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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I have a cbz version of it on the way. Will upload it once the download is complete.

Have you got the capacity to convert it to PDF yourself?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

The imperialist powers will go to any lengths to destroy your revolution. They will stop at nothing.

While there is absolutely room for guerilla warfare operated by independent cells, this is only useful in a limited capacity in the context of an insurgency or when your command structure is fucked etc.

You don't face down the full brunt of the NATO axis powers and survive in the longer term without a significant command structure and a necessary degree of authoritarianism.

There just was not enough resources to go around to provide for everyone and to support military actions. Compromises were necessarily made. If every unit or cell is squabbling amongst themselves for resources, intra-military infighting occurs and it threatens to hamstring military capacity. An insufficiency in hierarchy and authoritarian measures comes with the opportunity cost of permitting worse attacks from countries like the US; while it's better to be more democratic, those are concerns for a civil government in peacetime. There is nothing more authoritarian than torching and poisoning the land, not to mention the generations to come.

It just put me closer to being in the shoes of those who fought for national liberation and revolution. It's easy to say "You cannot make a revolution wearing white gloves" but really sitting down and encountering what this truly means on a practical, realistic, and very tangible level created a fissure in my idealism that would prove to be irreparable later on.

They will come for your revolution and if you aren't capable of out-organising them then your revolution will be strangled in its crib.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

You love to see their abject lack of solidarity.

Go on, don't coordinate or communicate with each other so that she gets caught unawares thus being dragged down by the bin being thrown to the ground. Scurry away and leave her to her fate. Don't anyone try to help her, just laugh at her while you film.

They'll throw anyone under the bus if it's convenient, even their own. Critical support for this.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I recommend seeing it if you ever get the chance.

It's one of the things that shook the anarchism out of me.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

More (gradual) stretching, going more gently especially during warmup, using more lube, switching to a better lube, reapplying lube if it's waterbased (essentially it should be waterbasedif you're using most toys) and you haven't reapplied for a while - any of these might be a solution.

There's nothing much to worry about and it's not uncommon. It's likely just because of a very minor skin tear.

As the person below mentioned, it could be a haemorrhoid. You can have a small painless one that are internal that you wouldn't be able to notice without a doctor inspecting it. Again, nothing much to worry about and not uncommon.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

Pfft, why would I bother eating a diet rich in vitamin C or taking supplements for it?

Nobody gets scurvy these days. I'm not a pirate in the 1650s or some sailor from the 1800s. Get real.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

There is is! Excellent work, comrade.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago

"The arc of the streamer universe is long, but it bends toward sexual assault and the exploitation of minors"

— MLK

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn't see your other comment but personally I'm not getting a read on the irony or humour in that video. Maybe it's just me or because I don't follow BE closely enough to know more.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't know for sure, and I don't think that anyone could without a genuine non-Kimberley/non-Fair Trade/other bogus certification process in place, but it appears as though most dragon's blood resin that is commercially available is harvested from the fruit of a type of rattan palm.

(That's operating on the assumption that dragon's blood incense isn't a synthetic fragrance that has been developed to mimic "genuine" dragon's blood incense at a lower cost of production.)

It's hard to know a lot about this production process but if you're harvesting the resin from the fruit of a tree then that's more sustainable for habitats since you aren't harming or cutting the trees themselves down. It's hard to imagine a stable supply chain that sources all of its dragon's blood resin from threatened dracaena trees on Socotra without it coming at a hefty premium that would make your eyes water at the cost of true Socotran dragon's blood resin incense, especially if a country like Indonesia can mass produce a very similar resin in a relatively sustainable way.

I'd withhold judgement until you get more solid information but, at a wild guess, I think that it's probably not a huge concern.

Also note that crunchy stuff like this loves to market itself as being produced from ingredients from exotic locations by native peoples from some rare source that is of spiritual/cultural/environmental significance. Himalayan sea salt invokes notions of Tibetan Buddhist monks using hand tools to mindfully carve out small amounts of magical, spiritual salt from traditional meditation caves because of the conscious choice of labelling it that way. It doesn't invoke notions of Pakistani Muslims using modern machinery to carve out huge blocks of salt from their salt mines because people are less inclined to give salt mined that way some aura of faux-spirituality and reverence due to that dualistic nature of orientalism ("Eww, yucky brown Muslims are dirty and sneaky and untrustworthy!!"/"Wow, those Asian Buddhists are so noble and glorious and spiritually in tune with compassion and the environment. So wholesome!!" – both are gross and interdependent in a dialectical sense imo, although one is much more benign than the other.) I would view any information on the back of a product that is marketed to a crunchy demographic with deep skepticism personally. There's basically no regulations about whatever bullshit fairytale a product like this can spin. Yay capitalism!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago

The further away the BadEmpanada posts are from his main channel, the worst his takes are

 

Venmo is only available in the US.

Cash App is only available in the US and the UK.

Consider adding PayPal info (careful not to dox yourself!), stating what gift cards you would accept (most of the time it's possible for someone outside the US to buy a digital gift card through a US website and provide the code to you) or if you are a more frequent flyer perhaps consider LiberaPay or a similar donation/crowdsource platform (N.B. I don't use LiberaPay, I haven't heard anything good or bad about it, though it appears to be fee free but you should still do your due diligence and check the conditions like minimum payout amounts and how frequently you can cash out etc. Don't take my mention as an endorsement or anything beyond a suggestion).

If you take these steps then you're going to make more opportunities for people outside the US to donate to you.

(A follow up suggestion to the mods: requesting gift cards may open the door to struggle sessions regarding boycotts and poverty-shaming.

Might be worth adding a rule prohibiting people from grilling people over these matters; if someone cannot buy an Amazon gift card for someone else due to matters of conscience that's perfectly reasonable but it's not cool to chastise a person who is experiencing financial hardship and/or major access barriers over opting for Amazon gift cards for those reasons. Boycotts are often a luxury to people who are experiencing desperate circumstances.)

 
 
 

Here I was feeling mighty uncomfortable with all the WWII parallels I'm seeing and it turns out I've been overlooking the WWI parallels this whole time.

Also the guy in the video is a queer historian who is starving and he's planning on starting a podcast to do audio essays. I think he's one to keep an eye on if you dig history/sociology and he deserves support for the critical work he is doing.

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Just wanted to publicise this library for folks. Membership is free and they run on donations to get queer literature out there on the world, especially where it would otherwise be inaccessible or unsafe for people. It is part of the Libby network.

Idk if it's just a product of their catalogue being small because they have just started up but unfortunately they didn't pass the Leslie Feinberg or Ursula Le Guin vibe check but it's still promising despite that fact.

Of course there's almost everything at your fingertips thanks to LibGen and similar sites but it's worth remembering that non-black market queer libraries directly support queer authors and promote queer culture, and not everyone is fluent or comfortable with pirating ebooks so this library meets a need that doesn't really get met elsewhere.

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The second Wikipedia entry - *chef's kiss* no notes.

Anyone want to take a guess why the Iroquois nickname for George Washington is absent from the Wikipedia entry listing his nicknames?

 

...like this: "🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱"

Reply to their comment and ask them:

"Why is your comment displaying as ������? What is this supposed to mean?"

Make them think that nobody can see their shitty comment and that their efforts are futile.

If they're bold enough to respond, tell them that not even computers recognise the state of Israel and laugh in their face.

Psychological warfare is praxis.

 

...But I'm certain there's no chance that the US is going to collapse

*ehrm*

I said: I'm certain there's no chance that the US wil collapse

 
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