General Discussion Thread - Juche 112, Week 37
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When politicians say that the state is inefficient at managing whatever stuff, arent they implicitely saying that they themselves are fucking incompetent?
For some reason, when I put my delinquent trust fund cousin in charge of the health department, they fuck up constantly. I love my cousin, therefore state bad. >:(
"Well we gutted the health department and now the public clinics are performing worse than private ones, clearly it means privatisation is the key to success "
Yes. However they are actually very competent and doing the stuff they want to do. They just need you to do know it is too hard for them to improve anything.
Fucking fantastic, yet another private "festival" has fenced off the public park near me, blocking access for 2 full months. And of course it's never the public parks in richer areas that get taken over by this bullshit! These bastards enclose a supposedly public area and charge $30 a head to wander around a public fucking park looking at plastic pumpkins while listening to a mix of generic spooky music and Disney soundtracks. Not to mention they leave their garbage all over the place and tear up everything driving around in giant pickups. Yesterday I accidentally wandered into their cordon because they hadn't finished fencing it and I had a couple dipshits escort me out by driving behind me to make sure I didn't look at their shitty fake jack o' lanterns.
Apologies for the rant but it pisses me the fuck off
What a bunch of assholes
Where is this?
I commented about this a few weeks ago as well, but there is an increasing crack problem starting in Antwerp and Brussels. It is seemingly coming out of nowhere and I wonder what's the deal with it. Brussels is hit worse than Antwerp, maybe the cartels running Antwerp have something to do with it, idk. But it is becoming more mainstream every day.
It comes in handy for right wing parties because it mainly seems to affect refugees and homeless people, who are creating tense situations at busy places in the cities.
Drugs aren't new. There's a cocaine war going on in Antwerp, with a grenade explosion every other day. But crack is new and it was there all of a sudden.
The increase in economic hardship as a result of NATO's war is a main cause I think, western Europe in particular is experiencing a lot of this and it's feeding into right-wing talking points. It's rough and likely is only going to get worse. Social democracy is rotting in real time.
In America the cops flooded the streets with cheap Crack for fun and profit. They made some money, and they got to ask for budget increases to handle the problems. I have no reason to belive this is any different
@CyberGhost@lemmygrad.ml, I'm humbled by your ability to post lib-baiting truths
Like half your recent threads are drawing them out of the woodwork and I'm there for it
Glad to be doing Marx’s work 🫡
Ghost of Lemmygrad strikes again
If I ever become head of state in a communist dictatorship I'm banning humidity. It's at 83% right now. Just sitting and slowly chewing my food makes me feel like standing in a shower.
yea humidity makes it awful. like i prefer a 40 degree temperature with low humidity than a 30 degree with high humidity. it fucking sucks taking a shower and coming out sweating 😂
Agreed.
It's stuff like this that makes me realise how much better a head of state Thomas Sankara was than I'll ever be though. Homie refused to use airconditioning in his office because it was considered a luxury in Burkina Faso.
I believe Suslov was another revolutionary figure who eschewed the privileges that he had access to on the grounds that if it was good enough for the masses then it's good enough for him.
I am banning the sport cricket in India..I don't know what's wrong with this sub continent but most of the males are addicted to this colonial game of UK🇬🇧 and which requires you to spend 5+ hrs each game.
There's a lot of talk about getting the right insulation for your house so that you have to use less energy to heat it, but I think that, especially with global warming in mind, focussing on keeping the heat out in the summer should also be a priority. The past week we had a heat wave over here. It was 'only' 32 degrees but when you live in a swamp area the humidity is enough to completely wreck you. The city I live in is notorious for having 1) bad insulated houses and 2) having almost no green spaces to cool down in outside. Most squares are concrete slabs die to the concrete lobby having connections in the government. It is one of the hottest places in the country because of this, with a four degree difference in some areas. My bedroom has been at 31.5 C at night for the past week. I have a rash on my skin caused by the heat. Most people live in appartments without AC and without a garden to chill in. Green spaces outside and better housing conditions are a must, imo.
Anyway, new week, new left wing struggle. I sometimes feel as if I completely lose the plot of living a life because of politics. I'm at a point where I get envious if I see other people living life and just enjoying the mundane, regular life things. I wonder if taking a step back and touching some grass for a while is a good thing to do right now.
Wouldn't good insulation also assist in keeping the heat out? Like a thermos
Yes good insulation helps with that. But something as easy as planting more trees in a street helps as well. Or getting people with gardens to remove tiles and swap them for greenery. I think we should also think about how designing the public spaces can help with conserving energy, cooling down a city, etc. Luckily more orgs are aware of this right now.
