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People could fall off

They're so fluffy! They lick your face with their little tongues when you pet them!

I'm assembling a bike trailer and I don't know how I'm supposed to attach the reflectors.

The instructions are in Dutch only and only seems to mention that reflectors exists but gives no instructions on how to put them on. The only directions are the grainy photo on the box, showing something that looks like reflectors being attached to the fabric of the cover.

The reflectors themselves (two white ones and two red ones) have a short screw and nut as well as a short protruding plastic pin on the back.

There are no holes or similar obvious way of attaching the reflectors. Am I literally supposed to poke holes in the fabric myself?

Edit: Jesus Christ, they literally poked two small holes in the fabric to attach the reflectors. Aren't the Dutch supposed to be good at bike stuff?

I feel stressed and overwhelmed with the constant amount of stuff I have to do all the time. There's work, there's family, there's chores, there's personal finances, there's my health, there's personal relations, there's a thousand little things that screams for my attention. Somewhere in there there's also the desire to one day relax and maybe do something because I want to do it instead of it being something I have to do.

There's just so much and the pile of tasks keeps growing and growing. I don't have the time and energy to do half of what I feel I'm supposed to do and almost no time and energy to do what I have to do. I'm exhausted and stressed and I feel guilty all the time for letting people down.

I feel like I never have the time to do things right or to handle the problems that are draining my time and energy. Instead I'm constantly running around and putting out fires. If I were to put enough time and effort into actually improving some of the things that are stressing me it would mean I would have to let go somewhere else and suffer the ramifications.

I was diagnosed with ADHD a few years back. I got meds and they have improved things a lot but nobody helped me figure out how to organise daily life with ADHD. I don't even know if time management would help, I don't waste my time, I get things done, I just never get enough things done. And besides, what good is a schedule if there's constantly some external factor demanding a change of plans?

How do you manage this?

I found the blog of some curry enthusiast and he talked me into making a big batch of a base curry sauce which I plan to freeze in small portions so I can make curries quick and easily on weeknights.

So far so good. I've just had an awesome butter chicken but now comes the question of what to make the next time.

Does anyone have suggestions for good curries, especially the milder ones as my kids and partner doesn't share my fondness for and tolerance of spicy food.

I hope 2024 becomes a great year for you reading this, for the Hexbear community and for working class liberation all over the world.

And a normal merry time to those who don't.

All current and historical AES states have had electoral systems that differs significantly from the systems known from bourgeois parliamentary systems. Candidates are selected either by the vanguard party or by a unity front dominated by the vanguard party. Voters can then view either for our against the one list of candidates.

To my my knowledge there are virtually no historical examples of voters rejecting the list and there are reports (in Western sources, so they should be taken with a grain of salt) of significant social pressure being levied on voters to vote yes for the list.

You don't get the election night dramas known from bourgeois systems where there can be genuine uncertainty as to whether ghoul A or ghoul B gets elected. In bourgeois states the function of elections seems to be to legitimise the system by giving voters a relatively free choice between a selection of candidates within the accepted spectrum of (liberal-conservative) opinion. In AES states, at the time of the election voters doesn't seem to have much influence and their participation seems to be ceremonial in nature.

This begs the question what the function of these elections are. The lazy liberal explanation is that the evil commies are hiding sham elections that they think people are too stupid to see through. However, AES states has been around for more than a century and almost all of them uses some version of this system so they clearly must have some function in legitimising the state and mobilising popular support.

I would love if someone with knowledge in the subject could elaborate on this.

Terf Islanders are tiiiiiiired

I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th

Libs are seething and coping