Well damn, so sorry. 
NoLeftLeftWhereILive
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I am not entirely sure what is going on with people, but I spent this morning yet again in a mandatory in person meeting. At least three people were visibly sick or saying like they are "coming down with something". This has been going on since August now.
But the real kicker is the way a young person pipes up with "It's the weirdest thing, I have been having such intense migranes in the past weeks after I had the "summer flu". I had migraines as a kid, but never as an adult. It's the weirdest." Then several other people piped up to voice their new such weird and mystical health issues.
And there I sit, listening to this same stuff in some form week in and week out. And keep thinking to myself that maybe it's my autism or maybe it's something else, but how do these people not put two and two together, even now. Or ever. I get that they are underinformed, but still.
And I suppose the mask is like this for most, not trauma but just gone entirely as an option. Covid literally does not exist for most people anymore. Or something. I don't know anymore.
Yeah it makes sense.
I also wonder if in a space like this the high number of maybes reflects the gender in flux that sort of isn't either ready for a signifier or just fully refuses one, which I think my own identification is becoming. So there could be a lot of people in motion in there who might have at one time answered differently or might answer differently somewhere else.
Plus I think leftism itself helps people to reconsider things like gender so in leftist spaces I would assume people will be selecting more open categories.
Also techically I at least am one of those "has lived a life of a cis woman" who answered "maybe" types that might be able to voice that maybe only in a space like this. I am thinking of a kind of autigender thing and the way women mask and have to mask their identities.
This is heartbreaking. Shared the link with my lib family members who are currently again sick and very much into doing the new normal. Unsurprisingly no comments/aknowledgement (none will watch this even for a minute).
I soak them overnight in the fridge for a sort of pudding. Oat milk & cacao & vanilla with some berries is nice. I also put the soaked gel in smoothies sometimes.
I use them in baking too, but always soaked.
In my understanding it can be bad if you eat them dry as they absorb so much water.
In my county there is also a recommended daily amount for them, I think about 1-2tbs. So I tend to follow that if eating them.
Oh my goodness, a self-proclaimed logical person.
Oh goodest boy! Look at those amazing millenial socks too!
Edit. Look like he's lost a sock too. That is so cute.
Tech bros genuinely believe that their glorified automated text generators and such will solve something? Talk about magical thinking.
The times I've had to listen to people like this explain to others how great systemic thinkers they are and how much better they are at understanding basically everything then anyone else and these are the takes they have on "AI"... It's both funny and pathetic.
It also looks like these supposedly smartest of the smart don't actually get it at all.
Absolutely not. I work in the public sector and masking is socially definitely not ok. So to be able to earn a living, I have given up my safety and the safety of my partner and replaced it with avoidance of all I can avoid and a nasal spray. I mask whenever I get to do things in my own way.
This is a country where I have not seen a single mask in years now and not heard a single person irl voice concern about covid. Meanwhile me and my partner have had a rough time with the virus every time, although I suppose less than the people doing "normal" as I for example opted out from in person studies fully last winter due to the wave and everyone being sick.
Non-masking as a hegemonic position literally shuts people out of society. I would have loved to be present for my own bacherol seminars, but it didn't feel safe. It erodes the very participation libs always love to bang on about. And it's very much a class issue. It's workers like me that die from it, care workers, immigrants, women, the poors, the disabled, elderly. It's also a whiteness issue. White people, even leftists, stopped caring the moment they understood that their privileged asses are safer.
It's all like this. I don't even understand where the stuff in this page is coming from, but "coercion and violence of communist rule" is once again just thrown in there.
Also this book seems to really be looking down on the working class from my reading, although I suppose it tries to highlight some issues. Not to mention all the discourse about social capital or other types of capital, but never actual capital.
This also reads like a weird sort of celebration of neoliberalism as inevitable, but then again I am just so tired of reading stuff like this that I am probably not giving it much credit.
Book is called "masculinity, labor and neoliberalism".
So what are your plans for May Day 2024?
I am thinking we will go visit a Red memorial and watch the ceremony there, then maybe some marching and singing with comrades.
The fuck this Timo guy saying? This reads like peak Jordan Peterson thought aka thoughts from a pseudointellectual bullshit generator.
Just wow.
Also dudes talking about the market, which isn't the same as capitalism afaik.
Don't really have a take. These ghouls are discovering the Fediverse it looks like.
I can't even...
Trust the Ghouls to bring fat phobia even to war. This is peak neoliberalism.
Not to mention equating weight with health.
Then again this has come up as a justification of starving Cubans too, more than once.
Are you ready for your stressed out heroin chic body? It's good for you, trust me.
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Yeah no summer flu existed before. Or constant allergies. Or blood pressure meds for people in their 30s. Or Christmas flus for that matter.
I also love the levels of splaining they will go to to prove their covid isn't covid. Educated adults who very well know you don't get sick from being cold straight up say things like "got the sniffles because I was out in the cold too long" and similar mental acrobatics. And the longcovid stuff is: aging (in people in their 30s), genes, stress, bad luck. It's never covid.