or even LinkedIn now. Anybody know any less terrible ones on an international level?

Due to personal reasons I can't really get a full-time job right now and don't even need that much money so low pay is alright for the time being so long as the workload is also low. I also don't have much "official" job experience, so "AI" CV readers will probably discard me really quickly despite me being in the field for a long time now.

 

Not sure anything interesting will come out of it, but the announcement post got a bit of traction here, so I thought of alerting those with bad memory like me.

 

The ballad of "The Electable Sir Kid Starver." They still have about an year to go before realising the previous 5 years of hyped electoral performance were about as honest as the Brexit Bus.

 

The paper is being launched amid a dispute over Scottish government ministers using civil service staff to develop policy in reserved areas such as independence.

Apparently the single most divisive question in Scotland and main goal of the ruling party is a "reserved area", according to Brits.

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