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obsidian is cool. I used it a bit. imo, fewer dependencies are better. so if you're going for something as lightweight as obsidian, you may as well just maintain a folder of markdown files for your notes

great takes here. thanks for your perspective!

I saw both too and really enjoyed them! There were things I didn't like about both but on the balance they were fun, exciting movies with decent messages. Frankly, I was expecting Nolan to trash the Berkeley Communists a lot more. And of course there's the corporate involvement tainting the Barbie movie, but I look past that because taking a step back, we live in such a patriarchal, chauvinistic society. Women hardly ever get anything in media that pushes back against that as hard as a film this big could without alienating a general audience. Even with the iconoclastic lens this forum has, I really enjoyed both, especially Oppenheimer.

My life is on paper really great. I'm doing well in most domains of my life. I am employed at a notoriously anti-union firm though, and my social circles are running extremely bourgeois recently. Maybe I'm just a champagne socialist. It's weird knowing people who embody a banal evil through their capitalist ambitions. I am very much in the belly of the capitalist beast. I have become more radical over time realizing that the open fields of a career ahead of me have walls much closer in than I thought. I can't do what I want. I can only do what pleases investors, or face a life of precarity, poverty, destitution, etc. So I guess irl my thoughts are converging on living well and "playing the game" while privately advocating for socialism and communism.

Just trying to help - the proven best way to lose weight is via diet shift, not exercise, although exercise confers basically every health benefit besides weight loss. Try a whole food, plant-based diet. Think bean \ vegetable soups, hot whole grain cereals, leafy green salads, etc. Best of luck

There are a lot of thoughts here. Doomerism is obviously not productive. If it helps, antarctic sea ice is not what we should worry about - the southern hemisphere is relatively more stable due to less land and antarctica itself. The blue ocean event (no north pole sea ice) is the one you should worry about, probably late 2020s. Because once ice finishes melting the energy goes into increasing temperature instead of state change from ice to liquid. The good (dubious) news is, the global capitalist economy is much more fragile than it might seem. In my opinion, industrial civilization would collapse before we would surpass 4 C warming, which still leaves most of the planet as "habitable". I believe economic growth will turn negative much past 2 C warming, thereby limiting subsequent warming. Because we're warming the planet so fast, the system destabilizes at much lower temperatures than we have on the fossil record. At the risk of being sanguine (ok yeah this whole post is sanguine), it's kind of nice that the heat accumulating at the ocean surface will not have time to interact much with deep, cool ocean water. So we'll wind up feeling much more heat in the short-term than we'd feel in the long-term, which could spur humanity to actually do something. Overall, communists should feel optimism in the face of economies running up against planetary boundaries. Humanity's survival depends on global cooperation. Replacing capitalism with socialism would be a (the only?) feasible way to achieve this. We're already seeing beastly temperatures and extreme weather worldwide. I would bet that the children being born today will see these horrific weather events and start movements that will make Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil look like tea parties. If we don't blow ourselves up in the next 30 years then, I'm fairly optimistic. But perhaps I underestimate the ability of capitalism to assimilate young minds

did you guys watch the movie? maybe I'm naive, but I don't buy it; it feels like manufactured outrage. the "map" in question had the entire north american continent labeled as United States 💀 . Basically every landmass was hopelessly deformed because it was conveying how little barbieland actually knew about the real world. In the scene, they talk about the "Country of California" and "State of Los Angeles" or something like that...because barbie was trying to get to LA. Asia doesn't even look like Asia! Please let me know if this just went over my head. I think people are reading too much into this nonsense. Vietnam probably banned it because it was shameless western corporate propaganda or something like that.

After taking LSD a few times, I gotta say it's pretty fun. I enjoy experiencing the world through the eyes of a kid again. It's also enlightening to see your life in third-person, as if you saw your life from a friend's perspective. It definitely makes interacting with people interesting because you're so attuned to the minutest signals: you can read people like a book.

Relevant to this forum, I had an interesting revelation while tripping that we exist at a non-exceptional time in history. The feeling that we are existing during what will be just one more page in the book was palpable. I think that gives me a lot of hope, even though things seem so dire at the moment.

I personally like what they're doing. But overall I think their activism falls on deaf ears. I think a lot of movements like theirs makes the mistake of assuming that civili disobedience implies people will rally around your cause, just like MLK and civil rights. The public reaction seems to be quite the opposite. It's unclear to me if the behavior of our species is sufficient to evade the worst of climate change tbh. It's a movement much harder to get action on than basically any other topic

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douyin and xiaohongshu are great, highly recommend

I'm unironically on lemmygrad to ensure my partner can never work at a defense contractor 😍