I'm also wondering what's going to happen with heating in general. In Germany for example heat pumps are all but required now for all new heating systems in homes. But why do we need to have one heater per home? District heating can be done far more efficiently than individual buildings, but it's almost never considered. Of course companies can make a lot more money selling hundreds of thousands of gest pumps than they can building a few district heating systems. And those would again most likely be powered by fossil fuels, as existing ones outside of China and Russia are.
Anyway, I've just been thinking that there are alternatives, but instead profits and "individual responsibility" must be prioritized rather than the climate emergency.
They have district heating pumps in Workers and Resources, but I am really unfamiliar with the idea. Also it rarely gets cold enough here to require them (so I turn off weather patterns when doing a local build). Fascinated by the idea though. Probably better for apartment blocks than suburbs, which I also do.
Individual places can still be insulated and better designed. I'm worried about summer, am not enjoying our current number of 40+ degree days :(
Good insulation is magical and it is one of thr best tithing science has given us and it makes me impossibly sad that we don't use it everywhere
I hope you all have a nice week :D
oh yeah, well how about you have a nice week, how do you like that
I hope you have a hard week and it makes you strong. Not like a hard week that makes you sad. Which has been most my hard weeks lately.
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It's been an anniversary of the coup, hasn't it?
Yeah, yesterday
¡Venceremos!
Shitting on people from other countries for being right wing shits is the worst because they sound just like American conservatives but they can also screech at you about not respecting their values (I do not respect their values, and I wish to make them as acutely aware of this fact at least as hard as they wish to make me know they don't respect mine)
I'm trying to assert myself here and there's enough speed bumps within country lines. I don't need even more beyond them
people like that are why we have pig poop balls
respecting their values
If you don't feel like PPB, you could also force them to clarify what "values" they mean...
It's the worst. They try to make you feel bad about it. Sucks for them bc id-much-gaf but there is a twang of pity as I realise they are probably just very very confused. Or a comprador but I don't talk to many of them, so.
In a conflict between respecting other cultures and advancing homosexuality (even just to stick up for myself), I will always choose the latter over the former without hesitation. All else - and I do mean all else - is trivial to me
In one of the communities where our party is in the government we managed to make sanitary products for women's periods free in schools and libraries and other public buildings. And people are mad about it somehow 😭😭
Like, how can you be mad at free shit man
that's like being mad about toilet paper in restrooms
No. Don't do that. Don't give them ideas.
My company has a container of tampons in every men's washrooms and most coworkers that have talked about this hate it and think it should be removed lmao
Like it's literally just a tiny plastic tray of cotton? Man tf up Jesus
Probably because it reminds them of women's periods and they are gross!!! Like those guys who refuse to buy said products for their partners, because that's embarrassing.
please put the first image in a spoiler tag (because of the two slurs)
Would be hard to guess which site that was from if it wasn't for the greentext/UI lol.
Anarchists irl
I hate how the media gives everything coming from Ukraine a nickname. I saw a video about a pregnant women in the army and the media said: 'they call her the Ukrainian Joan of Arc'. Like fuck off no one is doing that probably.
Ukrainian Joan of Arc
Ghost of Kyiv
Russian 'General of Terror'
Ukrainian Potato of Eternal suffering, heir of the third Nebula, bringer of Justice, brother of Dave
It's marketing, pure and simple
You know your civilisation is on the brink of collapse when you hand all power to people whose job is to make things up in the service of a higher power.
holy shit i am gonna get a brain aneurysm by reading these mainstream media articles.
in the last months outsourcing transformed into nearshoring and just now i saw an article calling it friendshoring 💀
I tested positive for COVID. My brain feels like its leaking out of my skull.
Get well soon. It took me a long time before I got COVID and man did it suck. Heard it's actually making a comeback these days.
