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  • I understand that eye contact is important for communication, but I just get intensely uncomfortable if it feels like more than a few seconds. I keep something I can fidget with around me at all times, to give a reason to break eye contact. I've also leaned into "animated" listening: exaggerated expressions so they know I'm listening. I think it also conveys more trust with the person, because they get much more comfortable sharing after a couple minutes even without lots of eye contact.

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  • It's certainly bizarre. I think it's transmedicalism, but it could be any number of bizarre ERF ideologies. They crop up like weeds. I've already blocked them and reported the post though, so hopefully it gets handled soon.

  • Chicken vs Egg
  • Over time, a population of proto-chickens lay eggs with unique genetic variations that randomly direct the population towards laying eggs that result in modern chickens. The egg comes first, and it's a whole bunch of them

  • Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone Can’t Let Go Of Stardew Valley
  • At this point they should just hold on to all the updates they want to add, and make it a sequel. I love all the things that they've added and it's clearly a piece of passion, but at some point they're going to need to publish something else

  • Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.

    Too often this song is seen as an unwavering patriotic song, which to me indicates that people aren't paying attention to all the lyrics. This song is about the country forcing the poor and downtrodden to go to war on behalf of people they will never meet and then expected to, somehow, return to normal. When understood in it's appropriate context, this song is better than anything uncritical listeners hear.

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    Gil Scott-Heron - Revolution Will Not Be Televised

    This is another legendary classic. Seeing the protest crackdowns on college students had me thinking about this song for the last few days.

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    Magpies - Workers of the World, Awaken!

    This one is a cover of a song written by Joe Hill. The IWW still publishes the little red songbook, which has this song in it!

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    Pete Seeger -Which Side are You On?

    This is a legendary classic, covered by dozens of leftist artists. While I prefer studio recordings generally, hearing an entire crowd singing this song gives so much more weight to it. I also really like this (admittedly it's mostly a meme) edit with rifle fire to really drive home that we would not have our labor rights today without these brave workers literally fighting with guns for better working conditions.

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    The Death of Harry Simms - Pete Seeger

    Harry Simms was an organizer for the NMU, a communist union that had been organizing in Harlan county, Kentucky during the events of Bloody Harlan. In fact his death, as described in this song, reignited militant labor into more violent action against the capitalists. Eventually the UMW won the hearts and minds of the workers while beating back the capitalist union busters, but the NMU was a crucial part of the story in supporting workers and their families after getting kicked out of company towns.

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    Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine

    I suppose I'm cheating a bit by posting Pink, but their leftist messages are popular for a reason!

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