I hope you can get paxlovid. Good luck, comrade. I hope you have a good recovery. [/gen]
cbd might help some if you can't afford actual medical care
The rapid spread of COVID-19 underscores the need for new treatments. Here we report that cannabidiol (CBD), a compound produced by the cannabis plant, inhibits SARS-CoV-2 infection. CBD and its metabolite, 7-OH-CBD, but not congeneric cannabinoids, potently block SARS-CoV-2 replication in lung epithelial cells. CBD acts after cellular infection, inhibiting viral gene expression and reversing many effects of SARS-CoV-2 on host gene transcription. CBD induces interferon expression and up-regulates its antiviral signaling pathway. A cohort of human patients previously taking CBD had significantly lower SARSCoV-2 infection incidence of up to an order of magnitude relative to matched pairs or the general population. This study highlights CBD, and its active metabolite, 7-OH-CBD, as potential preventative agents and therapeutic treatments for SARS-CoV-2 at early stages of infection.
idk I'm not a doctor but an order of magnitude is pretty magnitudinous and if it helps prevent cell entry + helps prevent replication after infection then like idk, I figure every little bit of virus not actively replicating is a little bit less damage on your body, ya know, might as well load up on some gummies since cbd isn't gonna make your guts bleed out like ivermectin
why the fuck do these tech bro influencers keep ragging on commies and commie countries and praise murica? so sick of this shit everywhere
There’s a specter haunting amerikkka
They're techbros. They think they got where they are due to actual merit instead of dumb luck.
Anyone know if DPRK has resorts? Given its position it probably has some coastal areas that could be nice. Now that Europe is closed, gotta look for alternatives
I know they have that cool waterpark
Unforunately no eng subtitles, but this guy went on a guided tour in the DPRK recently, might give an idea on what might be doable.
As far as the language barrier, there should also be a large number of tour guides who speak Russian as well.
War museum pictures here too.
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Proper funny things happening with thoulse aliens in Mexico lmao
i cant believe it went viral tbh lol, that guy has had many similar grifts before.
Was about to comment on someone's post looking for Linux help with the distro and DE I happen to use until I realized they're from lemmy dot ca who defederates us, so OP wouldn't see it 😩 Not about to make an account on another instance just so I can interact better with the
pit anywayThere was a discussion last night with friends of my parents about the state of LGBTQ rights.
Among them was this
I don't discriminate in my private practice dentist.When I brought up how we're going through the 2nd Lavender Scare with all the anti LGBTQ laws and attention to focus on that rather than how screwed we are, and a 3rd Red Scare demonizing Russia and China again. He was completely ignorant like I was talking greek. I said it wasn't so much an -ism fight as it is competing economies and resources. Like what happens when you sanction half the world's supply given the vast resources of BRICS with China and Russia? Prices go up - supply and demand. That was easy to grasp.
But when I pointed out to how people wouldn't support something like this without something to blame that triggered his
and he went off all "but there's resistance in Russia! !When I said yeah the dude is a merc. He gets paid. We probably paid him.
yeah but he got paid good.At that point I reminded him and now he's dead. They blew up his plane because he crossed Putin and comitted treason when there's a long history of that happening. Now all that money is dead.
He went off to huff elsewhere for the rest of the night.
But seriously I was at awe how these older people who grew up throught the last Cold War couldn't grasp the current events because they're programmed so damed hard to defend the empire and forget history as it repeats itself before their very eyes in real time.
regarding Prigozhin, I highly doubt the Russian government were responsible for the assassination; it would've been terrible PR for the BRICS meeting and they could've easily kept him imprisoned after the coup attempt if they wanted him neutralized
Prigozhin had information that would lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton
Is there a lemmy for wuxia? Im looking for recomendations and i dont want to make another stormfron acount since i seem to be getting banned ever more swiftly
I don't know, but also want to know. I've only seen maybe a couple of Wuxia movies (two of which were parodies of the genre)
Pasting the same snip for the 30th time cause boomers can't remember how to use a pdf. Bro just look at one of the 10 emails I sent you about this very same thing. The instructions haven't changed. This is your job that you do almost daily how do you forget?
Has the lead in your brain devolved the muscle memory out of you, ya fucking nincumpoop?
Quick someone respond this so that I don't have 88 notifications any more
I don't like it
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well I've played 800 games of league of legends on this account
time for my first ranked match! !
please save this comrade 😔
holy shit this pick process is so fucking long my god zzzzzzz
oh my god the very last person left in the very last second, what the fuckkkkkk
I haven't played in years. What is the meta like?
The National Owners Association said franchisees, suppliers and McDonald’s “must engage to support our California McFamily”
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what’s happening in congo?
Reading Who were the Sudras by B R Ambedkar. Came across this.
he provides literary evidence before this. Any thoughts?
uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
I feel like I've seen this comment somewhere before
probably just my imagination
I think Bush or Biden said it by accident. Whichever one it was he meant Vietnam. No, I don't know why the US keeps electing people who don't know history and who think a map involves a brief sleep next to a mop.
More and more people are saying it every day.